But someone has to be connected as administrator to do Windows updates, just as I have to have an internet connection while I'm root to use apt-get.
One of the main stupid things in Windows is that you have to log in to the whole GUI mess as administrator---whereas in proper systems (where the GUI, e.g. X, is an optional part of the OS) you open an xterm and use su so that only the processes run from that xterm have root privileges. There's little temptation to run a web browser or word processor as root.
Because MaelstromX said something you didn't like, you modded him down. Censorship at it's finest.
Moderation by the users is not censorship---it's a rating system that each reader can decide individually whether or not to use. No one is stopping you from reading/. at -1. (I would agree that if the editors modded something down against the wishes of the users, it would be censorship.)
1) I've never noticed the bad HTML ("it works in my browser") but it is pretty sleazy that they've blocked the W3C validator (it gets 403 Forbidden).
Will this post should now get modded down into oblivion for mentioning it?
2) You mean the "overrated" mod? I agree: that shouldn't affect the poster's karma.
3) Ooh---this is highly subjective and could be the fault of Slashdot's readers too!
Ah yes, the standard "if you don't agree with me you don't know what you're talking about" argument. Try pulling your head of your arse.
That's a bit unfair. The previous poster said "Only people who don't really know anything besides Java", not "all people who use mainly Java".
I think it's fair to say that knowing only thing in a category (e.g. one programming language) significantly reduces a person's competence to make comparisons in that field (e.g. between languages).
In more modern times it was Visual Basic, the language that even monkeys could use. You've got entire programming environments where all you do is drag and drop stuff around the screen.
That's the truth! If you're not typing, you're not programming.
Gee, imagine the desire to procreate being more powerful than a narcotic. I'm addicted to oxygen, too.
Um, what people usually do while looking at porn (so I've heard) isn't procreation.
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Everyone has a hotmail account they leave around for junk.. Which means that they are just gathering emails at the moment costing Microsoft in Bandwidth costs.
So we should all open Hotmail accounts, post the addresses on Usenet and the WWW and log in only often enough to keep the account from being closed. Thus the evil empire will be brought to its knees!
by 2006 the government will have the first of 30 million digitized pages from papers published from 1836 through 1922 which will be available to anyone who has a connection to the net.
Copyright law is provided to protect the authors of a work from unauthorized redistribution of their work. Mainly, it's was brought about because some unethical printers were making obscene profit off of other people's works a long time ago.
So true! Copyright is supposed to give authors the privilege of restricting publishers---not to let publishers restrict the public.
You can lie about the info on the supermarket loyalty card, by putting a fake phone number, address, whatever, no big deal, and I don't think the supermarket will mind.
Not with all the supermarket cards that I've seen in the UK. Instead of giving you the "discount" at the time of purchase, they mail you vouchers---so you can't get the discounts unless you give them a real address.
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You forgot to say "a friend told me"!
Maybe they expect a gullibility correlation between lottery participation and IE use?
Wow! My brain is not at all standards-compliant.
One of the main stupid things in Windows is that you have to log in to the whole GUI mess as administrator---whereas in proper systems (where the GUI, e.g. X, is an optional part of the OS) you open an xterm and use su so that only the processes run from that xterm have root privileges. There's little temptation to run a web browser or word processor as root.
Except for Google's apparently permanent retention of all searches (with IP addresses and cookie information)!
Such a good idea! Home users with XP---which allows proper user segregation---just will not listen when I tell them to use it!
Tracing a printout to a specific printer is in many circumstances almost the same as tracing it to an individual.
Thanks. I was trying to figure out what in Star Wars it was an allusion to!
Moderation by the users is not censorship---it's a rating system that each reader can decide individually whether or not to use. No one is stopping you from reading /. at -1. (I would agree that if the editors modded something down against the wishes of the users, it would be censorship.)
1) I've never noticed the bad HTML ("it works in my browser") but it is pretty sleazy that they've blocked the W3C validator (it gets 403 Forbidden). Will this post should now get modded down into oblivion for mentioning it?
2) You mean the "overrated" mod? I agree: that shouldn't affect the poster's karma.
3) Ooh---this is highly subjective and could be the fault of Slashdot's readers too!
4) I agree but it's not too serious.
And it would the fault of that someone. You can also build RF equipment with resistors, transistors, etc., but we don't blame the suppliers.
What are the faults that bug you?
Sure. I subscribe to Slashdot although I have AdBlock. I'm sure I'm not the only one!
Sorry, I don't get that---what's the "Chewbacca defense"?
SiMac only said walls---nothing about a roof or a door!
What's the difference?
That's a bit unfair. The previous poster said "Only people who don't really know anything besides Java", not "all people who use mainly Java".
I think it's fair to say that knowing only thing in a category (e.g. one programming language) significantly reduces a person's competence to make comparisons in that field (e.g. between languages).
That's the truth! If you're not typing, you're not programming.
Surely not many regular Register readers?
Um, what people usually do while looking at porn (so I've heard) isn't procreation.
So we should all open Hotmail accounts, post the addresses on Usenet and the WWW and log in only often enough to keep the account from being closed. Thus the evil empire will be brought to its knees!
With no "soul-sucking" registration required?
So true! Copyright is supposed to give authors the privilege of restricting publishers---not to let publishers restrict the public.
Not with all the supermarket cards that I've seen in the UK. Instead of giving you the "discount" at the time of purchase, they mail you vouchers---so you can't get the discounts unless you give them a real address.
Oops! Will this system help encourage the lazy admins to start allowing cable modem customers to route their own mail?