They are on crack, and I meta-moderated it that way.
I have yet to see a moderation that was positive that was really far off base, but negative moderations are about 30 percent inaccurate, from what I can find, especially if it's a _joke_.
The BS is so deep that if I jumped off the Sears Tower, I'd fall only 10 feet before my toes turned brown.
To top it off, TFA goes on and on about how seemingly unconnected events influenced the graphs. WELL THEY ARE UNCONNECTED! It's the damn experimenter that is projecting his biases on what he thinks the results mean.
"HardOCP basically won when Infinium Labs finally gave up the fight citing great expenses involved in fighting the declaratory suit"
Don't the people who submit the stories RTFA? I mean CRIPES. No, they didn't give up because of expenses, they gave up BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE A CASE. RTFA! I mean GEEZ....
To wit:
"..does not constitute unfair competition under U.S.C 1125 or an unfair business practice, trade disparagement, trade libel, and tortious interference with contract under Texas law, and that plaintiffs' use of Infinium's trademarks from September 7 2003 through February 19,2004 in connection with the article does not constitute dilution or infringement of those marks or otherwise give rise to liability under federal or state law. Because defendants have ADMITTED (emphasis mine) that plaintiffs are entitled to declaratory relief, they move for judgement on the pleadings in favor of the plaintiffs pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. (Federal Rules for Civil Procedures) 12(c)."
I mean, c'mon...there's nothing about cost of litigation. It's all the Infinium being full of horse manure.
Wouldn't the first goal be writing applications and operating systems to be more secure than they are now with ordinary common sense designs? You know, like not tying userland software to the OS in incestuous ways?
Simple stuff like that...
Get rid of IE and get rid of Outlook Express and you get rid of 90 percent of the threat.
This would be a plug for Linux, as I use it daily, but there are things that Windows users can do to keep from being screwed every day. If only Mickeysoft helped their users rather than write crap software.
HP is dead. It used to be a scientific/technical company on the cutting edge of science and technology. It has ceased to be anything of any importance. Instead of hardware that people will never part with (I'll give up my 48G when I'm *dead*), Carly Fiorina has turned that company into a "Brand" that markets a commodity. Brands are a dime a dozen. The HP brand trades on its history and when people realize that HP is not the HP of history, the Brand of HP will be worth exactly what Carly has turned it into:
Nothing.
HP symbolizes to me what happens when MBAs and Accountants run businesses. When your goal is merely meeting the numbers at the end of the quarter, you do not see the long view of the future. You simply go with the lowest common denominator, stagnate, and lose customers in the long run. The death of such a company does not take long. Witness the Race to the Bottom between Compaq and Packard Bell. Both are gone, and it only took a year or two to happen.
Thanks, Carly, for killing one of my favorite companies.
"Gotta love how insulting generalizations are "Insightful" around here when you're referring to a MS product. Just because some MSN users are ignorant, does not mean all of them are."
Not only are MSN users ignorant, most Joe and Josephine users are that ignorant *in general*.
I just spent 3 hours today cleaning up a machine that had upwards of 60 trojans and other malware on it. One of which was a keylogger. It was amazing that this machine ran at all.
Does the owner of said computer have any clue about how all this malware got there? Nope. He's got 3 kids, though, that all use the same computer. I
He is ignorant, in the truest sense of the word. He is also *typical* of most home computer owners. People these days expect their machines to simply work, like toasters, because the interface hides the real complexity. I have been trying to educate him, and it's been a battle.
But regardless of that, MSFT has never done any User Education itself. Bill prefers it that way, and that's a shame. Keeping the users ignorant allows MSFT to Blame The User when it comes to exploits (You Failed to Upgrade!), allows them to force DRM down their throats, and basically allows the company to run roughshod over its customer base, without complaints.
So yes, MS users are ignorant. They simply do not know better, and their precious vendor, Microsoft, is aiding and abetting this ignorance.
Here in Rhode Island, we used to have a bounty on woodchucks at 25 cents. Indeed, the bounty was on woodchuck noses, since each woodchuck has only one.
I suggest that we do the same for spammers, and since spammers are largely male, I think that a different part of the anatomy should be used, though that part of the anatomy might need a magnifying glass.
