33.333% of the comments will be outraged right wingers going on about how Michael Moore is an evil phoney because they saw him, a supposed "working class hero" poncing about in an upmarket store in New York. OK, so it was a guy who looked slightly like Michael Moore...well, if you ignore that he was slim, blonde and wore a T-shirt saying "Bush Cheney '04"...and if...
Another 33.333% of the comments will be paranoid, if technically correct, rantings about Bush trying to set up a New World Order involving the Project for a New American Century and the lizard people of planet Glllaaargahwat. They will also profess to thinking Michael Moore is a phoney, for not giving enough time, credence or attention towards their perfectly believable and not insane at all Glllaaargahwat lizard theory.
The final 33.333% of the comments will be trolls of both left and right wing persuasions arguing about whether it's Bush's right to claim to be guided by God, to kill Iraqi people (both combatants and non-combatants) and to ignore international rules and boundaries which he wants other countries to respect. Both the left and the right will play on Bush and Moore's links to lizards respectively.
And the last 0.001% of the comments will be sane, rational debating with other Slashdotters.
God, I love Slashdot when politics rears its head.
It might also be because the US Government is internally corrupt and is owned by Halliburton, Arhusto, Exxon, Disney, GE etc etc etc.
I also am a Social Democrat (well, what we here in England call Liberal Democrat) and an atheist and the only person who can positively get America out of the shit right now is John McCain. Not John Kerry, John McCain. Yes, I know he's a Republican and right wing-but he's the only fucking politician over there with any sense besides Ralph Nader, whose chances of getting into power are slim to none.
The parent speaks the truth. Users don't give a shit about making sure their computer doesn't turn into a spyware shitheap, they heard that AOL was so easy to use and they just want to get online etc etc etc.
He's right. Idiots who can't not use IE and can't use Ad-Aware should be disallowed from Internet access. There are three things that are fucking up the internet for everyone these days: newbies, IE and marketeers.
Really? Have you tried? Because last I tried, you couldn't. They've stopped doing that, because they don't want you to. Right now, all you can do is register for a "Limited.NET Passport", which is basically Hotmail but at passport.com.
The main people who won't switch away from Hotmail are the home users who like Hotmail. If you ask them if they want to try something better, after they complain about spam/not being able to send big attachments/spyware, their response will be "NO, I'M HAPPY...shit, this service has so much spyware..."
And now that Microsoft has disallowed signing up for a Passport with a non-Microsoft email address, tieing these (usually) MSN Messenger using Hotmail to Hotmail, we'll have lots of people locked into it, and they'll bitch, piss and moan at you to help them, then ignore you.
God, I love users who are deluded as to the utter shitness of their email service. Trust me, I know loads of them.
(I'll bet there's not one Hotmail account NOT covered in spam by now. They're all just spam buckets. Evil, evil Hotmail...we hates it my precioussssss...)
I hate to say it, but Windows 2000 is one of the damn nicest operating systems I've ever had the privelege to use.
And not to mention MS Sidewinder joystics and IntelliMouse mice...*drool*.
For all its flaws, Office 2003 isn't bad either.
No, the main MS products I have a problem with are Hotmail (it's shit and everyone uses it, meaning I have to use shit as well) MSN Messenger (it's shit and everyone uses it, meaning I have to use shit as well) and Internet Explorer (it's shit and everyone uses it, meaning I have to use shit as well).
The Internet is one thing that could benefit education in poor African countries a great deal, allowing free access to information. This is just one more step in fully linking up Africa.
Why does everyone stick with these out of date crappy units known as "imperial"? Metric is a universal standard everywhere except the friggin US, and it's a darn sight more logical and easy to use.
I only have very limited experience with non-geeks using linux, but my experience has shown that they don't read
You just summed up one of the major impediments to desktop Linux and to the tightening up of security in general.
You have a choice between the insecure POS, which they know, and the very secure OS which they don't. They don't want to learn anything new. At all.
Today I tried to set my mother up with Trillian, so she could use MSN Messenger and be able to click links (we-read I-have Sygate set up to not allow connections from IE, which MSN is hard coded to use. If any MSN developers are out there, I hate you forever) and go auto away and countless other things she could use.
She refused to use it because she wouldn't change one of the ways she does things, namely changing her online status (normally it's in a menu at the top, in Trillian it's in a submenu in a menu at the bottom). She could have enjoyed her-brr-online experience much more if she'd stuck at it, but after thirty seconds of not trying-"I don't like this. It isn't the same.".
I'm not buying another TV tuner, as my last one (Modular Technologies MM215) doesn't work with any versions of Windows past 98, or even Linux. Well, it does, but there's no plug to connect the card to the audio, so you need to use the Windows 98 drivers to get the sound directly out of the card through the PCI bus. So annoying.
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33.333% of the comments will be outraged right wingers going on about how Michael Moore is an evil phoney because they saw him, a supposed "working class hero" poncing about in an upmarket store in New York. OK, so it was a guy who looked slightly like Michael Moore...well, if you ignore that he was slim, blonde and wore a T-shirt saying "Bush Cheney '04"...and if...
Another 33.333% of the comments will be paranoid, if technically correct, rantings about Bush trying to set up a New World Order involving the Project for a New American Century and the lizard people of planet Glllaaargahwat. They will also profess to thinking Michael Moore is a phoney, for not giving enough time, credence or attention towards their perfectly believable and not insane at all Glllaaargahwat lizard theory.
