Relationships are only as real as the people in them. If the person is pretending to be something their not, even by a little bit, that can be greatly magnified online. As long as the relationship STAYS online, it's fine... But meeting the person in real life can be a disaster.
I consider it to be like reading a book and then watching the movie. Regardless of the level truth put forth by the other person I always draw a different mental image of the person and their behavior. When I meet them in person it's always different than what my mental image of them was.
I do my best to act just as I would in real life online as I do anywhere else and I really hope that the other person does too. At least when people meet me they already know I'm a fucking foul mouthed asshole. The rest of me is just gravy;)
Why hasn't Microsoft added Storm to its Malicious Software Removal Tool?
Why don't more ISPs (like Comcast and Roadrunner) self-police their machines on a much more frequent basis and knock these customers offline? 99% of the limited spam and the massive amounts of trackback attempts, other web attacks, etc all come from residential cable connections.
I know that Comcast can check their network for infected hosts and shut them off. They need to do a much better job of it.
I'm SHOCKED that we today forget that freedom comes from a lack of government intrusion, NOT from government intrusion.
I'm SHOCKED that you don't follow up that sentence with an emoticon such as;-) because there's no way you're shocked about the People's ignorance about their rights.
I'm glad to see SOME judges admire SOME parts of the Constitution, but I can only dream of a day when judges understand the non-breathing, non-adapting Constitutional limits on the Feds. When that happens, nothing Congress or a power-hungry President do would become law.
Aren't you some sort of near anarchist (I could be incorrect and please do correct me if I am)? If so, then why do you care about judges who follow the law of the land?
Tint it green, have it flow downward, and you're Keanu Reeves...
Totally Excellent!
Oh wait, wrong movie. Sorry, I just can't ever think of Keanu in anything but Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. I guess there must be a glitch in the matrix or something...
Have they gone too far this time though? With times so security conscious, dressing up as Osama and getting that close to the US Presidents quarters, they are lucky they weren't fired upon!
No, they haven't gone too far. By pointing out that the US has a huge and unnecessary motorcade in a foreign country, it opens my eyes to yet another fleecing of America by the douchebags in office. By pointing out that people may be arrested for nothing more than a prank mostly because it embarrassed the security forces supposedly increased for the visit of someone "so important", it shows me that the countries we live in suck compared to 10 years ago.
Someone needs to continually point out the failures and by doing it with comedic value, a larger majority of people will pay attention.
Very disappointing, I'm afraid. I hope that some day there will be X11 mail clients available that aren't simply clones of a clone of Outlook.
Isn't that the goal of the vast majority of "successful" Linux applications -- to look just like their Windows counterpart? Afterall, we're trying to get people to switch to a different platform that they will be mostly uncomfortable with if we don't.
I don't use Outlook (I never have) but will be soon for work. It can't be any worse than Lotus Notes, Groupwise (which I have used for the last 5 years), or any of the other numerous e-mail clients I have been forced to use over the years. I still happily use Pine on my own computer though:)
Shouldn't I be able to list any domain or IP in any database I please? Isn't it the responsibility of the people using the database to determine whether it's a bad idea? Isn't the real issue between the people blocking email and their customers who are missing email?
You can, as long as that database doesn't infringe on the rights of other companies to do their business. If you listed Microsoft, SCO, and Apple all in a database of "douchebag companies", posted that on your site, and then told everyone to block them for being douchebags, I have a feeling you would get sued (and rightfully so). If you chose to have your douchebag database on your own machine and blocked away w/o telling anyone anything about it, it would be fine.
Unless you can prove to a judge that Microsoft, SCO, and Apple are all douchebags then I suggest that you don't go forward with that plan or you might end up with an 11 million dollar judgment against you.
Exactly. I'm not a fan of any organized religion, but to compare Scientology to any of the major Christian/Muslim/Jewish/Buddhist sects is just ridiculous. Which is why I posted the above comment of 'about fucking time'. I'm all for Scientology getting the mainstream recognition they want, they just need to realize it comes at a price.
