Heres a novel idea... DON'T PUT YOURSELF IN THE SITUATION.
Plenty of people actually work their way though school. Do you think you deserve what they have? Let me help you, you don't.
YOU got yourself into this situation. YOU didn't think ahead. YOU accrued a debt rather than paying for it with money out of your own pocket. It is YOUR problem, not mine, YOU fix it, stop expecting me to pay YOUR bills with my taxes.
'Being fleeced left and right'... You know how many people in the world would LOVE to get money without putting any sort of collateral down in advance for hundreds of thousands of dollars?
Grow up, the rest of the world isn't your mommy, we aren't paying to fix your ignorance, sorry.
You can always become a teacher in the inner city or work 2 years for Peace Corps or any of the other methods the government has setup for most or all of your loan to be FORGIVEN.
Only for direct loans that the government or institution owns. The government can't forgive a loan owned by someone else, they have to pay it off, which doesn't happen. You borrow $100k from the government in 5 different loans, then come to me and consolidate them into one loan through me. I pay off the government. The government can't come tell me that I'm SOL. They can't forgive the loan as it isn't theirs to forgive.
Finally... PAY YOUR GOD DAMN BILLS. I have to. I paid mine. Why the fuck do you get a free ride because you fucked yourself over. Why do I now have to pay YOUR bill because YOU won't.
I didn't make the retarded decisions that got you where you are, why am I being punished for it?
Which is great for the people who havent' consolidated, which... who hasn't?
They come in, telling you all the great things that consolidation will do for you and leave out all the things it takes away from you, forgiveness being one of them. The government can't forgive your loans if they don't own them.
Of course, students at Uni generally are too ignorant to realize just because some guy comes to your school and talks about how great consolidation is, doesn't mean the person is honest, ethical or moral.
At this point in time, going to a real University is a retarded idea for pretty much the entire population of the world. No one cares WHERE your degree was from with the exception of some very specific high end jobs.
After your first job, they generally don't care enough to bother checking if you actually HOLD the degree you claim to.
This continual 'everyone must go to school' has made it just another waste of time since EVERYONE is doing it. The education standard is lower now, Graduation at a Uni is the new high school graduation.
Just go get your GED from ECPI or some other online school and save yourself a metric ass load of money that no one will notice after your first job.
Because you signed a bunch of papers without reading them, specifically without reading the part that stated you can't just go refinance them willy nilly when it suits you.
Next time, READ WHAT YOU ARE SIGNING rather than listening to the guy trying to get you to use his company to consolidate.
You can defer most student loans in the US for a period of time, typically in 6 month blocks, but for a limited number of times.
Deferment can be done at any time, regardless of the economy, but only for a limited length of time over the life of the loan.
Defaulting on them is a retarded idea in the US, they do not have the same rules applied to them as standard credit as far as your credit report. Student loan defaults don't go away until they are paid off, regardless of how long they are on your credit report. They can, by law, remain their your entire life.
Heres a hint: Got in over your head? Sucks to be you, stop trying to cheat your way out of it.
No, pretty much EVERYONE is normal. Stop trying to make YOURSELF unique and weird. You aren't, you are normal, you are not weird. You are not unique. You are not special. All of this will remain true no matter how many times your mommy and teachers tell you otherwise. Sorry to burst your bubble.
At best, you are arrogant, but this is pretty common now days.
And only an idiot thought Tom Cruise was normal before he jumped the couch. I would like to point out, Katie Holmes most certainly qualifies as an idiot.
No, programmers aren't weird, its just a field that isn't well enough established yet.
As such, those who are incapable of surviving in other more well established fields can survive in development for now. Give it 10 -20 years and programming will be roughly the same as any other desk job, and these quirks that developers currently get by with will no longer be acceptable.
No, H1N1 is not a pandemic. H1N1 is a CLASS of influenza viruses, and its not a new class. 'The swine flu' is a member of the H1N1 class. The class is the most common, by a land slide.
You've had a H1N1 infection before unless you're a few months old.
