Well, maybe we should make him re-install Winderz on every box infected using a 1X CD drive, a 14" monitor and a one-button mouse. I think that would satisfy the Mikado that The Punishment Fit The Crime.
I can just see it now: our next poll's a list of names for the copyright weasel. Names like Bill the Gates, Darth Snitch and JarJar Squeal will probably be popular. One thing, though, I'm not sure just what the CowboyNeal option should be.
It's no surprise America got its ass handed to it on a plate by the VC.
But we didn't. In the Tet Offensive in '68, the VC was almost annihilated. After that we were fighting the NVA. In '72, they sent more armor and mobile troups across the border than the Germans did to The Battle of the Kursk Salient, the biggest armor battle of the war. I know; I was there doing shore bombardments with a 5'/54. The got back nothing. We smashed their armor, trashed their trucks and jeeps and blew up their ammo. Yes, we threw HE at them until they went away, but almost all the casualties in that battle were NVA. Throwing HE at them saved American lives and as an American I see nothing wrong with that. Then, when the liberals, bleeding hearts and cowards at home got their way we gave up and let them have what they wanted. The worst thing about this is that it taught others that if they keep fighting long enough we will give up. Not a good reputation to have. I hope Kerry's proud of the way he helped the US become a nation of cowards.
Actually, I'd much rather the campaign was run on the two of them talking about what they're going to do rather than what they did or didn't do thirty years ago. Fair or not, Kerry's pounding on his Vietnam record makes it sound like it's the only thing he ever did.
Over seven months. Not in-country, not close inshore, but on a DE doing shore bombardments among other things. And, I once saw six inch shells landing within 30 yards of my ship. Nice, neat, cone-shaped splashes about 18 inches tall. Weird, really, it was so like an effect in a good movie that it was hard to be scared. I don't know what happened the day Kerry saved that man's life and I'm not going to guess. All I do know is that when he claimed that everybody in Vietnam was a war criminal he was slandering me and everybody on my ship.
What the US "fails to do" is respect the rights of other global citizens and act as a tool of the bigass corporations. Maybe you think otherwise.
I'm not as certain about it as you are, but I won't argue the point. I can't disagree that we let business considerations influence our actions more than we should but I don't think that's all we consider. However, if you'll read the entire post I gave an example of a liberal finding reasons to bash Bush and another one of a conservative bashing Clinton. That's because finding excuses to blame somebody you don't like no matter what they do is human nature. Liberals, moderates, conservatives and members of every lunatic fringe do it.
Thanks for the link. BTW, Krup, mentioned in the article as having made the first torches, also used a set of interlocking rings as a logo. Most people today think they're gun barrels, but they're not; they're train wheels. Krup was well known for making the best train wheels long before they started making guns.
Yes, the US was sending kids to play against foreign professionals and beating their pants off. The only time the US basketball team lost a game in those years was when the clock was set back to allow the other team to score in a tight game. Even then, we still got the gold.
Want to mess with their heads? Get somebody that's going there to send out a massive spam with images in it. Watch them go crazy trying to monitor several million messages with images.
Seriously, the whole problem here is that the security team is being expected to make everything perfectly safe, prevent every imaginable threat and is being given as much money as they think they need to do whatever they want. No matter how much they do, they can always think of something else to watch for, something else to block, something else to throw money at. Clearly, the idea of perfect security, perfect safety, zero risk under any circumstances has gotten out of hand.
Sometimes they are the same people. If you're rabidly anti-Bush, you'll find a way to object to whatever he does. If there's an incident he didn't do enough. If there isn't, you can always complain about how high the security was. Same thing with Clinton and Bosnia. When he tried to avoid violence he was blasted for not doing anything; when he did he was called a war-monger. If you hate somebody enough, you can find reasons to object to anything they do or don't do.
Working on commercial software and on Open Source projects doesn't have to be an either or situation. You can earn your living writing software and still spend some free time improving an OS project just because you want it to do something it doesn't do yet, or doesn't do the way you want it to. Then, you can send your patch to the project to be rolled in and get some egoboo as payment. I'd bet that most of the code added to the average OS project is developed exactly that way.
