I can appreciate that, I relocated (albeit only 500 miles) a couple years ago. IM is great if your at the keyboard, going through a phone is time consuming and troublesome IMHO.
Really, in my experience, I can't see the boundries of a quick joke or comment expanding beyond the capabilites and convienence of email.
As far as keeping in touch, I recommend a cell phone that has free unlimited long distance, so when you do want to connect its not draining the bank accounts.
Turn your phone off. I'm curious though, why would you need IM's that bad?
Disconnect, take a shower, read a book, you don't have to be *connected* round the clock, if some friend needs you that bad, use your phone the way it was designed and have them call you.
So is some people's use OF ALL CAPS in emails, free speech right?, we're talking unacceptable as in annoying aren't we?
I can appreciate the point of view that says its all good, but it won't stop me from signing up the ALL CAPPERS to newsletters about fisting grandmas, goatse.cx and tubgirl's gone wild.
The RFID overlords were not interested in tracking your alcohol induced movements. The MPAA on the other hand wanted to know exactly where you were going so they may track your internet usage... don't put the movie in your PC, it activates the recovery team!!! and you'll be wisked away immediatly.
Cept the government of China doesn't believe it has a humanitarian or social situation. Everything is fine, in their eyes, so a space program seems a reasonalbe expendature of funds.
Understood and I get that, but we're talking about a book review, hardly a hotbed for discussion and debate. We're talking about a book report that was published on Amazon (and prolly others) last week, the author is the one to submit it to/. not a reader who thought it was a topic worth discussion, the book report is about a product that is no longer readily available from the source and that support (we're not talking new support, we're talking ANY support as the RHN) will longer be assessable.
I do appreciate your point though. I just wish the community reaction, viewpoints and taco's cornhole where more timely.
I don't know, when you read the paper or turn on the NEWS, do you want something fresh or something that was copy and pasted from another source and is 5 days old.
I want slashdot to be both technical and timely. I like/., but recently I'm reading several stories a day I've already seen @ news.com.com or The Register, it gets frustrating to know your rereading the same story/article/review.
True if they were dropping support but keeping the product, but RH is dropping both.
RHL is the Dodo bird distro, why create a support book for a product that has a rapidly dimishing half life?
Those that use it in production/business environments will migrate to use the latest and greatest applications before too long and there are incentives for them to goto RHEL sooner rather then later (SCO type discounting if you get in now, on the ground floor ).
As far as RH and it's commitment to desktop/home user/free user, please see Fedora (which they will NOT support, its completely community driven).
I live near Indianapolis, in my hometown there are problems
counting (I use this example because in local/municipal elections, every
vote does count). If this was an technology based system (for those
that wish to do it electronically) the web interface would prevent them from
filling out the form incorrectly and bunch of officials wouldn't have to sit
around trying to decide the voter's intent (and since they can't, the ballot is
disqualified).
The Gore/Bush Florida hanging chad fiasco was another problem with
determining voter intent. Agreed, in Florida where the old people go to
die, a technology based system might not work. Can you imagine, all the
retirees standing there waiting for cash to come out of the voting
machines?
Its dangerous and irresponsible to force a web based system on people,
but I think it would vastly improve voter turnout among... say college students,
military personnel, and mobile professionals that have trouble finding time to
vote. Either because they're attending a school that is far removed from
their registered county, traveling on business, or stationed out of the
country. Of course they can vote absentee ballot, but consider races are
declared and candidates concede on election night, those absentee ballots aren't
counted for days/weeks after. Those votes, in some sense, don't count.
I think Oregon
might have the plan for the future. Offering a more flexible and convenient
way of voting.... I wanna say in 2002 when this was implemented they shattered
records for voter turn out.
I'm not one to drop links into stuff, please take a look at the Oregon link,
as the act details it's system for audit, correction and remediation that I
think you might find interesting in relation to this discussion.