One thing you left out: Thinking with emotion rather than with your brain.
Keeping a gun "out of reach" does nothing for the underlying problem. That is, educating your kids about guns rather than hiding that information from them.
Buy a gun. Learn how to shoot. Send your kid to shooting classes. Such things teach your kid about gun safety ESPECIALLY IF HE IS AT A FRIEND'S HOUSE. Let's say your kid's friend is named Timmy, for this gedankenexperiment. Keeping your child "sheltered" from the facts about firearms does nothing if Timmy's Dad has a Colt on the top shelf in the kitchen cabinet and Timmy says "Hey, look what I found".
Then when your child grows up and learns to ski and wins the Biathlon, he can say he owes it all to you.
It only scales the current page. Click on a link and go to a subpage or elsewhere and the scaling goes away. Not only that, but the scaling isn't as linear for text and tables as it is with images. In Mozilla/Firefox, this is annoying. Opera does it right, and not only that, you can set a default scaling.
I have been using Mozilla continuously for a month now. Lots of things that Opera does is in it, but the things that Mozilla gets wrong can be irritating.
One thing that Opera needs to work on is mail filtering. It kicks ass in Mozilla, especially if you include a whitelist. M2 (Opera's mail client) gets too many false positives for me, and there's no way, really, to whitelist people easily.
Ideal browser/mail pair: Opera browser with Mozilla mailer.
At the library where I'm tech-support, I've installed Mozilla and it auto-launches to the library's homepage on reboot.
I've also posted an explanation on the desktop entitled Read Me.
I have left IE on the desktop for the diehards, mostly to keep the complaint level down.
What I've found: Some people love it (there are one or two who want Opera) . Others just use what's in front of them. Still others re-arrange and delete the Mozilla icon (which re-appears on reboot).
*Shrug*. We've got some people who do online banking and ebay and whatnot and insist on IE. It's not like the IE fans haven't been warned.
These computers also have OpenOffice. There have been *O* complaints, just questions whether it will open and save Word files. Yes...yes, you can!
Shameless plug: Deep Freeze. Let them screw with the computers to their hearts' content. Power-cycle or soft reboot and it goes back to normal.
It doesn't make any difference if it's a broken punch or a whole set of dies cracked down the middle ($4000 for a 6 inch section, over 60 inches you do the math)...
"If you say 'oops', it's OK."
Did he say Oops?
Seriously though...shit happens. That's why you don't bill employees directly for the mistakes they do. Suck it up, learn, and move on.
Because the old models are more durable than anything by Motorola, Samsung, or the rest.
I've dropped mine on concrete, had it go skidding 'cross the shop floor, etc etc etc.
It still works. The only thing it could use is a new plastic shell.
I dropped a Motorola *once*. Within a week, the screen died.
My Nokia is an old 3390. It doesn't fold in half and doesn't have an external antenna. It doesn't have a camera. It doesn't have a fancy qwerty thumb keyboard. The display is rugged. Since the case is an external component to the phone itself, cracking the case isn't always going to crack the phone itself.
IOW, it's well engineered, even for a cheap phone. This probably (definitely) means that people aren't replacing them as often as say...Motorola phones.
It's like whether you buy a Federal Products dial indicator (I've got 3, plus 2 CDI indicators graduated in.0001 inches), or a cheap Chinese knockoff. I've got a Federal indicator that's pre *WWII* by the looks of it. It's just as smooth and accurate as anything new.
You can have my 3390 when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
I really truely am tired of all the crap flying about from insecure machines. I run Linux at home, but that's not the point. I'd be even more pissed if I was a registered MSFT user because the crap from the insecured pirated machines TARGETS MY MACHINE ANYWAY!
Doesn't MSFT recognise this is a problem for the REGISTERED USERS THAT PAID MONEY for their crap OS? This just proves that they're beyond redemption and view their customers as disposable.
Every so often, I pit one OS against another. I picked up a copy of Mandrake 10 from Linux Format. Of course it was the download version, but I saw it and I had to check it out.
