There, I've said it. I am ashamed of my own government. I am disgusted at their blantant disregard for freedom, and the human "rights" they claim to champion. I abhor their reactionary, quasi-populist approach to law enforcement that will ultimately criminalise non-conformists. I denounce their fear-mongering, alarmist, despicable manipulation of the public (90 days' detention without trial? All your private keys are belng to us?).
UK Slashdotters: let's make sure we punish these lunatics at the next general election.
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Middle click and drag. Those other buttons are there for something. Click the cross in the bottom right hand corner of an image window to scroll over a thumbnail.
Latex is a rubbery material formed from the sap of certain trees. LaTeX, on the other hand, is a set of macros written by Leslie Lamport for Donald E. Knuth's TeX typesetting system, with the aim of moving the focus of the source to content rather than form. Beamer is a package for creating presentations that runs atop LaTeX.
"The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life to poison the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth... and kill!"
Mugh?! What's to stop some mischievous oik from hooking up this wonder-router to a box of their choice and arbitrarily siphoning off the fresh packets? Or altering their contents? Or shoving a ruddy transparent proxy that redirects everything to Goatse in the way? Unless there's VPN between user and FON, there's fair scope for naughtiness here.
Richards allow you to subroute the connection even further, provided you do so in a manner not more restrictive than the one in which you connect;
Darls decide that they, in fact, own their next-door neighbour's connection and sue for it;
Theos provide a secure, audited connection, don't give a damn what you do with it, and jump down your throat if you can't work out how to use it, dumbass; and
Steves look at you sitting near their router, throw a chair out of the window, and threaten to fucking kill you.
Only in name. All that "communist"/"the people's" rubbish appears to be little more than goodspeak to avert a bloody uprising. The correct term, I believe, is "oppressive wannabe-capitalist hegemony".
As a Brit, I really cannot understand the crazy phobia (some) Americans have about unions and socialism. "Ooer! Reds!" Let's not forget these movements arose out of injustice. OK, so they got out of hand in the UK in the 1970s, but things are generally stable nowadays and we're not [yet] slaves to The Party. Many other west-European states have systems with a socialist slant, and they're not doing too bad either. Is socialism a dirty word, automatically equated with communism or something? Is it un-American to disclaim the class system, and ensure that one's neighbours do not starve or suffer ill-health?
What about the freedom of citizens to not be spammed by (potentially abusive) phone calls?
You're confusing a private citizen with their position as a leading figure in the RIAA. Yes, phoning them at home would be objectionable, but I don't see how ringing the office is an affront to freedom. They're not compelled to be in that job, and can always hang up.
People really can't seem to be able to fight an intellectual battle in an honest and clean way.
Well when the industry itself resorts to dirty tricks (e.g., Sony rootkit), what do you expect?
Tux smiles, the GNU gnu smiles, the mozilla dragon smiles, heck even the SuSE animal smiles.
The Closed source software, doesn't want to have anything to do with animals. The Windows "flag" looks kinda like a torn battleflag...
Quite. Puffy smiles, the Beastie smiles, Wilbur grins, and if the Firefox turned to look at us it would be smirking. But don't mention torn battleflags in front of the NetBSD camp...
Ignoring engineers hasn't got the Shuttle very far in the past. From the Challenger Wikipedia article:
[Feynman] was so critical of flaws in NASA's "safety culture" that he threatened to not sign off on the report unless it included his assessment, which appeared as Appendix F. He pointed to the discrepancy between management claiming a 1 in 100,000 chance of serious failure and the engineers claiming 1 in only 100, a risk one thousand times greater.
real Mac user: someone true to who they are, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo.
These would be the Mac users who've abandoned OS X and installed Linux or FreeBSD, right?
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There, I've said it. I am ashamed of my own government. I am disgusted at their blantant disregard for freedom, and the human "rights" they claim to champion. I abhor their reactionary, quasi-populist approach to law enforcement that will ultimately criminalise non-conformists. I denounce their fear-mongering, alarmist, despicable manipulation of the public (90 days' detention without trial? All your private keys are belng to us?).
UK Slashdotters: let's make sure we punish these lunatics at the next general election.
Middle click and drag. Those other buttons are there for something. Click the cross in the bottom right hand corner of an image window to scroll over a thumbnail.
Latex is a rubbery material formed from the sap of certain trees. LaTeX, on the other hand, is a set of macros written by Leslie Lamport for Donald E. Knuth's TeX typesetting system, with the aim of moving the focus of the source to content rather than form. Beamer is a package for creating presentations that runs atop LaTeX.
I mis-read it at first and thought the cranks were out celebrating "Zero-Point Power Day".
He he, "PowerPoint"! When will you people give up and use LaTeX/Beamer like everyone else?!
Theo's Law, well applied.
...is it an intelligent design workshop?
Well, Steve Jobs doesn't throw chairs. He just stands next to them and uses his iRealityDistortionField to make them be in the air.
Mugh?! What's to stop some mischievous oik from hooking up this wonder-router to a box of their choice and arbitrarily siphoning off the fresh packets? Or altering their contents? Or shoving a ruddy transparent proxy that redirects everything to Goatse in the way? Unless there's VPN between user and FON, there's fair scope for naughtiness here.
Actually, the obligatory troll in this case is the old "HELLO WORLD HELLO WORLD" gag.
There's a Public Key field in the User Preferences page on Slashdot, but does anyone know where you go to pick up other users' keys?
Because RMS actually cares about more than dumb profit.
In the recent iSweatShop ruckus, it was suggested that women make the iPods as they are less likely to walf off with them.
As a Brit, I really cannot understand the crazy phobia (some) Americans have about unions and socialism. "Ooer! Reds!" Let's not forget these movements arose out of injustice. OK, so they got out of hand in the UK in the 1970s, but things are generally stable nowadays and we're not [yet] slaves to The Party. Many other west-European states have systems with a socialist slant, and they're not doing too bad either. Is socialism a dirty word, automatically equated with communism or something? Is it un-American to disclaim the class system, and ensure that one's neighbours do not starve or suffer ill-health?
Or the 15-year-olds who just drank a can of Steven Segal's Thunder Bolt.
You're confusing a private citizen with their position as a leading figure in the RIAA. Yes, phoning them at home would be objectionable, but I don't see how ringing the office is an affront to freedom. They're not compelled to be in that job, and can always hang up.
Well when the industry itself resorts to dirty tricks (e.g., Sony rootkit), what do you expect?
Ignoring engineers hasn't got the Shuttle very far in the past. From the Challenger Wikipedia article:
Sorry about that. Did someone say Microsoft thinks they've got "t3h m0st s3cur3 05 ev4r lollll!!!!1111" or something?!