There are plenty of free non-binaries servers out there where you can still do discussions. Unfortunately many people prefer discussing things one many different sites instead of having the discussions grouped and easy to follow.
There is no difference between text and binaries to usenet - binaries are just yencoded as text.
So there IS a difference. So it would be easy to detect and thus blocked. Also many groups do not want binaries in their groups and users have been known to get removed.
Does this mean there will never ever be somone posting illegal material? No, it would not.
The link that you mention is "being obsessed with". Are people with ASD attracted more to video games when compared to a control group that might be attracted to video games? Are they more obsessed with video games or are they just easier to notice?
I can imagine that there are people who are obsessed with stamp collecting, but are not as much noticed.
Perhaps the reason is that people who have tendencies to become obsessed have easier access to video games.
he should be sued because they downloaded music. They do not stop for people who never downloaded, so this should be a REAL case where he admitted they downloaded illegal music.
If he is liable for her crimes, should not HE be the one that gets the beating? I hope the MAFIAA sees this and sues the hell out of him. He admitted that a minor, for which he is legally liable, downloaded the stuff.
OTOH they probably do not want to bite the hand that feeds them. OTOH they are stupid enough to do just that.
IF they have a warrant for a targeted wiretap why not go to verizon?
Because they believe they can dictate the law without the need to follow it.
Or to say it in another way: because they can. Many nerds like to do things just because they can. Build something that already exists out of Lego is an example. This might be their way of nerd-ness.
When I look at it from a technical point of view, it is kind of neat. From a legal point of view, it obviously is very, very, very bad.
I gave my parents a phone designed for the elderly because they could not use their normal cell phone. They are unable to use the new one as well.
Getting money out of a machine is a struggle for them.
They are not stupid. They are just afraid of technology, I think.
So when they want to call me they use the landline. When they want to get money, they go to the bank and when they want to know something, they go to the pub and ask somebody else to look it up for them. As they live in Spain and speak Spanish there is no issue.
I think it is more important to have the social interaction with people around them then it is to sit in front of a screen and see me who lives in another country.
Or as others might say: don't look for a technical solution for a social problem.
Just tell the Republicans it is to fight communism, uh, drugs, children, terrorism, or whatever their current war is against and they will be happy to put in a gazillion dollars.
Here is what happens. Republicans screw up, so the Democrats win. Everything that happens will be broken down by the republicans. People will believe it and vote republicans. The democrats then blame the republicans and people will vote Democrats.
Basically it is like taking security from the mafia. They will either break your left leg or your right leg and they convince you that that is what having a choice means and that you went to them for the security.
Keep in mind that you HAVE the second amendment and you should not be afraid to use it if needed.
No idea how it is where you live, but where I live it isn't your account to change. Not until somebody else says so. I could not even get to the safe where my parents keep their papers if they died or get to the bank accounts till they are assigned to me.
Why would it be different with online things?
What _you_ could do is see to it that your will includes all the websites, so the people who inherit whatever you leave behind will be able to do so legally with the help of the company.
So you do the same with your online stuff as you do with your offline stuff: put it in your will.
When I hear people talk about backup, the first thing I start to do is start talking about restoring. To me restoring is much more important then the backup.
Many people think that a backup is a copy of files. Partly: if I overwrite a file I still want the original and not the overwritten file when I notice it after a month, so incremental is a must.
Most (ok, till now all) restores I do is because of human stupidity. I delete or overwrite the wrong file. So I want to be able to do an easy restore. For my home directory that would be something like "cp backup/file file" or with any file browser as a GUI for the latest version available.
So when I started looking for a backup, started to look how I wanted my restore to behave and then looked what the best backup solution was to achieve that. So besides the easy restore my parameters were: No programs needed for restore, except for standard stuff like cp and mount Running from cron no GUI Workable over a network Incremental
This excluded already a lot of programs.
At this moment I use storeBackup without the compression. I understand that other people will have other requirements and will get to something else (including writing their own program). What I took away from all this that the important part is restore, not backup. When you start looking from that angle, many things are already a lot easier to decide.
I hear all the time this "must move stuff off site" and that is in theory a good practice. I reality it is overkill for the home user for the majority of his downloaded movies.
