I thought the signature was the funniest part: "Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a handyman, a handicapper and a handmaiden."
I think I better put that in my blog! And yes I'm going to be blogging about this!
Paid security software is much more dangerous on average. The only way crooks make money on "security software" is by tricking people into paying for the stuff that introduces more crap onto the system, like McAfee, Symantec, and Bullgard and the spyware ilk.
Har Har. "Lie" is completely the wrong word, so unless you were being funny, explain where I've "lied" to them.
What I've done is I've weighed the negative points about Vista, the positive points of XP, and of Ubuntu, and made the judgment for them that I think they would have made too if they knew the facts about DRM, patents, and open source software.
I already have people telling me they want the next system after Windows XP. I tell them it's called Windows Vista, and that they probably don't want it because it won't be as good as XP. It will force them to buy a new computer, and will lock them out of many things they want to do like copying DVDs. I let them know that Ubuntu can do everything they'll want their computer to do, and they won't have to pay $300 to get it.
The delay of Vista in Europe is a victory for free and open source software.
I too have had an ATI video card driver crash XP hard, and I barely managed to get it working again through safe mode. Reverting to the previous driver wasn't even working despite having system Restore active. I hope they improve that in Vista - not that I'll buy it because it's simply Windows XP on DRM steroids.
I said soot. Pot smoke produces soot too, and there is a cancer risk, but for as of yet an unknown reason the THC or other compound reduces the cancer risk by about as much as soot increases it.
Drinkypoo says, "But smoking isn't actually ALL that bad for you if you don't do it like a chimney."
Exactly how does one smoke and not resemble a chimney. I suppose you could close the flue, but that resembles a chimney fire. Soot is carcinogenic whether or not there are additives in it. If that capital ALL makes you feel more safe smoking, that's simply your brain justifying the risk. My lungs don't accept your justification, and neither does logic.
More importantly, how do you feel about being left off the new planets list? You could have gone to college on Pluto, they don't have data mining there.
I've had for the last year a 17" LCD monitor, on an ATI Radeon 8500DV with a DVD-+RW drive and have seen no reason to buy an expensive DVD player. Do the expensive players find a way to skip over pathetic ads and FBI warnings, or play discs from any region to make them worthwhile?
OK, scrap NASA, and then who in the US is going to maintain your satellite or space station fleet? You can't exactly count on China or the ESA, and Canada has no launchers for humans at the moment.
That's a pretty good description. For further reading you might want to direct them to Michael Geist's site which goes into detail. He was recently featured on Slashdot for his 30 Days of DRM. I wrote about it as well here.
"Lockheed Martin convinced the Canadian government" -What you should "like" is how Canada outsourced the job.- Didn't I just say that?
I don't like how the government allowed a weapons dealer and a company beholden to the Patriot Act to design machines and software used to collect Canadians data, when it's a better thing for the Canadian economy to either design our own software or collect data the old fashioned way. EH? And I did complain to the government about it, and publicly too along with thousands of other people. I also don't like how you used "eh" as apparently a slur against Canadians. It's one thing to be humourous, but another to be condescending, eh.
The average person may not understand how valuable it is to have human DNA continued off the planet earth, but governments should be looking that far into the future. If we sit back and wait, major developments in travel might happen, but more likely we'll just find ourselves scrambling without enough time when the killer war, bug, or rock hits us hard.
I pictured this guy with antenna, and I laughed. I bet he'd get real media coverage if he were an alien. After all, then Homeland Security might care their ships are in mortal danger if it gets cold outside, or if someone tries to approach.
I like how Lockheed Martin convinced the Canadian government to let them collect our 2006 Census data too. Makes me feel that my personal info is well cared for...
