It would be wise to move away from those areas. What's the point in living in a place where the people generally suck? Bigger paycheck? You don't need it. It's much smarter to live somewhere you can actually obtain that thing called happiness since life is limited and you don't really get any do overs.
If the schools aren't encouraging competition, then parents need to be more proactive and perhaps get them involved with after-school competition. Again, no healthy body here is powerless unless they actively choose that path.
Some day, all this shit will blow back. I just hope its before I have kids. I really don't want any child of mine growing up amongst this pathetic generation of weaklings
Hmm. Your mind is saturated with Slashdot headlines and has fallen out of the reality most of us Americans live every day. My kid plays kickball, baseball, and basket ball at school regularly. He's taking karate in the evenings and I'd like to see him get into a MMA youth camp one of these days. This isn't considered out of the ordinary, at least on my street.
Don't buy the hype, live life, stop thinking a few hand-picked headlines fed to you have anything to do with what's really going on out there.
outside of school mistakes were crucial and very useful
Don't blame school for anything. The day you have a kid, it becomes quite apparent that a proper parent has a bit more capability to change a child's thinking than an hour per day, per teacher has. If you fail at this, you've pretty much failed as a parent.
They used the Internet instead of going to the local BDSM club. Everyone lost, the club shut down, and the conservative won.
So if you are single and into BDSM, go hang out at the local establishment for it. This way you have no fear of Internet scams and can meet lots of interesting people.
Responding to random Internet ads for sex, common sense tells me, isn't a wise choice.
I didn't say his list was spam, only that people are stupid for depending on free email services, bitching and whining about how they operate, etc. If you want "free" then you get what you paid for.
It's funny how people like to ask "did you know....?" garbage when all I was doing was stating a simple, used to be well-known fact that has been forgotten by this generation of people on the Internet.
I actually came up with the Mother's method back when I had a 2940, my first cd burner and a second scsi cdrom drive. It was surprising what they could read, but if trying to make copies of ISOs, they'd often peter out on hairline scratches.
Well, I don't defend this guy. I'm all for sending photographs of my penis to strangers on the Internet.
I just think it's a shining example that not everyone shares your views and will expose such things to the world, regardless of the letter of the law, or whatever consequences they may face.
Get a $5 tub of Mother's Metal Polish. It'll take out scratches in any plastic as long as you use a cotton or microfiber cloth.
It's also handy if you get a gimp DVD from NetFlix/Blockbuster and don't feel like waiting for a replacement.
Typically, you can buff down the worst of gashes in less than a minute. If you can't, then the $250 device probably wouldn't have worked either.
Since there's no way you'll use the whole tub on CDs or DVDs, you can use the rest to pretty up your silverware, brass stuff, and rub rust off things you don't feel safe using steel wool on.
3 months uptime - that is not significant uptime at all. When you have a machine that has been humming along for a whole year without a reboot, then you can begin to talk about uptime. It helps if it's a machine running a real task as well (public facing web-server, that sort of thing).
A year? That's chump change. I had over 800 days on a relatively busy FreeBSD box. When you Linux and Windows kiddies are done comparing your dinky uptimes, I'll remind you a reboot every few months is not a significant source of downtime.
Fuck Microsoft. this has been the year of the Linux desktop in my house and for many of my customers who have come to realise how easy the transition from Micro$hit to Linux can be.
Calm down, sparky, it's been well over a decade since Linux had it's "year of the desktop" in many of our homes. The excitement wears off, I promise.
Well, unless you are stupid enough to pay for your Yahoo email account, you can just change your prefs to send the email over to gmail, or another free email service.
The entire article is just a troll for attention, and I am sure Randy's list will increase by 10% from the/. article.
Let's just let reality play it's cards and not live in some fantasy land where Yahoo users are somehow being cheated and there's nothing they can do about it.
What we don't know, and what the article doesn't say, and what we have no way of knowing, is which of these two methods Comcast is using
Do you have any idea how difficult it would be for an ISP of that size to actually sniff all their broadband connections for text matches? Filtering the false positives would require a workforce of an epic scale. Lay off the paranoia plant. It's not working out well.
