From uploading mobile photos to my galleries to having my wife submit lengthy Excel spreadsheets to find out the County from a City and State, I use e-mail and procmail along with various scripts to do a ton of shit before it's forwarded to the local INBOX and eventually on to GMail for permanent storage.
Until the day that GMail lets me use procmail to do what I want with my e-mail before it hits my INBOX, I will continue to use "desktop e-mail" (If you can consider pine desktop e-mail).
If you're logged in and you have it enabled, you can have Google tell you all of your search history. I disable that and generally block cookies from being stored by Google. I sometimes, depending on what I'm searching for, use inurl:nph-proxy.pl and find a random open proxy to search through or use a public facility like a SurfThing enabled coffee shop or library.
If my legal adversaries want to find out that I searched converting 3.5 tablespoons to teaspoons while cooking on Saturday, good for them. The rest of it is protected.
Now, what the general public does (like the moron that got busted for searching for how to commit undetectable murder and then poisoning her husband) is another story. No matter what, there will always be idiots that don't know how to cover their tracks regardless of the "privacy policy" of third parties.
It's very important to me. My wife told me that we need to cut some costs and one of the big ones was the cost of our DSL connection. We have no need for a residential phone line other than to feed the DSL connection. I am unable to host my server on Charter (they block server ports) so this is my only option.
In order to help offset the costs incurred by having the DSL connection, I have added AdWords to my site. I have done it in a way that benefits me financially while attempting to keep my regular users from getting pissed off about the ads.
I am addicted to utilizing Analytics, Sitemaps, and my own tools to ensure that ads are only displayed on high traffic pages and are making me the most money without pissing people off. I'm no where near perfect and it's a constant learning process for me. Any tool that can help me do what I'm looking to do while not harming my regular readership is what I'm interested in.
I fucking hate ads but I really would fucking hate to lose my connection because the wife is trying to cut corners.
They never make it into my machine and every time I see a login flood that hasn't already been auto banned, I add the IP block to my ban list (usually a/24 unless it's a foreign ISP and then I ban the entire thing (usually a/16 and sometimes the entire/8).
I realize that you are a 1 million+ user ID and don't understand my own brand of humor. If you had been around since 1997 and had known what I have posted like for the last 10 years, you'd know I was kidding.
I was talking in general when I talked about accreditation but CEU is generally not directly transferable. They would either need to do "Life Experience" credit or ask you to do a test out in order to bring these credits into a program.
I'd rather find a community college offering similar courses for credit rather than CEU. At least then I would have less of a chance of it not transferring. Too many poorly accredited institutions are out there today offering CEU courses which probably wouldn't transfer anywhere else anyway because they weren't taken for actual credit.
If you're running Linux, you can try out WonderShaper. I have been using it since 2003 and it works great on keeping the SSH connection running 100% while other traffic is chugging along.
Cable companies do NOT want you to actually use your Internet connection for anything more than connecting to their webmail, POP, or SMTP servers and surfing CNN, Google, and their billing site.
We have known for years that they have been overselling bandwidth and then cutting you off when you use more than their "unlimited service" will permit without telling you any concrete numbers of what that is.
I would guess that very few people use SSH, VPNs, or other encrypted connections that require the speeds to which we have become accustomed. They don't want that 10% of users on their residential network anyway and they will be happy to have you move to their commercial service packages if you so desire.
I complain that I have to use DSL and pay for land line service that I rarely use but at least my ISP (visi.com) doesn't give a shit what I do (they allow you to run servers, use all your bandwidth, and offer static and reverse).
I feel sorry for those that don't have more of a choice:(
You do know that this article is about Japan and not Thailand?
No, it's about Japan getting pissed off that GooTube pulled a video making fun of the Thai King and that they refused to do something similar for Japan.
But in all honesty you weren't impressed by tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking and secure surfing
You are just making stuff up now. I'm still not impressed by tabbed browsing -- it does nothing for me. Pop-up blocking is something I've never commented on. Secure surfing, are you fucking serious? I am a HUGE privacy advocate and believe whole heartedly in it -- don't make shit up you dumbass.
Not only that, but you also thought that Microsoft's foray into the music market gave consumers freedom of choice.
You must be confusing me with someone else. Apple doesn't give consumers choice and neither does Microsoft's DRM'd offerings.
So, what fucking impresses you is not really all that relevant to most of us here.
What impresses me is that you decided to post Anonymously like the fucking pussy you are instead of showing who you are.
I'm pretty pissed off that GooTube pulled the first video. Fuck that entire country and their King. The Internet isn't a place for censorship for the benefit of government officials. If the entire country bans the site, tough fucking shit, we aren't going to miss them.
