For all the crap he gets here, its never been about the money with Bill. He lives in relative modesty for his income and has always maintained that his kids would only inherit a small portion of his wealth with the bulk to be used for charitable causes.
Sigh. More crap.
Why would you assume it has to be about money? Most all of the old time mob dons lived in modest circumstances. Come to think of it, many of the newer ones do as well. Child abusers generally love kids, and they also like living in nice neighbourhoods. John Wayne Gacy enjoyed his meals, rapists can enjoy sex, and there's many a loving father and mother out there that regularly beat their kids.
As for Bill, I don't consider it a stretch for anyone to conclude that for him, it's always been about control. The money is secondary, but serves validate his position. And what's in his will for the kids is of little bearing. Personally, I think it's A Good Thing that he contributes to worthy causes and engages in philanthropy (what the hell else is he going to do with all the cash and the free time he now has on his hands), but it's fair game to offer criticism with respect to his past and present actions. Put another way, I still think he should go fuck himself.
So now that we're clear that something not being about money can still be A Bad Thing, I'm left wondering about the financial aspects of the decision. The "puts a lot of money back into circulation that otherwise would just be sitting there earning income" summary sounds a bit simplistic, given that lots of foundations started by other monopolists are around and kicking, contributing to the general benefit of society. If they all spent their money at once, who's left to fund anything?
My guess is that it's more like the Slashdot moderation system. Mod +5 Safe or -1 Looks Like ann Arab to Me. Either way, I expect the courts will, at some point in the future, get their chance to meta moderate.
Adobe Type Manager, with font smoothing, was out on Macs in 1991, long before ClearType, which was touted as one of XP's new features when it shipped in 2002. ATM was even available as an add-on to Windows by 1993, nine years ahead of ClearType. Furthermore, Mac OS 8.5 shipped with Apple's own built-in font smoothing in 1998. Whether or not M$ has done much innovating, that example doesn't exactly help his case.
A bit of history trivia. Reprinted without permission:
Adobe introduced the PostScript language in 1985; it is used to enable the printout of high-quality graphics and styled font text. PostScript is now the de facto standard in the UNIX community and the only print standard in the Macintosh community.
The Hewlett-Packard (HP) company currently holds the largest market share of desktop inkjet and office laser printers. Back when Windows was released, HP decided to expand into the desktop laser jet market with the first LaserJet series of printers. At the time there was much pressure on Microsoft to use Adobe Type Manager for scalable fonts within Windows and to print PostScript to higher-end printers. Microsoft decided against doing this and used a technically inferior font standard, TrueType. They thought it was unlikely that the user would download fonts to the printer since desktop publishing was not being done on PCs at the time. Instead, users would rasterize the entire page to the printer using whatever proprietary graphics printer codes the selected printer needed. HP devised HPPCL for their LaserJets and made PostScript an add-on.
Ted Mittlestaedt The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide c 2001
Personally, I think most claims Microsoft has to innovating anything has to be viewed in the context of low expectations (or general ignorance) on the part of Windows users and administrators. Improved error messages? Dear lord. Should I hold my breath for a useful syslog implementation? A recent comment suggested held Monad to be an example of innovation. Considering that the closest Microsoft has been to offering a usable command line was in the DOS era, that not much has changed since then, and that despite promises issued along with the release of Windows 2000 that most everything could be done using the command line, I'd say the Monad comment is representative of the We Don't Get Out Much ecosystem that defines Windows. No wonder people are quick to cheer.
But back to ClearType, it's worth noting that while the technology has been around for a while, the decision to offer it in XP was no doubt more the consequence of marketing and not technology. How else to get all those Win2000 users to upgrade? You want Windows on a notebook, you need to buy XP.
Americans are wasting a billion gallons of fuel per year by being so fat.
They probably also buy big gas guzzlers that they can fit into it, and wear out tires faster than the rest of it.
I'm all for lobbying against fat people, but maybe we should take a cue from presidential politics and advocate an approach with a great chance of success , then pick a new Who Would Jesus Bomb T shirt to wear to the protest rallies.
