my mom has Outlook Express, and I'm not switching her to your web mail, because it's not IMAP and so she won't be able to reply to emails that she has already recieved and downloaded...
So your mom is incapable of cutting and pasting?
Stopping IPs not on your subnet from sneding mail is standard practise - it may reflect laziness, or it may just be that the extra admin time involved in providing secure authentication just isn't seen as worthwhile, especially if a web mail service is offered.
You sound like a pissed off teenager who has read a couple of howtos and considers himself an expert - in the real world, operational considerations sometimes overtake technical ones.
I bet you feel like a total prat, having your sloppy spelling and indiscreet observations splashed all over the Web all of a sudden.
I sure hope that the impression given by your email won't adversely impact on your obviously worthwhile IP harvesting activities - hell, if I had an idea and needed finance, I'd come beating down your door asking for the help of such a painstakingly accurate and diligent person as yourself.
Don't let Blake Stowell's dismissal of your memo put you off - your obvious merits will shine through, despite the impression given by your memo.
Keep a good head, and always carry a lightbulb,
Brian.
On further digging, I realise that the Panama link is a red herring - it's an error in the data caused by a misspelling of Consohocken, Philadelphia as "CONSaoHOCKEN". Silicon Stemcell used to have some Philadelphia links.
My bad - my natural cynicism led me to believe what I read on the Internet again - D'oh!
S2 is closely related to an IP harvesting VC firm named Silicon Stemcell (of which the appallingly ungrammatical and sloppy spelling Anderer is Chairman/CEO), based in Salt Lake City:
Mike Anderer
Silicon StemCell
4567 South Matthews Way
Salt Lake City, UT 84124
Phone: 801-274-0040 or 801-244-8501 (cell)
Fax: 801-274-0070
Email: mike@s2.com
Here's why - most of the world is 'fucked up' by your definition.
In the majority of economies, those in power use that power to enrich themselves by any means at their disposal, whether by bribery or embezzlement.
I've struggled to see where OSS can fit into this model, but you have shown how corrupt elites can prosper from OSS while not adversely impacting the OSS movement.
All we need now is for Halliburton, EDS and the large consulting firms that play the part of the oligarchy in the West to catch on to this business model, and OSS will prosper worldwide.
There - you're not flamebait, but you've missed the key means by which OSS will gain a foothold in the 'developed' economies.
That's idiomatically incorrect - most people would use 'for good or for ill'.
Your sentence construction also leaves something to be desired - the entire sentence from 'Maybe' to 'though' is grammatically inelegant in the extreme.
If you wish to criticise other people for their grammar and spelling, then please bear in mind the parable regarding motes and beams, lest you make yourself look foolish and prematurely pedantic.
Yep - I looked it up, and it meant the same as it did the last time I saw it used.
Why not use the comparison with Peter and the Wolf?
The association of music with character is as strong, and Prokofiev is far less likely to annoy the casual reader than Wagner, who has some very unfortunate associations.
Perhaps you actually like Wagner, in which case I sentence you to a continuous loop of the Ring Cycle for the rest of your days.
Personally, I'll stick to that nice clarinet theme that announces the presence of Peter.
My main beef was an objection to the use of the word leitmotif - pretensious in the extreme, and much better expressed in plain English, preferably with a reference to its use in Dynasty to explain it to our colonial cousins.
If you want enjoyable reading, then Portrait of the Artist is the one for you. Even better, Dubliners, Joyce's collection of very dark short stories, is his most digestible.
But the sheer inventiveness and stream of consciousness that is Finnegan's Wake makes it by far my favourite Joyce, even if a drop of whiskey is a prerequisite to an eveniongs reading.
You could try the other two I mentioned - both Hesse and Perec are very accessible in translation, and The Glass Bead Game won the Nobel Prize, so it's not entirely insignificant.
You can't seriously use Star Trek as your examples in a rational debate, can you?
Just because most of America uses a bunch of 6th century BC myths added to by 2nd century spin doctoring to run their lives doesn't mean that an appeal to the Gospel of Roddenberry is an acceptable debating tactic.
As in 'overblown and shite'? Or as in 'Nazi triumphal music'?
Bollocks - give me some Hot Club de Paris (Belleville) any day of the week.
The only good use for Wagner is to play it through the tannoy on the lead Huey as you go in to strafe some gooks prior to riding a few breakers - any fool knows that!
They showed The Triplets of Belleville on the BBC on Christmas Day.
It was excellent - by far the most inventive animation I had seen in years.
Any cartoon where stick grenades are used for frog fishing is OK in my book - and the references to Reinhardt, Tati and Trenet were delightful.
I've not seen Nemo, but doubt whether it was a fraction as inventive as the Triplets - just shows you where the values have sunk to, when it's popularity that defines the worth of a piece of art.
OK - so you're a Mac user from the sound of things.
OK - so Microsoft installs NetBIOS over TCP/IP by default.
