A friend of mine has a book out. Somebody who doesn't like him posted a nasty review there, full of personal attacks. He saw it and complained to Amazon. Within 24 hours, the review was removed. Yes, you can complain about a bad review, but what they do about it probably depends on what your objections are.
Not in England it doesn't. If a newspaper there publishes pictures proving that a rich man is a closet transvestite, he can still sue them for libel and win. The truth has never been a defense there, and the libel laws are mainly there to help the rich keep anything about themselves out of the news that they don't want published.
I'm always late to a doctor's "appointment". Why should I have to wait for them after I already made an appointment?
Years ago, I complained about this to the private doctor I saw at the time. He explained that he scheduled his patients at five minute intervals, but took an average of fifteen minutes per patient. That means that after the first patient of the day, he was already two patients behind, and getting farther off schedule all the time. He saw nothing wrong with this. The next time I made an appointment, I told his nurse to note that if I weren't seen within five minutes of that time I was walking out. He saw me on time, to the minute. Then, I had a bad infection and his nurse told me, "You'll just hafta wait for four days because the doctor doesn't have time until then." I told her not to make the appointement and that I'd never see him again. Now, I get my medical care from the VA (And should have been back then, too.) and they're expected to see you within fifteen minutes of the appointment time. So far, I've not been made to wait even that long. Doctors can keep to their schedules if they want to, but most Just Don't Care.
However, when other issues such as "open standards" are the issues, Microsoft can't compete.
It isn't that Micro$oft can't compete with open standards, but that it won't. Open standards allow you to use whatever you want, and Bill the Gates can't stand that. He wants you locked in with proprietary closed standards so that you have no choice but to buy and use his programs.
Even wiht apt-get you can run into dependancy hell, although it's rare. All you need is one package thats only in an archive apt-get isn't configured to look at. And, of course, just downloading and installing that won't work, because it has its own dependancies, probably from the same archive. (Yes, I know the answer is to update apt-get's config, but it's easy to forget.)
For several years I worked for a company that had passwords expiring once a month. We were behind a firewall and there was nothing sensitive on our computers. (Tech support doesn't have access to that type of thing.) I've always thought that the only reason we had to change our passwords is because one of the admins found out he could set it up that way.
The sensitive info was on a limited number of servers, all only available inside the firewall. Naturally, they were password protected as well, and we couldn't use the same password for any two of them. Not only that, one of them had about five security certificates. All were out-of-date. Not only didn't they update them, telling our browsers (Only worked with IE, of course.) to allow them didn't last past closing/restarting the browser. Mis-management of Information Services never did figure out why...
From TFA: Venus is about the same size as Earth. But it is so close to the Sun that any water it had must have boiled off. As such, there is no hydrological cycle and no tectonic activity, says Lunine.
I'd really like to know what connection Lunine thinks there is between tectconic activity isn't related to water in any way. Living as I do in Los Angeles, I'm rather familiar with it.
I'll never use anything that doesn't have apt-get again.
I started with RedHat 5.x, just by chance, and I've stuck with it. Not because I'm a zealot or anything, but because it works OK and I'm used to it. I'm now on RedHat 9. It didn't come with apt-get, but that didn't stop me from downloading and installing it. I did so because I was stuck in "dependancy hell," with one rpm not installing because of dependancies, and each of those needed more. With apt-get, you start the install, it finds the dependancies, gets what it needs and installs them on the fly. If nothing else, I'd like to see more distros include it by default.
Did you know that nuclear fusion is only 20 years away? Just like it was in 1950!
I guarentee that when 20 years are over we will have controlled nuclear fusion. I won't, however, tell you which 20 years and they probably won't be consecutive.
Easy, you set up a round robin DNS on mail.DOMAIN.com. This way whenever a user checks their mail, they'll randomly end up on a different mail server, therefore collecting more of their mail.
Earthlink uses that in part, or did when I worked there. However, instead of getting a random chunk of your email, all the servers connect to the same file servers so that you get all your mail no matter what machine you hook into. Done right, it's just as fast and you don't have to worry about missing a time-sensative email because you never logged into the one and only server it's on.
No. It was about fifteen years ago, and I didn't keep the letters, as they weren't addressed to me. Essentially, it was a case of using four of five words to say what only needed one, and adding subordinate clauses that would have been better off as seperate sentences. I remember rewriting the letter for my own amusement. Instead of four sentences, it had seven, and used less words in total than the original.
My assertion that they were only copying their bosses came from my own boss, who was, among other things, a lawyer himself.