Being a hacker is not a punishable offense. If criminals are using so-called "hacker" skills in criminal pursuits, they're still criminals. Call them criminals.
An unfortunate analogy, but it may be worthwhile to note that being called a pedophile is to be branded a dangerous criminal, despite the fact that the meaning of the term isn't synonymous with child rapist and, thought crimes aside, is as neutral as being considered an audiophile, bibliophile or an Anglophile.
Or am I talking semantics?
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Dunno about that; my Apple ][ was beige...and so were Macs for a while.
IIRC, the "beige" was a bit different than the "putty" that everyone else sold.
I think you have to give the nod to Dell for the "black" revolution here; I know many server admins who bought Dell's crappy hardware in the early 2000's just because they thought it looked sexier in the fucking server room.
Black is always good. But I disagree on the Dells. The problem with Dell is they insist on prominently displaying their goofball logo on every item they sell. If it appeals to anyone, then it must appeal to the same bunch that think it's fine to be wearing Tshirts adorned with corporate logos without irony, or new car buyers driving around with a cheap-assed licensed plate holder bearing the name of some car dealership.
Me, I think the typical consumer PC should be black, or subtle enough that it resembles hi end audio equipment, and look more like a smaller version of a 2U server than anything else. Unfortunately, that opinion prevents me from even considering shiny white plastic Macs.
Windows 2000 promised administrators the ability to manage everything from the command-line. That turned out to be true mostly for a small list-of-old-DOS-utilities value of true. Additionally, we were offered junctions/mount-points which sortofkindof worked, but weren't fully supported. Sysinternals offered their 'junction' utility which worked a bit better, but again, not really. Now with Vista have SFU or SFU-as-subsystem that promises everything that Windows Scripting Host promised and more!
I expect that whatever hodge-podge of new features, one-off Resource Kit utilities or whatever else Microsoft decides to offer in their latest and greatest, I'll continue to rely on the folks at Cygwin to take advantage of whatever limited functionality exists in Windows, and then implement workarounds for the inconsistencies and shortcomings to make something useful and sane with it. In the meantime, I'll bet my right monad that a future Slashdot headline will read Vista's Borked NFS Client.
So, the behaviour observed in animals where they lick wounds, and even in humans, that 'kiss it better' (introduce saliva to the wound), or suck on a sore wound to make it feel better, by instinct, hasn't given the clue that there's something in saliva that helps?
I've been moaning about that for years, and without exception, every pet owner and every vet considered me nuts. I noticed that if you lay a plate of food on the ground and have a dog lick it clean, a thin clear coating builds up on the surface of the plate. Give it a day or two, and washing the plate hot soapy water doesn't remove the coating as you'd think it would.
Mind you I don't know what's in saliva, and as this article suggests, few have stopped to consider the subject long enough to study it. What I do know is that the standard procedure of treating a dog for an injury or skin problem involves topical antiobiotics in combination with a cone that's placed over the dog's head (if a dog has any self respect, it's lost in minutes after the cone goes on). Licking, according to established wisdom, defeats the purpose, infects the wound or injury, saliva is full of germs, blah blah blah. Dogs have been around longer than veterinary medicine, and I doubt there's many wild animals that have membership in an HMO. Put another way, they've been doing fine for longer than we know. And for reasons we can only hope to discover. I let my own dogs lick any itches or wounds they have, and have yet to find something that hasn't healed as it should. I can't say the same for pets of relatives and friends who went the cone-head route.
I could add something on how oral sex relates to the topic at hand, but instead I'll continue with Stuff I Learned About Dogs that similarly runs contrary to a veterinary advice, established wisdom, or published literature. I expect Science will catch up to this, as it will in other areas.
1. Dogs don't need a lot of water. Unless you feed them a steady diet of dried corn meal packaged up as dog food.
2. Dogs don't need or want a steady diet, and feeding your dog "table scraps" (aka "real food") doesn't cause upset and diarrhea. By comparison, if you eat nothing but Corn Flakes every day for 10 years, chances are an ordinary hamburger will cause problems.
