Faking someone else should be strongly discouraged, but maybe not by modding down. When he actually does defame Miguel, he gets modded down properly. Of course, the Karma system at Slashdot has some decent flaws, and this is very obviously one of them. (Bad usernames posting good things.)
And nuts to you, I'm still in high school, although I'm sure you could do something I wouldn't like.
No. As mentioned elsewhere, that feature was removed with 3.2. 3.1 is still very available, (at CheapBytes.com for instance) but... uh... it's not 3.2.
There's no reason for it to be a government only monopoly, but there's nothing wrong with a government organization doing their share of the work. FedEx and UPS compete with US Postal Service, Private Schools compete with Public Schools, and so forth.
Both have their respective benefits and weaknesses.
And at any rate, I'm not sure if there's any laws which prevent organizations from going into space travel. If there are, then that's bad, but otherwise, there's nothing holding them back now.
Did anyone else read that Sattelite-Assisted European Road Trolls? I know I did. And you know what would happen, if one of these road trolls went too far east and back in time twenty or so years, don't you?
He'd be in Soviet Russia, so... bear with me, I'm sure the knowledge he'd have gained by having lived 20 years more than anyone else had, and he'd know how the USSR fell. So he'd be taken in headquarters, Gorbachev would drastically try to change plans, and would try to launch some sattelites. And the troll, would, of course, assist him in this proccess, with his powerful knowledge of the future.
So you see, it's all very logical, that in Soviet Russia, road trolls assist sattelites.
Moving right along, Gorbachev would probably try to create a new business plan of some sort to try to figure out how to conquer Capitalism while at the same time reforming the USSR. And I am sure that it would go along the lines of launching sattelites, converting the capitalist pigs, doing something, and then the Soviet Union would rule the earth. So the troll'd type this up for him.
And they would, of course, succeed. Because that's a good plan. And the troll would be given a powerful role in the new world order. Of course, he'd would fall to a little corruption. Maybe by the late-nineties you might kidnap Natalie Portman or something. Do something nefarious with oatmeal or something roughly analogous. Maybe kill all the BSD developers. Maybe mass amounts of sexual debauchery would occur. Birds bred to roost in strange places, stuff like that.
Of course, eventually this magical time travelling troll would die, or be overthrown, and hopefully things would be evened out.
There's a few reasons why IE might just not introduce popup blocking. One possibility is that it would be far more profitable to offer that feature with MSN. A free web browser versus a pay-per-month ISP. (Another possibility is that Microsoft is perfectly happy with people getting popup ads. Insert your favorite Micro$oft conspiracy here.)
I'm still deep in the land of Windows, but I don't see that being too hard to do. Mount a file into somewhere nice (a ramdisk, ideally). Call it the clipboard. Cutting/Copying is writing to the file, pasting is reading from the file. Clipboards should be no more difficult than any other file which one program creates and another reads.
Might I refer you to the "Grammer Syndrome" which is a meme I invented and hope to propagate plenty.
And I've already gotten myself a fan out of using the term, who wrote a little Blog write-up on it. To give a Jargon-File-esque definition:
Grammer Syndrome (noun) It is a well known fact that typoes and other errors in English are often found online. Well meaning people will often try to correct these mistakes, but in the proccess they will often make their own mistake. For example, if someone corrects another's grammar online, they have a high chance of accidentally spelling it "grammer." Theologists may use this as evidence towards the theory that God, if real, has a strong yet dark sense of humor. Cynics may use this as proof that many people are stupider than they think.
Fine. But copyright is an inherently crufty way of working rewards for artists and scientists into Capitalism, and even then it has the flaws that people not only need to make something valuable, but marketable, which is slightly different. Open source software is typically more valuable, but often less marketable.
Government grants are a contrasting method, in which people who create things of value are rewarded directly. Of course, that has its share of problems too, I suppose.
BSD is a UNIX(tm). Linux is a GNU. GNU's not UNIX. It could also be argued that BSD is closer to the Unix Philosophy then Linux. (Whether the BSD or GPL licenses are better is an entirely different issue, of course.)
Of course, your point probably has some strong points. I'm still a bit new in this field, so what do I know? But anonymous cowards giving one line replies to sigs aren't the best way to make a point.
You're right. People should be more careful about what they ask for. In fact, junk mail saved my life. Yes. Junk mail saved my life. Junk mail saved my life. Oh, sorry. I only meant to say that twice. Forget the third time. Where was I? Junk mail saved my life. If I had one of those... "no junk mail" signs up in the window of my house I wouldn't be alive today to talk about it.
See, it happened two nights ago. I was alone at home. I'm no good with relationships; women say I'm difficult and that I have "emotional problems," but that's a different post onto itself. Anyway, I'm at home drying the dish. (Who needs more than one dish when you live alone? You know, just me and my "emotional problems").
So, I finish drying the dish and I open the cupboard door to put the dish away. I also lean over to empty the sink. I straigtened up too quickly and hit my head on the edge of the door.