Times sure HAVE changed. What used to be a time filled with heroes that inspired a generation of space travellers, has now become a time where going to a space station is a big deal, or looking at yet more pictures of Mars on the Internet. They are impressive feats, but not something that children think is really unusual and the stuff from movies and comics. I don't think there are as many people interested in seeing humans expand into space, and that's a shame. One only has to look at the volunteers at NASA's launches for evidence. Lockheed Martin is a company with no human scruples, and is responsible for the wrecks out patrolling the US coast now with inferior designs. I'm sure most Slashdotters saw the Lockheed Martin contractor turned Whistleblower concerning YouTube videos condemning the company and Homeland Insecurity's blind eye to his list of ship problems.
"It might be fairly secure... But its on the web." Lack of real information security is the trade we made as a computerized networked society, for convenience in banking. With the effort saved in banking I'd say it's worth it, even with the potential identiy scams the plague thousands of people every year. Crime happens whether it's online or off.
...Don't put it on the Internet. In fact, don't even type it into a computer, or write it down. People shouldn't put anything on the Internet that they wouldn't want their worst enemy, boss, NSA, or grandmother to see. Obviously since the porn industiry exists online, few people follow this rule, but it's a good one none the less.
I enjoy Archive.org and when I get nostalgic about my websites of the past, it's there to show me a glimpse into history.
The other "solution" is to do like my province did and "amalgamate" the school divisions, so the tech support is centralized and more "efficient" when they have to drive twice as far to fix a problem on site.
This way you have top notch staff who is just too busy to do anything the right way.
Being fired through a form letter, or email must be soul destroying.
Now those employees can sue Radio Shack, because they can claim that every time they hear a "new email sound", they break down into tears. They won't be able to find a job working with computers.
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I thought the signature was the funniest part:
"Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a handyman, a handicapper and a handmaiden."
I think I better put that in my blog! And yes I'm going to be blogging about this!
Paid security software is much more dangerous on average. The only way crooks make money on "security software" is by tricking people into paying for the stuff that introduces more crap onto the system, like McAfee, Symantec, and Bullgard and the spyware ilk.
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AC you're redundant, and obviously a troll.
I did not lie, I give my opinion that is based on experience and fact.
I wonder if we'll finally make automated blog/website spam illegal, or design a captcha that people with visual disabilities can overcome.
Har Har. "Lie" is completely the wrong word, so unless you were being funny, explain where I've "lied" to them.
What I've done is I've weighed the negative points about Vista, the positive points of XP, and of Ubuntu, and made the judgment for them that I think they would have made too if they knew the facts about DRM, patents, and open source software.
I already have people telling me they want the next system after Windows XP. I tell them it's called Windows Vista, and that they probably don't want it because it won't be as good as XP. It will force them to buy a new computer, and will lock them out of many things they want to do like copying DVDs. I let them know that Ubuntu can do everything they'll want their computer to do, and they won't have to pay $300 to get it.
The delay of Vista in Europe is a victory for free and open source software.
I too have had an ATI video card driver crash XP hard, and I barely managed to get it working again through safe mode. Reverting to the previous driver wasn't even working despite having system Restore active. I hope they improve that in Vista - not that I'll buy it because it's simply Windows XP on DRM steroids.
I said soot. Pot smoke produces soot too, and there is a cancer risk, but for as of yet an unknown reason the THC or other compound reduces the cancer risk by about as much as soot increases it.
Drinkypoo says, "But smoking isn't actually ALL that bad for you if you don't do it like a chimney."
Exactly how does one smoke and not resemble a chimney. I suppose you could close the flue, but that resembles a chimney fire.
Soot is carcinogenic whether or not there are additives in it. If that capital ALL makes you feel more safe smoking, that's simply your brain justifying the risk. My lungs don't accept your justification, and neither does logic.
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More importantly, how do you feel about being left off the new planets list? You could have gone to college on Pluto, they don't have data mining there.
I've had for the last year a 17" LCD monitor, on an ATI Radeon 8500DV with a DVD-+RW drive and have seen no reason to buy an expensive DVD player. Do the expensive players find a way to skip over pathetic ads and FBI warnings, or play discs from any region to make them worthwhile?