Actually, if anyone bothered to look into it, rather than listening to the media outlets, 'the swine flu' is less than half as likely to kill you as the average seasonal flu. By 'average seasonal flu' I mean take the past 50 years worth of deaths related to seasonal flus and you'll find about 0.12% of the infected people die. By contrast, 0.05% of those infected with 'the swine flu' have died.
It is a pandemic, but the flu has been a pandemic forever, as is the common cold. The media just doesn't have anything else to get our attention so this is what they exaggerate into being scary.
H1N1 is not a strain, its a class, stop referring to it as if its a specific strain of the virus. H1N1 is not 'the swine flu', 'the swine flu' is a strain of the H1N1 class.
Statistically speaking, you've probably had an H1N1 strain every single year of your life.
The reason they 'push' H1N1 class vaccines is because thats what people get EVERY YEAR.
H1N1 is not a strain, its a class and its the most common to human infections. H1N1 does not refer to 'the swine flu', even if 'the swine flu' is part of the H1N1 class.
Another neat fact, the CDC seems to think just about every case of 'the flu' this summer was 'the swine flu', all million plus cases.
Please get a clue and stop spreading the FUD, I'm sick of hearing people talking about how scary this is.
You are 8 times more likely to die in a car accident than from the swine flu, and TWICE as likely to die from the vaccine than the flu itself. Stop listening to CNN/NBC/CBS/ABC/FOX as if they provide facts. News outlets provide sensationalism, not facts. They want ratings for ad dollars, not the truth.
It should also be noted that these guys are doing work on things that have never been done on this scale before. Most of it has been done on a smaller scale at other colliders, but any time you do something for 'the first time', something is going to go wrong.
This is why its called experimentation and not something else like 'paint by numbers'
Personally, I think they fact that they built this damn thing and got it working as quickly as they did as well as it did the first time around is DAMN IMPRESSIVE.
Because, like it or not, regardless of the condition of it, the world STILL revolves around it at this point in time. If you wanted it in the original currency, wouldn't you want it in Francs, not Euros
Because cooling something to near absolute 0 is not something you can do over night for a multitude of reasons, one of the primary being that there is SO LITTLE energy IN something at 1.9k that it takes a very long time before it bleeds into something else so that it can get cooler.
Remember 'cold' is just 'not hot'. Heat is energy, hotter is more energetic. When you get to 1.9k the atoms are barely vibrating and there is nothing around for the atoms to bump into to transfer the heat energy off it and into the cooling system.
Cooling things down actually takes FAR more effort than heating them up. They've got this thing to a temp colder than the void in empty space, and everything around it is FAR FAR hotter.
Now consider their doing this to a series of tunnels that are what, 17km long? LOTS of energy to dissipate, and they've got to dissipate it into an environment that has about 400 times MORE energy.
Its kind of like trying to make a car sit entirely stationary in space and time. While its riding in a train across the countryside, which is of course on the Earth which is hurtling through space at thousands of km/hour. Its really hard to take energy out of a system when everything around the system is trying to add energy to it, literally EVERYTHING (the vast voids of space included).
Awesome, now other than stroking your own ePenis because you think running Fedora makes you cool, what actually do you use that machine for that can be considered useful to someone on the planet? What exactly is the impressive part of running Fedora that made think you should tell us all that you do. This is slashdot, 90% of the people here run Linux, its not impressive to anyone on this site. Its great that you can browse porn on your cute little Fedora machine, but no one gives a shit what OS you run.
The disable and uninstall buttons are for plugins installed in YOUR profile, specific to you.
MS installs the plugin globally, for all users on the system, which means that a standard user account is not likely to have the permissions required to uninstall it.
Why shouldn't the key exist? You realize that you can install plugins in your profile without the dialog using a command line right? You realize that with a quick permission change (as an admin) I can prevent you from disabling plugins or extensions in your profile?
The registry key method is there for several reasons. Plugins can install themselves BEFORE firefox is installed, so when you install a PDF reader before Firefox, you don't have to reinstall it AFTER firefox in order for firefox to be aware of it. System administrators can install plugins that are required to all users on a system by adding one registry key, rather than hacking something together via a login script or some other hack.