Did ya ever think it's more likely their employees read the same internet you and I do? Ever stumble across something about your own company and want to fix it rather than having someone endlessly bag on said company? Amazing.
Yes, breaking the law for your $39/month is going to make a company profitable.
fair use
These are the guys who have been fighting it since day one due to them running the lines in the first place. Good luck there.
For the record, folks, "insightful" is not "What we want to hear", it is actually supposed to contain some level of a deeper than common perception. The above perception is simplistic spouting off.
The real remedy is to not use Comcast and pick another provider, even if it costs more, and not purchase their cable service. The masses of idiots crying about being forced to eat their own shit, but not actually doing anything about it are the reason the major ISP market is such garbage these days to begin with.
Thanks for at least recognizing the EU politicians are just as corrupt or insane as their US counterparts, but I've seen the slant EU news puts on things and it's quite far from balanced, just as here.
And no, I won't stop complaining about anything I see and dislike anytime soon.
Also, try being in a US citizen's shoes and see about every 10th post on/. marked +5 Insightful when someone who has never set foot on this land tells me various "The average american does...." or "The average american thinks..." like everyone is a poor, fat, uneducated slob who wants a free ride on someone else's back.
You guys have plenty of 'tools' working against you. Take note of all the anti-americanism. That came more from media outlets than anything. Why? It's easier to get a stronger bond to the European Union when there's a new enemy or something new to fear.
I know you can bring cd's or mp3's, etc....but, don't you like to listen to live news or talk at all?
I'd rather submit to a voluntary lobotomy. Every time I've been in a rental car in a new area, prior to carrying an mp3 player, I found all talk shows were:
a) Super crazy republicans, endlessly bashing democrats with half-wit rational.
b) Super crazy libertarians, endlessly bashing democrats based on flat out lies or half-truths.
c) Super crazy religious preachers, endlessly bashing all that is liberal.
Not being democrat, republican, or libertarian, I really can't identify with these people, and even if I were, I wouldn't want to subject myself, or people I know, to the level of manipulation and repetitive language which goes into a 2-4 hour AM broadcast. Take a Boortz-head, as an example, you can spot them in the office and every office has a clone of this radio personality, obtained and beaten into him daily by AM radio.
You don't like to have the fun 'randomness' of someone else choosing the music for the drive?
It's called "playlist shuffle", I've got more songs in my library than probably 10 radio stations, hundreds of podcasts, and a number of good lectures, ebooks, etc to pick from. Albeit, it's not wise to shuffle an ebook or lecture.:)
Radio is sticking around, it may be becoming less relevant to your ears but I doubt you've listened in years anyway. Radio is free, and the ultimate road companion. Plus it won't be going away simply because of weather related announcements.
What about those of us who have radios with mp3 players and just use the national weather band to pull real weather data instead of wading through 45 minutes of garbage to get a 2 minute report that's likely hours old?
If a storm is on the way and I'm driving, I get a loud Du-doo du-doo alarm when an alert is issued, so no real reason to sit there listening to the monotone computer guy talk longer than needed.
Yup. That's the only real reason for having the FCC.
Be sure to include people trying to interfere with emergency services, aircraft communications, satellites and military for whatever evil reasons as "competitors" and I'll agree with you.
On the lighter side, ask any fast food manager how much fun it is when someone shows up with a CB radio w/ a 6.5k crystal to hijack the drive through. I am pretty sure more than one injury has occurred over such an act.
I was thinking there would be some kind of issue with a long USB cable. Even if the potential length wasn't an issue, I wouldn't know where to begin to purchase cable of much length like that without it being a little expensive.
After a few moments of thinking on the matter, it would probably be better to just make a weatherproof box for a WRT54G, install a good command line IOS on it, slap a few scanning tools on it, and use it as a bridge/client.
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It would be wise to move away from those areas. What's the point in living in a place where the people generally suck? Bigger paycheck? You don't need it. It's much smarter to live somewhere you can actually obtain that thing called happiness since life is limited and you don't really get any do overs.
If the schools aren't encouraging competition, then parents need to be more proactive and perhaps get them involved with after-school competition. Again, no healthy body here is powerless unless they actively choose that path.
