ah, now you're trying to twist the subject. The people of the USA have allowed their gov't to trample over the lives of many people... and you expect them to welcome you with open arms?
You're all getting very defensive/aggressive, which is the usual state of people in denial.
Before you think you're alone in this, consider... the Dutch are not exactly loved in Indonesia. The English are hated in parts of Northern Ireland. The Red Cross is a potent and hated symbol in Arabic nations. Welcome to the club - the USA now has a history.
In my original post I explained why people hated the americans, in this more recent one I was answering someone else's posting that said I was merely posting 3rd party hearsay, so I responded with my first-hand witness.
Forget for a moment that most/. readers are above-average in many ways - IQ, education, world-knowledge. Consider the huge numbers of dumb people you know. Consider how your gov't presents itself to the world. We humans have a lot to be ashamed about.
No, European gov'ts are also crap, and we have also had much of the liberty-stealing rules foisted on us too - but often because the USA has pushed them into it to protect their business interest.
US television programs dominate programming because the programs are cheap to buy... just as cheap cartoons dominate children's TV. That's why I don't have a TV! Oh, and for any people in the UK who are getting smug, the BBC is noticeably biassed and quality of reporting is quite poor these days - but that might be because they (and they admit this in their own reports) have a real dearth of reporters with scientific backgrounds - they're all graduates with art and other soft subjects.
We're also getting just as fat and unhealthy. Gun crime and drug-related is rising. So, we have nothing to be proud of - but so far we can say at least we aren't (yet) as bad as the USA.
"I heard this story about an American who visited once
I have travelled to 25 countries round the world, to USA many times, spanning four continents. I many many cases I have seen people treat Americans obsequiously, in a transparently patronising manner, because of their wealth, and yet the moment the American is gone the hatred is clear. In one country, I was with a group of tourists, with an American party, and only once I said I was English not American did the non-Americans even acknowledge my existence. I have noticed Canadians explain the same and seen an instant change of attitude.
If you're American, and offended, don't be - just remind yourself that yours is NOT the only way of life, and that the people who represent you both formally and informally on the world's stage do NOT give a very good impression, and that maybe it's about time you made your gov't accountable to the people, and put a stop to the corruption and crap dished out. Even Condy Rice admitted that the USA's stance on Iraq has been a disaster.
11. Americans abroad are patronising and arrogant in other countries, and look down on local customs and mores as being inferior, quaint, and/or silly - and make this opinion obvious and loudly
12. Americans are blind to many of their own people who live in poverty and without access to decent health care, and their gov't ignore their plight even when a disaster unfolds which attracts the attention of the world
13. American's espousal of greed and selfishness exudes from many TV programs whilst their gov't takes the moral high ground
14. The war in iraq, the prison camps, the secret flights carrying prisoners to countries where they can be tortured, the gov't ignoring the Geneva Convention and even making torture perfectly legal...
15. The trampling of their own citizens rights as corporations bribe their way into positions of influence
the biggest problem is when someone rewrites the data on their card with data from a stolen card - the signature can then be perfect, 'cos it's their card! However, the printed receipt card number will NOT match the card presented. The droid at the checkout is supposed to verify that receipt and card match, and if they don't, report it... in theory they get a reward for doing so.
people have been encouraged to release their s/w and set the license as being "GPL version 2 or later". this means quite a lot of s/w will get automatically "upgraded".
v3 is different enough from v2 that perhaps it should be given a different name, e.g. "Gnu Viral Public License v0.01", and that way people would have to specifically choose to use it, rather than accidentally.
This would solve the problem of bits of linux suddenly being unusable by Suse, redhat etc.
you'd have to take a ghost snapshot every day to mitigate the risk of viruses, so you could back-track your system completely, and then of course apply the incremental backups of modified data where the modification was safe.
yes, I do partitition my drive so that I can destroy C and all my data is on D; though most of my disk is allocated to linux, I do occasionally need Windows for specific apps like DVD authoring.
yes, I do save all my downloads/installers... but if I'm going to rebuild a machine I still want to check to see if there are updates.
Considering that you can generally reinstall the OS in an hour or two
In the case of windows XP sp2 and office, half an hour to install the OS, and a further two elapsed days of downloading patches, going away, coming back, rebooting, different patches, downloading latest versions of favourite utils/apps and/or patching them too.
back to being serious for one second... there are three mistakes people make:
not saving at all
not turning on regular auto-save
not regularly saving the file with a new name
An example of the final one is to save with a new name like mydoco.20061021-2110.doc
Why? because if the word processor crashes during saving, you won't destroy the only version of your file... and if it does get corrupted, you can revert back to older versions. Sometimes you realise that during copy/paste/edit you accidentally DIDN'T copy a section and have lost the original version; this way you can recover it. It can also help if you're accused of plagiarism - all the intermediate versions could prove you actually wrote it. I'll let you think about the other reasons for managing your own version control.
we have many of these wall-wart chargers... I am going to get a 6-way mains strip with individually-switched sockets. That will make it trivial to turn each of them off, so I can leave them all plugged in and neatly tie up the cords rather than having to pull a charger out of a pile and untangle the cord!
this is all well and good, but you're still dependent on the delegation of.uk in the root nameservers, so if the USA leaned heavily on Nominet the right way, they could force them to suspend spamhaus.org.uk, otherwise it would split the internet. At least ICANN is no longer entirely the USA's lapdog.
