>>The difference is subtle. Democrats are working for their corporate sponsors but they're kind of hamstrung because they still have to pretend to be working for the people.
Many still don't 'try' very hard. The only real few dem's that I remember that tried to back up our rights was:
1: Lieberman during passing of Patriot Act. Saw on CSpan where he started yelling "Did anybody read this crap?!!?" 2: Howard Dean's comments on denying computer-stupid laws.
Past that, my beef is how Dean screwed up his home state.
>>Repuglicans have this really nasty in-your-face, what-are-you-going-to-do-about-it arrogance about them while they ram this crap down our throats and put industry hacks in charge of government.
Wrong, but not far off. Republicans believe is that socialism benefits lowest-common denominator and disincentives people from succeeding past what's expected. Since people in industry have shown themselves to be successful, Repubs put them in and give them command over certain projects in Govt. Course the way that corporates get successful is screwing the little guy.
>>And are you really that threatened by blow jobs?
When I'm paying for it, hell yeah.
>>I, personally, think spending our tax dollars and our soldiers' lives to kill thousands of civilians in a sovereign country is much more of a threat to our country.
Spit it out. It was the FUCKING democrats that made Reagan turn his back on Hussein. Reagan was his good friend. If it wasnt for pulling out completely and letting HIS guys get killed, we would have never have to go back in there to clean up.
>>>You say you don't want to effect anything by giving information but you could >>>change this worldline just by talking about the war, or anything for that matter.
JTitor> I don't believe that knowing a possible future makes it happen. You are capable of changing your worldline for the better right now. None of the things I have said will be a surprise. They were set in motion ten, twenty, even thirty years ago. Are you really surprised to find out that Iraq has nukes now or is that just BS to whip everyone up into accepting the next war?
Now understand that this was said back between November '00 and March '01, BEFORE 9/11. I believe his words stand for himself...
>>>Provided that *most* think it's fake, what are the chances that any FBI or IRS employee who browsed the story would think it was fake likewise?
It's the same chances that some guy at K5 talking about possible actions of "the terrorists", not including aerosolised anthrax and other nasties getting caught..
Oh wait.. That guy WAS interviewed by the secret service.
>>>What's most disturbing is that they only passed this because it prevented the saftey features from working, and not because it was infringing on rights of privacy. Crap, if they have a bug order anyway, can't they just bug the car?
It's not soo much even that. It's the fact that they're interfering with a commercial service that "donates to campaigns". The big bad corporate body didnt want bad press about their systems, so have Mr. bought_off_senator stop FBI.
The reason behind having/bin and/sbin as static linked is so that if you upgraded the libc and it failed, you still have a working system.
Be aware that now with this syetm, you wont be able to mv the crunched static exec's to/bin or/sbin . With the old system, you didnt have to shut down to do a libc recovery. Now you do.
Heh he heh. Just like my dad used to do a while back in '97. He attempted to hide that he was using my computer to look at alt.binaries.erotica.* and a.b.porn.animal and other things. Seems to have a penchant for bondage..
Soo, once I pulled up a "deleted pic" and said, "Pops' come look at this site".. It was some hardcore porn of about 3 women licking each other.
He stopped doing that on my computer. Course, I do give'em some leeway. He was a sailor, after all.
That'd be fun to screw with. I could re-change their passwd's and lock THEM out, inject AC 120V in the dc slot, cause shorts in their network cable by abuse. If it's DSL, use an led to suck watts so that dsl wont work...
Even more fun if it's cable. Just loosen the metal foil around 1 coax jack. Horrible interference for TV's and no internet. If it's a T-1, wellllll... look at the etherkiller on www.fiftythree.org. bbbZZZBZBZbt
Even the insta-on-off-on-off fries enough equipment without noticible vandalization.
Even funner yet is to use a USB mem-fob that has a execute-on-insert file that runs your desired command. Buh-bye windows computer.
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I knew some moron who had to write notes to keep track what happens in that book. He was also the one that said Tolken was a genius writer. Course when it comes down to real sci-fi, it sucks.
Damn, plenty of these people here think that the LOTR crap is Sci-Fi..
Welcome to the Windows' Hater forums, also known as Slashdot.
I personally have never had any problem with the Image software I use. I use a dd connected to ssh connected to netcat to remotely copy exact images. It works decently for any os... Just encrypting through ssh takes a bit of cpu.
I knew about sysprep as my old college job, we had to use that since one of the GUID's were the same on 2 computers (really, saw it with my own eyes). Took a little to get used to, but it's a neat utility.
