Oh yes. We all need an OS with a spokesbabe. Uh huh. Never mind things like stability or freedom. Just pay attention to the ass shaking in front of your fucking face. That's why, ten years from now, I'll still have a great job and you will be a fat, balding, middle-aged Emo loser. Get a fucking job and get a life dude!
I don't know how useful that approach would be for most home setups. If we're being honest here, most of us are using Linux at home more than we are at work. So the only person doing the installations would be... ourselves. After all, do you really want your wife and kids installing software at home? That is what we blame Microsoft for: letting users destroy their own systems.
Why not publish a book containing much of the useful criticism the criticism and sell it as a companion to "The Brown Book"? Give it a similar enough name and appearance so as to cause confusion, but keep enough humor in it to say that it is just a parody. That's sure to give Brown and the intstitute conniptions.
Notice how CBG attempts to fob off everyone else as inferior to him? It's just so incredibly lame. Which is why he is on my List of FAILURES. That's where CBG belongs, and where he will stay until he realizes that he is not as wonderful as he may delude himself that he is. There is something called humility, and CBG has none. Truly a MISERABLE FAILURE.
You're a real ass, you know that? An utter twit, and an ass.
Twirlip of the Mists is an authority on being an ass and a twit, as he is one himself. Just listen to how much his posts drip with arrogance. Henceforth, Twirlip of the Mists shall be known as CBG. Enjoy.
Pay Twirlip of the Mists no heed. He is suffering from the elitist delusion that he is better than everyone else. Once he has a grip on reality again, if that's even possible, he will stop trolling as muh as he does.
Oh. I give up. I used to think I could stamp out "Noo-Kyuh-Lur", but now it's even in the fucking dictionary. However, we haven't been consistent and renamed the nucleus, to nukyoolus or nucleic acids to nukyoolayick acids. Why? Why??? WHY????! Maybe because people can still understand what it means? Still, it drives me up the fucking wall to here Americans say "Noo-Kyuh-Lur Weapons". But, I give up. People are happy with being stupid and illogical. I refuse to actually join them though.
Please try to pay attention. This isn't that complicated. People who take up arms but who do not fight openly are not covered by the Geneva Conventions. At all, in any way. They don't comport themselves like soldiers, either uniformed or otherwise, so they don't get treated as soldiers. They are outside the system, they are outside the rules. They are (wait for it) unlawful combatants.
You heard it here from the goonybird himself first folks! Our founding fathers who were staging a rebellion were (wait for it) unlawful combatants! I think Twirlip deserves the dunce cap that he wears on his head every day. If you want some real rabble rousing from someone who actually loves what America was meant to be (not what the thugs have turned it into), then read my JEs. Twirlip of the Mists pays lip service to being interested in America. But all he does is play mouthpiece to the monsters that have seized control of the ship. It is time to shut them down, and shut them down we will. That is, is the November elections happen without any funny business. That's a pretty big if right now. But we will fight to take this country back, one way or the other.
Precedent like this by such a well respected and very tasteful organization is sure to bolster support for the Creative Commons style of licensing. One of the best, but most downtrodden traits of humanity is the capacity for sharing. Certain, mentally ill segments of our civilization are striving to keep what last tight grips they have on anything of value. They think only of themselves and their immediate needs rather than thinking of us as a collective and the legacy that we may leave behind with a more open approach. I applaud the BBC and it's efforts to show the world that it is possible to embrace sharing as a good thing for creativity. I berate everyone else who believes that keeping something completely to themselves is good in any way. Go ahead and become Gollum, if that is what you wish. The rest of us will leave you behind.
Not until the cessation of hostilities. But in either case it's irrelevant, because the status of the prisoners at Gitmo is not in doubt. They're unlawful combatants.
Oh boo hoo! There are plenty of us who don't think that those guys are unlawful combatants. Hell, if the Bush administration heard half of the things I say about them on a regular basis among my group of friends I'd probably be labeled an "unlawful combatant". It would make you happy to see anyone who doesn't fit in with your warped view of the world thrown away in jail with no recourse. However, you are wrong. We will have our recourse. It will either happen in November, or it will happen later in a much more difficult way. We won't all be dragged into your nightmare neocon view of the world without a serious fight.