YouTube staff should NOT be bending to this type of political pressure. What, we going to have the White House say that GooTube can't post videos of George falling over, looking like a monkey, acting like a horse's ass, or mispronouncing words because he's the President?
Why should the Federal government pay for anything related to education? It has no Constitutional role in education, and I resent my tax money being spent on education.
Why is the Federal Government collecting tax money at all? I resent my hard earned dollars being taken from me (a $1600 swing this year because I got married late in 2005) when they have no right to do so other than having the power of force that we citizens don't possess.
Problem with your logic there. If the University thinks being hacked is wrong, then why do they think hacking someone else is right? Two wrongs don't make a right. The hacker is a criminal, and the University (employee that did the hacking) is a criminal. It's that simple.
And the fact that this user agreed that SysAdmins may take steps to end emergency situations doesn't immediately say to me "oh, they can then hack my machine to hand over my personal files to the government without a warrant."
To me that says, "oh, they can fucking shut off my port and block my current MAC address," but I'm not a University of Wisconsin IT staff member/zealot like Mr. Schroder.
Interesting how MS plays this as "opening up" things for the consumer. We'll see. I wonder how much progress MS has really made unencumbering consumers' music.
Even for Apple and EMI this isn't opening things up for anyone. It's charging more for the same fucking shit you would get from a CD while approaching or even surpassing the cost of the physical media while not having the physical media to keep or uncompressed and high quality audio.
I'm tired of this entire EMI thing. I'm not fucking impressed at all.
This isn't scientific evidence of mobile phone interruption from planes, but just about everytime a plane would fly over my apartment while on (low) approach to MSP my own calls would drop. It only happened as I heard the planes overhead -- never any other time.
Now, I know that people (like my father) refuse to turn their phones off while in flight because "the FCC doesn't know their heads from third base" (as he likes to state so frequently) but for me, while living there, it sucked.
I have planes on approach to MSP where I live now but I rarely use my mobile for voice calls so I don't notice the dropped calls as much and/or because they are at a much higher altitude and aren't flying as frequently over that route, I don't notice the problem.
Reuters spoke with Jason Cuevas, spokesman for Southern Co. power, who said it plainly: "We haven't seen any measurable impact."
While I had no doubts in my mind that this wouldn't save a dime, I'm still pleased with the fact that because I work 9:30 to 6pm I see daylight on my drive home three weeks earlier than usual. For me, I'd prefer it's this way all year long but I don't have kids that ride a school bus (isn't that the main reason they claim we do this in the first place?)
This bill does many of the things that we in the/. community have argued for for some time now including open code inspection, reliable voting systems, and yes, reliable recounts and audits. Now is the time for the/. community to act on our endless snarky comments and help to move real change forward.
Yes, this *bill* does a lot. It doesn't mean that any of this will actually go through regardless of our contacting those in power.
What I want to know is why there isn't a provision to allow there to be paper ballots for *EVERYONE* that doesn't want to use the pointless machines in the first place. Hell, why are we going to waste tax dollars purchasing these machines, training voting officials and the public to use them, and using additional power (which is such a popular topic these days) to drive these machines when the fucking paper ballots will be the official device used during recounts?
Let's end the bullshit and just continue to use paper. It has worked for ~230 years and just because our society wants "instant reporting" doesn't mean it's a good idea to do this.
No, I'm not a luddite (as many of you know) but there are too many opportunities for even more widespread voter fraud if they use this technology. Just because the source code is released doesn't mean that we'll ever be able to verify that it is actually the code being used when the votes are cast and counted.
I hate nature as much as the next guy, but . . . camping? Really?! What's the point, if you're going to sit around watching satellite television?
Because the type of "camping" that they are marketing to is not the kind of camping you are probably thinking of. I don't know many campgrounds these days that provide for RVs and general car camping that aren't packed in with very few trees and too many "comforts of home".
I am guilty of this type of camping frequently as my wife isn't into backpacking and what I consider more serious camping where we don't go near another human for 5+ days. I am happy to make the concessions that we unload the car at the site and don't touch it again until we leave. At least it gets her into the tent for the weekend.
I just returned from a 5 day geocaching trip to a competition in Missouri (we take it annually) and several RVs were parked in the area that had DirecTV satellite dishes out front. I'm not sure why DirecTV is offering this solution when it's apparent that their standard dishes can be used by these types of campers w/o much issue.
I always thought Brazil was on the map for the Amazon, Carnaval, and fine women (see: Carnaval). I suppose you can also add ethanol and insane gang and prison violence.
Slashdot Mirror
From uploading mobile photos to my galleries to having my wife submit lengthy Excel spreadsheets to find out the County from a City and State, I use e-mail and procmail along with various scripts to do a ton of shit before it's forwarded to the local INBOX and eventually on to GMail for permanent storage.
