In Portland, Oregon, a friend mentioned that, before the last election, there were no signs in the yards in the wealthy area where he lives. Now there are seven Kerry/Edwards signs in the yards around his. There are no Bush signs. I began looking for Bush signs as I drive around my area. I've seen none. There is at least one Kerry sign on each block, usually more.
Dude, that's Portland! It's against the law in Portland to support anyone but Kerry. Since I'm someone who grew up in a "balanced" region where about the people were one party and about half the other, finding a city were Republicans are non-existant is freaky.
I guess it depends on the group. pr0n is obviously going to generate spam. That's just the nature of it. I suspect product-related groups would be similar.
But the few groups I'm using don't have this problem anymore, even though it was a horrible problem not that many years ago. These aren't necessarily tiny niche groups either, but groups that get about two to three hundred messages a day. Todays check of one of these only turned up only two spams. Needless to say, I don't want to mention them, lest the spammers discover them.
You had an awfully funny way of trying to get it then. You don't crosspost inflammatory screeds to virtually every FreeBSD mailing list and then expect warm and hearty congratulations. If you act like an asshole you'll be treated like an asshole.
Usenet didn't go away. For a time it exceeded the public pain threshold and almost died. But then something amazing happened. All the spammers and trolls noticed that everyone left, so they left too. Today I can actually peruse newsgroups that have less than a 1% troll/spam ratio.
p.s. Don't tell anyone about this though! I don't want the bastards coming back!
If you have not already done so, TURN OFF the debugging switches in your kernel. Non -RELEASE versions of 5.x are going to have major performance issues simply because they've got so many debugging switches on. So turn them off, or wait for -RELEASE to appear in a couple of weeks.
There is exactly one GNU/Linux... which is ultimately designed by one team.
Bwahahaha! You've got one kernel (with half a dozen semi-official patch sets), one GNU metaproject (with dozens subprojects each with their own team), imports from several other projects, and an infrastructure that is unique to each distribution. Then you have some tiny distros that use busybox and dietlibc. Or realtime embedded variants.
Claiming that there's exactly one system/team in this mix is beyond absurd.
We don't get as religious over here in BSD land as you Linux people do. We don't consider our OS to be the Second Coming. It's just an operating system, nothing more. Therefore it does amuse us at times when we see you Linux folks chasing after new distros like God himself just handed them down to Moses.
The truth of the matter is that FreeBSD is probably going to be less different from your current distro than some other Linux distros are...
With portupgrade the removal of the old port is automatic. Occasionally you'll have a problem with it, such as when the name of a port has changed, but for the most part you just don't have to worry about it.
What problems are you having that this is not happening?
You are making gross mischaracterizations about KDE. KDE was started to create a destkop, not an API. The API was merely a pleasant side effect. We're not all a bunch of ex-MFC programmers. Some of us have NEVER written native Windows software.
The apathy towards OpenStep stems from two facts. First, until recently there was no Free OpenStep desktop. There was a Free OpenStep API, but not a desktop. And that API wasn't complete at the time Qt/KDE and GTK+/GNOME became popular. The second reason is Objective C. Despite the good things about the language, you must admit if you have any honesty that it is not a common language. Until the release of OSX is was almost a dead language. People starting with a new API prefer to use a language they know. The most common systems languages are still C and C++.
Qt/KDE is not "crippleware". That's below-the-belt FUD that cheapens your whole argument. Even if you have a small enough mind to truly believe that, stating will only hurt your "cause".
Does this mean they'll be getting rid of the real threats to our freedom, like the Patriot Act and Bush?
Considering that the leading challenger against Bush voted for the Patriot Act, I don't see much change if we continue to stick with the homogeneity of the two major parties. Face it, the terrorists won by striking terror into the hearts of legislators. We would still have had the Patriot Act or something very close to it even if Gore were president.
Bombs cannot be used on a specific target. I can't use one to attack you without also attacking the people around you. Nukes are very big bombs. I can't use one to attack you without attacking the entire city you're standing in. With a big enough nuclear spat you end up with climate changes affecting everyone on the planet.
Nuclear escalation ends in world destruction. And thus the original question assumed the inevitable destruction of the world. That's so ridiculous that Pike rightly dismissed it. Patent proliferation may eventually destroy the *patent* system, but it won't lead to a nuclear winter in software.
The problem is that the "middle class" keep getting redefined upwards. You can't just say it's the middle third of incomes and then complain because 33% remains 33% fifty years later! My father was middle class. I am considerably better off than he was. Yet I am still middle class. I might actually be able to retire before I'm sixty. He couldn't retire until he was seventy.
