re I live, it costs more in permits than materials to build a two-bedroom house.
Bullshit.
Even in the most expensive parts of the country, you could barely manage to build an uninhabitable, unfinished shell of a house for the price of a building permit.
It's not the cost of the building permit itself, per se, but the hidden cost of kickbacks...
I can't understand why the US places so much importance on their president... They can't even make laws --
No, they can't make laws. But they can and do veto the laws that Congress makes, so they have considerable political influence. They also control the federal government's executive branch, so they and the cabinet ministers under them wield substantial real power, up to the limits imposed by the constitution and enacted law.
Wouldn't it be better if the pres actually served in an armed force prior to election as chief commander?
I don't think so. Despite the fact that it would help immensely for the C in C to have first-hand military experience, it would also exclude a whole pool of folks who for whatever reason haven't served in the military. The founding fathers got this right. The only two constitutional restrictions for presidential candidates a native-born citizen at least 35 years of age.
Switching to Linux is easier now than ever. I've just tried Ubuntu Natty, and it's a breeze to install with Windows, either dual-boot from the live CD or along side with wubi. I'm a longtime user of Red Hat and it's derivatives, and I'm jealous. In my opinion Fedora 14 is much easier and less time-consuming to install than Win7 with equivalent default apps, but Canonical's latest offering is even easier still, seemingly by an order of magnitude. It's so simple I'm going to try it out on my mother, a total luddite, just for fun.
SELinnux? You're kidding, right? I'm a longtime Fedora user, and it's shipped with SELinux since FC2, I think. Although the policies and tools have improved drastically, some things like Apache, Samba and 3rd party RPMs still require manual intervention, sometimes to the point that it's simply easier to simply disable. It's hardly ready for Joe Sixpack's Adroid phone.
...any call is more likely to drop if I'm driving through a tunnel while on the phone.
That's odd. One of the few places my current phone seems to work best is in tunnels. It wasn't always this way, but I believe a lot of the carriers have installed antennae in many of them.
I second that. I've traveled to the NYC metro area on business trips for many years, and my company has switched providers three times in the past decade. AT&T was the worst, followed by my current carrier, VZW, although they are a quantum leap ahead of AT&T. I had the best coverage, reception and fewest dropped calls with Sprint, but my experience was only a little better than VZW. Put another way, of the carriers I've used in the NYC area, I found Sprint to provide the best service, VZW a close second, and AT&T a dismally distant third.
You can't expect students to be 100% focused on their education every waking minute. People live at college as well, they need recreational time. In this day and age that means internet pastimes such as games, YouTube, Hulu, etc, even P2P for legal recreation, like coding & hacking. Room & board charges include internet, and students should be able to use the network in their dorms however they please, without censorship, subject to existing law. The terms of service should not restrict lawful activity, and if they do, the university should allow students to opt out, credit the cost of the residential internet, and allow them to install a competitor such as DSL or cable. Or they could just live off-campus...
I believe felons only lose their right to vote while their sentence is in effect. Once they have served their time, including parole if any, I believe their right to vote is restored. However, IANAF (I am not a felon) so I don't have any direct experience with this.
Just to be clear, browsers allow users to right-click. That's not the website.
Disagree, the problem is not with the browser, but with the website. Browsers have a feature that allows users to right-click and copy content, but that feature can be switched off by the server-side code. I'm not a web programmer so I can't explain precisely how it's done, but I've run across several web sites over the years which restrict right-clicking. This works in both IE (work machine) and Firefox on both Linux and Windows (home machines).
Website operators can take additional means to prevent stupid people from saving their content, but the law doesn't require them to do so in order to gain copyright protection.
Agree. Just because you can do something doesn't make it legal, or even right. Don't they teach the concepts of copyright, plagiarism and theft in schools anymore. Or in the home, for that matter? Linking to the article with a description or short excerpt is protected as as fair use, but copying the entire article is a specific form of theft known as copyright infringement, which is punishable under civil law.
It's not just establishing a sustainable colony that's the issue, its having one large enough to ensure genetic diversity. Inbred populations eventually fail.
Does he have either the Professional or Ultimate edition? If so, he can install Windows XP Mode, a virtual environment available for free from Microsoft, allows most XP-compatible programs to operate seamlessly under Windows 7. Hardware virtualization support in the CPU and BIOS is a requirement of XP mode.
I mounted a key cabinet on the wall. Nothing fancy, bought it at Home Depot. I put the master key for each item or location (workshop, house, garage, etc.) on a separate tag in the box, labeled by item. Same for spare vehicle keys. I key alike where possible, for example, one key unlocks every door on my house, another the shop, a third the garage. I use the same padlock for almost everything, the exceptions being my fuel oil storage tank and box trailer. Fuel is too valuable to trust to a commonly available Master key code, and the trailer gets parked in some nasty spots, so it needs beefier locks on the doors and anti-theft cables.
