Was using the direct link from the article/posting.
(In my three years of using Mozilla and Safari I have never once had a site tell me I couldn't use it because it's "IE only" - in fact, I've never had that happen with Konqueror, Epiphany, Nautilus (when it browsed), nor Dillo-Hacked).
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This is exactly why any CD I burn I make an iso of. I keep my music CD's as well as my install CD's in.iso format so that I don't have to deal with this kind of crap.
If you're complaining about XP Home vs Pro, then why the hell are you wasting your time learning Redhat9?! It's a little outdated, in case you haven't noticed.
klubar wrote: There is no reason why a company that hires a competent sys admin (or multiple sys admins) cant configure and administer Windows XP so they are nearly virus-free, spyware-free and spam-free.
Your use of the word "nearly" right there is exactly why people are pushing Linux, *BSD, & OS-X so strongly right now. I could say the same thing about my *BSD & OS-X machines, only without the "nearly."
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Funny, I was thinking the same exact thing.
Only 20 million strokes?!
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...only 20 million keystrokes? That's going to really suck when all my HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH and LOLLOLOLLOLLO!!!11!!!! wear out!...I mean, after all, I am, "an elite programmer."
If NIF achieves fusion ignition, it will for the first time in a laboratory simulate the pressures and heat of a nuclear explosion, allowing nuclear weapons scientists to study the performance and readiness of the country's aging nuclear arsenal without actually detonating a nuclear device.
Sounds good to me.
"If Congress knew it would cost $5 billion up front, would they ever have funded it? No way," maintains Christopher Paine, who has monitored NIF's development for the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environment advocacy group, and has been one of its sharpest critics. ...and his opinion matters why? Sounds like he's got a giant basis for bias. He continues...
Paine, who in a critique once dubbed NIF "The Unlovable Laser," maintains that NIF should follow the same path. He says it isn't needed and poses a nuclear proliferation risk because it might make it easier in decades ahead to develop new nuclear weapons, not just maintain existing ones.
Since, every American knows the only use of anything nuclear is to kill people. So now, we take a "reliable" newsource like CNN.com - and not only shred any chance of getting "unbiased" information and toss it in the can.
Also, to contrast that idiots opinion, we get: The JASONs, a group of scientists frequently called upon to review complex defense or national security issues,
that sounds a LITTLE more relevant, no? has concluded that NIF "does not represent a significant proliferation risk" and is "fully compatible" with U.S.
I guess this is why I can't appreciate the news for telling me anything new now adays. Someone go develop a computer to report things without bias, then I'll be interested in reading the news.
I expected more, but of course...
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As someone who replied to the original article (see bottom of original link) mentioned, it would've been interesting to have seen a true comprehensive analysis of OpenBSD, rather than a lot of "I think" and "I liked".
I would have appreciated the article more if it were a lot more in-depth, but perhaps that would've ward off others. I would like to see him not just talk about the install process (initially), but also how easy it was to install applications (and not just "I had to type too much"), configure them (interface-configuration, or purely text-editing), and finally - how well they all interacted. Now, I know that sounds more like an analysis of the individual applications rather than the operating system, but what is an operating system if not a platform that you use to interact with applications?
We also hear about the "new wireless" stuff... where was that? Test with multiple cards? USB-Wireless perhaps? PCMCIA Wireless? To tout such things (even in the review) and then not do anything with them is rather disappointing.
Join a cross-country team... or work out a lot - and you'll quickly realize why that is.
I either leave my house keys locked in my bike-bag that is locked to my bike (which is locked to a pole or the like), or leave them in the car. Cellphone - I'm working out, not taking calls. Wallet - what for? What am I buying at the gym?
Then again, all of this has absolutely nothing to do with the subject article.
I work for (and attend) a State University. Our gym (in 2002) enacted similar policies and equipment.
It was *optional* however, and was enacted for people who didn't want to have to carry around a membership-card or student/employee-ID just to be able to get into the gym (since most gym shorts don't have a pockets, and many people on campus just walk to/from the gym rather than driving or bringing a full bag and using a locker).
It was an option for about one year, until they realized that the extreme costs of using the hardware and managing it (and its slight errors) far outweighed pleasing a minority of people who attended.
It's good to see the technology developing, but I still prefer losing my identity to a bunch of little numbers on a card.
If I had MOD points, you would get all of them right now.
It seems every day I respond at least once with "This is the stupidest/. post I've ever seen" only to have some fool try to one-up the absolute idiocy surrounding some of this side.
Because Firefox is free, and was replacing another free program.
Openoffice is free, but would be "replacing" a program that all these people have already shelled out money for.
If it REALLY mattered a lot, I'm sure I could hunt down the teacher again (if he's still alive). My father was in his class at the time, and somewhere there are photographs of them receiving their "Certificates of Merit" or some other BS piece of paper that said "you did something good" as a nice way of saying "thanks for saving our asses."
If you're REALLY interested in it, you can look and find things - pending what you google on. Also, notice how I said these are "unsung heroes." If there was tons of information on the situation, then they would've been "sung," now wouldn't they?