3. Dogs are creatures of habit, but seek out a change in regimen when possible. Don't feed your dog in a bowl. Hide the food around the house and make them search for it. Great fun. Even better, roll some soft-boiled eggs across the kitchen floor and let them catch their food. The expression on their face after that first bite is priceless.
4. If given the opportunity, dogs will discover they enjoy fruits and many vegetables (green leafy stuff being the exception, and apples and tomatoes perennial favourites). The best food for dogs is pizza. Yeah, pizza. Pizza has lots of fat (more important than protein for any active dog), it's chewy (all dogs like to chew), and if there's lots of toppings, the scavenger instinct is satisfied. Best served warm, of course.
Obviously, I have way too much free time on my hands. Maybe I can become a scientist.
So many people use NOSPAMjohn@NOSPAMexample.com (remove the NOSPAM to reply) or some variation of that, I tried using spam@example.com as my email address on Google Groups and previously on Usenet.
I got pretty much nothing. No spam. Not then, not now.
A fairly good workaround.
I'd also point out that spam harvesting is a big problem with respect to public email lists, the content of which gets plastered all over the web. I'm subscribed to about 30 lists, and most all of the spam seems to have originated from someone harvesting my email address from one or more postings of mine. What's worse is that the lists, all of which are technical and non-Windows related (so the subscribers should know better), are full of people using [insert names of many popular email clients here] who consider it appropriate to be quoting a real email address in every attribution line.
Instead of something like,
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 18:43:41PM -0700, John Smith wrote:
we get
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 18:43:41PM -0700, John Smith [john@home.address.com] wrote:
Then, of course, there's Exchange users (or those forced to use Exchange). My biggest complaint is with web mail users (Yahoo, etc.) who also unwittingly or otherwise spam us all with their 2-4 line adverts for crap no one is interested in.
Over here, the separated collection of waste, including separate places where electronic waste (computers, household electronics) has been in place for many years.
And we can see from your Slashdot User ID that you live in...
A little background regarding this incident that I can recall (covered days ago on other places, can't remember where);
1. Offender is a known "Gordon Street" gang banger in Los Angeles. 2. Offender had a warrant out for his arrest for accepting stolen goods. 3. Offender was running from the police officers before they had tackled them.
So...
1. He belongs to a gang like his father, and brother, and sister, and probably everyone else in his family and neighbourhood. 2. He has a history of engaging in property crimes to make money. 3. He's learned to be afraid of the police.
Sounds fairly ordinary.
4. In the video, you can see the offender grabbing the officer's inner thigh before the officer started to punch the offender.
I suspect I'd instinctively grab onto whatever I could before I got pushed to the ground by a couple of 200 lb. fully armed, angry droids and punched in the face.
That said, I'm left wondering WTF kind of training police officers get these days.
What, exactly, is the argument against pen-and-paper voting? It seems to me that everybody wants to migrate to voting machines
In case you missed the last election, I'll sum it for you in two word: hanging chads.
That, plus the huge amount amount of federal money that was made available shortly thereafter to the states to fix the mess, and election officials who, not knowing any better, opting to spend it on a shrinkwrapped product sold by very few vendors.
Note that what's missing from the equation are federal standards. But with most Americans historically clamoring about free markets, burdensome government regulations and state's rights, it shouldn't be a surprise that we ended up with a situation that can be characterised as somewhere between goofy and scandalous.
As for the documentary, I was disappointed. If I could ask a question, it would be why so much time was alloted to the human interest angle and redundant footage (dumpster diving, people standing around, etc.) rather than a close examination and discussion of the technical issues involved. The election officials probably went through a procurement process like that of most government agencies when they buy licenses for the latest edition of Windows. It's the nature of that shrinkwrapped product that needed a documentary, not the backroom goings on of low-level government employees.
Everything changed? Not really, Dean was removed from contention in 2004 in much the same way Allen was removed in 2006, by shooting his mouth off in front of a video camera.