My wife and I each carry a ring with the keys to our primary vehicle on one end of a quick disconnect and keys for the house, shop, key cabinet, and the common master padlock on the other end. We have garage door openers, so no key needed there. My ring has an extra male quick disconnect which I use whenever I tow a trailer. I group sets of keys by trailer on a ring in the key cabinet, so I can just grab, hook and go. Each personal keyring has a carabiner. I keep mine on a belt loop, my wife hooks hers inside her purse.
I also have a work truck, and a remote office and storage cage I rarely visit. Both sets of keys for the truck are kept in the cabinet. One set has a carabiner, the other is a spare. On the set I carry, I keep the office and storage cage keys, plus a set of gate keys for various other work facilities, and a spare quick disconnect so I can take my house/shop keys. Work has their shit together, there are four gate keys for the entire nation, and the facilities themselves all use an access system that allows security to track the comings and goings of employees and contractors.
Any time I go anywhere, I carry less than a dozen keys at most, and often no more than half of that.
DD-WRT can do this. I use it on an old Linksys WRT-54G. I've configured two separate private subnets, one for secure connections via WPA, the other for open access I share with my neighbors. All of my PCs, including those with wired connections, exist on the secure subnet. Wireless guests get insecure access. I also have a few wired ports on the insecure subnet. Comes in handy when I want to work on an infected PC, or when I want to give a visitor wired access without them seeing my network.
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re I live, it costs more in permits than materials to build a two-bedroom house.
Bullshit.
Even in the most expensive parts of the country, you could barely manage to build an uninhabitable, unfinished shell of a house for the price of a building permit.
It's not the cost of the building permit itself, per se, but the hidden cost of kickbacks...
Politicians are usually lawyers who know how to shake hands, kiss babies, and tell people what they want to hear.
"Class M" is a fictional Star Trek term. I think what you meant to say is that there are no nearby planets in the habitable zone.
It's likely that "Class M" is more widely recognized than the scientific term "habitable zone". Even on Slashdot.
I can't understand why the US places so much importance on their president... They can't even make laws --
No, they can't make laws. But they can and do veto the laws that Congress makes, so they have considerable political influence. They also control the federal government's executive branch, so they and the cabinet ministers under them wield substantial real power, up to the limits imposed by the constitution and enacted law.
Wouldn't it be better if the pres actually served in an armed force prior to election as chief commander?
I don't think so. Despite the fact that it would help immensely for the C in C to have first-hand military experience, it would also exclude a whole pool of folks who for whatever reason haven't served in the military. The founding fathers got this right. The only two constitutional restrictions for presidential candidates a native-born citizen at least 35 years of age.
Are there more dedicated sites of this kind around the world?
Yes there are, but in those countries, if they show them to you, they have to kill you.
Switching to Linux is easier now than ever. I've just tried Ubuntu Natty, and it's a breeze to install with Windows, either dual-boot from the live CD or along side with wubi. I'm a longtime user of Red Hat and it's derivatives, and I'm jealous. In my opinion Fedora 14 is much easier and less time-consuming to install than Win7 with equivalent default apps, but Canonical's latest offering is even easier still, seemingly by an order of magnitude. It's so simple I'm going to try it out on my mother, a total luddite, just for fun.
Perhaps rouge is the norm for servers in their GALEXY...
Is it just me, or has Facebook been slashdotted? The page has been loading the whole time I typed this.
SELinnux? You're kidding, right? I'm a longtime Fedora user, and it's shipped with SELinux since FC2, I think. Although the policies and tools have improved drastically, some things like Apache, Samba and 3rd party RPMs still require manual intervention, sometimes to the point that it's simply easier to simply disable. It's hardly ready for Joe Sixpack's Adroid phone.
I guess they didn't poll Slashdot users...
So it still is free, is it not?
As in beer, perhaps. But there's no freedom in beer. The GPL provides the freedom.
Since they've removed all downloads from SourceForge, it's a bit tricky to check the original copyright.
There's always the Wayback Machine....
(Google it, I hate typing HTML into Slashdot)
Cmdr Taco, why can't we just have a "link" button like most other forum sites?
...any call is more likely to drop if I'm driving through a tunnel while on the phone.
That's odd. One of the few places my current phone seems to work best is in tunnels. It wasn't always this way, but I believe a lot of the carriers have installed antennae in many of them.
