Its an old-fashioned boycott. Once the ISPs begin to freak out that no one is getting their mail or able to access their sites then it might change their mind in regards to policing spam.
I'm all for it as a temporary "show of force" solution.
In Windows networks running roaming profiles (not just penn state) the entire profile gets pushed. Except stuff in Local Settings, where IE keeps its cache too.
The firefox people are dead wrong and I have seen admins put a stop to FF usage because of this issue on domains with roaming profiles. On Windows, the Local Settings folder exists for a reason. Use it.
>In addition the Firefox user settings are stored in Application Data which has a 20 meg quota
Those quotas exist because roaming profiles are being used. Lots of people have begged the firefox people to shift the cache to local settings where it belongs, but they havent, thus the pushing around of a useless cache through the network.
Saying "Give me a bigger roaming profile because the software I use isnt written properly" is hardly the answer.
Complain to the manager. What is doing is probably against his employment contract or just plain unethical. He's pretty much taking the inventory of the retail store and pushing it to a third party. I dont care who you work for, if management found out that you were artificially draining their inventory and creating upset customers by doing this, you're probably in trouble. Bragging about this to a customer is extra-stupid.
Write a nice letter or call and they might toss in some coupons when they apologize.
No, you sound practical. Advertising usually affects the reptilian part of brains, preying on our patriotism (truck ads), vanity (gyms, makeup), greed (everything), etc. Its shameful there aren't controls on corporate "free speech" as McDonalds and others hire child psychologists to craft effective ads for their unhealthy products.
This is the golden age for ads. They're everything. Every webpage, above the urinal, people aren't very skeptical and have disposable incomes, the art of creating a working fad/meme is getting perfected, celebrities are manufactured from scratch, etc. And this is what people want.
The problem is two-fold. People, in general, need to take a good look at their consumerism and corps need controls on what they can and can't say. I'd like to see informative ads telling me cost, MPG, etc but a typical car ad is all mom, america, and apple pie stuff.
You're absolutely correct. S/MIME is easier, works great, and is supported by most mail clients. This should be what the privacy community should be pushing for, not the PGP bloat package. Yet...
The advantages of PGP and its clones are in its local disk encryption, not necessarily email. PGPdisk can encrypt a whole partition. Encrypting local files with your own key. etc.
The problem is incentive. Why should Joe User make a cert? How can he be conviced its in his advantage to do so?
PGP hasn't taken off and neither has S/MIME. That's just wrong.
Its brain-dead simple to rail against bureaucracies and pull some crowd pleasing but ineffective "smaller government" argument, but the problem is a bit more complex than that. Primarily, schools are paid for on the local level. It should all come from the federal level so poor neighborhoods don't have to deal with low funds. There's a reason why good schools tend to be in good neighborhoods (and no its not some work ethic bullshit, immigrant families are the hardest workers imho) its the money stupid.
Money attracts better beaurocrats (like the school board and the principal), better teachers, etc.
Not to mention funding is wasted on the American obsession with all things sports. My tax dollars shouldnt go towards teaching some kid how to play baseball when they can't do algebra or have biology books from '84.
The most effective way to get rid of "bad teachers" is not to hire them. But people tend to know their worth and only lackluster teachers will take the $22,000 a year job because funding is based on local property taxes.
Detach school funding from local taxes and things will change.
>why not have the RSS reader send one request, and then changes are pushed to the reader after that?
Well, they tried this way back when. I think they called it web casting. RSS is really just a lo-fi form of webcasting. You dont need to have any open ports on your machine, no special service running on the web server, just a flat file in the RSS format.
Webcasting may replace RSS, but then we would probably have the opposite problem. "Why is slashdot slashdotting me!!"
Sometimes you can't tell if you have the newest file, depending on the web server/config.
The problem, is of course, server-side. For instance, the GPL blog software Word Press doesnt do ANY cacheing. Its RSS is a php script. So if you get 10,000 requests for that RSS, then you're running a script 10,000 times. That's ridiculous and poor planning. Other RSS generation is guilty of this crime.
