I don't know about you, but if I wanted yum/apt-get/ports, I'd not be using Slackware or its derivatives. I use Slackware because I specifically do NOT want to use those package managers. On modern hardware, it's not much trouble to run a slackbuild script and get a nice install package that I can reuse on my other installs. And if I really want PAM, I add it... Of course, I've been a Slackware user since circa 1994, and although I do use mythbuntu for my mythtv boxes, I am still primarily a Slackware user.
Please don't tell me that she's a personality prototype from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation! That or made by the same people who brought you Bender's Robo-Puppy. ("Robo-puppy commencing 4 hour barking sequence...")...
So, just because I didn't buy music this month automatically makes me disrespecting/infringing upon copyright? Sounds like you've succumbed to the "if we're not selling the music then peoples MUUUUUST be pirating it!" philosophy.
The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With." (Especially if your robot is a personality prototype with a strange pain in all the diodes down his left side...)
I've been thinking that on a very low level, the real difference between the typical communist country and the USA is a difference of one political party. I like how in many other gov'ts in the world there is more diversity of political parties. Why is everything in the USA democrat or republican? I know there's other parties, but they don't seem to really have a chance.
...why the TSA is allowed to open up packages without the presence of the owner of said packages. If they were forced to page the owner to come back and observe the TSA performing a screening on the contents, that would cut down a lot on the opportunity for this type of theft to occur. If the owner doesn't respond to the page from the TSA, then the package simply is not allowed onboard is a fair policy I think. Also, make sure that the TSA personnel are required to fill out paperwork for every package they page the owners for will cut down on abuse of powers as well.
Then the question is - what about those software companies that stopped advertising version numbers and switched to using the year instead? So Foo 2007 and Foo 2008 might actually be only a difference in a few revisions or maybe a minor version, but it's all repackaged as new and people don't know any better...
I'm sorry, I don't even see how it is an offense for an 18 year old to have sex with a girl just shy of her 16th birthday. This isn't even a case of there being worse offenses. People tend to go around blathering about how teenagers aren't mature enough to make decisions on their own, but they (the teenagers) are severely hampered (sheltered) in their opportunities to make important decisions. Perhaps 2/3 to 3/4 of teenagers being "immature" is more so a result of society, and not entirely a result of biology. (Yes I do know that there are researchers who say that some parts of the brain are not fully developed until we're in our early 20s. I agree that this is *part* of the reason but I don't accept it as the primary reason.)
I've heard that in some regions of the USA you can be labeled a sex offender for doing any of the following:
1. Peeing in a public alleyway.
2. Have sex in the backseat of your car with your significant other.
3. Be in possession of pictures of your girlfriend's boobs, when both of you are say, 16 years old.
It seems that Americans have a terrible hangup about sex. You would get the impression that we don't have sex unless it's through a sheet with a hole in it, and not without scrubbing down as if we're surgeons going in to operate... And teenagers are not allowed to have any sex whatsoever. They can't even play doctor. (Not to mention that for most of the history of humanity, people started having sex as soon as the parts were fully functional...)
That being said, EXACTLY how is this legislation supposed to improve the Internet and not just ruin the lives of people undeserving such punishment and waste a crapload of taxpayer dollars?
Uhm. Just because something has an IP address that is publicly routable doesn't mean that you CAN'T FIREWALL IT. NAT is just a bandaid on a wound requiring stitches. It in of itself only adds in a very small layer of protection.
If you think NAT is so great, tell me what happens when you have a user whose home network is in 10.0.0.0/24 and they try to connect to their office VPN, which provides them with... wait... an IP in 10.0.0.0/24? I do believe that IPv6 has mechanisms for these types of situations built in (the 3 scopes).
Let's see here - a few more CD's means a few more purchases, with little effort involved. Net gain for the economy. On the other hand, paying salaries to the Copyright Cops and the Copyright Czar to bust a woman in a wheelchair and her 10 year old daughter living on a meager income with little property... equals a net loss for the economy. If a net gain is a positive number, and a net loss is a negative number, isn't a positive number always larger than a negative number?
I didn't even pull this out of my ass... It's just simple Economics 101 and Math 101 for you... In fact, in a basic Macro Economics course, you are taught about the curves that represent the amount of goods sold for a given price, the cost of making a certain number of goods, etc. I don't recall these curves taking into account pirated copies of the copyrighted goods. In fact, those should ALWAYS be ignored except for the purposes of devising a way to turn the infringers into paying customers without the political spin.
Face it, if there's no profit in publishing songs, movies, tv shows, software, or books, then why are they in the business of doing so, and why do they need increased taxpayer subsidized "protection"?
Solve this equation then:
The function of u to the power of n equals the integral of e to the x. (Hint: you might need to write it down to see the solution...)
