Spreading pro-linux and anti-MS propaganda just shows the ulterior motive of a "News" site run by a company with a vested interest in Linux
Well, i've read/. a while now, and it seem to have pro-linux attitude even before they were bought or became popular. I don't think you can say then that they reason/. is prolinux is b/c they were recently bought by a linux company. They were like that before, so it doesn't make sense to accuse them of that.
So you want to reboot when you install half of the software you own? Odd...i don't want to reboot at all, except to add or remove hardware. Why is it you need to reboot b/c you install quicken or ttax?? You shouldn't need to reboot at all if you're just installing user software. I think win2k has been much much improved, and yes there are less reboots, but there still are alot of unnecessary ones. I'd have to give that point to linux, where the only time you must reboot b/c of software is if you're updating the kernel.
The problem is if this new copyprotection gets built into all HDs. What do you recommend then, never buy another hard drive? True someone could build HDs that always give the OK to store something, but then its too late. Shortly after will follow a law making noncomplaint HDs illegal. Buisness won't stop upgrading, nor will home users. And can you really work in the tech field without having a computer at home? God knows alot of what i know i learned putting together my own home network.
What really pisses me off is all the money the entertainment industry makes, but no thats not good enough. They want every last penny. Why the fuck do they care if they lose even $1 million if they've made $40 million in one weekend? Jesus christ, enough is enough!
I agree. I don't think there should be any 'riders' at all allowed. Each item should get some amount of review, and if an item cannot be passed on its own, it shouldn't be allowed to pass b/c we want something else. The whole idea is retarded.
All advertising is based on the fallacy that if you're flooded with ads you'll remember the brand when you want to buy.
Heh...well then it does work on me. When i get to the store, i know exactly what i'm not going to buy. Pepsi vs Coke for example. Personally i perfer pepsi, but its not really that big a deal since for the most part they are very similar. In light of the recent moronic ads by both (especially annoying is that little bitch girl with the stupid voices), i switched to the generic cola. Just as good, cheaper, and i'm not supporting those fucking ads.
I suspect that Slashdot readers already have hight sales resistance
I was hoping that everyone did, but i'm starting to see now that people will buy whatever BS is put out there, and they'll believe the ads outright. Its kinda sad...
My online banking site uses JavaScript to do some validation before it submits. At work, we use javascript for the same reason. yes we could do it on the server, but A) its faster and easier for the person using the page if its done with javascript and B) it reduces bandwidth by not wasting packets to transmit bad data. It doesn't really take load off the server, since we check it again just to make sure a client isn't trying to cause overflows and such.
There's a patch to Junkbuster that will kill windows opened with javascript. As far as 'see ad, click thru to what you want at bottom', well some sites have already started that. Its very easy just to scroll to the bottom and click 'No thanks'. Of course maybe they'll bury the link you really want in the middle. I doubt that would work, if i can't find what i want in only a few clicks, i'm not going to dig for the link. If you hide the content i want to see w/crap i don't, well i won't be coming back to your page anymore. That last option, a new technology. Give me a break. 'Download this so we can bombard you with ads'. I doubt people would do that. And if this 'technology' is required to use the web site; well again, i won't be coming back.
The whole point of the web is that people can (realtivily easily) find the info they want, and just cut though all the bullshit. If they start requiring people to go through more bullshit, they'll take away the reason people use it.
Besides, there's another falacy at work against them. They said banner ads get ignored. Alot of people probably don't give a shit what the ad is offering, so why would forcing me to see more ads compel me to buy something when i already don't respond to the ads i see?
Oh, and BTW... ISPs have every right to decide what goes on their network. Its *their* property. Abovenet have decided not to allow hosts that are in the RBL to transit their network. Thats fine...
Oh no they do not have that right. They lose that right when you start paying for internet access. My apartment complex cannot tell me what kind of pictures (ie, of flowers, car, etc) i can hang in my apt. They can only specify that i don't hang them in such a was as to destory the apt. Sending and receiving data is not destorying the network; in fact that is what its purpose is.
Additionally, since you are free to leave, your complaints of lack of freedom within the democracy are moot
I'd have to disagree w/you there. Thats like saying if you complain about the faults of the US system you should leave. Well, what are the choices for free nations outside the us? Nothing really..
Did you seem to miss the fact that this seems to be a problem with the distro, and not the chip? While i'll agree that the P4 isn't all its cracked up to be, you should blame those really at fault; the linux vendors who's programs crash when they encounter something they don't expect.
Well, if the miniseries was more true to the book, then i can come to only one conclusion: The book must have been mindnumbling boring!! Now, i don't mind actors talking, but there was very little of anything else. And it didn't help me understand things any better. All the 'extra' stuff seemed very pointless to me, and left me yawning. True to the book or not, the sci-fi version was boring!
