Dude, Porter and Taunton? Now, I've lived a while in Canby, and much of my Family is from Minneota, but seriously that has to be one of the wackiest location references I've ever seen on/.
You made me smile with that one.
I can imagine that the number of/.ers that got that reference (without google maps) can be counted on one hand.
Although, near Marshall might have possibly worked better, but Marshall is still considered a really small town by most/.ers.
But Porter and Tauton are positively minuscule to use as reference points.
You do realize that you are asking the SAME legislative body that than passed the DMCA, and COPA to write a law regulating the internet?
How could that possibly have any unintended bad consequences?
The CORRECT answer here is for the FCC to brand the internet common carrier. They have that within their power, they have been told by the courts that that would be acceptable. They are COMPLETELY unwilling to do so. Why, because if they do that they won't have the CONTROL that they desire so much.
It is my firm belief that, in the end, congress will eventually pass "net neutrality," and that because of that law, ISPs will be forced to inspect EVERY packet going over their wires.
Yep. The FCC could make the Internet common carrier in a heartbeat. THAT IS NOT WHAT THEY WANT.
They want to control the internet. From the FCC's perspective, Net Neutrality doesn't mean that all packets get sent equally, it means all packets get inspected equally.
I think NASA did some acronym wrangling here to make sure the acronym stayed the same as what they use for purchasing other commercial services, but was still fitting for indicating it was a rocket launch. Well done on their part IMHO.
Yep, you and the GGP post are correct, this was a foresight issue. I too was in a position where I was asked to replace reliable, effective, and secure Unix control systems with Windows based systems.
It was a ridiculous play for the new eye-candy, and "usability" (why do you need general application usability on machines that should be running only ONE program?). Just the fact that there were now Windows machines on the production floor led to enormous headaches. All kinds of access controls and system policies and restrictions and processes needed to be put in place to keep these machines functioning even reasonably well, where the Unix boxes (and X-terminals) they replaced were ROCK SOLID.
Now the industry will pay for using the quick and easy and VULNERABLE hardware to run their process control systems.
Would this persons situation NOT have been prevented by not simply paying their bills?
1) Erroneous attribution of a debt to you that is not your debt.
2) An error by the company you paid your bill to, making them think you haven't paid when you actually have.
3) Mail/On-line banking/transaction problems
4) Recordkeeping errors at billing company or debt collection company
5) A scam.
There, FIVE things that could get you calls from debt collectors when you pay your bills on time.
I've personally experienced the second one where the company cashed my payment check and did not credit it to my account. The actually acknowledged that my check was cashed, but still demanded that I pay them again!!! I contacted the Attorney General for my state and they convinced them to stop calling.
Suffice it to say, simply paying your bills does not necessarily keep collectors at bay.
The really scary part is that they are failing to realize that if they wipe sites out of the root DNS servers, we will undoubtedly end up in a situation where the worlds DNS servers fragement with some honoring the removal and some not. New "Root" DNS structure will pop up outside the US jusrisdiction and people will be able to use them.
Of course that will cause an ungodly mess. But hey, this is congress, they specialize in unintended consequences....
So if you don't allow any individual to gain more money than any other individual, then what do you get?
What do you do to those pesky folks trying to make more money than others?
Who determines who "has enough" and who doesn't.
There is a REASON that Communism attracts the kind of despotic, tyrannical leaders it does. Because it REQUIRES control of EVERYONE.
I'm sorry, I'd much rather have the amount of money I have, and allow others to have more (perhaps much more) than bow to someone else's view of what I (and everyone else) should have. The person(s) that determines those rules WILL be a horrible despicable tyrant, guaranteed.
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Technically for #14, your just restarting the printer que.
I think the correct answer would be to run lpd restart or cups restart (depending on your print daemon) from the init directory.
Of course, I didn't actually get to see the quiz as its been slashdotted to hell.
I just find it really ironic that here is yet another case of one organization endangering or cutting off its revenue stream to please the RIAA, by expelling their paying CUSTOMERS because the RIAA doesn't like what the students are doing.
Its exactly the same as the ISP three strikes rules that the RIAA wants that will cost revenue for ISPs.
Basically in RIAA world, they should be guaranteed revenue no matter what and anyone associated with the internet (and therefore illegal file sharing) should be willing to give up their revenue to make the RIAA happy.