Speaking of shooting off and the nature of video as a communications medium, I wonder why no one has yet assembled clips of George Bush farting around the Whitehouse. (Gentle Slashdot readers should feel free to Google using those keywords.) It's debatable if such videos would have a direct effect on the outcome of an election, but the commercials would be more fun to watch.
hey do, it's the virtual desktop manager (VDM) power toy, and it's a free download for Windows XP.
I love the way people who don't know shit about windows love to criticize microsoft for bullshit reasons. There are plenty of reasons to blame them, you don't have to make shit up.
And I love the way people who insist they know about Windows and *nix are quick to point out similarities which aren't similar at all. Put another way, Microsoft's VDM is a toy along the lines of notepad. It sucks. YMMV, but its approach of "hiding" open windows doesn't count for much. Unless, of course, you can't tell the difference.
What whith the ubiquity of pr0n, avaliable readily for free and without embarrassment on the Intarweb Tubes, the testosterone no longer has a chance to build up in the male body.
Can I have a PhD please?
An alternate theory is that we'll start growing breasts, and routinely have sex with ourselves in the shower. No need for pr0n.
I stumbled across some Mozillazine "knowledge base" articles in the past when I was trying to configure some custom shortcuts. My recollection of what I found was that the information incomplete. If it helps anyone else, the "keyboard registry" can be found here.
It's nice to see someone else who agrees that this stuff should be distributed as documentation (or made part of the Help file), rather than buried in an MS-styled knowledgebase on the web. Yeah, it's a browser we're talking about, but I'd rather have a README or something similar available at install time. Maybe I should write up some man pages and quit my bitching?
Here are some of the settings that I've gathered so far to get Firefox 2.0 to my liking:
In about:config... In userChrome.css...
Granted that a user can get a fresh cup of coffee, and scroll through about:config, I'm left wondering why this stuff doesn't get properly documented, leaving us to waste our afternoons performing web searches looking for tidbits (or yet another extension that promises to do it all for us), not to mention doing it all over again with each subsequent release.
For the most part - politicians in the US are lawyers...
Could be that the job of a legislator is to write legislation. Tough to do unless you're trained as a lawyer.
and tend to be from the boomer generation.
Getting through law school, building a career and earning the money, respect and power to be able to run for office typically takes a few years, not to mention that aspiring to public service is often a function of age and maturity. Put another way, they're almost always from an earlier generation. The better ones tend to be from even earlier generations.
As such, they tend to have no training and little exposure to technology. Their technological background ranges from ignorance to neo-luddite. Is it any wonder when they turn out absurd policies regarding science and technology. I suppose we should be grateful that they're not still using quill pens
I think that's an unfair characterisation. Has it occurred to you that suggesting that they're neo-luddites invites the criticism that you, as a layman with a poor grasp of the law or the legislative process, are in no position to comment on those issues?
If it helps, you might want to turn on CSPAN and sit through a day's worth of hearings on a subject. Chances are you'll see lots of real "experts," along with all the movers and shakers involved, testifying or offering comments on proposed legislation. If there's a problem here, I'd say that it's not necessarily in the qualifications of those involved, or the process (the corrupting influence of money, notwithstanding), but that someone like you (assuming you're qualified), doesn't involve themselves in the process. Given the choice of deciding an issue based on the input of well prepared lawyers and lobbyists from big business, and the occasional rumblings of a mostly uninformed and typically uninvolved electorate, I'd suggest big business will win the day. Or is the idea that our elected official are supposed to be reading Slashdot instead?
Educating someone is a tough thing to do. My opinion is that if we want our leaders to make better informed decisions, we should either get involved and demand to be heard, or work at a more humble level by educating the uninformed around us. They won't write the laws, but some of them do vote.
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For all the crap he gets here, its never been about the money with Bill. He lives in relative modesty for his income and has always maintained that his kids would only inherit a small portion of his wealth with the bulk to be used for charitable causes.
Sigh. More crap.
Why would you assume it has to be about money? Most all of the old time mob dons lived in modest circumstances. Come to think of it, many of the newer ones do as well. Child abusers generally love kids, and they also like living in nice neighbourhoods. John Wayne Gacy enjoyed his meals, rapists can enjoy sex, and there's many a loving father and mother out there that regularly beat their kids.