Past that, the only thing that torks me off about the WINNT line is that they dont default to stable drivers (read reference, basic PIO for HD's, VGA 640x480) instead of bluescreening on different hardware. For me, it's the small supposed-to-be-intuitive problems that windows has.
How do you propose to create a filter to find content that's 12 or younger? (I'm not asking you to answer that)
What you'll end up is with each governing body will have their own rubric to determine "badness". The ruleset could be simple, clear-cut rules, or it could be as convoluted as our "fair use" guidlines (eg: spend a few mil in the courts to find out if you violated them...).
Finally, I live in the USA. I dont expect to be subject to some others' rules. I, in fact, expect the government to fight against any country that tries to do as such.
>>>The first comment was totally stupid with no substance or relevance, and should be a -1 or less. The second comment was very substantive and intelligent and deserves a book of deep thought and commentary.
The second comment had just as much substance as I did.
>>>It exposes a small symptom in the technology arena that appears to be on the rise throughout society; the result of turning spankings into "time-outs", republics into "democracies", and individualism into "collectivism".
Let me guess.. A liberal arts major? You sure pull a lot out of your arse for "no substance" text.
>>>bla ba bla useless diatribe trimmed
>>>Most every post (given that this is a hacker type forum)
This sure as hell isnt a hacker-type forum. This place is a "Windows Hater" forum. All people do is monger about how Linux will rescue us from the evils of properitary software, while many of us fawn over the same damned lockin of Apple's OSX. If any category hit this place, it's full of hipocrites.
>>>is a display of ignorance with a promotional cover, and/or a whiny complaint. UNIX printing is as simple as could be. No one needs CUPS or 'apsfilter' or any of it. Just how hard is it to pipe as necessary into 'gs', directing output into a printer device?
Unix printing is simple with decent printers that support PS. Just try getting these winprinters to print using this same subsystem. You'll spend at least 5 days figuring out the correct filterset to run it through, if you can do it at all.
>>>With 'jpeg2ps', 'gs', and a few lines of awk anyone can print JPEG's, PS/EPS/PDF, DOS(CRLF), UNIX(LF) files, and more. And if you have a good PS printer, you don't even need the 'gs'. Any decent software package that needs to print can print PS.
>>>You can even have your script page number text files, etc. When I set up a system for printing, I need to change one 'gs' variable in an awk script, and that's it. What makes that so hard? UNIX printing has been utterly simplistic for years.
Cheap printers means the computer has to take control of more. But since you're a master haxx0r, I'll spare telling you why.
It's people like you that don't want easy configurations for the end-user to use. It's what's wholding back Linux from popular usage.
Back in the old SysV days, you HAD to go through a convoluted filter set and queue system to do about anything. If yoy're still doing it this way, you're insane.
The best way to print anything now is using CUPS. Easy to set up and administer. Who WOULDNT want to use it?
>>>I'm not going to outright say this is impossible, but... this seems impossible. It's reasonable to assume that on a one-way street you could do this for any number of lights. But to get nine lights in a row to work for one direction, the other direction would be an absolute mess.
Nope. This city is Columbus, Indiana. The road in from the south entrance is 3'rd street. Exit is on 2'nd street. Both streets are 3 lanes big. The road going in (2'rd street) has long stretches of few lights to allow traffic to fill up. At rush hour times, you'll wait up to 3 minutes at 1 light to gte about 30-50 cars lined up. Then a pressure plate keeps the light green till the lane mostly emptys.
On the road going out (3'rd street) has many stoplights because it's right through downtown. However, the reason pressure plates dont usually turn on is because it's a right turn to get on the road (right turns are legal through here). Also, the intersecting roads are cross-hatched one ways, so that cuts down on traffic flow. The 2'nd to last light will occaisionally catch you, as it's timed, not pressure plated.
I take these roads upto 6 times a day (mininum of 2x per day) and experience this almost all the time. I've also talked to a cop friend who says that they've timed it for 2.5 MPH under the speed limit as to not dealing with idiot speeders through downtown.
>>>It also doesn't take into account the weight / magnetic sensors that most new intersections with traffic lights have that tell if a car is waiting on a side street and changes the light pattern accordingly.
These lights do have the sensors, but also calibrate downstream lights so that they pass traffic with ease. We've had severe problems befor the road widening (before it was 1 lane for each side and middle was turn- God forbid). We'd, on rush hour, end up with 3 miles of cars backed up through downtown. Since they did this, we've had no problems in this town of exiting and entering.
Cant there be some sort of pathetic slashdot poll on them? It's ot like they're real.