Some day, all this shit will blow back. I just hope its before I have kids. I really don't want any child of mine growing up amongst this pathetic generation of weaklings
Hmm. Your mind is saturated with Slashdot headlines and has fallen out of the reality most of us Americans live every day. My kid plays kickball, baseball, and basket ball at school regularly. He's taking karate in the evenings and I'd like to see him get into a MMA youth camp one of these days. This isn't considered out of the ordinary, at least on my street.
Don't buy the hype, live life, stop thinking a few hand-picked headlines fed to you have anything to do with what's really going on out there.
outside of school mistakes were crucial and very useful
Don't blame school for anything. The day you have a kid, it becomes quite apparent that a proper parent has a bit more capability to change a child's thinking than an hour per day, per teacher has. If you fail at this, you've pretty much failed as a parent.
They used the Internet instead of going to the local BDSM club. Everyone lost, the club shut down, and the conservative won.
So if you are single and into BDSM, go hang out at the local establishment for it. This way you have no fear of Internet scams and can meet lots of interesting people.
Responding to random Internet ads for sex, common sense tells me, isn't a wise choice.
Thanks for your useless patronising response.
That's what I am here for!
I didn't say his list was spam, only that people are stupid for depending on free email services, bitching and whining about how they operate, etc. If you want "free" then you get what you paid for.
It's funny how people like to ask "did you know....?" garbage when all I was doing was stating a simple, used to be well-known fact that has been forgotten by this generation of people on the Internet.
Please pay attention.
I actually came up with the Mother's method back when I had a 2940, my first cd burner and a second scsi cdrom drive. It was surprising what they could read, but if trying to make copies of ISOs, they'd often peter out on hairline scratches.
Well, I don't defend this guy. I'm all for sending photographs of my penis to strangers on the Internet.
I just think it's a shining example that not everyone shares your views and will expose such things to the world, regardless of the letter of the law, or whatever consequences they may face.
A kid who busts his ass stupidly trying to jump off a roof in a stunt--funny. Throwing a kid off a roof for fun--felony.
Somehow I don't see how 'throwing a kid off a roof' and making the faces of cheating assholes public are connected.
Don't want to be humiliated? Don't do bad things.
Get a $5 tub of Mother's Metal Polish. It'll take out scratches in any plastic as long as you use a cotton or microfiber cloth.
It's also handy if you get a gimp DVD from NetFlix/Blockbuster and don't feel like waiting for a replacement.
Typically, you can buff down the worst of gashes in less than a minute. If you can't, then the $250 device probably wouldn't have worked either.
Since there's no way you'll use the whole tub on CDs or DVDs, you can use the rest to pretty up your silverware, brass stuff, and rub rust off things you don't feel safe using steel wool on.
3 months uptime - that is not significant uptime at all. When you have a machine that has been humming along for a whole year without a reboot, then you can begin to talk about uptime. It helps if it's a machine running a real task as well (public facing web-server, that sort of thing).
A year? That's chump change. I had over 800 days on a relatively busy FreeBSD box. When you Linux and Windows kiddies are done comparing your dinky uptimes, I'll remind you a reboot every few months is not a significant source of downtime.
Fuck Microsoft. this has been the year of the Linux desktop in my house and for many of my customers who have come to realise how easy the transition from Micro$hit to Linux can be.
Calm down, sparky, it's been well over a decade since Linux had it's "year of the desktop" in many of our homes. The excitement wears off, I promise.
Yahoo's is fucking useless.
Don't use them, move on, don't have a stroke because something you aren't paying for doesn't let you bog their servers with the features you want.
Well, unless you are stupid enough to pay for your Yahoo email account, you can just change your prefs to send the email over to gmail, or another free email service.
The entire article is just a troll for attention, and I am sure Randy's list will increase by 10% from the /. article.
Let's just let reality play it's cards and not live in some fantasy land where Yahoo users are somehow being cheated and there's nothing they can do about it.
The salt and other minerals left behind when the water is gone grabbed me as why most of what's being discussed is silly on here.
It does you little good to seal up a laptop or iphone, all to have it full of calcium or salt in a few dips.
I'm not going to take my chances with the gods of exploding water!
Or just learn basic sign language and not worry about hauling around more gadgets to break.