Don't blame the telephone companies. The FCC has prohibited the telephone companies from putting mobile phones and pagers in their own area code, they consider the practice to be anti-competitive. New York is an exception, the FCC grandfathered that area code allocation.
I doubt that. I think he's not talking about area codes at all in that rant, i think he's talking about the exchange. And in the Philly area, putting all cell phones into a common exchange is the norm.
The point here is that dialing 10 digits for a local call is both stupid and unnecessary. Get it together and have seperate codes only for location and cell phones. 7 digit local dialling inside those locations should stay.
I've been living in an area that already uses 10 digit dialing. In philly, area code 610 aquired a new overlay area code of 484, and the area code 215 got another one as well. Its a pain in the ass at first, but you get used to it very quickly. The other option was to split 215 and 610 again (610 was originally 215), which would have been more of a pain in the ass. All in all it doesn't really matter much.
The biggest problem is the mind-blowingly stupid way the US phone companies insist on having cell phone numbers in the same block as the local copper lines!!! Duh, what's the point in this? Look at NY. They have a seperate code for cells, and it works just great. And that's how most other countries of the world do it too. That's exactly how the rest of the country should handle it.
Well, again where i'm from that is how its done. Tell me though, why the fuck does it matter at all?? Is it somehow more difficult to remember? Everywhere i've lived has had more then one exchange, so what does it matter if a solid block is cell phone or not? If you don't like it, well get over it, there are more important things in life...
For most adults that need to talk to more people than can be pre-programmed into their phone, this is a royal pain in the ass. I make up to 200 business calls in a day, and this will increase my key strokes - well, you're supposed to be numerate, you work it out. And don't forget to add the extra time involved either.
Quite your wining, you insignificant twit. No one cares if you have to remember to dial 3 extra little numbers. If you're phone can't hold that many get one that can! Or learn to use your memory. They are probably considering this as a step to even longer phone numbers. Or would you just say 'let them run out of numbers'? Its a very minor and insignificat inconvience, and even then, only until it becomes habit. Once its habit, you don't think anything of it. Get over yourself.
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from (to quote a professor of mine).
Anyway, VRLM is all but dead, i've never heard of XSL, or XLT, XML has nothing to do with document layout, and DHTML and CSS work together to make creating a standard looking document easier.
As to the original Ask/. question, i ask this...why bother? Latex is a bit more difficult to learn (at least to me), and we'd probably just run into the same problems we have now with HTML. Imagine MS Latex Explorer, with its own Neat Stuff(tm) propritary addins. I think it'd just be pointless to switch all the content already out there to just repeat the same problems.
I beg to differ; the amount of stuff they find out about you will more then likely end up being used against you. I hope you don't have any unlicensed software, or look at porn, or spank your kids (for the sake of disciple, not b/c you're a sadist or anything). And as good of a person as you are, they can find something to paint you as evil. Lets not forget those packets that we say came from your IP, but you have no way to prove they didn't. 'You were on the internet at this time, weren't you? Therefor, it MUST have been you sending that kiddy porn out.' Lets not forget the lesson we should have learned from Sacco and Vanzetti (sp?). With no evidence, they were sentenced to die.
Well, i think thats nonsense. The only reason i got ICQ was b/c a friend say 'hey check this out, its pretty cool.' Last time i checked, the Yahoo! and MSN IM systems were gaining a userbase fairly quickly. I'd say within a few years, just about 'everyone you know' will have one of these as well. When it comes to these chat programs, i don't think people are as loyal as you would think, and many have at least 2. Especially if they all work pretty much the same (which from what i am told, the MSN equiv. looks alot like AIM).
I agree that ICQ for windows has begun to suck; i hate that they are using it to advertise, and its way more bloated then it should be. Although the same can be said for AIM, which is why i'm still using one of the 1.x releases. At any rate the linux clones seem to be coming along nicely, so i may switch to that.
The best remedy for this Carnivore stuff is to let them go. Really! In a year or two, they will have enough people in the psychos to get an idea that this was a stupid idea...
The cost for your idea is simply too great. Sure, you think it would expose this device for what it is, but just imagine the lives that would be effected by this. Imagine if it was YOU that they decided to pick on.
Besides, its more likely that no one would ever know that kinda thing was going on as a result of Carnivore. I doubt we'd hear about all the abuses of it, and the fact that no one does hear abuses about it would lead people to believe its not as bad as it sounds. No, letting them stomp on the Fourth Amendment is not a good idea; there was enough proof of what happens when police abuse thier powers 200 years ago when the clause was written. I don't think we need any more proof as to why we should respect it.