It's still easy to turn off, and you should have done so before connecting to the Internet. It's primarily Microsoft's fault for having stupid defaults, but turning off the NetBIOS bindings is only commonsense.
Still, your GF is probably better off with an iBook - they are girls machines after all;-)
Don't know about fonts, but *nix printing has always been a royal PITA, even for experienced admins.
If CUPS makes printer setup/management even one iota more transparent, then good on them.
Raymond is right, though - things like enabling the print queue broadcast should be asked when installing a local queue, and the default behaviour should be to display available queues on the network when adding a new printer.
To make it on the desktop, Linux has to become as easy as Windows, because most people would rather shell out a couple of hundred (insert currency here) than have to think about making what is after all only a tool do what they want it to.
I don't mind - I like to tinker, and I like to know how things do what they do. But I'm not Joe User, and it's Joe User who needs to be convinced.
You might want to draw the line there, but what if I, a Soviet leader (for example) decided that religion, being unscientific and against Marxist principles, was also no longer protected?
No - it's perfectly normal for UK police chiefs to take an authoritarian line, the same line taken by UK politicians, UK newspapers, and UK public opinion as expressed by retired colonels in the shires who write letters to the Times.
The fact that there isn't a great deal that anyone can do to stop these sites won't inhibit the chettering classes from thinking 'something ought to be done', and generally shouting about it.
Personally, I don't care if people want to have websites with extreme material on them - but what I do care about is that these extreme sites, and the hysteria that can be caused by clever manipulators of public opinion, could lead to a repression of free expression by the back door.
However disgusting they are, if they are not disrupting the Internet in general, then anyone that cares about freedom of expression needs to affirm their right to exist, unpalatable as that might seem.
The alternative is state control and censorship of the Internet, which is the hidden agenda behind statements such as that made by the police officer.
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But here, as in many areas, it is the approach that is the skill - finding the right way to look at a problem, so that you can see where the problem comes from, is often the key to fixing anything, be it software, hardware or even a car engine.
You're right - there's no voodoo involved, but I bet that if you analysed your approach more deeply, you'd see that you use some of the methods outlined, because they are all commonsense.
Given the number of impractical idiots out there, a book that teaches commonsense methods is worthwhile, even if you or I won't need it.
Any moderator that mods anything 'offtopic' is lame, and needs to be shot.
I moderate - and I nearly always moderate up, because posts are lost in the morrass that is Slashdot anyway, and modding posts down is a waste of time unless they are offensive, at which point an answer is better than moderation.
Thankyou, asshole moderator - go away and learn to mod properly.
I'll waste some karma here, just for the metamods to agree or disagree.
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That's fscking good news for most /. readers...
So your mom is incapable of cutting and pasting?
Stopping IPs not on your subnet from sneding mail is standard practise - it may reflect laziness, or it may just be that the extra admin time involved in providing secure authentication just isn't seen as worthwhile, especially if a web mail service is offered.
You sound like a pissed off teenager who has read a couple of howtos and considers himself an expert - in the real world, operational considerations sometimes overtake technical ones.
I did.
My mail to him:
Well, Mike -
I bet you feel like a total prat, having your sloppy spelling and indiscreet observations splashed all over the Web all of a sudden.
I sure hope that the impression given by your email won't adversely impact on your obviously worthwhile IP harvesting activities - hell, if I had an idea and needed finance, I'd come beating down your door asking for the help of such a painstakingly accurate and diligent person as yourself.
Don't let Blake Stowell's dismissal of your memo put you off - your obvious merits will shine through, despite the impression given by your memo.
Keep a good head, and always carry a lightbulb,
Brian.
My bad - my natural cynicism led me to believe what I read on the Internet again - D'oh!
Mike Anderer
Silicon StemCell
4567 South Matthews Way
Salt Lake City, UT 84124
Phone: 801-274-0040 or 801-244-8501 (cell)
Fax: 801-274-0070
Email: mike@s2.com
Strangely, Silicon Stemcell LLc are also listed as a TV company in Panama - see http://www.b2b-bestof.com/services/cable_and_other _pay_tv_services/pa/ for some rather scanty details.
I don't know why a Salt Lake City venture capital / startup incubator firm would want to be registered in Panama, but I could hazard a guess...
Here's why - most of the world is 'fucked up' by your definition.
In the majority of economies, those in power use that power to enrich themselves by any means at their disposal, whether by bribery or embezzlement.
I've struggled to see where OSS can fit into this model, but you have shown how corrupt elites can prosper from OSS while not adversely impacting the OSS movement.
All we need now is for Halliburton, EDS and the large consulting firms that play the part of the oligarchy in the West to catch on to this business model, and OSS will prosper worldwide.
There - you're not flamebait, but you've missed the key means by which OSS will gain a foothold in the 'developed' economies.
But it was 'for good or for bad' that was used, and 'for good or for ill' is the more common form including the word 'good'.
Better a numskull than an AC, though.
No - just adverb-laden.
Caps off? Other than the sig, no.