When I looked at the data that I REALLY needed to keep, I came to "not very much". Nothing that I could not host (encrypted) at my provider. I am talking less then 20MB in data.
When my house burns down, I have other worries then my MP3 collection or my movies. I have not take copies of all the books I have in the house either, even though that is technical possible.
Remember: this is a home solution. Now if it were a business solution, then off-site backup that you pay for must be an option. If that is too expensive, then the data is not worth saving.
Ubuntu is NOT an operation system. There are many of them. GNOME/Unity/KDE is not the only desktop environment. There are many of them.
For that reason I use openSUSE with XFCE.
I do not see the problem. If you don't like it, use something else. Perhaps tell them why you don't like it, because developers love feedback (at least that is what they tell me all the time.)
Perhaps there are plenty of people who want these changes and that is good too. They should not be saying what I should like, but that goes the other way around as well.
So just drop it and start using something you like. I, Linux and ERS use XFCE. Perhaps that is a hint.
When many people leave, it might show them they were wrong and change. Or they will keep stubborn and the project will die a slow death.
Remember: OSS is also about choice. So make that choice and step away from Ubuntu and select many of the other great distributions out there. It is only a distribution. The Operation System is fine on all of them.
That is your problem right there. Not that the other option is worse, but that there is only on other option. I am pro-life and pro-gun, what party should get my vote? The way I see it half of what I would like represented won't be.
No need to replace them. Retrain them. Sure, some will not be able to do that and will indeed be replaced. Most of them will just have to be retrained.
And that will be what will happen if they go to Linux. That is how Europeans think. Silly communists don't just replace people. They replace knowledge. All the fault of the unions where they even have a CHOICE what union they join if any at all.
Slashdot Mirror
If you intend on doing that, you are already part of the problem: The Story of Bottled Water
I am still watching TV. Well, at least tv shows. so I will get the message with my daily torrent download.
I use openSUSE where I install XFCE from the DVD. I still use various GNOME and KDE programs as well as others.
There are plenty of free non-binaries servers out there where you can still do discussions. Unfortunately many people prefer discussing things one many different sites instead of having the discussions grouped and easy to follow.
So forums have taken over.
Or perhaps there is an issue with it being illegal in the first place.
So there IS a difference.
So it would be easy to detect and thus blocked. Also many groups do not want binaries in their groups and users have been known to get removed.
Does this mean there will never ever be somone posting illegal material? No, it would not.
I am amazed by the amazement of how ignorant people are about how ignorant other people are.
And research causes cancer in rats.
The link that you mention is "being obsessed with". Are people with ASD attracted more to video games when compared to a control group that might be attracted to video games? Are they more obsessed with video games or are they just easier to notice?
I can imagine that there are people who are obsessed with stamp collecting, but are not as much noticed.
Perhaps the reason is that people who have tendencies to become obsessed have easier access to video games.
he should be sued because they downloaded music. They do not stop for people who never downloaded, so this should be a REAL case where he admitted they downloaded illegal music.
If he is liable for her crimes, should not HE be the one that gets the beating? I hope the MAFIAA sees this and sues the hell out of him. He admitted that a minor, for which he is legally liable, downloaded the stuff.
OTOH they probably do not want to bite the hand that feeds them.
OTOH they are stupid enough to do just that.
Because they believe they can dictate the law without the need to follow it.
Or to say it in another way: because they can.
Many nerds like to do things just because they can. Build something that already exists out of Lego is an example. This might be their way of nerd-ness.
When I look at it from a technical point of view, it is kind of neat. From a legal point of view, it obviously is very, very, very bad.
I gave my parents a phone designed for the elderly because they could not use their normal cell phone. They are unable to use the new one as well.
Getting money out of a machine is a struggle for them.
They are not stupid. They are just afraid of technology, I think.
So when they want to call me they use the landline. When they want to get money, they go to the bank and when they want to know something, they go to the pub and ask somebody else to look it up for them. As they live in Spain and speak Spanish there is no issue.
I think it is more important to have the social interaction with people around them then it is to sit in front of a screen and see me who lives in another country.
