I posted yesterday in the watch poll about how I got the 128MB USB watch off Ebay instead of supporting OSDN by buying from ThinkGeek.
I wanted to buy it from ThinkGeek, but the shipping is hell to the UK.
If there are two oranges on a table, and you pick one of them up, do you have an apple or an orange in your hand?
The only real choice in this scenario is to dislike Richter (easy done when you know who he is) and dislike Microsoft (done every day by millions who don't even need to know who works there).
"Supporting" Microsoft cannot be done, they won't accept help unless it involves profit for them and so far that modus operandi has led to people like Richter being able to do what he does, and worse.
Latin, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Akkadian don't have that problem: you'll really only use it to translate things
Unless your name is Daniel Jackson, of course, then the fate of the planet (and by extension, everyone living on it) may just hang on your ability to yabber away in it.
and the refusal to use registry settings under windows
Actually, I like this idea. I'm not averse to editing the registry by any means, but being able to delete two directories and replace them from a zip makes my life so much easier when it comes to replacing FF, or trying out new extensions (I KNOW they all work, but I like to pretend that my system is the one that will find the bug, OK?).
Being able to rip large chunks of.JS files out without touching the registry is a good thing, AdBlock settings for one.
The main point for those of us who use more than one OS is that Windows registry settings are damn hard to import under Linux.
I'm sure there will be an extension some time that will allow for us to import and export registry settings, but out of the box is something most dual booters won't like, and I imagine that is a large percentage of Phoenix/Fire(bird/fox) users.
So you have _never_ downloaded anything off the internet without a web browser?
Just to be pedantic here, but if I gave my Mum a copy of Windows 3.11, the last OS I used that didn't have a web browser incorporated, how would she download a browser, FTP client, a Linux ISO to get wget with?
Until recently I was forced to use IE to update the system from WinUpdate and download Firefox.
I hope NTL don't come down on him too hard for putting a 6,912,000 byte file on the front page of Slashdot.
I don't think NTL limit bandwidth to their ISP provided webspace though, which this guy is using.
For information only, NTL provide cable to most of the North of England. My 1.5Mb (soon to be 3Mb at no extra cost) Hasn't let me down once in 2 years, since I got the standalone cable modem rather than the crappy set top box that did TV badly too.
When faced with a comment that evokes a reaction, but I'm not sure what kind, I look to the user's post history to make a judgement. If the user has several up mods I give them the benefit of the doubt and put an interesting on it. If they mostly post crap and get neg mods, I leave it for someone else to mod down.
I think other mods do this too, I have seen this topic come up a few times.
How long til your ARP packet includes a public key proving you are who you say you are?
Dunno mate, but I bet the crack for it is out within 2 days.
Can't we just get together and agree that the internet isn't safe enough for banking, credit card details or personal information yet?
How about Banks start opening their own ISPs? That way they will be able to check their own records to see if transactions were fraudulent. You trust Banks with your house/CC details/wills/valuables already, why not trust them with the responsibility of securing your spending too?
Assume that we all know filesharing is illegal, immoral and makes you fat.
Now take a look around you and see that not many people care and are doing it anyway.
You want to stop them doing it, considering the moral argument doesn't work?
Ask why they do it.
Then take that reason away from them.
If they continue to share, that wasn't really their reason.
The popularity of iTunes says that people are willing for pay for downloaded music.
I would suggest that the reason for this is that you can get the song you want at the price you want to pay, rather than getting a lot of stuff you don't want at a price that is too high for the whole.
Not wanting to listen to arguments doesn't make them any less valid, it only means you refuse to help out on either side of the battle.
Why couldn't we design a p2p system that uses EXISTING protcols, like HTTP, FTP, NNTP, etc (combine them to be effective)?
You mean like we used to use before P2P came along?
I'll tell you one good reason. Responsibility for content.
If you put a file called "Passion of the Christ-like figure.RAR" on your webserver with a linked from the index page pointing at it, see how long it is before your Admin address receives a C&D from the MPAA.
First off they will send you the C&D, then get your ISP to shut off your internet access. Your ISP will roll over in a minute rather than be taken to court for facilitating the spread of copyrighted material, even if the material is not even infringing. This has been documented several times on/. in the last month.
Remember the old days of people putting 20 - 30.RAR files up on webservers, using Yahoo and the like to host a few parts, then some more on another host?
How often were parts missing, or corrupted?
