I am confused as to why this is somehow a bad thing. Seriously. Live in linux but still need a wintendo partition? Buy Starter. Live in windows, but not a power user? Maybe you are a grandma? Get him. A little smarter than the average bear? Get home plus. WHY THE FUCK would giving a consumer the ability to NOT pay for what they DONT want be a bad thing?
There are like a gazillion different flavors of linux, some tiny and bare bones, some robust and bloated, some specializing in a particular sphere of influence. If it is BAD for MS to have more than one version of it's OS then what about linux in general?
This is my fault. I JUST subscribed for 2 years and was giddy about it. I've not had a subscription to MAD since the 70s. The universe could have me being happy of something so simple so it decided to poostab!
I might need to get a crack subscription to get me thru!
I agree. This post is a troll.
btw; there was a reward for anyone who could recover data from a wiped drive offered up. I think/. even posted this up when it was offered.
It should be noted that any fictitious depiction of a child engaged in sex or being sexually presented in is being threatened here. The remake of Lolita, where digital effects are used to create a naked underaged girl, scenes from the professional where leon glimpses mathilda who is trying to be sexy for him, pictures of your of age girlfriend if she looks underage...
Stick figures... Cartoon puppies... pictures of yourself naked as a child being molested by your adult self... The text describing ones own sexual experiences as a minor... Where does it stop? With a judge saying 'I cant define it, but I know it when I see it?'
These judges should have tossed out the virtual child porn, and the text, and convicted him on the actual child porn and other laws that may have been broken. These judges are traitors to common sense and freedom of expression. Off with their heads!
The claim made by many is that children may find these pictures, or that these images/texts find their way into the hands of pedophiles who would molest/rape children... It's all bullshit. Many adult things will fall into the hands of children and those things in general arent going to screw them up for life. Kids have seen lemonpart/goatse/2girls1cup/manga and are just fine. Will one of them see something and their brains shatter? Sure. But this more often happens when some fucktard introduces them to religion. Will pedophiles find this material and spank it to it? Sure. But using that kinda logic to ban it we need to ban everything that works along those lines... Ban porn because it makes some adults rape other adults. Ban alcohol because some drunks drink, drive, kill.
In the end... Virtual child porn doesnt involve any actual children, unless of course it was drawn by a child... What kid didnt draw huge ass titties on stick figures, of if they had talent just draw naked women?... But there is no victim here, except the victim who is offended by anothers artistic expression? That's just life kids...
In some countries, Australia, it is illegal to have virtual child abuse pictures or video. A man is facing jail time for posting a video of a russian circus child being tossed and swung in the air... Even tho the child is laughing the entire time the Australian courts are wanting to send a guy to jail for just linking to the video.
It might be time to rip the sticks out of ppls asses and beat them to death with them.
Get a large plastic storage box. Place the items in this box. Now fill a milk carton with some calcium chloride (one brand name is damp rid). Put on the lid and run some plastic wrap around said lid.
The calcium chloride will draw all the moisture from the surrounding air.
As far as the mold or other particulate I havent any suggestions. Good luck.
I think it is perfectly reasonable to be asked to take a test to prove you know what you say you know. I've seen plenty of people with certs who were able to pass tests but really had no idea what they are doing. It's a complete waste of resources to hire someone, find they dont cut the muster, and fire them.
I've been blessed with superb management for the the last 10 years of employment. Clued people who know the technology, understand the bottom line, and in most cases have better skill sets than their underlings... But most people arent blessed so. All those clueless managers were hired by other clueless managers. People whom would have been weeded out early if their skill set was tested.
I dont even understand why it would be in the least bit insulting to have to prove you skill set. Seems a bit arrogent and simple minded to think people should just your resume and trust their own judgment of you during an interview.
Your best bet for this will be custom punch cards or another technology that the digital information is printed/punched/engraved upon. You will need to design a custom way of digitizing the data. I'd try to make the data human readable so that if worse comes to worse you hire some data entry people to re-enter the data. Note that there is technology now that allows one to take a picture of a record and recreate the audio on said record. You may wish investigate that type of technology. Would also be a good idea to have the format available to the public and have the public devise methods of reading your format.
In the above world we would just keep moving those pictures from the old tech to the new tech for all time. I have some files that are over 25 years old that started off on my vic 20's cassette desk, moved to my 1541, moved to my RLL/MFM harddrive, to cd, dvd, and back to harddrive...
What is the reason for burying these pictures tho?