The French and the Germans battled it out yet again on my PC. As usual, the Maginot line crumbled instantly as the Germans, with their technical superority *from LAST OCTOBER* (SuSE 9.0), totally cleaned the floor with Mandrake 10.
And thusly, I cleaned Mandrake off the drive.
Hello SuSE 9.1
This again proves that you should get your food from France, technology from Germany, and women from Poland.
"What does that say about Linux on the desktop? It is free and readily available yet almost nobody is using it. "
It's mostly because most people have no idea that Linux even exists. Witness what people tell you when you ask them what operating system they're running. Too many will say "Office". When I describe Linux, I get many glazed eyes and confused looks because most people don't realize WHAT an OS is or what it DOES. They just have no clue. I try to explain it, and most people wind up understanding, but it's difficult for people to wrap their brains around a concept as simple as a chunk of software that sits between their word processor and the bare hardware.
Then tell them that Linux is what Windows does, but different.
Fight or flight starts to take over at that point.
It's new. It's different. New and Different doesn't fly with most people.
It will take time. They will have to discover Linux and Free/Open Source software on their own. Proof of this is a friend of mine out in the desert of Nevada (an expatirated Rhode Islander). He discovered Knoppix and the SuSE 9.1 live CD just this last week.
He thinks it's cool. He's been a Windows fan for the longest time, and he thinks that Linux is cool now.
That's the only way it's going to really work. Total World Domination One User At A Time. (TWDOUAAT)
As for your RH9 installation and KDE problems, I'm assuming you're already a geek and you failed to check out the distribution before you fooled with it. KDE is included on RH9 as an afterthought. Indeed, KDE is only there grudgingly. Gnome is RH's baby. If you wanted RH with KDE, you should have used Mandrake. As far as your boot time went, I'm sorry but XP and W2k make me want to go up and get coffee. It's like the old days booting a Lisa. SuSE totally smokes the boot time of XP.
Redhat sucks.
It's that simple.
With the Balkanized way that Linux is distributed, there are distributions that rule the desktop and distributions that are far better for running on a server farm. RH's lack of support for KDE shows how much they care for the Linux desktop.
It ain't much.
Try again, this time using Mandrake or Suse running KDE on the desktop.
Every Day at Noon, whilst I am at work my home computer does this:
mount/scratch at 11:55 tar -cf/scratch/home.tar/home at 12:00 umount/scratch at 12:10
That drive "/scratch" is unmounted the rest of the day. All it does is hold my stuff. Go ahead, install malware. Unless it's psychic and knows to mount every stupid drive on my system, it won't get my data. It simply can't happen. Go ahead, nuke my OS. I don't CARE. That can be reinstalled in half an hour.
The only way that bad stuff can happen is if someone *MANUALLY* roots me and decides to be especially malicious by figuring out what/scratch really is and killing it. But these days, it's simply easier to control a thousand Wintel machines as your personal bitches than it is to root even a semi-secure Linux box.
WE GOTTA GET RID OF THAT SCARY GENETIC ENGINEERIN!!!! WHO KNOWS WHAT KIND OF GLOWIN' FARM ANIMULES THEY'LL MAKE! GLOWIN' COWS!!! IT'LL BE TOO EASY FOR THEM THAR FLYIN' SAUCERS TO PICK UP COWS TO MUTILATE!!
I SEEN 'EM! I SEEN 'EM!!
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On another note, why hasn't any of these "Environmentalists" noticed that humans have been "genetic engineers" for as long as we've domesticated flora and fauna? It's the same bloody thing, except with lab equipment.
From alt.tasteless...some nice imagery describing watching someone fall into a black hole...
From: Syd Midnight (sydSPAM@nls.net) Subject: Re: FAQ this shit! View: Complete Thread (7 articles) Original Format Newsgroups: alt.tasteless Date: 1999/07/13
GRay wrote: > > Dave wondered: > > > ObT: MotorGimp Stephen Hawking says that for an astronaut who falls inside > > the event horizon of a black hole time would slow down at an exponentially > > increasing rate, such that eventually it would appear to stop altogether. > > Imaging having itchy balls just as you pass through: You'd start to > > scratch, maybe get you hand halfway there in the first second after you > > pass the event horizon. In the second after that, you cover another half of > > the remaining distance. The second after that, half again. But you'd never > > ever reach 'em. Spending eternity with itchy balls, and never being able to > > get close enough for a good rub. Now *that's* hell. Take note, christians. > > > > Or, bliss! > > Imagine, the eternal cum:) Just as you start to cum, you fall into the > event horizon. The intense first spasm slows as you fall forward, > eternally cumming... > > What a way to go, er, cum.
