Im in the same camp but it seems like every day we are faced with a new law protecting these scum bags. This should be made an "open effort" kind of thing where we can all throw rocks at them. Big ones. Post a reward for finding the origin of this mail and see what happens; they'll eventually turn on each other if times are as rough as another post put it here.
I for one wouldnt mind being able to wage my own little war from home. Vigilantism or not its obvious that no amount of legislation can protect our right to email. They propose taxes but this only hurts the law abiding ( 20%? ) of users.
I say we find them ourselves. Nobody else can do anything about it. The right to "hack back" has allready been set precedence on by the sheer amount of "bad" media and misinformation set about the internet by interested parties. Why can't we take it a step further? Id love to volunteer.
This may be a little off topic but somewhere deep down I feel the burden of responsibility should be put on those with the best means to do something about this. Im talking about Microsft and SMTP contributors alike. Microsofts methods of perverting open standards to their benefit might actually be useful in this case. If you put a faulty product on the market you should be held accountable for its misuse.
Woke someone up there. I know, I know, "guns don't kill people, people kill people...", no shit, but they're trying to take guns away too so we should do something about the fucking mail before it becomes a threat to thier livelhood and we have to live with email being ordained as "a tool of satan" or worse. Before you get pissed remember that if we could replace/revise SMTP with some kind of Public/Private permission key model we might get somewhere. Maybe. So let me take this opportunity to go ahead and post a prior art idea here before one of you corporate lacky saps tries to run to Bill or Darl with something "you" thought of. This idea is hereby released under the GPL:
Public Permission Key -> Goes into a form where you submit your email address.
Private Permission Key -> Goes into your email app settings.
Fuck it.Get VeriSign involved if we have to. Or at least some central authority who can be held accountable. Come on, Bill, you like to innovate don't you? Then why don't you get off your rich ass and HELP the internet grow without your OWN interests being involved. They might be on the line anyway.
Put me on the board to figure this out. I'm good at playing both sides of the table and figuring out which one is right. If I can't do that I'll damn sure find out who is responsible and start my own gang to get rid of them. Im as sick of this as you all are and just want an end to it. Nobody should profit from this and the one thing that leads me to believe that someone real big and someone real close is running the show or largely contributing to the problem is the huge fact that its only getting worse.
All the bullshit laws the US passed in the last 5 years all rolled up into one. I say we pretend to play dead and follow along with all this crap until they think we are under complete control, which is the idea, and then we get UP.
This kind of thing is so hard to fight. You and everyone you know can write 10 letters a day to Congress about the consequences of stupid laws like this and your requests WILL FALL ON DEAF EARS.
WAKE UP FOLKS. You have no rights. Get over it or get with the program. This big agenda we see manifesting before us through corruption and perversion of legal systems and global governments, financial institutions, trade agreements, and all that happy shit is going to wear us down over time. We might as well end the suffering today by turning away and admitting defeat. Only then will thier true motives be apparent and only then can we fight. You cannot fight an enemy you cannot see, but you can fight them if you expose them for what they really are.
Pay with a credit card? No thanks, just put it on my tab. They will have a hell of a time finding me in New Mexico anyway. What are they going to do, send a paddy wagon to my house in the mountains for a speeding ticket?
They probably would just so I can pay some marked up fee attributed to "court costs" for the whole ordeal. I got a ticket in Texas a while back for getting stuck on the beach. They plow it up for spring break, putting 3 foot high walls of sand to separate the two lanes of traffic. Real scenic, I must say. There is even a lane in the middle just for law enforcement to roll down. Every few hundred feet there is a turn around and this is where I got stuck. "Spinning out" is how this rookie cop put it on the ticket. Even then I didn't get any help from these "public servants" in getting my truck out. It only took the help of 2 other people to get the truck moving again. Weeks later a huge riot broke out over what was allegedly a cop beating an innocent bystander. I bet that cop wished thats all people were doing was getting stuck.
Like I said, hell of a time picking me up in the mountains of New Mexico. Pricks. I have alot more to say and will forget about it with this statement:
We are rapidly heading into a Police State. Laws on local levels are being passed daily in order to rake in revenue for municipalities and thier corrupt officials. Good luck people, and don't let your auto insurance slip or you will be without a drivers license for 2 years in Texas. A little research will yield a finding that Texas has some of the worst localized ordinances in the country. If you have a few bucks and know a few people you can get your competitors run out of town. Yee-Haw.
