I think at least in my case with my friends we are just as likely to put old familiar to all of us movie on in the background as music now days.
It is possible that
the IPOD killed the raido star
. People are using portables to separate themselves form the people around them rather than what music has traditionally done and created an immediate share experience with the people around you. Perhaps the music industry should try and bring back the BoomBox.
Which is exactly why despite the bitching of my users, the VPN at our company routes everything to the gateway at my end of the VPN tunnels except of course VPN traffic itself which is obviously routed to the users normal gateway. Everything is axed via the firewall policy in the client.
People don't like it because it means they can't use their network printers they have at home and their downloads to outside sites break whenever they connect or disconnect from the VPN. This is the only way though to guard against these types of attacks.
DRM is not digital rights management in this case, its Direct Rendering Model or something to that effect. Its about video rendering performance not IP.
That has been done throughout the world in the past for some of the very same reasons. I like the idea! I would love to see everyone in government spay or neutered.
True, but in most of these cases its already legal, or its would take a long process of investigation by IRS and probably a good while in tax court to settle the question. The TAX is very complex and like any law it has to be interpreted. You can't really expect individuals to not intemperate such laws in the most favorable to them fashion.
This "obligation to the shareholders" baloney is a nifty neocon mindless chant
Well this may also be true that its mindlessly chanted but companies are legally required to act in share holder interest. If they don't they get sued by those share holders if they are lucky, investigated by the SEC if they are unlucky, and if really unlucky a hostile take over might get organized. In this case Microsoft has a big enough war chest that management could likely weather all those events but its still valid.
The real problem is are TAX Code is WAY WAY WAY to complex. The current administration has never demonstrated any intention to do anything other then make it more so. The problem is congress (democrats and republicans alike) likes using tax policy as a social modeling tool. Manufacture a hybrid get a tax break, sell a cigarette have a tax levied on you, open a new plant in a different jurisdiction have some fun apportionment requirements, etc, etc.
Want to stop tax cheats and avoidance? Simple make it simple; strait sales tax, seller pays few exceptions.
This should get interesting when the bank auditors start to catch on to this. If judges force the continued operation of the servers in BK events to protect consumers maybe companies selling DRM'ed content will be unable to get loans!
This is the case today. Now there are a number of players whose interest it serves to keep things this way which is why it does not change but the lack of private loans available to federal contractors is a know issue. In a BK satisfaction of contracts with the federal government are senior to all debt contracts. That is to say the contract must be satisfied from the available funds if thats even possible before the most senior bond holder can get in line. Since federal contracts usually stipulate the money is returned plus penalties if the product or service is not delivered lenders usually have a problem with companies that work with the federal government.
Every wonder why government contractors are usually only big firms? This is a major reason, its only those firms that know they don't use and won't need private equity financing in the future. They either have cash operation or can raise the capital on the bond market. Hint for you bond investors, if you play in junk bonds companies that have federal contracts and are rated junk are probably junkier than ones that don't in terms of your odds of walking away with nothing at all.
I suspect that has more to do with VHS being a legacy tech then the license fees. Try buying a dvd recorder or a DVR without an ATSC tuner.
Consumers buying all the the most high end model VCRs are almost certainly doing to play back their old home movies and tapes. They probably are not interested recording much at all, its just that adding a record head adds almost nothing to the unit price, the tuner on the other hand does and consumers would select the tuneless units. Honestly if you are buying a unit to make recordings, why would you want to use tape at this stage? Its not nearly as easy as disk. Disk looks just as nice for similar recording lengths and its more portable. Just about everyone has a dvd player now that will play burned disks or a computer. Its actually getting harder to find working VCRs in the wild.
If he wants see some over simplification here it is.
There is good, bar, right, and wrong in this world. While not everything is that simply, perhaps not even most things people like him to see nothing but shades of gray everywhere even when their are none. Usually this is because they are afraid to stand up and do the right thing because it might make someone mad, start a war, or God forbid make them appear intolerant.
I for am sick of people like this guy who bring us all this Politically Correct nonsense, which does nothing other than serve to confuse otherwise good people and prevent us from making the choices, which might be hard ones, but we are ultimately required if we care about living in a just world and possibly even our very survival.