Look on your credit card receipt, there is an approval sequence number that guarantees its authentic (in case it needs verified). The ballot system could use a control number in addition for validation.
From the sounds of it we're going to agree to disagree, which is fine and good and healthy for debate.
On a side note, are you against technology based voting or just this system? Do you think paper ballots (chads or not) is the end-all be-all system for elections?
It just seems to me (as someone who doesn't vote because the long lines, restrictive times and travel distance... I would welcome a more convienent system), right or wrong, we're already trusting computing systems to track our bank accounts, credit cards and other sensitive unique information, why not our votes?
Can an online voting mechanism not immediately print a receipt (in the election center and on the voter's home printer)? When I run my credit card is that not virtual? Is my signed receipt not a paper trail for consumer and vendor and credit card mogul? Where a statement is then mailed to all parties for personal verification (and challenge in case of discrepancy).
Do you think the PIN is the only validation method? Like when you goto the ATM, is your PIN the only thing needed?
Of course not, its used to authenticate based on other, specific voter information (SSN, voter registration number, mother's maiden.... whatever).
I'm not saying the system is perfect, or unhackable (although I do hope they are at least using SSL or maybe a VPN). But your are making it out to be farce just because its using technology. Canadians, although boring and on average overweight, are not the typical fanboy you are picturing.
I think Enron cured me of my need to validate things on paper.
The same way databases can be altered so can paper (here I come with a bucket full of ballots and whooops, into the trash they go where I've cleverly hid a similar bucket with the results I want to be counted). If you have all faith in paper ballots please research Louisiana election fraud, apparently in the mighty south, the dead rise to vote every year - the buggers.
What is your point? I've read your post and I'm left confused, bewildered, and a little hungry.
If you want to argue that the router is rerouting traffic that is destined for kiddie pr0n fine (as it its got some parental/offensive controls built in). But it isn't, its rerouting random requests. The device isn't censoring content, its delivering spam. If you can't see the difference please hop onto eBay as I'm sure there are a ton of these listed for your pleasure.
WW2 stood for a hell-of-a-lot more then just a body count. The conflict, in political ramification, scale and scope was both
GRAND and EPIC (see below).
Don't get me wrong, the body count and the impact the war had on people's
live, communities and countries is hugely important. But don't refer to
the whole conflict as merely a body count they way you would a tragic factory
accident.
GRAND - having more importance than others
EPIC - extending beyond the usual or ordinary especially in
size or scope
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Yesterday, NPR's All Things Considered did a nice piece on it, you can download it here
Really, in my experience, I can't see the boundries of a quick joke or comment expanding beyond the capabilites and convienence of email.
As far as keeping in touch, I recommend a cell phone that has free unlimited long distance, so when you do want to connect its not draining the bank accounts.
Its on the screen after you login
I do, I didn't mean to suggest that first time offenders get the *treatment*. I usually warn/educate on 3 occassions before getting frustrated.
In a related story, CNet.com is to offer an online music store by 2nd quarter of 2004.
Disconnect, take a shower, read a book, you don't have to be *connected* round the clock, if some friend needs you that bad, use your phone the way it was designed and have them call you.
Yeah, they did crack down. But within a day, a workaround was found.
I can appreciate the point of view that says its all good, but it won't stop me from signing up the ALL CAPPERS to newsletters about fisting grandmas, goatse.cx and tubgirl's gone wild.
The RFID overlords were not interested in tracking your alcohol induced movements. The MPAA on the other hand wanted to know exactly where you were going so they may track your internet usage... don't put the movie in your PC, it activates the recovery team!!! and you'll be wisked away immediatly.
The Huminity team
Nice, sites now have Slashdot protection.
But not nearly exilerating to microwave. The lights man, the lights.
That was the same argument for vinyl.
Cept the government of China doesn't believe it has a humanitarian or social situation. Everything is fine, in their eyes, so a space program seems a reasonalbe expendature of funds.
I do appreciate your point though. I just wish the community reaction, viewpoints and taco's cornhole where more timely.