Yes, there is a plug in (which doesnt work at nerdfilter nor at the other wordpress site I run) and a savvy person could just make a cron job and redirect RSS requests to a static file, but that's all besides the point. This should all be done "out of the box." This is a software problem that should be addressed server side first, client side later.
Not to mention, a lot of these RSS readers are big sites like bloglines, newgator, etc who should be respecting bandwidth limits, but really have no incentive to do so. RSS really doesnt scale too well for big sites. What they should be doing is denying connections for IPs that hit it too often or change the RSS format to give server instructions like "Dont request this more than x times a day" in the header for the clients to obey. x would be a low number for a site not updated often and high for asite updated very often.
I saw it Chicago also, and it was fun, especially his subtle in-jokes and the way he'd throw himself around, but its far from the "most incredible" thing you'll see. Fans will dig it, but dragging a non-fan along will probably end up as a very lousy date.
I also recorded it on my Neuros mp3 player but without the guy doing the physical acts, the humor almost disappeared. Its was interesting, at least for me, to see how much his stage presence and physical actions were almost, if not moreso, important than the dialogue.
Recommended. I believe he was done in an hour, which was just perfect. It didn't feel too short or too long.
So now they have to run the "bloat" web browser to get to another server to do something they should be doing with the email app that contains all their contacts.
Yeah, there are other solutions, but the lack of calendaring in TB is keeping it from hitting a Firefox-like lovefest. It may not be an issue for you, but it is for others.
Integrated groupware/calendar is whats needed to compete with Outlook. Period. Not everyone is a savvy php programmer with servers and an organization to control.
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The problem is communication and perhaps marketing.
How is Joe User supposed to know Bearshare is spyware but eMule isn't?
Software writers need some sort of certification process with a familiar big ass logo that says "Spyware Free." Sort of how TrustE works, but you know, without all the sucking.
The problem just keeps getting worse. Marketscore shoots all your traffic through their proxies. What the hell is that about? They can just sift through EVERYTHING. If their proxies are slow, then all that money spent on that fat bandwidth connection is wasted. Most trojans arent this nasty.
I was talking to someone about this today. I think its more than likely that Jeopardy does its best to never let people like Jennings compete. There are probably hundreds of fact wizzes like him out there and if someone does too well in the opening tests they get turned down. Dominating the game makes it look easy, defeats competition, etc. Maybe Jennings isn't that special, he just slipped through.
The future? More like right now. The Euro is beating the dollar like gangbusters, and the only way out of this situation is massive inflation and tax increases. These are the fruits of Republicanism. By time time the shit hits the fan in 2008 there will probably be a democrat in office who will have to balance the budget and the right-wing noise machine will scream "Spendocrats," like they did when Clinton cleaned up Reagan's mess.
Then a Republican wins the seat again and we go through this stupid process all over again.
What we need is strict spending limits (and term limits) on all politicians regardless of party. Because at the end of the day its our money, not theirs. Well, technically, now its our debt. Perhaps people will be more skeptical of claims to war (and other things) when they realize that paying for a war means more taxes and cuts in services. And inflation and debt.
There are some other faults with the networked/digital classroom.
Powerpoint. I swear, PPT presentations make me more ignorant of the material. Professors just go wild with them, adding little obnoxious photos and animated borders, yet the entire "presentation" is about a page of text. Worse, most profs seem to do this for the sake of technology, as if having a projector in the room means they have no choice but to make useless powerpoint presentations.
Some even abuse it, treating powerpoint as their personal publishing house with terrible results. There's a reason why they won't publish your textbook, ya know.
The digital campus gets a bit ironic in a way when students have to print out all these files from various locations thus getting even farther away from the so-called paperless solution.
