I feel it my duty to warn people off from the Askmen link. Here is an example:
As well as a billionaire, Ellison is also believed to be quite a multi-faceted character: playboy, world champion sailboat racer, sports nut, jet pilot, ruthless businessman, marketing genius, and avant-garde thinker. We weren't kidding when we said he is no ordinary businessman.
You know, this article doesn't even say "database". Of course, it's on one of those horrible ad sites so the content is well disguised. If you want a better article, see Pingulars oddly modified post. Or what about Sunderland56's post about Ellison Abuse links on google? Also oddly modified
These are interesting - Askmen is just "Seventeen" in disguise. It's a link to set cookies for advertisers (if you aren't a rejecter). It is NOT a geek magazine. Utterly useless. And the odd modifications of substantive information makes me wonder whether it's tin foil hat time here on Slashdot.
The article listed as an example of his great interviews, is just some vapid, empty, boring, dull, pice of shitty crap from some chick magazine masquerading as a men's magazine. Big info: Ellison has a personal tailor. Ooooooo. He risks his life in boats - he is a man. Ooooooo. He is a playboy stud. Ooooooo.
I'm going to go read a cereal box now. Anything will be stimulating after that.
Why not - look at how many screwed up kids come out of the non-geek breeders of the world. Maybe kids would be better informed, more resourceful, and more competent if all parents were geeks.
The kids who go from totally restricted to totally unresticted have never had good freshman years.
Amen brother. My first night in college, I got so drunk on rum and coke, I blew a chance w/ a sure thing chick by puking in wastebasket. It was pretty hard dealing with all that freedom... by my second semester I was on academic probation.
After I wrote this, I scoured the Mozilla setup preferences and couldn't find anything like it. I've haven't used Konqueror much - but I might start now after what you mentioned. I just need to find some places to test out unchecking the redirect option now. Thanks for the info.
I felt like you did - the early episodes are "OK". It picks up shortly and when it does, it blows everything else away. However, I've found it somewhat distressing to watch ST* anymore. Compared to Farscape, ST* has thinner plots, thinner characters, and is far less emotionally compelling. Had I never seen Farscape, I would never have developed this feeling about ST*. That is the only thing I'd warn about.
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While the complex stories may make it hard to attract new viewers - that is the same thing that makes the show better than most others. It just has a lot more depth and history.
Of course, I understand that to me, "good" means interesting/exciting/stimulating. To the studios, "good" only means they sell advertisements. I am looking for quality and depth - studios only care about the money. As a result, truly great SF shows are practically impossible.
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If you are interested in a paper thin plot, cardboard characters, and a lot of shooting, Stargate is an awsome show.
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a lot better than Grunts in Space, er, I mean Stargate
Nice characterization. I started watching Farscape because I was running out of Star Trek disks to get from Netflix. I've looked at a few other things too, including Stargate. I gave Stargate 2 disks worth of chances, and it was nothing but GI Joe lobbing grenades from a wormhole instead of foxhole. Boring as hell - a gunslinger movie with lights instead of gunsmoke.
I have to agree that Farscape's earlier episodes weren't stellar. Luckily, they were just good enough to keep getting the disks. But then, from season two on, the show became amazing, like "bring tears to my eyes" amazingly good.
I feel a lot more emotion for the Farscape characters than I do for Star Trek characters - and I'm a die hard ST fan. But the truth is, the Farscape characters are far more "human" and it is very easy to get wrapped up in the story - I've found myself actually mad at a character for being a jerk, and happy or sad for a character depending on what is going on. And none of the characters are always good, always bad, always selfish, always generous - hell, even the evil nemesis is humanized to the point that, in a lot ways, I find him very likeable. Scorpius is humanized far more than the Borg ever was. This makes things much more complex and interesting.
Anyway, Farscape was not just about lights and gun battles - it was about the characters becoming real enough so that you cared what happened to them and worried for them. As far as I could tell, Stargate never got there. Neither did Andromeda for that matter (I've given that about 5 disks of chances - frelling dren).
I hate those because even if w/ Javascript on, it doesn't work for me half the time and if it is something I really want to see, I have to do the browser dance (mozillia to konqueror to galeon - after that I give up, nothing is worth shutting down and booting up windows). Plus it's slow. I think people do it just because it makes them feel cool - not because it leads to good design.
RTFA and look at the pictures too. Here's some help, scroll down to Figure 4:
Figure 4: The third revision of the Citibank trojan login, from 25-Oct-2003. A server in Moscow, Russia provides the popup but the main window actually is the Citibank home page.
