I'm all for Scientologists wearing something we can easily identify them by, so we can avoid their ignorance.
Comparing your 'religion' to Judaism is ridiculous. I won't go into detail as to why I think so, because I think all religions are absurd, but it's like comparing pop tarts to a t-bone steak. One company, running a website, decided to block all IPs linked to Scientology. You are not being 'persecuted'. No death marches, no concentration camps, no shootings in the street. But we can all hope for that! Just kidding.
Nobody in the U.S. cares about Australia's situation with bandwidth. No one. Not me, not the guy down the street, not some IT guy in Silicon Valley. You're comparing oranges to apples. Australia is an island nation, and when compared to the U.S., very few English websites are hosted there.
I can't believe no one else noticed this. The summary is wrong. The article is about Chromium, not Chrome. Chrome is based on Chromium, and open-source project. There is no official Google Chrome for linux. There's Chromium, then there's crossover Chrome (or Chrome run through wine), but no Google Chrome for linux.
And, an alpha version of Chromium has been out for more than a month now. It has just recently become somewhat usable (tabs started working a couple of weeks ago). The options menu isn't populated, although the framework appears to be there. Rather annoyingly, it doesn't remember the size of the window when it was closed.
That's one self-serving assumption he has there. I use Ubuntu on my home PC, Windows 7 on my media center PC, Gentoo on my servers, and at work, here I have no choice, I use Windows XP.
Ubuntu on my home PC, because it was easy to install and has a big support forum. Although I'm no stranger with linux, I have a stranger to debian-based systems way of doing things. Ubuntu is easy to use; if I don't want to touch a command line, most of the time I don't have to. That doesn't mean I don't like the command line; I do, but sometimes I just like to be able to use nothing but the mouse. I could use Gentoo, but it takes a lot of work to get things right on it (with a GUI).
Gentoo on my servers, because I can start with the most very basic system. No services installed by default. Do I want to use syslog-ng, syslog, or metalog for my log management -- I always choose syslog-ng and install logrotate, mainly because it has a good track record, and I haven't found a program yet that is standardized to use metalog's method of login. Someimes metalog on PCs, just because it's simple but still effective. How about cron? There's vixie-cron and anacron. I'm familiar with vixie-cron, so I stick with that, but Ubuntu uses anacron.
Since '05, I've setup Gentoo probably over 2 dozen times. I'm sure I've installed windows quite many more times. I've installed Mac OS X a few times; Freebsd, CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora Core, BeOS, the list goes on. the list goes on.
I'm sure I could get on my high horse like the GP, but I don't see any reason for that. As someone else has already said, I use the best tool for the job.
But linux gets preference. I just can't do with out that awesome command line.
Is to show him there is a live outside. Trying to verbally convince him he's wasting his life is a waste of yours. Find out what he's interested in (besides that MMO), and take him along to an event he likes.
Some parts of the country don't even have 2 options. The company I work for, we do tech support for multiple cable companies across the U.S. Some areas, speeds are as low as 256kbps down/128kbps, and that's all that's available. No DSL.
That's like calling the idea that God created all the creatures on Earth, "Intelligent Design". SSDN. Whenever I have a question, I google it. It may not give me answers directly on the results most of the time, but I'm one short click away from the website that holds the information I seek.
Your argument would work if the primary de facto use of knives was to commit crime. Just like the primary use of guns (in the U.S.) isn't to commit crime. TPB is primary used to download copyrighted material. Finding them guilty of assisting in the infringement of copyrighted material is nothing like your knife analogy.
Yet, Toyota has also been cagey. These demands have not been sent in the form of a DMCA notice.
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Calling it an exploit is a stretch; perhaps it's just a vulernability, or dare I say, "working as intended"? I doubt google left such an obvious "security" flaw by mistake.
Take a look at eztv.it: http://eztv.it/index.php?main=search - you can usually find debates available for download after the fact; either same day or at the most, the next day.
I'm not going to run my finger along my nose while I strongly breathe in through it and say "Gentoo is superior", but this boggles my mind. Custom built kernels are always the way to go if you want speed and stability.
Speaking of which, you can still build a custom kernel in Fedora and Ubuntu, so long as the appropriate utilities are installed. I high recommend it.
He left out a key word: "better", so rewrite it as this:
Never let a computer do a job that can be done better by a human
As you said, there are lots of jobs that computers are better at; I imagine the best case scenario (in a dream world?), when it comes to security, would be a combination of computer and human security.
Neither. The only other option for internet in the area I live in is AT&T DSL, and I think their service is only 6mbps (and the latency was horrible if you tried using any sort of sustained upload bandwidth, too).
Believe what you want, but I know what I pay and get.
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I wasn't talking about New Zealand. I'm talking about Australia. Big difference, wouldn't you say?
I'm all for Scientologists wearing something we can easily identify them by, so we can avoid their ignorance.
Comparing your 'religion' to Judaism is ridiculous. I won't go into detail as to why I think so, because I think all religions are absurd, but it's like comparing pop tarts to a t-bone steak. One company, running a website, decided to block all IPs linked to Scientology. You are not being 'persecuted'. No death marches, no concentration camps, no shootings in the street. But we can all hope for that! Just kidding.