As I understand it, current theory is that novas are white dwarf stars in binaries that get an influx of hydrogen from their companions. That's why some stars can go nova multiple times. Eventually, of course, Sol will expand into a red giant, with a diameter about that of Saturn's orbit (I think) absorbing us in the process. I don't think that will happen for at least 500,000,000 years or more, so we've enough time for STL travel, especially as continuous acceleration can get us up to relitivistic speeds in surprisingly short order.
Well, when I composed it there were no other posts. I'm a tad put out by being modded down so much as "offtopic" when I made sure to put a comment about the article into the post. Actually, I posted mostly to make the comment and the bit about maybe being first was just a side-issue. I guess some moderators automatically mod such posts down without bothering to read them, but that's their priviledge.
SETI isn't just looking for Extraterrestrial life, it's looking for advanced Extraterrestrial civilizations. If there are other inhabited planets but none have been using radio/TV long enough for the signals to reach us, SETI won't find them. We won't know for sure if there's life on other planets until we go and look, and even then, if we don't find any we still won't be sure because we might not have looked in the right place.
How I managed to get the first post without subscribing, I'll never know, but I may have managed it. I'd like to use it to comment that it's a tad premature to say our solar system is unique in having planets that aren't gas giants if all we know how to detect in other systems are gas giants. Let's wait 'till we know how to detect Earth-like planets and see what we find.
Seriously, I'm glad some article is pointing out that the vast majority of criticism about Linux from an end-user standpoint amounts to griping that it isn't exactly like Windows.
Of the three articles linked, the middle one was nothing but exactly that. All the writer did was bash Linux for not being a clone of Windows and for doing things in different ways. From what I could tell, the author couldn't wrap her head around the idea that there's more than one right way to do things and not everybody wants to do things the way she does. I guess the only Linux she'd find acceptable would be one that was so indistinguishable from Windows that you couldn't tell them apart, and by that point there'd be no reason to use it.
What happens when it comes time for my annual reinstall?
What annual reinstall? The only reason you have to reinstall Windows once a year or more often is that the Registry,.ini files and other system files gradually get corrupted because any program can alter them in whatever way they want. Linux doesn't have that problem because programs can only alter their own.configure files, not the basic system ones.
There's one brand of radiator repair liquid that's a mixture of gunk and pellets that break up. (Can't remember the name right now or I'd give it.) It's not only good for leaks, it lubricates your water pump.
If your PC's slow because of not enough RAM, or your RAM is slow, buying a new stick will be much better than any software you can buy. Depending on how good you are at tweaking your system, a one-shot system tweak program may well be a good investment, but I'd really doubt the claims of any program that wants to replace system files, especially with a "88 bit kernel."
This is like the people who, when you tell them that they need a new head gasket or valve seals, ask "Isn't there some stuff that I can put in my gas to fix it?" Of course the answer is yes, for $19.99, you can buy a bottle of stuff that will save you a $1000 repair bill.
Or not.
An honest mechanic or parts shop salescritter will tell you up front that this type of thing doesn't always work. They'll tell you that it's worth trying, and that you might be able to avoid the repair, depending on how bad things are. Just like a radiator sealant. If the hole's small enough, you've saved a lot of money; if it's big, you've just thrown away a few dollars trying to save a lot of cash. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. With something like this, I'd advise a full backup just before installing it, so that you don't lose too much if things go pear-shaped.
I've had fairly good luck with them, but I've never bought something like that from them. I've gotten good kitchen/housekeeping tools there, and been quite happy with them. You may have just gotten a bad unit. Did you try taking it back for a refund/exchange?
You don't have to be a Windows enthusiast to be interested in making it work faster. If you're doing IT work in a Windows shop, getting the most perfomance out of your hardware without spending cash for an upgrade is something you should be very interested in. Time is money, and the faster your equipment works, the more work gets done. For that matter, if you're using Gatesware as a GameOS, you want to get the best you can out of your graphics that you can.