The poor in my home town during my youth lived in barrios. It seems to me that all the ships are rising together. Destitution has all but vanished in this society. That is a good thing.
Trickle-down doesn't work very well, but it still works a damned sight better than the hand-me-down economics the statists want.
the fundamental philosophy of libertarianism -- "greed is the ultimate good"
That's not the fundamental philosophy at all. Not even close. Do not mistake objectivism with libertarianism, no matter what the objectivists say.
The fundamental philosophy of libertarianism is liberty, hence the name. Liberty means the lack of coercion, or the initiation of force. In other words, you may not interfer with the actions of another without permission, except for self defense.
The only reason greed enters the picture is because freedom means the freedom to be greedy as well as altruistic. A political philosophy based on abolishing an emotion, such as greed or hatred, is a philosophy that advocates tyranny.
We hear the supply-side view about the minimum wage killing jobs all the time, even though the same sorts of dire predicitions have been made for 70 years now without coming to pass.
Those dire predictions don't come to pass because we only raise the minimum wage to meet the market rate for minimum wage jobs. All we do is pat ourselves on the back for being so compassionate while we ignore the marginalized workers.
As long as it's the black teenager who gets marginalized out of a job, it's okay to raise the minimum wage. But raise it too high and you marginalize the white man out of a job too, and you can't have that.
"Zoologists anxiously await the result of the latest attempt to mate Joe the programmer at the San Diego Zoo. Joe, a 39 year old Unix hacker, represents the future of his endangered species. Last year's mating attempt was a failure, although zoologists say they learned valuable lessons from it.
"We were so sure then that we would succeed," said lead researcher Bob Bobertson. "For a week we fed him nothing but oysters and Jolt cola." While the introduction of supermodel Heidi Klum to his cage did excite Joe, he still failed to perform in front of a live female, prefering instead the security of his computer monitor.
"This year we're trying a new approach," said Bobertson. "We hired a hooker to dress up as a penguin."
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In Portland, Oregon, a friend mentioned that, before the last election, there were no signs in the yards in the wealthy area where he lives. Now there are seven Kerry/Edwards signs in the yards around his. There are no Bush signs. I began looking for Bush signs as I drive around my area. I've seen none. There is at least one Kerry sign on each block, usually more.
Dude, that's Portland! It's against the law in Portland to support anyone but Kerry. Since I'm someone who grew up in a "balanced" region where about the people were one party and about half the other, finding a city were Republicans are non-existant is freaky.
There's Darwin, which has the advantage of being NATIVE...
I guess it depends on the group. pr0n is obviously going to generate spam. That's just the nature of it. I suspect product-related groups would be similar.
But the few groups I'm using don't have this problem anymore, even though it was a horrible problem not that many years ago. These aren't necessarily tiny niche groups either, but groups that get about two to three hundred messages a day. Todays check of one of these only turned up only two spams. Needless to say, I don't want to mention them, lest the spammers discover them.
That's all I wanted, respect.
You had an awfully funny way of trying to get it then. You don't crosspost inflammatory screeds to virtually every FreeBSD mailing list and then expect warm and hearty congratulations. If you act like an asshole you'll be treated like an asshole.
Usenet didn't go away. For a time it exceeded the public pain threshold and almost died. But then something amazing happened. All the spammers and trolls noticed that everyone left, so they left too. Today I can actually peruse newsgroups that have less than a 1% troll/spam ratio.
p.s. Don't tell anyone about this though! I don't want the bastards coming back!
If you have not already done so, TURN OFF the debugging switches in your kernel. Non -RELEASE versions of 5.x are going to have major performance issues simply because they've got so many debugging switches on. So turn them off, or wait for -RELEASE to appear in a couple of weeks.
There is exactly one GNU/Linux... which is ultimately designed by one team.
Bwahahaha! You've got one kernel (with half a dozen semi-official patch sets), one GNU metaproject (with dozens subprojects each with their own team), imports from several other projects, and an infrastructure that is unique to each distribution. Then you have some tiny distros that use busybox and dietlibc. Or realtime embedded variants.
Claiming that there's exactly one system/team in this mix is beyond absurd.
The FreeBSD section isn't that accurate either.
We don't get as religious over here in BSD land as you Linux people do. We don't consider our OS to be the Second Coming. It's just an operating system, nothing more. Therefore it does amuse us at times when we see you Linux folks chasing after new distros like God himself just handed them down to Moses.
The truth of the matter is that FreeBSD is probably going to be less different from your current distro than some other Linux distros are...
With portupgrade the removal of the old port is automatic. Occasionally you'll have a problem with it, such as when the name of a port has changed, but for the most part you just don't have to worry about it.
