do you think your vote really made the difference?
Did I ever say that I thought my vote made a difference? No I simply said that people who argue "This is not a democracy, it is a republic" are wrong. We live in a democratic republic. The money is what gets the votes. No shit. But the fact that votes are being cast by citizens and not by the representatives of those citizens (as in my example of voting down the sports stadium initiative) shows that democracy does exist in America, maybe not so much at the national level but most certainly at the local level.
Take for example the fact that Bill Clinton and the DNC received the most money in his 1994 reelection campaign [...]
What does that have to do with anything? Did I say that I though the gubment was not corrupt? Did I say that Bill Clinton and George Bush were not corporate puppets? You seem to be reading waaay to much into a simple statement that I made.
You just keep muttering that to yourself when you stand in that voting booth next time.
Yeah. Your right. From now on I should just stay home and not get involved. I mean if voting changed anything they'd make it illegal right? Especially at all those local ballot initiatives that are sometimes decided by a few hundred votes. The kind of initiatives put forth by Christian supremacists that try to get Harry Potter books banned from school librarys. I'll just ignore that kind of stuff going on in my own backyard because my vote won't make a difference anyways.
Are you still using EISA slots? MS-DOS? 286's? CP/M? Punch cards? Punch tape?
Umm...yes. I actually have an old 486 laptop with an 81MB hard drive running MS-DOS. It has a Vi clone for DOS on it. I mainly use it as kind of an electronic diary. No reason to buy a $3,000 TiBook when all you need is a halfway decent text editor.
Right. At the school I work at a year or so ago someone brought in a floppy that had some doc's on it infected with nimbda. This quickly spread through our LAN. Although we had everything cleaned up by the next day, some people had saved infected files and brought them home infecting their home machines, others had unwittingly emailed infected files to people outside the school.
I will risk my karma by agreeing whole heartedly that The Matrix does not live up to it's reputation. The gun play sucks compared to older movies like Hard Boiled or The Killer. The Martial Arts suck compared to movies like Iron Monkey and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
And you know what I really disliked about The Matrix? The Oracle. She sucked. Bad.
The Oracle should have been some screwed up diseased guy living in the filthy sewers of the real world with fiber-optic cables shoved into festering jacks in his neck, rusted cybernetic body parts that don't work, black eyeballs with green ASCII text scrolling across them, the Oracle should have been cool as hell but instead they made her some fat banal cookie baking Oprah Winfrey look alike who made me want to reach for my revolver.
What about you, have you tried this product? I followed the link you provided and the product looks really cool but I have one question, does it slow down your computer? It seems like it would use up CPU cycles and your hard drive would constantly be thrashing away.
It would be stupid for a bank, law office, etc. to use this. But I think that this does have sort of a novelty value. I could keep all my importent pr0n.. er.. documents on one of these and not have to worry about my non-techie sister/mother/roommate/whoever getting into it and snooping.
I would kind of equate these drives to the diarys that little girls use. Those diaries have locks on them to keep prying eyes out. Those locks are flimsy and could be busted with your bare hands but they might keep a younger brother out. These hard drives are the same, just a novelty for geeks and wanna be double nought spys.
In that one sentance you pretty much some up my feeling on the way most religous people think. You claim to be religous and then you tell someone to go kill themself because they have offended you. Why is it that the non-religous generally have higher moral standards and more integrity than the average religous person?
Well... If NASA did scrap the shuttle program then they would have lots of extra money to spend on things like unmanned probes to other planets and moons, which to me would be prefferable to these shuttle missions anyways.
I think that we are getting ahead of ourselves trying to put people in space all the time. I would rather wait untill technology advances farther and then, when it is easier, try to set up some space stations, lunar bases, mars colonies and the like. For now I think that it would be far better to have NASA spend its money on far cheaper unmanned probes. Figure out how to mass produce these probes for cheap and send dozens of them out at a time, all over the solar system! That is a more sensible idea than the space shuttle program.
Or sometimes you'll need to install a piece of software for some reason and it automatically installs a bunch of spyware with it.
I am not talking about crappy shareware either but actual programs that I have spent good money on that install crap without asking me.