ObScienceNerd: [Geek Voice] Actually, according to the Theory of Relativity, the astronaut would not experience the time slowing, and would be able to enjoy one final ball scratching/orgasm before being ripped apart atom by atom by tidal forces, and utterly annihilated.
The time-slowing would be seen by observers, however. So if they were watching an attractive astronaut removing her clothes, wanking furiously as she slipped her thumbs into the waistline of her panties, when she crossed the event horizon they would be disappointed as she would appear to suddenly slow and stop, getting redder and dimmer before finally fading from sight, forever denying the observers a glimpse of her silken pubic thatch. They'd have to close their eyes and use their imaginations.
ObT: Ejaculation on zero gravity. If an astronaut were able to concentrate enough during orgasm, they could shoot their load across the cabin and nail a fellow astronaut in the back of the head. I imagine that this has been done on Mir, because 4 or 5 months in space station the size of a trailer truck would get pretty fucking boring. Of course on a leaky deathtrap like Mir, they'd be lucky just to get a hard-on before the obligatory "You're Fucked" klaxons started honking, announcing the life threatening crisis-of-the-hour.
ObMir: 3 astronauts, one decrepit space station, and a 2-man escape pod. What do you want to bet that the US and Russians each hid a pistol somewhere in the station "for emergencies", and that each astronaut made sure, every minute of every day, that they they knew EXACTLY the quickest route to the pistol/escape pod?
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"God had some serious quality-control problems."
-- Superior Court Judge Leslie Light
One thing to remember, is that the SCO stock price is based upon absolutely nothing. It even went *up* on the negative news of SCO having to give IBM discovery evidence.
There *are no* fundamentals for this stock.
SCO no longer has a product.
SCO no longer has any customers willing to stick around except for the few who absolutely need legacy software.
SCO has totally blown its future market, c.f., "we view contracts as something to use against our customers"
What has inflated SCOX's price?
1. Market manipulators painting the stock price during low volume.
2. Shills on MSNBC and elsewhere promoting the stock with bad information.
3. Darl & Co's "let's put out a press release every time the stock sags". "Journalists" eat this up and quote them in MSNBC and Forbes.
4. This is the most important one. Short interest. There is so much short interest right now that there are few stocks to be borrowed at all to short. SCOX is shorted up the ass. With no supply of stocks to buy or short, the price gets driven up.
Is the price up because anyone thinks that SCOX has any case against IBM? Nope. The discussion on Yahoo's SCOX bulletin board consists of two sides: pumpers and dumpers. The dumpers usually argue (99 percent of the time) with facts culled from Groklaw and other places. The "strong buys" are nothing but "sound and fury signifying nothing"
Those of you who are kicking yourselves for not buying SCOX in March shouldn't feel left out. This stock is only good for day traders and gamblers. The question is not *whether* the stock will tank, but *when*. -- BMO
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Get a foreign language degree in Hindi, because that's where all the comp sci jobs are moving to.
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BMO
"My God, it's full of Spam!"
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They are on crack, and I meta-moderated it that way.
I have yet to see a moderation that was positive that was really far off base, but negative moderations are about 30 percent inaccurate, from what I can find, especially if it's a _joke_.
Meta-moderation rules.
Yeah, go ahead, mod me off topic.
Karma to burn, baybeee...
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Of Hooey.
The BS is so deep that if I jumped off the Sears Tower, I'd fall only 10 feet before my toes turned brown.
To top it off, TFA goes on and on about how seemingly unconnected events influenced the graphs. WELL THEY ARE UNCONNECTED! It's the damn experimenter that is projecting his biases on what he thinks the results mean.
This warrants front page on Slashdot?
Wow.