Doesn't that cross over some privacy laws? On the other hand, might that not also break some indecency laws considering what some people like to do in front of open windows? Man! Someone is going to have to look through a lot of pictures of naked men masturbating in front of their computers.;) hehe
Yes. But if you believe in the concept of a 40 hour work week being a fair thing that we all deserve, then you can thank unions for that. Otherwise you'd be working 60-80 hours a week and getting paid for 24 hours a week. Can there be too much of a good thing? Yes. But, I'd far rather have unions around than not. Besides, it's not the unions that are the problem. It the corruption within the unions, just as there is corruption within managment. The bad guys in management want you to work for as little as possible. The bad guys in the union want you to pay your dues even if you don't believe in the union. You're getting fucked from behind by managment and raped in the mouth by the union. Of course that's greatly oversimplified. Unions still do more good than harm and I side with the Union even though I happen to be management where I work.
A lot of people simply equate disk fragmentation with slow application execution and opening of data files. While this is the most visible effect that fragmentation has on a system, it's not the only one. If you are dealing with large files (multi track audio, video, databases) then you will get a different kind of performance hit due to the non-contiguous nature of the free space you are writing to. If you want to capture video with no dropouts, you really want a drive that has all of it's free space basically in one location. This allows you to write those large files with no physical disruption in location. Please do not think that the only benefit to unfragmented space is just "my programs launch faster". If you do any real kind of work on your system with large data files, you should know that a defragmented drive is a godsend.
You are the textbook illustration of the mental problem that has befallen many Americans. Trust me, I am aware of the port scans that I see on my firewall. Several hundred attempts to break through every day. I've seen the spyware. However, these things are more of a nuisance than actually destructive as long as you have the knowledge to protect yourself. You are talking about real threats in those cases. As far as 700,000 cases of identity theft, I'll need to see actual reliable figures before I buy it. And even if that is a real figure, it's a very small number of people. Now if you said 3.5 million cases of identity theft, then there would be something to worry about. Yes, you have truly been deceived into thinking there is a boogie man waiting to get you. Getting your PIN stolen is a bad thing, but it's not yet ubiqitous. A little caustion and common sense if fine, but looking over your shoulder at everyone as a potentila threat is just plain sick. Get help man.
Trust me. Mr. Twirlip is not a godlike being as much as his arrogance implies that he may think he is. He's just a pompous prick who has probably read too much Ayn Rand. He doesn't care about other people and he will readily admit that. His world view is such that life is all about survival of the fittest. He has an agenda. HIs agenda is to sow discontent and division amongst those who he believes are beneath him. Read some of his journal entries and you will get the picture. What he IS, however, is a complete and utter FAILURE. Which is why he will be on my List of FAILURES forever. The time will come when he will try to write me off as his personal troll. But he has no idea how much more serious my game is than simply trolling.
That's odd, I really liked the BBC production. It was the BBC at it's finest. It combined the feel of Doctor Who with the sarcasm of the best Monty Python skits. In fact, I still watch a lot of BBC programming now, and I have to say that they produce some of THE best television I've ever seen. Their programs are intelligent, witty, everything I've been saving myself up for!
The ability to decipher what someone types based on the key clicks is quite interesting, but merely conceptual. Certainly, there are plenty of security holes in any technology. This implies that nothing is secure. However, you cannot sit awake at night worrying that someone wants to spy on your personal data. If you do, the you must have a mental condition. Just take a step back for a few minutes and look at the world around you. Think about your life and the things that have happened to you. Just from your own perspective, how many times have you been burgled? Car(s) stolen? Been questioned or interviewed by the authorities? Had important data intercepted and used against you (I'm not talking about homework assignments in grade school)? Actually had identity theft perpetrated against you regardless of using fairly normal measures against discovery? Actually had a system compromised? I think that most of us can attest to the fact that, in reality, this kind of thing happens less frequently than the fear mongers want you to believe. Of course, it does happen, and when it happens to you, it makes you feel like you're just one of many. But this is not the truth. The real truth is that you must use common sense regarding your personal data. Assuming that someone is standing behind you looking over your shoulder to snag your ATM PIN is a sickness. However, being cautious and trying to obscure your keystrokes is reasonable.