Its time for the internet providers to tell the RIAA to stick it where the sun doesn't shine, instead of capitulating to them, like this stupid school is doing.
As a parent with kids that will be going to school in the next few years, schools with policies like this will be OFF the list of schools my kids will apply to.
Personally I'm still waiting for the ISP to begin to strongly respond that this is not in their best interests.
At the minimum they will need to monitor all their customers. At the maximum the copyright barons want the ISPs to kick "infringers" off of the Internet.
When will the ISPs realize that for every person they kick off the Internet thats another person not paying them a monthly fee. If they have to dump 10% of their customers, they'll lose 10% of their revenue. This is not a good idea for the ISPs, its suicide.
Of course with your selected dataset we can come to the conclusion that rampant drug use definitely has a very large impact on one's ability to speak clearly.....
That's great for you and your parents, and in fact for Bill Clinton.
But you're new guy Obama is the most mindblowingly fiscally irresponsible President this country has ever seen. Are you going to call him out on that too?
All these, "I'm an liberal and I'm like this, and I'm so great, and conservatives are just like this and are so evil," comments are utter bullshit. Those kind of arguments are no better than "my Dad is stronger than your Dad" kindergarten arguments. You define both sides by attributing only positive aspects to your side and only negative ones to the "other" side. Intellectually your case is ridiculous and inconsequential.
This black or white, good vs. bad political posturing onslaught that overwhelms us right now is divisive and destructive. The political debate needs to be just that, a debate. Right now a lot of the political arguments are the equivalent of "You bad, me good."
No, I am not a physician. I just know some people with Aspergers and your post made me think of them and some of the ways they act and things they say.
The matter of fact way you made your statements in your original post just struck me as a having an Aspergers type point of view.
Item 1 - get rid of states powers is severely at odds with the constitution. The constitution grants limited explicit powers to the federal government. Over the last 200 some years one item, the "commerce clause" that allows the regulation of interstate commerce has been made into a hole big enough to drive any big government program through. The states are supposed to have most of the power in the federal system, but their power has been continually eroded.
In my opinion, the GP post is very wrong in some of its points, the first item being the biggest. The second one being another big one. Enforcing party loyalty to keep the "nutters" out. Yeah, loyalty to party as the big measure, that worked out soooooo well before in other countries.
Basically if the GP poster really wants to fight for those things, then fine, but I am completely against the desires spelled out in points 1 and 2 and would staunchly fight against them.
That said, looking back now it is clear to anyone with an ounce of empiricism that political violence is such an inefficient and ineffective means of achieving political aims that no one who actually cares about achieving political aims will ever use violence as their primary weapon.
Seriously, you really believe this?!! I began writing a list of countries where political goals were achieved through violence. But then I realized, that if you're an American, it'd be best to point out that on two very notable occasions, and on many, many other smaller occasions, viloence acheived notable political goals (political independence, and the end of slavery).
Your statement is idiotic. Political violence is a messy and scary means of achieving political goals, I will grant you that. But while it can sometimes be ineffective, many many times it is not.
Its a connundrum. The universe absolutely follows the law of cause and effect, but at the beginning what was the cause. Hawking seems to say here that gravity is the cause. Well then, we need to find out what causes gravity, right.
It truly is turtles all the way down. The law of cause and effect must start somewhere meaning that somehow, either the existence of God (as cause for the universe), or some other thing (some out of the blue cause for the universe) must have just "been".
Of course that involves looking past the veil at the beginning of time, and we can't do that.....
I agree with you to a point. All those other lanugages would be more beneficial to learn than Klingon. Well, execpt Esparanto, I'd have to take exception at that.
If I had a choice between learning Klingon and Esperanto, it'd be Klingon all the way.
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Dude, Porter and Taunton? Now, I've lived a while in Canby, and much of my Family is from Minneota, but seriously that has to be one of the wackiest location references I've ever seen on /.
You made me smile with that one.
I can imagine that the number of /.ers that got that reference (without google maps) can be counted on one hand.
Although, near Marshall might have possibly worked better, but Marshall is still considered a really small town by most /.ers.
But Porter and Tauton are positively minuscule to use as reference points.
Again, that did make me smile.....