I am a systems admin working for a large outsourcing organisation
I do not know why you are worried about your job being outsourced. With all the hands on stuff that the average admin has to do it seems unlikely that they will start sending SysAdmin jobs to India when all the workstations, routers and servers that need to be maintained are over here. That would almost be like sending auto-mechanic jobs over to india when all the cars that need maintenance are over here.
I am just praying I can cling to my job for the 3-5 years I need to set myself up financially before I am made redundant
Amen to that! I just hope that I can keep my job for the next few years so that I can pay off all of my loans. After that I will worry a lot less about IT job stability as I can always go back to school or change careers. There is something to be said for not having children, a wife, or other financial responsibilities!
Good idea and thanks for the link. I love tinkering with things and figuring out how they work in order to make them work better which is why I originally got into computers.
In the far future, when all of my student loans are paid off and I've had a chance to stow away some cash, if the IT field still sucks, maybe I'll look into something like UTI.
I always thought that the reason that insects could not grow larger than about the size of your fist was because the way their bodys were designed gravity would cause them to collapse and turn to mush. Now in space this shouldn't be a problem. So shouldn't it be possible to breed giant insects in space? Or what about on a planet with an earthlike atmosphere but lower gravity? You could have 10' long Centipedes, 50 pound blood sucking Ticks and hordes of termites the size of cars overrunning our colonies, we would have to do battle with them like in the film version of Starship Troopers. It would be cool.
Exactly. People seem to forget that public relations is extremely important. And public relations is one of the things that for quite some time now NASA has done very poorly at. If NASA wants more money, they are going to have to put more money into PR to get people interested. Things like this get people interested.
This is slashdot. It is NOT a good cross section of society. The people who post here have a lot of things in common, one of those things is the Simpsons and one of the traditions on slashdot is quoting the simpsons when it is relevent to a story. It has nothing to do with media brainwashing or behavior control.
I do not know why I am even replying to such an obvious troll.
The people who run Anonymizer will give up their logs to any law enforcement agency if asked to do so. Anonymizer is good for hiding your tracks from other netizens but I wouldn't trust it for anything illegal.
The fact that MS patches often break things is one excuse. If you are an overworked admin at a small shop with no test servers to install the patch on, you might simply not want to risk screwing up your machine by installing the patch.
If there is a 5% chance that not installing the patch will result in your machine getting owned and a 40% chance that installing the patch will screw up your machine then many people will simply not install the patch and pray for the best.
I am not saying that is how it should be, I am just saying that is how it is.
Wow! Your sig was cut off by the Symbionese Liberation Army, I thought that they had disbanded after that whole Patty Hearst thing. Weird to see them active on slashdot now.
Wow... looking at those screenshots this game looks like it was designed by the same people who designed the Windows XP GUI. Talk about Fischer-Price. Yuck. This looks like the kind of shareware that you get off zdNET or tucows.
Oh, and it's not well known, but they have SUVs in other countries too. I saw Crocodile Hunter driving around the outback in one. And he calls himself a nature lover.
Yeah, and the crocodile hunter cannot very well drive around the outback in a fscking Geo Metro can he. His use of an SUV is pretty well justified. How can a person justify a 28 year old woman who works at a law firm driving an SUV on city streets? The only justification that she can have is that she thinks SUV's are cool and trendy.
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do you think your vote really made the difference?
Did I ever say that I thought my vote made a difference? No I simply said that people who argue "This is not a democracy, it is a republic" are wrong. We live in a democratic republic. The money is what gets the votes. No shit. But the fact that votes are being cast by citizens and not by the representatives of those citizens (as in my example of voting down the sports stadium initiative) shows that democracy does exist in America, maybe not so much at the national level but most certainly at the local level.
Take for example the fact that Bill Clinton and the DNC received the most money in his 1994 reelection campaign [...]
What does that have to do with anything? Did I say that I though the gubment was not corrupt? Did I say that Bill Clinton and George Bush were not corporate puppets? You seem to be reading waaay to much into a simple statement that I made.
You just keep muttering that to yourself when you stand in that voting booth next time.