And herein lies the rub. The factory mentality of school systems is the root of the problem. Why is it that until junior high/middle school or even high school, that everybody pretty much has to sit with the same kids all day long and get the same teaching? When I was in second grade, I was one of these bright students, and I fought constantly with my teacher because she insisted that I had to do everything that everybody else did and if I finished I couldn't do anything else. I just had to sit there. But when my parents wanted to advance me, the issue was purely black and white. I would have to be advanced a grade (which actually would have been fine), but the school fought them because a) I refused to be compliant (duh, I was a little boy, and little boys have a tendency to not be compliant), and b) because I wouldn't be as "emotionally developed" to be able to handle the older class. So I was punished.
The issue is that you've been given a job that is impossible from the start, and your job is, sorry to say, quite futile, in achieving its goals.
On a similar note: I remember a fairly recent episode of "The Daily Show" where they showed a bunch of Republican congressmen or senators (don't remember which it was) bitching about the fact that they were now only being able to drill 50 miles off the coast instead of say, right on the shores. They kept quoting some unknown experts that had stated that something like 90% of the available oil is within 0-49 miles off the coast as the reason for their anger. Funny thing is, the Daily Show team showed that the experts being cited were none other than those of the Minerals Management Service, which were being bribed with sex and drugs by the oil companies to award the industry contracts...
Then we come back to that whole "experience is something you get AFTER you needed it" deal... I happen to agree that limiting the speed on the vehicle is only going to stop the few most "deadly" of accidents that teenagers can cause. The reasons teenagers are bad drivers come down to a) teenage sense of invincibility, b) hormones, and c) lack of experience. Pretty much all of these will pass in time, but one does need to drive to get the experience.
Man, I remember how scared I was the last time my grandma drove my sister and I somewhere back when I was 14. She was only going 20 mph, and it scared the shit out of us. And besides the fact that she wasn't keeping the car in one lane was the fact that she was going 20 in a 40 zone where the average driver does 45-50...
unenforceable. Ford is pioneering a technical means which would make it 100% enforceable, and, of course, irrevocably locked in, assuring you can't escape collapsing section of the LA freeway.
Not to nitpick my friend, but when was the last time you were able to drive above 5 mph on any freeway in LA? Everytime I go to LA, I dread having to drive there.
Telecom warrantless wiretapping was not limited to only phones.
"Arts + labs", as well as several congressmen, are actually trying to push this, with the encouragement of certain cable-co's who want to use DPI to lock out competition and turn the internet into the next cell-phone bill.
I actually thought that they (the telcos and cablecos) wanted to turn the internet into the next TV set... one-way media distribution, completely controlled by them. Isn't that why the average users has pathetically slow upstream?
How about that annoying beeping that occurs when I place something weighing 20 lbs in the driver's seat and the stupid sensor thinks that it's a person sitting there who is not buckled up? That's about the only annoyance I've ever had with my Corolla XRS...
Call me a skeptic... I'll wait until I hear about it being confirmed by the kernel devs or some well known security experts... I've heard the "internet is doomed!!!!!" too many times to knee-jerk...
I've never used PrimoPDF before, so I do not know how it compares. With PDFCreator, we set all the parameters for them and then all they do is print and save to file or e-mail. A few of the more advanced users have been able to handle the combining of documents in the PDFCreator spool into one PDF document. Note, however, that we do not install the goofy IE/Firefox toolbars when we do the install.
I like to remind the people that I know that politically, the difference between the US gov't and a communist gov't is a difference of 1 single party. Until more people are willing to vote for non-"mainstream" parties (read: democrat or republican), there will be no voices really heard. It will just continue to be more of the same-old-same-old. Remember, a lot of these corporations and corporate interest groups bribe both parties to ensure that whoever is in control at the given time will do their dirty work for them.
Ma Bell (AT&T for those of you who don't know) has been refitting their cabinets lately for vdsl. When they screwed something up with my line and knocked my adsl off, I had one of the technicians come up and check. After he was done fixing it, I spoke with him a bit about this new service they're preparing for. Apparently it is his opinion that nobody would ever need 10 Mbps upstream, because nobody would ever be able to fill up a 10 Mbps pipe. I do believe that this type of attitude permeates Ma Bell... and those who don't believe that don't want people to be able to have 10 Mbps upstream. It makes use more interactive and less TV like if there is symmetry in the streams.
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Actually, that only works for documents that you can view/edit in Open Office. For general purpose use, you can always opt for PDFCreator. We use it at our clients' offices, and have excellent results.
