Posting publicly, for life lived cozily is probably not fun- or interesting... I guess I should expect Inflammatory, Off-topic, or Troll
1. STOLEN from inhabitants who were decimated, drugged, small-poxed or anthraxed, payoteed to death or shipped off to Korea or Vietnam despite the dwindling indigenous male bloodlines of the North American Natives; before and after that, the "confederation" nearly tore itself apart, spilling blood of countless descendants of those who were too cowardly to behead their own corrupt queen/monarchy (which led to the occupation of this land... just a little history)
2. "EVENTUALLY"... Humm, meanwhile, companies like diebold continue to sell all sundry of products (building alarms ang gongs/bells & systems among many other things) rake in the dough while corrupt/paid off (paid off by whom ever you can link them to) politicians and lobbyists reinforce this sick feedback loop
3. Equal Number... Not, they're not only equal.. they're equally corrupt, two sniping, flaming heads on the same dragon's slimy, scaly body; time to introduce MORE parties that so dilute things that no two parties can rule with collusion or singular power. Oh, wait, that goes against bi-polar, schizoid, malefactor corrupt "democracy" (just remember FLORIDIANs who were disenfranchised by a **texas** database company that provided information that kept mostly minority and democrat-leaning/registered citizens (not many of them even felons or prohibited, either) from voting
These assholes don't speak FOR me. They can take my taxes, jail or detain or economically destroy me, kill me, kill abroad (overseas for some of the low-IQ here... not "kill a broad"), and lie to the world about the efficient, trustworthy voting system "we" have, but they don't speak FOR ME. They can misrepresent me, but that does NOT imply my complicity: I just utterly lack the resources to malevolently swing down a hammer from the heavens to rectify things on a higher plane of morality that isn't based on "impartial"/"colorblind" economics and bullshit such as family crests.
US elections are controlled at the local level, so unfortunately such a nationwide fix would not be workable here.
Hmmm, the Dutch aren't exactly Botswana or some place in South America where votes might be escorted by military convoys. Yet, the Dutch will have FOREIGN observers?
Wow. Considering all the diebold bullshit going on, one would think and ask where are the INTERNATIONAL observers when US voting (local, county, state, federal) elections occur.
I think the UN should declare an occupation to several major US cities. Make things interesting a bit....
1. Don't kill off the SALES man! This is the fine work of government to RFP for bids. Lockheed can win global contracts and then farm them out to their privileged few subcontractors.
2. I suspect the anti-tamper feature will incorporate some sort of stun mechanism.
3. Imagine being pulled into an on-site interrogation room and being asked:
- WHY did you visit the bathrooms 13 times. WHY THOSE 13? - WHY did you hug THOSE two people? Do you know they hugged 3 others elsewhere in the airport?
4. Maybe they should design the collars to be more like harnesses. Then, tie together everyone on the same flights, like kids on a field trip.
I never alluded that I had it bad sleeping in my car. It was a CHOICE. A rebellious choice. I decided to deprive rental properties and keep the damned money for myself. After all, why is it illegal to merely sleep in one's car, as ooposed to on the sidewalk? It's NOT just to "keep order" (reduced clutter or "car-invasions/robbery") and "sanitation", it's because of the same reason motorhome users have to keep roving all over the place when they travel: If people slept in "mobiciles" (I or we coined that term when he told me that he was going to do) as I did years ago and like friend who is a special-forces trainee did not too long ago, we'd deprive the State of revenues generated by rent taxes.
It saved US money WE knew better what to do with. $800 x 6 months was $4800 I needed to do things with. Many mobicile dwellers don't cause trouble, and not having a fixed address is NOT a crime. But, NOT having a fixed address for the then prior six months ALMOST made the Escrow/Title company not file my papers. I wanted to ring her neck telling me she was not able to hand over my new home's keys if I couldn't provide an address. THAT was a good reason for having police give contact reports to their contacts instead of keeping them in a wheel book (note pad). I had a mailing address (USPS building, not other places), had my vehicle registration in order, my license current, and numerous clothing receipts, dining receipts, and a continuous stream of paychecks. Obviously such a person is not a plant or a fraud she would be able to ferret out. Hell, they even got my thumbprint as part of the escrow closing process. Surely, if I were a fugitive or wanted person or person of interest, I'd have been long rounded up.
(Anyway, so much for sleeping on the streets being illegal. Just visit the Tendergroing/Tenderloin in SF. The police ROUTINELY don't enforce the anti-vagrancy law. Tourists must wonder what the hell is wrong with the US when they walk around Union Square, Powell, Taylor, Market, and numerous other streets seeing hundreds of people in tattered clothing waiting for food handouts from Glide Memorial; defecant and urine on building walls, in their doorways, between cars, on the sidewalks, in street tree boxes; vomitus and sleeping bags and blankets in the doorways of businesses, the stench of urine that cannot be washed away even by rain.... Sometimes I feel the UN ought to occupy various parts of the US to embarrass it into cleaning up at home. T/L should be earth-scoured and rebuilt, along with many other cities' blighted areas, affordable housing, living wages and more. Money wasted on fictitious enemies in the name of power, divine right and all the other bs instigated by shitty foreign policy could be better spent improving the Human Psyche/Human Experience and diginified living for "good 'ole 'merkuns".... OH, wait, my thyroid is out of whack again.... lost my meds....)