Their language may not be classy and they might want for some temperance and timing but at least the unruly mob of bloggers shows a little courage. I would much much rather many of those be our leaders than the lot of sycophants and manikins we have.
And you are still not system thinking. What about all the energy that goes into the recycling of those CFLs? The transportation of them to a much fewer and more sparsely located facility than the nearest land fill?
Right and nuclear tends to be efficient for generating very large amounts of power as well. Gigawatt reactors are easy to build with todays tech. Electricity could have almost no near term environmental effect, for generation and these idiots want to spoil that by using all kinds of dirty to manufacture and dirty to dispose of CFL and LED lamps.
And this is what so many big government types just can't understand. If we want to protect the environment we need to adopt it as a personal value and we each need to look at situations and use our own judgment. One size fits all legislation will never provide an optimal result. There are lots of situations like pantry spaces where a light needs to be own for only a moment. There are no alternatives for that which are as clean as incandescents. You have to consider the manufacturing and disposal as well. That is just one example with one small aspect of our environmental footprints. This IS NOT A PROBLEM GOVERNMENT CAN SOLVE other than by educating people and simply depending on the fact that they are moral and will do the right things.
I think it will work too, most people don't want to see the world come to more hare than is needed. Most people will take steps to do right by the planet without being forced. Educate people, provide actual facts rather then just global warming hysteria. Admit that carbon is not the only problem and that the near term consequences of cutting carbon might be worse then burning some more. Teach people system thinking let them participate.
This is how we can save the environment, not by taking away all the light bulbs.
I wish I had mod points. This weak minded PC world of moral relativism must be abolished. Copyright holders demand to be taken seriously and insist others listen to their arguments. I DONT NEED TO, your arguments are worthless because the position you already occupy is outrageous. The stated intent of the law was to promote innovation. Being able to profit from one work for a life time does not do that, it eliminates the need for innovation almost entirely.
Return to the bright bright line and we can have an intelligent discussion listen to each other and hash out the specifics, till then I am for damaging the strength of copyright law in any possible way, including making completely impossible to enforce on a technical level such that everyone is a violator and the entire concept becomes a sad joke. Chances are that we can't come back from that point, which does not bother people like me much so maybe you pro IP types aught to think about giving us some concessions because there are more of us and eventually we will defeat you; yes some of us are willing to whip others into what amounts to an unruly mod to do that.
A power struggle is an awful hard fight to win, once one side has excepted anarchy as satisfactory outcome, and a large enough group of people start to fell that would be preferable to your continued control; that is whats happening slowing in the world of IP. "Information wants to be free," is catching on.
I am all about individual freedom and I am last person in the world who would be in favor of anyone interfering with you living out of your car if that is what you desire to do in anyway beyond why I am about to say here. Consider this just friendly advice for a third party who's lack of personal affiliation with you might afford them some objectivity. Do not consider it in away a condemnation of your life style or an attempt to deny you it if it actually brings you happiness.
That said you, admitted that its a lonely life style. You also apparently value your comfort as you cited the jacuzzi not being functional as a reason for leaving your apartment. You also apparently have some desire for the social pattern of cohabitation with a member of the opposite sex most others do.
Not worrying about a place to live is about having one less thing to worry about...
That is a very odd statement on its face. Most people have a pretty basic need for someplace to call home and when they don't have that there is little else they can think about until they do. That is one of the things that keeps so many people homeless. They are so preoccupied with being homeless and needing some place to call home they can't attend to the activities that would elevate them economically so that they could get a home.
Obvious you were quite functional during that period. I just wonder if you were not experiencing some other medical condition that radically altered your socialization when you decided to get up a live out of your car for a time. You might want to see a medical professional before you do that again. If they tell you that your perfectly healthly and you feel like you want do it, then I would say go for it man! If they think something might be wrong then you might consider that for a time. I might not tell them you are planing to go live out of your car, something that radical might bias them as it has me. Since this about you and not the bias of others there no reason to tip hand.
