"without the gas giants, all that junk is mostly likely to hit...earth."
Erm... wrong.
You still have the sun to worry about, without which there would BE no life. There's still mars, venus and mercury, altogether making up more mass than earth. Therefore, junk is most likely to hit something other than earth (if anything at all)
On the other hand, the Oort cloud does pose something of a risk, due to the objects within it being very loosely in orbit - disturbances from other stars, the galactic core, et al, are enough to send thing flying inward.
Bingo. At 15, I have my own Linux box, and know more about security than almost anyone I know in real life. It's possible I know more Linux stuff than my Dad, who's a computer programmer and has years of UNIX experience.
For me, at least, Appleman was a crap writer. He was patronizing in his attempts at not being patronizing - if you can't talk to us normally without it, then your attempts will almost certainly be pathetic.
The best way to educate them is to let them piss the thing up, get someone knowledgeable in and say "This is because you did this" If they're not stupid, you can hope that they get it right next time.
One point is that if they have their own machine, then they will most likely want to keep it nice - if they respect it, they'll protect it.
But who uses google regularly? It doesn't matter to many people that it is open-source, but if google starts throwing its holy weight around in the name of open-source, hopefully people will use that service. Google is well known and well thought of - I'd certainly use GIM, GTalk or whatever they call it.
I'd welcome the opportunity to tell some of my friends "Hey, look - it's free, better than MSN, its email service gives you 1GB, it's attached to the best search engine on the planet - Huzzah!" With no mention of microsoft or OSS.
I was hoping that Google would do this - they have the weight to push OSS forward.
My geography teacher once told the class that an american teacher asked him "Hey, are your kids as thick as ours? They don't even know where Canada is!"
Probably an exaggeration, but still.
England has one weatherman (Michael Fish) who regularly starts his forecast in a completely different part of the world!
The problem I've been having is that spammers have stopped, well, spamming. They have a subject reading "Get new Vi'agra" or whatever, and the body is filled with those random words - I couldn't find any advertising whatsoever.
I mean, how are these twats going to get even the most floppy, lazy, frustrated 99 year old to buy their product by telling him "rankin decisionmake portraiture approval slothful clamber teutonic activism alcoa tofu wakeful polonaise burt afghan
lad sedimentary pennyroyal aristotelean restaurant catherwood veridic cottonseed circumference rupee automorphism lachesis homesick?!"
"English measurements" care to explain yourself (Need I add - 'You insensitive clod!')
We English have laws requiring metric measurements to be used in shops. It's up to the shop to provide Imperial ones.
Last I heard it was the US that didn't use the metric system - correct me if I'm wrong?
Well, if you'd RTFA, you'd see that they're still debating this. If they still can't tell that this is the determining factor, perhaps you should present your amazing theory to them?
Apart from the siblings point, this just shows how stupid and pointless cosmetics are.
Evolution has managed to continue species quite well for millions of years, and the whole cosmetic industry requires us to ignore that evolution and use its products instead.
That as well as the fact that glammed up girls look more like whores than an attractive future mate. (I suppose, though, that by posting this on/. I have anulled my argument)
If those who programmed mailservers would build in a delay between a person's outgoing emails, then we could do away with this.
The spammer could send as many as he wished, but they'd get caught up in the server, giving the same effect as a POW system but without the possibility of cracking.
Of course the spammers could set up their own little server, but that'd be DoSable/Legally Take Down-able.
Also, it's trivial to download a better firewall on another computer, smack it onto USB drive/CD and install that. Unlike downloading all the patches, which is not trivial at all.
But you have to know how to follow others' orders before you can come up with your own
"Before" being why it's inappropriate to still be doing this in anything other than Primary school.
Once you have the shortcut, there's no reason to go back to doing things the long way.
The head of science at our school told me about something he'd noticed when dealing with misbehaving pupils. The ones who're really messed up are those who say "You can't control me!" because they're the ones who don't realise that that is not what is being done. They haven't realised that they're the one who must control themselves.
These are the people who're destined for the army - unable to follow anything but a clearly set out routine and only able to follow instructions.
Certainly, initiative is useful in the army, but it would appear that primarily following orders is most useful.
If we did everything without questioning or trying to find shortcuts, where would we be? The computer is a shortctut-taking device - we could work out complex weather simulations in our heads, but that's pointless and time consuming.
Hmm, same place as most of us - dead. Or at least, not alive. Whether the two amount to the same thing is academic.
Somehow I doubt many posting on/. was around over 70 years ago.
*waits for clouds of OAPs to descend on him like flies*
We should be rewarding the intelligent people who realise that the answer is obviously going to be 360, write it down then head on over to the next question.
Moral of the story: we're rewarding stupidity.
There is a www.google.com. Therefore, if google was ordering things differently according to its loyalties, then why isn't www.google.com at the top, when you search for "search?"
It's because google isn't being biased, or at least, not biased enough to put itself at the top - even though it is common opinion that google is the best.
That would be an interesting, if dangerous, legal battle - Microsoft VS Google.
For once, Microsoft might face a company that has a fair chance of fighting back. Unlikely...
If your theory is correct why's google all the way down there? And why're its competitors, Yahoo and AltaVista up near the top? At least for the moment, Google is not biased.