What we don't know, and what the article doesn't say, and what we have no way of knowing, is which of these two methods Comcast is using
Do you have any idea how difficult it would be for an ISP of that size to actually sniff all their broadband connections for text matches? Filtering the false positives would require a workforce of an epic scale. Lay off the paranoia plant. It's not working out well.
Did ya ever think it's more likely their employees read the same internet you and I do? Ever stumble across something about your own company and want to fix it rather than having someone endlessly bag on said company? Amazing.
don't keep logs
Yes, breaking the law for your $39/month is going to make a company profitable.
fair use
These are the guys who have been fighting it since day one due to them running the lines in the first place. Good luck there.
For the record, folks, "insightful" is not "What we want to hear", it is actually supposed to contain some level of a deeper than common perception. The above perception is simplistic spouting off.
The real remedy is to not use Comcast and pick another provider, even if it costs more, and not purchase their cable service. The masses of idiots crying about being forced to eat their own shit, but not actually doing anything about it are the reason the major ISP market is such garbage these days to begin with.
Thanks for at least recognizing the EU politicians are just as corrupt or insane as their US counterparts, but I've seen the slant EU news puts on things and it's quite far from balanced, just as here.
And no, I won't stop complaining about anything I see and dislike anytime soon.
Also, try being in a US citizen's shoes and see about every 10th post on /. marked +5 Insightful when someone who has never set foot on this land tells me various "The average american does...." or "The average american thinks..." like everyone is a poor, fat, uneducated slob who wants a free ride on someone else's back.
You guys have plenty of 'tools' working against you. Take note of all the anti-americanism. That came more from media outlets than anything. Why? It's easier to get a stronger bond to the European Union when there's a new enemy or something new to fear.
It's all the same.
AC uses original grammatical approach by prefixing an insult with "you sir", news at 11.
I know you can bring cd's or mp3's, etc....but, don't you like to listen to live news or talk at all?
I'd rather submit to a voluntary lobotomy. Every time I've been in a rental car in a new area, prior to carrying an mp3 player, I found all talk shows were:
a) Super crazy republicans, endlessly bashing democrats with half-wit rational.
b) Super crazy libertarians, endlessly bashing democrats based on flat out lies or half-truths.
c) Super crazy religious preachers, endlessly bashing all that is liberal.
Not being democrat, republican, or libertarian, I really can't identify with these people, and even if I were, I wouldn't want to subject myself, or people I know, to the level of manipulation and repetitive language which goes into a 2-4 hour AM broadcast. Take a Boortz-head, as an example, you can spot them in the office and every office has a clone of this radio personality, obtained and beaten into him daily by AM radio.
You don't like to have the fun 'randomness' of someone else choosing the music for the drive?
It's called "playlist shuffle", I've got more songs in my library than probably 10 radio stations, hundreds of podcasts, and a number of good lectures, ebooks, etc to pick from. Albeit, it's not wise to shuffle an ebook or lecture. :)
Radio is sticking around, it may be becoming less relevant to your ears but I doubt you've listened in years anyway. Radio is free, and the ultimate road companion. Plus it won't be going away simply because of weather related announcements.
What about those of us who have radios with mp3 players and just use the national weather band to pull real weather data instead of wading through 45 minutes of garbage to get a 2 minute report that's likely hours old?
If a storm is on the way and I'm driving, I get a loud Du-doo du-doo alarm when an alert is issued, so no real reason to sit there listening to the monotone computer guy talk longer than needed.
Yup. That's the only real reason for having the FCC.
Be sure to include people trying to interfere with emergency services, aircraft communications, satellites and military for whatever evil reasons as "competitors" and I'll agree with you.
On the lighter side, ask any fast food manager how much fun it is when someone shows up with a CB radio w/ a 6.5k crystal to hijack the drive through. I am pretty sure more than one injury has occurred over such an act.
So, no that wouldn't work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB [wikipedia.org]
I was thinking there would be some kind of issue with a long USB cable. Even if the potential length wasn't an issue, I wouldn't know where to begin to purchase cable of much length like that without it being a little expensive.
After a few moments of thinking on the matter, it would probably be better to just make a weatherproof box for a WRT54G, install a good command line IOS on it, slap a few scanning tools on it, and use it as a bridge/client.