Frankly I think bans, deleting posts, scoring systems like slashdots, etc.. can kill the free exchange of ideas because the censor is almost always an asshat with normal human failings. I always found that the best method to deal with 'disruptive' conversations was to move them to the war board. Keeps you from feeling like an asshat or The Man for playing the censor and keeps the hostiles from screaming about censorship.
Ofcourse in this day an age most forums dont have war boards. Silly noobs.
You could just not feed the trolls.
What ever you do, dont follow some of the fucked up advice of some of the slashdot users. Redirect their IP to CP and call the fbi? How is that different than shooting them in the head for expressing opinions that you didnt agree with?
I didnt waste my time reading the forum... but one guy points out that the guy wasnt being a bully. You may want to honestly reflect and come to terms with the fact that you might be a thin skinned sissy who needs to butch up.
Of course it gave me a reason. 554 Denied [SHPBL] - Denied by Spamhaus PBL along with a nice url. I'm not willing to give up any more details than that as I am not interested in posting any of the related ips.
You can try to defend your stance all you want... my answer is that my legitimate and life critical email bounced.
Do you remember spews? How trite, petty, and vindictive those guys were? They'd list entire blocks, and search out vague relationships with other blocks to list. Then they'd want you to plead your case on a news group where all they would do is say 'have fun in your intranet'. They wanted you scream at your ISP and leave them. Not realistic in the real world. They would laugh at the collateral damage.
The boo-fucken-hoo kinda says you dont care about collateral damage either.
Outside of orbs, I think the majority of black lists only serve to destabilize legitimate email communications.
ok, your linux server becomes part of the botnet via some php exploit or some dumb asses winbox gets infected by malware and starts spamming... lets charge them $100 per incident... What kinda dumb ass idea is this? The spammers still get to fill mail boxes full of shit and innocent ppl end up paying for it.
Why do all the antispam nazi's solutions ignore the collateral damage to innocent by standers? "They should educate themselves" "they should switch providers" they scream. Black lists do nothing but break the system. I'd rather get all the spam than have important mail bounce. Just last week I had a mission critical email bounce because of some lame blacklist. This email not getting to its recipient would have basically ruined my life. Its a good thing I have the ability to send mail from more than once source.
Want to keep data for years? You are gonna need to keep moving it to the next popular method of storage.
I have files that were on c64 5.25's, that I later moved to a PC's MFM/RLL via modem, and then have keep on my harddrives, and backed up externally on 3.5s, cds, and dvds.
NPR had a discussion of this subject months ago as it relates to audio recordings they wish to preserve.
Chances are these laptops have real serial ports and are powerful enough to use terminal services and other remote desktop functions. This makes these laptops the perfect network engineer and field tech laptops. Cheap, dont care if thety break, and you dont have to use a port replicator. (all serial port replicators suck ass btw. none of them have lifetime of more than afew months under real use.)
other ideas: fileserver for your MyMook array, generic internet machine, network virus scanner, misc remote services, alarm clock, FAST dos/c64 box, robot brain (interface to motors via line driving chips or a PIC and the serial/printer ports), digital picture frame, kids computer, poor persons computer, etc...
If you reload these machines to give them out make sure you install every possible piece of software that the user will need for their purpose, keeping in mind the power of the machine in question, tweek all the settings (disable services, etc...) and create a ghost image of the machine with instructions on how to restore it.
/. just seems to repost digg, boing,, shoutwire, and the like days after other ppl have already discussed it. the difference is that the informed are moderated down by the illinformed.
If management wont get involved when you have to deal with irrational coworkers the only thing you can do deal/suck it up or is move on. You can try to document the irrational behavior but you may find management unresponsive.
Dirk sounds like he would fit right in as a LEC field tech. An irrational prick who doesnt care if the customer experience (and coworkers who rely on you are your customer!) serves the goals of all of the stake holders. Its also clear that management didnt give support the tools they needed to address the issue sufficiently. This is normal though, and one should just suck it up.
In general, One may also wish to analyze their own actions to ensure they arent completely useless tools who make everyone else's experience awful.
Me? I'm lucky. I work for a company where nearly everyone's goal is to provide the best possible experience for all stake holders involved. Sure, sometimes silly things that dont add value get injected, but that's life.
Legislators should force manufacturers to enable security options by default. The first connection to the router should present them with setup options that will let them secure their device. Unwitting consumers setup these devices, they are open to the public and the public's abuse. Credit card fraud, harassment, stalking, child porn, terrorism, etc... not to mention access to the consumers personal network and data.
Please, someone show me in what was this was debunked? Seriously, did the idiot who posted with that subject line actually read the article?
Here's an idea. Why dont one you idiots actually take a serious look at both standards and make up your own minds instead of playing partisan politics?