Go ahead, remove the registry key, then apps will have to run a command line at login to add plugins to a specific user profile instead of globally, but it'll get added none the less. When you run code from someone else on your PC as an administrator, you run the risk of this sort of thing happening, with or without Firefox checking this particular registry key. Its in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, which on any properly configured machine, you can't write to. If you're running code as an admin, you're already fucked, with or without Firefox being involved in any way.
Firefox uses the registry to locate globally installed plugins. IT reads these keys when it boots to look for plugins it should load... and that is MS's fault?
Do you realize that MS only utilized the interface Firefox created to register plugins globally?
MS doesn't require that you 'hack the registry', Firefox does.
So, if you correct all the inaccuracies in your statement and make it correct, it turns into something like:
Firefox will NEVER be ready for the desktop until you can remove a plugin without hacking the registry.
Wow, that sounds retarded doesn't it, and that statement is actually pointing to the right person.
Riddle me this, what SHOULD be used to find plugins? How do apps that want to install plugins for Firefox find its install? What happens when you install a PDF reader before Firefox, do you want to have to reinstall the PDF reader so that NOW it can install the Firefox plugin?
People about 100 times more clueful than you, at Mozilla, decided to use the registry for good reason, do a little research before you start telling others they did it wrong, or at the bear minimum, stop blaming Joe the Janitor in Kansas for Tsunami wiping out some islands in the Pacific.
I can delete program files, my PC will still work.
Delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (which you can't just do in regedit, but it can be cleared out for the most part with a custom app or script) and tell me how your next boot goes.
I'd wait for you to try it, but since you don't realize how bad it can get, I'm not sure that you'd realize you can safe boot and use system restore to recover from it.
I agree, for most of slashdot, registry editing isn't an issue, but you are talking about throwing someone into an app that has the capability to do rm -rf/etc ; rm -rf/usr/local/etc (or where it might be in Linux). That most certainly has the potential to be dangerous for the uninitiated.
I hate to burst your bubble, but most of whats written on that page is just flat out wrong or at a minimum misleading. Read the comments on the page for plenty of people pointing out everything.
Most importantly, he's talking about something entirely different than what this article is talking about.
I don't expect you to know either of the above however, you'd never have posted anything if you knew anything about it.
I'm sorry how does 'Microsoft made a buggy/insecure plugin for Firefox' sound bad for Firefox in anyway? Are you so dumb that you can't understand the difference. My 60 year old father in law could understand the difference and he's in know way a techie, why is it that techies are the ones who think this is confusing?
A few years ago, you would have had something about XP64 due to lack of drivers for random old shitty hardware.
AD has nothing to do with anything, you're just talking out your ass, unless you mean that you have a problem because your office PC doesn't let you do whatever you want because you aren't an admin.
What the hell are you talking about? I've had 75 year old hotel desk clerks (customers using our software) using regedit, if you can't explain how to use regedit, you''re just incapable of writing detailed instructions.
Alternatively, you can just send them a file, a.reg, that will remove the key, Google is your friend:
I wouldn't touch a byte on Firefox dir if I was MS.
They don't touch the firefox directory you moron. They add a single registry key. Firefox doesn't even need to be installed, installing it later and having the plugin work is another reason why it works this way. Likewise you can rm -rf the firefox and install it again later and the plugin will work. Please don't talk about what you don't have the slightest understanding of. Just because its related to MS doesn't mean they are out to eat your babies and share your wife with dingos and Steve Erwin. Please get a grip on reality, MS isn't out to get you, regardless of how many times Stallman screams it.
Can you be any more complete ignorant of whats going on and still talk like you have a clue? You don't even know what the right utility is on OS X, you're looking for 'defaults' not plutil.
Why is it that slashdot mods seem to think the more retarded a statement is, the higher rating it needs whenever MS involved. You want to bitch about MS, fine, but have a clue and know what the hell you are talking about, prevents you from being made out like a douchebag when everyone else pipes up to call you out on your ignorance.