I really missed the boat on this posting here but I owe it to/. to post anyway.
I first used linux when it became graphically feasable too, but not because I was waiting for it, it just happened to roll into my line of site at the time, but anyway
I never stopped for many reasons. I liked it so much I replaced Windows with it entirely. I have to admit it wasnt easy for me to sit there and learn it all. I think it took me 2 days to partition the drives.
But its come a very long way. The last time I installed SuSE at work for a mail server I popped the CD, hit the enter key FOUR TIMES, and it was in runlevel 5. Microsoft went backwards with the curses based install. I have a hard time understanding why.
But the real reasons I use F/OSS is because it just makes me feel Good.
I use it because I know it, because documentation is literally everywhere if I dont know it.
Its so customizeable no wonder its everywhere you look. From settop tv boxes to cell phones to networking hardware, its literally everywhere.
I also found employment with it. The market, particularly where I live, is stagant enough without being flooded with high schoolers coming at us screaming "I GOT A MCSE!".
Its free. It is a computer science education tool that is in fact priceless. If it were not for F/OSS the world would indeed be dark in terms of technological know-how and standard adherence.
There are so many arguments for the use of F/OSS that it is unecessary to preach to my choir here about how diabolical closed source is, even though all you have to do to "convert" someone is bring up the dark side.
Tux is cute. My kids love the doll.
/. wouldnt be much without F/OSS. I would probably have to read MSNBC for my news.
Bill Gates is a pussy. Linus could take him.
This whole board rocks. Its about time we saw something like this on here again. Look at the number of posts!
And who cares what anyone else thinks. My machines work, they work hard and work well, and do both well enough for me to be paid for my consulting. If I had gone with microsoft early on I would not be able to sleep at night knowing I am bilking my clients out of an opportunity to better their operations.
So you have it. We use F/OSS because we have an almost theocratic belief that knowledge should be shared, not kept secret. This feeling resides deep inside everyones hearts whether they know it or not, whether they want to admit it or not.
This list could go on and on. And on, and on... but its safe to say that we arent going anywhere and neither is the knowledge we share with everyone we come into contact with.
People know the difference between right and wrong, and one day the general populace will awaken to the fact that they use windows because they felt they had to, or never knew of a better alternative.
I still think its a step in the right direction though. It will keep users on their toes a little more, rather than hand feeding them the ease of operation that rots the brain. It puts responsibility where it should be, on the users, to keep their own(3d) machine from killing everyone elses.
"Armies of worm-ridden broadband-connected windows boxes", as one of the funniest posts I've ever read put it, are out there and are part of a problem so large the underlying cause is hard to see even though its right under our noses: laziness.
But if you want to get down to it, aside from CERT, there should be some kind of big ass computer out there that catches a worm propagating and automatically starts trying to find the source. Would be a nice project to contribute my time and free code to.
I agree. Imagine the feeling of not being able to fix your infected computer via online-update because your freakin ISP wont let you. One could possibly start a successful company fixing PCs doing house-calls anywhere this policy is enforced forever. Its like western medecine, treat the symptom, not the cause.
I know I'm trolling here, but isn't it nice to have an OS out there you dont have to reboot just to get something so simple done? I mean, *nix is supposed to be oh so complicated, but look at this crap...
No joke. I can't wait to file my first police report because my mp3 player, total value of over $3000 in music alone, was stolen and I don't want to be responsible for its contents being released to The GNutella Network.
Then I'd have to replace all that music I built up over the years because it was illegal to keep backup copies...
I'm seriously getting to the point to where I just dont fucking want the music they put out there anyway. Its a hassle, its expensive, its a legal liability from hell now and its general quality and "vibe" is starting to really suck all together. More and more often I hear their music only on TV, where it belongs in Sprite commercials and 'Reality' TV Shows. Support local music! (even if it does suck!)
Good point but I have to disagree. Just because a big company made it doesn't mean the product is secure (did we RTFA?), and it sure as hell doesn't mean you can hold them responsible. How many morons do you think would buy a Microsoft Router? TONS im sure. 65355 ways to exploit the fucker and nobody to blame but yourself per the EULA you cant read until youve voided the warranty.
