And I'll continue to rip my legitimately purchased DVDs and Blu-Rays to my hard drive, removing this (and all other) forced content and previews. And the MPAA and FBI, and ilk like them, can shove their heads up their asses. If I want to play my discs in my toaster oven I will do so, and I don't give even one single flying fuck what they think about it.
The only real issue I would have with what he did is the part where he fiddled with the switch in the wall. He does not own the building, and I doubt he's a certified electrician. If something electrical went wrong in his room, the insurance people would have a field day with that, whether his wiring caused the issue or not. And if the electrical problem caused injuries, many lawyers would become involved. If I were the school, I'd inquire over that too.
Other than that, it's a cool room...although a bit small for partying:)
I realize this quote is way overused these days, but its worth repeating here. Ol' Ben Franklin said it best..."Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Another reason that you won't see open source software that will fill out your forms is testing by the IRS. The IRS *requires* that all tax preparation software be tested by them. If there were open source software that you could recompile, *every* time it was recompiled it would have to be sent in to the IRS and tested anew. Even if all you did was corrected a spelling error in a comment.
It would be entirely possible to create free software, that runs on Linux even, to prepare your tax forms. It would simply have to remain closed source. But then almost the entire Linux community would rise up against it for being closed source.
Actually, no. The commonality between Democrats and Republicans is "screw the middle class". The Democrats take from the middle class and give it to the poor. The Republicans take from the middle class and give it to the rich.
And there are many Republicans who are truly embarrassed by what their party has become over the last 15 years or so. I happen to be one of them.
This attempt will go the way of other third party attempts. US law and public opinion is too geared for a two party system. The articled in the link sums it up great...even though H. Ross Perot won nearly 20 percent of the popular vote, he didn't win even one single electoral vote.
This idiot is obviously some troll with an axe to grind because IT wouldn't let him have his way. If someone puts a personal device on a network that I am responsible for the security on and doesn't talk to me first, I will see to it that they are severely reprimanded. The second time they do it without permission I'll see to it that they are severely unemployed. And there will be no exceptions or excuses. So long as you work with me and add your device in a secure manor, I'll help you do it and support you. But on networks I am responsible for, its my way or no way. Again, no exceptions. And I make sure all company powers that be are aware of my feelings on that before I accept any client, and if they have issues with that policy they do not become a client because I am then unwilling to accept the responsibility for their security.
Half of this is in fact possible, and is already being done and has been for decades...its called an "observation hive". Glass on at least one side, sits inside where it can be seen, a tube through a wall lets the bees get outside, so on and so forth. Google can tell you all about them.
The "pull a string for honey" part, however, and at least in my opinion, is total nonsense. Bees are not going to deposit the honey in a convenient comb-free location. And simply squeezing honey out of the comb would be a good way to also squeeze bees and larva.
It takes a woefully naive person to use a service like Facebook for free and not expect that Facebook is collecting your data and somehow profiting from it.
Slashdot would not be Slashdot without the crappy summaries and all the comments by people who obviously did not RTFA.
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Horse shit. I use Mandriva on a number of critical systems, and I know many others who do the same. Mandriva is the one and only distribution I have ever used over the years that I have installed on dozens of systems without even one failure. Everyone's beloved Ubuntu won't even complete installation on a majority of the hardware I've tried it on, and I've had just as much trouble with Debian and Suse. Mageia has had one release. They're going to have to do way better than that for me to trust it for critical systems.
I've already downloaded the new Mandriva, will put it on my test system later tonight, and will most likely upgrade a dozen or more servers over the week.
Google will have to have employees spend many hours of labor doing this. Of course they should expect to be paid for it by the content owners. Only a group of idiots like the RIAA would expect them to do it for free.
You might also add that there are a number of companies who do precisely this same thing...charge for a service that one could do themselves for free...for Linux. For instance, Redhat and IBM just to name a couple. Where's the uproar about that?
Fuck yeah they should cut them off, and they should have started doing it years ago. In my mind, the fact that most ISPs don't do this makes them as much to blame for the situation as the people who create and run botnets.
How I feel about this depends on the files and companies/creators involved.
If its an open source project or an independent film done on the cheap or something like that, yeah, I'd be all for it.
But if its a commercial enterprise who's goal is to simply "make money" and they have the bucks to do it themselves, like Microsoft, IBM, Apple, or even, in this case, Warcraft, my first thought is "The cheap bastards want to leach my spare bandwidth?!". In my opinion, that does not reflect well on the company.
I'd love to have more choice. Especially in the last election. I voted for Obama mainly because of Palin. Had the Republican party selected someone with a brain for the number 2 position, I would have voted for McCain instead.