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I don't know about you, but if I wanted yum/apt-get/ports, I'd not be using Slackware or its derivatives. I use Slackware because I specifically do NOT want to use those package managers. On modern hardware, it's not much trouble to run a slackbuild script and get a nice install package that I can reuse on my other installs. And if I really want PAM, I add it... Of course, I've been a Slackware user since circa 1994, and although I do use mythbuntu for my mythtv boxes, I am still primarily a Slackware user.
Please don't tell me that she's a personality prototype from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation! That or made by the same people who brought you Bender's Robo-Puppy. ("Robo-puppy commencing 4 hour barking sequence...")...
So, just because I didn't buy music this month automatically makes me disrespecting/infringing upon copyright? Sounds like you've succumbed to the "if we're not selling the music then peoples MUUUUUST be pirating it!" philosophy.
The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With." (Especially if your robot is a personality prototype with a strange pain in all the diodes down his left side...)
I've been thinking that on a very low level, the real difference between the typical communist country and the USA is a difference of one political party. I like how in many other gov'ts in the world there is more diversity of political parties. Why is everything in the USA democrat or republican? I know there's other parties, but they don't seem to really have a chance.
I guess I must be a terrist, because I don't float on water...
...why the TSA is allowed to open up packages without the presence of the owner of said packages. If they were forced to page the owner to come back and observe the TSA performing a screening on the contents, that would cut down a lot on the opportunity for this type of theft to occur. If the owner doesn't respond to the page from the TSA, then the package simply is not allowed onboard is a fair policy I think. Also, make sure that the TSA personnel are required to fill out paperwork for every package they page the owners for will cut down on abuse of powers as well.
Then the question is - what about those software companies that stopped advertising version numbers and switched to using the year instead? So Foo 2007 and Foo 2008 might actually be only a difference in a few revisions or maybe a minor version, but it's all repackaged as new and people don't know any better...
I'm sorry, I don't even see how it is an offense for an 18 year old to have sex with a girl just shy of her 16th birthday. This isn't even a case of there being worse offenses. People tend to go around blathering about how teenagers aren't mature enough to make decisions on their own, but they (the teenagers) are severely hampered (sheltered) in their opportunities to make important decisions. Perhaps 2/3 to 3/4 of teenagers being "immature" is more so a result of society, and not entirely a result of biology. (Yes I do know that there are researchers who say that some parts of the brain are not fully developed until we're in our early 20s. I agree that this is *part* of the reason but I don't accept it as the primary reason.)
I've heard that in some regions of the USA you can be labeled a sex offender for doing any of the following:
1. Peeing in a public alleyway.
2. Have sex in the backseat of your car with your significant other.
3. Be in possession of pictures of your girlfriend's boobs, when both of you are say, 16 years old.
It seems that Americans have a terrible hangup about sex. You would get the impression that we don't have sex unless it's through a sheet with a hole in it, and not without scrubbing down as if we're surgeons going in to operate... And teenagers are not allowed to have any sex whatsoever. They can't even play doctor. (Not to mention that for most of the history of humanity, people started having sex as soon as the parts were fully functional...)
That being said, EXACTLY how is this legislation supposed to improve the Internet and not just ruin the lives of people undeserving such punishment and waste a crapload of taxpayer dollars?
Uhm. Just because something has an IP address that is publicly routable doesn't mean that you CAN'T FIREWALL IT. NAT is just a bandaid on a wound requiring stitches. It in of itself only adds in a very small layer of protection.
If you think NAT is so great, tell me what happens when you have a user whose home network is in 10.0.0.0/24 and they try to connect to their office VPN, which provides them with... wait... an IP in 10.0.0.0/24? I do believe that IPv6 has mechanisms for these types of situations built in (the 3 scopes).
Let's see here - a few more CD's means a few more purchases, with little effort involved. Net gain for the economy. On the other hand, paying salaries to the Copyright Cops and the Copyright Czar to bust a woman in a wheelchair and her 10 year old daughter living on a meager income with little property... equals a net loss for the economy. If a net gain is a positive number, and a net loss is a negative number, isn't a positive number always larger than a negative number?
I didn't even pull this out of my ass... It's just simple Economics 101 and Math 101 for you... In fact, in a basic Macro Economics course, you are taught about the curves that represent the amount of goods sold for a given price, the cost of making a certain number of goods, etc. I don't recall these curves taking into account pirated copies of the copyrighted goods. In fact, those should ALWAYS be ignored except for the purposes of devising a way to turn the infringers into paying customers without the political spin.
Face it, if there's no profit in publishing songs, movies, tv shows, software, or books, then why are they in the business of doing so, and why do they need increased taxpayer subsidized "protection"?
Funny, an ex-boss of mine tried to tell that to the cop that had just pulled him over...
Needless to say, he still got a ticket...