When I first went to school we had books, lectures, notes, and labs (depending on the class). Now I have to print out all sorts of powerpoints, which are considered notes, take notes on the "notes," watch teaching skills fly out the window as profs just click the mouse and repeat bullet points like marketing execs, bring a laptop with me if I want to do anything productive, etc.
I'm sure there's a good middle ground, but right now it seems computers in the classroom are still in the gimmick stage. The real advatages are outside the classroom, like websites with class info, grades, etc. Inside, its a mess.
Only after quite a bit of controversy and complaints did they bother to do this. In other words, their readership was in the Michael Moore demographic (or whatever you call it) so they folded to keep readership and trust, even after proving to be petty and untrustworthy. The original page was up for weeks if not months. And it was linked to all over the place and was an isssue of international importance.
This is another issue where "Blogs" and "new media" fail to be the watchdogs or the "better media" than the established media. Bias and prejudice in the media is real and snopes has it too.
The concept is very simple its "how can I trust them as a blind authority after they've been discredited." The page I linked it is very nice to Mr. Moore but what it had in its place was a mean spirited attack from so called impartial researchers.
Long story short, they got a lot of mail and complaints, and then had to take down their anti-Moore diatribe and put up an apology. Their original page, which was factually wrong and easily to refute, was up for weeks if not months.
So people tell me "Check snopes, they're impartial" but I say they might not be (at least when it comes to partisan politics). In other words we're forced to have faith in them. Forgive me for being skeptical after watching this whole thing play out on the net with the snopes people.
> find some tidbit
This is hardly some "tidbit" it was a question of internation importance and everyone was linking to snopes and their "Moore has it wrong and so does the Boston Globe" but we're right crap.
And snopes just isn't some "party," they are claim to do objective analysis and have proven to fail at it. They should have folded that day and let others more willing to be objective do the debunking.
Personally, I think people have an emotional attachment to snopes and now its a powerful brand, thus replies like yours with the loaded political term "the Karl Rove two-step."
The truth business isn't an easy one, but they clearly abused their power for quite sometime and used their huge readership to mislead and attack someone. They were caught red-handed. I dont see how you can defend them or dismiss it as a logical fallacy.
How the United States should react if Iraq acquired WMD. "The first line of defense...should be a clear and classical statement of deterrence--if they do acquire WMD, their weapons will be unusable because any attempt to use them will bring national obliteration." Condoleeza Rice, US National Security Advisor
January/February 2000 issue of Foreign Affairs 2/1/2000 We are greatly concerned about any possible linkup between terrorists and regimes that have or seek weapons of mass destruction...In the case of Saddam Hussein, we've got a dictator who is clearly pursuing and already possesses some of these weapons.. A regime that hates America and everything we stand for must never be permitted to threaten America with weapons of mass destruction. Dick Cheney, Vice President Detroit, Fund-Raiser 6/20/2002 Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. Dick Cheney, Vice President Speech to VFW National Convention 8/26/2002 There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest. Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary Response to Question From Press 9/6/2002 We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud Condoleeza Rice, US National Security Advisor CNN Late Edition 9/8/2002 Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons. George W. Bush, President Speech to UN General Assembly 9/12/2002 Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons. We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have George W. Bush, President Radio Address 10/5/2002 The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas. George W. Bush, President Cincinnati, Ohio Speech 10/7/2002 And surveillance photos reveal that the regime is rebuilding facilities that it had used to produce chemical and biological weapons. George W. Bush, President Cincinnati, Ohio Speech 10/7/2002
Thanks for your time patriot! Because people are dying in Iraq and I want to know why.
>Taco, thanks for proving once again the old proverb, "a lie can make it halfway 'round the world before the truth gets its boots on."
All too true. Gore was one of the few "geek" politicians out there (granted he wore many 'hats') and seeing his own record used against him to mock him because of some disturbing form of geek 31337 nonsense and media disinformation is really pathetic.
Oh well, my senator's email address is usually broken and when it works the emails get ignored. I've heard him talk about the tech sector on the radio and he wasn't half as articulate as most high school drop out failed MCSE's I know working at McDonalds.
