"Some sort of national medical database would alleviate this problem. I think the good here far outweighs the potential negatives of a few devious individuals who can now see that I had an ulcer in '97..."
They can also see that you went to see the doctor in '98 because you couldn't get it up, and to a shrink in '99 because you had the urge to hump random girls at Wal-Mart, and...
Sure, some stuff you might want to share, but if you knew that any random person could see exactly everything you've been to any sort of health care person to before for, wouldn't you think twice about going to the doctor for something embarrassing?
Speaking of ass... what if you're ircing & browsing porn and wanking and all of a sudden someone in the IRC channel says something to remind you of goatse?
Ir "I have lusers." will ensure the statement has the intended meaning (it explicitly states they are dumb, it doesn't imply it), and is only one letter longer than your suggestion.
"which along with the usual imagery also causes my Firefox to spaz around the screen effectively requireing a crash out of Firefox to end."
I was using tabbed-browsing at the time. A simple Ctrl+F4 (close tab) and the killing of a couple of spawned windows recovered my session fairly easily.
"Shit, there are a lot of things you could use to kill a guy. You could probably beat a guy to death with the Sunday New York Times, couldn't you? Suppose you just have really big hands. Couldn't you strangle a flight attendant? Shit, you could probably strangle two of them, one with each hand. That is, if you were lucky enough to catch 'em in that little kitchen area. Just before they break out the fuckin' peanuts. But you could get the job done. If you really cared enough." (Taken from George Carlin's rant on airport security (download here, be nice to my server))
"What are the smallest sizes these days? 60Gig? Or already 80Gig? I haven't bene paying attention lately."
I found only one store carrying 40GB HDs, the rest only went as small as 80GB.
(BTW, that was supposed to be <20GB) I ended up getting a used 20GB from a guy I know.
"Funny that nucleardog.com website;-)"
I know, eh? I usually don't have much up there. I generally spend more time working on hostee's sites (mostly friends) instead of my own. I generally have a pretty hard time writing anything at all of any length (even this comment, I've likely rewritten each part 3 or 4 times to try and get it as close as possibly to what I mean), as generally the chaos inside my head does not translate well to paper, so I never have any original content.
Hm, 20GB in server (was 4GB, but when the HD died, I found out it is ~impossible to find 20GB HDs anymore), 30GB in desktop and 10GB in laptop.
For those that cannot add, that's 60GB. Shared between three computers. Having laptop dual-boot and desktop quad-boot OSs cuts down on space a bit too.
Of course, if you want to just give me a 40GB hard-drive to bring me up to the status quo I won't complain;)
If you're lucky enough to get a server with a decent connection to play on online, it's definitly one of the most fun games out there. The sad part, is that 98% of the servers are allowing 16 clients on a PII 233 with a 64k connection (or something equally crazy).
I'm just repeating what you said, I know, but running on the same lan with no lag, the ability to punch the jackass that's standing right in the path so no one can get past in the face... would make for quite a fun experience.
I believe he means indestinguishable (sp?) by someone standing a few feet away looking it it (EG: a collector), not someone with a lot of time and money pouring random chemicals on parts of the painting to determine the age.
Well, to quote the BOFH (by memory, may not be exact):
"They'll get access to the computer room when they pry the halon test key from my cold, dead fingers."
I must say I quite agree. The government can have my private key when they pry the floppy disk containing half of my private key from my dead fingers, and have disarmed the 'tripwires' on my system so the other half is not erased. ^_^
BTW, random (somewhat fitting) QOTD: "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock." You start letting them monitor your connection now they'll find a way to use it against you eventually. Trust me.
Allow me to point out, that if the government really wants your secrets bad enough to put a backdoor in your compiler, text editor, pencil (which you'll be using to compile the code you wrote with a pencil and paper since your text editor is back-doored...) you probably shouldn't be transmitting them over the internet anyway.
I realize that a lot of the community is condescending towards new users. I think the place this shows most is in places such as forums where the new users ask for help.
Sure, some of them aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer to start, but most everybody is capable of learning, and there at least should be some attempts made to teach new users rather than simply calling them 'n00bs' and telling them to RTFM (if you tell someone to RTFM, point them to a specific place in the manual at least!).
Anyways, I was simply pointing out that when I was new to linux, etc. and asking questions, I would get much better answers if I stated Windows was easier, or state some close-source solution was better than the OSS alternative. Immediately everyone was out to prove the free software solution better, rather than just all sit around and call me a n00b and tell me to RTFM (which I assure you I would have done about 10 times before asking.)
So in answer to your question, I was not trying to prove his point, I was not trying to avoid it. I was simply making a suggestion on how to get better answers from these type of people (the condescending ones).