Until the day that GMail lets me use procmail to do what I want with my e-mail before it hits my INBOX, I will continue to use "desktop e-mail" (If you can consider pine desktop e-mail).
If you're logged in and you have it enabled, you can have Google tell you all of your search history. I disable that and generally block cookies from being stored by Google. I sometimes, depending on what I'm searching for, use inurl:nph-proxy.pl and find a random open proxy to search through or use a public facility like a SurfThing enabled coffee shop or library.
If my legal adversaries want to find out that I searched converting 3.5 tablespoons to teaspoons while cooking on Saturday, good for them. The rest of it is protected.
Now, what the general public does (like the moron that got busted for searching for how to commit undetectable murder and then poisoning her husband) is another story. No matter what, there will always be idiots that don't know how to cover their tracks regardless of the "privacy policy" of third parties.
It's very important to me. My wife told me that we need to cut some costs and one of the big ones was the cost of our DSL connection. We have no need for a residential phone line other than to feed the DSL connection. I am unable to host my server on Charter (they block server ports) so this is my only option.
In order to help offset the costs incurred by having the DSL connection, I have added AdWords to my site. I have done it in a way that benefits me financially while attempting to keep my regular users from getting pissed off about the ads.
I am addicted to utilizing Analytics, Sitemaps, and my own tools to ensure that ads are only displayed on high traffic pages and are making me the most money without pissing people off. I'm no where near perfect and it's a constant learning process for me. Any tool that can help me do what I'm looking to do while not harming my regular readership is what I'm interested in.
I fucking hate ads but I really would fucking hate to lose my connection because the wife is trying to cut corners.
They never make it into my machine and every time I see a login flood that hasn't already been auto banned, I add the IP block to my ban list (usually a /24 unless it's a foreign ISP and then I ban the entire thing (usually a /16 and sometimes the entire /8).
jddj,
I realize that you are a 1 million+ user ID and don't understand my own brand of humor. If you had been around since 1997 and had known what I have posted like for the last 10 years, you'd know I was kidding.
Let me explain to you what a "garcia joke" is...
I was talking in general when I talked about accreditation but CEU is generally not directly transferable. They would either need to do "Life Experience" credit or ask you to do a test out in order to bring these credits into a program.
Yes, because there's not a good sized community of Hmong people in America (especially in Minnesota)...
Why do you immediately have to assume that those that are not "American" are off-shore?
I'd rather find a community college offering similar courses for credit rather than CEU. At least then I would have less of a chance of it not transferring. Too many poorly accredited institutions are out there today offering CEU courses which probably wouldn't transfer anywhere else anyway because they weren't taken for actual credit.
If you're running Linux, you can try out WonderShaper. I have been using it since 2003 and it works great on keeping the SSH connection running 100% while other traffic is chugging along.
Cable companies do NOT want you to actually use your Internet connection for anything more than connecting to their webmail, POP, or SMTP servers and surfing CNN, Google, and their billing site.
:(
We have known for years that they have been overselling bandwidth and then cutting you off when you use more than their "unlimited service" will permit without telling you any concrete numbers of what that is.
I would guess that very few people use SSH, VPNs, or other encrypted connections that require the speeds to which we have become accustomed. They don't want that 10% of users on their residential network anyway and they will be happy to have you move to their commercial service packages if you so desire.
I complain that I have to use DSL and pay for land line service that I rarely use but at least my ISP (visi.com) doesn't give a shit what I do (they allow you to run servers, use all your bandwidth, and offer static and reverse).
I feel sorry for those that don't have more of a choice
You do know that this article is about Japan and not Thailand?
No, it's about Japan getting pissed off that GooTube pulled a video making fun of the Thai King and that they refused to do something similar for Japan.
By "standing up to political pressure" do you mean "obeying the laws of a country in which they seek to make a profit"?
Let the dominoes fall.
But in all honesty you weren't impressed by tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking and secure surfing
You are just making stuff up now. I'm still not impressed by tabbed browsing -- it does nothing for me. Pop-up blocking is something I've never commented on. Secure surfing, are you fucking serious? I am a HUGE privacy advocate and believe whole heartedly in it -- don't make shit up you dumbass.
Not only that, but you also thought that Microsoft's foray into the music market gave consumers freedom of choice.
You must be confusing me with someone else. Apple doesn't give consumers choice and neither does Microsoft's DRM'd offerings.
So, what fucking impresses you is not really all that relevant to most of us here.
What impresses me is that you decided to post Anonymously like the fucking pussy you are instead of showing who you are.
Flamebait? Because I believe that Google should stand up to political pressure? Give me a break.
I'm pretty pissed off that GooTube pulled the first video. Fuck that entire country and their King. The Internet isn't a place for censorship for the benefit of government officials. If the entire country bans the site, tough fucking shit, we aren't going to miss them.