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"HardOCP basically won when Infinium Labs finally gave up the fight citing great expenses involved in fighting the declaratory suit"
Don't the people who submit the stories RTFA? I mean CRIPES. No, they didn't give up because of expenses, they gave up BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE A CASE. RTFA! I mean GEEZ....
To wit:
"..does not constitute unfair competition under U.S.C 1125 or an unfair business practice, trade disparagement, trade libel, and tortious interference with contract under Texas law, and that plaintiffs' use of Infinium's trademarks from September 7 2003 through February 19,2004 in connection with the article does not constitute dilution or infringement of those marks or otherwise give rise to liability under federal or state law. Because defendants have ADMITTED (emphasis mine) that plaintiffs are entitled to declaratory relief, they move for judgement on the pleadings in favor of the plaintiffs pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. (Federal Rules for Civil Procedures) 12(c)."
I mean, c'mon...there's nothing about cost of litigation. It's all the Infinium being full of horse manure.
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>I mean, I recall (possibly incorrectly) that the journalist who was just given house arrest for not revealing his sources is banned from the net.
J im +Taricani
You're correct. Jim Taricani. He's under house arrest for the remainder of 6 months. He's got an ankle bracelet and can only go out to the mailbox.
http://search.turnto10.com/query.html?la=en&qt=
It was "Scientific American Frontiers" on PBS.
Alan Alda is the host on that...
HTH.
BMO
Wouldn't the first goal be writing applications and operating systems to be more secure than they are now with ordinary common sense designs? You know, like not tying userland software to the OS in incestuous ways?
Simple stuff like that...
Get rid of IE and get rid of Outlook Express and you get rid of 90 percent of the threat.
This would be a plug for Linux, as I use it daily, but there are things that Windows users can do to keep from being screwed every day. If only Mickeysoft helped their users rather than write crap software.
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HP is dead. It used to be a scientific/technical company on the cutting edge of science and technology. It has ceased to be anything of any importance. Instead of hardware that people will never part with (I'll give up my 48G when I'm *dead*), Carly Fiorina has turned that company into a "Brand" that markets a commodity. Brands are a dime a dozen. The HP brand trades on its history and when people realize that HP is not the HP of history, the Brand of HP will be worth exactly what Carly has turned it into:
Nothing.
HP symbolizes to me what happens when MBAs and Accountants run businesses. When your goal is merely meeting the numbers at the end of the quarter, you do not see the long view of the future. You simply go with the lowest common denominator, stagnate, and lose customers in the long run. The death of such a company does not take long. Witness the Race to the Bottom between Compaq and Packard Bell. Both are gone, and it only took a year or two to happen.
Thanks, Carly, for killing one of my favorite companies.
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"Gotta love how insulting generalizations are "Insightful" around here when you're referring to a MS product. Just because some MSN users are ignorant, does not mean all of them are."
Not only are MSN users ignorant, most Joe and Josephine users are that ignorant *in general*.
I just spent 3 hours today cleaning up a machine that had upwards of 60 trojans and other malware on it. One of which was a keylogger. It was amazing that this machine ran at all.
Does the owner of said computer have any clue about how all this malware got there? Nope. He's got 3 kids, though, that all use the same computer. I
He is ignorant, in the truest sense of the word. He is also *typical* of most home computer owners. People these days expect their machines to simply work, like toasters, because the interface hides the real complexity. I have been trying to educate him, and it's been a battle.
But regardless of that, MSFT has never done any User Education itself. Bill prefers it that way, and that's a shame. Keeping the users ignorant allows MSFT to Blame The User when it comes to exploits (You Failed to Upgrade!), allows them to force DRM down their throats, and basically allows the company to run roughshod over its customer base, without complaints.
So yes, MS users are ignorant. They simply do not know better, and their precious vendor, Microsoft, is aiding and abetting this ignorance.
So what are *you* doing to educate your users?
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Here in Rhode Island, we used to have a bounty on woodchucks at 25 cents. Indeed, the bounty was on woodchuck noses, since each woodchuck has only one.
I suggest that we do the same for spammers, and since spammers are largely male, I think that a different part of the anatomy should be used, though that part of the anatomy might need a magnifying glass.