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Heres a novel idea ... DON'T PUT YOURSELF IN THE SITUATION.
Plenty of people actually work their way though school. Do you think you deserve what they have? Let me help you, you don't.
YOU got yourself into this situation. YOU didn't think ahead. YOU accrued a debt rather than paying for it with money out of your own pocket. It is YOUR problem, not mine, YOU fix it, stop expecting me to pay YOUR bills with my taxes.
'Being fleeced left and right' ... You know how many people in the world would LOVE to get money without putting any sort of collateral down in advance for hundreds of thousands of dollars?
Grow up, the rest of the world isn't your mommy, we aren't paying to fix your ignorance, sorry.
Spoken like someone who wants to think with someone elses pocket.
Pay your own damn bills.
Only for direct loans that the government or institution owns. The government can't forgive a loan owned by someone else, they have to pay it off, which doesn't happen. You borrow $100k from the government in 5 different loans, then come to me and consolidate them into one loan through me. I pay off the government. The government can't come tell me that I'm SOL. They can't forgive the loan as it isn't theirs to forgive.
Finally ... PAY YOUR GOD DAMN BILLS. I have to. I paid mine. Why the fuck do you get a free ride because you fucked yourself over. Why do I now have to pay YOUR bill because YOU won't.
I didn't make the retarded decisions that got you where you are, why am I being punished for it?
Which is great for the people who havent' consolidated, which ... who hasn't?
They come in, telling you all the great things that consolidation will do for you and leave out all the things it takes away from you, forgiveness being one of them. The government can't forgive your loans if they don't own them.
Of course, students at Uni generally are too ignorant to realize just because some guy comes to your school and talks about how great consolidation is, doesn't mean the person is honest, ethical or moral.
At this point in time, going to a real University is a retarded idea for pretty much the entire population of the world. No one cares WHERE your degree was from with the exception of some very specific high end jobs.
After your first job, they generally don't care enough to bother checking if you actually HOLD the degree you claim to.
This continual 'everyone must go to school' has made it just another waste of time since EVERYONE is doing it. The education standard is lower now, Graduation at a Uni is the new high school graduation.
Just go get your GED from ECPI or some other online school and save yourself a metric ass load of money that no one will notice after your first job.
Because you signed a bunch of papers without reading them, specifically without reading the part that stated you can't just go refinance them willy nilly when it suits you.
Next time, READ WHAT YOU ARE SIGNING rather than listening to the guy trying to get you to use his company to consolidate.
Wrong.
You can defer most student loans in the US for a period of time, typically in 6 month blocks, but for a limited number of times.
Deferment can be done at any time, regardless of the economy, but only for a limited length of time over the life of the loan.
Defaulting on them is a retarded idea in the US, they do not have the same rules applied to them as standard credit as far as your credit report. Student loan defaults don't go away until they are paid off, regardless of how long they are on your credit report. They can, by law, remain their your entire life.
Heres a hint: Got in over your head? Sucks to be you, stop trying to cheat your way out of it.
No, being a scientologist counts as being mentally retarded, not weird.
No, pretty much EVERYONE is normal. Stop trying to make YOURSELF unique and weird. You aren't, you are normal, you are not weird. You are not unique. You are not special. All of this will remain true no matter how many times your mommy and teachers tell you otherwise. Sorry to burst your bubble.
At best, you are arrogant, but this is pretty common now days.
And only an idiot thought Tom Cruise was normal before he jumped the couch. I would like to point out, Katie Holmes most certainly qualifies as an idiot.
No, programmers aren't weird, its just a field that isn't well enough established yet.
As such, those who are incapable of surviving in other more well established fields can survive in development for now. Give it 10 -20 years and programming will be roughly the same as any other desk job, and these quirks that developers currently get by with will no longer be acceptable.
No, H1N1 is not a pandemic. H1N1 is a CLASS of influenza viruses, and its not a new class. 'The swine flu' is a member of the H1N1 class. The class is the most common, by a land slide.
You've had a H1N1 infection before unless you're a few months old.
'The swine flu' is by definition a pandemic.