Nothing is wrong with that at all. In other situations it might be make all sorts of sense, like if ext4 offered vastly improved read speeds somehow on the relatively smallish files on most peoples / partition. The only place I really see ext4 offering anything is maybe in/lib or/etc where the number of files can grow very large, otherwise whats the point. The files are not big, they are don't change much (mine is mounted RO) I just don't get the point of a fancy FS on ones / part. EXT2 would really be fine probably ideal. Now I guess if/var is not on its own partition or you don't run tmpfs or something similar on/tmp you might gain something but if those are true you not probably exactly optimized for file system performance in any case.
Most residential building here in the USA are wired with 14 or if you are lucky 12 gage wire. Often most of a home will be wired with 14 and you have 12 in basement or garage spaces to support power tools and things. Newer homes are tending toward larger values. Most places (probably the entire country) code is not more than a 15A breaker on 14 gage wire, and 20A on 12. We usually have large appliances, washer/dryer, central air conditioners, etc on dedicated 10 gage circuits and usually run them on two phase, about 208-220 volts at most locations. These may be 12 or even 10 gage runs and breakers accordingly. I would say with the exception of the large appliances most building have a density of one circuit per room or less, but that is changing in more modern homes for obvious reasons.
I don't think the console manufactures have much to be concerned with. The upper limint on the resolution they are going to want to run for the next generation or two is going to 1920x1080. 1080p is going to be the accepted standard resolution of televisions for some time. There is little reason for the console makers to go after display resolutions greater than 90% of their audience will never connect a capable display for.
I get tired of listing to others peoples pointless conversation I can only imagine how boring listing to a mouse tell me about his weekend is going to be.
Oh sure those desert areas would be fine for cane sugar with irrigation but that is another thing that is not talked about. The US has a watter problem looming on the horizon. The aquifer under the south central united states is sinking at a pretty rapid rate. Its very possible we are slowing heading to anther dust bowl. The only other good source of water in the south west is the Colorado which could provide for most of our needs but we would be literally KILLING Mexico if we did move to using that as our primary source.
Growing crops that need lots of watter in the desert is a stupid idea, the losses to evaporation are way to high. We can't afford to waste water in that way.
It would be better to quit this foolish business with manufactured bio-fuels. We have plenty of coal (to generate electricity and run electric cars), oil shale to produce gas, and off shore oil. There is no focile fuel shortage. We have enough oil off shore and shale to economic produce all the gasoline we need until we can get electric ready. We have enough coal (estimated 800 years worth) to provide all of our electric and transportation needs until we can solve the problems with nuclear.
Honestly all this biofuel stuff is anything but green and IS A WASTEFUL distraction that will end up hurting us economically, and environmentally.
1.Set your send format to Plain Text other rational humans will thank you. If you really need complex formatting you probably should be sending it as some sort of attachment, it must be data and I should be able to consume it with the application of my choice rather than fight with it in Outlook's message window.
2.Don't use word as your mail editor. Outlook is much much faster and more responsive with that off. Again if you need an editor as complex as word you are actually doing something that is not E-Mail.
3.This is optional but good for your own security, set the message display type to clear text. In exchange environments the server will do a pretty good job of converting anything sent your way without a plain text mime section to plain text. Its not perfect though YMMV.
I agree with you we should kill them. Language, the English language anyway, is so widely used that correctness is usually defined as an use such that audience is not distracted from the intended message. That means there is lots of flexibility to get creative with spelling in certain situations. It may on occasion be acceptable or even appropriate to make up new words or use existing words in very unconventional fashion with alternate meanings implied. These things are all ok to do provided that you know your audience will pickup on it without extra effort on their part.
Due to all of the above its a simple fact there is going to be some symbol creep, from time to time new words will be created. Its also true others will fall into disuse although more gradually due to their appearance in print. I am no language snob that is insisting we should all run around talking and writing the way Jane Austin did 160 years ago or even Fitzgerald did eighty years ago. Its ok to make up some words with your pals because they share enough experience with you they will know them.
Here the poster has made a terrible choice and he proves he knows it by virtue of him having referenced it. I should not need a dictionary to read your mostly informal Slashdot post. That is not to say I never will but if I do it should have been something I would have reasonably been expected to know, and therefore could find in my own dictionary rather they Urban. Beyond that the word does not flow well at all. Its hard to speak and hard to read. It adds nothing in particular to the more accepted expression "that's God damn ridiculous" and offers us a savings of only a few syllables. If it actually better conveyed the authors emotional response, or helped to clarify which specific definition he or she wanted us to use it might have value. It does non of these things, its utter rubbish and should never be repeated.