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Its an old-fashioned boycott. Once the ISPs begin to freak out that no one is getting their mail or able to access their sites then it might change their mind in regards to policing spam.
I'm all for it as a temporary "show of force" solution.
I'm not talking about the profile, but the cache.
In Windows networks running roaming profiles (not just penn state) the entire profile gets pushed. Except stuff in Local Settings, where IE keeps its cache too.
The firefox people are dead wrong and I have seen admins put a stop to FF usage because of this issue on domains with roaming profiles. On Windows, the Local Settings folder exists for a reason. Use it.
This may be the funniest thing I'v ever read on slashdot. Then again I just got up and my judgment is impaired.
>In addition the Firefox user settings are stored in Application Data which has a 20 meg quota
Those quotas exist because roaming profiles are being used. Lots of people have begged the firefox people to shift the cache to local settings where it belongs, but they havent, thus the pushing around of a useless cache through the network.
Saying "Give me a bigger roaming profile because the software I use isnt written properly" is hardly the answer.
Complain to the manager. What is doing is probably against his employment contract or just plain unethical. He's pretty much taking the inventory of the retail store and pushing it to a third party. I dont care who you work for, if management found out that you were artificially draining their inventory and creating upset customers by doing this, you're probably in trouble. Bragging about this to a customer is extra-stupid.
Write a nice letter or call and they might toss in some coupons when they apologize.
>I don't sound bitter do I?
No, you sound practical. Advertising usually affects the reptilian part of brains, preying on our patriotism (truck ads), vanity (gyms, makeup), greed (everything), etc. Its shameful there aren't controls on corporate "free speech" as McDonalds and others hire child psychologists to craft effective ads for their unhealthy products.
This is the golden age for ads. They're everything. Every webpage, above the urinal, people aren't very skeptical and have disposable incomes, the art of creating a working fad/meme is getting perfected, celebrities are manufactured from scratch, etc. And this is what people want.
The problem is two-fold. People, in general, need to take a good look at their consumerism and corps need controls on what they can and can't say. I'd like to see informative ads telling me cost, MPG, etc but a typical car ad is all mom, america, and apple pie stuff.
Similiar post over at nerdfilter today. The video is hilarious and worth watching.
You're absolutely correct. S/MIME is easier, works great, and is supported by most mail clients. This should be what the privacy community should be pushing for, not the PGP bloat package. Yet...
The advantages of PGP and its clones are in its local disk encryption, not necessarily email. PGPdisk can encrypt a whole partition. Encrypting local files with your own key. etc.
The problem is incentive. Why should Joe User make a cert? How can he be conviced its in his advantage to do so?
PGP hasn't taken off and neither has S/MIME. That's just wrong.
Its brain-dead simple to rail against bureaucracies and pull some crowd pleasing but ineffective "smaller government" argument, but the problem is a bit more complex than that. Primarily, schools are paid for on the local level. It should all come from the federal level so poor neighborhoods don't have to deal with low funds. There's a reason why good schools tend to be in good neighborhoods (and no its not some work ethic bullshit, immigrant families are the hardest workers imho) its the money stupid.
Money attracts better beaurocrats (like the school board and the principal), better teachers, etc.
Not to mention funding is wasted on the American obsession with all things sports. My tax dollars shouldnt go towards teaching some kid how to play baseball when they can't do algebra or have biology books from '84.
The most effective way to get rid of "bad teachers" is not to hire them. But people tend to know their worth and only lackluster teachers will take the $22,000 a year job because funding is based on local property taxes.
Detach school funding from local taxes and things will change.
Tried a few times and nothing.
>why not have the RSS reader send one request, and then changes are pushed to the reader after that?
Well, they tried this way back when. I think they called it web casting. RSS is really just a lo-fi form of webcasting. You dont need to have any open ports on your machine, no special service running on the web server, just a flat file in the RSS format.
