Many people want to help. Also there are people who think that if it is the police (or FBI or whatever) they will be in the right to know.
And then there are people from police or the like who will try to get data by social engineering. Basically they try to bully it out of you. You then must be pretty strong and care for things like privacy to block the person from getting the data without a warrent.
I have been in a situation where they called and told me they were from the police and that they have the court order. I basically told then to FOAD until I had the court order. They phoned back and tried with somebody else who then almost gave the data.
Luckily I just past, asked for the phone and told them that I wanted to file a complaint for industrial espionage and if they could give me their supervisor.
Two days later I finally got the court order dated on a time after they called us. So at the moment of asking they did not have a warrant. To me it is very simple. No court order, no information. Unfortunately not everybody thinks like that.
I can not understand why companies where allowed to do this in the first place.
In normal countries paying for something you did not ask for would be considered fraud. But then I live in a country (Belgium) where generally the customer is more important then the companies.
Also "free energy" by the coast can turn salt water into drinking water then vehicles can transport them inland.
Why not use the way water is already transported to the homes of people? But obviously people buy water instead of drinking it out of the tab and that is deliverd by a truck. Often it is as good or better then bottled water.
Except everybody says "Not where I live" and buy into the bullshit that has brought to them by marketing.
Some interesting read here and there are many more sites that will explain what you are exactly are paying for.
Ordinary priorities like eating, keeping a roof over their heads and trying not to get sick and die are likely to be far more important.
And what if they already have a roof and enough food? Or do you think that there are only two groups of people, starving people and people who have plenty and can easily pay for a new PC every year.
This is basicaly the stage of 'learning a man to fish' instead of giving him a fish.
Here a smaple of a multi seat solution which still requires multiple monitors and costs 50% of what they would pay normaly. Now imagine removing 50% of the monitors, so that students have to work together on one monitor.
Not only will this cause a drop in price, it will cause kids to work together and learn social skills at the same time and will learn what they need to learn better, because of the interaction with other kids.
So this could benefit kids in shools everywhere, including the rich kids.
If there is such a great demand for multimouse, it should not be too hard to have this for Linux with things we have now. This should be pretty easy to do, compared with all the trouble Microsoft is talking about. What do we already have under Linux. Multi user login. Check. It is already possible to connect several people on the same machine with each their own monitor, mouse AND keyboard. http://www.linuxtoys.org/multiseat/multiseat.html and many other sites. It is already possible to have multiple workplaces. So all we need to do are two things. 1) Let each workspace be its own X session 2) Show all workspaces on one workspace
Even though I am unable to do this, I can see that this should be possible without too much trouble. For somebody with the apropriate skills, this sounds like a nice project for the weekend as Linux already has the building stones, or am I thinking too simple?
Oh, and in a couple of months please go out and vote!
They did that 4 yours ago as well and look how that worked out. Oh and then there is the time before that. I would not be surprised if they made the wrong choice again.
Perhasps they used the same website and this error is caused by the great firewall.
OTOH they at least try to translate it. I have seen enough tourists that just expect that people speak the language of the tourist, while when going to the land of said tourist, they expect you to speak the language of the place you are.
Let's agree something - burning a copy of a Coldplay CD isn't going to ruin anybody.
That depends. Where you willing to pay for it or not? If you were and you now don't, then somebody is not getting your money, so it is not a victemless crime. If you were never to give any money for it, then it is victemless.
A bit like buying a Rollexx for 10EUR. If you by it instead of a Rolex, you harm the company. Most likely you would never have bought a Rolex anyway, so who cares?
The obvious problem with the victemless or not is that both sides cheat with the numbers. On the one side we have the companies who claim that each copy would have been a sale, which is bullshit. On the other side we have people who say that everybody buys more music, because they learn about a band that way, which is also bullshit.
The truth is somewhere in the middle, but nobody really knows where exactly.
I believe that it doesn't matter that much, because the comapnies get extra income from other places already. Ringtone anybody?
Usenet ignorance is terrible. But Usenet was never very easy to begin with. For instance, how to do you start a new Usenet group (on that has to be replicated) - it's kinda hard, IIRC.