According to the copyright on my very old version of AIM, it came about in 1996. Thats also when i discovered icq, which wasn't out that long at all at the time. And according to the copyright in my fairly recent version of icq, it also came about in 1996.
At what are are you exposed to it in your schools though? Actually there have been studies supporting the idea that the earlier in life someone begins studying a language, the easier it will be for them to master it. At any rate, languages in the US are not offered in school until 9th grade, which is about the age of 14. In many researchers opinions, thats very late to start.
As far as the native americans; well, we can't very well change the past, and the fact is english is the majority language here. Saying that i'm on some sort of high horse is absurd; technically we don't even have an offical language, whereas Spain, France, Germany, etc do. I'm sure there are alot of french near the german border that know german. Should german become the offical language of France? Of course not, that doesn't make any sense.
I've often heard, from Europeans and Americans alike, that the reason Americans don't learn other languages is b/c we are lazy, or not as smart, or conceited. i don't think its any of those. Look at a globe, in particular the US and western Europe. Keep in mind the sizes of each, and also note how many countries border the US, and border each western Europen country. If you'll note, Europe has alot of countries that border each other. The US has 2. I think thats the reason that as you say most Europeans know more than one language. You can travel 3000 miles and go through a few different countries. In the US, you can travel 3000 miles and not leave the US. If you do, you would end up in Mexico or Canada. It seems far more practical for a European to speak a few languages then it is for an American, because Europeans live in close proximity to other nations that speak a different language. Not so in the US. I think if different states in the US had different languages that the majority spoke, we would have a different situation here.
Ugh, you know what, who the fuck cares what protocol they use. Its so incredibly simple to design another one, why waste time trying to get aol to open something that is reproduced virtually without effort. Look how fast icq caught on...and it has a whole other protocol. Don't give me that everyone has AIM crap...icq is proof that any protocol will do.
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Spreading pro-linux and anti-MS propaganda just shows the ulterior motive of a "News" site run by a company with a vested interest in Linux
/. a while now, and it seem to have pro-linux attitude even before they were bought or became popular. I don't think you can say then that they reason /. is prolinux is b/c they were recently bought by a linux company. They were like that before, so it doesn't make sense to accuse them of that.
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So you want to reboot when you install half of the software you own? Odd...i don't want to reboot at all, except to add or remove hardware. Why is it you need to reboot b/c you install quicken or ttax?? You shouldn't need to reboot at all if you're just installing user software. I think win2k has been much much improved, and yes there are less reboots, but there still are alot of unnecessary ones. I'd have to give that point to linux, where the only time you must reboot b/c of software is if you're updating the kernel.
The problem is if this new copyprotection gets built into all HDs. What do you recommend then, never buy another hard drive? True someone could build HDs that always give the OK to store something, but then its too late. Shortly after will follow a law making noncomplaint HDs illegal. Buisness won't stop upgrading, nor will home users. And can you really work in the tech field without having a computer at home? God knows alot of what i know i learned putting together my own home network.
What really pisses me off is all the money the entertainment industry makes, but no thats not good enough. They want every last penny. Why the fuck do they care if they lose even $1 million if they've made $40 million in one weekend? Jesus christ, enough is enough!
I agree. I don't think there should be any 'riders' at all allowed. Each item should get some amount of review, and if an item cannot be passed on its own, it shouldn't be allowed to pass b/c we want something else. The whole idea is retarded.
All advertising is based on the fallacy that if you're flooded with ads you'll remember the brand when you want to buy.
Heh...well then it does work on me. When i get to the store, i know exactly what i'm not going to buy. Pepsi vs Coke for example. Personally i perfer pepsi, but its not really that big a deal since for the most part they are very similar. In light of the recent moronic ads by both (especially annoying is that little bitch girl with the stupid voices), i switched to the generic cola. Just as good, cheaper, and i'm not supporting those fucking ads.
I suspect that Slashdot readers already have hight sales resistance
I was hoping that everyone did, but i'm starting to see now that people will buy whatever BS is put out there, and they'll believe the ads outright. Its kinda sad...
Really? I have yet to meet one.
My online banking site uses JavaScript to do some validation before it submits. At work, we use javascript for the same reason. yes we could do it on the server, but A) its faster and easier for the person using the page if its done with javascript and B) it reduces bandwidth by not wasting packets to transmit bad data. It doesn't really take load off the server, since we check it again just to make sure a client isn't trying to cause overflows and such.
