Any TLA agency worth its salt logged his posting the moment it was submitted and doesn't need Slashdot's logs.
Most Fortune 500's would be in that "monitor everything" list too, and you could always consider running an SSH or other VPN tunnel to your home LAN for your Internet browsing needs like I do when necessary (hotels and other public networks). This assumes you have good physical and logical control of the operations of your computer of course.
Personally I like the new layout of Facebook a lot better (but I actually bothered exploring it and trying to learn how it works), Flickr rocks my world, and iGoogle works fine for me as well.
What I've never figured out is why vocal minorities believe they're not being listened to when in fact they're probably being drowned out by the majority of users who disagree.
Why chain together tools yourself, and manually think about things you really shouldn't be thinking about, when you can have a good filesystem take care of it for you.
Beats me, real sysadmins write scripts that do it for them. We have shell scripts for a reason.
Given the option, I'd use a self-healing non-journaled filesystem for my/boot and root partitions (which does not include/var or/home), and journalled faster file systems for/var and/home.
As it stands, I use ext2 for/boot, ext3 for almost everything else with different mount options.
The standard text of the GPLv2 DOES in fact give you that permission. "Version 2 or later." Therefore, I can take a GPL'd project that was released before GPLv3 and so long as the author did not change that text to "GPL version 2 ONLY" (like the Linux kernel), I can then use it as though it were GPL version 3 without talking to anyone.
I hear that -- but some people don't realize you can purchase 4GB+ games from the Sony Playstation Store, for example (Burnout Paradise). Warhawk isn't small either (and completely downloadable).
You mean like Sony? Who lets you re-download any purchased game content from their store on up to five PS3's on which you have an account? Sounds awful.
So prisons the US runs in foreign countries don't count as American secret prisons? Just making sure I understand your point;-)
In case you missed it, its a not-so-well kept secret that the American government via the CIA uses foreign countries' facilities to imprison those it doesn't wish to have held under American rules.
Europe hates America because America is living proof that the "democrat-social" states of Western Europe are at best suboptimal, and probably doomed to succomb to the social part of their states, and America appears not to be. An essential part of the "social" ideology is that everybody is a socialist, and those that aren't are really criminals. Therefore America, and any war they're involved in, is criminal.
I'd like you to consider that the UK and France both at one time in their history went around the world "fixing" problems with guns the way the Americans do now, and have a broader and more experienced historical view of the results. Think "Africa".
Also, looking at American life from the outside, I don't believe jealousy really covers how I feel about the racism, segregation, social apathy and wealth disparity I see. If anything, looking at how America has turned out as a global experiment probably makes most countries want to be more socialist, not less.
I dare you to find a company or government which has spent even 10% of what the war in Iraq has cost the American budget researching a disease of any type.
The budget for the war in Iraq is not just staggering, its unforgivably large. The amount of money that has been thrown away (sure, the old tyrant is dead, but new ones are slowly taking over) at a war against a country that had little or nothing to do with the 9/11 bombings is ludicrous.
Comparing this waste of taxpayers' money funding a killing field to researching rare diseases in order to save lives is bizarre to say the least.
The 3D world of Home already has video screens playing fairly good quality videos 24/7 (mostly just game advertising at the moment). Launching games from within the XMB launcher is very easy already, and the PS3 already has a Store interface although I could see it being integrated into Home as-is someday soon.
Sony's Home, yes I know from experience, has the ability to play mini-games and run around (as well as warp places directly). You can play a fairly decent game of 3D pool or of chess with others who join you. You can play bowling or with various stand-up classic-style arcade games.
The environment in general is very much a designed world, not a player-made one, and Sony is very much trying to woo more corporate partners into Home at this time (and already has quite a few).
We already have.CA and its fairly well-managed too. We don't have all those strange domain hijackings and hijinx going on here because of how the registration system is managed.
The wide use of "free speech zones" came after the douchbaggery, not before - though I happen to agree that they are overkill. Just make the protesters file for a permit, pay for the extra police, get sufficient porta-potties installed, etc... no need for specific zones.