One of the reasons to set down a standard format is so that all office suites can work together with fewer issues and so that files no longer become obsolete/difficult to open/convert as time goes on. In my mind this means the format with the most supported features should win, regardless of who its sponsors are. Lets be honest, which format is more robust?
Some answers to some of the morons:OOXML
"OOXML is not open, ODF is open. OOXML specs refer to other closed specs."
Um, OOXML = Office Open XML. Read the wiki and get a clue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
"It is important because the ODF standard came first, yet Microsoft blatantly choose to, once again, ignore an established standard in favor of their own solution."
First off, ODF is by no means any kinda established standard. PERIOD. Secondly, If an established standard is lacking in real world requirements what else is there to do?
who do you trust more, MS or sun?
To get the job done? MS (Vista aside). Face it, sun has failed us. Java was to be our savior; platform wont matter. But no matter how much processor we throw at it we still cant use it for anything more than crappy buggy apps. I'm impressed with sun's 64 core boxes, sure, but which office suite is better? Who's been collecting more data on how ppl actually use an office suite in real world situations?
"Oh, and who controls OOXML? Someone you trust more than Sun?"
Ok, are you high or just stupid? MS will not be controlling OOXML. The IOS members will be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization br>
as always... slashdot commenters show themselves as biased uninformed idiots who make me want to smoke crack.
The reality is that google apps suck. They are not in the least a threat.
The linux market is growing... and the product is impressive... but it is not ready for grandma yet. and game developers still arent showing linux much love. ppl who hate vista arent moving to linux... they are going back to XP. Linux threat? Seriously, what linux threat. The server market will always be a mixed bag of many OSes. The desktop? Having to edit a conf file to get your desktop to display its max res is just stupid... Having to recompile wine to run windows apps/games is a waste of time. Your OS doesnt make you elite. Instead of wasting cycles learning dumb linux shit take up programming if you want to be elite. otherwise you are just another dumb ass user; and as a linux user you are just a self crippled user who has to work real hard to accomplish the simplest of tasks or use the software the rest of the world is using.
XP for teh win.
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I am confused as to why this is somehow a bad thing. Seriously. Live in linux but still need a wintendo partition? Buy Starter. Live in windows, but not a power user? Maybe you are a grandma? Get him. A little smarter than the average bear? Get home plus. WHY THE FUCK would giving a consumer the ability to NOT pay for what they DONT want be a bad thing?
There are like a gazillion different flavors of linux, some tiny and bare bones, some robust and bloated, some specializing in a particular sphere of influence. If it is BAD for MS to have more than one version of it's OS then what about linux in general?
Fucken Asshats, I swear.
This is my fault. I JUST subscribed for 2 years and was giddy about it. I've not had a subscription to MAD since the 70s. The universe could have me being happy of something so simple so it decided to poostab! I might need to get a crack subscription to get me thru!
Yeah. Someone smokes allot of drugs at /.
http://16systems.com/zero/index.html
I agree. This post is a troll. btw; there was a reward for anyone who could recover data from a wiped drive offered up. I think /. even posted this up when it was offered.
Are you high? A drawing of a person is not a person.
It should be noted that any fictitious depiction of a child engaged in sex or being sexually presented in is being threatened here. The remake of Lolita, where digital effects are used to create a naked underaged girl, scenes from the professional where leon glimpses mathilda who is trying to be sexy for him, pictures of your of age girlfriend if she looks underage...
Stick figures... Cartoon puppies... pictures of yourself naked as a child being molested by your adult self... The text describing ones own sexual experiences as a minor... Where does it stop? With a judge saying 'I cant define it, but I know it when I see it?'
These judges should have tossed out the virtual child porn, and the text, and convicted him on the actual child porn and other laws that may have been broken. These judges are traitors to common sense and freedom of expression. Off with their heads!
The claim made by many is that children may find these pictures, or that these images/texts find their way into the hands of pedophiles who would molest/rape children... It's all bullshit. Many adult things will fall into the hands of children and those things in general arent going to screw them up for life. Kids have seen lemonpart/goatse/2girls1cup/manga and are just fine. Will one of them see something and their brains shatter? Sure. But this more often happens when some fucktard introduces them to religion. Will pedophiles find this material and spank it to it? Sure. But using that kinda logic to ban it we need to ban everything that works along those lines... Ban porn because it makes some adults rape other adults. Ban alcohol because some drunks drink, drive, kill.
In the end... Virtual child porn doesnt involve any actual children, unless of course it was drawn by a child... What kid didnt draw huge ass titties on stick figures, of if they had talent just draw naked women?... But there is no victim here, except the victim who is offended by anothers artistic expression? That's just life kids...