This is how the language is destroyed rather than evolved.
Simpler is better. I agree in most cases. I try to drink from glass rather than plastic containers. Good luck buying juice in this country not shipped in plastic though. You can get some things in paper but I have yet to find cranberry. I also cook on iron when possible. It does not work well for very acidic foods but for everything else its the best "non-stick" you can get, and it gives you very even heat, although you have to know how its also easy to take care of it.
There are trade offs with simple though. Glass containers are heavy, not great if you are hiking or for infants to hold up for any period, although it might help develop muscle I don't know. Glass can also be dangerous if broken especially with children around. The iron cook ware cant be left in the sink overnight with water in it for cleaning in the AM, it has to be cleaned soon after use or your mess it up. No solution will ever be perfect. We started using plastic and teflon for a good reasons. Now that we know there are some dangers associated with both its up to or at least should be up to us as individuals to decide which to use and when. Like most things in life we just need to be informed and use good judgment.
The thing about changing passwords is that is that it is not intended as a measure against bruit force attacks. You change them so that leaks get plugged.
User A gives user B his/her password despite that being against policy for reason X. At least a few months later user B no longer knows A's password. Suppose user B leaves the company or something IT naturally disables B's account and does not disable A's account. Its a good thing B no longer has A's credentials.
Password changes are a weak but probably only real effective solution to the social problem of passwords leaking. I would think you would want to do this with physical tokens as well just as a basic sanity check. Every 90 days or so a physical token should be disabled and replaced or recoded. This is the administrative peoples certain opportunity to verify the person in possession of that token is who think should have it.
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I think at least in my case with my friends we are just as likely to put old familiar to all of us movie on in the background as music now days.
It is possible that
. People are using portables to separate themselves form the people around them rather than what music has traditionally done and created an immediate share experience with the people around you. Perhaps the music industry should try and bring back the BoomBox.
Which is exactly why despite the bitching of my users, the VPN at our company routes everything to the gateway at my end of the VPN tunnels except of course VPN traffic itself which is obviously routed to the users normal gateway. Everything is axed via the firewall policy in the client.
People don't like it because it means they can't use their network printers they have at home and their downloads to outside sites break whenever they connect or disconnect from the VPN. This is the only way though to guard against these types of attacks.
DRM is not digital rights management in this case, its Direct Rendering Model or something to that effect. Its about video rendering performance not IP.
That has been done throughout the world in the past for some of the very same reasons. I like the idea! I would love to see everyone in government spay or neutered.
Are you libs seriously arguing now that, marital impropriety and closet homosexuality are important life experiences.
Now I now we are all doomed.
Legalizing fraud don't make it right
True, but in most of these cases its already legal, or its would take a long process of investigation by IRS and probably a good while in tax court to settle the question. The TAX is very complex and like any law it has to be interpreted. You can't really expect individuals to not intemperate such laws in the most favorable to them fashion.
This "obligation to the shareholders" baloney is a nifty neocon mindless chant
Well this may also be true that its mindlessly chanted but companies are legally required to act in share holder interest. If they don't they get sued by those share holders if they are lucky, investigated by the SEC if they are unlucky, and if really unlucky a hostile take over might get organized. In this case Microsoft has a big enough war chest that management could likely weather all those events but its still valid.
The real problem is are TAX Code is WAY WAY WAY to complex. The current administration has never demonstrated any intention to do anything other then make it more so. The problem is congress (democrats and republicans alike) likes using tax policy as a social modeling tool. Manufacture a hybrid get a tax break, sell a cigarette have a tax levied on you, open a new plant in a different jurisdiction have some fun apportionment requirements, etc, etc.
Want to stop tax cheats and avoidance? Simple make it simple; strait sales tax, seller pays few exceptions.
This should get interesting when the bank auditors start to catch on to this. If judges force the continued operation of the servers in BK events to protect consumers maybe companies selling DRM'ed content will be unable to get loans!