After using email blind-drops and malware, the group quickly progressed to impersonating web sites. The impersonation was done through web redirections. The hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) permits web servers to redirect requests to alternate sites (HTTP 303 return codes). In this case, the gang's web server returned an HTTP 303 return code redirecting browsers to the targeted financial institution. But, the HTTP response may also contain valid HTML code. The valid code usually tells the user that the page has been moved to a new location. This gang used the redirection response's HTML code to generate a popup requesting the victim's banking information. Thus, the main web page is the targeted financial institution, but the popup comes from a hostile server (Fig. 4). The hostile server acts as a blind-drop for victim information.
I already block unrequested popups of course - but I once spent some time tracking a spammer who bounced off MSN's site - there was no popup and so I ended up at the advertisement. It seems that rather than accepting redirects, browsers should warn you with a dialogue box akin to the a cookie request: "Site X wishes to redirect you to Site Y, do you wish to be redirected". Or do they already do that and I'm just not in the know? Anyway, looking at the screen shot, I could see lots of people being fooled. The popup was right in front of the citibank page - it looks quite authentic.
For the most part, the subpoenas above are not discovery subpoenas. The contents of a subpoena is usually very short: "show up at X address at Y Date and time." Basically, everything else on the page is boilerplate even if it does sound ominous (e.g., You are hereby comanded to appear at... Fail not herin at your peril). The place of the dep is usually at the office of the lawyer calling the deposition. The subpoena (when issued by a lawyer) is not signed by a judge - it is sufficient for the lawyer to sign. The only time a subpoena is going to have additional information, is when it demands that certain documentary or physical evidence be on hand for the deposition. In that case, the "stuff" is identified in the subpoena.
Many people seem confused about the process right now. Particularly the AC below who wonders if these are for a trial date way in the future. I suggest A Litigation Crash Course. Note that the SCO trial is in phase 2 presently. And here is more detailed information about depositions.
Just a general comment - I've noticed many posts talking about Stallman's testimony angering the judge, being useless etc. It is important to realize that SCO is seeking a discovery deposition. This will take place in a conference room, with lawyers from all sides and a court reporter recording the event, but there will not be a judge present. The point of the deposition will be for SCO to try to discover evidence it can use at trial. If Stallman (or any witness for that matter) becomes a trial witness, the dep. transcript will be useful on cross-examination if the trial testimony is different from the deposition testimony. More likely, the dep. trans. will be used in pretrial motions.
Somehow I think Stallman will do just fine. From the snippets I saw of him on Revolution OS, he seems highly intelligent and intelligable - certainly the kind of person to see the traps in a question and be able to dodge them while still answering truthfully and yet avoiding subsequent as yet unidentified traps. A witness who can walk that razor line is solid gold as long he doesn't appear evasive.
I have a very traditional type business - law office - and we run Linux on the desptop just fine. My partner is not what I would consider computer litterate but she could do all the basic Windows Office tasks before migrating.
We have been open almost a year now. Over that time - with no guidance, instruction, or demonstrations - she has figured out how to change her desktop wallpaper (her kid's pictures of course); has become addicted to multiple desktops; out of the blue told me she "likes this permissions thing" because if she gets somewhere she shouldn't be, nothing bad happens. We have Openoffice connected to our MySQL database for merges, use an HTML/PHP approach to data entry/display.
This whole thing about Linux not ready for business is just bunk. Even with windows, in a big corp. environment, the IT division sets up the computers and tells the worker droids not to change anything (at least that is what happened to me at my old jobs). While it might be more difficult for grandma to set up a Linux box, I would expect an IT person to be able to do it with ease. For the end user, KDE or Gnome is going to be a similar experience to Windows - someone will tell them: "click on this, click on that, do your job."
Actually, I think it should be (+5: Stupid) or (+5: wrong) - that way, people will get to see these. if it's -1, they'd dissapear and we'd lose a few laughs.
This may work for print billboards - but what about the giant animated billboards? The flashing lights and animations demand attention. I know of one I pass on those rare occaisions when I have to go toward Tacoma WA (S. on I-5). It's near some RV or Boat sales place. Everytime I go by, I make a consious effort to NOT look - and yet inexorably, my eyes get drawn to it. This is not only annoying, but dangerous - we don't need drivers watching some video clip on a billboard while driving a busy freeway.
The way I feel is that if I can't effortlessly ignore the advertising - it is abusive.
If you spend three hours in a room with minimal tobacco smoke, you get about the same amount amount of nicotine in 5 oz. of potatoes, 8 1/2 oz. ripe tomatoes, 9 1/2 oz. cauliflower, and 1/3 oz. eggplant. Cooking decreases some of the nicotine. These results are appearing in medical journals (e.g. The New England Journal of Medicine) from the experimental laboratories of Dr. Edward Domino, University of Michigan and colleagues. Extensive research is needed with the food nightshades to determine the culprits causing the subtle deteriorating effects on the human body as well as livestock. The horticulturalists need to study the possibility of "breeding down or out" the poisonous culprits in the highly popular and addicting food nightshades.Addictive Vegies
Most jobs aren't really about performing tasks. They are about hierarchical control. The people who wield the control like it that way. For some reason that escapes me so do the controled.
