Heh. Just commented on this on the Gizmodo post an hour ago. Please forgive the copypasta for my first post on Slashdot in probably 5 years.
My organization recently had a conference in a hotel owned by Marriott in a large Southern city. Not only did they want $500 per device per day for any Internet access — wired or wireless — the $12.95/day in-room wifi straight up did not work. They'd take your money before you could figure out it didn't work, of course. And if you ponied up the $16.95 for the "high speed" in-room wifi, it...barely worked. Barely.
We request one wired connection now. And once it's connected and the hotel staffers leave, I set up our own router with our own network. I'm pretty sure that if there was will or pressure on various and sundry consumer protection agencies, the prices charged by many hotel chains — with Marriott properties being the worst of them all — would not hold up in court.
I'll also add that our Director of Events is fairly convinced a new Marriott property in Washington, DC is doing this right now.
This app is awesome and extremely handy, but new? This was one of the first apps I downloaded for my iPhone 3G, well over two years ago, when it was free in an "introductory" special and had a different name (which has long escaped me).
This is the correct answer. Use Clonezilla for the Linux installs and WDS for the Windows installs (or install a third party PXE server and use the same server for both). Forget virtualization unless you specifically need it to run applications or multiple simultaneous operating systems.
WDS is how I reimage Windows PCs on my network, and to go from nothing to 100% reinstall is, start to finish, 1 keystroke, a standard login prompt, and two mouse clicks. Come back in a few minutes and you're booted into the system.
I really don't care if someone has an AOL email address, though I work in a non-tech industry, so it may be different for me. However, the username is important. Here in DC, if you're straight out of an internship and you still have an email along the lines of drinkingfiend01@gmail.com, that's a negative mark. Similarly, a friend of mine who works in HR in San Francisco gets resumes all the time with emails the likes of johnissogay@whatever.com. Yeah, it's SF, but that's still not work appropriate.
You could always grab it on Steam. It was 10% off pre-release. Buy it early, download it overnight a night or two if you're on a slow connection, and play it at 12:01 AM release day without leaving your house.
Those ads weren't pulled, at least as far as I'm aware. They were still plastered all over Metro Center (the central stop, and the busiest stop, in the system) as of Friday evening on the way home from work.
So you can post whatever you want under the guise of anonymity, full stop?
Free speech has never meant freedom from consequences. Forgetting that is a dire mistake to make.
ATT's data access isn't as widespread as Verizon's, but they're building it out at a furious pace, and both their network and Verizon's are FAR larger than Sprint's. Here, 10 miles out of the city in any direction and your Sprint voice connection, not to mention data, is barely alive. And forget it if you're indoors anywhere.
I recommend ATT or Verizon, both equally, and no one else.
That's what you're SUPPOSED to do. The real world would rather have absolutely nothing to do with any of that.
In my short experience in the workin' world, I've come across some pretty spectacularly awful implementations of everything under the sun, from production boxes in shambles to network cables wrapped around sweaty water pipes to 2 year old production code passing GET strings straight to the SQL server unmodified (yay nonprofit sector!), and compromising code for a quick and dirty webpage so I can get things running just a bit faster is 1) the least of my worries and 2) a metric fuckton cheaper than new servers (yay nonprofit sector!).:)
Though this is technically OT, I think he's trying to restrict development to those elements. Alas, the real world doesn't quite work like that, what with office politics and policies and bosses and humans being, you know, humans.
That kind of code, when using PHP for templating, can make things much more efficient server side. Remember that anything within PHP tags is parsed by PHP. On a high volume site, even the relatively minuscule difference between passing something straight to the browser and echo("something"); can make a big difference in speed and resources.
Besides, this is what syntax highlighters were made for. There are very good free ones on every single platform for a reason:p
Are you really so strapped for cash that you can't fork over $60 for top of the line AV? Renewals are $40. This is pretty basic, absolutely essential stuff we're talking about, here, and $60 really isn't too much to ask if you're employed. (I understand if you're still a student.)
But will every pirated copy magically transforms into a sale, or will this scheme just annoy legitimate users and be cracked anyway? One really wonders.
A thief walks into a fine winery and takes a bottle without paying for it. Just walks out the door. Two days later, the thief comes back and asks what food might go well with the wine he stole. The store, shocked and appalled at how brazen thieves are becoming, puts locks on the cabinets and asks that people contact an employee, who is nearby and ready to help at any time, to get wine out of the case.
The author of this summary would respond that the store is so inconveniencing its patrons that it ought to be closed down. That response has nothing to do with software freedom or idealism or the right way to do things or being sensitive when legitimately protecting one's assets. This is utter detachment from reality itself.
The OSS crowd steals from its own. This story and the few comments already ("If they put copy protection on it that annoys me in any way I'll just steal/crack it") makes that very clear. I'm siding with the authors on this one. Linux advocates always seem to complain when games won't work with Linux. Then, if this story is any indication, when they do work with Linux, the same people who complain that games for profit never work properly run out and immediately steal the game. Do you really expect people to develop multimillion dollar games for Linux if that's how things work?