Those zones shouldn't be necessary, and the permit filing was done long before they existed by many protesters in many situations, but the governments of many western countries, the USA and Canada included have a history of provoking these protesters with their properly filed permits to make them look bad. A few bad apples mixed with a little police brutality and random arrests will lead to a bad situation quickly.
You only believe the protesters are fringe lunatics because of how they're portrayed on the news after the weirdness has erupted. Try finding a nice video of a blogger with a hidden camera at one of these protests from start to finish and you'll see what really goes on.
PS, no, their views aren't fringe, most people just don't understand the issues they stand for and therefore have no stance at all. Public protest is an excellent way to get the attention required to make the public think about what you stand for (and come to their own conclusions).
And so long as you believe that, the three-letter agencies running your semi-secret prisons will continue trampling the rights of your fellow citizens, denying them due process and denying you your privacy.
So, the only thing that makes me wonder what country I'm in is that fact that depraved idiots like you are running around lose. People like you [...]
I believe that's exactly his point. The USA is supposed to stand for the freedoms of all people, no matter how you feel about them.
Standing all high and mighty and believing that you somehow have more of a right to your opinion and behaviour than they do, and more importantly, dividing people into "people like me" and "people like you" is bigotry and shouldn't be tolerated any more than feces throwing -- but I'll grant you the right to have your opinion, if you grant me the same.
Of course, what do I know, I'm from that big ice sheet to the north.
I can't say I run into issues with yum/rpm on a day to day basis maintaining a couple hundred machines running Fedora/RHEL. My only real complaint about RPMs is the SPEC file format, but otherwise, the packaging system works fine for me and very reliably too.
I have my minimum viewing value set to 3 usually when browsing comments, and I have friends set to +1 and enemies set to -1 so I'm very likely to see posts from people I like the regular posting of, and less likely to see it from people I dislike.
Of course, actually using the existing system solved this problem for me, without all the extra clicking:-)
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Any TLA agency worth its salt logged his posting the moment it was submitted and doesn't need Slashdot's logs.
Most Fortune 500's would be in that "monitor everything" list too, and you could always consider running an SSH or other VPN tunnel to your home LAN for your Internet browsing needs like I do when necessary (hotels and other public networks). This assumes you have good physical and logical control of the operations of your computer of course.
Personally I like the new layout of Facebook a lot better (but I actually bothered exploring it and trying to learn how it works), Flickr rocks my world, and iGoogle works fine for me as well.
What I've never figured out is why vocal minorities believe they're not being listened to when in fact they're probably being drowned out by the majority of users who disagree.
Look up the data storage format used on the old Newton OS by Apple. It was a stream object-oriented data structure, quite neat personally.
But it really is funny seeing people not get that.
I still liked Reiser's B* trees that get slowly reordered and sorted in passes.
Beats me, real sysadmins write scripts that do it for them. We have shell scripts for a reason.
You beat me to it. A lot of people aren't familiar with how powerful LVM is on Linux though.
Given the option, I'd use a self-healing non-journaled filesystem for my /boot and root partitions (which does not include /var or /home), and journalled faster file systems for /var and /home.
As it stands, I use ext2 for /boot, ext3 for almost everything else with different mount options.
The standard text of the GPLv2 DOES in fact give you that permission. "Version 2 or later." Therefore, I can take a GPL'd project that was released before GPLv3 and so long as the author did not change that text to "GPL version 2 ONLY" (like the Linux kernel), I can then use it as though it were GPL version 3 without talking to anyone.
Except that Lemmings is essentially a 2D game on the PS3 :-)
Actually, the PS3 has some very cool 2D games, including Locoroco and Eden, and I'm glad they're not afraid to publish them.
I hear that -- but some people don't realize you can purchase 4GB+ games from the Sony Playstation Store, for example (Burnout Paradise). Warhawk isn't small either (and completely downloadable).
You mean like Sony? Who lets you re-download any purchased game content from their store on up to five PS3's on which you have an account? Sounds awful.
