Plenty of people installed it before it started auto updating. Not too long ago I came across a grad student's laptop that was still running a pre 1.0 version. They figured they were safe and there was no reason to update since what they had worked.
I did the same thing (with my old laptop; the new one has a new version) because IIRC we were told we had to completely uninstall Fire$ANIMAL before we even thought of installing a new one. Who wants to uninstall and reinstall a browser every few weeks?
The only terminals that are restricted, if I'm reading correctly, are terminals purchased with government e-rate funds. These have always been and will always be filtered (unless we do something about it). Myspace and so forth have been blocked on most of these already. Web-based mail is blocked already. I've noticed no problems getting to Slashdot because I know the sysadmins hang out here. I think it would be more prudent to complain about CIPA as a whole instead of just this law. There's enough valid content (e.g., Wikipedia) that gets blocked thanks to CIPA - I think worrying that they might block a couple of social sites is missing the forest for the trees.
Both versions apply only to schools and libraries that accept federal funding, which the American Library Association estimates covers at least two-thirds of libraries. By slapping additional regulations on "e-rate" federal funding, DOPA effectively expands an earlier law called the Children's Internet Protection Act, which requires libraries to filter sexually explicit material and which the Supreme Court upheld as constitutional in 2003.
I've done research on CIPA and filtering, and the sad truth is that most school systems, libraries, etc. desparately need this e-rate funding, or it's simply not judicious to allot their own money to computers at full price.
MAC address filtering? That's what I have set up.... the only thing is that it's possible (though non-trivial) to sniff, but almost nobody would bother.
Millions of people are dying in a destitute land because of a repressive government and you merely say "I don't like that"? That's disrespecting the people far more than the government.
I have the whine when the computer is on battery. It stops after a while, usually, and when it doesn't it's ignorable. I also used to have the mooing problem, but so long as I don't completely kill the ventilation on the computer (e.g., by putting it on a bed) it doesn't make that noise.
We are conscious of the rights of people. Governments are simply organizations created by those people for the purpose of protecting and enhancing those rights
Neh, we are conscious of the right of people to choose their government. If we completely ignored the government and listened to this "right of the people," we'd be obligated to pull an Iraq in every other country. People cede their rights to the government, which is a body with some collective rights of the people that uses those to preserve the rest of the collective rights of the people. The only valid case in which the US can recognize the rights of foreign peoples over their government is if the government has overstepped the role that the people give it.
This anarcho-populism-at-all-costs attitude on Slashdot is starting to get on my nerves. Have you guys never read The Social Contract or even Two Treatises? There is a legitimate function to government, and so long as the government stays within the social contract, it is meaningless to oppose it.
Why not a standard projector with a really clever system of mirrors and lenses? If you have room for a large non-flat device of any sort, certainly you have room to set up a projector reflecting back and forth once or twice before reaching the screen....
Temporary files!? Why not just mplayer -shuffle -playlist <(ls *.mp3)? Or even ls *.mp3 | mplayer -shuffle -playlist/dev/stdin (if mplayer doesn't support the - convention)?
When you release something to the community with the intent for it to be free, is it selfish to want it to remain free?
This gets into an interesting cyclical definition (in the vein of God buliding a rock too heavy to lift). What if they want their work to have the freedom to lose its freedom? If you force it to be "free", aren't you restricting a freedom of it - the freedom to incorporate it into proprietary works?
Well, since you didn't know what a visual novel was, you never got the associated and unfortunate preconception that it's generally used for hentai-ish dating sims. (Which it is used for a lot, but not entirely.)
Allowed you be follows the first to say "I" [sic, you didn't even translate that] for one, make good welcome to our new Linux-actioned overlords of robot of France?
If you're going to abuse BabelFish, you might as well make up the pseudo-French yourself. "Moi, pour un, welcommé ze nouveau ouverlordes du Linux robot!"
Then who are the rest of the good ones? McKinley and Ford?