And I was fully aware of third party candidates. Over the years I've voted for some, just as I know I will be this coming November. But I'm equally aware that in the present system of elections in America, the proverbial "snowball in hell" has a better chance at existence than there is of a third party candidate becoming President. The last three Presidential elections have been so close between the Dumbocrats and Rebubakins that voting third party is merely throwing your vote to the wind. If you want real change, the system is going to have to change, not just the voters.
People unrealistically expecting third party candidates to win for President is what gave us that fuckup Bush for 8 years. Especially in his first term. Tell me, was everyone voting their conscience worth 8 years of that idiot?
No, you're not the only one. I use Mandriva extensively, even paying for it plus donating piles of bandwidth (on a real server, not something in a closet in my house) to the project, and for one simple reason. It works. It works correctly. Every time. And it does it right out of the box.
I've never been able to get everyone's darling Ubuntu to install on any hardware I own *even once* without banging on it. Same goes for Suse and Fedora. And I don't have bleeding edge hardware. My feeling is that (unlike a lot of other people, and I know this) I've never had to hammer on Windows or OS X to make them install correctly, therefore I don't feel I should have to hammer on Linux either.
The one shortcoming of Mandriva of late, in my opinion, has been the instability of the company(ies) behind it. I will be watching developments as they unfold. But if I had to select right this minute, I'd probably go with the fork.
And this is why I refuse to believe any of the popular conspiracy theories about our government. The United States government can't keep secrets secret.
They're right...Wikileaks isn't journalism. But then neither is what passes for "newspapers" these days. Real journalism died in the 90s. Now its just regurgitated AP releases.
SCOTUS ruled several years ago (and I'm too lazy to get a link to the ruling right now) that law enforcement could not use things like infrared and thermal imaging of a house to detect pot-growing operations without a warrant. Their ruling was something to the effect of "If a person can't see it from the street without using fancy equipment, it needs a warrant".
This is obviously different technology, but I fail to see how this would be any different in the eyes of SCOTUS and that ruling.
What irony? I've long feared my own government far more than any foreign government or terrorist organization, and I'm just an average American and don't even wear a tin-foil hat. And please be sure and notice that after the Bush administration rushed to take away more of my rights with the Patriot Act the Obama administration has done nothing to remove those restrictions. So it makes no difference which party is actually in office...meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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>>The measure is intended to curb violent crime in Venezuela, where 78% of homicides are linked to firearms
That may be what they say, but I'm sure the reality is they don't want citizens to be able to have armed revolts against the Venezuelan government.
And I'll continue to rip my legitimately purchased DVDs and Blu-Rays to my hard drive, removing this (and all other) forced content and previews. And the MPAA and FBI, and ilk like them, can shove their heads up their asses. If I want to play my discs in my toaster oven I will do so, and I don't give even one single flying fuck what they think about it.
The only real issue I would have with what he did is the part where he fiddled with the switch in the wall. He does not own the building, and I doubt he's a certified electrician. If something electrical went wrong in his room, the insurance people would have a field day with that, whether his wiring caused the issue or not. And if the electrical problem caused injuries, many lawyers would become involved. If I were the school, I'd inquire over that too.
Other than that, it's a cool room...although a bit small for partying :)
I realize this quote is way overused these days, but its worth repeating here. Ol' Ben Franklin said it best..."Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Another reason that you won't see open source software that will fill out your forms is testing by the IRS. The IRS *requires* that all tax preparation software be tested by them. If there were open source software that you could recompile, *every* time it was recompiled it would have to be sent in to the IRS and tested anew. Even if all you did was corrected a spelling error in a comment.
It would be entirely possible to create free software, that runs on Linux even, to prepare your tax forms. It would simply have to remain closed source. But then almost the entire Linux community would rise up against it for being closed source.
Actually, no. The commonality between Democrats and Republicans is "screw the middle class". The Democrats take from the middle class and give it to the poor. The Republicans take from the middle class and give it to the rich.
And there are many Republicans who are truly embarrassed by what their party has become over the last 15 years or so. I happen to be one of them.
This attempt will go the way of other third party attempts. US law and public opinion is too geared for a two party system. The articled in the link sums it up great...even though H. Ross Perot won nearly 20 percent of the popular vote, he didn't win even one single electoral vote.
This idiot is obviously some troll with an axe to grind because IT wouldn't let him have his way. If someone puts a personal device on a network that I am responsible for the security on and doesn't talk to me first, I will see to it that they are severely reprimanded. The second time they do it without permission I'll see to it that they are severely unemployed. And there will be no exceptions or excuses. So long as you work with me and add your device in a secure manor, I'll help you do it and support you. But on networks I am responsible for, its my way or no way. Again, no exceptions. And I make sure all company powers that be are aware of my feelings on that before I accept any client, and if they have issues with that policy they do not become a client because I am then unwilling to accept the responsibility for their security.