There's a diference between real and fake. You can sleep with real ones. ANd until a stimsim is created, being with some fakey digital construct is out of the question
What's funny is this is the exact same problem time-slice managers on OS'es have. Either let one side stay for an extraordinate amount of time and take few hits on switching, or give little slices which takes a big hit on swapping?
The best roads made are ones done by expert traffic engineers.. In the city I live near, there's 9 stop lights in a 3 lane (one way) road. The posted speed is 25MPH. However, if you go 22.5MPH, every one of them will be green,. Usualy there's an idiot or 2 that burns rubber out of one intersection, while I barely cruise up. By the time I hit the next stoplight, it's already changed.
So then why do Audiophiles REFUSE to take part in a double-blind test of music of multiple genra's?
Ex: 128Kb MP3 , 192Kb MP3, 44KHz 16bit stereo pcm Go from Classical, jazz, electronica, and rock
Most audiophiles wont take those tests cause they know they wont prove anything, except they paid waaaay too much for those iridium/gold/palladium low impedance wires with the radium/gold tip to improve electron direction. Only 1200$ for that 5 foot cord that makes the sound much more vibrant with a tinge of orange. (gag me)
>>>First off, China has pegged its currency to the US currency and still subsidizes housing. I don't see that happening in the United States. They can't have their cake and eat it too. China's a threat right now.
Have you seen their "subsudised housing"? Those places make gangster hideouts look like mansions. And yes, I know they're devaluing their currency to do it.
>>>As for India, you can be sure that the overall poor services rendered and lack of accountability will start stinging companies hard. Go look on www.theinquirer.net and search for HP on the quality of customer service outsourced to India. You can't save a sinking ship when so many people live in poverty like India. In fact, by your implied logic it will only increase the differences between the haves and the have-nots.
You're parroting what I said. I know the call centers suck, along with the substandard programming. That's all they can do now as the whole country is too poor to do anything else.
>>>I will clear the conscience of anyone who wants to mod the parent down: you are not accepting the viewpoint of the parent, you are simply removing a weakly-worded argument from the view of most.
To waste a modpoint on a Score:1 post is not removing it from the most. Most readers are lucky to see Score:3
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>>The difference is subtle. Democrats are working for their corporate sponsors but they're kind of hamstrung because they still have to pretend to be working for the people.
Many still don't 'try' very hard. The only real few dem's that I remember that tried to back up our rights was:
1: Lieberman during passing of Patriot Act. Saw on CSpan where he started yelling "Did anybody read this crap?!!?"
2: Howard Dean's comments on denying computer-stupid laws.
Past that, my beef is how Dean screwed up his home state.
>>Repuglicans have this really nasty in-your-face, what-are-you-going-to-do-about-it arrogance about them while they ram this crap down our throats and put industry hacks in charge of government.
Wrong, but not far off. Republicans believe is that socialism benefits lowest-common denominator and disincentives people from succeeding past what's expected. Since people in industry have shown themselves to be successful, Repubs put them in and give them command over certain projects in Govt. Course the way that corporates get successful is screwing the little guy.
>>And are you really that threatened by blow jobs?
When I'm paying for it, hell yeah.
>>I, personally, think spending our tax dollars and our soldiers' lives to kill thousands of civilians in a sovereign country is much more of a threat to our country.
Spit it out. It was the FUCKING democrats that made Reagan turn his back on Hussein. Reagan was his good friend. If it wasnt for pulling out completely and letting HIS guys get killed, we would have never have to go back in there to clean up.
Yep, and Bill (blowMeHard) Clinton passed the DMCA.
Your point? Both parties are crap.
>>>You say you don't want to effect anything by giving information but you could
>>>change this worldline just by talking about the war, or anything for that matter.
JTitor> I don't believe that knowing a possible future makes it happen. You are capable of changing your worldline for the better right now. None of the things I have said will be a surprise. They were set in motion ten, twenty, even thirty years ago. Are you really surprised to find out that Iraq has nukes now or is that just BS to whip everyone up into accepting the next war?
Now understand that this was said back between November '00 and March '01, BEFORE 9/11. I believe his words stand for himself...
And thats the fun part!
>>>Provided that *most* think it's fake, what are the chances that any FBI or IRS employee who browsed the story would think it was fake likewise?
It's the same chances that some guy at K5 talking about possible actions of "the terrorists", not including aerosolised anthrax and other nasties getting caught..
Oh wait.. That guy WAS interviewed by the secret service.
>>>What's most disturbing is that they only passed this because it prevented the saftey features from working, and not because it was infringing on rights of privacy. Crap, if they have a bug order anyway, can't they just bug the car?
It's not soo much even that. It's the fact that they're interfering with a commercial service that "donates to campaigns". The big bad corporate body didnt want bad press about their systems, so have Mr. bought_off_senator stop FBI.
