I used to use RedHat, but then the EOL came, so I updated to the latest Fedora, and it screwed me over with all sorts of dependency wackiness. I switched to Gentoo and I can honestly tell you that no APT or YUM-based interface is anywhere near as good as Portage.
The "Control" Slackware gives you is the ability to ruin the system by fscking up dependencies(the other option is to compile from source, in which case you should just use Gentoo). The "knowledge" Slackware gives you isn't that different from the knowledge I already got from Gentoo, except the latter has a better package management program.
2) possible although nvidia 64-bit drivers have been out for multiple years. maybe they have some binary-only sound drivers or network drivers? Nope, the proprietary Linux network drivers were abandoned in favor of forcedeth(GPL) and for sound drivers you use the Intel HD sound driver, also GPL.
You install GRUB. They don't have to be on the same hard drive(unless you have weird cylinder problems) and it works fine these days as long as you have enough space.
Exactly. The single biggest complaint about reality in Superman? That the change in glasses makes him unrecognizable. Not the flying, or the X-Ray vision, or the flying bullets, or the superstrength--it's the glasses people complain about. Because the thing about the glasses is just barely impossible.
The fact that Harlan Ellison wrote a good Star Trek episode does not mean that Star Trek episodes by respected sci-fi(I'll cut my own tongue out before I call it speculative fiction) authors have to be good.
"I was just following orders" is not a legal defense. It wasn't at Nuremberg and it wasn't for the My Lai massacrists. Other uniformed officers are also bound by duty to resist unlawful and/or unethical orders.
Bullshit. Republicans just have more and bigger scandals. You want an example? Look at the Republican candidates. The three top candidates have all had divorces involving infidelity. Now look at the Democratic candidates. You don't see any divorces, and the only infidelity you see isn't by the candidate but by her husband.
Actually, that wasn't the original intent of the phrase. The meaning was that only somebody known for being hard on communism(Nixon was in HUAC) could kill the anticommunist sacred cow of not recognizing China.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks (X) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists (X) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money (X) Huge existing software investment in SMTP (X) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (X) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck (X) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks (X) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free (X) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Lazarus Long is consistently wrong. He claims that peace and freedom are mutually exclusive but if you took a graph of our freedom you'd find that the greatest drops are during wartime.
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I used to use RedHat, but then the EOL came, so I updated to the latest Fedora, and it screwed me over with all sorts of dependency wackiness. I switched to Gentoo and I can honestly tell you that no APT or YUM-based interface is anywhere near as good as Portage.
Even worse than the people thinking Saddam still had WMDs were the people who thought he was part of 9/11.
The "Control" Slackware gives you is the ability to ruin the system by fscking up dependencies(the other option is to compile from source, in which case you should just use Gentoo). The "knowledge" Slackware gives you isn't that different from the knowledge I already got from Gentoo, except the latter has a better package management program.
And a DHS agent following each and every DHS agent!
apt is nice but when you try emerge the interface is so grand that it's worth waiting for compilation.
Or, you know, buy a computer that's naturally $225 cheaper. Dells have been on the expensive end of PC for a while now.
You install GRUB. They don't have to be on the same hard drive(unless you have weird cylinder problems) and it works fine these days as long as you have enough space.
Actually Reiser sold Namesys. ReiserFS will go on even if Reiser doesn't.
Doesn't mean you deserve a free $275 upgrade for buying Vista
I doubt autism had anything to do with it.
Exactly. The single biggest complaint about reality in Superman? That the change in glasses makes him unrecognizable. Not the flying, or the X-Ray vision, or the flying bullets, or the superstrength--it's the glasses people complain about. Because the thing about the glasses is just barely impossible.
The fact that Harlan Ellison wrote a good Star Trek episode does not mean that Star Trek episodes by respected sci-fi(I'll cut my own tongue out before I call it speculative fiction) authors have to be good.
"I was just following orders" is not a legal defense. It wasn't at Nuremberg and it wasn't for the My Lai massacrists. Other uniformed officers are also bound by duty to resist unlawful and/or unethical orders.
Reduce the percentage, and replace the botulism with polonium-210.
Bullshit. Republicans just have more and bigger scandals. You want an example? Look at the Republican candidates. The three top candidates have all had divorces involving infidelity. Now look at the Democratic candidates. You don't see any divorces, and the only infidelity you see isn't by the candidate but by her husband.
Actually, that wasn't the original intent of the phrase. The meaning was that only somebody known for being hard on communism(Nixon was in HUAC) could kill the anticommunist sacred cow of not recognizing China.
The President is not supposed to be a tinpot dictator!
And if you discount immigration, the US is the only nation that has positive population growth, and that's just barely. Oh, and it's falling.
Your post advocates a
(X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(X) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
(X) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
(X) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
(X) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(X) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
(X) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
(X) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
(X) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
They don't have to get rid of everything. Just the stuff critical of Uri Geller.
Lazarus Long is consistently wrong. He claims that peace and freedom are mutually exclusive but if you took a graph of our freedom you'd find that the greatest drops are during wartime.
Because as we all know the biology of the parents is all that matters. Why can't a nannybot have the same love for children that parents have?