OK, scrap NASA, and then who in the US is going to maintain your satellite or space station fleet? You can't exactly count on China or the ESA, and Canada has no launchers for humans at the moment.
That's a pretty good description.
For further reading you might want to direct them to Michael Geist's site which goes into detail. He was recently featured on Slashdot for his 30 Days of DRM. I wrote about it as well here.
"Lockheed Martin convinced the Canadian government"
-What you should "like" is how Canada outsourced the job.-
Didn't I just say that?
I don't like how the government allowed a weapons dealer and a company beholden to the Patriot Act to design machines and software used to collect Canadians data, when it's a better thing for the Canadian economy to either design our own software or collect data the old fashioned way. EH? And I did complain to the government about it, and publicly too along with thousands of other people.
I also don't like how you used "eh" as apparently a slur against Canadians. It's one thing to be humourous, but another to be condescending, eh.
The average person may not understand how valuable it is to have human DNA continued off the planet earth, but governments should be looking that far into the future. If we sit back and wait, major developments in travel might happen, but more likely we'll just find ourselves scrambling without enough time when the killer war, bug, or rock hits us hard.
I pictured this guy with antenna, and I laughed. I bet he'd get real media coverage if he were an alien. After all, then Homeland Security might care their ships are in mortal danger if it gets cold outside, or if someone tries to approach.
I like how Lockheed Martin convinced the Canadian government to let them collect our 2006 Census data too. Makes me feel that my personal info is well cared for...
Times sure HAVE changed. What used to be a time filled with heroes that inspired a generation of space travellers, has now become a time where going to a space station is a big deal, or looking at yet more pictures of Mars on the Internet. They are impressive feats, but not something that children think is really unusual and the stuff from movies and comics. I don't think there are as many people interested in seeing humans expand into space, and that's a shame. One only has to look at the volunteers at NASA's launches for evidence.
Lockheed Martin is a company with no human scruples, and is responsible for the wrecks out patrolling the US coast now with inferior designs. I'm sure most Slashdotters saw the Lockheed Martin contractor turned Whistleblower concerning YouTube videos condemning the company and Homeland Insecurity's blind eye to his list of ship problems.
"It might be fairly secure... But its on the web."
Lack of real information security is the trade we made as a computerized networked society, for convenience in banking. With the effort saved in banking I'd say it's worth it, even with the potential identiy scams the plague thousands of people every year. Crime happens whether it's online or off.
...Don't put it on the Internet. In fact, don't even type it into a computer, or write it down.
People shouldn't put anything on the Internet that they wouldn't want their worst enemy, boss, NSA, or grandmother to see. Obviously since the porn industiry exists online, few people follow this rule, but it's a good one none the less.
I enjoy Archive.org and when I get nostalgic about my websites of the past, it's there to show me a glimpse into history.
The other "solution" is to do like my province did and "amalgamate" the school divisions, so the tech support is centralized and more "efficient" when they have to drive twice as far to fix a problem on site.
This way you have top notch staff who is just too busy to do anything the right way.
Of course it's a bad idea to steal, and especially to admit to it to a former boss. I forgot my little wink at the end ;-)
That depends. Did she email back saying she was going out with someone who looked like Les Nesman?
Being fired through a form letter, or email must be soul destroying.
Now those employees can sue Radio Shack, because they can claim that every time they hear a "new email sound", they break down into tears. They won't be able to find a job working with computers.
"you-can't-fire-me-I-equit"
I'd reply with, "Ha Ha, joke's on you. I've been working from home for the past 8 months, and have been selling the store's LED flashlights on eBay."
I got my cell phone second hand, and it had old phone numbers on it. I was half tempted to call some of them and ask who the owner used to be :-D
And I didn't get my phone like the Sidekick girl in New York, I got it as a gift. A real gift, not the kind found in the back of a taxi.