You know, if you grow a personality you can get 3d-touch-screen boobays. It's amazing technology... They're so much better than the old CRT-based boobays that you discovered at the ripe old age of 12.
Because nudity draws the attention of everyone. It's about choosing words that attract the attention of people while they're skimming the article headlines. You need to draw them to your spamvertising site to get revenue. Nudity does that, as does the terrorist threat, and a few other select social buzzwords.
But, I am glad to see that common sense is prevailing here. Score one for fair use. Maybe the world is changing as the courts start realising that copyright is not about making as much money as possible, but about encouraging the creation of new and interesting material for the benefit of society as a whole.
My favourite way to make coffee is the cute little brunette/blonde pair down the road (from home, too bad home is a long commute from work).
Easiest way, ever:
1. Go to counter 2. Order "the usual" 3. Make small talk with cute blonde or brunette depending on the day 4. Pass over $3 5. Consume perfect coffee, while continuing small talk.
They've had that shop there forever, are some of the sweetest women I know and make the best coffee I've had. They have a house blend they make from a mix of 4 different beans. It's not whatever is left over, it is an actual blend recipe. It's amazing; Extra strong, full flavour and without the acidic bitterness of some of the other extra strong beans. I even drink it without sugar.
At work it's:
1. Go to machine 2. Insert mug 3. Press "strong" 4. Wait 5. Gurgle 6. Wait 7. Gurgle 8. Remove mug 9. Wipe up drips because machine is stupid 10. Consume
It's OK coffee - beats that crumbed instamud other places have.
Mod Judge +1 for honesty. Better to admit he doesn't know what's going on than to blunder along and make a bad decision because he doesn't understand them.
But, he's only 59 years old and still employed. I am surprised he hasn't used the Internet - if even on his desk at work to get his email and read judgedot.org.
I am sick of the blinking lights. It does get annoying. Even my clock radio has a dot that blinks once a a second.
I wonder how much power is being used by these "standby" and "information" lights that nobody ever pays heed to everywhere in the world. There is an 8+1 port switch on my desk with 7 ports and the uplink port being used. The lights are steadily flickering away. Most of the time they sit there and blink in unison with broadcast traffic. I never look at them. I don't need them. The only reason I use them is to make sure the connection at each end is sound and data is flowing. Once I know that I don't care until something stops. Funny, the network cards in all the equipment connected to the switch also have little blinking lights that are at the back of the PC and are flickering away. the only time I know they're there is when the lights are off and i can see them on the cube wall.
I just got a new case for home. Biggest tower with most drive space I could find for my budget. It's a ricer case unfortunately, and the REAR case fan has one of those wankly rotating LED text displays in it with associated Windows drivers (good thing I don't use windows). The REAR fan, FFS... who ever looks at that when it's under the desk? The whole rest of the case is lit up by blue LEDs. I'm going to snip all the LED power wires when I get around to needing to power down my machine. It's beyond a joke. LEDs may be cheap and consume practically zero power but I don't care. I don't want them everywhere.
Well most "managers" aren't security oriented. The attitude is "why will anyoen want to break into _our_ software/machines?" Point out potential security issues or try and secure the system and they baulk at the idea.
I build an embedded Linux product. The root account is unused but managers wanted the root account enabled with a dumb password so that they can poke about and "test" the product. It took a lot of pushing to get that not to happen. Their attitude was that nobody was interested in breaking our box.
Another example... for configuration they wanted an Internet-facing web server. Fine, I say. But that means you need to have a forced update policy for our customers so that whenever a security flaw is discovered I can update the server/associated libs to fix it and roll it out to everyone immediately. Of course that would eat up all of my time, checking for updates to all of the different packages involved and and updating/rolling out regularly. They baulked at the idea but still wanted a web server facing the greater Internet ("web application" is a buzzword).
I can go on and on about some of the crazy ideas that I have had to fight against. I could just implement them all but then it would be me who looks bad when it all goes to shit. It's a sad state of affairs but it seems the people who make the most decisions are more concerned about the colour of the font in your GUI that the underlying architectural failings. They'd raise a high priority bug to change a word yet delete a bug report that says 'there is a potential problem that would allow an attacker to crash the service' on the ground that it's potential and therefore not worth worrying about.