There's a patch to Junkbuster that will kill windows opened with javascript. As far as 'see ad, click thru to what you want at bottom', well some sites have already started that. Its very easy just to scroll to the bottom and click 'No thanks'. Of course maybe they'll bury the link you really want in the middle. I doubt that would work, if i can't find what i want in only a few clicks, i'm not going to dig for the link. If you hide the content i want to see w/crap i don't, well i won't be coming back to your page anymore. That last option, a new technology. Give me a break. 'Download this so we can bombard you with ads'. I doubt people would do that. And if this 'technology' is required to use the web site; well again, i won't be coming back.
The whole point of the web is that people can (realtivily easily) find the info they want, and just cut though all the bullshit. If they start requiring people to go through more bullshit, they'll take away the reason people use it.
Besides, there's another falacy at work against them. They said banner ads get ignored. Alot of people probably don't give a shit what the ad is offering, so why would forcing me to see more ads compel me to buy something when i already don't respond to the ads i see?
I tend to just use the old trick of sticking a few printf statements in key places.
Heh...even with all the cool new tech, that still seems the most advanced way to find out exactly whats going on.
1) peacefire.org was not accused of sending spam.
2) MAPS blocks almost no spam.
I never said i liked spam. In fact, i was repsonding to someones comments that the ISP can anything they like for any reason they like.
Oh, and BTW... ISPs have every right to decide what goes on their network. Its *their* property. Abovenet have decided not to allow hosts that are in the RBL to transit their network. Thats fine...
Oh no they do not have that right. They lose that right when you start paying for internet access. My apartment complex cannot tell me what kind of pictures (ie, of flowers, car, etc) i can hang in my apt. They can only specify that i don't hang them in such a was as to destory the apt. Sending and receiving data is not destorying the network; in fact that is what its purpose is.
Additionally, since you are free to leave, your complaints of lack of freedom within the democracy are moot
I'd have to disagree w/you there. Thats like saying if you complain about the faults of the US system you should leave. Well, what are the choices for free nations outside the us? Nothing really..
Did you seem to miss the fact that this seems to be a problem with the distro, and not the chip? While i'll agree that the P4 isn't all its cracked up to be, you should blame those really at fault; the linux vendors who's programs crash when they encounter something they don't expect.
Well, if the miniseries was more true to the book, then i can come to only one conclusion: The book must have been mindnumbling boring!! Now, i don't mind actors talking, but there was very little of anything else. And it didn't help me understand things any better. All the 'extra' stuff seemed very pointless to me, and left me yawning. True to the book or not, the sci-fi version was boring!
Deregulation of electrical power supply in California is perhaps leading to higher electrical bills in the long run.
Odd, its not having that affect in PA...
Don't blame the telephone companies. The FCC has prohibited the telephone companies from putting mobile phones and pagers in their own area code, they consider the practice to be anti-competitive. New York is an exception, the FCC grandfathered that area code allocation.
I doubt that. I think he's not talking about area codes at all in that rant, i think he's talking about the exchange. And in the Philly area, putting all cell phones into a common exchange is the norm.
The point here is that dialing 10 digits for a local call is both stupid and unnecessary. Get it together and have seperate codes only for location and cell phones. 7 digit local dialling inside those locations should stay.
I've been living in an area that already uses 10 digit dialing. In philly, area code 610 aquired a new overlay area code of 484, and the area code 215 got another one as well. Its a pain in the ass at first, but you get used to it very quickly. The other option was to split 215 and 610 again (610 was originally 215), which would have been more of a pain in the ass. All in all it doesn't really matter much.
The biggest problem is the mind-blowingly stupid way the US phone companies insist on having cell phone numbers in the same block as the local copper lines!!! Duh, what's the point in this? Look at NY. They have a seperate code for cells, and it works just great. And that's how most other countries of the world do it too. That's exactly how the rest of the country should handle it.
Well, again where i'm from that is how its done. Tell me though, why the fuck does it matter at all?? Is it somehow more difficult to remember? Everywhere i've lived has had more then one exchange, so what does it matter if a solid block is cell phone or not? If you don't like it, well get over it, there are more important things in life...
For most adults that need to talk to more people than can be pre-programmed into their phone, this is a royal pain in the ass. I make up to 200 business calls in a day, and this will increase my key strokes - well, you're supposed to be numerate, you work it out. And don't forget to add the extra time involved either.
Quite your wining, you insignificant twit. No one cares if you have to remember to dial 3 extra little numbers. If you're phone can't hold that many get one that can! Or learn to use your memory. They are probably considering this as a step to even longer phone numbers. Or would you just say 'let them run out of numbers'? Its a very minor and insignificat inconvience, and even then, only until it becomes habit. Once its habit, you don't think anything of it. Get over yourself.
