Slashdot isn't really that big, and the audience is very self-selecting for certain points of view.
Says user number 1,243,248. If Slashdot were a city that population would make it the ninth largest city in the US, between San Diego and Dallas. Yes audience is self selecting, this is a site mostly made of nerds with a libertarian bent. There is, at least, an effort to stay informed and back up statements with facts. Do you really believe those 1,243,248 accounts belong to 1,243,248 active, unique users? You've gotta be kidding.
I honestly don't know about China's natural resources, but they seem to be consuming so much that they need to import steel and metals in scrap form from the US like gangbusters. I think this is because it's currently cheaper to refine it from scrap than mine it... It's even cheaper to steal it.
Not very fast? Most ISPs offer 24mbit ADSL2+. Much faster than most of the world. Sure, if your local exchange happens to have it installed. There's a lot of people missing out.
Yea, that's the point. If you just want a decent laptop which plays WoW, and don't want to pay insane amount of money then that's your laptop. Throw some WoW stickers on it and viola. I don't quite understand what serenading your laptop will achieve, but if it makes you happy, go for it!
No one else has mentioned this yet, so I'd like to know if I'm the only one experiencing this on Leopard (10.5.1):
Among other issues which have already been covered on/. and elsewhere, my MacBook Pro forgets settings quite frequently, sometimes only hours apart. I have to keep setting my default browser and feed reader back to Camino and Vienna, and that I prefer QuickTime to iTunes for playing audio files (since it doesn't automatically add it to the library). Does this happen to anyone else?
It's called winter, and it's probably not your imagination. (Right, right, here comes "I live in SoCal you insensitive clod.") I live in the Southern Hemisphere you insensitive clod!
Euro kids don't text after their free texts have run out? Please.
People text in Europe the same way they breath: all the time. The thing about receiving textsbeing free is accurate tho: the result is SMS-spam. Funny, I live in a country where receiving SMS is free, and I've never received SMS spam.
If anything, it seems like it'd be more likely in a place where the sender pays nothing.
Secondly, Facebook users DO harness their energy and invoke real social change. There are THOUSANDS of groups and "Causes" devoted to organizations like FreeRice.com, Red, AIDS / HIV Research, ASPCA, Breast Cancer Research, Domestic Abuse, and so on. Don't believe? Have a look yourself. Facebook Causes or Socially Conscious Networking - Facebook. Next time do a little research before stereotyping 55 million people. Facebook Factsheet Do you really think those Facebook groups and causes achieve anything other than allowing people to show off how 'socially conscious' they are?
Yes, I agree that it's a good idea to know the local emergency number. But I disagree that having a different emergency number than 911 should indicate that you hate the US. In fact, most of the countries of the world, do not have 911 as emergency number.. Moreover, many countries still "unofficially" route 911 to the local emergency number to take care of idiots, american tourists, and people raised on Hollywood movies (some of these categories may overlap). That page also neglected to mention that Australia has a TTY emergency service on 106.
"Overall, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is perhaps the most significant update in the history of Mac OS X -- perhaps in the history of Apple
Maybe in the history of Mac OS X, but definitely not the history of Apple itself. I'd say that would be, oh, the shift to Unix. I'm sure the same will be said of 10.6, too. It's a standard PR move.
"I ain't got no money" is actually entirely grammatical (from a linguistics point of view), however it fails to meet the standards of formal language that Grammar Nazis prefer. So tell me, what is "ain't" a contraction of, if it's a valid term?
Many of the less popular acts of government in our country are now coming down from above. At national level, we have the unelected European Commission running the show, despite the presence of the directly elected European Parliament, and imposing legislation on national governments. To be fair, the only reason the European Commission has this power is because your elected leaders signed a treaty (or two--I'm not from the UK, so I don't know the details) at some point. Perhaps you weren't a voter at the time, but international law such as this doesn't come out of nowhere.
Not that I necessarily disagree with the rest of your post, either.
Well, if you're Australian, you don't need anything quite as complex... you just need to remember to ask your politician if they are making a core or non-core promise.
...the southern hemisphere is largely less developed in all kinds of ways than the north.