On one 4th of July, 1999 I was asleep in my car on a paved street among a knee-high field in a little place called Alviso (at the time my future home was under construction and I'd already sworn I'd NEVER again rent an apartment, so I slept in my car for some 6 months, exercising and showering at work, but eating and recreating elsewhere...)
Sunrise was past, and the fire department arrived to hose down the dry grass to prevent or reduce the risk of blazes, and when they saw my car, rather than knock on the window to see if I was alive, they instead called the police. She arrived, parked behind me, and then, I presume, ran my plates (SOP for any half-brained cop who doesn't want to be offed without the PD knowing their last position/contacts, etc...)
She rapped on my car with her baton or truncheon or whatever the hell it was she had and asked for my ID. But, before that, I'd already sensed something was up because the fire trucks had backed away prior to her arrival. She ran my D/L and came back and asked for my SSN, no negotiation about it.
I don't think that was the ONLY time they've asked me for it. Must be profiling, looking at my surname (purportedly of French origin, with a misspelling due to my father's father's family having been illiterate and released by their slave owners), probably thinking, "Oh, we've got Sayed, Sayid, Say-something....
As IF that weren't enough for her, she wouldn't give (or was hesitant to give) me a "contact/report number" for my OWN future reference of the encounter. She had also asked me whether I had any scars, tatoos, or other identifying marks. I'd had enough of her egg-hunting shit and flubbed yes or no for any remaining questions. FUCK HER! (not because of gender, mind you..., but "FUCK THAT!") Why? Because she was a San Jose cop, ran my California plates, checked my CA drivers license, and STILL wasn't satisfied. I'd alREADY had contacts with the police from previous sleepings (changing my spots every night, rotating among some 5 or 6 to not "wear out my welcome". even had some police politely ask me to move on due to previous issues in the neighborhoods, but these didn't fish for things/beat the bushes, didn't challenge or question or humiliate me with their authority, just to be fair to them...)
If my CDL and car plates don't bring back "detain"/"hold", "wait for backup", then DON'T hold or harass or humiliate YOUR SALARY PAYERS! I was beyond incensed, but I kept my cool. Besides, you DON'T want to go quoting your rights, penal codes, vehicle codes, etc without your OWN backup (say a live video feed of your own, an open mic that you tell the cop is on and will NOT be turned off and will NOT be removed from your vehicle or your person and that you will comply with the ticket signing expeditiously so you can both part ways to meet later in court...)
YES, they CAN and DO ask for SSNs. If you don't give it, they can haul your ass in, whether or not the judge later tosses the arrest/detention out.
And, YES, I even carried my buyer's/escrow papers and ALL the damned paper trail they'd need to find legitimate my reason for being in my car. I don't recall hearing of people in escrow murdering or being fujitives willing to flat out lay out their paper trail. And NO, I did not act furtively. I even let her (or other cops) check my car, in which they'd always find neatly/navy-style folded clean clothes and bagged, segregated worn clothes, my company laptop, my books and a few DEfensive implements...
And, let's remember that was in 1999, and even IF some case could be plugged with my name, why would they suddenly NOW find something to pin on me (other than the urge to close some case?), so if I had something to hide, I doubt I'd sleep in a car just hollering "come check me out" when I COULD have rented a place but refused to. (Humbly and frustratingly, tho, I was part of the mass layoffs and since 2001 have been renting...)
Sounds like Win4Lin will have to rewrite their business model. Just like Symantec and McAfee might if ms actually DOES limit spamware and virus effectiveness.
Hopefully programmers learn to write minimalist software that once again PRIMARILY target win98 so emulators can still be useful, but newer, hardened apps. With this kind of license, honestly, will VMWare and Win4Lin, and Bochs, and others have to find other lines of income?
that's one BIG FRAKKIN' cabbage patch, komrade.... big ole FRAKKIN' pile of spaghetti hairdo. With all the FRAKKIN' chairs that must be flying around and skulls being cracked in board rooms, I suppose ms is investing heavily in the:
You can't FRAKIN' KILL ms employees (but, you CAN frak and frazzle them up a bit); you resu-frakin-rrect them... (gotta find and destroy that FRAKKIN' ms resurrection ship hiding somewhere...)
I think he's on to something. It would, however, prove interesting if ms yanked their astroturfing surfers' subscriptions. I wonder how much funding slashdot would loose and if it would be significant or insignificant.