In some countries, Australia, it is illegal to have virtual child abuse pictures or video. A man is facing jail time for posting a video of a russian circus child being tossed and swung in the air... Even tho the child is laughing the entire time the Australian courts are wanting to send a guy to jail for just linking to the video.
It might be time to rip the sticks out of ppls asses and beat them to death with them.
Get a large plastic storage box. Place the items in this box. Now fill a milk carton with some calcium chloride (one brand name is damp rid). Put on the lid and run some plastic wrap around said lid.
The calcium chloride will draw all the moisture from the surrounding air.
As far as the mold or other particulate I havent any suggestions. Good luck.
I think it is perfectly reasonable to be asked to take a test to prove you know what you say you know. I've seen plenty of people with certs who were able to pass tests but really had no idea what they are doing. It's a complete waste of resources to hire someone, find they dont cut the muster, and fire them.
I've been blessed with superb management for the the last 10 years of employment. Clued people who know the technology, understand the bottom line, and in most cases have better skill sets than their underlings... But most people arent blessed so. All those clueless managers were hired by other clueless managers. People whom would have been weeded out early if their skill set was tested.
I dont even understand why it would be in the least bit insulting to have to prove you skill set. Seems a bit arrogent and simple minded to think people should just your resume and trust their own judgment of you during an interview.
Your best bet for this will be custom punch cards or another technology that the digital information is printed/punched/engraved upon. You will need to design a custom way of digitizing the data. I'd try to make the data human readable so that if worse comes to worse you hire some data entry people to re-enter the data. Note that there is technology now that allows one to take a picture of a record and recreate the audio on said record. You may wish investigate that type of technology. Would also be a good idea to have the format available to the public and have the public devise methods of reading your format.
In the above world we would just keep moving those pictures from the old tech to the new tech for all time. I have some files that are over 25 years old that started off on my vic 20's cassette desk, moved to my 1541, moved to my RLL/MFM harddrive, to cd, dvd, and back to harddrive...
What is the reason for burying these pictures tho?
while this guy is an asshat, Series of Tubes as an analogy works just fine. This is one of those things other clueless asshats giggle at.
Frankly I think bans, deleting posts, scoring systems like slashdots, etc.. can kill the free exchange of ideas because the censor is almost always an asshat with normal human failings. I always found that the best method to deal with 'disruptive' conversations was to move them to the war board. Keeps you from feeling like an asshat or The Man for playing the censor and keeps the hostiles from screaming about censorship.
Ofcourse in this day an age most forums dont have war boards. Silly noobs.
You could just not feed the trolls.
What ever you do, dont follow some of the fucked up advice of some of the slashdot users. Redirect their IP to CP and call the fbi? How is that different than shooting them in the head for expressing opinions that you didnt agree with?
I didnt waste my time reading the forum... but one guy points out that the guy wasnt being a bully. You may want to honestly reflect and come to terms with the fact that you might be a thin skinned sissy who needs to butch up.
Of course it gave me a reason. 554 Denied [SHPBL] - Denied by Spamhaus PBL along with a nice url. I'm not willing to give up any more details than that as I am not interested in posting any of the related ips.
You can try to defend your stance all you want... my answer is that my legitimate and life critical email bounced.
Do you remember spews? How trite, petty, and vindictive those guys were? They'd list entire blocks, and search out vague relationships with other blocks to list. Then they'd want you to plead your case on a news group where all they would do is say 'have fun in your intranet'. They wanted you scream at your ISP and leave them. Not realistic in the real world. They would laugh at the collateral damage.
The boo-fucken-hoo kinda says you dont care about collateral damage either.
Outside of orbs, I think the majority of black lists only serve to destabilize legitimate email communications.
ok, your linux server becomes part of the botnet via some php exploit or some dumb asses winbox gets infected by malware and starts spamming... lets charge them $100 per incident... What kinda dumb ass idea is this? The spammers still get to fill mail boxes full of shit and innocent ppl end up paying for it.
Why do all the antispam nazi's solutions ignore the collateral damage to innocent by standers? "They should educate themselves" "they should switch providers" they scream. Black lists do nothing but break the system. I'd rather get all the spam than have important mail bounce. Just last week I had a mission critical email bounce because of some lame blacklist. This email not getting to its recipient would have basically ruined my life. Its a good thing I have the ability to send mail from more than once source.
Why was this modded down?
No Justice. No Peace.
Want to keep data for years? You are gonna need to keep moving it to the next popular method of storage.