The first company I did tech support for sold software for legal offices. Some of the most convoluted, verbose sentences I've ever seen were in letters from legal secretaries. I remember one with four sentences, each over twenty words. The longest was over fifty! Lawyers tend to use long sentences, and their secrataries copy them. As a rule, their language and writing skills are atrocious.
Once, before the Internet was common, I was doing tech support for a small startup. The founder had given me permission to have, and examine the source code as needed. One day, while the chief programmer was chewing me out over the phone for doing exactly that, I was composing a fax to my boss telling him exactly what was going on. The programmer, who knew nothing except brute force and ignorance, was not amused, but shut up after the boss reamed him out for it.
this is not newsworthy and it's not very interesting
If you're not interested, don't read it. Some of us do find it interesting, either because we're programmers or because we like to compete. Slashdot carries many articles on different topics, making it more interesting for more people. If all you want is stories that interest you, and don't want any others posted, why don't you found your own site, so that you have the final editorial say?
There's another great patriotic moment in Scrap Happy Daffy, a 1943 Warner Brothers cartoon that's almost never shown anymore because its message is too pro-American. If nothing else, we need to start hearing again, "Americans don't give up!"
Okay, I hate Michael Moore as much as anybody, but you are looking for conspiracy where there are none.
No, nothing so organized as a conspiracy. Just people preferring to fund movies that say what they want to hear, and not wanting to fund those they disagree with. Human nature is a much simpler explanation than conspiracy.
WTF? Hollywood is controlled by giant corporations. What flaky actors do in their spare time has no impact on what movies get made.
No, it doesn't. But the political opinions of the people that have creative control does, and from what I can see, they're all liberals. Why do you think there have been no movies made supporting Bush or that Fahrenheit 911 got so much publicity and was pushed into so many theaters?
Just for novelty's sake I'd love to see a movie or a comic about the triumph of free-market capitalism and individual liberty over group identity and power-hungry socialists.
So would I, but as long as Hollywood is controlled by liberals it's not going to happen.
Oh, I got his point, and agreed with much of it. I just felt that the gratuitous Bush-bashing was going too far. Clearly, you too hate Bush, but how can you blame him for the new virus (Or, more accurately, worm.) writers without going off into cloud-cukoo-land?
Or whatever lives on Bush's delusional mind as a generic and computer literate 'evil doer'?
You had a good post there until you decided to indulge in some gratuitous Bush-bashing. Bush is not responsible for this, no matter what you left-wing Democrat fanatics think. Grow up and learn to think for yourself instead of quoting whatever liberal extremist wack-job columnist you've been jacking off to.
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Thank you for posting that; I hadn't heard. Of course, as a boomer, I tend to remember him as Maynard G. Krebs on Dobie Gillis. (The G. stood for "Walter.) I wonder how many of the girls that rejected Dobie ended up in bed with Maynard.
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No, in England libel includes publishing embarrassing information about somebody, true or not.
A friend of mine has a book out. Somebody who doesn't like him posted a nasty review there, full of personal attacks. He saw it and complained to Amazon. Within 24 hours, the review was removed. Yes, you can complain about a bad review, but what they do about it probably depends on what your objections are.
Not in England it doesn't. If a newspaper there publishes pictures proving that a rich man is a closet transvestite, he can still sue them for libel and win. The truth has never been a defense there, and the libel laws are mainly there to help the rich keep anything about themselves out of the news that they don't want published.
Years ago, I complained about this to the private doctor I saw at the time. He explained that he scheduled his patients at five minute intervals, but took an average of fifteen minutes per patient. That means that after the first patient of the day, he was already two patients behind, and getting farther off schedule all the time. He saw nothing wrong with this. The next time I made an appointment, I told his nurse to note that if I weren't seen within five minutes of that time I was walking out. He saw me on time, to the minute. Then, I had a bad infection and his nurse told me, "You'll just hafta wait for four days because the doctor doesn't have time until then." I told her not to make the appointement and that I'd never see him again. Now, I get my medical care from the VA (And should have been back then, too.) and they're expected to see you within fifteen minutes of the appointment time. So far, I've not been made to wait even that long. Doctors can keep to their schedules if they want to, but most Just Don't Care.
It isn't that Micro$oft can't compete with open standards, but that it won't. Open standards allow you to use whatever you want, and Bill the Gates can't stand that. He wants you locked in with proprietary closed standards so that you have no choice but to buy and use his programs.