There is a difference in participating and creating a group. Car analogy I can drive a car, but do not ask me to make one. And obviously it is not hard enough.
Unfortunately, Usenet today is a paid service
Unfortunatly (for you) you are wrong.
The reason Usenet is percieved hard is because it requires some prior knowledge and that means you have to look things up for your self. Nowadays, many people asume that what they know is the whole story and no further knowledge is needed. The result is that people just post without trying to look if their answer is correct or if there is an easy answer to their question.
Instead of thinking they know all, asking e.g. if there are free servers out there will result in a much better answer.
Subsciptions are only realy needed for binaries and that is the one thing that should move elsewhere. There are plenty of free servers out there. Below some I use. Most you need a subscription that is free to get: root@penne : grep ^server/etc/leafnode/config|awk '{print $NF}' news.cnntp.org forums.opensuse.org news.dommel.be news.motzarella.org news.sunsite.dk newszilla.xs4all.nl news.xs4all.nl fb1.euro.net news.readfreenews.net nntp.aioe.org news.news4us.nl
If there is anybody who wants proof that 'Do no evil' is just marketing he must look at how Google raped dejanews.com.
It encourages top posting or no quoting at all. It pretends to own Usenet, so that people think it is the same as Usenet. It is horrible to search anything. There are way too many spam postings coming from google groups. The users are so ignorant of any Usenet netiquete, because it is promoted as a forum, which it isn't. This is so bad that many groups just killfile all GG posters. They are the new AOL users.
OTOH what they could filter out is all the binaries. That would not only stop childporn, it would make it easier for providers to actualy provide it. All the illegal content will be gone. The bit of legal binary content that is out there should be somewhere else anyway.
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I run Windowmaker and I don't even HAVE a taskbar.
Many people want to help. Also there are people who think that if it is the police (or FBI or whatever) they will be in the right to know.
And then there are people from police or the like who will try to get data by social engineering. Basically they try to bully it out of you. You then must be pretty strong and care for things like privacy to block the person from getting the data without a warrent.
I have been in a situation where they called and told me they were from the police and that they have the court order. I basically told then to FOAD until I had the court order. They phoned back and tried with somebody else who then almost gave the data.
Luckily I just past, asked for the phone and told them that I wanted to file a complaint for industrial espionage and if they could give me their supervisor.
Two days later I finally got the court order dated on a time after they called us. So at the moment of asking they did not have a warrant. To me it is very simple. No court order, no information. Unfortunately not everybody thinks like that.
I can not understand why companies where allowed to do this in the first place.
In normal countries paying for something you did not ask for would be considered fraud. But then I live in a country (Belgium) where generally the customer is more important then the companies.
He didn't listen and neither did his brother
Why not use the way water is already transported to the homes of people?
But obviously people buy water instead of drinking it out of the tab and that is deliverd by a truck. Often it is as good or better then bottled water.
Except everybody says "Not where I live" and buy into the bullshit that has brought to them by marketing.
Some interesting read here and there are many more sites that will explain what you are exactly are paying for.
And what if they already have a roof and enough food? Or do you think that there are only two groups of people, starving people and people who have plenty and can easily pay for a new PC every year.
This is basicaly the stage of 'learning a man to fish' instead of giving him a fish.
Here a smaple of a multi seat solution which still requires multiple monitors and costs 50% of what they would pay normaly. Now imagine removing 50% of the monitors, so that students have to work together on one monitor.
Not only will this cause a drop in price, it will cause kids to work together and learn social skills at the same time and will learn what they need to learn better, because of the interaction with other kids.
So this could benefit kids in shools everywhere, including the rich kids.
If there is such a great demand for multimouse, it should not be too hard to have this for Linux with things we have now. This should be pretty easy to do, compared with all the trouble Microsoft is talking about.
What do we already have under Linux.
Multi user login. Check. It is already possible to connect several people on the same machine with each their own monitor, mouse AND keyboard. http://www.linuxtoys.org/multiseat/multiseat.html and many other sites.
It is already possible to have multiple workplaces.
So all we need to do are two things.