How was Lincoln a failure? He kept the Union together. Of course it was at the cost of civil liberties and states' rights for that period. And you can't entirely blame him - reconstruction went on for quite a while (to 1877 I believe). Nobody said anything about slavery.
How is FDR a traitor? If I'm not mistaken, the United States was attacked by Japan. (Regardless of whether you believe that the US fired warning shots or otherwise "provoked" their military, the fact is that the plan for the Pearl Harbor attack was already in place.) And Japan was allied with Germany. He avoided war until the US was attacked, then decisively turned the tide of a global battle. And his New Deal did establish useful social programs (even though it was the war that finally ended the Depression.)
And Washington himself has enough strikes against him. Remember the rebellions that he forcibly ended? Calling out the military - and personally leading it - to put down a protest of citizens? If that isn't an assault on civil liberties, I don't know what is. And he did nothing to end the two-party system that has plagued and deadlocked US politics ever since (although he personally refused to join a party, his cabinet quickly factionalized). Of course I stand by my earlier statement - I'm demonstrating that you can accuse anyone you like.
That's assuming the problem is with the partition table. I'm not sure about grandparent, but on my desktop, ntfsresize declares a bad sector somewhere in the drive and says it would be "unsafe" to partition. Whereas Windows Scandisk doesn't see anything wrong.
And no, I'm not about to pay $50 for PartitionMagic to install a "free" operating system (dualboot, so it doesn't even give me the karma of no Windows).
I wasn't actually attacking on MBAs in general; I was just pointing out that our President has an MBA.
So? Our President is a smart man. (After all, that's not just any MBA, it's a Harvard MBA, coming after an education from Yale and Philips Academy.) The only problem is that the office of POTUS requires an extremely smart man. So in comparison to the duties required of him, he's an idiot. In comparison to the average job an MBA might have, he's just fine.
How many good presidents can you really name? Washington, Lincoln, FDR, maybe Reagan... out of over 40, that's not a lot. Heard of the "forgettable presidents" of the late 1800s?
The more she had trouble understanding them they just got more irritated, annoying and bigoted. Standing there at the counter I felt so ashamed.
This isn't to say that Americans don't have a negative image in the world, but overall, people are smart and realize that not everyone conforms to the stereotype.
Or, more pessimistically, there is no stereotype - they're right.
Think about it. How many stupid, bigoted, annoying, simple-minded, hawkish, egotistical Americans have you seen in America? Haven't you seen people right here do exactly what parent said they do in Europe? And then you worry that foreigners have what's actually the right perception?
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I can't stand the irony here. Gmail wouldn't exist if it weren't for targeted advertising.
I've done research on CIPA and filtering, and the sad truth is that most school systems, libraries, etc. desparately need this e-rate funding, or it's simply not judicious to allot their own money to computers at full price.
Sloppiness you mean? :-) The Grammar Nazi Karma Rule strikes again....
MAC address filtering? That's what I have set up.... the only thing is that it's possible (though non-trivial) to sniff, but almost nobody would bother.
Millions of people are dying in a destitute land because of a repressive government and you merely say "I don't like that"? That's disrespecting the people far more than the government.
So is he a whiney fanboy about Macs or a fanboy about whiney Macs?
I have the whine when the computer is on battery. It stops after a while, usually, and when it doesn't it's ignorable. I also used to have the mooing problem, but so long as I don't completely kill the ventilation on the computer (e.g., by putting it on a bed) it doesn't make that noise.
We are conscious of the rights of people. Governments are simply organizations created by those people for the purpose of protecting and enhancing those rights
Neh, we are conscious of the right of people to choose their government. If we completely ignored the government and listened to this "right of the people," we'd be obligated to pull an Iraq in every other country. People cede their rights to the government, which is a body with some collective rights of the people that uses those to preserve the rest of the collective rights of the people. The only valid case in which the US can recognize the rights of foreign peoples over their government is if the government has overstepped the role that the people give it.
This anarcho-populism-at-all-costs attitude on Slashdot is starting to get on my nerves. Have you guys never read The Social Contract or even Two Treatises? There is a legitimate function to government, and so long as the government stays within the social contract, it is meaningless to oppose it.