Try an offline reader. Feedreader is good for Windows. Go to your 3 sites and load the feeds in. Set the feeds to update every hour. Then, when the mood strikes you to check your sites, you don't have to load anything at all. The content is already there, right on your desktop, waiting whenever the Feedreader icon is orange. Also, I GUARANTEE that once you start tacking feeds, you'll go to a new site you like and say "Hey. I can add this feed." and you'll be off and away. I started with exactly two and look at me now.
Here's my list, organized by folder. If a folder is marked (collapsed), I read those feeds as a group by clicking on the folder. Note: if the descriptions seem basic,/. was bitching about "too few characters per line," so I had to add some filler.
Feedreader (collapsed) - these two feeds came with Feedreader, and I just didn't delete them.
Deus Ex Projects - two projects for my favorite game of all time that both move one inch toward completion every 6 months.
Deus Ex HTDP - high-definition texture pack. Text feed, news and announcements.
Project 2027 - new levels and story for Deus Ex. Text feed, news and announcements.
The Escapist: Zero Punctuation - if you're not watching these game reviews, you should be. Feed is links to the weekly ZP posts.
Valve Steam news and updates - Steam is Valve's content delivery system. This feed includes game updates and general news. Text only.
News/aggregator
CNN top stories - this feed can be annoying because it sometimes contains a story summary in the item, but more often it just contains a link to the story. I wish it had summaries more often.
Fark - Fark is a news aggregator site that, like/., combines user submission with a little editorial control (as opposed to the Digg method). This feed is of the mainpage stories and contains only the headlines and a link. Sophomoric and dark humor are mainstays.
MSNBC - this is the top stories feed, editorially selected. They also have a "most viewed" feed if you're into celeb news and dogs in funny poses.
MSNBC - Coundown - feed of Countdown with Keith Olbermann video clips, updated nightly, with the first two stories usually posted before the show is over. Feed is links to the clips.
Slashdot - log in, your feed is personalized to your mainpage prefs./.'s own feed contains headlines and story summaries.
Politics
Crooks and Liars - This is a blog that supports more liberal ideals than the party line. Feed is of front page stories and contains attachments of any items referenced in the stories (usually QT files, sometimes PDFs)
Daily Kos - The largest liberal log/community on the net, this one is much more toward party line. Text only.
Electoral-vote.com - election news and coverage with a map that updates the electoral college count by poll average. Contains the site's daily upd
It's not even the eyebleach that's required. It's that peeking through peoples' files will undoubtedly reveal something you shouldn't, aren't supposed to, or (in the case of purely personal information) don't want to know or have no need to know. And once you know it, you have a responsibility to safeguard it - moral, most importantly, but legal as well depending on its nature. Who wants to safeguard other peoples' personal information for no damn reason at all?
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Heh. Just commented on this on the Gizmodo post an hour ago. Please forgive the copypasta for my first post on Slashdot in probably 5 years.
My organization recently had a conference in a hotel owned by Marriott in a large Southern city. Not only did they want $500 per device per day for any Internet access — wired or wireless — the $12.95/day in-room wifi straight up did not work. They'd take your money before you could figure out it didn't work, of course. And if you ponied up the $16.95 for the "high speed" in-room wifi, it...barely worked. Barely.
We request one wired connection now. And once it's connected and the hotel staffers leave, I set up our own router with our own network. I'm pretty sure that if there was will or pressure on various and sundry consumer protection agencies, the prices charged by many hotel chains — with Marriott properties being the worst of them all — would not hold up in court.
I'll also add that our Director of Events is fairly convinced a new Marriott property in Washington, DC is doing this right now.
This app is awesome and extremely handy, but new? This was one of the first apps I downloaded for my iPhone 3G, well over two years ago, when it was free in an "introductory" special and had a different name (which has long escaped me).
This is the correct answer. Use Clonezilla for the Linux installs and WDS for the Windows installs (or install a third party PXE server and use the same server for both). Forget virtualization unless you specifically need it to run applications or multiple simultaneous operating systems.
WDS is how I reimage Windows PCs on my network, and to go from nothing to 100% reinstall is, start to finish, 1 keystroke, a standard login prompt, and two mouse clicks. Come back in a few minutes and you're booted into the system.
Domain? No. Username? Yes.
I really don't care if someone has an AOL email address, though I work in a non-tech industry, so it may be different for me. However, the username is important. Here in DC, if you're straight out of an internship and you still have an email along the lines of drinkingfiend01@gmail.com, that's a negative mark. Similarly, a friend of mine who works in HR in San Francisco gets resumes all the time with emails the likes of johnissogay@whatever.com. Yeah, it's SF, but that's still not work appropriate.