Yeah. Your right. From now on I should just stay home and not get involved. I mean if voting changed anything they'd make it illegal right? Especially at all those local ballot initiatives that are sometimes decided by a few hundred votes. The kind of initiatives put forth by Christian supremacists that try to get Harry Potter books banned from school librarys. I'll just ignore that kind of stuff going on in my own backyard because my vote won't make a difference anyways.
, and start running -CURRENT to learn proper system administration :)
I apoligize for not being the UNIX networking guru but what exactly does "running -CURRENT" mean?
We are a democratic republic, fuckwad. Or did I just imagine going to the polls last year to vote against building another sports stadium in my town?
All it takes is one bullet fired from a high powered rifle to change the course of history.
Are you still using EISA slots? MS-DOS? 286's? CP/M? Punch cards? Punch tape?
Umm...yes. I actually have an old 486 laptop with an 81MB hard drive running MS-DOS. It has a Vi clone for DOS on it. I mainly use it as kind of an electronic diary. No reason to buy a $3,000 TiBook when all you need is a halfway decent text editor.
Right. At the school I work at a year or so ago someone brought in a floppy that had some doc's on it infected with nimbda. This quickly spread through our LAN. Although we had everything cleaned up by the next day, some people had saved infected files and brought them home infecting their home machines, others had unwittingly emailed infected files to people outside the school.
I will risk my karma by agreeing whole heartedly that The Matrix does not live up to it's reputation. The gun play sucks compared to older movies like Hard Boiled or The Killer. The Martial Arts suck compared to movies like Iron Monkey and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
And you know what I really disliked about The Matrix? The Oracle. She sucked. Bad.
The Oracle should have been some screwed up diseased guy living in the filthy sewers of the real world with fiber-optic cables shoved into festering jacks in his neck, rusted cybernetic body parts that don't work, black eyeballs with green ASCII text scrolling across them, the Oracle should have been cool as hell but instead they made her some fat banal cookie baking Oprah Winfrey look alike who made me want to reach for my revolver.
What about you, have you tried this product? I followed the link you provided and the product looks really cool but I have one question, does it slow down your computer? It seems like it would use up CPU cycles and your hard drive would constantly be thrashing away.
It would be stupid for a bank, law office, etc. to use this. But I think that this does have sort of a novelty value. I could keep all my importent pr0n.. er.. documents on one of these and not have to worry about my non-techie sister/mother/roommate/whoever getting into it and snooping.
I would kind of equate these drives to the diarys that little girls use. Those diaries have locks on them to keep prying eyes out. Those locks are flimsy and could be busted with your bare hands but they might keep a younger brother out. These hard drives are the same, just a novelty for geeks and wanna be double nought spys.
Do us all a favor and go kill yourself.
In that one sentance you pretty much some up my feeling on the way most religous people think. You claim to be religous and then you tell someone to go kill themself because they have offended you.
Why is it that the non-religous generally have higher moral standards and more integrity than the average religous person?
Well... If NASA did scrap the shuttle program then they would have lots of extra money to spend on things like unmanned probes to other planets and moons, which to me would be prefferable to these shuttle missions anyways.
I think that we are getting ahead of ourselves trying to put people in space all the time. I would rather wait untill technology advances farther and then, when it is easier, try to set up some space stations, lunar bases, mars colonies and the like. For now I think that it would be far better to have NASA spend its money on far cheaper unmanned probes. Figure out how to mass produce these probes for cheap and send dozens of them out at a time, all over the solar system! That is a more sensible idea than the space shuttle program.
Or sometimes you'll need to install a piece of software for some reason and it automatically installs a bunch of spyware with it.
I am not talking about crappy shareware either but actual programs that I have spent good money on that install crap without asking me.
That was either by Boyd Rice, or Jim Goad, I forget which. The Troll who posted it sure as hell did not think it up on his own though!
Yeah, it seems like I remember reading somewhere that in 20 years something like 65% of the U.S. workforce will be comprised of temp workers!