I grew up a Catholic. I went to church, was an alter server, watched as my mother placed their hard earned money into the collection basket every week. I watched as the Diocese of Scranton told a priest at our church that they would make him a Monsignor if he collected enough money from our congregation to build a new church out in Boo Fuck Egypt (coincidentally his name was Msgr. Bendik and the church to be built was named Church of St. Benedict which was entirely too close).
So, with this plan in place, he set about ensuring that the new church would be built so that he would be escalated (years earlier than most) to the level of Monsignor. Every week in the bulletin were notices of how much the previous week's collection was and how much it was off (or above) the goal. His sermons were centered around money and giving to the church. He was a pimp for the Diocese and we were all his whores.
That fucking church was built and he got his title all while extorting everyone in the parish (which to this day continues to support that horrible monstrosity which apparently needs a new roof much earlier than expected) and fucking everyone over. If anything, while the church might not coerce you to pay them untold amounts of unnecessary money until you are in, at least the Church of Scientology is up front about it (although that's where my sympathy for this comparison ends).
All churches are fucking crazy -- a superhuman living in some mystical place pre-planning all the events on Earth and guiding His people with a glorified children's book is just as bad as having rocket propelled modern airplanes bring everyone to defrost in volcanoes while watching videos of the future. Sounds like stuff only a sci-fi writer could come up with...
I tend to think that libertarianism is the greatest thing that ever happened to the Republicans because it makes a lot of people who have liberal social values like not caring what drugs people take on the weekends or how others have sex feel that somehow their views are better expressed by the Republicans than the Democrats.
No, the New Aged GOP is just the worst thing that happened to the Republican party. I only agree with part of the general tenet of the Libertarians ("mind your own fucking business, I'm not bothering you.") so the Libertarians are no savior to me.
And to the moron above who said that he feels that geeks are Libertarian because they have an above average IQ... Someone should have modded you -1 Flamebait. There are plenty of us out here with conservative views on many other things than just social issues and none of the other parties handle that.
Just because of those currently congregating in office happen to call themselves Republicans when they are clearly radical right-wingers, doesn't mean that it should extend to the rest of us, with high IQs, who happen to share the same political affiliation.
Technically speaking, they may be tech giants, even tech field giants, but they're not really tech *industry* giants, so I would agree with the given classification.
Agreed, Stallman and Linus wouldn't fit in with the likes of the CEO/Founders of Google, the head of Intel, or the co-founder of Apple. They do fit in with the most influential people in the US/World, Happiest Man Alive, and the winner of 74 consecutive episodes of Jeopardy.
Personally? I'd rather be on that list too but if I was ever there, I'd expect to be lumped among the "Most Worthless 4 digit UIDs in Slashdot history." That would be cool;)
I called their help line when I wanted this done. They wouldn't tell me if the fees associated with the HOA's rules constituted "unreasonable expense". I argued that anything that would price the satellite more than any other option was unreasonable.
It was just better to put the dish up and threaten them with escrow of the monthly fee than to deal w/their horseshit.
Oh, they know of this rule and they will go out of their way to make sure you cannot get your way. They will require you use one of their recommended installers (i.e. their brother who charges 10x as much as anyone else), they will require that you put up a down payment of several hundred dollars, and/or they will just make the run-around so endless that you'll never get it done. I just put the dish up and told the HOA to go fuck themselves after threating to put our HOA dues into escrow if they complained again.
Believe me, HOAs are a fucking worthless pain in the ass. When it comes to making your life hell, they're right in your face. When it comes to enforcing city ordinances like placing garbage cans in your garage or not burning garbage in those handy-dandy fire pits purchased for $108 at Walmart, they couldn't give a shit less.
Probably watching it on DVD. Plenty of us realize that by pirating our entertainment, we essentially have cut out the ability for them to make more.
That makes no fucking sense whatsoever, especially for shows on NBC. I could see if you were talking about cable network shows like Rescue Me or Monk but you're talking about free OTA shows here. If "pirating" NBC shows is somehow affecting their sponsors, then DVR users are also pirates in your eyes or is that somehow different?
I have no sympathy for the networks losing money on this. They need to come up with less expensive shows (no one should be paid $1+ million an episode for ANY TV show).
You ask people to spend the majority of their waking life, somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 hours a day 5 days a week, in a little cubical, and you're surprised that they aren't hard at work for that entire time? They're people. They should be able to occasionally talk to people and read things that interest them.