What problems are you having that this is not happening?
You are making gross mischaracterizations about KDE. KDE was started to create a destkop, not an API. The API was merely a pleasant side effect. We're not all a bunch of ex-MFC programmers. Some of us have NEVER written native Windows software.
The apathy towards OpenStep stems from two facts. First, until recently there was no Free OpenStep desktop. There was a Free OpenStep API, but not a desktop. And that API wasn't complete at the time Qt/KDE and GTK+/GNOME became popular. The second reason is Objective C. Despite the good things about the language, you must admit if you have any honesty that it is not a common language. Until the release of OSX is was almost a dead language. People starting with a new API prefer to use a language they know. The most common systems languages are still C and C++.
Qt/KDE is not "crippleware". That's below-the-belt FUD that cheapens your whole argument. Even if you have a small enough mind to truly believe that, stating will only hurt your "cause".
You would vote for someone who doesn't even read the bills he votes for? What's to say he won't sign bills without reading them first?
Does this mean they'll be getting rid of the real threats to our freedom, like the Patriot Act and Bush?
Considering that the leading challenger against Bush voted for the Patriot Act, I don't see much change if we continue to stick with the homogeneity of the two major parties. Face it, the terrorists won by striking terror into the hearts of legislators. We would still have had the Patriot Act or something very close to it even if Gore were president.
Bombs cannot be used on a specific target. I can't use one to attack you without also attacking the people around you. Nukes are very big bombs. I can't use one to attack you without attacking the entire city you're standing in. With a big enough nuclear spat you end up with climate changes affecting everyone on the planet.
Nuclear escalation ends in world destruction. And thus the original question assumed the inevitable destruction of the world. That's so ridiculous that Pike rightly dismissed it. Patent proliferation may eventually destroy the *patent* system, but it won't lead to a nuclear winter in software.
"I kept asking him about the Nazis in Redmond, and he kept invoking Godwin's law."
Always vote for someone, never against someone.
You know, if you got your blinders any narrower, you would be looking at the world through quantum physics experiment...
There is more to the world than Kerry==white && Bush==black
The problem is that the "middle class" keep getting redefined upwards. You can't just say it's the middle third of incomes and then complain because 33% remains 33% fifty years later! My father was middle class. I am considerably better off than he was. Yet I am still middle class. I might actually be able to retire before I'm sixty. He couldn't retire until he was seventy.
The poor in my home town during my youth lived in barrios. It seems to me that all the ships are rising together. Destitution has all but vanished in this society. That is a good thing.
Trickle-down doesn't work very well, but it still works a damned sight better than the hand-me-down economics the statists want.
the fundamental philosophy of libertarianism -- "greed is the ultimate good"
That's not the fundamental philosophy at all. Not even close. Do not mistake objectivism with libertarianism, no matter what the objectivists say.
The fundamental philosophy of libertarianism is liberty, hence the name. Liberty means the lack of coercion, or the initiation of force. In other words, you may not interfer with the actions of another without permission, except for self defense.
The only reason greed enters the picture is because freedom means the freedom to be greedy as well as altruistic. A political philosophy based on abolishing an emotion, such as greed or hatred, is a philosophy that advocates tyranny.
Yes please. As a Slashdot reader I tend to take things very literally.
We hear the supply-side view about the minimum wage killing jobs all the time, even though the same sorts of dire predicitions have been made for 70 years now without coming to pass.
Those dire predictions don't come to pass because we only raise the minimum wage to meet the market rate for minimum wage jobs. All we do is pat ourselves on the back for being so compassionate while we ignore the marginalized workers.
As long as it's the black teenager who gets marginalized out of a job, it's okay to raise the minimum wage. But raise it too high and you marginalize the white man out of a job too, and you can't have that.
"Zoologists anxiously await the result of the latest attempt to mate Joe the programmer at the San Diego Zoo. Joe, a 39 year old Unix hacker, represents the future of his endangered species. Last year's mating attempt was a failure, although zoologists say they learned valuable lessons from it.
"We were so sure then that we would succeed," said lead researcher Bob Bobertson. "For a week we fed him nothing but oysters and Jolt cola." While the introduction of supermodel Heidi Klum to his cage did excite Joe, he still failed to perform in front of a live female, prefering instead the security of his computer monitor.
"This year we're trying a new approach," said Bobertson. "We hired a hooker to dress up as a penguin."
Because we all know the liberals have been the epitome of rational logicians the last four years...
After all, Slashdot has never linked to a left wing site...
But only Democrats whine that they lost because felons weren't given a chance to vote for them. While factual, it isn't something I would brag about.