Well at least I know that when I'm lying in my bed with home invaders, rapists, drug addicts and murderers all trying to get me I'll be safe from those evil file sharers and the movie companies will still be making a profit pedling shit that nobody wants. That keeps me sleeping well at night.
Yes, it sounds to me like someone with more $$$ in a commercial to profit from sense wants to patent a similar idea and needs to get this bloke discredited to do that then sue his pants off for copying them... What better way to be hailed as the inventor of something than pay off some regulatory body and have them discredit the original author (dubious as his claims may be).
I shed a tear while reading that article. This is how sad the world has become. The US government worked for tens, probably hundreds of man years at a cost that would exceed the millions to import a person for copyright violation. Their law enforcement must be really good. They must have locked up all the rapists, murderers, arsonists and Muslims and run out of criminals in their own land.
Microsoft Research: The place where computer scienticians copy cool ideas and innovations that came from competing products and pass them off as their own.
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> One of the other dualities are the pagans that like to bad mouth christianity even though paganism is just as stupid.
You forgot those "christians" that badmouth muslims as terrorists, even though said christians invade their country, topple their leader and steal their oil! Not that the particular front man of that church probably posts on here.
*um*... Tried that once (their Linux offering). It was good, but it wasn't exactly small when we tried it . It wanted a target with well over 500M of flash, and that was after I went through their messed up dependency tree and cut it down from the default size which was just crazy. We did work with them on it but it wasn't shrinking fast enough for our liking.
Watching everyone all of the time and treating the entire population as suspects is not going to weed out terrorists and criminals. Nor is it an effective way of defending our freedoms against those who we are told wish to attack us because we are free.
If the gumbiment takes away our freedoms then the terrorists will have nothing to bitch about, didn't you people learn anything in propoganda-101?
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> Posts remarking how they have the same number as their luggage combination: 5
that's the kind of combination an idiot would have on his DVDs!
I wouldn't put it past dubya to be related to every single failure of every single thing everywhere. His ineptitude as a president and a person astounds me (and practically everyone outside of the USofA).
Now, back on topic. This whole NBC thing to do with them owning the presidential debates and others having to use their footage and pay them is crap. What better way to limit the public's understanding of the candidate than manipulate the media.
Now I know why they introduced the DMCA. It baffled us all but this thing by NBC was most likely encouraged by the current gumbiment. IF anyone shows the debate unaltered and doesn't make the opposition look like a tool then they can have the DMCA thrown at them, and that's gotta hurt. It's all so clear now!
Control and greed go hand in hand. With money comes power. With power comes money. It's no wonder dubya is the president there - with idiot greedy rules like these being proposed. If it's too expensive to broadcast political debates then nobody will bother. The public go on even more blissfully unaware than they were before, and what's worse; most of them don't care!
It's doable but not easy. Linux has no way in the standard kernel (when I last looked at this) to differentiate input devices so all mice and keyboards end up globbed as one input device. You need to patch the kernel to separate them out. Once you've done that it's a relatively simple matter of configuring a number of X screens on the available video cards, working out which mouse and keyboard belong to which X screen and putting them physically in front of it.
CPU speed is low priority - most users spend most of their time idle. RAM is majorly important. Jam as much RAM in the box as you can or your users will just bitch that it's slow; even two sessions with a fluffy desktop (gnome/kde) can chew out a gig without much effort.
I am so fortunate not to have had anything as sizable as a T1 here. Best we had was 2xdual channel ISDN. I can safely say that it never went down, short of major flooding or catastrophic lightning events (either right outside our building or the phone company's).
Since switching to DSL it's up and down at least as much as a hookers panties. We fortunately don't have many squirrels but when the kangaroos mate the DSL seems to go down here! Shit, the DSL in one place I set up went down when they turned on the toaster oven and stayed down until it was off again!
DSL is pretty shitty really. Taking lines guaranteed to 4kHz and forcing 0-3MHz down them. Sounds like it's going to be prone to dropouts, low signal levels and interference.
A T1 guarantees you bandwidth from the exchange to your door. It still makes no guarantee of actual data from your carrier's Internet backbone. DSL does not.
A T1 also guarantees you uptime - it's essentially a phone service that's used to route data (and many large corporations use it to route phones back to the exchange to save the hundreds or thousands of pieces of copper coming in). Your actual T1 won't go down because of things like rain, nearby lightning, electrical interference, etc. If you're a business you need always on connectivity; specially if you are carrying your voice data down it as well. If you're a home user or have real copper phone lines coming in then you can afford the occasional downtime due to things like interference.