All the great techonology... what a shame it must be put to use like this. Why can't they fix something thats really wrong [insert link of some global atrocity here] with this planet instead... This is exactly why the RIAA has no respect and such a bad reputation for being some insanely money grubbing and power hoarding blob of greasy people crawling over each other to get on top. Using bleeding edge technology, developing space age shit just to keep someone from getting a hold of an mp3 is just ludicrous. If you let it get to you like that it kind of makes you want to pirate something just to spite them.
Course, there are worse ways to spend it all but that doesn't make them respectable, laws or no laws. If I had the money to buy the laws I want like they do, organizations like the RIAA would be GONE FOREVER.
All the banner ads in the world won't change the basic truths of how things work.
too true. ive been bombed with microsoft ads for the past 20 years, and they still dont work, since i use *nix on everything from my nextel to my play station to my router to my wristwatch, gps unit, toaster, tv, dvd player (huah), microwave, toothbrush, yes its even on my socks...
don't boycott the site people, boycott microsoft, geez...
This is a classic example of where laws regarding corporations are only abided by because breaking them is illegal, not because they feel compelled to be honest like most hard working people.
Canada has laws against using aluminum to distribute consumable products like FOOD. Aluminum pans are not used in Canda. This is all due to research done years ago linking the build up of aluminum in the human brain to neurological problems like Alzheimers.
But then again, Canadians benefit from socialized medecine. It just doesnt make sense for their government to allow companies to distribute aluminum with food because they will only have to pay for the medical bills and medications of those adversly affected in the long run. Or is it because they are nice?
No laws like that here. Hell you buy enough different kinds of food that comes in aluminum containers to last you a lifetime if thats all you ate. You'd probably be a blithering idiot by the time you were 45, but who cares? Just get someone to stand in line for you at the medicare office, and take up a part time job at McDonalds to pay for the rest of the expenses.
Something is really really wrong with this picture. In a day and age where corporate rule and well being in "the greatest country in the world" is held is such high regard over the well being of the general populace, its a small wonder that nothing short of apathy sweeps the minds of those who stumble upon someone so informed and opinionated.
"I cant change this by myself and all I want to do is make a good life for my family and live another day.." is by and large the mantra of working heads of households. But this is under the guise that tomorrow there will be the right to do what you can for your families. Slowly but surely everything from what you eat and how you eat it to where you live and what you see on the internet is under less and less of your own control.
Welcome to America, take a number and sit the fuck down.
This should be interesting once the technology matures. Going out and nabbing an asteroid is a gold mine just waiting to be tapped. Some of those rocks have enough metal in them to build another moon.
Actually FreeBSD might not be such a bad idea. Once the user figures out how to use the damn disk partitioner the rest is pretty easy. FTP installation over broad band, cvsup, build stuff, make install clean and its all automated. The package management, I think, simply cannot be beaten. One could get a great default install going in a little more time than it actually takes to let the sysinstaller download it.
In fact, I wish I had gone from RH 5 straight to FreeBSD rather than Slack. In retrospect it would have been much easier and I would be better off. Not to say that I regret developing my vastly extensive, superiorly omnipotent, utterly unquestionable, incredibly astonishing, verbally concise and down right scary knowledge of Slackware.
Seriously, nothin' wrong with BSD man. Just a little... different... thats all.
was redhat 5 or so. It was a pain in the ass. Took me like 3 days to get the mouse to work. Anyway...
I suggest you start out with something that does alot of autoconfiguration of hardware for you . Mandrake, SuSE, and Red Hat 9.x come to mind. Mandrake seems to be able to do a tad more than the rest as far as initial setup goes but SuSE and Red Hat may have a little more hardware covered in general. My recommendation however is SuSE. A full blown install comes with most everything ever written for most every piece of OS... nevermind. Its good stuff.
I also suggest installing your choice of the BSD's on the same drive if ya got the space. You can sorta use what SuSE has done with config files to get a relatively good idea for how a BSD might get set up. Worked well for me for my transition (on a sony laptop), but again I have been using them for years.
Interestingly enough, FreeBSD supports my wireless pccard where SuSE does not seem to like it very much. I suggest FreeBSD as a way to extend your experience with other operating systems. NetBSD and OpenBSD will make you pull out your hair, as will Slackware and possibly Debian if you dont know what youre doing with an initial install.
Hope it helps. This method really worked for me and now I get to market a skill of being able to pick up on technologies, evaluate situations, and develop quick solutions to the needs of my clients which include for the most part small to medium sized financial institutions. I seriously suggest you consider this advice, especially on a laptop.