The final 33.333% of the comments will be trolls of both left and right wing persuasions arguing about whether it's Bush's right to claim to be guided by God, to kill Iraqi people (both combatants and non-combatants) and to ignore international rules and boundaries which he wants other countries to respect. Both the left and the right will play on Bush and Moore's links to lizards respectively.
And the last 0.001% of the comments will be sane, rational debating with other Slashdotters.
God, I love Slashdot when politics rears its head.
IIRC, Abbey National (now Abbey) did this in the UK for a time.
There's plenty of proof of this in just these friggin Google summaries.
It might also be because the US Government is internally corrupt and is owned by Halliburton, Arhusto, Exxon, Disney, GE etc etc etc.
I also am a Social Democrat (well, what we here in England call Liberal Democrat) and an atheist and the only person who can positively get America out of the shit right now is John McCain. Not John Kerry, John McCain. Yes, I know he's a Republican and right wing-but he's the only fucking politician over there with any sense besides Ralph Nader, whose chances of getting into power are slim to none.
My two hundredths of a pound...
The parent speaks the truth. Users don't give a shit about making sure their computer doesn't turn into a spyware shitheap, they heard that AOL was so easy to use and they just want to get online etc etc etc.
He's right. Idiots who can't not use IE and can't use Ad-Aware should be disallowed from Internet access. There are three things that are fucking up the internet for everyone these days: newbies, IE and marketeers.
The email contacts thing is the reason that the Bcc: email header was invented.
Or at least a good upshot of it.
Anyway, I've changed my email address several times recently, and there's been no hassle.
BUT YOU DON'T USE IT.
I'm talking about users who use it for their day to day email.
Really? Have you tried? Because last I tried, you couldn't. They've stopped doing that, because they don't want you to. Right now, all you can do is register for a "Limited .NET Passport", which is basically Hotmail but at passport.com.
Trust me, it'll start. I've seen it happen so many times before. Clean Hotmail account, and the spam will start flooding in.
The main people who won't switch away from Hotmail are the home users who like Hotmail. If you ask them if they want to try something better, after they complain about spam/not being able to send big attachments/spyware, their response will be "NO, I'M HAPPY...shit, this service has so much spyware..."
And now that Microsoft has disallowed signing up for a Passport with a non-Microsoft email address, tieing these (usually) MSN Messenger using Hotmail to Hotmail, we'll have lots of people locked into it, and they'll bitch, piss and moan at you to help them, then ignore you.
God, I love users who are deluded as to the utter shitness of their email service. Trust me, I know loads of them.
(I'll bet there's not one Hotmail account NOT covered in spam by now. They're all just spam buckets. Evil, evil Hotmail...we hates it my precioussssss...)
The practical implementation of a million monkeys at a million typewriters... ...finding nothing.
Seriously, what has Seti@Home found as of yet?
Microsoft Matrix: Where Do You Want Your Probe Today?
All religions sound silly to me.
It's all a question of who has the better invisible friend in the sky.
See Kissing Hank's Ass for a good pisstake of religion, which makes some very salient points.
I hate to say it, but Windows 2000 is one of the damn nicest operating systems I've ever had the privelege to use.
And not to mention MS Sidewinder joystics and IntelliMouse mice...*drool*.
For all its flaws, Office 2003 isn't bad either.
No, the main MS products I have a problem with are Hotmail (it's shit and everyone uses it, meaning I have to use shit as well) MSN Messenger (it's shit and everyone uses it, meaning I have to use shit as well) and Internet Explorer (it's shit and everyone uses it, meaning I have to use shit as well).
Uh, fool.
Offer good until June 1, 2004
The Internet is one thing that could benefit education in poor African countries a great deal, allowing free access to information. This is just one more step in fully linking up Africa.
Why does everyone stick with these out of date crappy units known as "imperial"? Metric is a universal standard everywhere except the friggin US, and it's a darn sight more logical and easy to use.
You just summed up one of the major impediments to desktop Linux and to the tightening up of security in general.
You have a choice between the insecure POS, which they know, and the very secure OS which they don't. They don't want to learn anything new. At all.
Today I tried to set my mother up with Trillian, so she could use MSN Messenger and be able to click links (we-read I-have Sygate set up to not allow connections from IE, which MSN is hard coded to use. If any MSN developers are out there, I hate you forever) and go auto away and countless other things she could use.
She refused to use it because she wouldn't change one of the ways she does things, namely changing her online status (normally it's in a menu at the top, in Trillian it's in a submenu in a menu at the bottom). She could have enjoyed her-brr-online experience much more if she'd stuck at it, but after thirty seconds of not trying-"I don't like this. It isn't the same.".
Damn newbies
And the MSCE and other qualifications don't?
Better than having yet more spam zombies and pwned newbies.
What's with the headline? "Deep Inside the K Desktop Environment" isn't nearly as intriguing as "Deep Inside [pr0n_star]"...
Well, if you pronounce "KDE" to sound like "Katie"...
I sent two to Hotmail accounts this morning and they both arrived just fine.
Does the EMI thing apply to their subsidiary Parlophone, as I have two Parlophone CDs and they work perfectly without any spyware crap.
I'm not buying another TV tuner, as my last one (Modular Technologies MM215) doesn't work with any versions of Windows past 98, or even Linux. Well, it does, but there's no plug to connect the card to the audio, so you need to use the Windows 98 drivers to get the sound directly out of the card through the PCI bus. So annoying.
If he answers this in a slow monotonous voice while holding a cup of coffee, you may wish to immediately fail the candidate.
Is your hair liable to become pointy at any time in the near future?