Have spamhaus pick a day and time to report empty lists from 9am to 11:59am on a Monday.
Even better, all spamhaus need to do is report empty lists for IP addresses in the USA when they do the lookup. The rest of the world can continue, and the USAns get to keep their spam (which, it seems, mostly advertises produced and services in the USA anyway).
If the judge understood the internet, surely the only effective way to stop the effect of spamhaus would be to ban the *use* by telcos and ISPs of these blocking lists?
The only way to deal with spam, IMVHO, is to make it illegal to buy products from unsolicited sales messages - cut off the source of the spammers income. It's demand for dodgy services that feed the unethical businesses. Unfortunately, there's too much vested interest in Congress from big business to kill off all forms of unsolicited bulk marketing, whether by fax, telephone or email.
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Similarly, you can betcha bottom dollar that once the big casinos from Vegas have their own online gambling (calling it gaming is a deliberate diversionary tactic) will cause the laws preventing online gambling to be repealed.
how does the browser or mail client know how big the image is until it has fetched it? by which time it's too late! surely a better way is for the viewer to strip the URL of any get parameters when fetching images, as that would help somewhat.
just be careful when using one of these video senders to use it correctly. there was a case a while back where a dutch couple had been making lewd videos of themselves, and were watching it in their bedroom over a video link from the living room... and so were half the residents of their apartment building as the video transmitter was back-feeding into their community antenna.
I can't remember how long it went on for, but the couple must have been wondering why people looked at them oddly!
Imagine your CTO, or senior manager in charge of IT in a medium-sized company. You have a team of 20 people looking after windows servers and desktops. You could reload all the servers with linux, migrate the majority of desktops to linux, reduce your IT s/w spend by US$30000 per annum easily, and reduce your department from 20 to 5.
So, why would you do it? If you're the owner of the company, sure you would, as it's your money. But if you're on the ladder in a large corporate, of course you're not going to decimate your department and reduce your status, and possibly even be demoted or lose your job because suddenly IT is so much more efficient! No, Microsoft's whole windows "eco-system" allows your department to grow and flourish and gain importance!
This is the only reason I can think of to explain why so many small and medium-sized companies aren't willing to change.
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and IBM too, just not for the common man.
that'll be because the Balinese are too polite to complain publically, and probably need the money too much.
ah, now you're trying to twist the subject. The people of the USA have allowed their gov't to trample over the lives of many people... and you expect them to welcome you with open arms?
You're all getting very defensive/aggressive, which is the usual state of people in denial.
Before you think you're alone in this, consider... the Dutch are not exactly loved in Indonesia. The English are hated in parts of Northern Ireland. The Red Cross is a potent and hated symbol in Arabic nations. Welcome to the club - the USA now has a history.
Lik-sang are also a customer of ours, and a good one too. We're very sad to hear of their plite.
In my original post I explained why people hated the americans, in this more recent one I was answering someone else's posting that said I was merely posting 3rd party hearsay, so I responded with my first-hand witness.
Forget for a moment that most /. readers are above-average in many ways - IQ, education, world-knowledge. Consider the huge numbers of dumb people you know. Consider how your gov't presents itself to the world. We humans have a lot to be ashamed about.
No, European gov'ts are also crap, and we have also had much of the liberty-stealing rules foisted on us too - but often because the USA has pushed them into it to protect their business interest.
US television programs dominate programming because the programs are cheap to buy... just as cheap cartoons dominate children's TV. That's why I don't have a TV! Oh, and for any people in the UK who are getting smug, the BBC is noticeably biassed and quality of reporting is quite poor these days - but that might be because they (and they admit this in their own reports) have a real dearth of reporters with scientific backgrounds - they're all graduates with art and other soft subjects.
We're also getting just as fat and unhealthy. Gun crime and drug-related is rising. So, we have nothing to be proud of - but so far we can say at least we aren't (yet) as bad as the USA.
"I heard this story about an American who visited once
I have travelled to 25 countries round the world, to USA many times, spanning four continents. I many many cases I have seen people treat Americans obsequiously, in a transparently patronising manner, because of their wealth, and yet the moment the American is gone the hatred is clear. In one country, I was with a group of tourists, with an American party, and only once I said I was English not American did the non-Americans even acknowledge my existence. I have noticed Canadians explain the same and seen an instant change of attitude.
If you're American, and offended, don't be - just remind yourself that yours is NOT the only way of life, and that the people who represent you both formally and informally on the world's stage do NOT give a very good impression, and that maybe it's about time you made your gov't accountable to the people, and put a stop to the corruption and crap dished out. Even Condy Rice admitted that the USA's stance on Iraq has been a disaster.
mod parent up.
Yes, america does too much for other countries... like take their oil, kill their people, take their resources, emit greenhouse gasses...