It's part of time management -- both on the parts of the worker and the manager.
I have a co-worker who constantly complains she's busy but spends a good portion of her day talking to other co-workers who aren't doing anything, takes personal calls at least two to three hours of the day, and spends most of the rest of the time playing Hearts while complaining loudly how busy she is. At least she looks like she's working for a portion of the day, I work with another douchebag that literally stares at the screensavers he just downloaded (they come on after 15 minutes of inactivity -- gives you an idea of how much work he does) and takes over an hour to type a three line e-mail.
I'm no perfect wonder (here I am posting on Slashdot) but I do take my breaks when queries are running and I'm out of paperwork to do. I also come in about 20 minutes early (a direct result of a final bus that my wife takes to work daily and my not feeling the need to sit at home for 5 more minutes and then rush to work) and may or may not start work immediately. That time is then spread throughout the day for various activities.
But this all comes down to a problem with managers not managing properly. If they expect people to work 8 hours straight, then they better have the work available to be done. The three examples I've outlined above reach from one end of the spectrum to the other. Managers should have the skills to properly motivate all three of those people. If not, they've failed in their job and are probably busy surfing websites, reading their AOL e-mail, and leaving work early to bid at an auction on a lake home they don't need.
With every day, I become more disgusted with the corporate greed stranglehold. Even more so, I amazed that consumers largely don't care.
If they don't care that their President allowed the secret and warrant-less tapping of their private communications, they certainly aren't going to care about rising broadband costs or the secret bandwidth limits that Comcast enforces.
I am sure the NeoCons are drooling at a visual reminder "We are watching your every mouse click". They will have the "Terror level" displayed on a flag carried by a little goose-stepping Uncle Sam.
They're doing enough of that in the media. They'd rather let you pretend you are supporting the "land of the free" with some sense of false freedom feeling.
Honestly, at least the Chinese know they're being watched at every step and don't have a government watching them closely but pretending they don't.
During college I took a SOC or PSYC class (I forget which) and as part of the class you were required to "volunteer" as a subject in a study on campus. The one I was part of was doing data entry and every so often a little head would appear in the top corner that was to signify that a "supervisor" was watching what you did.
They wanted to see if your data entry slowed/sped up, if your errors increased/decreased, etc. While I don't know what the end result was, I was shown my results and found that when the "supervisor" was in the corner I was less attentive and my data entry slowed.
What if a majority of students/researchers in China are working on their Internet (yes, their) and the "virtua-cop" fucks up their work? I can't imagine that this will do anything but be ridiculous and annoying.
In many rural areas, wireless broadband is making inroads.
In many rural areas (NW Iowa and Eastern SD) are my most recent surprising experience) they have EDGE data networks (I-Wireless and/or Cingular) that I have absolutely rocking speeds on (compared to metro areas like MSP) in the middle of farm fields.
It's a tactic that's unfortunately too common, but easily defended against, with either of these options:
A) Don't let new members vote for any issues until they've been members for a certain period of time
It's an issue that we dealt with before even approving bylaws for our organization. Someone in the proposed membership mentioned that they wanted protection against this and we decided to require 6 months in the org before allowing voting membership (or 7 days following the Spring Meeting). This was eventually lowered to 3 months by the membership by vote.
We don't charge dues so anyone could have walked into a meeting and maliciously taken it over with no intentions on doing anything but spend the few dollars we have.
The only reason an organization like this could allow that is because they wanted the money for their coffers and couldn't care less about the actual "standards" being approved.
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Relationships are only as real as the people in them. If the person is pretending to be something their not, even by a little bit, that can be greatly magnified online. As long as the relationship STAYS online, it's fine... But meeting the person in real life can be a disaster.
;)
I consider it to be like reading a book and then watching the movie. Regardless of the level truth put forth by the other person I always draw a different mental image of the person and their behavior. When I meet them in person it's always different than what my mental image of them was.
I do my best to act just as I would in real life online as I do anywhere else and I really hope that the other person does too. At least when people meet me they already know I'm a fucking foul mouthed asshole. The rest of me is just gravy
Why hasn't Microsoft added Storm to its Malicious Software Removal Tool?