For those who don't know (generations?), Gojira was not invented to "make a monster movie". The makers were reflecting the nuke-victim mentality of the time and how nuclear weapons were monsters in and of themselves. Gojira was the theatrica/film representation of guilt, fear, desire to eradicate nukes, and more. At points it was (IIRC) either government or self-censored, and nowadays the uncensored or original versions can be found.
It was (probably) a bold and strong thing to come out in that day and in surreal and soul-searching fashion (possibly semi-clandestinely) speak out as a victim of being nuked.
OK, this is one of the times I'll swear and be blunt because sometimes it is warranted.
Amazing some disgruntled asshole can have the balls to call "troll" on a FACT to which he or she did not witness. I DID indeed do these things at work. I am NOT ashamed of it. There is NOTHING false in what I wrote above, and how DARE YOU call troll on that which you can neither verify nor refute. Just because you take issue with that I did doesn't mean "troll" should be allowed to stand as the final call. Dumbass/es. I suppose this is a gang-up score/rating, anyway. Sheesh....
Which brings up a point. If an ingrate can mod someone as "-1, Troll" and it stands indefinitely, without the system being made to call upon other evaluators, then something is wrong. How can ONE moderator/commentator, in a sea of responses, be allowed to stand? Something like, "Troll, Pending" should be implemented, or the "Troll" rating reverted to 1, or 2, after x number of posts that ignored it to elicit MORE response. Also, the WEIGHT of scoring should be FIXED.
If 500 people READ (code can check for this) and only 5 respond to a comment, and the scoring is going up and down, then magnitude and points tally should carry sway. Simply allowing a few responders a final vote JUST because they were the most recent is exemplary of a system of "last vote stands" rather than "magnitude"/"sentiment" stand.
I call for an RFP/RFC to consider upgrading the scoring system to weed out those who carry too many points and who slap troll. It would help if people with more courage would sometimes respond. In that vein, then the upgraded scroing system should heuristically show how the comments slewed and swung up and down. Now, Slashdot coders, if you haven't thought of that, I suggest you get VA Software to rush and patent the idea and turn it over to open source. If the idea is NOT yet patented, then my writing of it here should suffice for "prior art" at an early stage. Assuming some corrupt judge and greedy companies don't overrule.
I saw a co-worker using it. I wasn't very impressed. I told him about KDE (in generalizations) having up to 16 virtual desktops, the ability to Ctrl+Alt+Tab out to a console, the ability to do other things, and told another co-worker how one can double-click on Konqueror's title bar and how she could shade/scroll up, Alt+Right+Click mouse-drag to resize an app in the event one has shaky hands....
My team mate's main comment about vista was, "Man, I bet Apple's gonna be piss about this..." (the Apple-like widgets and dials on the screen). To which I responded, "And this from the company that claims it INNOVATES. Hell, they copy what they cannot think up and buy what they cannot create. That's innovation for you..."
Now, he's looking forward to us spending time outside of IT-related tasks to installing various Linux distros on systems so he can broaden his scope outside of windoze...
Nothing like viral marketing. I even showed a Dell tech rep today my Linux Format and Linux User mags, and HE was surprised to see Compiz and other 3D GUI features LINUX is alREADY deploying ahead of vista... It seems he, too, is going to spend time checking out Linux.... Nothing like viral marketing...
I'm sure SOMEone will be unctuous and try to slap me down with "flamebait" or "off topic" or try to be erudite about the mission of DARPA....
Whatever the hell it is, san fransideshow needs one of thes on every block in the Tendergroin to wash the place down. Hopefully, it'll be less expensive than pulling water from fire hidrants or apartment buildings.
Maybe DARPA should attach filthy US streets instead of funding ass-kicking/supporting operations for a little while... the stench over here is so intense.
spearhead Mozilla's security strategy and improve its communications with external hackers and bug finders.
I wonder if he's ribbed for our pleasure. Spearhead my ass (not literally)-- I'm wondering if he's an infiltrator, and what kind: Sheik, Trojan, and what kind of Durex LifeStyles he has... Does he wear a Kimono? Will we face eternal CondomNation by letting him penetrate the Inner Sanctum?. I wonder what will be his Crown(ing) achievement-- anything "Beyond Seven" (of 9)? SURELY, he's the "One"...
Lotus Approach? WYSIWYG forms that end-users can use are best in Lotus Approach. It's not as powerful with all the bells and whistles as ms abscess and other apps out there, but it's DAMNED GOOD for end-users who do NOT want to become or be dependent upon programmers or the IT members. Approach has worksheets, forms, crosstabls, charts, reports, , macros, scripts, and formulas. And, it won an award several times for ease of use. I don't recall ms abscess EVER winning any kind of awards or kudos.