I want slashdot to be both technical and timely. I like /., but recently I'm reading several stories a day I've already seen @ news.com.com or The Register, it gets frustrating to know your rereading the same story/article/review.
RHL is the Dodo bird distro, why create a support book for a product that has a rapidly dimishing half life?
Those that use it in production/business environments will migrate to use the latest and greatest applications before too long and there are incentives for them to goto RHEL sooner rather then later (SCO type discounting if you get in now, on the ground floor ).
As far as RH and it's commitment to desktop/home user/free user, please see Fedora (which they will NOT support, its completely community driven).
Cept that all this nonsense from Dan was posted on Amazon on Nov 5 , scroll down to the reviews section. I'll give him partial credit since he didn't copy and paste from another reviewer.
The Gore/Bush Florida hanging chad fiasco was another problem with determining voter intent. Agreed, in Florida where the old people go to die, a technology based system might not work. Can you imagine, all the retirees standing there waiting for cash to come out of the voting machines?
Its dangerous and irresponsible to force a web based system on people, but I think it would vastly improve voter turnout among... say college students, military personnel, and mobile professionals that have trouble finding time to vote. Either because they're attending a school that is far removed from their registered county, traveling on business, or stationed out of the country. Of course they can vote absentee ballot, but consider races are declared and candidates concede on election night, those absentee ballots aren't counted for days/weeks after. Those votes, in some sense, don't count.
I think Oregon might have the plan for the future. Offering a more flexible and convenient way of voting.... I wanna say in 2002 when this was implemented they shattered records for voter turn out.
I'm not one to drop links into stuff, please take a look at the Oregon link, as the act details it's system for audit, correction and remediation that I think you might find interesting in relation to this discussion.
From the sounds of it we're going to agree to disagree, which is fine and good and healthy for debate.
On a side note, are you against technology based voting or just this system? Do you think paper ballots (chads or not) is the end-all be-all system for elections?
It just seems to me (as someone who doesn't vote because the long lines, restrictive times and travel distance... I would welcome a more convienent system), right or wrong, we're already trusting computing systems to track our bank accounts, credit cards and other sensitive unique information, why not our votes?
Can an online voting mechanism not immediately print a receipt (in the election center and on the voter's home printer)? When I run my credit card is that not virtual? Is my signed receipt not a paper trail for consumer and vendor and credit card mogul? Where a statement is then mailed to all parties for personal verification (and challenge in case of discrepancy).
Of course not, its used to authenticate based on other, specific voter information (SSN, voter registration number, mother's maiden.... whatever).
I'm not saying the system is perfect, or unhackable (although I do hope they are at least using SSL or maybe a VPN). But your are making it out to be farce just because its using technology. Canadians, although boring and on average overweight, are not the typical fanboy you are picturing.
The same way databases can be altered so can paper (here I come with a bucket full of ballots and whooops, into the trash they go where I've cleverly hid a similar bucket with the results I want to be counted). If you have all faith in paper ballots please research Louisiana election fraud, apparently in the mighty south, the dead rise to vote every year - the buggers.
If you want to argue that the router is rerouting traffic that is destined for kiddie pr0n fine (as it its got some parental/offensive controls built in). But it isn't, its rerouting random requests. The device isn't censoring content, its delivering spam. If you can't see the difference please hop onto eBay as I'm sure there are a ton of these listed for your pleasure.
I'm not a space nut, but why did NASA stop going to the moon in the first place? Its been a couple decades since our last moon landing, no?
WW2 stood for a hell-of-a-lot more then just a body count. The conflict, in political ramification, scale and scope was both GRAND and EPIC (see below).
Don't get me wrong, the body count and the impact the war had on people's live, communities and countries is hugely important. But don't refer to the whole conflict as merely a body count they way you would a tragic factory accident.
GRAND - having more importance than others
EPIC - extending beyond the usual or ordinary especially in size or scope