Webcasting may replace RSS, but then we would probably have the opposite problem. "Why is slashdot slashdotting me!!"
Sometimes you can't tell if you have the newest file, depending on the web server/config.
The problem, is of course, server-side. For instance, the GPL blog software Word Press doesnt do ANY cacheing. Its RSS is a php script. So if you get 10,000 requests for that RSS, then you're running a script 10,000 times. That's ridiculous and poor planning. Other RSS generation is guilty of this crime.
Yes, there is a plug in (which doesnt work at nerdfilter nor at the other wordpress site I run) and a savvy person could just make a cron job and redirect RSS requests to a static file, but that's all besides the point. This should all be done "out of the box." This is a software problem that should be addressed server side first, client side later.
Not to mention, a lot of these RSS readers are big sites like bloglines, newgator, etc who should be respecting bandwidth limits, but really have no incentive to do so. RSS really doesnt scale too well for big sites. What they should be doing is denying connections for IPs that hit it too often or change the RSS format to give server instructions like "Dont request this more than x times a day" in the header for the clients to obey. x would be a low number for a site not updated often and high for asite updated very often.
I saw it Chicago also, and it was fun, especially his subtle in-jokes and the way he'd throw himself around, but its far from the "most incredible" thing you'll see. Fans will dig it, but dragging a non-fan along will probably end up as a very lousy date.
I also recorded it on my Neuros mp3 player but without the guy doing the physical acts, the humor almost disappeared. Its was interesting, at least for me, to see how much his stage presence and physical actions were almost, if not moreso, important than the dialogue.
Recommended. I believe he was done in an hour, which was just perfect. It didn't feel too short or too long.
So now they have to run the "bloat" web browser to get to another server to do something they should be doing with the email app that contains all their contacts.
Yeah, there are other solutions, but the lack of calendaring in TB is keeping it from hitting a Firefox-like lovefest. It may not be an issue for you, but it is for others.
Integrated groupware/calendar is whats needed to compete with Outlook. Period. Not everyone is a savvy php programmer with servers and an organization to control.
The problem is communication and perhaps marketing.
How is Joe User supposed to know Bearshare is spyware but eMule isn't?
Software writers need some sort of certification process with a familiar big ass logo that says "Spyware Free." Sort of how TrustE works, but you know, without all the sucking.
The problem just keeps getting worse. Marketscore shoots all your traffic through their proxies. What the hell is that about? They can just sift through EVERYTHING. If their proxies are slow, then all that money spent on that fat bandwidth connection is wasted. Most trojans arent this nasty.
I was talking to someone about this today. I think its more than likely that Jeopardy does its best to never let people like Jennings compete. There are probably hundreds of fact wizzes like him out there and if someone does too well in the opening tests they get turned down. Dominating the game makes it look easy, defeats competition, etc. Maybe Jennings isn't that special, he just slipped through.
>. I still say it was a throw.
Well, if we're going to be dealing in the currency that is conspiracy theories, I'll take "Based on the movie Quiz Show for $500, Alex."
The future? More like right now. The Euro is beating the dollar like gangbusters, and the only way out of this situation is massive inflation and tax increases. These are the fruits of Republicanism. By time time the shit hits the fan in 2008 there will probably be a democrat in office who will have to balance the budget and the right-wing noise machine will scream "Spendocrats," like they did when Clinton cleaned up Reagan's mess.
Then a Republican wins the seat again and we go through this stupid process all over again.
What we need is strict spending limits (and term limits) on all politicians regardless of party. Because at the end of the day its our money, not theirs. Well, technically, now its our debt. Perhaps people will be more skeptical of claims to war (and other things) when they realize that paying for a war means more taxes and cuts in services. And inflation and debt.
There are some other faults with the networked/digital classroom.
Powerpoint. I swear, PPT presentations make me more ignorant of the material. Professors just go wild with them, adding little obnoxious photos and animated borders, yet the entire "presentation" is about a page of text. Worse, most profs seem to do this for the sake of technology, as if having a projector in the room means they have no choice but to make useless powerpoint presentations.