I am a systems admin working for a large outsourcing organisation
I do not know why you are worried about your job being outsourced. With all the hands on stuff that the average admin has to do it seems unlikely that they will start sending SysAdmin jobs to India when all the workstations, routers and servers that need to be maintained are over here. That would almost be like sending auto-mechanic jobs over to india when all the cars that need maintenance are over here.
I am just praying I can cling to my job for the 3-5 years I need to set myself up financially before I am made redundant
Amen to that! I just hope that I can keep my job for the next few years so that I can pay off all of my loans. After that I will worry a lot less about IT job stability as I can always go back to school or change careers. There is something to be said for not having children, a wife, or other financial responsibilities!
Good idea and thanks for the link. I love tinkering with things and figuring out how they work in order to make them work better which is why I originally got into computers.
In the far future, when all of my student loans are paid off and I've had a chance to stow away some cash, if the IT field still sucks, maybe I'll look into something like UTI.
I always thought that the reason that insects could not grow larger than about the size of your fist was because the way their bodys were designed gravity would cause them to collapse and turn to mush. Now in space this shouldn't be a problem. So shouldn't it be possible to breed giant insects in space? Or what about on a planet with an earthlike atmosphere but lower gravity? You could have 10' long Centipedes, 50 pound blood sucking Ticks and hordes of termites the size of cars overrunning our colonies, we would have to do battle with them like in the film version of Starship Troopers. It would be cool.
Exactly. People seem to forget that public relations is extremely important. And public relations is one of the things that for quite some time now NASA has done very poorly at. If NASA wants more money, they are going to have to put more money into PR to get people interested. Things like this get people interested.
This is slashdot. It is NOT a good cross section of society. The people who post here have a lot of things in common, one of those things is the Simpsons and one of the traditions on slashdot is quoting the simpsons when it is relevent to a story. It has nothing to do with media brainwashing or behavior control.
I do not know why I am even replying to such an obvious troll.
The people who run Anonymizer will give up their logs to any law enforcement agency if asked to do so. Anonymizer is good for hiding your tracks from other netizens but I wouldn't trust it for anything illegal.
Yeah! PostgresSQL is much more secure! [/sarcasm}
28-08-2002: PostgreSQL path_encode() Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
28-08-2002: PostgreSQL path_add() Buffer Overrun Vulnerability
20-08-2002: PostgreSQL String Pad Function Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
20-08-2002: PostgreSQL Repeat Function Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
19-08-2002: PostgreSQL cash_words Function Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
19-08-2002: PostgreSQL Circle_Poly Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
19-08-2002: PostgreSQL TZ Environment Variable Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
19-08-2002: PostgreSQL Date Parser Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
19-08-2002: PostgreSQL SET TIME ZONE Environment Variable Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
10-09-2001: NSS NSS_PostGreSQL Remote SQL Query Manipulation Vulnerability
23-04-2000: PostgreSQL Cleartext Passwords Vulnerability
etc.,etc.,
there is no excure not to have your systems fixed
The fact that MS patches often break things is one excuse. If you are an overworked admin at a small shop with no test servers to install the patch on, you might simply not want to risk screwing up your machine by installing the patch.
If there is a 5% chance that not installing the patch will result in your machine getting owned and a 40% chance that installing the patch will screw up your machine then many people will simply not install the patch and pray for the best.
I am not saying that is how it should be, I am just saying that is how it is.
This sig was cut off by the sla
Wow! Your sig was cut off by the Symbionese Liberation Army, I thought that they had disbanded after that whole Patty Hearst thing. Weird to see them active on slashdot now.
Wow... looking at those screenshots this game looks like it was designed by the same people who designed the Windows XP GUI. Talk about Fischer-Price. Yuck. This looks like the kind of shareware that you get off zdNET or tucows.
Oh, and it's not well known, but they have SUVs in other countries too. I saw Crocodile Hunter driving around the outback in one. And he calls himself a nature lover.
Yeah, and the crocodile hunter cannot very well drive around the outback in a fscking Geo Metro can he. His use of an SUV is pretty well justified. How can a person justify a 28 year old woman who works at a law firm driving an SUV on city streets? The only justification that she can have is that she thinks SUV's are cool and trendy.