With the guarantees of line speed and availability comes a price. The phone company has to cover its costs in maintaining your service, and that may include regular equipment upgrades or service, as well as the cost of some guy sitting somewhere on call just in case it fails.
The only people who require IE are the ones that purchassed some dumb HTML book by some other clueless n00b that uses IE, realised it was all too hard and went out and got frontpage to do the dirty work for them. There's a proliferation of them out there. They jumped in at the dot bomb boom thinking that calling themselves "web developers" would make them rich. It probably did, but it doesn't mean they're any good at it.
I mean c'mon it's not hard to write a brilliant page that works everywhere. Look at how Gmail works. IE, FF and Opera all render it correctly. Even Konqueror does a good job but its javascript implementation is a bit lax.
We have two "web applications" that we need to run at work. One is a time management package that used to be simply web-based using forms/java. There was nothing wrong with it except Java took a little time to start. They upgraded to the latest and greatest version that is now fantastic ActiveX. I pointed out that now us Linux users can't use it and will have to revert to the paper forms. Their first solution was "but everybody has 'The Internet'". It took over a week to demonstrate the Linux doesn't come with that (Internet Explorer) installed by default. They then reverted to "just borrow someone else's PC when you need to use it".
The other is an employee workflow manager. It works in FF but only barely. The HTML is that crap that you can hardly figure out what it's doing. Funnily IE renders the poo just fine, and is the only browser that does.
The people who recommend, install and run these services know nothing about Linux and wouldn't know what a web browser was if you showed them. They actually think "The Internet" is the Internet Explorer icon on their desktop.
Because copyright infringement is a civil matter, not a criminal one.
Not according to the MAFIAA. Why else do they try and get the FBI to enforce it? Have you learned nothing from all those FBI warnings on the front of your DVDs? Oh wait, pirates remove them;)
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Worked for a mate of mine.. he calls his "it", "the wench" and "the royal pain in the ass".
My brother would buy a 1TB drive and he doesn't know the difference between "The Internet" and "Internet Explorer"...
You know, if you grow a personality you can get 3d-touch-screen boobays. It's amazing technology... They're so much better than the old CRT-based boobays that you discovered at the ripe old age of 12.
Because nudity draws the attention of everyone. It's about choosing words that attract the attention of people while they're skimming the article headlines. You need to draw them to your spamvertising site to get revenue. Nudity does that, as does the terrorist threat, and a few other select social buzzwords.
But, I am glad to see that common sense is prevailing here. Score one for fair use. Maybe the world is changing as the courts start realising that copyright is not about making as much money as possible, but about encouraging the creation of new and interesting material for the benefit of society as a whole.
d'oh, my bad. *note to self* don't post in a hurry with the boss looking over the shoulder... proof read!
Yeah yeah. At least I know that scientists will cure the baldness so that I'll look awesome when I doe of cancer!
My favourite way to make coffee is the cute little brunette/blonde pair down the road (from home, too bad home is a long commute from work).
Easiest way, ever:
1. Go to counter
2. Order "the usual"
3. Make small talk with cute blonde or brunette depending on the day
4. Pass over $3
5. Consume perfect coffee, while continuing small talk.
They've had that shop there forever, are some of the sweetest women I know and make the best coffee I've had. They have a house blend they make from a mix of 4 different beans. It's not whatever is left over, it is an actual blend recipe. It's amazing; Extra strong, full flavour and without the acidic bitterness of some of the other extra strong beans. I even drink it without sugar.
At work it's:
1. Go to machine
2. Insert mug
3. Press "strong"
4. Wait
5. Gurgle
6. Wait
7. Gurgle
8. Remove mug
9. Wipe up drips because machine is stupid
10. Consume
It's OK coffee - beats that crumbed instamud other places have.
Mod Judge +1 for honesty. Better to admit he doesn't know what's going on than to blunder along and make a bad decision because he doesn't understand them.
But, he's only 59 years old and still employed. I am surprised he hasn't used the Internet - if even on his desk at work to get his email and read judgedot.org.
I am sick of the blinking lights. It does get annoying. Even my clock radio has a dot that blinks once a a second.