Why don't more ISPs (like Comcast and Roadrunner) self-police their machines on a much more frequent basis and knock these customers offline? 99% of the limited spam and the massive amounts of trackback attempts, other web attacks, etc all come from residential cable connections.
I know that Comcast can check their network for infected hosts and shut them off. They need to do a much better job of it.
I'm SHOCKED that we today forget that freedom comes from a lack of government intrusion, NOT from government intrusion.
;-) because there's no way you're shocked about the People's ignorance about their rights.
I'm SHOCKED that you don't follow up that sentence with an emoticon such as
I'm glad to see SOME judges admire SOME parts of the Constitution, but I can only dream of a day when judges understand the non-breathing, non-adapting Constitutional limits on the Feds. When that happens, nothing Congress or a power-hungry President do would become law.
Aren't you some sort of near anarchist (I could be incorrect and please do correct me if I am)? If so, then why do you care about judges who follow the law of the land?
Tint it green, have it flow downward, and you're Keanu Reeves...
Totally Excellent!
Oh wait, wrong movie. Sorry, I just can't ever think of Keanu in anything but Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. I guess there must be a glitch in the matrix or something...
Have they gone too far this time though? With times so security conscious, dressing up as Osama and getting that close to the US Presidents quarters, they are lucky they weren't fired upon!
No, they haven't gone too far. By pointing out that the US has a huge and unnecessary motorcade in a foreign country, it opens my eyes to yet another fleecing of America by the douchebags in office. By pointing out that people may be arrested for nothing more than a prank mostly because it embarrassed the security forces supposedly increased for the visit of someone "so important", it shows me that the countries we live in suck compared to 10 years ago.
Someone needs to continually point out the failures and by doing it with comedic value, a larger majority of people will pay attention.
Very disappointing, I'm afraid. I hope that some day there will be X11 mail clients available that aren't simply clones of a clone of Outlook.
:)
Isn't that the goal of the vast majority of "successful" Linux applications -- to look just like their Windows counterpart? Afterall, we're trying to get people to switch to a different platform that they will be mostly uncomfortable with if we don't.
I don't use Outlook (I never have) but will be soon for work. It can't be any worse than Lotus Notes, Groupwise (which I have used for the last 5 years), or any of the other numerous e-mail clients I have been forced to use over the years. I still happily use Pine on my own computer though
Shouldn't I be able to list any domain or IP in any database I please? Isn't it the responsibility of the people using the database to determine whether it's a bad idea? Isn't the real issue between the people blocking email and their customers who are missing email?
You can, as long as that database doesn't infringe on the rights of other companies to do their business. If you listed Microsoft, SCO, and Apple all in a database of "douchebag companies", posted that on your site, and then told everyone to block them for being douchebags, I have a feeling you would get sued (and rightfully so). If you chose to have your douchebag database on your own machine and blocked away w/o telling anyone anything about it, it would be fine.
Unless you can prove to a judge that Microsoft, SCO, and Apple are all douchebags then I suggest that you don't go forward with that plan or you might end up with an 11 million dollar judgment against you.
I think they misunderstand. Fuck Old People is a dating service group.
With Bob Dole as their spokesperson and a great catchy line like, "I chose the little blue pill and plugged myself right into her Matrix."
Exactly. I'm not a fan of any organized religion, but to compare Scientology to any of the major Christian/Muslim/Jewish/Buddhist sects is just ridiculous. Which is why I posted the above comment of 'about fucking time'. I'm all for Scientology getting the mainstream recognition they want, they just need to realize it comes at a price.
I grew up a Catholic. I went to church, was an alter server, watched as my mother placed their hard earned money into the collection basket every week. I watched as the Diocese of Scranton told a priest at our church that they would make him a Monsignor if he collected enough money from our congregation to build a new church out in Boo Fuck Egypt (coincidentally his name was Msgr. Bendik and the church to be built was named Church of St. Benedict which was entirely too close).
So, with this plan in place, he set about ensuring that the new church would be built so that he would be escalated (years earlier than most) to the level of Monsignor. Every week in the bulletin were notices of how much the previous week's collection was and how much it was off (or above) the goal. His sermons were centered around money and giving to the church. He was a pimp for the Diocese and we were all his whores.