I drive for a living. If a cop pulls me over for driving like an idiot, then I'm going to have to explain why I was driving like that.
If I can't provide an explanation, or I'm clearly whacked out, then I'm also going to expect him to start digging for the reason.
The current tests (standing on one leg, timing the passage of time, reciting the alphabet backwards) will give an officer reason to request a blood test, which is a lot clearer, and good enough for the courts.
The laws are getting in line with the times, but like any large beast, they move a lot slower than their prey.
Things like drug laws or other laws which have real teeth
Drug laws are certainly laws that should be looked at in this category.
Alcohol is legal, weed isn't.
When was the last time you saw a bunch of stoners breaking up a bar and having a fight?
Happens with the drinkers every weekend in my City.
Ecstacy is another drug that should be allowed. The youth of today have never been asked if it should be illegal, it was merely declared so because the older generation heard the word "drug" and lashed out.
If there were quasi-legal outlets for weed and ecstacy there wouldn't be such drama between rival dealers, the quality (and therefore quantifiability) of doses would rise, and safety would follow. This would also help a little (obviously not 100%) with the "gateway" idea of these substances. Dealers would be selling legitimate products and would not have to stock the harder drugs. Flood the market with legal sales and illegal ones would be harder to find.
Many people believe that the only reason "drugs" are illegal is because the.GOV can't effectively tax them.
If a (n ab)user requires the means to pay, they need to work to buy their dope, so the problem would not escalate, but there would still be people outside the system, as there are alcoholics/winos with alcohol.
The majority of times police in the UK are called to drug fuelled raves is because the gathering is illegal, or the noise is causing a problem.
These two problems would disappear if more places were open for kids to go, take a few pills, dance for 4 hours, then go have a joint to cool down and chill out.
Mix this with a responsible safe-drive policy and you have a much better weekend out than is currently available with alcohol. No fighting, nobody being glassed, a lot less ass-groping and dancefloor molestation because ecstacy makes physical contact a desirable thing, rather than something to be shunned because the person is too drunk to be polite or comes on too strong and won't take no for an answer.
One MAJOR effect of making weed and estacy legal would be to reduce the crime rate by hundreds of thousands every year. People break these laws every weekend and this makes them laugh off other laws too.
*Note: I used to take a lot of drugs, but have since stopped using them. This to me is an academic argument, not a personal one.
Please tell me to do it there's a more intuitive way to do that in the GUI.
Why? Do you want to be vulnerable to the spoofing attacks?
The default behaviour of this setting is to display the URLs so that spoofing won't work, if you are a foreign reader you can set this once and forget about it.
For the majority of users the default setting is fine, and safe.
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I did that, I found that Session Saver and Foxy tunes have updates available, but Firefox doesn't.
I guess they haven't put the updates on the server yet?
Screw it, I downloaded the whole thing and it took 20 seconds. I closed FF, Zipped up ProgFiles\MozFF and DocSet\User\AppDat\Moz, installed FF 1.0.1 and loaded it up.
Took less thAn 2 minutes to do all that, I'm updated and no extensions broke.
Pretty cool. Didn't even need a fricken reboot like IE would have.
No matter how many blades they add to a razor you will still have to scrape each square centimetre of skin in 4 directions to cut all the hairs, and usually against the grain at least three times.
This is why I went for the straight razor solution.
If I ever get so sick of shaving that I contemplate suicide, I have a relatively painless method to hand.
My 486 (DX2/66) had 8MB when I bought it (£1,400 - new), I put another 4MB in to play Doom (with lots of PWADs) and I was the schiznit because I had the LSL/ODI IPX setup disk that let me go and sort everyone's 4 person BNC (cheapnet) NICs out for them so they could play it too. Was a great way to get invited to LAN parties.
That machine was running Windows 95 from early beta until OSR 2. Still with 12MB and a 300MB drive.
I only threw it out after taking all the useful bits out of it and deciding that the mobo and PSU were beyond recycling. AT has died.
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This is one reason why I buy off Ebay.
I posted yesterday in the watch poll about how I got the 128MB USB watch off Ebay instead of supporting OSDN by buying from ThinkGeek.
I wanted to buy it from ThinkGeek, but the shipping is hell to the UK.
Not if there's only two choices.
If there are two oranges on a table, and you pick one of them up, do you have an apple or an orange in your hand?
The only real choice in this scenario is to dislike Richter (easy done when you know who he is) and dislike Microsoft (done every day by millions who don't even need to know who works there).