Even wiht apt-get you can run into dependancy hell, although it's rare. All you need is one package thats only in an archive apt-get isn't configured to look at. And, of course, just downloading and installing that won't work, because it has its own dependancies, probably from the same archive. (Yes, I know the answer is to update apt-get's config, but it's easy to forget.)
The sensitive info was on a limited number of servers, all only available inside the firewall. Naturally, they were password protected as well, and we couldn't use the same password for any two of them. Not only that, one of them had about five security certificates. All were out-of-date. Not only didn't they update them, telling our browsers (Only worked with IE, of course.) to allow them didn't last past closing/restarting the browser. Mis-management of Information Services never did figure out why...
No. The plates don't slide over each other, they grind. No lubricant is needed.
Venus is about the same size as Earth. But it is so close to the Sun that any water it had must have boiled off. As such, there is no hydrological cycle and no tectonic activity, says Lunine.
I'd really like to know what connection Lunine thinks there is between tectconic activity isn't related to water in any way. Living as I do in Los Angeles, I'm rather familiar with it.
I started with RedHat 5.x, just by chance, and I've stuck with it. Not because I'm a zealot or anything, but because it works OK and I'm used to it. I'm now on RedHat 9. It didn't come with apt-get, but that didn't stop me from downloading and installing it. I did so because I was stuck in "dependancy hell," with one rpm not installing because of dependancies, and each of those needed more. With apt-get, you start the install, it finds the dependancies, gets what it needs and installs them on the fly. If nothing else, I'd like to see more distros include it by default.
I guarentee that when 20 years are over we will have controlled nuclear fusion. I won't, however, tell you which 20 years and they probably won't be consecutive.
Earthlink uses that in part, or did when I worked there. However, instead of getting a random chunk of your email, all the servers connect to the same file servers so that you get all your mail no matter what machine you hook into. Done right, it's just as fast and you don't have to worry about missing a time-sensative email because you never logged into the one and only server it's on.
My assertion that they were only copying their bosses came from my own boss, who was, among other things, a lawyer himself.
The first company I did tech support for sold software for legal offices. Some of the most convoluted, verbose sentences I've ever seen were in letters from legal secretaries. I remember one with four sentences, each over twenty words. The longest was over fifty! Lawyers tend to use long sentences, and their secrataries copy them. As a rule, their language and writing skills are atrocious.
Once, before the Internet was common, I was doing tech support for a small startup. The founder had given me permission to have, and examine the source code as needed. One day, while the chief programmer was chewing me out over the phone for doing exactly that, I was composing a fax to my boss telling him exactly what was going on. The programmer, who knew nothing except brute force and ignorance, was not amused, but shut up after the boss reamed him out for it.
I already have a friend known as The Emperor, so there'd be a bit of confusion there.
If you're not interested, don't read it. Some of us do find it interesting, either because we're programmers or because we like to compete. Slashdot carries many articles on different topics, making it more interesting for more people. If all you want is stories that interest you, and don't want any others posted, why don't you found your own site, so that you have the final editorial say?
There's another great patriotic moment in Scrap Happy Daffy, a 1943 Warner Brothers cartoon that's almost never shown anymore because its message is too pro-American. If nothing else, we need to start hearing again, "Americans don't give up!"
No, nothing so organized as a conspiracy. Just people preferring to fund movies that say what they want to hear, and not wanting to fund those they disagree with. Human nature is a much simpler explanation than conspiracy.
No, it doesn't. But the political opinions of the people that have creative control does, and from what I can see, they're all liberals. Why do you think there have been no movies made supporting Bush or that Fahrenheit 911 got so much publicity and was pushed into so many theaters?
Actually, three times. Don't forget the 1944 Republic serial Captain America.
So would I, but as long as Hollywood is controlled by liberals it's not going to happen.
Oh, I got his point, and agreed with much of it. I just felt that the gratuitous Bush-bashing was going too far. Clearly, you too hate Bush, but how can you blame him for the new virus (Or, more accurately, worm.) writers without going off into cloud-cukoo-land?
You had a good post there until you decided to indulge in some gratuitous Bush-bashing. Bush is not responsible for this, no matter what you left-wing Democrat fanatics think. Grow up and learn to think for yourself instead of quoting whatever liberal extremist wack-job columnist you've been jacking off to.
Thank you for posting that; I hadn't heard. Of course, as a boomer, I tend to remember him as Maynard G. Krebs on Dobie Gillis. (The G. stood for "Walter.) I wonder how many of the girls that rejected Dobie ended up in bed with Maynard.