1) Let each workspace be its own X session
2) Show all workspaces on one workspace
Even though I am unable to do this, I can see that this should be possible without too much trouble. For somebody with the apropriate skills, this sounds like a nice project for the weekend as Linux already has the building stones, or am I thinking too simple?
The upside is that there is absolutely no crime anymore in London, right?
They did that 4 yours ago as well and look how that worked out. Oh and then there is the time before that.
I would not be surprised if they made the wrong choice again.
So be carefull with what you wish for, ...
Perhasps they used the same website and this error is caused by the great firewall.
OTOH they at least try to translate it. I have seen enough tourists that just expect that people speak the language of the tourist, while when going to the land of said tourist, they expect you to speak the language of the place you are.
Double standards, if you ask me.
The Nova is already pointed out as false.
Another that I once read in Mad Magazine: "Otis elevators: They never let you down"
Welcome to this world. You must be new here.
1) Make jokes about the standard jokes on /.
2) Point out the ones that are forgotten
3) ???
4) Profit!
That depends. Where you willing to pay for it or not?
If you were and you now don't, then somebody is not getting your money, so it is not a victemless crime.
If you were never to give any money for it, then it is victemless.
A bit like buying a Rollexx for 10EUR. If you by it instead of a Rolex, you harm the company. Most likely you would never have bought a Rolex anyway, so who cares?
The obvious problem with the victemless or not is that both sides cheat with the numbers. On the one side we have the companies who claim that each copy would have been a sale, which is bullshit. On the other side we have people who say that everybody buys more music, because they learn about a band that way, which is also bullshit.
The truth is somewhere in the middle, but nobody really knows where exactly.
I believe that it doesn't matter that much, because the comapnies get extra income from other places already. Ringtone anybody?
Have you actually spoken to the artists? I have. They know they don't get any money from the copyrights. In fact they seldom own the copyrights.
It is the copyright holders who are to blame and look who that is. Most of the time this is some company.
... can it also help forget, because I have seen two girls and a cup and things that have been seen can not be unseen (for now).
You use the word war, but i don't think it means what you think it means.
Don't think what you can do for your country, think what your country does to you.
There is a difference in participating and creating a group. Car analogy I can drive a car, but do not ask me to make one. And obviously it is not hard enough.
Unfortunatly (for you) you are wrong.
The reason Usenet is percieved hard is because it requires some prior knowledge and that means you have to look things up for your self. Nowadays, many people asume that what they know is the whole story and no further knowledge is needed. The result is that people just post without trying to look if their answer is correct or if there is an easy answer to their question.
Instead of thinking they know all, asking e.g. if there are free servers out there will result in a much better answer.
Kids these days! Now get of my news:alt.lawn
It just prooves that one can live together with the other, not that one is better then the other.
Subsciptions are only realy needed for binaries and that is the one thing that should move elsewhere. /etc/leafnode/config|awk '{print $NF}'
There are plenty of free servers out there. Below some I use. Most you need a subscription that is free to get:
root@penne : grep ^server
news.cnntp.org
forums.opensuse.org
news.dommel.be
news.motzarella.org
news.sunsite.dk
newszilla.xs4all.nl
news.xs4all.nl
fb1.euro.net
news.readfreenews.net
nntp.aioe.org
news.news4us.nl
There are many more out there.
If there is anybody who wants proof that 'Do no evil' is just marketing he must look at how Google raped dejanews.com.
It encourages top posting or no quoting at all. It pretends to own Usenet, so that people think it is the same as Usenet. It is horrible to search anything. There are way too many spam postings coming from google groups. The users are so ignorant of any Usenet netiquete, because it is promoted as a forum, which it isn't. This is so bad that many groups just killfile all GG posters. They are the new AOL users.
OTOH what they could filter out is all the binaries. That would not only stop childporn, it would make it easier for providers to actualy provide it. All the illegal content will be gone. The bit of legal binary content that is out there should be somewhere else anyway.
That is not funny, it is tragic.
Indeed because "turn the other cheek" means to bend over and show those cheeks. Right? RIGHT? What did I win?
In agree. They must be retarded doing such a thing. Hey, waidaminute. Retardedness is obviously caused by mental distress.