Why not a standard projector with a really clever system of mirrors and lenses? If you have room for a large non-flat device of any sort, certainly you have room to set up a projector reflecting back and forth once or twice before reaching the screen....
Temporary files!? Why not just mplayer -shuffle -playlist <(ls *.mp3)? Or even ls *.mp3 | mplayer -shuffle -playlist /dev/stdin (if mplayer doesn't support the - convention)?
Temporary files!? Why not just mplayer -shuffle -playlist ?
When you release something to the community with the intent for it to be free, is it selfish to want it to remain free?
This gets into an interesting cyclical definition (in the vein of God buliding a rock too heavy to lift). What if they want their work to have the freedom to lose its freedom? If you force it to be "free", aren't you restricting a freedom of it - the freedom to incorporate it into proprietary works?
The real obligatory here is BSD IS DYING!!!
If my memory serves, no American company spends more money on R&D than Microsoft.
You should measure it proportional to the size of the company. I would bet that no American company spends more money on breakfast cereal than Google.
(Eating, that is, not producing.)
Certainly. So long as you post yours. After all, your information wants to be free as much as mine does, neh?
And if I can trust you not to abuse my information, you can trust me too, right?
I would agree with that if any other tool complained about the drive. Why only ntfsresize?
Well, since you didn't know what a visual novel was, you never got the associated and unfortunate preconception that it's generally used for hentai-ish dating sims. (Which it is used for a lot, but not entirely.)
Allowed you be follows the first to say "I" [sic, you didn't even translate that] for one, make good welcome to our new Linux-actioned overlords of robot of France?
If you're going to abuse BabelFish, you might as well make up the pseudo-French yourself. "Moi, pour un, welcommé ze nouveau ouverlordes du Linux robot!"
And while we're at it:
diction: emphasis during pronunciation.
spelling: choosing the letters that form a word.
WTF kind of "diction Nazi" hates on people's spellings?
How appropriate.
Then who are the rest of the good ones? McKinley and Ford?
How was Lincoln a failure? He kept the Union together. Of course it was at the cost of civil liberties and states' rights for that period. And you can't entirely blame him - reconstruction went on for quite a while (to 1877 I believe). Nobody said anything about slavery.
How is FDR a traitor? If I'm not mistaken, the United States was attacked by Japan. (Regardless of whether you believe that the US fired warning shots or otherwise "provoked" their military, the fact is that the plan for the Pearl Harbor attack was already in place.) And Japan was allied with Germany. He avoided war until the US was attacked, then decisively turned the tide of a global battle. And his New Deal did establish useful social programs (even though it was the war that finally ended the Depression.)
And Washington himself has enough strikes against him. Remember the rebellions that he forcibly ended? Calling out the military - and personally leading it - to put down a protest of citizens? If that isn't an assault on civil liberties, I don't know what is. And he did nothing to end the two-party system that has plagued and deadlocked US politics ever since (although he personally refused to join a party, his cabinet quickly factionalized). Of course I stand by my earlier statement - I'm demonstrating that you can accuse anyone you like.
That's assuming the problem is with the partition table. I'm not sure about grandparent, but on my desktop, ntfsresize declares a bad sector somewhere in the drive and says it would be "unsafe" to partition. Whereas Windows Scandisk doesn't see anything wrong.
And no, I'm not about to pay $50 for PartitionMagic to install a "free" operating system (dualboot, so it doesn't even give me the karma of no Windows).
How many good presidents can you really name? Washington, Lincoln, FDR, maybe Reagan... out of over 40, that's not a lot. Heard of the "forgettable presidents" of the late 1800s?
Or, more pessimistically, there is no stereotype - they're right.
Think about it. How many stupid, bigoted, annoying, simple-minded, hawkish, egotistical Americans have you seen in America? Haven't you seen people right here do exactly what parent said they do in Europe? And then you worry that foreigners have what's actually the right perception?
(For the record, yes, I'm an American.)