I wonder how much power is being used by these "standby" and "information" lights that nobody ever pays heed to everywhere in the world. There is an 8+1 port switch on my desk with 7 ports and the uplink port being used. The lights are steadily flickering away. Most of the time they sit there and blink in unison with broadcast traffic. I never look at them. I don't need them. The only reason I use them is to make sure the connection at each end is sound and data is flowing. Once I know that I don't care until something stops. Funny, the network cards in all the equipment connected to the switch also have little blinking lights that are at the back of the PC and are flickering away. the only time I know they're there is when the lights are off and i can see them on the cube wall.
I just got a new case for home. Biggest tower with most drive space I could find for my budget. It's a ricer case unfortunately, and the REAR case fan has one of those wankly rotating LED text displays in it with associated Windows drivers (good thing I don't use windows). The REAR fan, FFS... who ever looks at that when it's under the desk? The whole rest of the case is lit up by blue LEDs. I'm going to snip all the LED power wires when I get around to needing to power down my machine. It's beyond a joke. LEDs may be cheap and consume practically zero power but I don't care. I don't want them everywhere.
Well most "managers" aren't security oriented. The attitude is "why will anyoen want to break into _our_ software/machines?" Point out potential security issues or try and secure the system and they baulk at the idea.
I build an embedded Linux product. The root account is unused but managers wanted the root account enabled with a dumb password so that they can poke about and "test" the product. It took a lot of pushing to get that not to happen. Their attitude was that nobody was interested in breaking our box.
Another example... for configuration they wanted an Internet-facing web server. Fine, I say. But that means you need to have a forced update policy for our customers so that whenever a security flaw is discovered I can update the server/associated libs to fix it and roll it out to everyone immediately. Of course that would eat up all of my time, checking for updates to all of the different packages involved and and updating/rolling out regularly. They baulked at the idea but still wanted a web server facing the greater Internet ("web application" is a buzzword).
I can go on and on about some of the crazy ideas that I have had to fight against. I could just implement them all but then it would be me who looks bad when it all goes to shit. It's a sad state of affairs but it seems the people who make the most decisions are more concerned about the colour of the font in your GUI that the underlying architectural failings. They'd raise a high priority bug to change a word yet delete a bug report that says 'there is a potential problem that would allow an attacker to crash the service' on the ground that it's potential and therefore not worth worrying about.
Don't Panic: Mostly Harmless?
Well at least I know that when I'm lying in my bed with home invaders, rapists, drug addicts and murderers all trying to get me I'll be safe from those evil file sharers and the movie companies will still be making a profit pedling shit that nobody wants. That keeps me sleeping well at night.
Yes, it sounds to me like someone with more $$$ in a commercial to profit from sense wants to patent a similar idea and needs to get this bloke discredited to do that then sue his pants off for copying them... What better way to be hailed as the inventor of something than pay off some regulatory body and have them discredit the original author (dubious as his claims may be).
I shed a tear while reading that article. This is how sad the world has become. The US government worked for tens, probably hundreds of man years at a cost that would exceed the millions to import a person for copyright violation. Their law enforcement must be really good. They must have locked up all the rapists, murderers, arsonists and Muslims and run out of criminals in their own land.
Microsoft Research: The place where computer scienticians copy cool ideas and innovations that came from competing products and pass them off as their own.
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> One of the other dualities are the pagans that like to bad mouth christianity even though paganism is just as stupid.
You forgot those "christians" that badmouth muslims as terrorists, even though said christians invade their country, topple their leader and steal their oil! Not that the particular front man of that church probably posts on here.
*um*... Tried that once (their Linux offering). It was good, but it wasn't exactly small when we tried it . It wanted a target with well over 500M of flash, and that was after I went through their messed up dependency tree and cut it down from the default size which was just crazy. We did work with them on it but it wasn't shrinking fast enough for our liking.
To quote the article:
Watching everyone all of the time and treating the entire population as suspects is not going to weed out terrorists and criminals. Nor is it an effective way of defending our freedoms against those who we are told wish to attack us because we are free.
If the gumbiment takes away our freedoms then the terrorists will have nothing to bitch about, didn't you people learn anything in propoganda-101?
> Posts remarking how they have the same number as their luggage combination: 5
that's the kind of combination an idiot would have on his DVDs!
I wouldn't put it past dubya to be related to every single failure of every single thing everywhere. His ineptitude as a president and a person astounds me (and practically everyone outside of the USofA).