One more thing. Once you get a little bit-o-source under your belt you might wanna try to build your own Linux distro. Its probably the most educational project I've ever undertaken. Who knows, you might be real good at it >=]
He was a great friend when we met in high-school, a bit "crazy" for lack of a better term, and alot of fun to be around.
But as has been mentioned in a couple posts here, we did grow apart. Myself taking on challenges and him sinking deeper and deeper into his own world. 15 years later we still speak but he is so introverted that it hurts me to think of all the good times we all shared around him.
He is on some psychoactive coctail right now and seems to be in the depths of his own head, lost to the world around him. Sometimes I visit him, check on him I guess.
I realize now that he looked up to me, even through his thick guise of confidence and independence from the world around him, when in fact he is very dependent on others and I fear his world may some day come crashing down around him.
He loves his computer games and loves to build them, such as he can. I feel good for helping instill what confidence it took for him to tackle such a thing. For a person of his nature this is no small feat. Considering where he came from and where he appears to be going, a good hobby like this to occupy his scattered brain may be the best thing in the world to treat his delusions.
Its a good thing he cant program. Not to be mean, but it really is. I sense great agony within him and great fear and mistrust of the world around him. Hell, even I think he rubs off on me from time to time.
I learned a few years ago how to deal with him, and that is with positive encouragement and negativity only in the form of great tasteful humor. Supporting his good, sensical, real side is all the difference in the world to him when it comes to his bouts. Appealing in small part to his imagination, getting him to tap what may even be a potential gift is something I tried to help him do and I think to some small degree there is some truth in that idea. Sometimes he can display a sheer brilliance that I almost envy, but for the fiery world that he believes he lives in it is but a small respite and rest for someone so lost and lonely. I wish I could do more. I wish there was a way to treat him without making him stupid with drugs. I wish he would just get better, too, but all I can do is be there, when I can.
If your cable installer is using staples I suggest you go with another ISP.
I worked in the field forever and I saw so many funny things that the thing to do after work was sit around and crack up about the days events, the stupid customers, and the morons in the dispatching office.
"...ok then I think the problem is between the keyboard and the chair."
Working for the cable company and having service with their competitor was a laugh. They sent out a tech to troubleshoot the aerial line because my cable modem was losing synch more and more every day since the install, which I was unavailable for. Tech support continued to try to get me to clear my browser cache and reboot my computer and right click on my computer and all that crap. After a few rounds of supressed laughter I finally admitted that I wasnt using windows, I wasnt on a Mac... anyway
I could have replaced the line myself, but why do that when I'm paying for the service? Besides, theres a few beers left over from last night, and I could sure use some entertainment...
Now its clear that the person who originally installed this line had no idea what he was doing. Its going through trees, crossing power, and is zip-tied to a telephone pole hook, rather than properly secured. Near a large tree branch the line is worn down through the shielding to the stinger, and is very visible as the bare spot is next to the house.
They have a rule about testing the lines imepedance first. He gets out the little Ohm-meter and terminates one end, goes to the pole and tests it, and returns with a puzzled look on his face. He has to explain that he can't replace the line because its impedence is within bounds and the line must be fine.
Channel 3, also a local station, is coming in loud and clear with the local news due to the exposed wire, and this guy is arguing with me about policy?
We had the policy too, but it was because our techs, as contractors, were lighting up every corner of the house with a cable jack for the money. When this policy hit us, our re-wiring hit rock bottom and we lost alot of good technicians. It didnt take much more than a few phone calls to scratch this obviously moronic policy from their books. If picture=crappy then replace(wires);
sorry, but this sounds wierd. i could see images 23 years ago when i was 3 - this means i saw images 23 years ago, not that i can see images 23 years ago.
in your context these must be some very old satellites.
and the term light-year is a measurement of both time and distance: the distance that light travels in a year. hence the name light-year.
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Im in the same camp but it seems like every day we are faced with a new law protecting these scum bags. This should be made an "open effort" kind of thing where we can all throw rocks at them. Big ones. Post a reward for finding the origin of this mail and see what happens; they'll eventually turn on each other if times are as rough as another post put it here.
I for one wouldnt mind being able to wage my own little war from home. Vigilantism or not its obvious that no amount of legislation can protect our right to email. They propose taxes but this only hurts the law abiding ( 20%? ) of users.