...I could have sworn I saw an ad for that. Maybe I'm confusing it with something else recently that did.
:)
In any case, thank you for correcting me.
You could always grab it on Steam. It was 10% off pre-release. Buy it early, download it overnight a night or two if you're on a slow connection, and play it at 12:01 AM release day without leaving your house.
Those ads weren't pulled, at least as far as I'm aware. They were still plastered all over Metro Center (the central stop, and the busiest stop, in the system) as of Friday evening on the way home from work.
Strangely it seems net neutrality is no longer as important
What the fuck are you talking about? It's THE VERY FIRST GODDAMN THING HE MENTIONS.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden's Plan
Ensure the Full and Free Exchange of Ideas through an Open Internet and Diverse Media Outlets
* Protect the Openness of the Internet
If you're a McCain supporter trying to weasel votes away on Slashdot, you need to say so.
Thirded over here. Solid 7000/day for months (small business).
So you can post whatever you want under the guise of anonymity, full stop? Free speech has never meant freedom from consequences. Forgetting that is a dire mistake to make.
ATT's data access isn't as widespread as Verizon's, but they're building it out at a furious pace, and both their network and Verizon's are FAR larger than Sprint's. Here, 10 miles out of the city in any direction and your Sprint voice connection, not to mention data, is barely alive. And forget it if you're indoors anywhere.
I recommend ATT or Verizon, both equally, and no one else.
That's what you're SUPPOSED to do. The real world would rather have absolutely nothing to do with any of that.
:)
In my short experience in the workin' world, I've come across some pretty spectacularly awful implementations of everything under the sun, from production boxes in shambles to network cables wrapped around sweaty water pipes to 2 year old production code passing GET strings straight to the SQL server unmodified (yay nonprofit sector!), and compromising code for a quick and dirty webpage so I can get things running just a bit faster is 1) the least of my worries and 2) a metric fuckton cheaper than new servers (yay nonprofit sector!).
Though this is technically OT, I think he's trying to restrict development to those elements. Alas, the real world doesn't quite work like that, what with office politics and policies and bosses and humans being, you know, humans.
That kind of code, when using PHP for templating, can make things much more efficient server side. Remember that anything within PHP tags is parsed by PHP. On a high volume site, even the relatively minuscule difference between passing something straight to the browser and echo("something"); can make a big difference in speed and resources.
:p
Besides, this is what syntax highlighters were made for. There are very good free ones on every single platform for a reason
The Judge also wants him to cough up $43,000 to cover the Bar costs because the whole thing was so outrageous.
ClamWin (and ClamAV) do not have on-access scanning of any kind. They only do manual scans, and are worthless for use on a live workstation.
Are you really so strapped for cash that you can't fork over $60 for top of the line AV? Renewals are $40. This is pretty basic, absolutely essential stuff we're talking about, here, and $60 really isn't too much to ask if you're employed. (I understand if you're still a student.)
Oh, and that's compressed capacity. You're probably looking at around 1TB stored on each tape with random data that doesn't compress very highly.
Double that at least if you're looking for 2TB backup. (+ tapes, remember)
But will every pirated copy magically transforms into a sale, or will this scheme just annoy legitimate users and be cracked anyway? One really wonders.
A thief walks into a fine winery and takes a bottle without paying for it. Just walks out the door. Two days later, the thief comes back and asks what food might go well with the wine he stole. The store, shocked and appalled at how brazen thieves are becoming, puts locks on the cabinets and asks that people contact an employee, who is nearby and ready to help at any time, to get wine out of the case.
The author of this summary would respond that the store is so inconveniencing its patrons that it ought to be closed down. That response has nothing to do with software freedom or idealism or the right way to do things or being sensitive when legitimately protecting one's assets. This is utter detachment from reality itself.
The OSS crowd steals from its own. This story and the few comments already ("If they put copy protection on it that annoys me in any way I'll just steal/crack it") makes that very clear. I'm siding with the authors on this one. Linux advocates always seem to complain when games won't work with Linux. Then, if this story is any indication, when they do work with Linux, the same people who complain that games for profit never work properly run out and immediately steal the game. Do you really expect people to develop multimillion dollar games for Linux if that's how things work?
Put your copy protection on the game, man.
Here's my list, organized by folder. If a folder is marked (collapsed), I read those feeds as a group by clicking on the folder. Note: if the descriptions seem basic,
It's not even the eyebleach that's required. It's that peeking through peoples' files will undoubtedly reveal something you shouldn't, aren't supposed to, or (in the case of purely personal information) don't want to know or have no need to know. And once you know it, you have a responsibility to safeguard it - moral, most importantly, but legal as well depending on its nature. Who wants to safeguard other peoples' personal information for no damn reason at all?
Do you use an open source Palm OS 5 VPN client, or do you have SSH open at the firewall?
Pirate Bay is an official distribution channel. (Yes, really.)