Well, blinded by pain, I stumble backward into the glass cabinet of porcelin dolls. So I collect porcelin dolls!! Isn't a guy allowed to have a hobby!?
Okay, I try to stumble my way towards the bathroom; only I trip over the blue box, which is really strange because I don't think that I have a blue box!!
So, I land on a large pile of junk mail that'd been laying near the front door. Then I passed out. And the doctors tell me if there wasn't junk mail there to stop the bleeding, I would have bled to death!
So, I come to after thirty minutes. No one stopped by or even called, you know, why should they? I have "emotional problems."
So, I lift myself up to my elbows and I crawl to the telephone and I dial for help. Now, due to my head injury, I can't remember that easy to remember emergency number. So I pull a large piece of bloody junk mail off the back of my head and I dial that number. Luckily for me, it was a number I had called several times before and they had my name and address in the computer. Unluckily for me, they thought I was ordering a pizza and came forty-five minutes later. I got the pizza for free, but that's a different post onto itself.
So, the pizza guy made a couple more deliveries, then drove me straight to the hospital. And that's how junk mail saved my life! So, I suggest to you that you think twice before trying to get rid of unsolicited advertisements. You might live to regret it.
Oh, and I want all you ladies out there to know, I'm seeing a therapist about my "emotional problems."
(Adapted from this Kids in the Hall sketch. It's all quite unapplicable to me. I have a mailbox and am a teenager who lives with my parents. Also, I'm perfectly fine emotionally, like all Slashdotters.)
Slashdot has relativitally high traffic, whereas, say... som e stupid Geocities page has very little. As a result, Slashdot is far more dangerous in this matter. It's a matter of degree.
That's plausible, although I'm doubtful. When were these smallish nukes used? Specific examples and maybe some links would be nice. You can't just gesture towards censoring conspiracies as proof.
<blockquote><i>Universal nudism and free sex. What happened? After a short burst in the 60's, this one seems to have died...</blockquote></i><p>
Yeah, those STDs are a bitch.
Is what you were looking for. (Well, those blockquotes are unneccesary, but that's how I quote.
Anyway, I figure utterly free sex will probably happen at some point in the future, but first, as you alluded to, two things will have to be developed. STD protection and birth control. Once those reach high levels of quality, free sex will follow, although it might be slowed a bit by however the culture is at the time.
Sure they will, and do. It's just that the only thing normal people care about Operating Systems is what software they can use on it. (explorer.exe is included in that catagory, I guess.)
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Yeah... real silly putty involves silicone oil instead of Elmers.
At any rate, if you're going to be making non-newtonian fluids, you can't go wrong with Oobleck. (Corn starch and water.)
Faking someone else should be strongly discouraged, but maybe not by modding down. When he actually does defame Miguel, he gets modded down properly. Of course, the Karma system at Slashdot has some decent flaws, and this is very obviously one of them. (Bad usernames posting good things.)
And nuts to you, I'm still in high school, although I'm sure you could do something I wouldn't like.
No. As mentioned elsewhere, that feature was removed with 3.2. 3.1 is still very available, (at CheapBytes.com for instance) but... uh... it's not 3.2.
Switch to fluxbox on boot is a feature of Base Knoppix.
Perhaps, but there was nothing inherently trollish about his post. You moderate the post, not the person.
There's no reason for it to be a government only monopoly, but there's nothing wrong with a government organization doing their share of the work. FedEx and UPS compete with US Postal Service, Private Schools compete with Public Schools, and so forth.
Both have their respective benefits and weaknesses.
And at any rate, I'm not sure if there's any laws which prevent organizations from going into space travel. If there are, then that's bad, but otherwise, there's nothing holding them back now.
It's IP, but it's not the Internet.
Are you sure you want your pants to be a billionth the size of ordinary khakis? That might introduce new problems.
Did anyone else read that Sattelite-Assisted European Road Trolls? I know I did. And you know what would happen, if one of these road trolls went too far east and back in time twenty or so years, don't you?
He'd be in Soviet Russia, so... bear with me, I'm sure the knowledge he'd have gained by having lived 20 years more than anyone else had, and he'd know how the USSR fell. So he'd be taken in headquarters, Gorbachev would drastically try to change plans, and would try to launch some sattelites. And the troll, would, of course, assist him in this proccess, with his powerful knowledge of the future.
So you see, it's all very logical, that in Soviet Russia, road trolls assist sattelites.
Moving right along, Gorbachev would probably try to create a new business plan of some sort to try to figure out how to conquer Capitalism while at the same time reforming the USSR. And I am sure that it would go along the lines of launching sattelites, converting the capitalist pigs, doing something, and then the Soviet Union would rule the earth. So the troll'd type this up for him.
1) Launch troll-assisted sattelites.
2) Convert Americans to Communism.
3) ???
4) Profit!
And they would, of course, succeed. Because that's a good plan. And the troll would be given a powerful role in the new world order. Of course, he'd would fall to a little corruption. Maybe by the late-nineties you might kidnap Natalie Portman or something. Do something nefarious with oatmeal or something roughly analogous. Maybe kill all the BSD developers. Maybe mass amounts of sexual debauchery would occur. Birds bred to roost in strange places, stuff like that.