If you need to dispose of something with a credit card or bank account number printed on it, you could reasonably buy a paper shredder. This s warranted. However, I prefer the much simpler "temporal/spatial displacement" approach. It's about the highest level of paranoia I, peronally, indulge in. You simply tear off about two thirds of the printed account number and throw away the original document. It only has a few digits of the account number. Likely, not enough to be of use to a dumpster diver. Then you take the two thirds of the number that you tore off of the original document and tear it in half. Take it to work, or to a store or some other location and only dispose of one half of that remaining two thirds. Finally, after a wait of as long a period of time as you wish, dispose of the last bit at another remote location. (A friend's house, your parent's place, a bar, etc...) Only the most meticulous of identity thieves will bother tracking your actions in that way. If you have that level of snoop on your tail, I think you've got bigger problems than simple identity theft. You're either delusional, or you have really upset someone VERY HIGH UP.
So people, put down the crack pipes and get to realizing that there are VERY few people who care about you or your data. Fight the fear. Pound paranoia into the ground. There is little to be afraid of.
My, my, my. I'm honoured. I'm THE biggest troll on Slashdot, am I? Even though I've only been around a month? I'll bet you haven't a clue who I REALLY am. The truth would shock you.
Troll??!!! WTF?!!! I was speaking the truth. Honestly, how many Slashdot readers would be stupid enough to download something they thought was Word 2004 and then run it? From a P2P client? If people answer that they would, then Slashdot is no longer "News for Nerds". It's become "News for mouth breathing idiots without a pulse". Hmmm... maybe the fact that this story got poste is enough proof of that already. Damn! I just got a big dose of stupid from yet another clueless moderator.
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I loved the original Doom and Doom II. Unfortuantely, people seem to have moved away from the fun of game playing to trying to outdo each other in teh 3D graphics realm. I think the 3D engines are pretty decent, so how about some fun single player game levels. Screw the multiplayer crap.
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Oh yes. We all need an OS with a spokesbabe. Uh huh. Never mind things like stability or freedom. Just pay attention to the ass shaking in front of your fucking face. That's why, ten years from now, I'll still have a great job and you will be a fat, balding, middle-aged Emo loser. Get a fucking job and get a life dude!
I don't know how useful that approach would be for most home setups. If we're being honest here, most of us are using Linux at home more than we are at work. So the only person doing the installations would be... ourselves. After all, do you really want your wife and kids installing software at home? That is what we blame Microsoft for: letting users destroy their own systems.
What about the loot and hoard conseratives. Let's get equal time here and ptu their heads on the chopping block too. :)
Why not publish a book containing much of the useful criticism the criticism and sell it as a companion to "The Brown Book"? Give it a similar enough name and appearance so as to cause confusion, but keep enough humor in it to say that it is just a parody. That's sure to give Brown and the intstitute conniptions.
Notice how CBG attempts to fob off everyone else as inferior to him? It's just so incredibly lame. Which is why he is on my List of FAILURES. That's where CBG belongs, and where he will stay until he realizes that he is not as wonderful as he may delude himself that he is. There is something called humility, and CBG has none. Truly a MISERABLE FAILURE.
Twirlip of the Mists is an authority on being an ass and a twit, as he is one himself. Just listen to how much his posts drip with arrogance. Henceforth, Twirlip of the Mists shall be known as CBG. Enjoy.
Pay Twirlip of the Mists no heed. He is suffering from the elitist delusion that he is better than everyone else. Once he has a grip on reality again, if that's even possible, he will stop trolling as muh as he does.
Oh. I give up. I used to think I could stamp out "Noo-Kyuh-Lur", but now it's even in the fucking dictionary. However, we haven't been consistent and renamed the nucleus, to nukyoolus or nucleic acids to nukyoolayick acids. Why? Why??? WHY????! Maybe because people can still understand what it means? Still, it drives me up the fucking wall to here Americans say "Noo-Kyuh-Lur Weapons". But, I give up. People are happy with being stupid and illogical. I refuse to actually join them though.