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One thing you left out: Thinking with emotion rather than with your brain.
Keeping a gun "out of reach" does nothing for the underlying problem. That is, educating your kids about guns rather than hiding that information from them.
Buy a gun. Learn how to shoot. Send your kid to shooting classes. Such things teach your kid about gun safety ESPECIALLY IF HE IS AT A FRIEND'S HOUSE. Let's say your kid's friend is named Timmy, for this gedankenexperiment. Keeping your child "sheltered" from the facts about firearms does nothing if Timmy's Dad has a Colt on the top shelf in the kitchen cabinet and Timmy says "Hey, look what I found".
Then when your child grows up and learns to ski and wins the Biathlon, he can say he owes it all to you.
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Actually, it doesn't work exactly.
It only scales the current page. Click on a link and go to a subpage or elsewhere and the scaling goes away. Not only that, but the scaling isn't as linear for text and tables as it is with images. In Mozilla/Firefox, this is annoying. Opera does it right, and not only that, you can set a default scaling.
I have been using Mozilla continuously for a month now. Lots of things that Opera does is in it, but the things that Mozilla gets wrong can be irritating.
One thing that Opera needs to work on is mail filtering. It kicks ass in Mozilla, especially if you include a whitelist. M2 (Opera's mail client) gets too many false positives for me, and there's no way, really, to whitelist people easily.
Ideal browser/mail pair: Opera browser with Mozilla mailer.
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At the library where I'm tech-support, I've installed Mozilla and it auto-launches to the library's homepage on reboot.
I've also posted an explanation on the desktop entitled Read Me.
I have left IE on the desktop for the diehards, mostly to keep the complaint level down.
What I've found: Some people love it (there are one or two who want Opera) . Others just use what's in front of them. Still others re-arrange and delete the Mozilla icon (which re-appears on reboot).
*Shrug*. We've got some people who do online banking and ebay and whatnot and insist on IE. It's not like the IE fans haven't been warned.
These computers also have OpenOffice. There have been *O* complaints, just questions whether it will open and save Word files. Yes...yes, you can!
Shameless plug: Deep Freeze. Let them screw with the computers to their hearts' content. Power-cycle or soft reboot and it goes back to normal.
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It doesn't make any difference if it's a broken punch or a whole set of dies cracked down the middle ($4000 for a 6 inch section, over 60 inches you do the math)...
"If you say 'oops', it's OK."
Did he say Oops?
Seriously though...shit happens. That's why you don't bill employees directly for the mistakes they do. Suck it up, learn, and move on.
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Because the old models are more durable than anything by Motorola, Samsung, or the rest.
.0001 inches), or a cheap Chinese knockoff. I've got a Federal indicator that's pre *WWII* by the looks of it. It's just as smooth and accurate as anything new.
I've dropped mine on concrete, had it go skidding 'cross the shop floor, etc etc etc.
It still works. The only thing it could use is a new plastic shell.
I dropped a Motorola *once*. Within a week, the screen died.
My Nokia is an old 3390. It doesn't fold in half and doesn't have an external antenna. It doesn't have a camera. It doesn't have a fancy qwerty thumb keyboard. The display is rugged. Since the case is an external component to the phone itself, cracking the case isn't always going to crack the phone itself.
IOW, it's well engineered, even for a cheap phone. This probably (definitely) means that people aren't replacing them as often as say...Motorola phones.
It's like whether you buy a Federal Products dial indicator (I've got 3, plus 2 CDI indicators graduated in
You can have my 3390 when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
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BMO
>Your pursuit of happiness is is referred to as an "unalienable right" of the people in the United States' Declaration of Independence.
>Has your happiness been alienated? Hell yes.
The right of PERSUIT of happiness is not the same as a "Right To Be Happy", which does not exist.
Don't worry, be happy! - Bobby McFerrin
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So they're not going to patch those machines?
I really truely am tired of all the crap flying about from insecure machines. I run Linux at home, but that's not the point. I'd be even more pissed if I was a registered MSFT user because the crap from the insecured pirated machines TARGETS MY MACHINE ANYWAY!