As for Bill, I don't consider it a stretch for anyone to conclude that for him, it's always been about control. The money is secondary, but serves validate his position. And what's in his will for the kids is of little bearing. Personally, I think it's A Good Thing that he contributes to worthy causes and engages in philanthropy (what the hell else is he going to do with all the cash and the free time he now has on his hands), but it's fair game to offer criticism with respect to his past and present actions. Put another way, I still think he should go fuck himself.
So now that we're clear that something not being about money can still be A Bad Thing, I'm left wondering about the financial aspects of the decision. The "puts a lot of money back into circulation that otherwise would just be sitting there earning income" summary sounds a bit simplistic, given that lots of foundations started by other monopolists are around and kicking, contributing to the general benefit of society. If they all spent their money at once, who's left to fund anything?
My guess is that it's more like the Slashdot moderation system. Mod +5 Safe or -1 Looks Like ann Arab to Me. Either way, I expect the courts will, at some point in the future, get their chance to meta moderate.
Very likely the Romans did not invent this technique.
Figures.
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Adobe Type Manager, with font smoothing, was out on Macs in 1991, long before ClearType, which was touted as one of XP's new features when it shipped in 2002. ATM was even available as an add-on to Windows by 1993, nine years ahead of ClearType. Furthermore, Mac OS 8.5 shipped with Apple's own built-in font smoothing in 1998. Whether or not M$ has done much innovating, that example doesn't exactly help his case.
A bit of history trivia. Reprinted without permission:
Adobe introduced the PostScript language in 1985; it is used to enable the
printout of high-quality graphics and styled font text. PostScript is now
the de facto standard in the UNIX community and the only print standard in
the Macintosh community.
The Hewlett-Packard (HP) company currently holds the largest market share
of desktop inkjet and office laser printers. Back when Windows was
released, HP decided to expand into the desktop laser jet market with the
first LaserJet series of printers. At the time there was much pressure on
Microsoft to use Adobe Type Manager for scalable fonts within Windows and
to print PostScript to higher-end printers. Microsoft decided against
doing this and used a technically inferior font standard, TrueType. They
thought it was unlikely that the user would download fonts to the printer
since desktop publishing was not being done on PCs at the time. Instead,
users would rasterize the entire page to the printer using whatever
proprietary graphics printer codes the selected printer needed. HP
devised HPPCL for their LaserJets and made PostScript an add-on.
Ted Mittlestaedt
The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
c 2001
Personally, I think most claims Microsoft has to innovating anything has to be viewed in the context of low expectations (or general ignorance) on the part of Windows users and administrators. Improved error messages? Dear lord. Should I hold my breath for a useful syslog implementation? A recent comment suggested held Monad to be an example of innovation. Considering that the closest Microsoft has been to offering a usable command line was in the DOS era, that not much has changed since then, and that despite promises issued along with the release of Windows 2000 that most everything could be done using the command line, I'd say the Monad comment is representative of the We Don't Get Out Much ecosystem that defines Windows. No wonder people are quick to cheer.
But back to ClearType, it's worth noting that while the technology has been around for a while, the decision to offer it in XP was no doubt more the consequence of marketing and not technology. How else to get all those Win2000 users to upgrade? You want Windows on a notebook, you need to buy XP.
Americans are wasting a billion gallons of fuel per year by being so fat.
They probably also buy big gas guzzlers that they can fit into it, and wear out tires faster than the rest of it.
I'm all for lobbying against fat people, but maybe we should take a cue from presidential politics and advocate an approach with a great chance of success , then pick a new Who Would Jesus Bomb T shirt to wear to the protest rallies.
Being a hacker is not a punishable offense. If criminals are using so-called "hacker" skills in criminal pursuits, they're still criminals. Call them criminals.
An unfortunate analogy, but it may be worthwhile to note that being called a pedophile is to be branded a dangerous criminal, despite the fact that the meaning of the term isn't synonymous with child rapist and, thought crimes aside, is as neutral as being considered an audiophile, bibliophile or an Anglophile.
