I don't know that I would be so hard on this distro release. I would doubt they were aware of the situation when they included g4l. If the 2 apps are identical, from a performance standpoint, then the distro makers would have no reason to prefer one over the other on that basis. I also note that the maker of g4u apparently got the attention of the other "author" as he says that website has been taken down.
sorry but I am not one of the lamers that someone has caught doing something. But I am also getting tired of the FBI, the *AAs and everyone else getting logs to prosecute people for dubious reasons using dubious methods.
Personally I would like to encourage everyone, escpecially ISPs to not maintain logs. That way they can answer every subpeona as unable to comply. But that is just me.
Sorry but maybe I have missed something. Turkeys are prolific, we can already grow as many as we want to. The only limitation is what the market will bear. So how does making freaky genetically modified turkey change that.
The only good thing about outsourcing to India was the potential to raise the lives of Indians. It is a country of somewhere around a billion people. Many areas with abject poverty. So now we are not going to educate Indians, we are not going to hire Indians, we are not going to put all of that money into the Indian economy. Instead the only benefit to the Indians might be some small amount of increase in servicing the Euros that come to India to take those jobs on a temporary basis. Taking any high tech skills they might have learned away. Taking any money they have saved out of the economy. That really seem to be a shame.
Heh, no of course not. Just like they don't monitor cell traffic out of the US. Remember in Afghanistan there for awhile, every time a cell phone call was made a cruise missile got launched.
It's going to be interesting to see the price structure they come up with and also how they monitor transfers. As you say it sounds like they want us to provide the bandwidth. Will it be a proprietary p2p setup. Will their server be the only tracker? Will they provide the only transferrable songs?
You just don't understand. They have to go play golf and relax. The pressures of managing the rest of us must be tremendous. Actually it seems like the more time they spend working, the more problems they cause. I for one would prefer they spend more time away from work.
I feel so much better knowing my tax money is going to help fund the enforcement efforts of the RIAA and MPAA. Obviously that is much more important than the fact our borders are wide open, that security screeners at the airport are more concerned about searching 78 year old black men and 18 year old young ladies than some more obvious candidates. Sorry for the rant.
Unfortunately I see an astounding number of people log in to irc channels and they are running linux as root. Of course it serves them right if their system gets fscked because of it.
Perhaps it is time for another program akin to the Rural Electrification Program in the country. The Federal Government will aid in providing broad band access in areas where it is not currently available. The arguments being made by Verizon were made back in the 1930's as well by the electrical companies. http://newdeal.feri.org/tva/tva10.htm
The company I work for has hired into full time position many contractors they had hired for special projects. First they have to see if the project is something that is going to be adopted and will need continuing work or maintenance. Then they need to see if the contractor would make a good fit with the company culture. Does he have real skills on this project and in other areas. A lot of people look good on paper but they are real idiots in real life or their personalities just don't fit with the rest of the department.
I certainly didn't mean to imply that I thought they were insignificant. I was merely saying that there aren't a lot of votes there for the pols. So I would be surprised if the hams get much consideration.
I have tried Mepis before and it really is a very easy to use distro. I am not sure what you have on your other partition right now but if you are not satisfied you might give it a whirl. Like any distro it has its pros and cons, ease of installation and a working setup is definitely its pro. Then you can get used to Linux, you'll be doing Linux From Scratch before you know it:)
Oh, I am quite certain that the government will forgo making some money auctioning off radio spectrum to help a small and politically insignificant group. Having said that I hope they do but for some reason I have my doubts. I seem to grow more cynical about governments with each passing year.
I can understand people downloading warez and playing the games (not saying I agree with it, just saying I can understand why they do it). But I can not imagine the balls required to complain because the company has instituted protections that they can not get around.
So now we have a private corporation (ISP) deciding on its own, what people actually want or what they should be viewing. It was bad enough having governments making decisions for us, but this...
I can see it now, your with Time Warner, well we knew that what you actually meant to do was go to this sponsor's web site.
Since we saw how funds from the "oil for food" program influenced politicians and how "helpful" certain large software giants can be to their friends. I would not be holding my breath.
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Them martians have been scaring people on this planet for years with their UFOs. Now it's our turn.
I don't know that I would be so hard on this distro release. I would doubt they were aware of the situation when they included g4l. If the 2 apps are identical, from a performance standpoint, then the distro makers would have no reason to prefer one over the other on that basis. I also note that the maker of g4u apparently got the attention of the other "author" as he says that website has been taken down.