When you really need help with something, and ask on a linux forum, just say something to the affect of "I could do this really easy on windows. Linux isn't near as good as windows."
I'm never in chat rooms, and even if I was, there's no way I'd use these friggin things. (Well, I am on IRC from time to time but I don't envision many IRC networks implementing this.)
If I ever get one, it's going straight to ebay.
"Verisign USB ID. 14 Year Old Male. $99"
I'm sure *some one* would buy it, and I wouldn't mind the extra $100.
while ($choice!='quit') {
echo "1) George Bush";
echo "2) John Kerry";
echo "3) CowboyNeal";
$vote = readline($vote);
if (!ereg("^[1-3]$", $vote) && $vote!='quit') {
echo "Invalid vote.\n";
} elseif ($vote=='quit') {} else {
$result = mysql_query("UPDATE `votes` SET `votes`=votes+1 WHERE `candidate`='$vote'", $db);
if (!$result) {
echo "Voting failed!\n";
} else {
echo "Vote successful!\n";
}
}
}
mysql_close($db);
?>
Of course, it would require much more error checking and the screen would have to be cleared after each vote, etc. etc.
If I 14 year old can program this in */me checks clock* 4 minutes, I'm sure Diebold could program something much better with the amount of time\money they have. If not, the only reason I can think of is that they are complete and total dumbasses.
Anyways, I know, being Slashdot, 10 other people will pipe up and tell me how I could have done it better. If not, I know someone will correct my grammar, and to you I say: 'telnet nucleardog.com'
Like many of the analogies I've found so far, this one doesn't work. Almost every single one compares a song to a physical object that can be stolen.
The main difference between a song and a physical object, such as a desk, is that a song, once recorded once no longer costs money. I can make 1000 different copies of that song on my hard-drive, and it has cost the record labels no more that it would have if I had only made one copy. A song is not a physical object that has manifacturing costs.
What about Limewire? It's Java so it's slow as hell and takes up more memory than Doom 3, I'm sure, but it works and is spy-ware free (AFAICT (can tell)). I also find that the downloads are much, much more reliable than the Kazaa network.
(Oh, and if anyone feels like modding me down for my Java comment, I have nothing against Java. As of right now, limewire is using 33MB of memory. This is why I said it.)
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I believe it would be badly aimed sperm from the many butt-fuckings the politicians have given the public.
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Findy 'Furby' in that list completely destroyed the very little amount of credibility it had.
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I think it's perfectly normal, but apparently there's some 'sexual harassment' laws or some stupid thing that the girls keep screaming about.
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"Some sort of national medical database would alleviate this problem. I think the good here far outweighs the potential negatives of a few devious individuals who can now see that I had an ulcer in '97..."
They can also see that you went to see the doctor in '98 because you couldn't get it up, and to a shrink in '99 because you had the urge to hump random girls at Wal-Mart, and...
Sure, some stuff you might want to share, but if you knew that any random person could see exactly everything you've been to any sort of health care person to before for, wouldn't you think twice about going to the doctor for something embarrassing?
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Speaking of ass... what if you're ircing & browsing porn and wanking and all of a sudden someone in the IRC channel says something to remind you of goatse?
Ir "I have lusers." will ensure the statement has the intended meaning (it explicitly states they are dumb, it doesn't imply it), and is only one letter longer than your suggestion.
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"which along with the usual imagery also causes my Firefox to spaz around the screen effectively requireing a crash out of Firefox to end."
I was using tabbed-browsing at the time. A simple Ctrl+F4 (close tab) and the killing of a couple of spawned windows recovered my session fairly easily.
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"Shit, there are a lot of things you could use to kill a guy. You could probably beat a guy to death with the Sunday New York Times, couldn't you? Suppose you just have really big hands. Couldn't you strangle a flight attendant? Shit, you could probably strangle two of them, one with each hand. That is, if you were lucky enough to catch 'em in that little kitchen area. Just before they break out the fuckin' peanuts. But you could get the job done. If you really cared enough." (Taken from George Carlin's rant on airport security (download here, be nice to my server))
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Or just head on over to passport.com and register your e-mail address as a passport, no windows machine required.
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"What are the smallest sizes these days? 60Gig? Or already 80Gig? I haven't bene paying attention lately."
;-)"
I found only one store carrying 40GB HDs, the rest only went as small as 80GB.
(BTW, that was supposed to be <20GB) I ended up getting a used 20GB from a guy I know.
"Funny that nucleardog.com website
I know, eh? I usually don't have much up there. I generally spend more time working on hostee's sites (mostly friends) instead of my own. I generally have a pretty hard time writing anything at all of any length (even this comment, I've likely rewritten each part 3 or 4 times to try and get it as close as possibly to what I mean), as generally the chaos inside my head does not translate well to paper, so I never have any original content.