Of course, eventually this magical time travelling troll would die, or be overthrown, and hopefully things would be evened out.
There's a few reasons why IE might just not introduce popup blocking. One possibility is that it would be far more profitable to offer that feature with MSN. A free web browser versus a pay-per-month ISP. (Another possibility is that Microsoft is perfectly happy with people getting popup ads. Insert your favorite Micro$oft conspiracy here.)
Yes, MIME types was exactly what I was thinking. Probably should've actually SAID it, but ah well.
I'm still deep in the land of Windows, but I don't see that being too hard to do. Mount a file into somewhere nice (a ramdisk, ideally). Call it the clipboard. Cutting/Copying is writing to the file, pasting is reading from the file. Clipboards should be no more difficult than any other file which one program creates and another reads.
I don't know, maybe I'm missing something.
Pi$$ is a way of obfuscating swear words, (perhaps to get around the censor which Slashdot does not have) not implying greed.
Not all parents are "worth their salt."
Might I refer you to the "Grammer Syndrome" which is a meme I invented and hope to propagate plenty.
And I've already gotten myself a fan out of using the term, who wrote a little Blog write-up on it. To give a Jargon-File-esque definition:
Grammer Syndrome (noun) It is a well known fact that typoes and other errors in English are often found online. Well meaning people will often try to correct these mistakes, but in the proccess they will often make their own mistake. For example, if someone corrects another's grammar online, they have a high chance of accidentally spelling it "grammer." Theologists may use this as evidence towards the theory that God, if real, has a strong yet dark sense of humor. Cynics may use this as proof that many people are stupider than they think.
No, that's stupid. Wulf means wolf. Beowulf means bee-wolf, or bear.
Fine. But copyright is an inherently crufty way of working rewards for artists and scientists into Capitalism, and even then it has the flaws that people not only need to make something valuable, but marketable, which is slightly different. Open source software is typically more valuable, but often less marketable.
Government grants are a contrasting method, in which people who create things of value are rewarded directly. Of course, that has its share of problems too, I suppose.
BSD is a UNIX(tm). Linux is a GNU. GNU's not UNIX. It could also be argued that BSD is closer to the Unix Philosophy then Linux. (Whether the BSD or GPL licenses are better is an entirely different issue, of course.)
Of course, your point probably has some strong points. I'm still a bit new in this field, so what do I know? But anonymous cowards giving one line replies to sigs aren't the best way to make a point.
See, it happened two nights ago. I was alone at home. I'm no good with relationships; women say I'm difficult and that I have "emotional problems," but that's a different post onto itself. Anyway, I'm at home drying the dish. (Who needs more than one dish when you live alone? You know, just me and my "emotional problems").
So, I finish drying the dish and I open the cupboard door to put the dish away. I also lean over to empty the sink. I straigtened up too quickly and hit my head on the edge of the door.
Well, blinded by pain, I stumble backward into the glass cabinet of porcelin dolls. So I collect porcelin dolls!! Isn't a guy allowed to have a hobby!?
Okay, I try to stumble my way towards the bathroom; only I trip over the blue box, which is really strange because I don't think that I have a blue box!!
So, I land on a large pile of junk mail that'd been laying near the front door. Then I passed out. And the doctors tell me if there wasn't junk mail there to stop the bleeding, I would have bled to death!
So, I come to after thirty minutes. No one stopped by or even called, you know, why should they? I have "emotional problems."
So, I lift myself up to my elbows and I crawl to the telephone and I dial for help. Now, due to my head injury, I can't remember that easy to remember emergency number. So I pull a large piece of bloody junk mail off the back of my head and I dial that number. Luckily for me, it was a number I had called several times before and they had my name and address in the computer. Unluckily for me, they thought I was ordering a pizza and came forty-five minutes later. I got the pizza for free, but that's a different post onto itself.
So, the pizza guy made a couple more deliveries, then drove me straight to the hospital. And that's how junk mail saved my life! So, I suggest to you that you think twice before trying to get rid of unsolicited advertisements. You might live to regret it.
Oh, and I want all you ladies out there to know, I'm seeing a therapist about my "emotional problems."
(Adapted from this Kids in the Hall sketch. It's all quite unapplicable to me. I have a mailbox and am a teenager who lives with my parents. Also, I'm perfectly fine emotionally, like all Slashdotters.)
Slashdot has relativitally high traffic, whereas, say... som e stupid Geocities page has very little. As a result, Slashdot is far more dangerous in this matter. It's a matter of degree.
That's plausible, although I'm doubtful. When were these smallish nukes used? Specific examples and maybe some links would be nice. You can't just gesture towards censoring conspiracies as proof.
"You can't prove a negative" only applies to Empirically gained knowledge, not Logic.
No, but it is probably a derivative work of both.
Sure they will, and do. It's just that the only thing normal people care about Operating Systems is what software they can use on it. (explorer.exe is included in that catagory, I guess.)