If you look at the list of included software, it lists 2 antivirus scanners.
But did Roddenberry get a patent on the idea..... never mind, gotta run..... have to get down to the office first......
isn't it obvious. wasn't he the one that posted about fanacizing about shotgun wielding robots?
sorry but I am not one of the lamers that someone has caught doing something. But I am also getting tired of the FBI, the *AAs and everyone else getting logs to prosecute people for dubious reasons using dubious methods.
Personally I would like to encourage everyone, escpecially ISPs to not maintain logs. That way they can answer every subpeona as unable to comply. But that is just me.
Sorry but maybe I have missed something. Turkeys are prolific, we can already grow as many as we want to. The only limitation is what the market will bear. So how does making freaky genetically modified turkey change that.
The only good thing about outsourcing to India was the potential to raise the lives of Indians. It is a country of somewhere around a billion people. Many areas with abject poverty. So now we are not going to educate Indians, we are not going to hire Indians, we are not going to put all of that money into the Indian economy. Instead the only benefit to the Indians might be some small amount of increase in servicing the Euros that come to India to take those jobs on a temporary basis. Taking any high tech skills they might have learned away. Taking any money they have saved out of the economy. That really seem to be a shame.
There ya go. Didn't Nixon say that, if you don't have anything to hide why do you want us to get a search warrant.
Heh, no of course not. Just like they don't monitor cell traffic out of the US. Remember in Afghanistan there for awhile, every time a cell phone call was made a cruise missile got launched.
It's going to be interesting to see the price structure they come up with and also how they monitor transfers. As you say it sounds like they want us to provide the bandwidth. Will it be a proprietary p2p setup. Will their server be the only tracker? Will they provide the only transferrable songs?
You just don't understand. They have to go play golf and relax. The pressures of managing the rest of us must be tremendous. Actually it seems like the more time they spend working, the more problems they cause. I for one would prefer they spend more time away from work.
I feel so much better knowing my tax money is going to help fund the enforcement efforts of the RIAA and MPAA. Obviously that is much more important than the fact our borders are wide open, that security screeners at the airport are more concerned about searching 78 year old black men and 18 year old young ladies than some more obvious candidates. Sorry for the rant.
I'm just amazed that someone besides the attorneys collected anything.
Unfortunately I see an astounding number of people log in to irc channels and they are running linux as root. Of course it serves them right if their system gets fscked because of it.
Perhaps it is time for another program akin to the Rural Electrification Program in the country. The Federal Government will aid in providing broad band access in areas where it is not currently available. The arguments being made by Verizon were made back in the 1930's as well by the electrical companies. http://newdeal.feri.org/tva/tva10.htm
The company I work for has hired into full time position many contractors they had hired for special projects. First they have to see if the project is something that is going to be adopted and will need continuing work or maintenance. Then they need to see if the contractor would make a good fit with the company culture. Does he have real skills on this project and in other areas. A lot of people look good on paper but they are real idiots in real life or their personalities just don't fit with the rest of the department.
I certainly didn't mean to imply that I thought they were insignificant. I was merely saying that there aren't a lot of votes there for the pols. So I would be surprised if the hams get much consideration.
I have tried Mepis before and it really is a very easy to use distro. I am not sure what you have on your other partition right now but if you are not satisfied you might give it a whirl. Like any distro it has its pros and cons, ease of installation and a working setup is definitely its pro. Then you can get used to Linux, you'll be doing Linux From Scratch before you know it :)
Oh, I am quite certain that the government will forgo making some money auctioning off radio spectrum to help a small and politically insignificant group. Having said that I hope they do but for some reason I have my doubts. I seem to grow more cynical about governments with each passing year.
I can understand people downloading warez and playing the games (not saying I agree with it, just saying I can understand why they do it). But I can not imagine the balls required to complain because the company has instituted protections that they can not get around.
So now we have a private corporation (ISP) deciding on its own, what people actually want or what they should be viewing. It was bad enough having governments making decisions for us, but this... I can see it now, your with Time Warner, well we knew that what you actually meant to do was go to this sponsor's web site.
After you get done with that one, perhaps Hacking for Dummies, another soon to be timeless classic. :-)
Since we saw how funds from the "oil for food" program influenced politicians and how "helpful" certain large software giants can be to their friends. I would not be holding my breath.