"Supporting" Microsoft cannot be done, they won't accept help unless it involves profit for them and so far that modus operandi has led to people like Richter being able to do what he does, and worse.
Latin, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Akkadian don't have that problem: you'll really only use it to translate things
Unless your name is Daniel Jackson, of course, then the fate of the planet (and by extension, everyone living on it) may just hang on your ability to yabber away in it.
and the refusal to use registry settings under windows
.JS files out without touching the registry is a good thing, AdBlock settings for one.
Actually, I like this idea. I'm not averse to editing the registry by any means, but being able to delete two directories and replace them from a zip makes my life so much easier when it comes to replacing FF, or trying out new extensions (I KNOW they all work, but I like to pretend that my system is the one that will find the bug, OK?).
Being able to rip large chunks of
The main point for those of us who use more than one OS is that Windows registry settings are damn hard to import under Linux.
I'm sure there will be an extension some time that will allow for us to import and export registry settings, but out of the box is something most dual booters won't like, and I imagine that is a large percentage of Phoenix/Fire(bird/fox) users.
Sounds like just the sort of thing that someone would knock up in a few minutes.
So you have _never_ downloaded anything off the internet without a web browser?
Just to be pedantic here, but if I gave my Mum a copy of Windows 3.11, the last OS I used that didn't have a web browser incorporated, how would she download a browser, FTP client, a Linux ISO to get wget with?
Until recently I was forced to use IE to update the system from WinUpdate and download Firefox.
Rebooting is the first thing Windows users learn how to do properly!
Actually, it doesn't usually require any interaction on their parts most of the time.
After phoning TechSupp a few times they get the hang of it though =)
Over here in the UK AOHell are reselling NTL cable, even with the same modems. They resell BT aDSL as well.
They do their own Dialups.
Why on Earth would anyone use them?
I hope NTL don't come down on him too hard for putting a 6,912,000 byte file on the front page of Slashdot.
I don't think NTL limit bandwidth to their ISP provided webspace though, which this guy is using.
For information only, NTL provide cable to most of the North of England. My 1.5Mb (soon to be 3Mb at no extra cost) Hasn't let me down once in 2 years, since I got the standalone cable modem rather than the crappy set top box that did TV badly too.
So now we mod people based on PAST posts?
Rather than mod you down, I decided to reply.
When faced with a comment that evokes a reaction, but I'm not sure what kind, I look to the user's post history to make a judgement. If the user has several up mods I give them the benefit of the doubt and put an interesting on it. If they mostly post crap and get neg mods, I leave it for someone else to mod down.
I think other mods do this too, I have seen this topic come up a few times.
How long til your ARP packet includes a public key proving you are who you say you are?
Dunno mate, but I bet the crack for it is out within 2 days.
Can't we just get together and agree that the internet isn't safe enough for banking, credit card details or personal information yet?
How about Banks start opening their own ISPs? That way they will be able to check their own records to see if transactions were fraudulent. You trust Banks with your house/CC details/wills/valuables already, why not trust them with the responsibility of securing your spending too?
People who laughed at this joke also laughed at:
The Halfling/Dragon t-shirt from ThinkGeek.com.
Check out the Slashdot shirts. I have a couple; you get the strangest looks from lusers =)
Assume that we all know filesharing is illegal, immoral and makes you fat.
Now take a look around you and see that not many people care and are doing it anyway.
You want to stop them doing it, considering the moral argument doesn't work?
Ask why they do it.
Then take that reason away from them.
If they continue to share, that wasn't really their reason.
The popularity of iTunes says that people are willing for pay for downloaded music.
I would suggest that the reason for this is that you can get the song you want at the price you want to pay, rather than getting a lot of stuff you don't want at a price that is too high for the whole.
Not wanting to listen to arguments doesn't make them any less valid, it only means you refuse to help out on either side of the battle.
Why couldn't we design a p2p system that uses EXISTING protcols, like HTTP, FTP, NNTP, etc (combine them to be effective)?
/. in the last month.
.RAR files up on webservers, using Yahoo and the like to host a few parts, then some more on another host?
You mean like we used to use before P2P came along?
I'll tell you one good reason. Responsibility for content.
If you put a file called "Passion of the Christ-like figure.RAR" on your webserver with a linked from the index page pointing at it, see how long it is before your Admin address receives a C&D from the MPAA.