That's not a vigilante. He's just this guy that found a way to crack the database and is publicizing it instead of quietly telling the people in charge. A vigilante would have learned that some spammer had done this and gone out to DOS the spammer instead of trying to get the spammer's ISP to deal with it.
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Well, maybe we should make him re-install Winderz on every box infected using a 1X CD drive, a 14" monitor and a one-button mouse. I think that would satisfy the Mikado that The Punishment Fit The Crime.
I can just see it now: our next poll's a list of names for the copyright weasel. Names like Bill the Gates, Darth Snitch and JarJar Squeal will probably be popular. One thing, though, I'm not sure just what the CowboyNeal option should be.
No, I meant exactly what I wrote. Obviously the reference to HHGTTG went right over your head.
But we didn't. In the Tet Offensive in '68, the VC was almost annihilated. After that we were fighting the NVA. In '72, they sent more armor and mobile troups across the border than the Germans did to The Battle of the Kursk Salient, the biggest armor battle of the war. I know; I was there doing shore bombardments with a 5'/54. The got back nothing. We smashed their armor, trashed their trucks and jeeps and blew up their ammo. Yes, we threw HE at them until they went away, but almost all the casualties in that battle were NVA. Throwing HE at them saved American lives and as an American I see nothing wrong with that. Then, when the liberals, bleeding hearts and cowards at home got their way we gave up and let them have what they wanted. The worst thing about this is that it taught others that if they keep fighting long enough we will give up. Not a good reputation to have. I hope Kerry's proud of the way he helped the US become a nation of cowards.
Actually, I'd much rather the campaign was run on the two of them talking about what they're going to do rather than what they did or didn't do thirty years ago. Fair or not, Kerry's pounding on his Vietnam record makes it sound like it's the only thing he ever did.
Over seven months. Not in-country, not close inshore, but on a DE doing shore bombardments among other things. And, I once saw six inch shells landing within 30 yards of my ship. Nice, neat, cone-shaped splashes about 18 inches tall. Weird, really, it was so like an effect in a good movie that it was hard to be scared. I don't know what happened the day Kerry saved that man's life and I'm not going to guess. All I do know is that when he claimed that everybody in Vietnam was a war criminal he was slandering me and everybody on my ship.
Lunchtime doubly so.
I'm not as certain about it as you are, but I won't argue the point. I can't disagree that we let business considerations influence our actions more than we should but I don't think that's all we consider. However, if you'll read the entire post I gave an example of a liberal finding reasons to bash Bush and another one of a conservative bashing Clinton. That's because finding excuses to blame somebody you don't like no matter what they do is human nature. Liberals, moderates, conservatives and members of every lunatic fringe do it.
Thanks for the link. BTW, Krup, mentioned in the article as having made the first torches, also used a set of interlocking rings as a logo. Most people today think they're gun barrels, but they're not; they're train wheels. Krup was well known for making the best train wheels long before they started making guns.
Yes, the US was sending kids to play against foreign professionals and beating their pants off. The only time the US basketball team lost a game in those years was when the clock was set back to allow the other team to score in a tight game. Even then, we still got the gold.
Seriously, the whole problem here is that the security team is being expected to make everything perfectly safe, prevent every imaginable threat and is being given as much money as they think they need to do whatever they want. No matter how much they do, they can always think of something else to watch for, something else to block, something else to throw money at. Clearly, the idea of perfect security, perfect safety, zero risk under any circumstances has gotten out of hand.
Sometimes they are the same people. If you're rabidly anti-Bush, you'll find a way to object to whatever he does. If there's an incident he didn't do enough. If there isn't, you can always complain about how high the security was. Same thing with Clinton and Bosnia. When he tried to avoid violence he was blasted for not doing anything; when he did he was called a war-monger. If you hate somebody enough, you can find reasons to object to anything they do or don't do.