I say we find them ourselves. Nobody else can do anything about it. The right to "hack back" has allready been set precedence on by the sheer amount of "bad" media and misinformation set about the internet by interested parties. Why can't we take it a step further? Id love to volunteer.
This may be a little off topic but somewhere deep down I feel the burden of responsibility should be put on those with the best means to do something about this. Im talking about Microsft and SMTP contributors alike. Microsofts methods of perverting open standards to their benefit might actually be useful in this case. If you put a faulty product on the market you should be held accountable for its misuse.
Woke someone up there. I know, I know, "guns don't kill people, people kill people...", no shit, but they're trying to take guns away too so we should do something about the fucking mail before it becomes a threat to thier livelhood and we have to live with email being ordained as "a tool of satan" or worse. Before you get pissed remember that if we could replace/revise SMTP with some kind of Public/Private permission key model we might get somewhere. Maybe. So let me take this opportunity to go ahead and post a prior art idea here before one of you corporate lacky saps tries to run to Bill or Darl with something "you" thought of. This idea is hereby released under the GPL:
Public Permission Key -> Goes into a form where you submit your email address.
Private Permission Key -> Goes into your email app settings.
Fuck it.Get VeriSign involved if we have to. Or at least some central authority who can be held accountable. Come on, Bill, you like to innovate don't you? Then why don't you get off your rich ass and HELP the internet grow without your OWN interests being involved. They might be on the line anyway.
Put me on the board to figure this out. I'm good at playing both sides of the table and figuring out which one is right. If I can't do that I'll damn sure find out who is responsible and start my own gang to get rid of them. Im as sick of this as you all are and just want an end to it. Nobody should profit from this and the one thing that leads me to believe that someone real big and someone real close is running the show or largely contributing to the problem is the huge fact that its only getting worse.
Take my inbox, please.
All the bullshit laws the US passed in the last 5 years all rolled up into one. I say we pretend to play dead and follow along with all this crap until they think we are under complete control, which is the idea, and then we get UP.
This kind of thing is so hard to fight. You and everyone you know can write 10 letters a day to Congress about the consequences of stupid laws like this and your requests WILL FALL ON DEAF EARS.
WAKE UP FOLKS. You have no rights. Get over it or get with the program. This big agenda we see manifesting before us through corruption and perversion of legal systems and global governments, financial institutions, trade agreements, and all that happy shit is going to wear us down over time. We might as well end the suffering today by turning away and admitting defeat. Only then will thier true motives be apparent and only then can we fight. You cannot fight an enemy you cannot see, but you can fight them if you expose them for what they really are.
DAMN im in a bad mood now. Thanks ass hats.
Sincerely,
Sam
Pay with a credit card? No thanks, just put it on my tab. They will have a hell of a time finding me in New Mexico anyway. What are they going to do, send a paddy wagon to my house in the mountains for a speeding ticket?
They probably would just so I can pay some marked up fee attributed to "court costs" for the whole ordeal. I got a ticket in Texas a while back for getting stuck on the beach. They plow it up for spring break, putting 3 foot high walls of sand to separate the two lanes of traffic. Real scenic, I must say. There is even a lane in the middle just for law enforcement to roll down. Every few hundred feet there is a turn around and this is where I got stuck. "Spinning out" is how this rookie cop put it on the ticket. Even then I didn't get any help from these "public servants" in getting my truck out. It only took the help of 2 other people to get the truck moving again. Weeks later a huge riot broke out over what was allegedly a cop beating an innocent bystander. I bet that cop wished thats all people were doing was getting stuck.
Like I said, hell of a time picking me up in the mountains of New Mexico. Pricks. I have alot more to say and will forget about it with this statement:
We are rapidly heading into a Police State. Laws on local levels are being passed daily in order to rake in revenue for municipalities and thier corrupt officials. Good luck people, and don't let your auto insurance slip or you will be without a drivers license for 2 years in Texas. A little research will yield a finding that Texas has some of the worst localized ordinances in the country. If you have a few bucks and know a few people you can get your competitors run out of town. Yee-Haw.
I really missed the boat on this posting here but I owe it to /. to post anyway.
/. wouldnt be much without F/OSS. I would probably have to read MSNBC for my news.