Plus, even if google was at the top I wouldn't mind because I believe google to be the best and most relevant.
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Erm... wrong.
You still have the sun to worry about, without which there would BE no life. There's still mars, venus and mercury, altogether making up more mass than earth. Therefore, junk is most likely to hit something other than earth (if anything at all)
On the other hand, the Oort cloud does pose something of a risk, due to the objects within it being very loosely in orbit - disturbances from other stars, the galactic core, et al, are enough to send thing flying inward.
For me, at least, Appleman was a crap writer. He was patronizing in his attempts at not being patronizing - if you can't talk to us normally without it, then your attempts will almost certainly be pathetic.
The best way to educate them is to let them piss the thing up, get someone knowledgeable in and say "This is because you did this" If they're not stupid, you can hope that they get it right next time.
One point is that if they have their own machine, then they will most likely want to keep it nice - if they respect it, they'll protect it.
I don't believe I said that...
But who uses google regularly? It doesn't matter to many people that it is open-source, but if google starts throwing its holy weight around in the name of open-source, hopefully people will use that service. Google is well known and well thought of - I'd certainly use GIM, GTalk or whatever they call it.
I'd welcome the opportunity to tell some of my friends "Hey, look - it's free, better than MSN, its email service gives you 1GB, it's attached to the best search engine on the planet - Huzzah!" With no mention of microsoft or OSS.
I was hoping that Google would do this - they have the weight to push OSS forward.
Probably an exaggeration, but still.
England has one weatherman (Michael Fish) who regularly starts his forecast in a completely different part of the world!
I mean, how are these twats going to get even the most floppy, lazy, frustrated 99 year old to buy their product by telling him "rankin decisionmake portraiture approval slothful clamber teutonic activism alcoa tofu wakeful polonaise burt afghan lad sedimentary pennyroyal aristotelean restaurant catherwood veridic cottonseed circumference rupee automorphism lachesis homesick?!"
"English measurements" care to explain yourself (Need I add - 'You insensitive clod!')
We English have laws requiring metric measurements to be used in shops. It's up to the shop to provide Imperial ones.
Last I heard it was the US that didn't use the metric system - correct me if I'm wrong?
I'm logged in - pick me! pick me!
"Easy to get your own one for free" - There're a lot of people who'd like to know your secret! (I, for one)
Well, if you'd RTFA, you'd see that they're still debating this. If they still can't tell that this is the determining factor, perhaps you should present your amazing theory to them?
Apart from the siblings point, this just shows how stupid and pointless cosmetics are. /. I have anulled my argument)
Evolution has managed to continue species quite well for millions of years, and the whole cosmetic industry requires us to ignore that evolution and use its products instead.
That as well as the fact that glammed up girls look more like whores than an attractive future mate. (I suppose, though, that by posting this on
Never actually tried synaptic on FC2... Didn't think it was possible! (I have tried apt-get, though, naturelement.)
I managed to read that is "Debian Unusable..." Is this true?
And in FC you've got yum
If those who programmed mailservers would build in a delay between a person's outgoing emails, then we could do away with this.
The spammer could send as many as he wished, but they'd get caught up in the server, giving the same effect as a POW system but without the possibility of cracking.
Of course the spammers could set up their own little server, but that'd be DoSable/Legally Take Down-able.
Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling;
petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.
I would not consider repeated reboots to be inconsiderable.
The rebooting is not trivial, and what I actually meant was downloading them by hand, one by one, from an existing patched, secure PC.
Also, it's trivial to download a better firewall on another computer, smack it onto USB drive/CD and install that. Unlike downloading all the patches, which is not trivial at all.
"Before" being why it's inappropriate to still be doing this in anything other than Primary school.
Once you have the shortcut, there's no reason to go back to doing things the long way.
The head of science at our school told me about something he'd noticed when dealing with misbehaving pupils. The ones who're really messed up are those who say "You can't control me!" because they're the ones who don't realise that that is not what is being done. They haven't realised that they're the one who must control themselves.
These are the people who're destined for the army - unable to follow anything but a clearly set out routine and only able to follow instructions.
Certainly, initiative is useful in the army, but it would appear that primarily following orders is most useful.
If we did everything without questioning or trying to find shortcuts, where would we be? The computer is a shortctut-taking device - we could work out complex weather simulations in our heads, but that's pointless and time consuming.
Somehow I doubt many posting on
*waits for clouds of OAPs to descend on him like flies*
We should be rewarding the intelligent people who realise that the answer is obviously going to be 360, write it down then head on over to the next question.
Moral of the story: we're rewarding stupidity.
There is a www.google.com. Therefore, if google was ordering things differently according to its loyalties, then why isn't www.google.com at the top, when you search for "search?"
It's because google isn't being biased, or at least, not biased enough to put itself at the top - even though it is common opinion that google is the best.
That would be an interesting, if dangerous, legal battle - Microsoft VS Google.
For once, Microsoft might face a company that has a fair chance of fighting back. Unlikely...
If your theory is correct why's google all the way down there? And why're its competitors, Yahoo and AltaVista up near the top? At least for the moment, Google is not biased.
Plus, even if google was at the top I wouldn't mind because I believe google to be the best and most relevant.