You do realize that you are asking the SAME legislative body that than passed the DMCA, and COPA to write a law regulating the internet?
How could that possibly have any unintended bad consequences?
The CORRECT answer here is for the FCC to brand the internet common carrier. They have that within their power, they have been told by the courts that that would be acceptable. They are COMPLETELY unwilling to do so. Why, because if they do that they won't have the CONTROL that they desire so much.
It is my firm belief that, in the end, congress will eventually pass "net neutrality," and that because of that law, ISPs will be forced to inspect EVERY packet going over their wires.
Screw that!!! The Boshevicks thought threy were "smart" leaders, and I'd venture to say they created the worst government the world has ever seen.
Even smart people handed unlimited power would end up severely corrupted over time.
You're a fool to even think that your idea has a chance of working, it doesn't.
Yep. The FCC could make the Internet common carrier in a heartbeat. THAT IS NOT WHAT THEY WANT.
They want to control the internet. From the FCC's perspective, Net Neutrality doesn't mean that all packets get sent equally, it means all packets get inspected equally.
I think NASA did some acronym wrangling here to make sure the acronym stayed the same as what they use for purchasing other commercial services, but was still fitting for indicating it was a rocket launch. Well done on their part IMHO.
Yep, you and the GGP post are correct, this was a foresight issue. I too was in a position where I was asked to replace reliable, effective, and secure Unix control systems with Windows based systems.
It was a ridiculous play for the new eye-candy, and "usability" (why do you need general application usability on machines that should be running only ONE program?). Just the fact that there were now Windows machines on the production floor led to enormous headaches. All kinds of access controls and system policies and restrictions and processes needed to be put in place to keep these machines functioning even reasonably well, where the Unix boxes (and X-terminals) they replaced were ROCK SOLID.
Now the industry will pay for using the quick and easy and VULNERABLE hardware to run their process control systems.
Would this persons situation NOT have been prevented by not simply paying their bills?
1) Erroneous attribution of a debt to you that is not your debt.
2) An error by the company you paid your bill to, making them think you haven't paid when you actually have.
3) Mail/On-line banking/transaction problems
4) Recordkeeping errors at billing company or debt collection company
5) A scam.
There, FIVE things that could get you calls from debt collectors when you pay your bills on time.
I've personally experienced the second one where the company cashed my payment check and did not credit it to my account.
The actually acknowledged that my check was cashed, but still demanded that I pay them again!!! I contacted the Attorney General for my state and they convinced them to stop calling.
Suffice it to say, simply paying your bills does not necessarily keep collectors at bay.
The really scary part is that they are failing to realize that if they wipe sites out of the root DNS servers, we will undoubtedly end up in a situation where the worlds DNS servers fragement with some honoring the removal and some not. New "Root" DNS structure will pop up outside the US jusrisdiction and people will be able to use them.
Of course that will cause an ungodly mess. But hey, this is congress, they specialize in unintended consequences....
So if you don't allow any individual to gain more money than any other individual, then what do you get?
What do you do to those pesky folks trying to make more money than others?
Who determines who "has enough" and who doesn't.
There is a REASON that Communism attracts the kind of despotic, tyrannical leaders it does. Because it REQUIRES control of EVERYONE.
I'm sorry, I'd much rather have the amount of money I have, and allow others to have more (perhaps much more) than bow to someone else's view of what I (and everyone else) should have. The person(s) that determines those rules WILL be a horrible despicable tyrant, guaranteed.
Technically for #14, your just restarting the printer que.
I think the correct answer would be to run lpd restart or cups restart (depending on your print daemon) from the init directory.
Of course, I didn't actually get to see the quiz as its been slashdotted to hell.
I just find it really ironic that here is yet another case of one organization endangering or cutting off its revenue stream to please the RIAA, by expelling their paying CUSTOMERS because the RIAA doesn't like what the students are doing.
Its exactly the same as the ISP three strikes rules that the RIAA wants that will cost revenue for ISPs.
Basically in RIAA world, they should be guaranteed revenue no matter what and anyone associated with the internet (and therefore illegal file sharing) should be willing to give up their revenue to make the RIAA happy.
Its time for the internet providers to tell the RIAA to stick it where the sun doesn't shine, instead of capitulating to them, like this stupid school is doing.
