Reading through several newsgroups postings now and then, some newbie will post a question asking about which linux distro would be easiest to use and where would be the best place to go learn about it. And the answer typically is "stick with windows, you're too stupid to ever run linux" and "just do a google search for it dumbass," and assorted other flames. With someone's first introduction to the linux userbase being that, its a small wonder they won't use it. As Bruce Perens said, every linux user is an ambassador for linux. Some people are very nice and helpful about it, but you still have a large percentage of the users who are elitist and can't be bothered to help a newbie out (or they're just the most vocal.)
You can't be serious. More US soldiers died in Germany everyday after we occupied it at the end of World War 2; the casualties in Iraq aren't that high at all. I certainly wouldn't call it being crushed. Baka.
Cable and DSL companies will give out a nice little hardware firewall ala Linksys or Netgear along with their cable/dsl modems. Hell, Toshiba even makes a cable modem with a built in 4 port switch/firewall. Giving these users a broadband connection and no education on the dangers of the internet is like giving a Ferrari to someone who can't drive.
I know the ISP isn't untimately responsible for their users actions, but they'd be doing themselves a big favor by eliminating most of that traffic. During the heyday of the Blaster virus I was getting a few port 53 requests per second from infected machines on Verizon's dsl...that's quite an additional load on their network.
Didn't Disney attempt to sell the DVDs with an expiration date? And if I recall that failed gloriously.
And who will really want to stream a movie? Pay, say $5 for something that looks like crap; or maybe they'll let you download DVD quality...who couldn't download 3 - 4 gigs of video, right? Disney really has had some strange ideas lately.
In any event, buying the DVD will probably only be $10 more than paying to download it, so why bother at all?
Disney was on the decline for a long time in the 70s and 80s, and then picked up again with The Little Mermaid, etc. They're on the decline again with their recent poor animated movies and losing the Pixar contract, but at some point they'll produce another few winners and be back on top of the pile again. Aside from the movies, they still have all of the theme parks and the merchandising.
I have to agree, everyone here should be able to recognize that just because its on the web doesn't make it true. A website is no more valuable or reliable than a television commericial; its simply another way for the candidate to present themselves the way they want to be presented.
These guys are practically begging to have the MPAA swoop down on them. I know they really wouldn't have a leg to stand on, but jeez. They should stick with their "take back the web" slogan.
Downstairs, his mother is cleaning up after dinner. She isn't thrilled these days, either. But what bothers her isn't Mario's poster. It's his hobby. When Mario is bored -- and out here in the countryside, surrounded by soaring snowcapped mountains and little else, he's bored a lot -- he likes to sit at his laptop and create computer viruses and worms.
Maybe this is just crazy talk, but couldn't this woman just take his computer away from him? She knows that he's upstairs doing illegal stuff...he's 16, take away his laptop. "Oh, well little Billy's just upstairs making pipe-bombs...I'll leave him alone."
Stuff like this will simply be a side effect of the inernet and globalization. If you have someone in Australia able to access a server in America through P2P, you will inevitably get that person's laws along with that mp3 you just downloaded. More and more countries will start doing this as well. You can argue all you want about "my leader would never fall for this sort of thing" but the only thing that really ever motivates any politician is money, and the music and movie industries have a lot of it to throw around.
Well, you get what you pay for. When the country's full of idiots (moreso) and you can't get an operation, maybe teachers and nurses will be paid better. It'll probably be too late by then, but oh well.
Yeah, but she has a masters versus a regular batchelor of science, or what have you. Most psychology majors I know have very low paying jobs with social services.
The argument that this even remotely has anything to do with the patriot act is stupid. It certainly has no provisions for raiding people's homes on behalf of the record industry. The people you should be directing your anger towards is more than likely the RIAA, who's undoubtedly the puppet master for this MIPI thing.
Did they think they had a slew of mp3s sitting around on cds in their homes? I know that raiding the offices and homes of execs is fairly common in accounting scandals and the like, but this seems a bit overkill.
You have to get permission to do any wiring and you'll be running wires of some type (power or CAT5)
He said he wanted wireless...aside from the wiring needed for the cable/dsl momdem which is normally already there anyway, he shouldn't have to run any extra cabling anywhere.
you say viruses I say virii, both are acceptable and commonly used. Its like arguing whether its pronounced lih-nux or line-ux. You knew what I was talking about so you don't need to be an ass.
Here's the simple solution. Simply have your friends send you mail with "hot viagra teen sex mortgage" in the subject. Since all the spam is getting past the filters into the inbox, all of your real mail will be waiting for you in your junk mail folder
I think whitelists end up discouraging quite a few legitimate users as well as spammers. I've received emails from people asking questions about this or that, I hit reply, and get shot back a message saying that I have to ask their permission to send them an email, even though I'm replying to them. I dunno if they're not setting up their whitelist properly to automatically add any address they send mail to, but I'm not going to hassle with writing out a reply to them, then having to go back a few minutes later and ask their permission to respond to the message they sent me in the first place.