First off they will send you the C&D, then get your ISP to shut off your internet access. Your ISP will roll over in a minute rather than be taken to court for facilitating the spread of copyrighted material, even if the material is not even infringing. This has been documented several times on
Remember the old days of people putting 20 - 30
How often were parts missing, or corrupted?
I drive for a living. If a cop pulls me over for driving like an idiot, then I'm going to have to explain why I was driving like that.
If I can't provide an explanation, or I'm clearly whacked out, then I'm also going to expect him to start digging for the reason.
The current tests (standing on one leg, timing the passage of time, reciting the alphabet backwards) will give an officer reason to request a blood test, which is a lot clearer, and good enough for the courts.
The laws are getting in line with the times, but like any large beast, they move a lot slower than their prey.
Essentially the court ruling was that laws are public property and that secret laws are no law at all.
Sounds like the testcase for this suit, doesn't it?
Drug laws are certainly laws that should be looked at in this category.
Alcohol is legal, weed isn't.
When was the last time you saw a bunch of stoners breaking up a bar and having a fight?
Happens with the drinkers every weekend in my City.
Ecstacy is another drug that should be allowed. The youth of today have never been asked if it should be illegal, it was merely declared so because the older generation heard the word "drug" and lashed out.
If there were quasi-legal outlets for weed and ecstacy there wouldn't be such drama between rival dealers, the quality (and therefore quantifiability) of doses would rise, and safety would follow. This would also help a little (obviously not 100%) with the "gateway" idea of these substances. Dealers would be selling legitimate products and would not have to stock the harder drugs. Flood the market with legal sales and illegal ones would be harder to find.
Many people believe that the only reason "drugs" are illegal is because the
If a (n ab)user requires the means to pay, they need to work to buy their dope, so the problem would not escalate, but there would still be people outside the system, as there are alcoholics/winos with alcohol.
The majority of times police in the UK are called to drug fuelled raves is because the gathering is illegal, or the noise is causing a problem.
These two problems would disappear if more places were open for kids to go, take a few pills, dance for 4 hours, then go have a joint to cool down and chill out.
Mix this with a responsible safe-drive policy and you have a much better weekend out than is currently available with alcohol. No fighting, nobody being glassed, a lot less ass-groping and dancefloor molestation because ecstacy makes physical contact a desirable thing, rather than something to be shunned because the person is too drunk to be polite or comes on too strong and won't take no for an answer.
One MAJOR effect of making weed and estacy legal would be to reduce the crime rate by hundreds of thousands every year. People break these laws every weekend and this makes them laugh off other laws too.
Please tell me to do it there's a more intuitive way to do that in the GUI.
Why? Do you want to be vulnerable to the spoofing attacks?
The default behaviour of this setting is to display the URLs so that spoofing won't work, if you are a foreign reader you can set this once and forget about it.
For the majority of users the default setting is fine, and safe.
Grab the Kiosk extension from extensionsmirror.nl.
Or you could go to Tools > Options > Privacy > Clear all (under Windows).
I did that, I found that Session Saver and Foxy tunes have updates available, but Firefox doesn't.
I guess they haven't put the updates on the server yet?
Screw it, I downloaded the whole thing and it took 20 seconds. I closed FF, Zipped up ProgFiles\MozFF and DocSet\User\AppDat\Moz, installed FF 1.0.1 and loaded it up.
Took less thAn 2 minutes to do all that, I'm updated and no extensions broke.
Pretty cool. Didn't even need a fricken reboot like IE would have.
That would result in aliasing. But how about spline-based audio? Now, that's a thought...
You could use the extra memory to reticulate the splines I guess?
No matter how many blades they add to a razor you will still have to scrape each square centimetre of skin in 4 directions to cut all the hairs, and usually against the grain at least three times.
This is why I went for the straight razor solution.
If I ever get so sick of shaving that I contemplate suicide, I have a relatively painless method to hand.
My 486 (DX2/66) had 8MB when I bought it (£1,400 - new), I put another 4MB in to play Doom (with lots of PWADs) and I was the schiznit because I had the LSL/ODI IPX setup disk that let me go and sort everyone's 4 person BNC (cheapnet) NICs out for them so they could play it too. Was a great way to get invited to LAN parties.
That machine was running Windows 95 from early beta until OSR 2. Still with 12MB and a 300MB drive.
I only threw it out after taking all the useful bits out of it and deciding that the mobo and PSU were beyond recycling. AT has died.
Thanks =)