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Hm, 20GB in server (was 4GB, but when the HD died, I found out it is ~impossible to find 20GB HDs anymore), 30GB in desktop and 10GB in laptop.
;)
For those that cannot add, that's 60GB. Shared between three computers. Having laptop dual-boot and desktop quad-boot OSs cuts down on space a bit too.
Of course, if you want to just give me a 40GB hard-drive to bring me up to the status quo I won't complain
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Not 100% sure, but I believe it's an open (world read\write) FTP server that hasn't been used yet.
Kind of like a 0-day exploit, can be quite valuable if you're in the trade.
I second the vote for sven co-op.
If you're lucky enough to get a server with a decent connection to play on online, it's definitly one of the most fun games out there. The sad part, is that 98% of the servers are allowing 16 clients on a PII 233 with a 64k connection (or something equally crazy).
I'm just repeating what you said, I know, but running on the same lan with no lag, the ability to punch the jackass that's standing right in the path so no one can get past in the face... would make for quite a fun experience.
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I believe he means indestinguishable (sp?) by someone standing a few feet away looking it it (EG: a collector), not someone with a lot of time and money pouring random chemicals on parts of the painting to determine the age.
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Well, to quote the BOFH (by memory, may not be exact):
"They'll get access to the computer room when they pry the halon test key from my cold, dead fingers."
I must say I quite agree. The government can have my private key when they pry the floppy disk containing half of my private key from my dead fingers, and have disarmed the 'tripwires' on my system so the other half is not erased. ^_^
BTW, random (somewhat fitting) QOTD: "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock." You start letting them monitor your connection now they'll find a way to use it against you eventually. Trust me.
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Allow me to point out, that if the government really wants your secrets bad enough to put a backdoor in your compiler, text editor, pencil (which you'll be using to compile the code you wrote with a pencil and paper since your text editor is back-doored...) you probably shouldn't be transmitting them over the internet anyway.
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I realize that a lot of the community is condescending towards new users. I think the place this shows most is in places such as forums where the new users ask for help.
Sure, some of them aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer to start, but most everybody is capable of learning, and there at least should be some attempts made to teach new users rather than simply calling them 'n00bs' and telling them to RTFM (if you tell someone to RTFM, point them to a specific place in the manual at least!).
Anyways, I was simply pointing out that when I was new to linux, etc. and asking questions, I would get much better answers if I stated Windows was easier, or state some close-source solution was better than the OSS alternative. Immediately everyone was out to prove the free software solution better, rather than just all sit around and call me a n00b and tell me to RTFM (which I assure you I would have done about 10 times before asking.)
So in answer to your question, I was not trying to prove his point, I was not trying to avoid it. I was simply making a suggestion on how to get better answers from these type of people (the condescending ones).
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Here's a hint.
When you really need help with something, and ask on a linux forum, just say something to the affect of "I could do this really easy on windows. Linux isn't near as good as windows."
You'll get more helpful and more prompt replies.
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I'm never in chat rooms, and even if I was, there's no way I'd use these friggin things. (Well, I am on IRC from time to time but I don't envision many IRC networks implementing this.)
If I ever get one, it's going straight to ebay.
"Verisign USB ID. 14 Year Old Male. $99"
I'm sure *some one* would buy it, and I wouldn't mind the extra $100.
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"No doubt. Real geeks don't have the time to use IM socially- we're all too busy writing code!"
...
Heh. It's funny because it's true.
I'm going to go sit in the corner and cry now.
If I 14 year old can program this in */me checks clock* 4 minutes, I'm sure Diebold could program something much better with the amount of time\money they have. If not, the only reason I can think of is that they are complete and total dumbasses.
Anyways, I know, being Slashdot, 10 other people will pipe up and tell me how I could have done it better. If not, I know someone will correct my grammar, and to you I say: 'telnet nucleardog.com'
That is all.
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Well, then it could also be said that "Shutdown is a button used to start the shutdown of the system.".
Like many of the analogies I've found so far, this one doesn't work. Almost every single one compares a song to a physical object that can be stolen.
The main difference between a song and a physical object, such as a desk, is that a song, once recorded once no longer costs money. I can make 1000 different copies of that song on my hard-drive, and it has cost the record labels no more that it would have if I had only made one copy. A song is not a physical object that has manifacturing costs.
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What about Limewire? It's Java so it's slow as hell and takes up more memory than Doom 3, I'm sure, but it works and is spy-ware free (AFAICT (can tell)). I also find that the downloads are much, much more reliable than the Kazaa network.
(Oh, and if anyone feels like modding me down for my Java comment, I have nothing against Java. As of right now, limewire is using 33MB of memory. This is why I said it.)
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