Lotus WordPro? In LWP, you can create clearer compound documents in the cleaner UI LWP has. LWP has tabs atop the writing pane. If you want, you can turn them off, but when working on complex documents, and you want to create single or multi-level subdocuments, or a master document cobbled together of documents pulled from disparate sources. In LWP, either link them or copy and paste them into one of the tabs. Each tab represents a division or a section in your document. You can rearrange them, and you can also restrict the formatting to specific divisions, unlike OO.o, which (last time I tried, oh, a few months ago) INSISTS on slathering the changes to one section to the entire document. Obviously they are loath to take a look at LWP. They should copy THAT, not ms orifice. Also, in LWP, there are editable special views that are for user-aide. These view don't affect or impact the STRUCTURE of the actual doc. They help you (the writer) get a grip on large, confusing docs so you can do things like visualize the white space and balance the spread of graphics across the segments of the document.
I so much LIKE/LOVE SmartSuite, and so much despise doing anything serious in OO.o, that I use Win4Lin (but am experimenting with Crossover Office) to run win98 so I can have my Lotus SmartSuite until the day I die. I love SmartSuite as much as I love Linux and Open Source. I just wish more Open Source people would look into the feature set of SmartSuite and bang on IBM's door.
Maybe IBM will FINALLY open up SmartSuite.
I last week ranted/lamented IBM/Lotus intransigently being stalwarts and not bringing out the beautiful/desperately-in-need-of-updating Lotus SmartSuite.
Just this weekend, in a fresh install of Mandrake 10.1 on a blank hard disk, I decided to reinstall Win4Lin. Of course, it installed partly, but won't run. It needs IE. So MUCH shit in windoze land relies on DCOM95 or 98 or iexploder. Not having exploder in win98 (I didn't not-install it...) causes Win4Lin to just blow up.
So, I decided to act on an idea I had while sitting in the bathroom or whereever I was. My idea: Wine or Crossover Office with a twist: Graft my existing win98 directory (the one that DID work in Win4Lin on my other disk (which I have to replace because it's NOISY as hell, and the new Seagate has liquid bearings and is a nice quiet dream of a drive...) into the FAKE_WINDOWS directory in/home/myusername/.cx/..../fake_windows.
Under Crossover that came with Mandrake 10.1 official disks, SmartSuite DID work, tho the fonts were tiny, probably due to my resolution settings or some dll issue.
WordPro WORKED!
Freelance Graphics WORKED!
Organizer WORKED!
1.2.3 has problems, tho...but generally WORKED.
Approach, bzzzt... Somehow, the.dbf is associated with openorifice, which I think is hampering and crashing Approach.
I could even edit the registry.
It just pisses me off, tho, that by luck, a brainstorm, and some wrangling I managed to struggle through what CodeWeavers COULD do and has the technical expertise to do to make our lives easer. Hell, SmartSuite is widely available for from $9 up to $300, depending on the age of the version you want.
Oh, on that reinstall of Mandrake 10.1 I used only Gnome to speed up the install.
BUT, when I tried to install and reinstall SmartSuite in Ubuntu (upgraded/sidegraded to Kubuntu) on the new disk, SmartSuite won't run. I even grafted the working vers
"" They already have a solid alternative in Open Office"
BZZZZZTTTT!
Have you even SEEN or used Lotus Approach? THAT is more solid than even MySQL Admin as far as end-user needs are concerned.
Filemaker would be serious overkill, and abscess would be risky at best.
Lotus Approach in Linux would be splended, and already since 1996 has been vastly superior to any current version of Kexi, Base, or other admin-hack-job tools that would make end-users run for the door. Approach has WYSIWYG form, report and chart tools. It has limited crosstabs, and it has worksheets. It has macros, formulas, and scripting. It has detail panels/repeating panels, pretty decent user/sharing security features
AND, it makes a great front end to MySQL and other databases, especially.dbf.
Since I have my disks way back to 1995, I might give up some feature stability and roll back to that version just so (hopefully) it can run better in Crossover Office."
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I posted the above from work where I'm not yet logging in to any of my external accounts...
Hu r u to say Google is receives "usual unabashed fellating"? Last time I though about it, Google could very well receive abashed cunnilating. And, I'm not even trying to be a cunning linguist...
Sounds good for me. I've been itching to find a way to use SmartSuite without other overhead tools. But, if WINE or CodeWeavers or QEMU could solve my problem, I'd be thrilled.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe not only deeply troubled, but triply doubled...
Calinobyllium?
Chernofornium?
Ahnobyllium (therminator-grade)?
Collyfohnium?
Must be early. I need to start my day with a breakfast of cinnamony, toasty ATOM jacks... wait... is that "Apple Jacks"...