Half of this is in fact possible, and is already being done and has been for decades...its called an "observation hive". Glass on at least one side, sits inside where it can be seen, a tube through a wall lets the bees get outside, so on and so forth. Google can tell you all about them.
The "pull a string for honey" part, however, and at least in my opinion, is total nonsense. Bees are not going to deposit the honey in a convenient comb-free location. And simply squeezing honey out of the comb would be a good way to also squeeze bees and larva.
Department of Fucking Idiots.
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Department of Unpatriotic Mentality.
It takes a woefully naive person to use a service like Facebook for free and not expect that Facebook is collecting your data and somehow profiting from it.
Slashdot would not be Slashdot without the crappy summaries and all the comments by people who obviously did not RTFA.
Horse shit. I use Mandriva on a number of critical systems, and I know many others who do the same. Mandriva is the one and only distribution I have ever used over the years that I have installed on dozens of systems without even one failure. Everyone's beloved Ubuntu won't even complete installation on a majority of the hardware I've tried it on, and I've had just as much trouble with Debian and Suse. Mageia has had one release. They're going to have to do way better than that for me to trust it for critical systems.
I've already downloaded the new Mandriva, will put it on my test system later tonight, and will most likely upgrade a dozen or more servers over the week.
Google will have to have employees spend many hours of labor doing this. Of course they should expect to be paid for it by the content owners. Only a group of idiots like the RIAA would expect them to do it for free.
You might also add that there are a number of companies who do precisely this same thing...charge for a service that one could do themselves for free...for Linux. For instance, Redhat and IBM just to name a couple. Where's the uproar about that?
Fuck yeah they should cut them off, and they should have started doing it years ago. In my mind, the fact that most ISPs don't do this makes them as much to blame for the situation as the people who create and run botnets.
How I feel about this depends on the files and companies/creators involved.
If its an open source project or an independent film done on the cheap or something like that, yeah, I'd be all for it.
But if its a commercial enterprise who's goal is to simply "make money" and they have the bucks to do it themselves, like Microsoft, IBM, Apple, or even, in this case, Warcraft, my first thought is "The cheap bastards want to leach my spare bandwidth?!". In my opinion, that does not reflect well on the company.
I'd love to have more choice. Especially in the last election. I voted for Obama mainly because of Palin. Had the Republican party selected someone with a brain for the number 2 position, I would have voted for McCain instead.
And I was fully aware of third party candidates. Over the years I've voted for some, just as I know I will be this coming November. But I'm equally aware that in the present system of elections in America, the proverbial "snowball in hell" has a better chance at existence than there is of a third party candidate becoming President. The last three Presidential elections have been so close between the Dumbocrats and Rebubakins that voting third party is merely throwing your vote to the wind. If you want real change, the system is going to have to change, not just the voters.
People unrealistically expecting third party candidates to win for President is what gave us that fuckup Bush for 8 years. Especially in his first term. Tell me, was everyone voting their conscience worth 8 years of that idiot?
"Dr. Ann De Wees Allen is a blathering idiot" would be more correct. She'll probably get her own talk show and then run for President in 2012.
No, you're not the only one. I use Mandriva extensively, even paying for it plus donating piles of bandwidth (on a real server, not something in a closet in my house) to the project, and for one simple reason. It works. It works correctly. Every time. And it does it right out of the box.
I've never been able to get everyone's darling Ubuntu to install on any hardware I own *even once* without banging on it. Same goes for Suse and Fedora. And I don't have bleeding edge hardware. My feeling is that (unlike a lot of other people, and I know this) I've never had to hammer on Windows or OS X to make them install correctly, therefore I don't feel I should have to hammer on Linux either.
The one shortcoming of Mandriva of late, in my opinion, has been the instability of the company(ies) behind it. I will be watching developments as they unfold. But if I had to select right this minute, I'd probably go with the fork.
And this is why I refuse to believe any of the popular conspiracy theories about our government. The United States government can't keep secrets secret.
They're right...Wikileaks isn't journalism. But then neither is what passes for "newspapers" these days. Real journalism died in the 90s. Now its just regurgitated AP releases.
SCOTUS ruled several years ago (and I'm too lazy to get a link to the ruling right now) that law enforcement could not use things like infrared and thermal imaging of a house to detect pot-growing operations without a warrant. Their ruling was something to the effect of "If a person can't see it from the street without using fancy equipment, it needs a warrant".
This is obviously different technology, but I fail to see how this would be any different in the eyes of SCOTUS and that ruling.
You are a flaming asshole. Please to go fuck yourself.
What irony? I've long feared my own government far more than any foreign government or terrorist organization, and I'm just an average American and don't even wear a tin-foil hat. And please be sure and notice that after the Bush administration rushed to take away more of my rights with the Patriot Act the Obama administration has done nothing to remove those restrictions. So it makes no difference which party is actually in office...meet the new boss, same as the old boss.