Doesn't MSFT recognise this is a problem for the REGISTERED USERS THAT PAID MONEY for their crap OS? This just proves that they're beyond redemption and view their customers as disposable.
Auugh...yet another reason to hate MSFT.
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Every so often, I pit one OS against another. I picked up a copy of Mandrake 10 from Linux Format. Of course it was the download version, but I saw it and I had to check it out.
The French and the Germans battled it out yet again on my PC. As usual, the Maginot line crumbled instantly as the Germans, with their technical superority *from LAST OCTOBER* (SuSE 9.0), totally cleaned the floor with Mandrake 10.
And thusly, I cleaned Mandrake off the drive.
Hello SuSE 9.1
This again proves that you should get your food from France, technology from Germany, and women from Poland.
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"What does that say about Linux on the desktop? It is free and readily available yet almost nobody is using it. "
It's mostly because most people have no idea that Linux even exists. Witness what people tell you when you ask them what operating system they're running. Too many will say "Office". When I describe Linux, I get many glazed eyes and confused looks because most people don't realize WHAT an OS is or what it DOES. They just have no clue. I try to explain it, and most people wind up understanding, but it's difficult for people to wrap their brains around a concept as simple as a chunk of software that sits between their word processor and the bare hardware.
Then tell them that Linux is what Windows does, but different.
Fight or flight starts to take over at that point.
It's new. It's different. New and Different doesn't fly with most people.
It will take time. They will have to discover Linux and Free/Open Source software on their own. Proof of this is a friend of mine out in the desert of Nevada (an expatirated Rhode Islander). He discovered Knoppix and the SuSE 9.1 live CD just this last week.
He thinks it's cool. He's been a Windows fan for the longest time, and he thinks that Linux is cool now.
That's the only way it's going to really work. Total World Domination One User At A Time. (TWDOUAAT)
As for your RH9 installation and KDE problems, I'm assuming you're already a geek and you failed to check out the distribution before you fooled with it. KDE is included on RH9 as an afterthought. Indeed, KDE is only there grudgingly. Gnome is RH's baby. If you wanted RH with KDE, you should have used Mandrake. As far as your boot time went, I'm sorry but XP and W2k make me want to go up and get coffee. It's like the old days booting a Lisa. SuSE totally smokes the boot time of XP.
Redhat sucks.
It's that simple.
With the Balkanized way that Linux is distributed, there are distributions that rule the desktop and distributions that are far better for running on a server farm. RH's lack of support for KDE shows how much they care for the Linux desktop.
It ain't much.
Try again, this time using Mandrake or Suse running KDE on the desktop.
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Here's what I do:
/scratch at 11:55 /scratch/home.tar /home at 12:00 /scratch at 12:10
/scratch really is and killing it. But these days, it's simply easier to control a thousand Wintel machines as your personal bitches than it is to root even a semi-secure Linux box.
Every Day at Noon, whilst I am at work my home computer does this:
mount
tar -cf
umount
That drive "/scratch" is unmounted the rest of the day. All it does is hold my stuff. Go ahead, install malware. Unless it's psychic and knows to mount every stupid drive on my system, it won't get my data. It simply can't happen. Go ahead, nuke my OS. I don't CARE. That can be reinstalled in half an hour.
The only way that bad stuff can happen is if someone *MANUALLY* roots me and decides to be especially malicious by figuring out what
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WE GOTTA GET RID OF THAT SCARY GENETIC ENGINEERIN!!!! WHO KNOWS WHAT KIND OF GLOWIN' FARM ANIMULES THEY'LL MAKE! GLOWIN' COWS!!! IT'LL BE TOO EASY FOR THEM THAR FLYIN' SAUCERS TO PICK UP COWS TO MUTILATE!!
I SEEN 'EM! I SEEN 'EM!!
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On another note, why hasn't any of these "Environmentalists" noticed that humans have been "genetic engineers" for as long as we've domesticated flora and fauna? It's the same bloody thing, except with lab equipment.
Oh, I get it. "Humans are evil." (TM)
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Dan
From alt.tasteless...some nice imagery describing watching someone fall into a black hole...
From: Syd Midnight (sydSPAM@nls.net)
Subject: Re: FAQ this shit!