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from (to quote a professor of mine).
/. question, i ask this...why bother? Latex is a bit more difficult to learn (at least to me), and we'd probably just run into the same problems we have now with HTML. Imagine MS Latex Explorer, with its own Neat Stuff(tm) propritary addins. I think it'd just be pointless to switch all the content already out there to just repeat the same problems.
Anyway, VRLM is all but dead, i've never heard of XSL, or XLT, XML has nothing to do with document layout, and DHTML and CSS work together to make creating a standard looking document easier.
As to the original Ask
I beg to differ; the amount of stuff they find out about you will more then likely end up being used against you. I hope you don't have any unlicensed software, or look at porn, or spank your kids (for the sake of disciple, not b/c you're a sadist or anything). And as good of a person as you are, they can find something to paint you as evil. Lets not forget those packets that we say came from your IP, but you have no way to prove they didn't. 'You were on the internet at this time, weren't you? Therefor, it MUST have been you sending that kiddy porn out.' Lets not forget the lesson we should have learned from Sacco and Vanzetti (sp?). With no evidence, they were sentenced to die.
Well, i think thats nonsense. The only reason i got ICQ was b/c a friend say 'hey check this out, its pretty cool.' Last time i checked, the Yahoo! and MSN IM systems were gaining a userbase fairly quickly. I'd say within a few years, just about 'everyone you know' will have one of these as well. When it comes to these chat programs, i don't think people are as loyal as you would think, and many have at least 2. Especially if they all work pretty much the same (which from what i am told, the MSN equiv. looks alot like AIM).
I agree that ICQ for windows has begun to suck; i hate that they are using it to advertise, and its way more bloated then it should be. Although the same can be said for AIM, which is why i'm still using one of the 1.x releases. At any rate the linux clones seem to be coming along nicely, so i may switch to that.
The best remedy for this Carnivore stuff is to let them go. Really! In a year or two, they will have enough people in the psychos to get an idea that this was a stupid idea...
The cost for your idea is simply too great. Sure, you think it would expose this device for what it is, but just imagine the lives that would be effected by this. Imagine if it was YOU that they decided to pick on.
Besides, its more likely that no one would ever know that kinda thing was going on as a result of Carnivore. I doubt we'd hear about all the abuses of it, and the fact that no one does hear abuses about it would lead people to believe its not as bad as it sounds. No, letting them stomp on the Fourth Amendment is not a good idea; there was enough proof of what happens when police abuse thier powers 200 years ago when the clause was written. I don't think we need any more proof as to why we should respect it.
Well, that page looks fine to me. Was there something that was supposed to be off? I'm using NS 4.76...
According to the copyright on my very old version of AIM, it came about in 1996. Thats also when i discovered icq, which wasn't out that long at all at the time. And according to the copyright in my fairly recent version of icq, it also came about in 1996.
Get your facts straight...
At what are are you exposed to it in your schools though? Actually there have been studies supporting the idea that the earlier in life someone begins studying a language, the easier it will be for them to master it. At any rate, languages in the US are not offered in school until 9th grade, which is about the age of 14. In many researchers opinions, thats very late to start.
As far as the native americans; well, we can't very well change the past, and the fact is english is the majority language here. Saying that i'm on some sort of high horse is absurd; technically we don't even have an offical language, whereas Spain, France, Germany, etc do. I'm sure there are alot of french near the german border that know german. Should german become the offical language of France? Of course not, that doesn't make any sense.
I've often heard, from Europeans and Americans alike, that the reason Americans don't learn other languages is b/c we are lazy, or not as smart, or conceited. i don't think its any of those. Look at a globe, in particular the US and western Europe. Keep in mind the sizes of each, and also note how many countries border the US, and border each western Europen country. If you'll note, Europe has alot of countries that border each other. The US has 2. I think thats the reason that as you say most Europeans know more than one language. You can travel 3000 miles and go through a few different countries. In the US, you can travel 3000 miles and not leave the US. If you do, you would end up in Mexico or Canada. It seems far more practical for a European to speak a few languages then it is for an American, because Europeans live in close proximity to other nations that speak a different language. Not so in the US. I think if different states in the US had different languages that the majority spoke, we would have a different situation here.
Open your protocol back up, AOL.
Ugh, you know what, who the fuck cares what protocol they use. Its so incredibly simple to design another one, why waste time trying to get aol to open something that is reproduced virtually without effort. Look how fast icq caught on...and it has a whole other protocol. Don't give me that everyone has AIM crap...icq is proof that any protocol will do.
Actually, we've applied the patches, and are still getting hit by lovebug variants...