Posting publicly, for life lived cozily is probably not fun- or interesting... I guess I should expect Inflammatory, Off-topic, or Troll
1. STOLEN from inhabitants who were decimated, drugged, small-poxed or anthraxed, payoteed to death or shipped off to Korea or Vietnam despite the dwindling indigenous male bloodlines of the North American Natives; before and after that, the "confederation" nearly tore itself apart, spilling blood of countless descendants of those who were too cowardly to behead their own corrupt queen/monarchy (which led to the occupation of this land... just a little history)
2. "EVENTUALLY"... Humm, meanwhile, companies like diebold continue to sell all sundry of products (building alarms ang gongs/bells & systems among many other things) rake in the dough while corrupt/paid off (paid off by whom ever you can link them to) politicians and lobbyists reinforce this sick feedback loop
3. Equal Number... Not, they're not only equal.. they're equally corrupt, two sniping, flaming heads on the same dragon's slimy, scaly body; time to introduce MORE parties that so dilute things that no two parties can rule with collusion or singular power. Oh, wait, that goes against bi-polar, schizoid, malefactor corrupt "democracy" (just remember FLORIDIANs who were disenfranchised by a **texas** database company that provided information that kept mostly minority and democrat-leaning/registered citizens (not many of them even felons or prohibited, either) from voting
These assholes don't speak FOR me. They can take my taxes, jail or detain or economically destroy me, kill me, kill abroad (overseas for some of the low-IQ here... not "kill a broad"), and lie to the world about the efficient, trustworthy voting system "we" have, but they don't speak FOR ME. They can misrepresent me, but that does NOT imply my complicity: I just utterly lack the resources to malevolently swing down a hammer from the heavens to rectify things on a higher plane of morality that isn't based on "impartial"/"colorblind" economics and bullshit such as family crests.
US elections are controlled at the local level, so unfortunately such a nationwide fix would not be workable here.
Hmmm, the Dutch aren't exactly Botswana or some place in South America where votes might be escorted by military convoys. Yet, the Dutch will have FOREIGN observers?
Wow. Considering all the diebold bullshit going on, one would think and ask where are the INTERNATIONAL observers when US voting (local, county, state, federal) elections occur.
I think the UN should declare an occupation to several major US cities. Make things interesting a bit....
S....
1. Don't kill off the SALES man! This is the fine work of government to RFP for bids. Lockheed can win global contracts and then farm them out to their privileged few subcontractors.
2. I suspect the anti-tamper feature will incorporate some sort of stun mechanism.
3. Imagine being pulled into an on-site interrogation room and being asked:
- WHY did you visit the bathrooms 13 times. WHY THOSE 13?
- WHY did you hug THOSE two people? Do you know they hugged 3 others elsewhere in the airport?
4. Maybe they should design the collars to be more like harnesses. Then, tie together everyone on the same flights, like kids on a field trip.
I never alluded that I had it bad sleeping in my car. It was a CHOICE. A rebellious choice. I decided to deprive rental properties and keep the damned money for myself. After all, why is it illegal to merely sleep in one's car, as ooposed to on the sidewalk? It's NOT just to "keep order" (reduced clutter or "car-invasions/robbery") and "sanitation", it's because of the same reason motorhome users have to keep roving all over the place when they travel: If people slept in "mobiciles" (I or we coined that term when he told me that he was going to do) as I did years ago and like friend who is a special-forces trainee did not too long ago, we'd deprive the State of revenues generated by rent taxes.
It saved US money WE knew better what to do with. $800 x 6 months was $4800 I needed to do things with. Many mobicile dwellers don't cause trouble, and not having a fixed address is NOT a crime. But, NOT having a fixed address for the then prior six months ALMOST made the Escrow/Title company not file my papers. I wanted to ring her neck telling me she was not able to hand over my new home's keys if I couldn't provide an address. THAT was a good reason for having police give contact reports to their contacts instead of keeping them in a wheel book (note pad). I had a mailing address (USPS building, not other places), had my vehicle registration in order, my license current, and numerous clothing receipts, dining receipts, and a continuous stream of paychecks. Obviously such a person is not a plant or a fraud she would be able to ferret out. Hell, they even got my thumbprint as part of the escrow closing process. Surely, if I were a fugitive or wanted person or person of interest, I'd have been long rounded up.
(Anyway, so much for sleeping on the streets being illegal. Just visit the Tendergroing/Tenderloin in SF. The police ROUTINELY don't enforce the anti-vagrancy law. Tourists must wonder what the hell is wrong with the US when they walk around Union Square, Powell, Taylor, Market, and numerous other streets seeing hundreds of people in tattered clothing waiting for food handouts from Glide Memorial; defecant and urine on building walls, in their doorways, between cars, on the sidewalks, in street tree boxes; vomitus and sleeping bags and blankets in the doorways of businesses, the stench of urine that cannot be washed away even by rain.... Sometimes I feel the UN ought to occupy various parts of the US to embarrass it into cleaning up at home. T/L should be earth-scoured and rebuilt, along with many other cities' blighted areas, affordable housing, living wages and more. Money wasted on fictitious enemies in the name of power, divine right and all the other bs instigated by shitty foreign policy could be better spent improving the Human Psyche/Human Experience and diginified living for "good 'ole 'merkuns".... OH, wait, my thyroid is out of whack again.... lost my meds....)
How WRONG you are, sir!