Or am I talking semantics?
Dunno about that; my Apple ][ was beige...and so were Macs for a while.
IIRC, the "beige" was a bit different than the "putty" that everyone else sold.
I think you have to give the nod to Dell for the "black" revolution here; I know many server admins who bought Dell's crappy hardware in the early 2000's just because they thought it looked sexier in the fucking server room.
Black is always good. But I disagree on the Dells. The problem with Dell is they insist on prominently displaying their goofball logo on every item they sell. If it appeals to anyone, then it must appeal to the same bunch that think it's fine to be wearing Tshirts adorned with corporate logos without irony, or new car buyers driving around with a cheap-assed licensed plate holder bearing the name of some car dealership.
Me, I think the typical consumer PC should be black, or subtle enough that it resembles hi end audio equipment, and look more like a smaller version of a 2U server than anything else. Unfortunately, that opinion prevents me from even considering shiny white plastic Macs.
Windows 2000 promised administrators the ability to manage everything from the command-line. That turned out to be true mostly for a small list-of-old-DOS-utilities value of true. Additionally, we were offered junctions/mount-points which sortofkindof worked, but weren't fully supported. Sysinternals offered their 'junction' utility which worked a bit better, but again, not really. Now with Vista have SFU or SFU-as-subsystem that promises everything that Windows Scripting Host promised and more!
I expect that whatever hodge-podge of new features, one-off Resource Kit utilities or whatever else Microsoft decides to offer in their latest and greatest, I'll continue to rely on the folks at Cygwin to take advantage of whatever limited functionality exists in Windows, and then implement workarounds for the inconsistencies and shortcomings to make something useful and sane with it. In the meantime, I'll bet my right monad that a future Slashdot headline will read Vista's Borked NFS Client.
After much yelling about the problem, it was finally revealed that the real felon's name was exactly like mine except for one letter
Is your name Tuttle, by chance?
(_Y_)
Don't nobody fall for this. She's underage and if you download it you'll be on TV with Stone Phillips.
So, the behaviour observed in animals where they lick wounds, and even in humans, that 'kiss it better' (introduce saliva to the wound), or suck on a sore wound to make it feel better, by instinct, hasn't given the clue that there's something in saliva that helps?
I've been moaning about that for years, and without exception, every pet owner and every vet considered me nuts. I noticed that if you lay a plate of food on the ground and have a dog lick it clean, a thin clear coating builds up on the surface of the plate. Give it a day or two, and washing the plate hot soapy water doesn't remove the coating as you'd think it would.
Mind you I don't know what's in saliva, and as this article suggests, few have stopped to consider the subject long enough to study it. What I do know is that the standard procedure of treating a dog for an injury or skin problem involves topical antiobiotics in combination with a cone that's placed over the dog's head (if a dog has any self respect, it's lost in minutes after the cone goes on). Licking, according to established wisdom, defeats the purpose, infects the wound or injury, saliva is full of germs, blah blah blah. Dogs have been around longer than veterinary medicine, and I doubt there's many wild animals that have membership in an HMO. Put another way, they've been doing fine for longer than we know. And for reasons we can only hope to discover. I let my own dogs lick any itches or wounds they have, and have yet to find something that hasn't healed as it should. I can't say the same for pets of relatives and friends who went the cone-head route.
I could add something on how oral sex relates to the topic at hand, but instead I'll continue with Stuff I Learned About Dogs that similarly runs contrary to a veterinary advice, established wisdom, or published literature. I expect Science will catch up to this, as it will in other areas.
1. Dogs don't need a lot of water. Unless you feed them a steady diet of dried corn meal packaged up as dog food.
2. Dogs don't need or want a steady diet, and feeding your dog "table scraps" (aka "real food") doesn't cause upset and diarrhea. By comparison, if you eat nothing but Corn Flakes every day for 10 years, chances are an ordinary hamburger will cause problems.
3. Dogs are creatures of habit, but seek out a change in regimen when possible. Don't feed your dog in a bowl. Hide the food around the house and make them search for it. Great fun. Even better, roll some soft-boiled eggs across the kitchen floor and let them catch their food. The expression on their face after that first bite is priceless.