OnSpy, how can we help you?
We have. It's called Open Source.
The reason behind having /bin and /sbin as static linked is so that if you upgraded the libc and it failed, you still have a working system.
/bin or /sbin . With the old system, you didnt have to shut down to do a libc recovery. Now you do.
Be aware that now with this syetm, you wont be able to mv the crunched static exec's to
Baaaad.
Heh he heh. Just like my dad used to do a while back in '97. He attempted to hide that he was using my computer to look at alt.binaries.erotica.* and a.b.porn.animal and other things. Seems to have a penchant for bondage..
Soo, once I pulled up a "deleted pic" and said, "Pops' come look at this site".. It was some hardcore porn of about 3 women licking each other.
He stopped doing that on my computer. Course, I do give'em some leeway. He was a sailor, after all.
That'd be fun to screw with. I could re-change their passwd's and lock THEM out, inject AC 120V in the dc slot, cause shorts in their network cable by abuse. If it's DSL, use an led to suck watts so that dsl wont work...
Even more fun if it's cable. Just loosen the metal foil around 1 coax jack. Horrible interference for TV's and no internet. If it's a T-1, wellllll... look at the etherkiller on www.fiftythree.org. bbbZZZBZBZbt
Even the insta-on-off-on-off fries enough equipment without noticible vandalization.
Even funner yet is to use a USB mem-fob that has a execute-on-insert file that runs your desired command. Buh-bye windows computer.
I knew some moron who had to write notes to keep track what happens in that book. He was also the one that said Tolken was a genius writer. Course when it comes down to real sci-fi, it sucks.
Damn, plenty of these people here think that the LOTR crap is Sci-Fi..
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Welcome to the Windows' Hater forums, also known as Slashdot.
I personally have never had any problem with the Image software I use. I use a dd connected to ssh connected to netcat to remotely copy exact images. It works decently for any os... Just encrypting through ssh takes a bit of cpu.
I knew about sysprep as my old college job, we had to use that since one of the GUID's were the same on 2 computers (really, saw it with my own eyes). Took a little to get used to, but it's a neat utility.
Past that, the only thing that torks me off about the WINNT line is that they dont default to stable drivers (read reference, basic PIO for HD's, VGA 640x480) instead of bluescreening on different hardware. For me, it's the small supposed-to-be-intuitive problems that windows has.
How do you propose to create a filter to find content that's 12 or younger? (I'm not asking you to answer that)
What you'll end up is with each governing body will have their own rubric to determine "badness". The ruleset could be simple, clear-cut rules, or it could be as convoluted as our "fair use" guidlines (eg: spend a few mil in the courts to find out if you violated them...).
Finally, I live in the USA. I dont expect to be subject to some others' rules. I, in fact, expect the government to fight against any country that tries to do as such.
Screw the UN.
>>>The first comment was totally stupid with no
substance or relevance, and should be a -1 or
less. The second comment was very
substantive and intelligent and deserves
a book of deep thought and commentary.
The second comment had just as much substance as I did.
>>>It exposes a small symptom in the technology
arena that appears to be on the rise
throughout society; the result of turning
spankings into "time-outs", republics
into "democracies", and individualism into
"collectivism".
Let me guess.. A liberal arts major? You sure pull a lot out of your arse for "no substance" text.
>>>bla ba bla useless diatribe trimmed
>>>Most every post (given that this is a hacker
type forum)
This sure as hell isnt a hacker-type forum. This place is a "Windows Hater" forum. All people do is monger about how Linux will rescue us from the evils of properitary software, while many of us fawn over the same damned lockin of Apple's OSX. If any category hit this place, it's full of hipocrites.
>>>is a display of ignorance with
a promotional cover, and/or a whiny complaint.
UNIX printing is as simple as could be. No one
needs CUPS or 'apsfilter' or any of it. Just
how hard is it to pipe as necessary into 'gs',
directing output into a printer device?
Unix printing is simple with decent printers that support PS. Just try getting these winprinters to print using this same subsystem. You'll spend at least 5 days figuring out the correct filterset to run it through, if you can do it at all.
>>>With 'jpeg2ps', 'gs', and a few lines of awk
anyone can print JPEG's, PS/EPS/PDF, DOS(CRLF),
UNIX(LF) files, and more. And if you have a good
PS printer, you don't even need the 'gs'.
Any decent software package that needs
to print can print PS.
>>>You can even have your script page number
text files, etc. When I set up a system
for printing, I need to change one 'gs'
variable in an awk script, and that's it.
What makes that so hard? UNIX printing
has been utterly simplistic for years.