Actually, if anyone bothered to look into it, rather than listening to the media outlets, 'the swine flu' is less than half as likely to kill you as the average seasonal flu. By 'average seasonal flu' I mean take the past 50 years worth of deaths related to seasonal flus and you'll find about 0.12% of the infected people die. By contrast, 0.05% of those infected with 'the swine flu' have died.
It is a pandemic, but the flu has been a pandemic forever, as is the common cold. The media just doesn't have anything else to get our attention so this is what they exaggerate into being scary.
H1N1 is not a strain, its a class, stop referring to it as if its a specific strain of the virus. H1N1 is not 'the swine flu', 'the swine flu' is a strain of the H1N1 class.
Statistically speaking, you've probably had an H1N1 strain every single year of your life.
The reason they 'push' H1N1 class vaccines is because thats what people get EVERY YEAR.
H1N1 is not a strain, its a class and its the most common to human infections. H1N1 does not refer to 'the swine flu', even if 'the swine flu' is part of the H1N1 class.
Another neat fact, the CDC seems to think just about every case of 'the flu' this summer was 'the swine flu', all million plus cases.
Please get a clue and stop spreading the FUD, I'm sick of hearing people talking about how scary this is.
You are 8 times more likely to die in a car accident than from the swine flu, and TWICE as likely to die from the vaccine than the flu itself. Stop listening to CNN/NBC/CBS/ABC/FOX as if they provide facts. News outlets provide sensationalism, not facts. They want ratings for ad dollars, not the truth.
It should also be noted that these guys are doing work on things that have never been done on this scale before. Most of it has been done on a smaller scale at other colliders, but any time you do something for 'the first time', something is going to go wrong.
This is why its called experimentation and not something else like 'paint by numbers'
Personally, I think they fact that they built this damn thing and got it working as quickly as they did as well as it did the first time around is DAMN IMPRESSIVE.
Because, like it or not, regardless of the condition of it, the world STILL revolves around it at this point in time. If you wanted it in the original currency, wouldn't you want it in Francs, not Euros
Because cooling something to near absolute 0 is not something you can do over night for a multitude of reasons, one of the primary being that there is SO LITTLE energy IN something at 1.9k that it takes a very long time before it bleeds into something else so that it can get cooler.
Remember 'cold' is just 'not hot'. Heat is energy, hotter is more energetic. When you get to 1.9k the atoms are barely vibrating and there is nothing around for the atoms to bump into to transfer the heat energy off it and into the cooling system.
Cooling things down actually takes FAR more effort than heating them up. They've got this thing to a temp colder than the void in empty space, and everything around it is FAR FAR hotter.
Now consider their doing this to a series of tunnels that are what, 17km long? LOTS of energy to dissipate, and they've got to dissipate it into an environment that has about 400 times MORE energy.
Its kind of like trying to make a car sit entirely stationary in space and time. While its riding in a train across the countryside, which is of course on the Earth which is hurtling through space at thousands of km/hour. Its really hard to take energy out of a system when everything around the system is trying to add energy to it, literally EVERYTHING (the vast voids of space included).
Awesome, now other than stroking your own ePenis because you think running Fedora makes you cool, what actually do you use that machine for that can be considered useful to someone on the planet? What exactly is the impressive part of running Fedora that made think you should tell us all that you do. This is slashdot, 90% of the people here run Linux, its not impressive to anyone on this site. Its great that you can browse porn on your cute little Fedora machine, but no one gives a shit what OS you run.
The disable and uninstall buttons are for plugins installed in YOUR profile, specific to you.
MS installs the plugin globally, for all users on the system, which means that a standard user account is not likely to have the permissions required to uninstall it.
Why shouldn't the key exist? You realize that you can install plugins in your profile without the dialog using a command line right? You realize that with a quick permission change (as an admin) I can prevent you from disabling plugins or extensions in your profile?
The registry key method is there for several reasons. Plugins can install themselves BEFORE firefox is installed, so when you install a PDF reader before Firefox, you don't have to reinstall it AFTER firefox in order for firefox to be aware of it. System administrators can install plugins that are required to all users on a system by adding one registry key, rather than hacking something together via a login script or some other hack.