4. If given the opportunity, dogs will discover they enjoy fruits and many vegetables (green leafy stuff being the exception, and apples and tomatoes perennial favourites). The best food for dogs is pizza. Yeah, pizza. Pizza has lots of fat (more important than protein for any active dog), it's chewy (all dogs like to chew), and if there's lots of toppings, the scavenger instinct is satisfied. Best served warm, of course.
Obviously, I have way too much free time on my hands. Maybe I can become a scientist.
So many people use NOSPAMjohn@NOSPAMexample.com (remove the NOSPAM to reply)
or some variation of that, I tried using spam@example.com as my email address on Google Groups and previously on Usenet.
I got pretty much nothing. No spam. Not then, not now.
A fairly good workaround.
I'd also point out that spam harvesting is a big problem with respect to public email lists, the content of which gets plastered all over the web. I'm subscribed to about 30 lists, and most all of the spam seems to have originated from someone harvesting my email address from one or more postings of mine. What's worse is that the lists, all of which are technical and non-Windows related (so the subscribers should know better), are full of people using [insert names of many popular email clients here] who consider it appropriate to be quoting a real email address in every attribution line.
Instead of something like,
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 18:43:41PM -0700, John Smith wrote:
we get
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 18:43:41PM -0700, John Smith [john@home.address.com] wrote:
Then, of course, there's Exchange users (or those forced to use Exchange). My biggest complaint is with web mail users (Yahoo, etc.) who also unwittingly or otherwise spam us all with their 2-4 line adverts for crap no one is interested in.
Over here, the separated collection of waste, including separate places where electronic waste (computers, household electronics) has been in place for many years.
...
And we can see from your Slashdot User ID that you live in
A Zune?
LOL. That would work.
The answer was "dung!" From an obscure Monty Python skit.
A little background regarding this incident that I can recall (covered days ago on other places, can't remember where);
...
1. Offender is a known "Gordon Street" gang banger in Los Angeles.
2. Offender had a warrant out for his arrest for accepting stolen goods.
3. Offender was running from the police officers before they had tackled them.
So
1. He belongs to a gang like his father, and brother, and sister, and probably everyone else in his family and neighbourhood.
2. He has a history of engaging in property crimes to make money.
3. He's learned to be afraid of the police.
Sounds fairly ordinary.
4. In the video, you can see the offender grabbing the officer's inner thigh before the officer started to punch the offender.
I suspect I'd instinctively grab onto whatever I could before I got pushed to the ground by a couple of 200 lb. fully armed, angry droids and punched in the face.
That said, I'm left wondering WTF kind of training police officers get these days.
Hire a decent musician, spend 18 months and millions of dollars futzing with stuff he recorded and RELEASE A TURD anyway.
...
Hmm. On a more humorous note
What's brown and sounds like a bell?
I see you're trying to perform Frippitronics! Would you like to:
Well, you've been modded up, so someone out there gets the joke.
For everyone else, here's some Who The Heck is Robert Fripp information.
What, exactly, is the argument against pen-and-paper voting? It seems to me that everybody wants to migrate to voting machines
In case you missed the last election, I'll sum it for you in two word: hanging chads.
That, plus the huge amount amount of federal money that was made available shortly thereafter to the states to fix the mess, and election officials who, not knowing any better, opting to spend it on a shrinkwrapped product sold by very few vendors.
Note that what's missing from the equation are federal standards. But with most Americans historically clamoring about free markets, burdensome government regulations and state's rights, it shouldn't be a surprise that we ended up with a situation that can be characterised as somewhere between goofy and scandalous.
As for the documentary, I was disappointed. If I could ask a question, it would be why so much time was alloted to the human interest angle and redundant footage (dumpster diving, people standing around, etc.) rather than a close examination and discussion of the technical issues involved. The election officials probably went through a procurement process like that of most government agencies when they buy licenses for the latest edition of Windows. It's the nature of that shrinkwrapped product that needed a documentary, not the backroom goings on of low-level government employees.