11. Americans abroad are patronising and arrogant in other countries, and look down on local customs and mores as being inferior, quaint, and/or silly - and make this opinion obvious and loudly
12. Americans are blind to many of their own people who live in poverty and without access to decent health care, and their gov't ignore their plight even when a disaster unfolds which attracts the attention of the world
13. American's espousal of greed and selfishness exudes from many TV programs whilst their gov't takes the moral high ground
14. The war in iraq, the prison camps, the secret flights carrying prisoners to countries where they can be tortured, the gov't ignoring the Geneva Convention and even making torture perfectly legal...
15. The trampling of their own citizens rights as corporations bribe their way into positions of influence
the biggest problem is when someone rewrites the data on their card with data from a stolen card - the signature can then be perfect, 'cos it's their card! However, the printed receipt card number will NOT match the card presented. The droid at the checkout is supposed to verify that receipt and card match, and if they don't, report it... in theory they get a reward for doing so.
people have been encouraged to release their s/w and set the license as being "GPL version 2 or later". this means quite a lot of s/w will get automatically "upgraded".
v3 is different enough from v2 that perhaps it should be given a different name, e.g. "Gnu Viral Public License v0.01", and that way people would have to specifically choose to use it, rather than accidentally.
This would solve the problem of bits of linux suddenly being unusable by Suse, redhat etc.
yes, I do partitition my drive so that I can destroy C and all my data is on D; though most of my disk is allocated to linux, I do occasionally need Windows for specific apps like DVD authoring.
yes, I do save all my downloads/installers... but if I'm going to rebuild a machine I still want to check to see if there are updates.
In the case of windows XP sp2 and office, half an hour to install the OS, and a further two elapsed days of downloading patches, going away, coming back, rebooting, different patches, downloading latest versions of favourite utils/apps and/or patching them too.
thanks, but I'd rather keep my system clean!
Satan called, asking if you have some ice-skates to loan him!
An example of the final one is to save with a new name like mydoco.20061021-2110.doc
Why? because if the word processor crashes during saving, you won't destroy the only version of your file... and if it does get corrupted, you can revert back to older versions. Sometimes you realise that during copy/paste/edit you accidentally DIDN'T copy a section and have lost the original version; this way you can recover it. It can also help if you're accused of plagiarism - all the intermediate versions could prove you actually wrote it. I'll let you think about the other reasons for managing your own version control.
I get a really really good compression ratio
I'll leave it to the govmint to try and extract it; I tell them they can recover lost data from /dev/random!
RIAA (Recroding Industry Association of America
a far more amusing typo would have been Recronying Industry Assoc, since its clear the RIAA is a bunch of thieving cronies!
we have many of these wall-wart chargers... I am going to get a 6-way mains strip with individually-switched sockets. That will make it trivial to turn each of them off, so I can leave them all plugged in and neatly tie up the cords rather than having to pull a charger out of a pile and untangle the cord!
some of those college art classes are havens for subversive types
Yup, art students do dumb things!
this is all well and good, but you're still dependent on the delegation of .uk in the root nameservers, so if the USA leaned heavily on Nominet the right way, they could force them to suspend spamhaus.org.uk, otherwise it would split the internet. At least ICANN is no longer entirely the USA's lapdog.
Have spamhaus pick a day and time to report empty lists from 9am to 11:59am on a Monday.
Even better, all spamhaus need to do is report empty lists for IP addresses in the USA when they do the lookup. The rest of the world can continue, and the USAns get to keep their spam (which, it seems, mostly advertises produced and services in the USA anyway).
If the judge understood the internet, surely the only effective way to stop the effect of spamhaus would be to ban the *use* by telcos and ISPs of these blocking lists?
The only way to deal with spam, IMVHO, is to make it illegal to buy products from unsolicited sales messages - cut off the source of the spammers income. It's demand for dodgy services that feed the unethical businesses. Unfortunately, there's too much vested interest in Congress from big business to kill off all forms of unsolicited bulk marketing, whether by fax, telephone or email. br/ br/ Similarly, you can betcha bottom dollar that once the big casinos from Vegas have their own online gambling (calling it gaming is a deliberate diversionary tactic) will cause the laws preventing online gambling to be repealed.
how does the browser or mail client know how big the image is until it has fetched it? by which time it's too late! surely a better way is for the viewer to strip the URL of any get parameters when fetching images, as that would help somewhat.
I can't remember how long it went on for, but the couple must have been wondering why people looked at them oddly!
I ask, because when you get hit by one, the softer the better!
Imagine your CTO, or senior manager in charge of IT in a medium-sized company. You have a team of 20 people looking after windows servers and desktops. You could reload all the servers with linux, migrate the majority of desktops to linux, reduce your IT s/w spend by US$30000 per annum easily, and reduce your department from 20 to 5.
So, why would you do it? If you're the owner of the company, sure you would, as it's your money. But if you're on the ladder in a large corporate, of course you're not going to decimate your department and reduce your status, and possibly even be demoted or lose your job because suddenly IT is so much more efficient! No, Microsoft's whole windows "eco-system" allows your department to grow and flourish and gain importance!
This is the only reason I can think of to explain why so many small and medium-sized companies aren't willing to change.