That fucking church was built and he got his title all while extorting everyone in the parish (which to this day continues to support that horrible monstrosity which apparently needs a new roof much earlier than expected) and fucking everyone over. If anything, while the church might not coerce you to pay them untold amounts of unnecessary money until you are in, at least the Church of Scientology is up front about it (although that's where my sympathy for this comparison ends).
All churches are fucking crazy -- a superhuman living in some mystical place pre-planning all the events on Earth and guiding His people with a glorified children's book is just as bad as having rocket propelled modern airplanes bring everyone to defrost in volcanoes while watching videos of the future. Sounds like stuff only a sci-fi writer could come up with...
Has anybody tried looking here?
Where? I get a 404: Place doesn't even exist error.
I tend to think that libertarianism is the greatest thing that ever happened to the Republicans because it makes a lot of people who have liberal social values like not caring what drugs people take on the weekends or how others have sex feel that somehow their views are better expressed by the Republicans than the Democrats.
No, the New Aged GOP is just the worst thing that happened to the Republican party. I only agree with part of the general tenet of the Libertarians ("mind your own fucking business, I'm not bothering you.") so the Libertarians are no savior to me.
And to the moron above who said that he feels that geeks are Libertarian because they have an above average IQ... Someone should have modded you -1 Flamebait. There are plenty of us out here with conservative views on many other things than just social issues and none of the other parties handle that.
Just because of those currently congregating in office happen to call themselves Republicans when they are clearly radical right-wingers, doesn't mean that it should extend to the rest of us, with high IQs, who happen to share the same political affiliation.
Technically speaking, they may be tech giants, even tech field giants, but they're not really tech *industry* giants, so I would agree with the given classification.
;)
Agreed, Stallman and Linus wouldn't fit in with the likes of the CEO/Founders of Google, the head of Intel, or the co-founder of Apple. They do fit in with the most influential people in the US/World, Happiest Man Alive, and the winner of 74 consecutive episodes of Jeopardy.
Personally? I'd rather be on that list too but if I was ever there, I'd expect to be lumped among the "Most Worthless 4 digit UIDs in Slashdot history." That would be cool
As stated, when someone like Doubleclick, Akamai or some other cache serving company gets compromised, then I will worry about things more.
For some unknown reason, I hoped that financial institutions would have more online security than Doubleclick or Akamai.
I called their help line when I wanted this done. They wouldn't tell me if the fees associated with the HOA's rules constituted "unreasonable expense". I argued that anything that would price the satellite more than any other option was unreasonable.
It was just better to put the dish up and threaten them with escrow of the monthly fee than to deal w/their horseshit.
So buy a house somewhere else so you don't have to join a stupid HOA.
Please pay me the money to live in a community that doesn't have one. I'd love the extra $75,000.
They can't do that:
Oh, they know of this rule and they will go out of their way to make sure you cannot get your way. They will require you use one of their recommended installers (i.e. their brother who charges 10x as much as anyone else), they will require that you put up a down payment of several hundred dollars, and/or they will just make the run-around so endless that you'll never get it done. I just put the dish up and told the HOA to go fuck themselves after threating to put our HOA dues into escrow if they complained again.
Believe me, HOAs are a fucking worthless pain in the ass. When it comes to making your life hell, they're right in your face. When it comes to enforcing city ordinances like placing garbage cans in your garage or not burning garbage in those handy-dandy fire pits purchased for $108 at Walmart, they couldn't give a shit less.
Bastards.
Probably watching it on DVD. Plenty of us realize that by pirating our entertainment, we essentially have cut out the ability for them to make more.
That makes no fucking sense whatsoever, especially for shows on NBC. I could see if you were talking about cable network shows like Rescue Me or Monk but you're talking about free OTA shows here. If "pirating" NBC shows is somehow affecting their sponsors, then DVR users are also pirates in your eyes or is that somehow different?
I have no sympathy for the networks losing money on this. They need to come up with less expensive shows (no one should be paid $1+ million an episode for ANY TV show).
So the statistic is nearly meaningless ...
Just like any.