This is the case today. Now there are a number of players whose interest it serves to keep things this way which is why it does not change but the lack of private loans available to federal contractors is a know issue. In a BK satisfaction of contracts with the federal government are senior to all debt contracts. That is to say the contract must be satisfied from the available funds if thats even possible before the most senior bond holder can get in line. Since federal contracts usually stipulate the money is returned plus penalties if the product or service is not delivered lenders usually have a problem with companies that work with the federal government.
Every wonder why government contractors are usually only big firms? This is a major reason, its only those firms that know they don't use and won't need private equity financing in the future. They either have cash operation or can raise the capital on the bond market. Hint for you bond investors, if you play in junk bonds companies that have federal contracts and are rated junk are probably junkier than ones that don't in terms of your odds of walking away with nothing at all.
I suspect that has more to do with VHS being a legacy tech then the license fees. Try buying a dvd recorder or a DVR without an ATSC tuner.
Consumers buying all the the most high end model VCRs are almost certainly doing to play back their old home movies and tapes. They probably are not interested recording much at all, its just that adding a record head adds almost nothing to the unit price, the tuner on the other hand does and consumers would select the tuneless units. Honestly if you are buying a unit to make recordings, why would you want to use tape at this stage? Its not nearly as easy as disk. Disk looks just as nice for similar recording lengths and its more portable. Just about everyone has a dvd player now that will play burned disks or a computer. Its actually getting harder to find working VCRs in the wild.
If he wants see some over simplification here it is.
There is good, bar, right, and wrong in this world. While not everything is that simply, perhaps not even most things people like him to see nothing but shades of gray everywhere even when their are none. Usually this is because they are afraid to stand up and do the right thing because it might make someone mad, start a war, or God forbid make them appear intolerant.
I for am sick of people like this guy who bring us all this Politically Correct nonsense, which does nothing other than serve to confuse otherwise good people and prevent us from making the choices, which might be hard ones, but we are ultimately required if we care about living in a just world and possibly even our very survival.
Their language may not be classy and they might want for some temperance and timing but at least the unruly mob of bloggers shows a little courage. I would much much rather many of those be our leaders than the lot of sycophants and manikins we have.
And you are still not system thinking. What about all the energy that goes into the recycling of those CFLs? The transportation of them to a much fewer and more sparsely located facility than the nearest land fill?
Right and nuclear tends to be efficient for generating very large amounts of power as well. Gigawatt reactors are easy to build with todays tech. Electricity could have almost no near term environmental effect, for generation and these idiots want to spoil that by using all kinds of dirty to manufacture and dirty to dispose of CFL and LED lamps.
And this is what so many big government types just can't understand. If we want to protect the environment we need to adopt it as a personal value and we each need to look at situations and use our own judgment. One size fits all legislation will never provide an optimal result. There are lots of situations like pantry spaces where a light needs to be own for only a moment. There are no alternatives for that which are as clean as incandescents. You have to consider the manufacturing and disposal as well. That is just one example with one small aspect of our environmental footprints. This IS NOT A PROBLEM GOVERNMENT CAN SOLVE other than by educating people and simply depending on the fact that they are moral and will do the right things.
I think it will work too, most people don't want to see the world come to more hare than is needed. Most people will take steps to do right by the planet without being forced. Educate people, provide actual facts rather then just global warming hysteria. Admit that carbon is not the only problem and that the near term consequences of cutting carbon might be worse then burning some more. Teach people system thinking let them participate.
This is how we can save the environment, not by taking away all the light bulbs.
I wish I had mod points. This weak minded PC world of moral relativism must be abolished. Copyright holders demand to be taken seriously and insist others listen to their arguments. I DONT NEED TO, your arguments are worthless because the position you already occupy is outrageous. The stated intent of the law was to promote innovation. Being able to profit from one work for a life time does not do that, it eliminates the need for innovation almost entirely.
Return to the bright bright line and we can have an intelligent discussion listen to each other and hash out the specifics, till then I am for damaging the strength of copyright law in any possible way, including making completely impossible to enforce on a technical level such that everyone is a violator and the entire concept becomes a sad joke. Chances are that we can't come back from that point, which does not bother people like me much so maybe you pro IP types aught to think about giving us some concessions because there are more of us and eventually we will defeat you; yes some of us are willing to whip others into what amounts to an unruly mod to do that.