So prisons the US runs in foreign countries don't count as American secret prisons? Just making sure I understand your point ;-)
In case you missed it, its a not-so-well kept secret that the American government via the CIA uses foreign countries' facilities to imprison those it doesn't wish to have held under American rules.
Look up Extreme Rendition sometime.
I'd like you to consider that the UK and France both at one time in their history went around the world "fixing" problems with guns the way the Americans do now, and have a broader and more experienced historical view of the results. Think "Africa".
Also, looking at American life from the outside, I don't believe jealousy really covers how I feel about the racism, segregation, social apathy and wealth disparity I see. If anything, looking at how America has turned out as a global experiment probably makes most countries want to be more socialist, not less.
I dare you to find a company or government which has spent even 10% of what the war in Iraq has cost the American budget researching a disease of any type.
The budget for the war in Iraq is not just staggering, its unforgivably large. The amount of money that has been thrown away (sure, the old tyrant is dead, but new ones are slowly taking over) at a war against a country that had little or nothing to do with the 9/11 bombings is ludicrous.
Comparing this waste of taxpayers' money funding a killing field to researching rare diseases in order to save lives is bizarre to say the least.
Don't start playing Wurm then. :-)
The 3D world of Home already has video screens playing fairly good quality videos 24/7 (mostly just game advertising at the moment). Launching games from within the XMB launcher is very easy already, and the PS3 already has a Store interface although I could see it being integrated into Home as-is someday soon.
Sony's Home, yes I know from experience, has the ability to play mini-games and run around (as well as warp places directly). You can play a fairly decent game of 3D pool or of chess with others who join you. You can play bowling or with various stand-up classic-style arcade games.
The environment in general is very much a designed world, not a player-made one, and Sony is very much trying to woo more corporate partners into Home at this time (and already has quite a few).
We already have .CA and its fairly well-managed too. We don't have all those strange domain hijackings and hijinx going on here because of how the registration system is managed.
Those zones shouldn't be necessary, and the permit filing was done long before they existed by many protesters in many situations, but the governments of many western countries, the USA and Canada included have a history of provoking these protesters with their properly filed permits to make them look bad. A few bad apples mixed with a little police brutality and random arrests will lead to a bad situation quickly.
You only believe the protesters are fringe lunatics because of how they're portrayed on the news after the weirdness has erupted. Try finding a nice video of a blogger with a hidden camera at one of these protests from start to finish and you'll see what really goes on.
PS, no, their views aren't fringe, most people just don't understand the issues they stand for and therefore have no stance at all. Public protest is an excellent way to get the attention required to make the public think about what you stand for (and come to their own conclusions).
And so long as you believe that, the three-letter agencies running your semi-secret prisons will continue trampling the rights of your fellow citizens, denying them due process and denying you your privacy.
I believe that's exactly his point. The USA is supposed to stand for the freedoms of all people, no matter how you feel about them.
Standing all high and mighty and believing that you somehow have more of a right to your opinion and behaviour than they do, and more importantly, dividing people into "people like me" and "people like you" is bigotry and shouldn't be tolerated any more than feces throwing -- but I'll grant you the right to have your opinion, if you grant me the same.
Of course, what do I know, I'm from that big ice sheet to the north.
I can't say I run into issues with yum/rpm on a day to day basis maintaining a couple hundred machines running Fedora/RHEL. My only real complaint about RPMs is the SPEC file format, but otherwise, the packaging system works fine for me and very reliably too.
tbh, mine never tear. They're all nice and even and smooth. Always have been. I have good cuticles ... obviously a more evolved fingernail grower :-)
I have my minimum viewing value set to 3 usually when browsing comments, and I have friends set to +1 and enemies set to -1 so I'm very likely to see posts from people I like the regular posting of, and less likely to see it from people I dislike.
Of course, actually using the existing system solved this problem for me, without all the extra clicking :-)
Telling people to grow a thick skin is not an excuse for being a bigot.
I see no reason for bigotry in the world.