As a parent with kids that will be going to school in the next few years, schools with policies like this will be OFF the list of schools my kids will apply to.
I agree with you that there is no UP direction in space.
But, the gate is most definitely DOWN!!
Personally I'm still waiting for the ISP to begin to strongly respond that this is not in their best interests.
At the minimum they will need to monitor all their customers. At the maximum the copyright barons want the ISPs to kick "infringers" off of the Internet.
When will the ISPs realize that for every person they kick off the Internet thats another person not paying them a monthly fee. If they have to dump 10% of their customers, they'll lose 10% of their revenue. This is not a good idea for the ISPs, its suicide.
He's not some mutant superhuman.
Of course not, hes a Neanderthal!!
Of course with your selected dataset we can come to the conclusion that rampant drug use definitely has a very large impact on one's ability to speak clearly.....
wish it was as easy as putting on a pair of cool sunglasses
Ain't that the truth, but alas that only works in "They Live."
That's great for you and your parents, and in fact for Bill Clinton.
But you're new guy Obama is the most mindblowingly fiscally irresponsible President this country has ever seen. Are you going to call him out on that too?
All these, "I'm an liberal and I'm like this, and I'm so great, and conservatives are just like this and are so evil," comments are utter bullshit. Those kind of arguments are no better than "my Dad is stronger than your Dad" kindergarten arguments. You define both sides by attributing only positive aspects to your side and only negative ones to the "other" side. Intellectually your case is ridiculous and inconsequential.
This black or white, good vs. bad political posturing onslaught that overwhelms us right now is divisive and destructive. The political debate needs to be just that, a debate. Right now a lot of the political arguments are the equivalent of "You bad, me good."
No, I am not a physician. I just know some people with Aspergers and your post made me think of them and some of the ways they act and things they say.
The matter of fact way you made your statements in your original post just struck me as a having an Aspergers type point of view.
obligatory ..... wooooooosh to you sir.
Dude, have you ever been diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome? Your post covers a whole bunch of Aspergers symptoms.
Item 1 - get rid of states powers is severely at odds with the constitution. The constitution grants limited explicit powers to the federal government. Over the last 200 some years one item, the "commerce clause" that allows the regulation of interstate commerce has been made into a hole big enough to drive any big government program through. The states are supposed to have most of the power in the federal system, but their power has been continually eroded.
In my opinion, the GP post is very wrong in some of its points, the first item being the biggest. The second one being another big one. Enforcing party loyalty to keep the "nutters" out. Yeah, loyalty to party as the big measure, that worked out soooooo well before in other countries.
Basically if the GP poster really wants to fight for those things, then fine, but I am completely against the desires spelled out in points 1 and 2 and would staunchly fight against them.
Hey asshole, I admitted that violence was messy and unfortunate. YOU said it was ineffective, but its provably not.
War is not the most desirable agent of change, but it IS and agent of change. All your pollyanna hoping doesn't change that fact.
And as others have noted there are times where force is necessary to stop bad things from happening. See Nazis and the holocaust.
That said, looking back now it is clear to anyone with an ounce of empiricism that political violence is such an inefficient and ineffective means of achieving political aims that no one who actually cares about achieving political aims will ever use violence as their primary weapon.
Seriously, you really believe this?!! I began writing a list of countries where political goals were achieved through violence. But then I realized, that if you're an American, it'd be best to point out that on two very notable occasions, and on many, many other smaller occasions, viloence acheived notable political goals (political independence, and the end of slavery).
Your statement is idiotic. Political violence is a messy and scary means of achieving political goals, I will grant you that. But while it can sometimes be ineffective, many many times it is not.
Its a connundrum. The universe absolutely follows the law of cause and effect, but at the beginning what was the cause. Hawking seems to say here that gravity is the cause. Well then, we need to find out what causes gravity, right.
It truly is turtles all the way down. The law of cause and effect must start somewhere meaning that somehow, either the existence of God (as cause for the universe), or some other thing (some out of the blue cause for the universe) must have just "been".
Of course that involves looking past the veil at the beginning of time, and we can't do that.....
I agree with you to a point. All those other lanugages would be more beneficial to learn than Klingon. Well, execpt Esparanto, I'd have to take exception at that.
If I had a choice between learning Klingon and Esperanto, it'd be Klingon all the way.