A power struggle is an awful hard fight to win, once one side has excepted anarchy as satisfactory outcome, and a large enough group of people start to fell that would be preferable to your continued control; that is whats happening slowing in the world of IP. "Information wants to be free," is catching on.
I am all about individual freedom and I am last person in the world who would be in favor of anyone interfering with you living out of your car if that is what you desire to do in anyway beyond why I am about to say here. Consider this just friendly advice for a third party who's lack of personal affiliation with you might afford them some objectivity. Do not consider it in away a condemnation of your life style or an attempt to deny you it if it actually brings you happiness.
That said you, admitted that its a lonely life style. You also apparently value your comfort as you cited the jacuzzi not being functional as a reason for leaving your apartment. You also apparently have some desire for the social pattern of cohabitation with a member of the opposite sex most others do.
Not worrying about a place to live is about having one less thing to worry about...
That is a very odd statement on its face. Most people have a pretty basic need for someplace to call home and when they don't have that there is little else they can think about until they do. That is one of the things that keeps so many people homeless. They are so preoccupied with being homeless and needing some place to call home they can't attend to the activities that would elevate them economically so that they could get a home.
Obvious you were quite functional during that period. I just wonder if you were not experiencing some other medical condition that radically altered your socialization when you decided to get up a live out of your car for a time. You might want to see a medical professional before you do that again. If they tell you that your perfectly healthly and you feel like you want do it, then I would say go for it man! If they think something might be wrong then you might consider that for a time. I might not tell them you are planing to go live out of your car, something that radical might bias them as it has me. Since this about you and not the bias of others there no reason to tip hand.
Bonus points for anyone who can give a realistic use case for DO_NOT_FLUSH_ON_CLOSE
Sure you don't want your thread to block on fclose just because the disk was not available at that instant.
Nothing is wrong with that at all. In other situations it might be make all sorts of sense, like if ext4 offered vastly improved read speeds somehow on the relatively smallish files on most peoples / partition. The only place I really see ext4 offering anything is maybe in /lib or /etc where the number of files can grow very large, otherwise whats the point. The files are not big, they are don't change much (mine is mounted RO) I just don't get the point of a fancy FS on ones / part. EXT2 would really be fine probably ideal. Now I guess if /var is not on its own partition or you don't run tmpfs or something similar on /tmp you might gain something but if those are true you not probably exactly optimized for file system performance in any case.
Most residential building here in the USA are wired with 14 or if you are lucky 12 gage wire. Often most of a home will be wired with 14 and you have 12 in basement or garage spaces to support power tools and things. Newer homes are tending toward larger values. Most places (probably the entire country) code is not more than a 15A breaker on 14 gage wire, and 20A on 12. We usually have large appliances, washer/dryer, central air conditioners, etc on dedicated 10 gage circuits and usually run them on two phase, about 208-220 volts at most locations. These may be 12 or even 10 gage runs and breakers accordingly. I would say with the exception of the large appliances most building have a density of one circuit per room or less, but that is changing in more modern homes for obvious reasons.
I don't think the console manufactures have much to be concerned with. The upper limint on the resolution they are going to want to run for the next generation or two is going to 1920x1080. 1080p is going to be the accepted standard resolution of televisions for some time. There is little reason for the console makers to go after display resolutions greater than 90% of their audience will never connect a capable display for.
I get tired of listing to others peoples pointless conversation I can only imagine how boring listing to a mouse tell me about his weekend is going to be.
Oh sure those desert areas would be fine for cane sugar with irrigation but that is another thing that is not talked about. The US has a watter problem looming on the horizon. The aquifer under the south central united states is sinking at a pretty rapid rate. Its very possible we are slowing heading to anther dust bowl. The only other good source of water in the south west is the Colorado which could provide for most of our needs but we would be literally KILLING Mexico if we did move to using that as our primary source.
Growing crops that need lots of watter in the desert is a stupid idea, the losses to evaporation are way to high. We can't afford to waste water in that way.