Solve this equation then:
The function of u to the power of n equals the integral of e to the x. (Hint: you might need to write it down to see the solution...)
And herein lies the rub. The factory mentality of school systems is the root of the problem. Why is it that until junior high/middle school or even high school, that everybody pretty much has to sit with the same kids all day long and get the same teaching? When I was in second grade, I was one of these bright students, and I fought constantly with my teacher because she insisted that I had to do everything that everybody else did and if I finished I couldn't do anything else. I just had to sit there. But when my parents wanted to advance me, the issue was purely black and white. I would have to be advanced a grade (which actually would have been fine), but the school fought them because a) I refused to be compliant (duh, I was a little boy, and little boys have a tendency to not be compliant), and b) because I wouldn't be as "emotionally developed" to be able to handle the older class. So I was punished.
The issue is that you've been given a job that is impossible from the start, and your job is, sorry to say, quite futile, in achieving its goals.
On a similar note: I remember a fairly recent episode of "The Daily Show" where they showed a bunch of Republican congressmen or senators (don't remember which it was) bitching about the fact that they were now only being able to drill 50 miles off the coast instead of say, right on the shores. They kept quoting some unknown experts that had stated that something like 90% of the available oil is within 0-49 miles off the coast as the reason for their anger. Funny thing is, the Daily Show team showed that the experts being cited were none other than those of the Minerals Management Service, which were being bribed with sex and drugs by the oil companies to award the industry contracts...
What, you don't want to see annoying, strobing "punch the monkey" banner ads????
Then we come back to that whole "experience is something you get AFTER you needed it" deal... I happen to agree that limiting the speed on the vehicle is only going to stop the few most "deadly" of accidents that teenagers can cause. The reasons teenagers are bad drivers come down to a) teenage sense of invincibility, b) hormones, and c) lack of experience. Pretty much all of these will pass in time, but one does need to drive to get the experience.
Man, I remember how scared I was the last time my grandma drove my sister and I somewhere back when I was 14. She was only going 20 mph, and it scared the shit out of us. And besides the fact that she wasn't keeping the car in one lane was the fact that she was going 20 in a 40 zone where the average driver does 45-50...
unenforceable. Ford is pioneering a technical means which would make it 100% enforceable, and, of course, irrevocably locked in, assuring you can't escape collapsing section of the LA freeway.
Not to nitpick my friend, but when was the last time you were able to drive above 5 mph on any freeway in LA? Everytime I go to LA, I dread having to drive there.
Telecom warrantless wiretapping was not limited to only phones. "Arts + labs", as well as several congressmen, are actually trying to push this, with the encouragement of certain cable-co's who want to use DPI to lock out competition and turn the internet into the next cell-phone bill.
I actually thought that they (the telcos and cablecos) wanted to turn the internet into the next TV set... one-way media distribution, completely controlled by them. Isn't that why the average users has pathetically slow upstream?
How about that annoying beeping that occurs when I place something weighing 20 lbs in the driver's seat and the stupid sensor thinks that it's a person sitting there who is not buckled up? That's about the only annoyance I've ever had with my Corolla XRS...
Call me a skeptic... I'll wait until I hear about it being confirmed by the kernel devs or some well known security experts... I've heard the "internet is doomed!!!!!" too many times to knee-jerk...
I've never used PrimoPDF before, so I do not know how it compares. With PDFCreator, we set all the parameters for them and then all they do is print and save to file or e-mail. A few of the more advanced users have been able to handle the combining of documents in the PDFCreator spool into one PDF document. Note, however, that we do not install the goofy IE/Firefox toolbars when we do the install.
I like to remind the people that I know that politically, the difference between the US gov't and a communist gov't is a difference of 1 single party. Until more people are willing to vote for non-"mainstream" parties (read: democrat or republican), there will be no voices really heard. It will just continue to be more of the same-old-same-old. Remember, a lot of these corporations and corporate interest groups bribe both parties to ensure that whoever is in control at the given time will do their dirty work for them.
Ma Bell (AT&T for those of you who don't know) has been refitting their cabinets lately for vdsl. When they screwed something up with my line and knocked my adsl off, I had one of the technicians come up and check. After he was done fixing it, I spoke with him a bit about this new service they're preparing for. Apparently it is his opinion that nobody would ever need 10 Mbps upstream, because nobody would ever be able to fill up a 10 Mbps pipe. I do believe that this type of attitude permeates Ma Bell... and those who don't believe that don't want people to be able to have 10 Mbps upstream. It makes use more interactive and less TV like if there is symmetry in the streams.
Actually, that only works for documents that you can view/edit in Open Office. For general purpose use, you can always opt for PDFCreator. We use it at our clients' offices, and have excellent results.