On one 4th of July, 1999 I was asleep in my car on a paved street among a knee-high field in a little place called Alviso (at the time my future home was under construction and I'd already sworn I'd NEVER again rent an apartment, so I slept in my car for some 6 months, exercising and showering at work, but eating and recreating elsewhere...)
Sunrise was past, and the fire department arrived to hose down the dry grass to prevent or reduce the risk of blazes, and when they saw my car, rather than knock on the window to see if I was alive, they instead called the police. She arrived, parked behind me, and then, I presume, ran my plates (SOP for any half-brained cop who doesn't want to be offed without the PD knowing their last position/contacts, etc...)
She rapped on my car with her baton or truncheon or whatever the hell it was she had and asked for my ID. But, before that, I'd already sensed something was up because the fire trucks had backed away prior to her arrival. She ran my D/L and came back and asked for my SSN, no negotiation about it.
I don't think that was the ONLY time they've asked me for it. Must be profiling, looking at my surname (purportedly of French origin, with a misspelling due to my father's father's family having been illiterate and released by their slave owners), probably thinking, "Oh, we've got Sayed, Sayid, Say-something....
As IF that weren't enough for her, she wouldn't give (or was hesitant to give) me a "contact/report number" for my OWN future reference of the encounter. She had also asked me whether I had any scars, tatoos, or other identifying marks. I'd had enough of her egg-hunting shit and flubbed yes or no for any remaining questions. FUCK HER! (not because of gender, mind you..., but "FUCK THAT!") Why? Because she was a San Jose cop, ran my California plates, checked my CA drivers license, and STILL wasn't satisfied. I'd alREADY had contacts with the police from previous sleepings (changing my spots every night, rotating among some 5 or 6 to not "wear out my welcome". even had some police politely ask me to move on due to previous issues in the neighborhoods, but these didn't fish for things/beat the bushes, didn't challenge or question or humiliate me with their authority, just to be fair to them...)
If my CDL and car plates don't bring back "detain"/"hold", "wait for backup", then DON'T hold or harass or humiliate YOUR SALARY PAYERS! I was beyond incensed, but I kept my cool. Besides, you DON'T want to go quoting your rights, penal codes, vehicle codes, etc without your OWN backup (say a live video feed of your own, an open mic that you tell the cop is on and will NOT be turned off and will NOT be removed from your vehicle or your person and that you will comply with the ticket signing expeditiously so you can both part ways to meet later in court...)
YES, they CAN and DO ask for SSNs. If you don't give it, they can haul your ass in, whether or not the judge later tosses the arrest/detention out.
And, YES, I even carried my buyer's/escrow papers and ALL the damned paper trail they'd need to find legitimate my reason for being in my car. I don't recall hearing of people in escrow murdering or being fujitives willing to flat out lay out their paper trail. And NO, I did not act furtively. I even let her (or other cops) check my car, in which they'd always find neatly/navy-style folded clean clothes and bagged, segregated worn clothes, my company laptop, my books and a few DEfensive implements...
And, let's remember that was in 1999, and even IF some case could be plugged with my name, why would they suddenly NOW find something to pin on me (other than the urge to close some case?), so if I had something to hide, I doubt I'd sleep in a car just hollering "come check me out" when I COULD have rented a place but refused to. (Humbly and frustratingly, tho, I was part of the mass layoffs and since 2001 have been renting...)
inkossigle...
Sounds like Win4Lin will have to rewrite their business model. Just like Symantec and McAfee might if ms actually DOES limit spamware and virus effectiveness.
Hopefully programmers learn to write minimalist software that once again PRIMARILY target win98 so emulators can still be useful, but newer, hardened apps. With this kind of license, honestly, will VMWare and Win4Lin, and Bochs, and others have to find other lines of income?
that's one BIG FRAKKIN' cabbage patch, komrade.... big ole FRAKKIN' pile of spaghetti hairdo. With all the FRAKKIN' chairs that must be flying around and skulls being cracked in board rooms, I suppose ms is investing heavily in the:
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Protein Gel Quickly Stops Bleeding
http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/10/10/2024
research....
You can't FRAKIN' KILL ms employees (but, you CAN frak and frazzle them up a bit); you resu-frakin-rrect them... (gotta find and destroy that FRAKKIN' ms resurrection ship hiding somewhere...)
FRAK!
I think he's on to something. It would, however, prove interesting if ms yanked their astroturfing surfers' subscriptions. I wonder how much funding slashdot would loose and if it would be significant or insignificant.
For those who don't know (generations?), Gojira was not invented to "make a monster movie". The makers were reflecting the nuke-victim mentality of the time and how nuclear weapons were monsters in and of themselves. Gojira was the theatrica/film representation of guilt, fear, desire to eradicate nukes, and more. At points it was (IIRC) either government or self-censored, and nowadays the uncensored or original versions can be found.
It was (probably) a bold and strong thing to come out in that day and in surreal and soul-searching fashion (possibly semi-clandestinely) speak out as a victim of being nuked.
OK, this is one of the times I'll swear and be blunt because sometimes it is warranted.