We need to get people to stop buying products advertised through spam
As you alluded to, it'd be easier to teach fish to fly. The internet essentially carries with it a stupid-user tax. Worms, virii, spam, et al are the by-products of stupidity, but as with most taxes, it just something that you have to deal with.
Having worked as a contractor for a government agency, I can tell you that the people behind the wheel more than likely won't be the sharpest knives in the drawer. One woman I worked with, her whole job for the entire day was to burn 6 cds. Other people just outright slept most of the day. Sure they may have some great new system, but the bottleneck will be that person that has to burn a backup cd of the data before its passed along to intelligence...at 6 cds a day.
I don't really see how advantageous this system would be. They say it scans documents a user looks at to get references to geographic locations, but how effective can this be? "Hey, Osama, quit checking weather bug, you know the US has that new MetaCarta system." Normally an ISP is more than happy to hand over your info to the government, so what is this good for?
Presumably they would know, but I imagine the amount of people who'd switch away from the rather notorious super bowl ads to watch yet another political ad would be incredibly low. And as far as that goes, CNN, as a "neutral" news source really had no business airing it. Presumably they were doing it because CBS had refused to air it, but you don't really see CNN jumping to air a Trojan commercial CBS wouldn't air. Pretty deplorable.
Since/.'ers seem to get technological tunnel vision, so here's a few hints on what the average user is really like:
1. They are convinced the monitor is actually the computer. I don't know what they think that big tower does, but since they have it piled high with boxes, blankets, and it holds up their space heater, they've more than likely forgotten that its there.
2. They have cable / dsl that they use to connect to aol and they have absolutely no firewalls or virus protection.
3. They have no clue what a modem does versus what a network card does, but they do like to pick up on words they saw in the Best Buy ad, thereby running around saying "Why yes, I just recently upgraded my ethernet to thumb-drive."
4. They have no idea that windows update even exists, regardless of how annoying that systray icon becomes.
5. They've never heard of Linux, except maybe in that one IBM ad, but as its an IBM ad, they aren't going to bother to find out.
So they are "ignorant and lazy" as you say, but not everyone was blessed with your incredible technological ability at birth.
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Reading through several newsgroups postings now and then, some newbie will post a question asking about which linux distro would be easiest to use and where would be the best place to go learn about it. And the answer typically is "stick with windows, you're too stupid to ever run linux" and "just do a google search for it dumbass," and assorted other flames. With someone's first introduction to the linux userbase being that, its a small wonder they won't use it. As Bruce Perens said, every linux user is an ambassador for linux. Some people are very nice and helpful about it, but you still have a large percentage of the users who are elitist and can't be bothered to help a newbie out (or they're just the most vocal.)
You can't be serious. More US soldiers died in Germany everyday after we occupied it at the end of World War 2; the casualties in Iraq aren't that high at all. I certainly wouldn't call it being crushed. Baka.
Cable and DSL companies will give out a nice little hardware firewall ala Linksys or Netgear along with their cable/dsl modems. Hell, Toshiba even makes a cable modem with a built in 4 port switch/firewall. Giving these users a broadband connection and no education on the dangers of the internet is like giving a Ferrari to someone who can't drive.
I know the ISP isn't untimately responsible for their users actions, but they'd be doing themselves a big favor by eliminating most of that traffic. During the heyday of the Blaster virus I was getting a few port 53 requests per second from infected machines on Verizon's dsl...that's quite an additional load on their network.
"Florida Today has this story about the disposal of the last remaining Apollo Launch Tower
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Didn't Disney attempt to sell the DVDs with an expiration date? And if I recall that failed gloriously.
And who will really want to stream a movie? Pay, say $5 for something that looks like crap; or maybe they'll let you download DVD quality...who couldn't download 3 - 4 gigs of video, right? Disney really has had some strange ideas lately.
In any event, buying the DVD will probably only be $10 more than paying to download it, so why bother at all?
Disney was on the decline for a long time in the 70s and 80s, and then picked up again with The Little Mermaid, etc. They're on the decline again with their recent poor animated movies and losing the Pixar contract, but at some point they'll produce another few winners and be back on top of the pile again. Aside from the movies, they still have all of the theme parks and the merchandising.
I have to agree, everyone here should be able to recognize that just because its on the web doesn't make it true. A website is no more valuable or reliable than a television commericial; its simply another way for the candidate to present themselves the way they want to be presented.
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These guys are practically begging to have the MPAA swoop down on them. I know they really wouldn't have a leg to stand on, but jeez. They should stick with their "take back the web" slogan.
Downstairs, his mother is cleaning up after dinner. She isn't thrilled these days, either. But what bothers her isn't Mario's poster. It's his hobby. When Mario is bored -- and out here in the countryside, surrounded by soaring snowcapped mountains and little else, he's bored a lot -- he likes to sit at his laptop and create computer viruses and worms.