I have files that were on c64 5.25's, that I later moved to a PC's MFM/RLL via modem, and then have keep on my harddrives, and backed up externally on 3.5s, cds, and dvds.
NPR had a discussion of this subject months ago as it relates to audio recordings they wish to preserve.
Chances are these laptops have real serial ports and are powerful enough to use terminal services and other remote desktop functions. This makes these laptops the perfect network engineer and field tech laptops. Cheap, dont care if thety break, and you dont have to use a port replicator. (all serial port replicators suck ass btw. none of them have lifetime of more than afew months under real use.) other ideas: fileserver for your MyMook array, generic internet machine, network virus scanner, misc remote services, alarm clock, FAST dos/c64 box, robot brain (interface to motors via line driving chips or a PIC and the serial/printer ports), digital picture frame, kids computer, poor persons computer, etc... If you reload these machines to give them out make sure you install every possible piece of software that the user will need for their purpose, keeping in mind the power of the machine in question, tweek all the settings (disable services, etc...) and create a ghost image of the machine with instructions on how to restore it.
/. just seems to repost digg, boing,, shoutwire, and the like days after other ppl have already discussed it. the difference is that the informed are moderated down by the illinformed.
way to rock news from 2 days ago! NICE!
If management wont get involved when you have to deal with irrational coworkers the only thing you can do deal/suck it up or is move on. You can try to document the irrational behavior but you may find management unresponsive.
Dirk sounds like he would fit right in as a LEC field tech. An irrational prick who doesnt care if the customer experience (and coworkers who rely on you are your customer!) serves the goals of all of the stake holders. Its also clear that management didnt give support the tools they needed to address the issue sufficiently. This is normal though, and one should just suck it up.
In general, One may also wish to analyze their own actions to ensure they arent completely useless tools who make everyone else's experience awful.
Me? I'm lucky. I work for a company where nearly everyone's goal is to provide the best possible experience for all stake holders involved. Sure, sometimes silly things that dont add value get injected, but that's life.
Legislators should force manufacturers to enable security options by default. The first connection to the router should present them with setup options that will let them secure their device. Unwitting consumers setup these devices, they are open to the public and the public's abuse. Credit card fraud, harassment, stalking, child porn, terrorism, etc... not to mention access to the consumers personal network and data.
Did they collect these over the weekend, like the last bogus stat posted?
Please, someone show me in what was this was debunked? Seriously, did the idiot who posted with that subject line actually read the article?
:)
Here's an idea. Why dont one you idiots actually take a serious look at both standards and make up your own minds instead of playing partisan politics?
One of the reasons to set down a standard format is so that all office suites can work together with fewer issues and so that files no longer become obsolete/difficult to open/convert as time goes on. In my mind this means the format with the most supported features should win, regardless of who its sponsors are. Lets be honest, which format is more robust?
Some answers to some of the morons:OOXML "OOXML is not open, ODF is open. OOXML specs refer to other closed specs."
Um, OOXML = Office Open XML. Read the wiki and get a clue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
"It is important because the ODF standard came first, yet Microsoft blatantly choose to, once again, ignore an established standard in favor of their own solution."
First off, ODF is by no means any kinda established standard. PERIOD. Secondly, If an established standard is lacking in real world requirements what else is there to do?
who do you trust more, MS or sun?
To get the job done? MS (Vista aside). Face it, sun has failed us. Java was to be our savior; platform wont matter. But no matter how much processor we throw at it we still cant use it for anything more than crappy buggy apps. I'm impressed with sun's 64 core boxes, sure, but which office suite is better? Who's been collecting more data on how ppl actually use an office suite in real world situations?
"Oh, and who controls OOXML? Someone you trust more than Sun?"
Ok, are you high or just stupid? MS will not be controlling OOXML. The IOS members will be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization
br> as always... slashdot commenters show themselves as biased uninformed idiots who make me want to smoke crack.
I'm sure my stalker will mod me down more
The reality is that google apps suck. They are not in the least a threat. The linux market is growing... and the product is impressive... but it is not ready for grandma yet. and game developers still arent showing linux much love. ppl who hate vista arent moving to linux... they are going back to XP. Linux threat? Seriously, what linux threat. The server market will always be a mixed bag of many OSes. The desktop? Having to edit a conf file to get your desktop to display its max res is just stupid... Having to recompile wine to run windows apps/games is a waste of time. Your OS doesnt make you elite. Instead of wasting cycles learning dumb linux shit take up programming if you want to be elite. otherwise you are just another dumb ass user; and as a linux user you are just a self crippled user who has to work real hard to accomplish the simplest of tasks or use the software the rest of the world is using. XP for teh win.