Cheap printers means the computer has to take control of more. But since you're a master haxx0r, I'll spare telling you why.
It's people like you that don't want easy configurations for the end-user to use. It's what's wholding back Linux from popular usage.
Back in the old SysV days, you HAD to go through a convoluted filter set and queue system to do about anything. If yoy're still doing it this way, you're insane.
The best way to print anything now is using CUPS. Easy to set up and administer. Who WOULDNT want to use it?
>>>I'm not going to outright say this is impossible, but... this seems impossible. It's reasonable to assume that on a one-way street you could do this for any number of lights. But to get nine lights in a row to work for one direction, the other direction would be an absolute mess.
Nope. This city is Columbus, Indiana. The road in from the south entrance is 3'rd street. Exit is on 2'nd street. Both streets are 3 lanes big. The road going in (2'rd street) has long stretches of few lights to allow traffic to fill up. At rush hour times, you'll wait up to 3 minutes at 1 light to gte about 30-50 cars lined up. Then a pressure plate keeps the light green till the lane mostly emptys.
On the road going out (3'rd street) has many stoplights because it's right through downtown. However, the reason pressure plates dont usually turn on is because it's a right turn to get on the road (right turns are legal through here). Also, the intersecting roads are cross-hatched one ways, so that cuts down on traffic flow. The 2'nd to last light will occaisionally catch you, as it's timed, not pressure plated.
I take these roads upto 6 times a day (mininum of 2x per day) and experience this almost all the time. I've also talked to a cop friend who says that they've timed it for 2.5 MPH under the speed limit as to not dealing with idiot speeders through downtown.
>>>It also doesn't take into account the weight / magnetic sensors that most new intersections with traffic lights have that tell if a car is waiting on a side street and changes the light pattern accordingly.
These lights do have the sensors, but also calibrate downstream lights so that they pass traffic with ease. We've had severe problems befor the road widening (before it was 1 lane for each side and middle was turn- God forbid). We'd, on rush hour, end up with 3 miles of cars backed up through downtown. Since they did this, we've had no problems in this town of exiting and entering.
This is the way you do traffic control.
Cant there be some sort of pathetic slashdot poll on them? It's ot like they're real.
There's a diference between real and fake. You can sleep with real ones. ANd until a stimsim is created, being with some fakey digital construct is out of the question
What's funny is this is the exact same problem time-slice managers on OS'es have. Either let one side stay for an extraordinate amount of time and take few hits on switching, or give little slices which takes a big hit on swapping?
The best roads made are ones done by expert traffic engineers.. In the city I live near, there's 9 stop lights in a 3 lane (one way) road. The posted speed is 25MPH. However, if you go 22.5MPH, every one of them will be green,. Usualy there's an idiot or 2 that burns rubber out of one intersection, while I barely cruise up. By the time I hit the next stoplight, it's already changed.
She dies again? Damn. Must be a cat of some sort...
Yeah yeah... The beleagured community blablabl
Post a torrent and I'll post a review...
;-)
After all, I need something to saturate my OC-3
So then why do Audiophiles REFUSE to take part in a double-blind test of music of multiple genra's?
Ex: 128Kb MP3 , 192Kb MP3, 44KHz 16bit stereo pcm
Go from Classical, jazz, electronica, and rock
Most audiophiles wont take those tests cause they know they wont prove anything, except they paid waaaay too much for those iridium/gold/palladium low impedance wires with the radium/gold tip to improve electron direction. Only 1200$ for that 5 foot cord that makes the sound much more vibrant with a tinge of orange. (gag me)
500,000$ more and you can have the Lazzzzer.
>>>First off, China has pegged its currency to the US currency and still subsidizes housing. I don't see that happening in the United States. They can't have their cake and eat it too. China's a threat right now.
Have you seen their "subsudised housing"? Those places make gangster hideouts look like mansions. And yes, I know they're devaluing their currency to do it.
>>>As for India, you can be sure that the overall poor services rendered and lack of accountability will start stinging companies hard. Go look on www.theinquirer.net and search for HP on the quality of customer service outsourced to India. You can't save a sinking ship when so many people live in poverty like India. In fact, by your implied logic it will only increase the differences between the haves and the have-nots.
You're parroting what I said. I know the call centers suck, along with the substandard programming. That's all they can do now as the whole country is too poor to do anything else.
>>>I will clear the conscience of anyone who wants to mod the parent down: you are not accepting the viewpoint of the parent, you are simply removing a weakly-worded argument from the view of most.
To waste a modpoint on a Score:1 post is not removing it from the most. Most readers are lucky to see Score:3