I first used linux when it became graphically feasable too, but not because I was waiting for it, it just happened to roll into my line of site at the time, but anyway
I never stopped for many reasons. I liked it so much I replaced Windows with it entirely. I have to admit it wasnt easy for me to sit there and learn it all. I think it took me 2 days to partition the drives.
But its come a very long way. The last time I installed SuSE at work for a mail server I popped the CD, hit the enter key FOUR TIMES, and it was in runlevel 5. Microsoft went backwards with the curses based install. I have a hard time understanding why.
But the real reasons I use F/OSS is because it just makes me feel Good.
I use it because I know it, because documentation is literally everywhere if I dont know it.
Its so customizeable no wonder its everywhere you look. From settop tv boxes to cell phones to networking hardware, its literally everywhere.
I also found employment with it. The market, particularly where I live, is stagant enough without being flooded with high schoolers coming at us screaming "I GOT A MCSE!".
Its free. It is a computer science education tool that is in fact priceless. If it were not for F/OSS the world would indeed be dark in terms of technological know-how and standard adherence.
There are so many arguments for the use of F/OSS that it is unecessary to preach to my choir here about how diabolical closed source is, even though all you have to do to "convert" someone is bring up the dark side.
Tux is cute. My kids love the doll.
Bill Gates is a pussy. Linus could take him.
This whole board rocks. Its about time we saw something like this on here again. Look at the number of posts!
And who cares what anyone else thinks. My machines work, they work hard and work well, and do both well enough for me to be paid for my consulting. If I had gone with microsoft early on I would not be able to sleep at night knowing I am bilking my clients out of an opportunity to better their operations.
So you have it. We use F/OSS because we have an almost theocratic belief that knowledge should be shared, not kept secret. This feeling resides deep inside everyones hearts whether they know it or not, whether they want to admit it or not.
This list could go on and on. And on, and on... but its safe to say that we arent going anywhere and neither is the knowledge we share with everyone we come into contact with.
People know the difference between right and wrong, and one day the general populace will awaken to the fact that they use windows because they felt they had to, or never knew of a better alternative.
wouldnt load for me. 140th post or so though.
dont forget to grep tits *;
I wonder how long it took him to get that sign working again....
I am going for the free beer.
Word...
I still think its a step in the right direction though. It will keep users on their toes a little more, rather than hand feeding them the ease of operation that rots the brain. It puts responsibility where it should be, on the users, to keep their own(3d) machine from killing everyone elses.
"Armies of worm-ridden broadband-connected windows boxes", as one of the funniest posts I've ever read put it, are out there and are part of a problem so large the underlying cause is hard to see even though its right under our noses: laziness.
But if you want to get down to it, aside from CERT, there should be some kind of big ass computer out there that catches a worm propagating and automatically starts trying to find the source. Would be a nice project to contribute my time and free code to.
I agree. Imagine the feeling of not being able to fix your infected computer via online-update because your freakin ISP wont let you. One could possibly start a successful company fixing PCs doing house-calls anywhere this policy is enforced forever. Its like western medecine, treat the symptom, not the cause.
I know I'm trolling here, but isn't it nice to have an OS out there you dont have to reboot just to get something so simple done? I mean, *nix is supposed to be oh so complicated, but look at this crap...
Type: REG_BINARY
Data:
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
02 00 00 00 1D 00 3A 00
00 00 00 00
This is user-friendliness? Just for a key function swap???????? Might as well be using a hex editor to configure the whole system!
Microcaca is fun to say.
No joke. I can't wait to file my first police report because my mp3 player, total value of over $3000 in music alone, was stolen and I don't want to be responsible for its contents being released to The GNutella Network.
Then I'd have to replace all that music I built up over the years because it was illegal to keep backup copies...
I'm seriously getting to the point to where I just dont fucking want the music they put out there anyway. Its a hassle, its expensive, its a legal liability from hell now and its general quality and "vibe" is starting to really suck all together. More and more often I hear their music only on TV, where it belongs in Sprite commercials and 'Reality' TV Shows. Support local music! (even if it does suck!)
Good point but I have to disagree. Just because a big company made it doesn't mean the product is secure (did we RTFA?), and it sure as hell doesn't mean you can hold them responsible. How many morons do you think would buy a Microsoft Router? TONS im sure. 65355 ways to exploit the fucker and nobody to blame but yourself per the EULA you cant read until youve voided the warranty.