Amazing some disgruntled asshole can have the balls to call "troll" on a FACT to which he or she did not witness. I DID indeed do these things at work. I am NOT ashamed of it. There is NOTHING false in what I wrote above, and how DARE YOU call troll on that which you can neither verify nor refute. Just because you take issue with that I did doesn't mean "troll" should be allowed to stand as the final call. Dumbass/es. I suppose this is a gang-up score/rating, anyway. Sheesh....
Which brings up a point. If an ingrate can mod someone as "-1, Troll" and it stands indefinitely, without the system being made to call upon other evaluators, then something is wrong. How can ONE moderator/commentator, in a sea of responses, be allowed to stand? Something like, "Troll, Pending" should be implemented, or the "Troll" rating reverted to 1, or 2, after x number of posts that ignored it to elicit MORE response. Also, the WEIGHT of scoring should be FIXED.
If 500 people READ (code can check for this) and only 5 respond to a comment, and the scoring is going up and down, then magnitude and points tally should carry sway. Simply allowing a few responders a final vote JUST because they were the most recent is exemplary of a system of "last vote stands" rather than "magnitude"/"sentiment" stand.
I call for an RFP/RFC to consider upgrading the scoring system to weed out those who carry too many points and who slap troll. It would help if people with more courage would sometimes respond. In that vein, then the upgraded scroing system should heuristically show how the comments slewed and swung up and down. Now, Slashdot coders, if you haven't thought of that, I suggest you get VA Software to rush and patent the idea and turn it over to open source. If the idea is NOT yet patented, then my writing of it here should suffice for "prior art" at an early stage. Assuming some corrupt judge and greedy companies don't overrule.
Gotta be one BIG ASSED patch...
I saw a co-worker using it. I wasn't very impressed. I told him about KDE (in generalizations) having up to 16 virtual desktops, the ability to Ctrl+Alt+Tab out to a console, the ability to do other things, and told another co-worker how one can double-click on Konqueror's title bar and how she could shade/scroll up, Alt+Right+Click mouse-drag to resize an app in the event one has shaky hands....
My team mate's main comment about vista was, "Man, I bet Apple's gonna be piss about this..." (the Apple-like widgets and dials on the screen). To which I responded, "And this from the company that claims it INNOVATES. Hell, they copy what they cannot think up and buy what they cannot create. That's innovation for you..."
Now, he's looking forward to us spending time outside of IT-related tasks to installing various Linux distros on systems so he can broaden his scope outside of windoze...
Nothing like viral marketing. I even showed a Dell tech rep today my Linux Format and Linux User mags, and HE was surprised to see Compiz and other 3D GUI features LINUX is alREADY deploying ahead of vista... It seems he, too, is going to spend time checking out Linux.... Nothing like viral marketing...
DS
I'm sure SOMEone will be unctuous and try to slap me down with "flamebait" or "off topic" or try to be erudite about the mission of DARPA....
Whatever the hell it is, san fransideshow needs one of thes on every block in the Tendergroin to wash the place down. Hopefully, it'll be less expensive than pulling water from fire hidrants or apartment buildings.
Maybe DARPA should attach filthy US streets instead of funding ass-kicking/supporting operations for a little while... the stench over here is so intense.
run rings around Uranus?
There is an ANNUlar confinement beam at work, hidden in the backdrop. Maybe somebody can squeeze a Dyson's Sphere out of Uranus?
spearhead Mozilla's security strategy and improve its communications with external hackers and bug finders.
I wonder if he's ribbed for our pleasure. Spearhead my ass (not literally)-- I'm wondering if he's an infiltrator, and what kind: Sheik, Trojan, and what kind of Durex LifeStyles he has... Does he wear a Kimono? Will we face eternal CondomNation by letting him penetrate the Inner Sanctum?. I wonder what will be his Crown(ing) achievement-- anything "Beyond Seven" (of 9)? SURELY, he's the "One"...
"You are NOT of the BODY! LANDRU!!! SINNERS! SAVE me Landru...."
(DAMN! LOL... Slash word image: angelic...)
Yeh... I can...
/home/myusername/.cx/..../fake_windows.
.dbf is associated with openorifice, which I think is hampering and crashing Approach.
Lotus Approach?
WYSIWYG forms that end-users can use are best in Lotus Approach. It's not as powerful with all the bells and whistles as ms abscess and other apps out there, but it's DAMNED GOOD for end-users who do NOT want to become or be dependent upon programmers or the IT members. Approach has worksheets, forms, crosstabls, charts, reports, , macros, scripts, and formulas. And, it won an award several times for ease of use. I don't recall ms abscess EVER winning any kind of awards or kudos.
Lotus WordPro?