Maybe this is just crazy talk, but couldn't this woman just take his computer away from him? She knows that he's upstairs doing illegal stuff...he's 16, take away his laptop. "Oh, well little Billy's just upstairs making pipe-bombs...I'll leave him alone."
Parents are there to be...parents.
How would breaking it down from hail into say small ice crystals mess up the planet?
They found the device to be effective against hail, but couldn't figure out the recent surge in bat dropping related damage.
Stuff like this will simply be a side effect of the inernet and globalization. If you have someone in Australia able to access a server in America through P2P, you will inevitably get that person's laws along with that mp3 you just downloaded. More and more countries will start doing this as well. You can argue all you want about "my leader would never fall for this sort of thing" but the only thing that really ever motivates any politician is money, and the music and movie industries have a lot of it to throw around.
Well, you get what you pay for. When the country's full of idiots (moreso) and you can't get an operation, maybe teachers and nurses will be paid better. It'll probably be too late by then, but oh well.
Yeah, but she has a masters versus a regular batchelor of science, or what have you. Most psychology majors I know have very low paying jobs with social services.
The argument that this even remotely has anything to do with the patriot act is stupid. It certainly has no provisions for raiding people's homes on behalf of the record industry. The people you should be directing your anger towards is more than likely the RIAA, who's undoubtedly the puppet master for this MIPI thing.
Did they think they had a slew of mp3s sitting around on cds in their homes? I know that raiding the offices and homes of execs is fairly common in accounting scandals and the like, but this seems a bit overkill.
You have to get permission to do any wiring and you'll be running wires of some type (power or CAT5)
He said he wanted wireless...aside from the wiring needed for the cable/dsl momdem which is normally already there anyway, he shouldn't have to run any extra cabling anywhere.
you say viruses I say virii, both are acceptable and commonly used. Its like arguing whether its pronounced lih-nux or line-ux. You knew what I was talking about so you don't need to be an ass.
Here's the simple solution. Simply have your friends send you mail with "hot viagra teen sex mortgage" in the subject. Since all the spam is getting past the filters into the inbox, all of your real mail will be waiting for you in your junk mail folder
I think whitelists end up discouraging quite a few legitimate users as well as spammers. I've received emails from people asking questions about this or that, I hit reply, and get shot back a message saying that I have to ask their permission to send them an email, even though I'm replying to them. I dunno if they're not setting up their whitelist properly to automatically add any address they send mail to, but I'm not going to hassle with writing out a reply to them, then having to go back a few minutes later and ask their permission to respond to the message they sent me in the first place.
We need to get people to stop buying products advertised through spam
As you alluded to, it'd be easier to teach fish to fly. The internet essentially carries with it a stupid-user tax. Worms, virii, spam, et al are the by-products of stupidity, but as with most taxes, it just something that you have to deal with.
Having worked as a contractor for a government agency, I can tell you that the people behind the wheel more than likely won't be the sharpest knives in the drawer. One woman I worked with, her whole job for the entire day was to burn 6 cds. Other people just outright slept most of the day. Sure they may have some great new system, but the bottleneck will be that person that has to burn a backup cd of the data before its passed along to intelligence...at 6 cds a day.
I don't really see how advantageous this system would be. They say it scans documents a user looks at to get references to geographic locations, but how effective can this be? "Hey, Osama, quit checking weather bug, you know the US has that new MetaCarta system." Normally an ISP is more than happy to hand over your info to the government, so what is this good for?
Presumably they would know, but I imagine the amount of people who'd switch away from the rather notorious super bowl ads to watch yet another political ad would be incredibly low. And as far as that goes, CNN, as a "neutral" news source really had no business airing it. Presumably they were doing it because CBS had refused to air it, but you don't really see CNN jumping to air a Trojan commercial CBS wouldn't air. Pretty deplorable.
Yeah, really...why do you ask?
/.'ers seem to get technological tunnel vision, so here's a few hints on what the average user is really like:
Since
1. They are convinced the monitor is actually the computer. I don't know what they think that big tower does, but since they have it piled high with boxes, blankets, and it holds up their space heater, they've more than likely forgotten that its there.
2. They have cable / dsl that they use to connect to aol and they have absolutely no firewalls or virus protection.
3. They have no clue what a modem does versus what a network card does, but they do like to pick up on words they saw in the Best Buy ad, thereby running around saying "Why yes, I just recently upgraded my ethernet to thumb-drive."
4. They have no idea that windows update even exists, regardless of how annoying that systray icon becomes.
5. They've never heard of Linux, except maybe in that one IBM ad, but as its an IBM ad, they aren't going to bother to find out.
So they are "ignorant and lazy" as you say, but not everyone was blessed with your incredible technological ability at birth.