You heard it here from the goonybird himself first folks! Our founding fathers who were staging a rebellion were (wait for it) unlawful combatants! I think Twirlip deserves the dunce cap that he wears on his head every day. If you want some real rabble rousing from someone who actually loves what America was meant to be (not what the thugs have turned it into), then read my JEs. Twirlip of the Mists pays lip service to being interested in America. But all he does is play mouthpiece to the monsters that have seized control of the ship. It is time to shut them down, and shut them down we will. That is, is the November elections happen without any funny business. That's a pretty big if right now. But we will fight to take this country back, one way or the other.
I'm not going away Twirlip of the Mists. You can ignore me as much as you like, but I'm certainly not going away. Watch your karma burn. :)
Precedent like this by such a well respected and very tasteful organization is sure to bolster support for the Creative Commons style of licensing. One of the best, but most downtrodden traits of humanity is the capacity for sharing. Certain, mentally ill segments of our civilization are striving to keep what last tight grips they have on anything of value. They think only of themselves and their immediate needs rather than thinking of us as a collective and the legacy that we may leave behind with a more open approach. I applaud the BBC and it's efforts to show the world that it is possible to embrace sharing as a good thing for creativity. I berate everyone else who believes that keeping something completely to themselves is good in any way. Go ahead and become Gollum, if that is what you wish. The rest of us will leave you behind.
Oh boo hoo! There are plenty of us who don't think that those guys are unlawful combatants. Hell, if the Bush administration heard half of the things I say about them on a regular basis among my group of friends I'd probably be labeled an "unlawful combatant". It would make you happy to see anyone who doesn't fit in with your warped view of the world thrown away in jail with no recourse. However, you are wrong. We will have our recourse. It will either happen in November, or it will happen later in a much more difficult way. We won't all be dragged into your nightmare neocon view of the world without a serious fight.
Doesn't that cross over some privacy laws? On the other hand, might that not also break some indecency laws considering what some people like to do in front of open windows? Man! Someone is going to have to look through a lot of pictures of naked men masturbating in front of their computers. ;) hehe
Troll? Man I wish I had mod points today. This should be at least a +1 Funny. There's nothing funnier than a goo AOHeller joke.
Yes. But if you believe in the concept of a 40 hour work week being a fair thing that we all deserve, then you can thank unions for that. Otherwise you'd be working 60-80 hours a week and getting paid for 24 hours a week. Can there be too much of a good thing? Yes. But, I'd far rather have unions around than not. Besides, it's not the unions that are the problem. It the corruption within the unions, just as there is corruption within managment. The bad guys in management want you to work for as little as possible. The bad guys in the union want you to pay your dues even if you don't believe in the union. You're getting fucked from behind by managment and raped in the mouth by the union. Of course that's greatly oversimplified. Unions still do more good than harm and I side with the Union even though I happen to be management where I work.
A lot of people simply equate disk fragmentation with slow application execution and opening of data files. While this is the most visible effect that fragmentation has on a system, it's not the only one. If you are dealing with large files (multi track audio, video, databases) then you will get a different kind of performance hit due to the non-contiguous nature of the free space you are writing to. If you want to capture video with no dropouts, you really want a drive that has all of it's free space basically in one location. This allows you to write those large files with no physical disruption in location. Please do not think that the only benefit to unfragmented space is just "my programs launch faster". If you do any real kind of work on your system with large data files, you should know that a defragmented drive is a godsend.
This puts a whole new spin on the "If I ever meet you, I'm going to punch you in the face!" threat.
You are the textbook illustration of the mental problem that has befallen many Americans. Trust me, I am aware of the port scans that I see on my firewall. Several hundred attempts to break through every day. I've seen the spyware. However, these things are more of a nuisance than actually destructive as long as you have the knowledge to protect yourself. You are talking about real threats in those cases. As far as 700,000 cases of identity theft, I'll need to see actual reliable figures before I buy it. And even if that is a real figure, it's a very small number of people. Now if you said 3.5 million cases of identity theft, then there would be something to worry about. Yes, you have truly been deceived into thinking there is a boogie man waiting to get you. Getting your PIN stolen is a bad thing, but it's not yet ubiqitous. A little caustion and common sense if fine, but looking over your shoulder at everyone as a potentila threat is just plain sick. Get help man.