And did he just godwin himself?
Karma be damned, but....
Nobody in the U.S. cares about Australia's situation with bandwidth. No one. Not me, not the guy down the street, not some IT guy in Silicon Valley. You're comparing oranges to apples. Australia is an island nation, and when compared to the U.S., very few English websites are hosted there.
I can't believe no one else noticed this. The summary is wrong. The article is about Chromium, not Chrome. Chrome is based on Chromium, and open-source project. There is no official Google Chrome for linux. There's Chromium, then there's crossover Chrome (or Chrome run through wine), but no Google Chrome for linux.
And, an alpha version of Chromium has been out for more than a month now. It has just recently become somewhat usable (tabs started working a couple of weeks ago). The options menu isn't populated, although the framework appears to be there. Rather annoyingly, it doesn't remember the size of the window when it was closed.
Running it on Ubuntu 9.04.
That's one self-serving assumption he has there. I use Ubuntu on my home PC, Windows 7 on my media center PC, Gentoo on my servers, and at work, here I have no choice, I use Windows XP.
Ubuntu on my home PC, because it was easy to install and has a big support forum. Although I'm no stranger with linux, I have a stranger to debian-based systems way of doing things. Ubuntu is easy to use; if I don't want to touch a command line, most of the time I don't have to. That doesn't mean I don't like the command line; I do, but sometimes I just like to be able to use nothing but the mouse. I could use Gentoo, but it takes a lot of work to get things right on it (with a GUI).
Gentoo on my servers, because I can start with the most very basic system. No services installed by default. Do I want to use syslog-ng, syslog, or metalog for my log management -- I always choose syslog-ng and install logrotate, mainly because it has a good track record, and I haven't found a program yet that is standardized to use metalog's method of login. Someimes metalog on PCs, just because it's simple but still effective. How about cron? There's vixie-cron and anacron. I'm familiar with vixie-cron, so I stick with that, but Ubuntu uses anacron.
Since '05, I've setup Gentoo probably over 2 dozen times. I'm sure I've installed windows quite many more times. I've installed Mac OS X a few times; Freebsd, CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora Core, BeOS, the list goes on. the list goes on.
I'm sure I could get on my high horse like the GP, but I don't see any reason for that. As someone else has already said, I use the best tool for the job.
But linux gets preference. I just can't do with out that awesome command line.
Is to show him there is a live outside. Trying to verbally convince him he's wasting his life is a waste of yours. Find out what he's interested in (besides that MMO), and take him along to an event he likes.
Some parts of the country don't even have 2 options. The company I work for, we do tech support for multiple cable companies across the U.S. Some areas, speeds are as low as 256kbps down/128kbps, and that's all that's available. No DSL.
That's like calling the idea that God created all the creatures on Earth, "Intelligent Design". SSDN. Whenever I have a question, I google it. It may not give me answers directly on the results most of the time, but I'm one short click away from the website that holds the information I seek.
Karma be damned, but..
No one cares about a new search engine. Really, Google suits all my needs.
http://images.google.com/images?q=iraq+information+minister -- 2nd image.
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/E/8/baghdadbob.jpg
Your argument would work if the primary de facto use of knives was to commit crime. Just like the primary use of guns (in the U.S.) isn't to commit crime. TPB is primary used to download copyrighted material. Finding them guilty of assisting in the infringement of copyrighted material is nothing like your knife analogy.
Get him a Kindle and lots of ebooks for it. I'm sure he'll appreciate it.
At least not according to the article:
Calling it an exploit is a stretch; perhaps it's just a vulernability, or dare I say, "working as intended"? I doubt google left such an obvious "security" flaw by mistake.
Outbound firewalls are for people who don't know what they're doing or who support users who don't/want to stop them from doing something.
I'd hardly call using an iPhone as a replacement or substitute for a net/note/lap/dog-book or desktop being a "cheapskate buyer".
Is it faster than Chrome? Seriously, this isn't a troll. I'll try it out and see.
African or european?
What the hell is up with modding the parent offtopic? The question is directly related to the summary. Lighten up, mods.
Oh yeah, +5 insightful on this post please.
Take a look at eztv.it: http://eztv.it/index.php?main=search - you can usually find debates available for download after the fact; either same day or at the most, the next day.
*ahem*
It's a duck, not a goose.
I'm not going to run my finger along my nose while I strongly breathe in through it and say "Gentoo is superior", but this boggles my mind. Custom built kernels are always the way to go if you want speed and stability.
Speaking of which, you can still build a custom kernel in Fedora and Ubuntu, so long as the appropriate utilities are installed. I high recommend it.
That isn't stealing. Once it's trashed it's up for grabs. Now if you're trespassing on private property though, that's one thing..
He left out a key word: "better", so rewrite it as this:
Never let a computer do a job that can be done better by a human
As you said, there are lots of jobs that computers are better at; I imagine the best case scenario (in a dream world?), when it comes to security, would be a combination of computer and human security.
But that's just my armchair opinion.
Neither. The only other option for internet in the area I live in is AT&T DSL, and I think their service is only 6mbps (and the latency was horrible if you tried using any sort of sustained upload bandwidth, too).
Believe what you want, but I know what I pay and get.