Go ahead, remove the registry key, then apps will have to run a command line at login to add plugins to a specific user profile instead of globally, but it'll get added none the less. When you run code from someone else on your PC as an administrator, you run the risk of this sort of thing happening, with or without Firefox checking this particular registry key. Its in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, which on any properly configured machine, you can't write to. If you're running code as an admin, you're already fucked, with or without Firefox being involved in any way.
So let me get this straight ...
Firefox uses the registry to locate globally installed plugins. IT reads these keys when it boots to look for plugins it should load ... and that is MS's fault?
Do you realize that MS only utilized the interface Firefox created to register plugins globally?
MS doesn't require that you 'hack the registry', Firefox does.
So, if you correct all the inaccuracies in your statement and make it correct, it turns into something like:
Wow, that sounds retarded doesn't it, and that statement is actually pointing to the right person.
Riddle me this, what SHOULD be used to find plugins? How do apps that want to install plugins for Firefox find its install? What happens when you install a PDF reader before Firefox, do you want to have to reinstall the PDF reader so that NOW it can install the Firefox plugin?
People about 100 times more clueful than you, at Mozilla, decided to use the registry for good reason, do a little research before you start telling others they did it wrong, or at the bear minimum, stop blaming Joe the Janitor in Kansas for Tsunami wiping out some islands in the Pacific.
I can delete program files, my PC will still work.
Delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (which you can't just do in regedit, but it can be cleared out for the most part with a custom app or script) and tell me how your next boot goes.
I'd wait for you to try it, but since you don't realize how bad it can get, I'm not sure that you'd realize you can safe boot and use system restore to recover from it.
I agree, for most of slashdot, registry editing isn't an issue, but you are talking about throwing someone into an app that has the capability to do rm -rf /etc ; rm -rf /usr/local/etc (or where it might be in Linux). That most certainly has the potential to be dangerous for the uninitiated.
I hate to burst your bubble, but most of whats written on that page is just flat out wrong or at a minimum misleading. Read the comments on the page for plenty of people pointing out everything.
Most importantly, he's talking about something entirely different than what this article is talking about.
I don't expect you to know either of the above however, you'd never have posted anything if you knew anything about it.
Maybe when it first appeared, the joke is at LEAST 12 years old. Its only funny now if you're 14.
I'm sorry how does 'Microsoft made a buggy/insecure plugin for Firefox' sound bad for Firefox in anyway? Are you so dumb that you can't understand the difference. My 60 year old father in law could understand the difference and he's in know way a techie, why is it that techies are the ones who think this is confusing?
Citation needed.
A few years ago, you would have had something about XP64 due to lack of drivers for random old shitty hardware.
AD has nothing to do with anything, you're just talking out your ass, unless you mean that you have a problem because your office PC doesn't let you do whatever you want because you aren't an admin.
What the hell are you talking about? I've had 75 year old hotel desk clerks (customers using our software) using regedit, if you can't explain how to use regedit, you''re just incapable of writing detailed instructions.
Alternatively, you can just send them a file, a .reg, that will remove the key, Google is your friend:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310516
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They don't touch the firefox directory you moron. They add a single registry key. Firefox doesn't even need to be installed, installing it later and having the plugin work is another reason why it works this way. Likewise you can rm -rf the firefox and install it again later and the plugin will work. Please don't talk about what you don't have the slightest understanding of. Just because its related to MS doesn't mean they are out to eat your babies and share your wife with dingos and Steve Erwin. Please get a grip on reality, MS isn't out to get you, regardless of how many times Stallman screams it.
Can you be any more complete ignorant of whats going on and still talk like you have a clue? You don't even know what the right utility is on OS X, you're looking for 'defaults' not plutil.
Why is it that slashdot mods seem to think the more retarded a statement is, the higher rating it needs whenever MS involved. You want to bitch about MS, fine, but have a clue and know what the hell you are talking about, prevents you from being made out like a douchebag when everyone else pipes up to call you out on your ignorance.