Everything changed? Not really, Dean was removed from contention in 2004 in much the same way Allen was removed in 2006, by shooting his mouth off in front of a video camera.
Speaking of shooting off and the nature of video as a communications medium, I wonder why no one has yet assembled clips of George Bush farting around the Whitehouse. (Gentle Slashdot readers should feel free to Google using those keywords.) It's debatable if such videos would have a direct effect on the outcome of an election, but the commercials would be more fun to watch.
hey do, it's the virtual desktop manager (VDM) power toy, and it's a free download for Windows XP.
I love the way people who don't know shit about windows love to criticize microsoft for bullshit reasons. There are plenty of reasons to blame them, you don't have to make shit up.
And I love the way people who insist they know about Windows and *nix are quick to point out similarities which aren't similar at all. Put another way, Microsoft's VDM is a toy along the lines of notepad. It sucks. YMMV, but its approach of "hiding" open windows doesn't count for much. Unless, of course, you can't tell the difference.
What whith the ubiquity of pr0n, avaliable readily for free and without embarrassment on the Intarweb Tubes, the testosterone no longer has a chance to build up in the male body.
Can I have a PhD please?
An alternate theory is that we'll start growing breasts, and routinely have sex with ourselves in the shower. No need for pr0n.
Thanks for the (duh) reminder, and link.
I stumbled across some Mozillazine "knowledge base" articles in the past when I was trying to configure some custom shortcuts. My recollection of what I found was that the information incomplete. If it helps anyone else, the "keyboard registry" can be found here.
It's nice to see someone else who agrees that this stuff should be distributed as documentation (or made part of the Help file), rather than buried in an MS-styled knowledgebase on the web. Yeah, it's a browser we're talking about, but I'd rather have a README or something similar available at install time. Maybe I should write up some man pages and quit my bitching?
Here are some of the settings that I've gathered so far to get Firefox 2.0 to my liking:
... ...
In about:config
In userChrome.css
Granted that a user can get a fresh cup of coffee, and scroll through about:config, I'm left wondering why this stuff doesn't get properly documented, leaving us to waste our afternoons performing web searches looking for tidbits (or yet another extension that promises to do it all for us), not to mention doing it all over again with each subsequent release.
For the most part - politicians in the US are lawyers...
Could be that the job of a legislator is to write legislation. Tough to do unless you're trained as a lawyer.
and tend to be from the boomer generation.
Getting through law school, building a career and earning the money, respect and power to be able to run for office typically takes a few years, not to mention that aspiring to public service is often a function of age and maturity. Put another way, they're almost always from an earlier generation. The better ones tend to be from even earlier generations.
As such, they tend to have no training and little exposure to technology. Their technological background ranges from ignorance to neo-luddite. Is it any wonder when they turn out absurd policies regarding science and technology. I suppose we should be grateful that they're not still using quill pens
I think that's an unfair characterisation. Has it occurred to you that suggesting that they're neo-luddites invites the criticism that you, as a layman with a poor grasp of the law or the legislative process, are in no position to comment on those issues?
If it helps, you might want to turn on CSPAN and sit through a day's worth of hearings on a subject. Chances are you'll see lots of real "experts," along with all the movers and shakers involved, testifying or offering comments on proposed legislation. If there's a problem here, I'd say that it's not necessarily in the qualifications of those involved, or the process (the corrupting influence of money, notwithstanding), but that someone like you (assuming you're qualified), doesn't involve themselves in the process. Given the choice of deciding an issue based on the input of well prepared lawyers and lobbyists from big business, and the occasional rumblings of a mostly uninformed and typically uninvolved electorate, I'd suggest big business will win the day. Or is the idea that our elected official are supposed to be reading Slashdot instead?
Educating someone is a tough thing to do. My opinion is that if we want our leaders to make better informed decisions, we should either get involved and demand to be heard, or work at a more humble level by educating the uninformed around us. They won't write the laws, but some of them do vote.
Symboligy? I think the word you're looking for is "symbolism"
He lost me at "falic".