Or as others might say: don't look for a technical solution for a social problem.
Just tell the Republicans it is to fight communism, uh, drugs, children, terrorism, or whatever their current war is against and they will be happy to put in a gazillion dollars.
People thank God for some of the people who survived. Perhaps we could blame God for the deaths as well.
They are all politicians. What did you expect.
Here is what happens. Republicans screw up, so the Democrats win. Everything that happens will be broken down by the republicans. People will believe it and vote republicans. The democrats then blame the republicans and people will vote Democrats.
Basically it is like taking security from the mafia. They will either break your left leg or your right leg and they convince you that that is what having a choice means and that you went to them for the security.
Keep in mind that you HAVE the second amendment and you should not be afraid to use it if needed.
No idea how it is where you live, but where I live it isn't your account to change. Not until somebody else says so.
I could not even get to the safe where my parents keep their papers if they died or get to the bank accounts till they are assigned to me.
Why would it be different with online things?
What _you_ could do is see to it that your will includes all the websites, so the people who inherit whatever you leave behind will be able to do so legally with the help of the company.
So you do the same with your online stuff as you do with your offline stuff: put it in your will.
When I hear people talk about backup, the first thing I start to do is start talking about restoring. To me restoring is much more important then the backup.
Many people think that a backup is a copy of files. Partly: if I overwrite a file I still want the original and not the overwritten file when I notice it after a month, so incremental is a must.
Most (ok, till now all) restores I do is because of human stupidity. I delete or overwrite the wrong file. So I want to be able to do an easy restore. For my home directory that would be something like "cp backup/file file" or with any file browser as a GUI for the latest version available.
So when I started looking for a backup, started to look how I wanted my restore to behave and then looked what the best backup solution was to achieve that. So besides the easy restore my parameters were:
No programs needed for restore, except for standard stuff like cp and mount
Running from cron
no GUI
Workable over a network
Incremental
This excluded already a lot of programs.
At this moment I use storeBackup without the compression. I understand that other people will have other requirements and will get to something else (including writing their own program).
What I took away from all this that the important part is restore, not backup. When you start looking from that angle, many things are already a lot easier to decide.
I hear all the time this "must move stuff off site" and that is in theory a good practice. I reality it is overkill for the home user for the majority of his downloaded movies.
When I looked at the data that I REALLY needed to keep, I came to "not very much". Nothing that I could not host (encrypted) at my provider. I am talking less then 20MB in data.
When my house burns down, I have other worries then my MP3 collection or my movies. I have not take copies of all the books I have in the house either, even though that is technical possible.
Remember: this is a home solution. Now if it were a business solution, then off-site backup that you pay for must be an option. If that is too expensive, then the data is not worth saving.
Ubuntu is NOT an operation system. There are many of them.
GNOME/Unity/KDE is not the only desktop environment. There are many of them.
For that reason I use openSUSE with XFCE.
I do not see the problem. If you don't like it, use something else. Perhaps tell them why you don't like it, because developers love feedback (at least that is what they tell me all the time.)
Perhaps there are plenty of people who want these changes and that is good too. They should not be saying what I should like, but that goes the other way around as well.
So just drop it and start using something you like. I, Linux and ERS use XFCE. Perhaps that is a hint.
When many people leave, it might show them they were wrong and change. Or they will keep stubborn and the project will die a slow death.
Remember: OSS is also about choice. So make that choice and step away from Ubuntu and select many of the other great distributions out there. It is only a distribution. The Operation System is fine on all of them.
It is called pen and paper.
That is your problem right there. Not that the other option is worse, but that there is only on other option.
I am pro-life and pro-gun, what party should get my vote? The way I see it half of what I would like represented won't be.
Does not have to be a substance. It is more a state of mind. Internet games. sex, plastic surgery, eating, ...
All things some people are addicted to.
No need to replace them. Retrain them.
Sure, some will not be able to do that and will indeed be replaced. Most of them will just have to be retrained.
And that will be what will happen if they go to Linux. That is how Europeans think. Silly communists don't just replace people. They replace knowledge. All the fault of the unions where they even have a CHOICE what union they join if any at all.