I second that. I've traveled to the NYC metro area on business trips for many years, and my company has switched providers three times in the past decade. AT&T was the worst, followed by my current carrier, VZW, although they are a quantum leap ahead of AT&T. I had the best coverage, reception and fewest dropped calls with Sprint, but my experience was only a little better than VZW. Put another way, of the carriers I've used in the NYC area, I found Sprint to provide the best service, VZW a close second, and AT&T a dismally distant third.
You can't expect students to be 100% focused on their education every waking minute. People live at college as well, they need recreational time. In this day and age that means internet pastimes such as games, YouTube, Hulu, etc, even P2P for legal recreation, like coding & hacking. Room & board charges include internet, and students should be able to use the network in their dorms however they please, without censorship, subject to existing law. The terms of service should not restrict lawful activity, and if they do, the university should allow students to opt out, credit the cost of the residential internet, and allow them to install a competitor such as DSL or cable. Or they could just live off-campus...
You can go to http://www.northcountrygazette.org/sitemap8.xml and from there access all her articles, she has only forbidden the index.html file.
No, I can't. Tried. Every link I hit answers 404. Can you say "Slashdot Effect" boys & girls?
I believe felons only lose their right to vote while their sentence is in effect. Once they have served their time, including parole if any, I believe their right to vote is restored. However, IANAF (I am not a felon) so I don't have any direct experience with this.
Just to be clear, browsers allow users to right-click. That's not the website.
Disagree, the problem is not with the browser, but with the website. Browsers have a feature that allows users to right-click and copy content, but that feature can be switched off by the server-side code. I'm not a web programmer so I can't explain precisely how it's done, but I've run across several web sites over the years which restrict right-clicking. This works in both IE (work machine) and Firefox on both Linux and Windows (home machines).
Website operators can take additional means to prevent stupid people from saving their content, but the law doesn't require them to do so in order to gain copyright protection.
Agree. Just because you can do something doesn't make it legal, or even right. Don't they teach the concepts of copyright, plagiarism and theft in schools anymore. Or in the home, for that matter? Linking to the article with a description or short excerpt is protected as as fair use, but copying the entire article is a specific form of theft known as copyright infringement, which is punishable under civil law.
It's not just establishing a sustainable colony that's the issue, its having one large enough to ensure genetic diversity. Inbred populations eventually fail.
wonton disregaurd
Would that be fried wonton, or wonton soup? I'm not even going to guess on "disregaurd"
Does he have either the Professional or Ultimate edition? If so, he can install Windows XP Mode, a virtual environment available for free from Microsoft, allows most XP-compatible programs to operate seamlessly under Windows 7. Hardware virtualization support in the CPU and BIOS is a requirement of XP mode.
ROFLMAO! It's times like these I wish I had mod points... Mod parent up!
I mounted a key cabinet on the wall. Nothing fancy, bought it at Home Depot. I put the master key for each item or location (workshop, house, garage, etc.) on a separate tag in the box, labeled by item. Same for spare vehicle keys. I key alike where possible, for example, one key unlocks every door on my house, another the shop, a third the garage. I use the same padlock for almost everything, the exceptions being my fuel oil storage tank and box trailer. Fuel is too valuable to trust to a commonly available Master key code, and the trailer gets parked in some nasty spots, so it needs beefier locks on the doors and anti-theft cables. My wife and I each carry a ring with the keys to our primary vehicle on one end of a quick disconnect and keys for the house, shop, key cabinet, and the common master padlock on the other end. We have garage door openers, so no key needed there. My ring has an extra male quick disconnect which I use whenever I tow a trailer. I group sets of keys by trailer on a ring in the key cabinet, so I can just grab, hook and go. Each personal keyring has a carabiner. I keep mine on a belt loop, my wife hooks hers inside her purse. I also have a work truck, and a remote office and storage cage I rarely visit. Both sets of keys for the truck are kept in the cabinet. One set has a carabiner, the other is a spare. On the set I carry, I keep the office and storage cage keys, plus a set of gate keys for various other work facilities, and a spare quick disconnect so I can take my house/shop keys. Work has their shit together, there are four gate keys for the entire nation, and the facilities themselves all use an access system that allows security to track the comings and goings of employees and contractors. Any time I go anywhere, I carry less than a dozen keys at most, and often no more than half of that.
DD-WRT can do this. I use it on an old Linksys WRT-54G. I've configured two separate private subnets, one for secure connections via WPA, the other for open access I share with my neighbors. All of my PCs, including those with wired connections, exist on the secure subnet. Wireless guests get insecure access. I also have a few wired ports on the insecure subnet. Comes in handy when I want to work on an infected PC, or when I want to give a visitor wired access without them seeing my network.
I could sure use some naked lady waitress action...