Well, beyond those and Antarctica (Imagine... a whole continent without a Walmart!), much of the southern hemisphere is still under water. Australia and Africa don't have Walmarts either.
I've only ever gotten mod points once. I figured they were just stingy with them. How often do they come up for most people? Mine come up every few weeks or so, although I usually don't have time to use them.
Is it even possible (given DST rules) to be over 24 different from anywhere else on the earth? Yes, because the International Date Line follows political rather than geographic requirements. The easternmost parts of Kiribati use GMT+14, while American Samoa and some other countries use GMT-11 (the geographic GMT-12 zone is uninhabited, but can be used by ships).
And a 100% chance that a change in your timezone will cause your servers to suddenly have the wrong time (assuming default configuration). If someone has consciously chosen to use New Zealand time instead of GMT/UTC, remaining on GMT+12 when the rest of the country has moved to GMT+13 would be the wrong time.
Debian have promised their users that only security updates will be rolled out and that they will not release any updates that change the normal behavior of programs. I'dve thought that normal behaviour would be to display the correct time for the timezone I've configured.
This isn't changing any code, it's changing a very small amount of data. All that's needed for testing is to set the system clock to shortly before the scheduled start of DST, then make sure it changes correctly.
This means that unless New Zealand sysadmins install the package manually, pull the package from testing, or alter the timezone to 'GMT-13' manually I hope no one actually follows the summary's suggestion of manually setting GMT-13 as the timezone. Given that NZ is now GMT+13, you'd be 26 hours behind.
Your logs aren't in GMT? How can you handle comparing many syslog servers' logs from different geographical locations when it comes time to audit? If your organization only operates in one timezone, why would it matter?
Linux is safe from viruses because Antivirus software will run as root, and Linux enforces a security model where the virus infection should be limited to the user's profile, rather than the root or system. This has been said time and time again on Slashdot, and people don't seem to get it:
If a virus can destroy a home directory, it doesn't matter if the rest of the system is safe./usr can easily be replaced,/home can not.
Now please stop inventing new words just to be different, when there is a perfectly good word, spelled nearly the same way, that means exactly the same thing, and has since before you were born.
Please stop taking standard prefixes, known and used worldwide, and redefining them just to be different, just because you think data storage is somehow special.
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Says user number 1,243,248. If Slashdot were a city that population would make it the ninth largest city in the US, between San Diego and Dallas. Yes audience is self selecting, this is a site mostly made of nerds with a libertarian bent. There is, at least, an effort to stay informed and back up statements with facts. Do you really believe those 1,243,248 accounts belong to 1,243,248 active, unique users? You've gotta be kidding.
Yeah, I know... it just seems like a strange bastardization of Metric and Imperial. Why aren't miles or yards used?
No one else has mentioned this yet, so I'd like to know if I'm the only one experiencing this on Leopard (10.5.1):
Among other issues which have already been covered on /. and elsewhere, my MacBook Pro forgets settings quite frequently, sometimes only hours apart. I have to keep setting my default browser and feed reader back to Camino and Vienna, and that I prefer QuickTime to iTunes for playing audio files (since it doesn't automatically add it to the library). Does this happen to anyone else?
Maybe in the history of Mac OS X, but definitely not the history of Apple itself. I'd say that would be, oh, the shift to Unix. I'm sure the same will be said of 10.6, too. It's a standard PR move.
Well, if you're Australian, you don't need anything quite as complex... you just need to remember to ask your politician if they are making a core or non-core promise.
Well, beyond those and Antarctica (Imagine... a whole continent without a Walmart!), much of the southern hemisphere is still under water. Australia and Africa don't have Walmarts either.
This isn't changing any code, it's changing a very small amount of data. All that's needed for testing is to set the system clock to shortly before the scheduled start of DST, then make sure it changes correctly.
If a virus can destroy a home directory, it doesn't matter if the rest of the system is safe.
Now please stop inventing new words just to be different, when there is a perfectly good word, spelled nearly the same way, that means exactly the same thing, and has since before you were born.
Please stop taking standard prefixes, known and used worldwide, and redefining them just to be different, just because you think data storage is somehow special.Have you filed a DMCA counter notification?