Run-on sentences should only be avoided when writing for children and foreigners.
I never claim to be an English guru, I just dislike pedantry that can't live up to its ideals.
No - they were already criminals - it's just that they had to be prosecuted when too much information leaked to the public.
Still, it's all OK now - Poindexter's rehabilitated and then some.
Isn't forgiveness a wonderful thing?
That's idiomatically incorrect - most people would use 'for good or for ill'.
Your sentence construction also leaves something to be desired - the entire sentence from 'Maybe' to 'though' is grammatically inelegant in the extreme.
If you wish to criticise other people for their grammar and spelling, then please bear in mind the parable regarding motes and beams, lest you make yourself look foolish and prematurely pedantic.
Why not use the comparison with Peter and the Wolf?
The association of music with character is as strong, and Prokofiev is far less likely to annoy the casual reader than Wagner, who has some very unfortunate associations.
Perhaps you actually like Wagner, in which case I sentence you to a continuous loop of the Ring Cycle for the rest of your days.
Personally, I'll stick to that nice clarinet theme that announces the presence of Peter.
My main beef was an objection to the use of the word leitmotif - pretensious in the extreme, and much better expressed in plain English, preferably with a reference to its use in Dynasty to explain it to our colonial cousins.
But the sheer inventiveness and stream of consciousness that is Finnegan's Wake makes it by far my favourite Joyce, even if a drop of whiskey is a prerequisite to an eveniongs reading.
You could try the other two I mentioned - both Hesse and Perec are very accessible in translation, and The Glass Bead Game won the Nobel Prize, so it's not entirely insignificant.
You can't seriously use Star Trek as your examples in a rational debate, can you?
Just because most of America uses a bunch of 6th century BC myths added to by 2nd century spin doctoring to run their lives doesn't mean that an appeal to the Gospel of Roddenberry is an acceptable debating tactic.
What worries me is that out of those 11 nominations, not one related to the performance that you see on screen. Not a single acting nomination.
Were they all crap?
Or is it that the genre doesn't lend itself to good acting performances?
Equalling Titanic really isn't anything to be proud of, I'm afraid.
As in 'overblown and shite'? Or as in 'Nazi triumphal music'?
Bollocks - give me some Hot Club de Paris (Belleville) any day of the week.
The only good use for Wagner is to play it through the tannoy on the lead Huey as you go in to strafe some gooks prior to riding a few breakers - any fool knows that!
It was excellent - by far the most inventive animation I had seen in years.
Any cartoon where stick grenades are used for frog fishing is OK in my book - and the references to Reinhardt, Tati and Trenet were delightful.
I've not seen Nemo, but doubt whether it was a fraction as inventive as the Triplets - just shows you where the values have sunk to, when it's popularity that defines the worth of a piece of art.
Or perhaps Perec's Life, A User's Manual (La Vie, Mode d'Emploi), or maybe Hesse's The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi)
LOTR is a good book, but it's hardly the pinnacle of 20th century literature...
OK - so Microsoft installs NetBIOS over TCP/IP by default.
It's still easy to turn off, and you should have done so before connecting to the Internet. It's primarily Microsoft's fault for having stupid defaults, but turning off the NetBIOS bindings is only commonsense.
Still, your GF is probably better off with an iBook - they are girls machines after all ;-)
If CUPS makes printer setup/management even one iota more transparent, then good on them.
Raymond is right, though - things like enabling the print queue broadcast should be asked when installing a local queue, and the default behaviour should be to display available queues on the network when adding a new printer.
To make it on the desktop, Linux has to become as easy as Windows, because most people would rather shell out a couple of hundred (insert currency here) than have to think about making what is after all only a tool do what they want it to.
I don't mind - I like to tinker, and I like to know how things do what they do. But I'm not Joe User, and it's Joe User who needs to be convinced.
See the problem yet?
The fact that there isn't a great deal that anyone can do to stop these sites won't inhibit the chettering classes from thinking 'something ought to be done', and generally shouting about it.
Personally, I don't care if people want to have websites with extreme material on them - but what I do care about is that these extreme sites, and the hysteria that can be caused by clever manipulators of public opinion, could lead to a repression of free expression by the back door.
However disgusting they are, if they are not disrupting the Internet in general, then anyone that cares about freedom of expression needs to affirm their right to exist, unpalatable as that might seem.
The alternative is state control and censorship of the Internet, which is the hidden agenda behind statements such as that made by the police officer.
You're right - there's no voodoo involved, but I bet that if you analysed your approach more deeply, you'd see that you use some of the methods outlined, because they are all commonsense.
Given the number of impractical idiots out there, a book that teaches commonsense methods is worthwhile, even if you or I won't need it.
I moderate - and I nearly always moderate up, because posts are lost in the morrass that is Slashdot anyway, and modding posts down is a waste of time unless they are offensive, at which point an answer is better than moderation.
Thankyou, asshole moderator - go away and learn to mod properly.
I'll waste some karma here, just for the metamods to agree or disagree.