All the great techonology... what a shame it must be put to use like this. Why can't they fix something thats really wrong [insert link of some global atrocity here] with this planet instead... This is exactly why the RIAA has no respect and such a bad reputation for being some insanely money grubbing and power hoarding blob of greasy people crawling over each other to get on top. Using bleeding edge technology, developing space age shit just to keep someone from getting a hold of an mp3 is just ludicrous. If you let it get to you like that it kind of makes you want to pirate something just to spite them.
Course, there are worse ways to spend it all but that doesn't make them respectable, laws or no laws. If I had the money to buy the laws I want like they do, organizations like the RIAA would be GONE FOREVER.
All the banner ads in the world won't change the basic truths of how things work.
too true. ive been bombed with microsoft ads for the past 20 years, and they still dont work, since i use *nix on everything from my nextel to my play station to my router to my wristwatch, gps unit, toaster, tv, dvd player (huah), microwave, toothbrush, yes its even on my socks...
don't boycott the site people, boycott microsoft, geez...
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This is a classic example of where laws regarding corporations are only abided by because breaking them is illegal, not because they feel compelled to be honest like most hard working people.
Canada has laws against using aluminum to distribute consumable products like FOOD. Aluminum pans are not used in Canda. This is all due to research done years ago linking the build up of aluminum in the human brain to neurological problems like Alzheimers.
But then again, Canadians benefit from socialized medecine. It just doesnt make sense for their government to allow companies to distribute aluminum with food because they will only have to pay for the medical bills and medications of those adversly affected in the long run. Or is it because they are nice?
No laws like that here. Hell you buy enough different kinds of food that comes in aluminum containers to last you a lifetime if thats all you ate. You'd probably be a blithering idiot by the time you were 45, but who cares? Just get someone to stand in line for you at the medicare office, and take up a part time job at McDonalds to pay for the rest of the expenses.
Something is really really wrong with this picture. In a day and age where corporate rule and well being in "the greatest country in the world" is held is such high regard over the well being of the general populace, its a small wonder that nothing short of apathy sweeps the minds of those who stumble upon someone so informed and opinionated.
"I cant change this by myself and all I want to do is make a good life for my family and live another day.." is by and large the mantra of working heads of households. But this is under the guise that tomorrow there will be the right to do what you can for your families. Slowly but surely everything from what you eat and how you eat it to where you live and what you see on the internet is under less and less of your own control.
Welcome to America, take a number and sit the fuck down.
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... on an asteroid.
This should be interesting once the technology matures. Going out and nabbing an asteroid is a gold mine just waiting to be tapped. Some of those rocks have enough metal in them to build another moon.
Actually FreeBSD might not be such a bad idea. Once the user figures out how to use the damn disk partitioner the rest is pretty easy. FTP installation over broad band, cvsup, build stuff, make install clean and its all automated. The package management, I think, simply cannot be beaten. One could get a great default install going in a little more time than it actually takes to let the sysinstaller download it.
In fact, I wish I had gone from RH 5 straight to FreeBSD rather than Slack. In retrospect it would have been much easier and I would be better off. Not to say that I regret developing my vastly extensive, superiorly omnipotent, utterly unquestionable, incredibly astonishing, verbally concise and down right scary knowledge of Slackware.
Seriously, nothin' wrong with BSD man. Just a little... different... thats all.
was redhat 5 or so. It was a pain in the ass. Took me like 3 days to get the mouse to work. Anyway...
I suggest you start out with something that does alot of autoconfiguration of hardware for you . Mandrake, SuSE, and Red Hat 9.x come to mind. Mandrake seems to be able to do a tad more than the rest as far as initial setup goes but SuSE and Red Hat may have a little more hardware covered in general. My recommendation however is SuSE. A full blown install comes with most everything ever written for most every piece of OS... nevermind. Its good stuff.
I also suggest installing your choice of the BSD's on the same drive if ya got the space. You can sorta use what SuSE has done with config files to get a relatively good idea for how a BSD might get set up. Worked well for me for my transition (on a sony laptop), but again I have been using them for years.
Interestingly enough, FreeBSD supports my wireless pccard where SuSE does not seem to like it very much. I suggest FreeBSD as a way to extend your experience with other operating systems. NetBSD and OpenBSD will make you pull out your hair, as will Slackware and possibly Debian if you dont know what youre doing with an initial install.