Working on commercial software and on Open Source projects doesn't have to be an either or situation. You can earn your living writing software and still spend some free time improving an OS project just because you want it to do something it doesn't do yet, or doesn't do the way you want it to. Then, you can send your patch to the project to be rolled in and get some egoboo as payment. I'd bet that most of the code added to the average OS project is developed exactly that way.
As I understand it, current theory is that novas are white dwarf stars in binaries that get an influx of hydrogen from their companions. That's why some stars can go nova multiple times. Eventually, of course, Sol will expand into a red giant, with a diameter about that of Saturn's orbit (I think) absorbing us in the process. I don't think that will happen for at least 500,000,000 years or more, so we've enough time for STL travel, especially as continuous acceleration can get us up to relitivistic speeds in surprisingly short order.
Well, when I composed it there were no other posts. I'm a tad put out by being modded down so much as "offtopic" when I made sure to put a comment about the article into the post. Actually, I posted mostly to make the comment and the bit about maybe being first was just a side-issue. I guess some moderators automatically mod such posts down without bothering to read them, but that's their priviledge.
But we also have proof it's possible for a Solar System to have planets that can support life. We live in one.
SETI isn't just looking for Extraterrestrial life, it's looking for advanced Extraterrestrial civilizations. If there are other inhabited planets but none have been using radio/TV long enough for the signals to reach us, SETI won't find them. We won't know for sure if there's life on other planets until we go and look, and even then, if we don't find any we still won't be sure because we might not have looked in the right place.
How I managed to get the first post without subscribing, I'll never know, but I may have managed it. I'd like to use it to comment that it's a tad premature to say our solar system is unique in having planets that aren't gas giants if all we know how to detect in other systems are gas giants. Let's wait 'till we know how to detect Earth-like planets and see what we find.
Of the three articles linked, the middle one was nothing but exactly that. All the writer did was bash Linux for not being a clone of Windows and for doing things in different ways. From what I could tell, the author couldn't wrap her head around the idea that there's more than one right way to do things and not everybody wants to do things the way she does. I guess the only Linux she'd find acceptable would be one that was so indistinguishable from Windows that you couldn't tell them apart, and by that point there'd be no reason to use it.
What annual reinstall? The only reason you have to reinstall Windows once a year or more often is that the Registry, .ini files and other system files gradually get corrupted because any program can alter them in whatever way they want. Linux doesn't have that problem because programs can only alter their own .configure files, not the basic system ones.
If your PC's slow because of not enough RAM, or your RAM is slow, buying a new stick will be much better than any software you can buy. Depending on how good you are at tweaking your system, a one-shot system tweak program may well be a good investment, but I'd really doubt the claims of any program that wants to replace system files, especially with a "88 bit kernel."
An honest mechanic or parts shop salescritter will tell you up front that this type of thing doesn't always work. They'll tell you that it's worth trying, and that you might be able to avoid the repair, depending on how bad things are. Just like a radiator sealant. If the hole's small enough, you've saved a lot of money; if it's big, you've just thrown away a few dollars trying to save a lot of cash. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. With something like this, I'd advise a full backup just before installing it, so that you don't lose too much if things go pear-shaped.
I've had fairly good luck with them, but I've never bought something like that from them. I've gotten good kitchen/housekeeping tools there, and been quite happy with them. You may have just gotten a bad unit. Did you try taking it back for a refund/exchange?
You don't have to be a Windows enthusiast to be interested in making it work faster. If you're doing IT work in a Windows shop, getting the most perfomance out of your hardware without spending cash for an upgrade is something you should be very interested in. Time is money, and the faster your equipment works, the more work gets done. For that matter, if you're using Gatesware as a GameOS, you want to get the best you can out of your graphics that you can.
That's not a vigilante. He's just this guy that found a way to crack the database and is publicizing it instead of quietly telling the people in charge. A vigilante would have learned that some spammer had done this and gone out to DOS the spammer instead of trying to get the spammer's ISP to deal with it.