You ask people to spend the majority of their waking life, somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 hours a day 5 days a week, in a little cubical, and you're surprised that they aren't hard at work for that entire time? They're people. They should be able to occasionally talk to people and read things that interest them.
It's part of time management -- both on the parts of the worker and the manager.
I have a co-worker who constantly complains she's busy but spends a good portion of her day talking to other co-workers who aren't doing anything, takes personal calls at least two to three hours of the day, and spends most of the rest of the time playing Hearts while complaining loudly how busy she is. At least she looks like she's working for a portion of the day, I work with another douchebag that literally stares at the screensavers he just downloaded (they come on after 15 minutes of inactivity -- gives you an idea of how much work he does) and takes over an hour to type a three line e-mail.
I'm no perfect wonder (here I am posting on Slashdot) but I do take my breaks when queries are running and I'm out of paperwork to do. I also come in about 20 minutes early (a direct result of a final bus that my wife takes to work daily and my not feeling the need to sit at home for 5 more minutes and then rush to work) and may or may not start work immediately. That time is then spread throughout the day for various activities.
But this all comes down to a problem with managers not managing properly. If they expect people to work 8 hours straight, then they better have the work available to be done. The three examples I've outlined above reach from one end of the spectrum to the other. Managers should have the skills to properly motivate all three of those people. If not, they've failed in their job and are probably busy surfing websites, reading their AOL e-mail, and leaving work early to bid at an auction on a lake home they don't need.
With every day, I become more disgusted with the corporate greed stranglehold. Even more so, I amazed that consumers largely don't care.
If they don't care that their President allowed the secret and warrant-less tapping of their private communications, they certainly aren't going to care about rising broadband costs or the secret bandwidth limits that Comcast enforces.
I am sure the NeoCons are drooling at a visual reminder "We are watching your every mouse click".
They will have the "Terror level" displayed on a flag carried by a little goose-stepping Uncle Sam.
They're doing enough of that in the media. They'd rather let you pretend you are supporting the "land of the free" with some sense of false freedom feeling.
Honestly, at least the Chinese know they're being watched at every step and don't have a government watching them closely but pretending they don't.
During college I took a SOC or PSYC class (I forget which) and as part of the class you were required to "volunteer" as a subject in a study on campus. The one I was part of was doing data entry and every so often a little head would appear in the top corner that was to signify that a "supervisor" was watching what you did.
They wanted to see if your data entry slowed/sped up, if your errors increased/decreased, etc. While I don't know what the end result was, I was shown my results and found that when the "supervisor" was in the corner I was less attentive and my data entry slowed.
What if a majority of students/researchers in China are working on their Internet (yes, their) and the "virtua-cop" fucks up their work? I can't imagine that this will do anything but be ridiculous and annoying.
Waste your time on something else, seriously.
This number iis pretty much a 'fact' of the disk, and should not be affected by different firmware.
:)
Poor spell checking is pretty much a 'fact' of the browser you use when you submit articles to Slashdot, and should be affected by different editors.
Perhaps kdawson's firmware is broken?
In many rural areas, wireless broadband is making inroads.
In many rural areas (NW Iowa and Eastern SD) are my most recent surprising experience) they have EDGE data networks (I-Wireless and/or Cingular) that I have absolutely rocking speeds on (compared to metro areas like MSP) in the middle of farm fields.
It never ceases to amaze me when I'm in the middle of farm land on a minimum maintenance road in rural South Dakota that I have full data service.
Why not try tethering or a PCMCIA data card? If you can't get *anything*, that's better than nothing.
It's a tactic that's unfortunately too common, but easily defended against, with either of these options:
A) Don't let new members vote for any issues until they've been members for a certain period of time
It's an issue that we dealt with before even approving bylaws for our organization. Someone in the proposed membership mentioned that they wanted protection against this and we decided to require 6 months in the org before allowing voting membership (or 7 days following the Spring Meeting). This was eventually lowered to 3 months by the membership by vote.
We don't charge dues so anyone could have walked into a meeting and maliciously taken it over with no intentions on doing anything but spend the few dollars we have.
The only reason an organization like this could allow that is because they wanted the money for their coffers and couldn't care less about the actual "standards" being approved.