In LWP, you can create clearer compound documents in the cleaner UI LWP has. LWP has tabs atop the writing pane. If you want, you can turn them off, but when working on complex documents, and you want to create single or multi-level subdocuments, or a master document cobbled together of documents pulled from disparate sources. In LWP, either link them or copy and paste them into one of the tabs. Each tab represents a division or a section in your document. You can rearrange them, and you can also restrict the formatting to specific divisions, unlike OO.o, which (last time I tried, oh, a few months ago) INSISTS on slathering the changes to one section to the entire document. Obviously they are loath to take a look at LWP. They should copy THAT, not ms orifice. Also, in LWP, there are editable special views that are for user-aide. These view don't affect or impact the STRUCTURE of the actual doc. They help you (the writer) get a grip on large, confusing docs so you can do things like visualize the white space and balance the spread of graphics across the segments of the document.
I so much LIKE/LOVE SmartSuite, and so much despise doing anything serious in OO.o, that I use Win4Lin (but am experimenting with Crossover Office) to run win98 so I can have my Lotus SmartSuite until the day I die. I love SmartSuite as much as I love Linux and Open Source. I just wish more Open Source people would look into the feature set of SmartSuite and bang on IBM's door.
Maybe IBM will FINALLY open up SmartSuite.
I last week ranted/lamented IBM/Lotus intransigently being stalwarts and not bringing out the beautiful/desperately-in-need-of-updating Lotus SmartSuite.
Just this weekend, in a fresh install of Mandrake 10.1 on a blank hard disk, I decided to reinstall Win4Lin. Of course, it installed partly, but won't run. It needs IE. So MUCH shit in windoze land relies on DCOM95 or 98 or iexploder. Not having exploder in win98 (I didn't not-install it...) causes Win4Lin to just blow up.
So, I decided to act on an idea I had while sitting in the bathroom or whereever I was. My idea: Wine or Crossover Office with a twist: Graft my existing win98 directory (the one that DID work in Win4Lin on my other disk (which I have to replace because it's NOISY as hell, and the new Seagate has liquid bearings and is a nice quiet dream of a drive...) into the FAKE_WINDOWS directory in
Under Crossover that came with Mandrake 10.1 official disks, SmartSuite DID work, tho the fonts were tiny, probably due to my resolution settings or some dll issue.
WordPro WORKED!
Freelance Graphics WORKED!
Organizer WORKED!
1.2.3 has problems, tho...but generally WORKED.
Approach, bzzzt... Somehow, the
I could even edit the registry.
It just pisses me off, tho, that by luck, a brainstorm, and some wrangling I managed to struggle through what CodeWeavers COULD do and has the technical expertise to do to make our lives easer. Hell, SmartSuite is widely available for from $9 up to $300, depending on the age of the version you want.
Oh, on that reinstall of Mandrake 10.1 I used only Gnome to speed up the install.
BUT, when I tried to install and reinstall SmartSuite in Ubuntu (upgraded/sidegraded to Kubuntu) on the new disk, SmartSuite won't run. I even grafted the working vers
"" They already have a solid alternative in Open Office"
.dbf.
/ product2.nsf/wdocs/approach [ibm.com]
/ product2.nsf/wdocs/approachfact [ibm.com]
r y/ [ibm.com]
r y/subcategory/SW870.html [ibm.com]
/ product2.nsf/wdocs/faq [ibm.com]
e _Millenium_Edition_9.8/AN01DIE/pf/143434 [superwarehouse.com]
BZZZZZTTTT!
Have you even SEEN or used Lotus Approach? THAT is more solid than even MySQL Admin as far as end-user needs are concerned.
Filemaker would be serious overkill, and abscess would be risky at best.
Lotus Approach in Linux would be splended, and already since 1996 has been vastly superior to any current version of Kexi, Base, or other admin-hack-job tools that would make end-users run for the door. Approach has WYSIWYG form, report and chart tools. It has limited crosstabs, and it has worksheets. It has macros, formulas, and scripting. It has detail panels/repeating panels, pretty decent user/sharing security features
AND, it makes a great front end to MySQL and other databases, especially
http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/products
http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/products
Regrettably, SmartSuite is a bundle deal, and Approach is not separately available except maybe in Japan.
See:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/sw-bycatego
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/sw-bycatego
FAQ: compatibility with ms office:
http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/products
http://www.superwarehouse.com/IBM_Lotus_SmartSuit
Since I have my disks way back to 1995, I might give up some feature stability and roll back to that version just so (hopefully) it can run better in Crossover Office."
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I posted the above from work where I'm not yet logging in to any of my external accounts...
SOMEbody had a dry, twitchy-ass no-sense-of-humor...
slash image word: browns (and, how appropriate for the one which zap-modded me...)
With a bit of ethnic voiceover:
"cum to da hunneh-khom hyde-out!"
Hu r u to say Google is receives "usual unabashed fellating"? Last time I though about it, Google could very well receive abashed cunnilating. And, I'm not even trying to be a cunning linguist...
Sounds good for me. I've been itching to find a way to use SmartSuite without other overhead tools. But, if WINE or CodeWeavers or QEMU could solve my problem, I'd be thrilled.