Hope it helps. This method really worked for me and now I get to market a skill of being able to pick up on technologies, evaluate situations, and develop quick solutions to the needs of my clients which include for the most part small to medium sized financial institutions. I seriously suggest you consider this advice, especially on a laptop.
One more thing. Once you get a little bit-o-source under your belt you might wanna try to build your own Linux distro. Its probably the most educational project I've ever undertaken. Who knows, you might be real good at it >=]
Good Luck!
He was a great friend when we met in high-school, a bit "crazy" for lack of a better term, and alot of fun to be around.
But as has been mentioned in a couple posts here, we did grow apart. Myself taking on challenges and him sinking deeper and deeper into his own world. 15 years later we still speak but he is so introverted that it hurts me to think of all the good times we all shared around him.
He is on some psychoactive coctail right now and seems to be in the depths of his own head, lost to the world around him. Sometimes I visit him, check on him I guess.
I realize now that he looked up to me, even through his thick guise of confidence and independence from the world around him, when in fact he is very dependent on others and I fear his world may some day come crashing down around him.
He loves his computer games and loves to build them, such as he can. I feel good for helping instill what confidence it took for him to tackle such a thing. For a person of his nature this is no small feat. Considering where he came from and where he appears to be going, a good hobby like this to occupy his scattered brain may be the best thing in the world to treat his delusions.
Its a good thing he cant program. Not to be mean, but it really is. I sense great agony within him and great fear and mistrust of the world around him. Hell, even I think he rubs off on me from time to time.
I learned a few years ago how to deal with him, and that is with positive encouragement and negativity only in the form of great tasteful humor. Supporting his good, sensical, real side is all the difference in the world to him when it comes to his bouts. Appealing in small part to his imagination, getting him to tap what may even be a potential gift is something I tried to help him do and I think to some small degree there is some truth in that idea. Sometimes he can display a sheer brilliance that I almost envy, but for the fiery world that he believes he lives in it is but a small respite and rest for someone so lost and lonely. I wish I could do more. I wish there was a way to treat him without making him stupid with drugs. I wish he would just get better, too, but all I can do is be there, when I can.
you really should build some of those as modules.
If your cable installer is using staples I suggest you go with another ISP.
I worked in the field forever and I saw so many funny things that the thing to do after work was sit around and crack up about the days events, the stupid customers, and the morons in the dispatching office.
"...ok then I think the problem is between the keyboard and the chair."
Working for the cable company and having service with their competitor was a laugh. They sent out a tech to troubleshoot the aerial line because my cable modem was losing synch more and more every day since the install, which I was unavailable for. Tech support continued to try to get me to clear my browser cache and reboot my computer and right click on my computer and all that crap. After a few rounds of supressed laughter I finally admitted that I wasnt using windows, I wasnt on a Mac... anyway
I could have replaced the line myself, but why do that when I'm paying for the service? Besides, theres a few beers left over from last night, and I could sure use some entertainment...
Now its clear that the person who originally installed this line had no idea what he was doing. Its going through trees, crossing power, and is zip-tied to a telephone pole hook, rather than properly secured. Near a large tree branch the line is worn down through the shielding to the stinger, and is very visible as the bare spot is next to the house.
They have a rule about testing the lines imepedance first. He gets out the little Ohm-meter and terminates one end, goes to the pole and tests it, and returns with a puzzled look on his face. He has to explain that he can't replace the line because its impedence is within bounds and the line must be fine.
Channel 3, also a local station, is coming in loud and clear with the local news due to the exposed wire, and this guy is arguing with me about policy?
We had the policy too, but it was because our techs, as contractors, were lighting up every corner of the house with a cable jack for the money. When this policy hit us, our re-wiring hit rock bottom and we lost alot of good technicians. It didnt take much more than a few phone calls to scratch this obviously moronic policy from their books. If picture=crappy then replace(wires);
WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU TALKIN ABOUT? there is always some crazy shit like this on these boards that makes NO fucking sense. GO AWAY.
could see images 13.3 billion years ago
sorry, but this sounds wierd. i could see images 23 years ago when i was 3 - this means i saw images 23 years ago, not that i can see images 23 years ago.
in your context these must be some very old satellites.
and the term light-year is a measurement of both time and distance: the distance that light travels in a year. hence the name light-year.
if the price of gas keeps goin up, funding maintenance trips for that thing is gonna be a bitch.