It would be better to quit this foolish business with manufactured bio-fuels. We have plenty of coal (to generate electricity and run electric cars), oil shale to produce gas, and off shore oil. There is no focile fuel shortage. We have enough oil off shore and shale to economic produce all the gasoline we need until we can get electric ready. We have enough coal (estimated 800 years worth) to provide all of our electric and transportation needs until we can solve the problems with nuclear.
Honestly all this biofuel stuff is anything but green and IS A WASTEFUL distraction that will end up hurting us economically, and environmentally.
Test it on what all that other Martian top soil NASA has bags of in their garage?
My tips I wish all Outlook users would adopt.
1.Set your send format to Plain Text other rational humans will thank you. If you really need complex formatting you probably should be sending it as some sort of attachment, it must be data and I should be able to consume it with the application of my choice rather than fight with it in Outlook's message window.
2.Don't use word as your mail editor. Outlook is much much faster and more responsive with that off. Again if you need an editor as complex as word you are actually doing something that is not E-Mail.
3.This is optional but good for your own security, set the message display type to clear text. In exchange environments the server will do a pretty good job of converting anything sent your way without a plain text mime section to plain text. Its not perfect though YMMV.
I agree with you we should kill them. Language, the English language anyway, is so widely used that correctness is usually defined as an use such that audience is not distracted from the intended message. That means there is lots of flexibility to get creative with spelling in certain situations. It may on occasion be acceptable or even appropriate to make up new words or use existing words in very unconventional fashion with alternate meanings implied. These things are all ok to do provided that you know your audience will pickup on it without extra effort on their part.
Due to all of the above its a simple fact there is going to be some symbol creep, from time to time new words will be created. Its also true others will fall into disuse although more gradually due to their appearance in print. I am no language snob that is insisting we should all run around talking and writing the way Jane Austin did 160 years ago or even Fitzgerald did eighty years ago. Its ok to make up some words with your pals because they share enough experience with you they will know them.
Here the poster has made a terrible choice and he proves he knows it by virtue of him having referenced it. I should not need a dictionary to read your mostly informal Slashdot post. That is not to say I never will but if I do it should have been something I would have reasonably been expected to know, and therefore could find in my own dictionary rather they Urban. Beyond that the word does not flow well at all. Its hard to speak and hard to read. It adds nothing in particular to the more accepted expression "that's God damn ridiculous" and offers us a savings of only a few syllables. If it actually better conveyed the authors emotional response, or helped to clarify which specific definition he or she wanted us to use it might have value. It does non of these things, its utter rubbish and should never be repeated.
This is how the language is destroyed rather than evolved.
Simpler is better. I agree in most cases. I try to drink from glass rather than plastic containers. Good luck buying juice in this country not shipped in plastic though. You can get some things in paper but I have yet to find cranberry. I also cook on iron when possible. It does not work well for very acidic foods but for everything else its the best "non-stick" you can get, and it gives you very even heat, although you have to know how its also easy to take care of it.
There are trade offs with simple though. Glass containers are heavy, not great if you are hiking or for infants to hold up for any period, although it might help develop muscle I don't know. Glass can also be dangerous if broken especially with children around. The iron cook ware cant be left in the sink overnight with water in it for cleaning in the AM, it has to be cleaned soon after use or your mess it up. No solution will ever be perfect. We started using plastic and teflon for a good reasons. Now that we know there are some dangers associated with both its up to or at least should be up to us as individuals to decide which to use and when. Like most things in life we just need to be informed and use good judgment.
The thing about changing passwords is that is that it is not intended as a measure against bruit force attacks. You change them so that leaks get plugged.
User A gives user B his/her password despite that being against policy for reason X. At least a few months later user B no longer knows A's password. Suppose user B leaves the company or something IT naturally disables B's account and does not disable A's account. Its a good thing B no longer has A's credentials.
Password changes are a weak but probably only real effective solution to the social problem of passwords leaking. I would think you would want to do this with physical tokens as well just as a basic sanity check. Every 90 days or so a physical token should be disabled and replaced or recoded. This is the administrative peoples certain opportunity to verify the person in possession of that token is who think should have it.