Some even abuse it, treating powerpoint as their personal publishing house with terrible results. There's a reason why they won't publish your textbook, ya know.
The digital campus gets a bit ironic in a way when students have to print out all these files from various locations thus getting even farther away from the so-called paperless solution.
When I first went to school we had books, lectures, notes, and labs (depending on the class). Now I have to print out all sorts of powerpoints, which are considered notes, take notes on the "notes," watch teaching skills fly out the window as profs just click the mouse and repeat bullet points like marketing execs, bring a laptop with me if I want to do anything productive, etc.
I'm sure there's a good middle ground, but right now it seems computers in the classroom are still in the gimmick stage. The real advatages are outside the classroom, like websites with class info, grades, etc. Inside, its a mess.
>So, to say that a source has lost credibility because they have been shown to be biased is pretty silly.
Youre missing the point.
1. They were factualy incorrect, prefering to go with a story of their own concotion and political leanings.
2. They used their "media outlet" and I use that term lightly for a petty and personal attack on Moore. Can we say partisan hacks? I thought we could.
Even the worst paper saves that juvenille crap for the opinion section.
Only after quite a bit of controversy and complaints did they bother to do this. In other words, their readership was in the Michael Moore demographic (or whatever you call it) so they folded to keep readership and trust, even after proving to be petty and untrustworthy. The original page was up for weeks if not months. And it was linked to all over the place and was an isssue of international importance.
This is another issue where "Blogs" and "new media" fail to be the watchdogs or the "better media" than the established media. Bias and prejudice in the media is real and snopes has it too.
The concept is very simple its "how can I trust them as a blind authority after they've been discredited." The page I linked it is very nice to Mr. Moore but what it had in its place was a mean spirited attack from so called impartial researchers.
Long story short, they got a lot of mail and complaints, and then had to take down their anti-Moore diatribe and put up an apology. Their original page, which was factually wrong and easily to refute, was up for weeks if not months.
So people tell me "Check snopes, they're impartial" but I say they might not be (at least when it comes to partisan politics). In other words we're forced to have faith in them. Forgive me for being skeptical after watching this whole thing play out on the net with the snopes people.
> find some tidbit
This is hardly some "tidbit" it was a question of internation importance and everyone was linking to snopes and their "Moore has it wrong and so does the Boston Globe" but we're right crap.
And snopes just isn't some "party," they are claim to do objective analysis and have proven to fail at it. They should have folded that day and let others more willing to be objective do the debunking.
Personally, I think people have an emotional attachment to snopes and now its a powerful brand, thus replies like yours with the loaded political term "the Karl Rove two-step."
The truth business isn't an easy one, but they clearly abused their power for quite sometime and used their huge readership to mislead and attack someone. They were caught red-handed. I dont see how you can defend them or dismiss it as a logical fallacy.
And which one of these guys started a "pre-emptive" war based on this "intelligence." None of them. The blood is on the hands of Bush and the neocons.
Thanks for pointing out that that the two party system is pretty shitty here in the US, though.
Please explain some of the following also:
Thanks for your time patriot! Because people are dying in Iraq and I want to know why.
>Taco, thanks for proving once again the old proverb, "a lie can make it halfway 'round the world before the truth gets its boots on."
All too true. Gore was one of the few "geek" politicians out there (granted he wore many 'hats') and seeing his own record used against him to mock him because of some disturbing form of geek 31337 nonsense and media disinformation is really pathetic.
Oh well, my senator's email address is usually broken and when it works the emails get ignored. I've heard him talk about the tech sector on the radio and he wasn't half as articulate as most high school drop out failed MCSE's I know working at McDonalds.
Liberal media indeed!
They proved themselves to be partisan hacks before. And if in you're in the 'truth' business you don't do what they did to Michael Moore and remain trusted.
Granted, that article is correct, but their credibility was killed long ago.