Now, back on topic. This whole NBC thing to do with them owning the presidential debates and others having to use their footage and pay them is crap. What better way to limit the public's understanding of the candidate than manipulate the media.
Now I know why they introduced the DMCA. It baffled us all but this thing by NBC was most likely encouraged by the current gumbiment. IF anyone shows the debate unaltered and doesn't make the opposition look like a tool then they can have the DMCA thrown at them, and that's gotta hurt. It's all so clear now!
Control and greed go hand in hand. With money comes power. With power comes money. It's no wonder dubya is the president there - with idiot greedy rules like these being proposed. If it's too expensive to broadcast political debates then nobody will bother. The public go on even more blissfully unaware than they were before, and what's worse; most of them don't care!
It's doable but not easy. Linux has no way in the standard kernel (when I last looked at this) to differentiate input devices so all mice and keyboards end up globbed as one input device. You need to patch the kernel to separate them out. Once you've done that it's a relatively simple matter of configuring a number of X screens on the available video cards, working out which mouse and keyboard belong to which X screen and putting them physically in front of it.
CPU speed is low priority - most users spend most of their time idle. RAM is majorly important. Jam as much RAM in the box as you can or your users will just bitch that it's slow; even two sessions with a fluffy desktop (gnome/kde) can chew out a gig without much effort.
I am so fortunate not to have had anything as sizable as a T1 here. Best we had was 2xdual channel ISDN. I can safely say that it never went down, short of major flooding or catastrophic lightning events (either right outside our building or the phone company's).
Since switching to DSL it's up and down at least as much as a hookers panties. We fortunately don't have many squirrels but when the kangaroos mate the DSL seems to go down here! Shit, the DSL in one place I set up went down when they turned on the toaster oven and stayed down until it was off again!
DSL is pretty shitty really. Taking lines guaranteed to 4kHz and forcing 0-3MHz down them. Sounds like it's going to be prone to dropouts, low signal levels and interference.
A T1 guarantees you bandwidth from the exchange to your door. It still makes no guarantee of actual data from your carrier's Internet backbone. DSL does not.
A T1 also guarantees you uptime - it's essentially a phone service that's used to route data (and many large corporations use it to route phones back to the exchange to save the hundreds or thousands of pieces of copper coming in). Your actual T1 won't go down because of things like rain, nearby lightning, electrical interference, etc. If you're a business you need always on connectivity; specially if you are carrying your voice data down it as well. If you're a home user or have real copper phone lines coming in then you can afford the occasional downtime due to things like interference.
With the guarantees of line speed and availability comes a price. The phone company has to cover its costs in maintaining your service, and that may include regular equipment upgrades or service, as well as the cost of some guy sitting somewhere on call just in case it fails.
The only people who require IE are the ones that purchassed some dumb HTML book by some other clueless n00b that uses IE, realised it was all too hard and went out and got frontpage to do the dirty work for them. There's a proliferation of them out there. They jumped in at the dot bomb boom thinking that calling themselves "web developers" would make them rich. It probably did, but it doesn't mean they're any good at it.
I mean c'mon it's not hard to write a brilliant page that works everywhere. Look at how Gmail works. IE, FF and Opera all render it correctly. Even Konqueror does a good job but its javascript implementation is a bit lax.
We have two "web applications" that we need to run at work. One is a time management package that used to be simply web-based using forms/java. There was nothing wrong with it except Java took a little time to start. They upgraded to the latest and greatest version that is now fantastic ActiveX. I pointed out that now us Linux users can't use it and will have to revert to the paper forms. Their first solution was "but everybody has 'The Internet'". It took over a week to demonstrate the Linux doesn't come with that (Internet Explorer) installed by default. They then reverted to "just borrow someone else's PC when you need to use it".
The other is an employee workflow manager. It works in FF but only barely. The HTML is that crap that you can hardly figure out what it's doing. Funnily IE renders the poo just fine, and is the only browser that does.
The people who recommend, install and run these services know nothing about Linux and wouldn't know what a web browser was if you showed them. They actually think "The Internet" is the Internet Explorer icon on their desktop.
Because copyright infringement is a civil matter, not a criminal one.
Not according to the MAFIAA. Why else do they try and get the FBI to enforce it? Have you learned nothing from all those FBI warnings on the front of your DVDs? Oh wait, pirates remove them ;)