Brilliant comment. Anyone who does brainwork, can do it from just about anywhere. I got sick of the heirarchy, saved my pennies, and bailed on that system just this year. I never hated my work - but I often hated my working environment. This year has been such an amazing experience - one in which I love both my work and the environment. Anyone who gets the chance - try it out.
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"overrated"?
I feel it my duty to warn people off from the Askmen link. Here is an example:
You know, this article doesn't even say "database". Of course, it's on one of those horrible ad sites so the content is well disguised. If you want a better article, see Pingulars oddly modified post. Or what about Sunderland56's post about Ellison Abuse links on google? Also oddly modified
These are interesting - Askmen is just "Seventeen" in disguise. It's a link to set cookies for advertisers (if you aren't a rejecter). It is NOT a geek magazine. Utterly useless. And the odd modifications of substantive information makes me wonder whether it's tin foil hat time here on Slashdot.
The article listed as an example of his great interviews, is just some vapid, empty, boring, dull, pice of shitty crap from some chick magazine masquerading as a men's magazine. Big info: Ellison has a personal tailor. Ooooooo. He risks his life in boats - he is a man. Ooooooo. He is a playboy stud. Ooooooo.
I'm going to go read a cereal box now. Anything will be stimulating after that.
Why not - look at how many screwed up kids come out of the non-geek breeders of the world. Maybe kids would be better informed, more resourceful, and more competent if all parents were geeks.
You were Lucky - when I was 12, I only had a 16k coco (w/ the chiclet keys no less).
Amen brother. My first night in college, I got so drunk on rum and coke, I blew a chance w/ a sure thing chick by puking in wastebasket. It was pretty hard dealing with all that freedom
If I had mod points, I'd mod you funny. No way can I believe you're serious!
I appologize for berating you on that. I remember feeling instantly bad after hitting submit - I'm sometimes too impulsive.
After I wrote this, I scoured the Mozilla setup preferences and couldn't find anything like it. I've haven't used Konqueror much - but I might start now after what you mentioned. I just need to find some places to test out unchecking the redirect option now. Thanks for the info.
I felt like you did - the early episodes are "OK". It picks up shortly and when it does, it blows everything else away. However, I've found it somewhat distressing to watch ST* anymore. Compared to Farscape, ST* has thinner plots, thinner characters, and is far less emotionally compelling. Had I never seen Farscape, I would never have developed this feeling about ST*. That is the only thing I'd warn about.
While the complex stories may make it hard to attract new viewers - that is the same thing that makes the show better than most others. It just has a lot more depth and history.
Of course, I understand that to me, "good" means interesting/exciting/stimulating. To the studios, "good" only means they sell advertisements. I am looking for quality and depth - studios only care about the money. As a result, truly great SF shows are practically impossible.
If you are interested in a paper thin plot, cardboard characters, and a lot of shooting, Stargate is an awsome show.
- a lot better than Grunts in Space, er, I mean Stargate
Nice characterization. I started watching Farscape because I was running out of Star Trek disks to get from Netflix. I've looked at a few other things too, including Stargate. I gave Stargate 2 disks worth of chances, and it was nothing but GI Joe lobbing grenades from a wormhole instead of foxhole. Boring as hell - a gunslinger movie with lights instead of gunsmoke.I have to agree that Farscape's earlier episodes weren't stellar. Luckily, they were just good enough to keep getting the disks. But then, from season two on, the show became amazing, like "bring tears to my eyes" amazingly good.
I feel a lot more emotion for the Farscape characters than I do for Star Trek characters - and I'm a die hard ST fan. But the truth is, the Farscape characters are far more "human" and it is very easy to get wrapped up in the story - I've found myself actually mad at a character for being a jerk, and happy or sad for a character depending on what is going on. And none of the characters are always good, always bad, always selfish, always generous - hell, even the evil nemesis is humanized to the point that, in a lot ways, I find him very likeable. Scorpius is humanized far more than the Borg ever was. This makes things much more complex and interesting.
Anyway, Farscape was not just about lights and gun battles - it was about the characters becoming real enough so that you cared what happened to them and worried for them. As far as I could tell, Stargate never got there. Neither did Andromeda for that matter (I've given that about 5 disks of chances - frelling dren).
I hate those because even if w/ Javascript on, it doesn't work for me half the time and if it is something I really want to see, I have to do the browser dance (mozillia to konqueror to galeon - after that I give up, nothing is worth shutting down and booting up windows). Plus it's slow. I think people do it just because it makes them feel cool - not because it leads to good design.