Trust me. Mr. Twirlip is not a godlike being as much as his arrogance implies that he may think he is. He's just a pompous prick who has probably read too much Ayn Rand. He doesn't care about other people and he will readily admit that. His world view is such that life is all about survival of the fittest. He has an agenda. HIs agenda is to sow discontent and division amongst those who he believes are beneath him. Read some of his journal entries and you will get the picture. What he IS, however, is a complete and utter FAILURE. Which is why he will be on my List of FAILURES forever. The time will come when he will try to write me off as his personal troll. But he has no idea how much more serious my game is than simply trolling.
That's odd, I really liked the BBC production. It was the BBC at it's finest. It combined the feel of Doctor Who with the sarcasm of the best Monty Python skits. In fact, I still watch a lot of BBC programming now, and I have to say that they produce some of THE best television I've ever seen. Their programs are intelligent, witty, everything I've been saving myself up for!
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The ability to decipher what someone types based on the key clicks is quite interesting, but merely conceptual. Certainly, there are plenty of security holes in any technology. This implies that nothing is secure. However, you cannot sit awake at night worrying that someone wants to spy on your personal data. If you do, the you must have a mental condition. Just take a step back for a few minutes and look at the world around you. Think about your life and the things that have happened to you. Just from your own perspective, how many times have you been burgled? Car(s) stolen? Been questioned or interviewed by the authorities? Had important data intercepted and used against you (I'm not talking about homework assignments in grade school)? Actually had identity theft perpetrated against you regardless of using fairly normal measures against discovery? Actually had a system compromised? I think that most of us can attest to the fact that, in reality, this kind of thing happens less frequently than the fear mongers want you to believe. Of course, it does happen, and when it happens to you, it makes you feel like you're just one of many. But this is not the truth. The real truth is that you must use common sense regarding your personal data. Assuming that someone is standing behind you looking over your shoulder to snag your ATM PIN is a sickness. However, being cautious and trying to obscure your keystrokes is reasonable.
If you need to dispose of something with a credit card or bank account number printed on it, you could reasonably buy a paper shredder. This s warranted. However, I prefer the much simpler "temporal/spatial displacement" approach. It's about the highest level of paranoia I, peronally, indulge in. You simply tear off about two thirds of the printed account number and throw away the original document. It only has a few digits of the account number. Likely, not enough to be of use to a dumpster diver. Then you take the two thirds of the number that you tore off of the original document and tear it in half. Take it to work, or to a store or some other location and only dispose of one half of that remaining two thirds. Finally, after a wait of as long a period of time as you wish, dispose of the last bit at another remote location. (A friend's house, your parent's place, a bar, etc...) Only the most meticulous of identity thieves will bother tracking your actions in that way. If you have that level of snoop on your tail, I think you've got bigger problems than simple identity theft. You're either delusional, or you have really upset someone VERY HIGH UP.
So people, put down the crack pipes and get to realizing that there are VERY few people who care about you or your data. Fight the fear. Pound paranoia into the ground. There is little to be afraid of.
My, my, my. I'm honoured. I'm THE biggest troll on Slashdot, am I? Even though I've only been around a month? I'll bet you haven't a clue who I REALLY am. The truth would shock you.
Troll??!!! WTF?!!! I was speaking the truth. Honestly, how many Slashdot readers would be stupid enough to download something they thought was Word 2004 and then run it? From a P2P client? If people answer that they would, then Slashdot is no longer "News for Nerds". It's become "News for mouth breathing idiots without a pulse". Hmmm... maybe the fact that this story got poste is enough proof of that already. Damn! I just got a big dose of stupid from yet another clueless moderator.
I loved the original Doom and Doom II. Unfortuantely, people seem to have moved away from the fun of game playing to trying to outdo each other in teh 3D graphics realm. I think the 3D engines are pretty decent, so how about some fun single player game levels. Screw the multiplayer crap.
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