YouTube staff should NOT be bending to this type of political pressure. What, we going to have the White House say that GooTube can't post videos of George falling over, looking like a monkey, acting like a horse's ass, or mispronouncing words because he's the President?
Give me a break.
Why should the Federal government pay for anything related to education? It has no Constitutional role in education, and I resent my tax money being spent on education.
Why is the Federal Government collecting tax money at all? I resent my hard earned dollars being taken from me (a $1600 swing this year because I got married late in 2005) when they have no right to do so other than having the power of force that we citizens don't possess.
Problem with your logic there. If the University thinks being hacked is wrong, then why do they think hacking someone else is right? Two wrongs don't make a right. The hacker is a criminal, and the University (employee that did the hacking) is a criminal. It's that simple.
And the fact that this user agreed that SysAdmins may take steps to end emergency situations doesn't immediately say to me "oh, they can then hack my machine to hand over my personal files to the government without a warrant."
To me that says, "oh, they can fucking shut off my port and block my current MAC address," but I'm not a University of Wisconsin IT staff member/zealot like Mr. Schroder.
Interesting how MS plays this as "opening up" things for the consumer. We'll see. I wonder how much progress MS has really made unencumbering consumers' music.
Even for Apple and EMI this isn't opening things up for anyone. It's charging more for the same fucking shit you would get from a CD while approaching or even surpassing the cost of the physical media while not having the physical media to keep or uncompressed and high quality audio.
I'm tired of this entire EMI thing. I'm not fucking impressed at all.
Use My Maps and plot it for everyone else.
That or use custom KML(Z)s with it already plotted.
This isn't scientific evidence of mobile phone interruption from planes, but just about everytime a plane would fly over my apartment while on (low) approach to MSP my own calls would drop. It only happened as I heard the planes overhead -- never any other time.
Now, I know that people (like my father) refuse to turn their phones off while in flight because "the FCC doesn't know their heads from third base" (as he likes to state so frequently) but for me, while living there, it sucked.
I have planes on approach to MSP where I live now but I rarely use my mobile for voice calls so I don't notice the dropped calls as much and/or because they are at a much higher altitude and aren't flying as frequently over that route, I don't notice the problem.
I don't have the luxury of choosing my hours so your point is moot.
Reuters spoke with Jason Cuevas, spokesman for Southern Co. power, who said it plainly: "We haven't seen any measurable impact."
While I had no doubts in my mind that this wouldn't save a dime, I'm still pleased with the fact that because I work 9:30 to 6pm I see daylight on my drive home three weeks earlier than usual. For me, I'd prefer it's this way all year long but I don't have kids that ride a school bus (isn't that the main reason they claim we do this in the first place?)
This bill does many of the things that we in the /. community have argued for for some time now including open code inspection, reliable voting systems, and yes, reliable recounts and audits. Now is the time for the /. community to act on our endless snarky comments and help to move real change forward.
Yes, this *bill* does a lot. It doesn't mean that any of this will actually go through regardless of our contacting those in power.
What I want to know is why there isn't a provision to allow there to be paper ballots for *EVERYONE* that doesn't want to use the pointless machines in the first place. Hell, why are we going to waste tax dollars purchasing these machines, training voting officials and the public to use them, and using additional power (which is such a popular topic these days) to drive these machines when the fucking paper ballots will be the official device used during recounts?
Let's end the bullshit and just continue to use paper. It has worked for ~230 years and just because our society wants "instant reporting" doesn't mean it's a good idea to do this.
No, I'm not a luddite (as many of you know) but there are too many opportunities for even more widespread voter fraud if they use this technology. Just because the source code is released doesn't mean that we'll ever be able to verify that it is actually the code being used when the votes are cast and counted.
I hate nature as much as the next guy, but . . . camping? Really?! What's the point, if you're going to sit around watching satellite television?
Because the type of "camping" that they are marketing to is not the kind of camping you are probably thinking of. I don't know many campgrounds these days that provide for RVs and general car camping that aren't packed in with very few trees and too many "comforts of home".
I am guilty of this type of camping frequently as my wife isn't into backpacking and what I consider more serious camping where we don't go near another human for 5+ days. I am happy to make the concessions that we unload the car at the site and don't touch it again until we leave. At least it gets her into the tent for the weekend.
I just returned from a 5 day geocaching trip to a competition in Missouri (we take it annually) and several RVs were parked in the area that had DirecTV satellite dishes out front. I'm not sure why DirecTV is offering this solution when it's apparent that their standard dishes can be used by these types of campers w/o much issue.
I always thought Brazil was on the map for the Amazon, Carnaval, and fine women (see: Carnaval). I suppose you can also add ethanol and insane gang and prison violence.
You forgot hacking.