RTFA and look at the pictures too. Here's some help, scroll down to Figure 4:
- After using email blind-drops and malware, the group quickly progressed to impersonating web sites. The impersonation was done through web redirections. The hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) permits web servers to redirect requests to alternate sites (HTTP 303 return codes). In this case, the gang's web server returned an HTTP 303 return code redirecting browsers to the targeted financial institution. But, the HTTP response may also contain valid HTML code. The valid code usually tells the user that the page has been moved to a new location. This gang used the redirection response's HTML code to generate a popup requesting the victim's banking information. Thus, the main web page is the targeted financial institution, but the popup comes from a hostile server (Fig. 4). The hostile server acts as a blind-drop for victim information.
I already block unrequested popups of course - but I once spent some time tracking a spammer who bounced off MSN's site - there was no popup and so I ended up at the advertisement. It seems that rather than accepting redirects, browsers should warn you with a dialogue box akin to the a cookie request: "Site X wishes to redirect you to Site Y, do you wish to be redirected". Or do they already do that and I'm just not in the know? Anyway, looking at the screen shot, I could see lots of people being fooled. The popup was right in front of the citibank page - it looks quite authentic.For the most part, the subpoenas above are not discovery subpoenas. The contents of a subpoena is usually very short: "show up at X address at Y Date and time." Basically, everything else on the page is boilerplate even if it does sound ominous (e.g., You are hereby comanded to appear at
Many people seem confused about the process right now. Particularly the AC below who wonders if these are for a trial date way in the future. I suggest A Litigation Crash Course. Note that the SCO trial is in phase 2 presently. And here is more detailed information about depositions.
Just a general comment - I've noticed many posts talking about Stallman's testimony angering the judge, being useless etc. It is important to realize that SCO is seeking a discovery deposition. This will take place in a conference room, with lawyers from all sides and a court reporter recording the event, but there will not be a judge present. The point of the deposition will be for SCO to try to discover evidence it can use at trial. If Stallman (or any witness for that matter) becomes a trial witness, the dep. transcript will be useful on cross-examination if the trial testimony is different from the deposition testimony. More likely, the dep. trans. will be used in pretrial motions.
Somehow I think Stallman will do just fine. From the snippets I saw of him on Revolution OS, he seems highly intelligent and intelligable - certainly the kind of person to see the traps in a question and be able to dodge them while still answering truthfully and yet avoiding subsequent as yet unidentified traps. A witness who can walk that razor line is solid gold as long he doesn't appear evasive.
Yes - in fact more versions with prettier cards. Already installed with stock RH9, I'm sure with most other distros that carry KDE as well. KDE Games
I have a very traditional type business - law office - and we run Linux on the desptop just fine. My partner is not what I would consider computer litterate but she could do all the basic Windows Office tasks before migrating.
We have been open almost a year now. Over that time - with no guidance, instruction, or demonstrations - she has figured out how to change her desktop wallpaper (her kid's pictures of course); has become addicted to multiple desktops; out of the blue told me she "likes this permissions thing" because if she gets somewhere she shouldn't be, nothing bad happens. We have Openoffice connected to our MySQL database for merges, use an HTML/PHP approach to data entry/display.
This whole thing about Linux not ready for business is just bunk. Even with windows, in a big corp. environment, the IT division sets up the computers and tells the worker droids not to change anything (at least that is what happened to me at my old jobs). While it might be more difficult for grandma to set up a Linux box, I would expect an IT person to be able to do it with ease. For the end user, KDE or Gnome is going to be a similar experience to Windows - someone will tell them: "click on this, click on that, do your job."
Actually, I think it should be (+5: Stupid) or (+5: wrong) - that way, people will get to see these. if it's -1, they'd dissapear and we'd lose a few laughs.
I like this idea! Especially the latter part.
This may work for print billboards - but what about the giant animated billboards? The flashing lights and animations demand attention. I know of one I pass on those rare occaisions when I have to go toward Tacoma WA (S. on I-5). It's near some RV or Boat sales place. Everytime I go by, I make a consious effort to NOT look - and yet inexorably, my eyes get drawn to it. This is not only annoying, but dangerous - we don't need drivers watching some video clip on a billboard while driving a busy freeway.
The way I feel is that if I can't effortlessly ignore the advertising - it is abusive.
The lapel pin and necklace would work great for microphones - but I'd appreciate an explanation of how these will get the sound INTO your ear.
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Obviously, this means we should just eat meat.
- Most jobs aren't really about performing tasks. They are about hierarchical control. The people who wield the control like it that way. For some reason that escapes me so do the controled.
Brilliant comment. Anyone who does brainwork, can do it from just about anywhere. I got sick of the heirarchy, saved my pennies, and bailed on that system just this year. I never hated my work - but I often hated my working environment. This year has been such an amazing experience - one in which I love both my work and the environment. Anyone who gets the chance - try it out.