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Date: 1999/07/13
GRay wrote:
>
> Dave wondered:
>
> > ObT: MotorGimp Stephen Hawking says that for an astronaut who falls inside
> > the event horizon of a black hole time would slow down at an exponentially
> > increasing rate, such that eventually it would appear to stop altogether.
> > Imaging having itchy balls just as you pass through: You'd start to
> > scratch, maybe get you hand halfway there in the first second after you
> > pass the event horizon. In the second after that, you cover another half of
> > the remaining distance. The second after that, half again. But you'd never
> > ever reach 'em. Spending eternity with itchy balls, and never being able to
> > get close enough for a good rub. Now *that's* hell. Take note, christians.
> >
>
> Or, bliss!
>
> Imagine, the eternal cum:) Just as you start to cum, you fall into the
> event horizon. The intense first spasm slows as you fall forward,
> eternally cumming...
>
> What a way to go, er, cum.
ObScienceNerd: [Geek Voice] Actually, according to the Theory of
Relativity, the astronaut would not experience the time slowing, and
would be able to enjoy one final ball scratching/orgasm before being
ripped apart atom by atom by tidal forces, and utterly annihilated.
The time-slowing would be seen by observers, however. So if they were
watching an attractive astronaut removing her clothes, wanking furiously
as she slipped her thumbs into the waistline of her panties, when she
crossed the event horizon they would be disappointed as she would appear
to suddenly slow and stop, getting redder and dimmer before finally
fading from sight, forever denying the observers a glimpse of her silken
pubic thatch. They'd have to close their eyes and use their
imaginations.
ObT: Ejaculation on zero gravity. If an astronaut were able to
concentrate enough during orgasm, they could shoot their load across the
cabin and nail a fellow astronaut in the back of the head. I imagine
that this has been done on Mir, because 4 or 5 months in space station
the size of a trailer truck would get pretty fucking boring. Of course
on a leaky deathtrap like Mir, they'd be lucky just to get a hard-on
before the obligatory "You're Fucked" klaxons started honking,
announcing the life threatening crisis-of-the-hour.
ObMir: 3 astronauts, one decrepit space station, and a 2-man escape
pod. What do you want to bet that the US and Russians each hid a pistol
somewhere in the station "for emergencies", and that each astronaut made
sure, every minute of every day, that they they knew EXACTLY the
quickest route to the pistol/escape pod?
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"God had some serious quality-control problems."
-- Superior Court Judge Leslie Light
One thing to remember, is that the SCO stock price is based upon absolutely nothing. It even went *up* on the negative news of SCO having to give IBM discovery evidence.
There *are no* fundamentals for this stock.
SCO no longer has a product.
SCO no longer has any customers willing to stick around except for the few who absolutely need legacy software.
SCO has totally blown its future market, c.f., "we view contracts as something to use against our customers"
What has inflated SCOX's price?
1. Market manipulators painting the stock price during low volume.
2. Shills on MSNBC and elsewhere promoting the stock with bad information.
3. Darl & Co's "let's put out a press release every time the stock sags". "Journalists" eat this up and quote them in MSNBC and Forbes.
4. This is the most important one. Short interest. There is so much short interest right now that there are few stocks to be borrowed at all to short. SCOX is shorted up the ass. With no supply of stocks to buy or short, the price gets driven up.
Is the price up because anyone thinks that SCOX has any case against IBM? Nope. The discussion on Yahoo's SCOX bulletin board consists of two sides: pumpers and dumpers. The dumpers usually argue (99 percent of the time) with facts culled from Groklaw and other places. The "strong buys" are nothing but "sound and fury signifying nothing"
Those of you who are kicking yourselves for not buying SCOX in March shouldn't feel left out. This stock is only good for day traders and gamblers. The question is not *whether* the stock will tank, but *when*.
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BMO
If I had a nickel for every time a news-droid called Linux an "upstart" OS, I'd be up to my neck in Jeffersons!
Crikey! 32 bit OS to 32 bit OS age comparisons:
Linux: Released to the wild in 1991.
Windows NT: 1993.
Who's the upstart?
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BMO