Come live here in Central FLA... 2 miles from KSC and talk to the old Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed, and KSC workers, and I'm sure you'll hear a lot more about these "spaces saves" that you aren't going to find published anywhere.
I have the decency to - when hearing the same stories from multiple elders of mine who have never met each other - believe it.
Ahem, what about the Central Floridian Middle-School Teacher who took out his astronomy class to chart stars, and found out that if NASA had "fired the thrusters" at the time they had planned to - because they had charted the moon's alignment improperly - would've completely missed the mood and sent these guys spinning out into the middle of no where?
I mean, I figured when the movie came out that no one was going to mention that little "goof up" that NASA had - you know, it's not all good having your measurements and projections corrected by some teacher and his students from a junior high school while they're out stargazing with whatever telescopes their money could buy them - but I would love to see this at least mentioned somewhere.
They each got a certificate and I think even perhaps a hand-shake.
Ah, the little forgotten unsung heros of history.
P.S. Yes, I do rant about this everytime anything with Apollo 13 comes up in conversation.
I considered that a feature. It's not that hard to look at the icon and see what engine you're using at the time. I find myself liking that it doesn't reset, as I'll find myself doing a paper and needing Wikipedia a lot, or NIV a lot, or... well, you get the idea. I think it would be hasslesome to do one search on Dictionary.com and have it magically revert back to Google.com, but I guess that's why those crazy software designers have come up with wonderful things like preferences. Maybe this one will make it into the next version.
Schools need SSNs because they file paperwork for you with the government regarding the amount of "school expense" you've paid, along with tuition and the likes. They file almost as much tax paperwork with the government for every student as a bank would for a common customer (savings+checking+one or two investment accounts). It sure would make it fun for the government to get a bunch of files for "Bobby B. Brown" rather than "077-10-1199" now, wouldn't it?
That said, the fact that anyone would store SSNs on something such as a laptop just shows that they need to get smacked around a little bit.
...I also like how you say that in Minnesota you need your SSN for hunting and fishing licenses, but you argue that no one outside the government should need it. Well, do you think the money and information associated with your hunting and fishing licenses is just going to some random private organization?
Heh, funny... because I gave all these examples of having a cut finger and such, and right now I actually am nursing some asthma and haven't had a voice since Wednesday:). It's good to see %'s attached to those, and those are still pretty impressive. I figured the facial couldn't be too extremely secure, just because of how much I look like my sisters, etc...
Even still, a 20% rate doesn't seem that bad. Definitely not good for use alone, but couple something that positives 20% of the time with something that does 5% of the time with something else, and I can see how you'd have a pretty darn secure network/establishment/whatever else.
I was trying to think of where these have actually shown up, and come to think of it, living in Florida, my SeaWorld annual pass verifies me off of a hand-print scan. I think each time I go I have to re-place my hand on the reader about 3-5 times before it believes it's me. I guess that is pretty nice though, because it's picky enough to make me move my hand, rather than just reading something close and being accepting.
Good stuff to know, I keep watching the finger-print keyboard prices come down, but the software associated with it is still pretty insane.
Law Enforcement can gain access to safety deposit boxes, so your plan is slightly flawed there.
True, but pending your coding, it would take them quite a while to know to look on the key in the first place, much less knowing where you personally store it.
...that is unless you post it on a publically viewable webpage.
Seriously, just true curiosity, but what would you say the 3rd thing is?
I assume (perhaps improperly, and in no certain order):
1) Price
2) Misinformation
3) Development?
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Was using the direct link from the article/posting. (In my three years of using Mozilla and Safari I have never once had a site tell me I couldn't use it because it's "IE only" - in fact, I've never had that happen with Konqueror, Epiphany, Nautilus (when it browsed), nor Dillo-Hacked).
This is exactly why any CD I burn I make an iso of. I keep my music CD's as well as my install CD's in .iso format so that I don't have to deal with this kind of crap.
I'm not using any weird configuration, umm... my freebsd is 5.3 and I'm running ubuntu for the linux - works fine from both with base installs.
Hell no.
Funny, it works for me under FreeBSD and Linux using Firefox, Epiphany, standard Mozilla, and Konqueror.
If you're complaining about XP Home vs Pro, then why the hell are you wasting your time learning Redhat9?! It's a little outdated, in case you haven't noticed.
klubar wrote:
There is no reason why a company that hires a competent sys admin (or multiple sys admins) cant configure and administer Windows XP so they are nearly virus-free, spyware-free and spam-free.
Your use of the word "nearly" right there is exactly why people are pushing Linux, *BSD, & OS-X so strongly right now. I could say the same thing about my *BSD & OS-X machines, only without the "nearly."
Funny, I was thinking the same exact thing.
...only 20 million keystrokes? That's going to really suck when all my HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH and LOLLOLOLLOLLO!!!11!!!! wear out! ...I mean, after all, I am, "an elite programmer."
If NIF achieves fusion ignition, it will for the first time in a laboratory simulate the pressures and heat of a nuclear explosion, allowing nuclear weapons scientists to study the performance and readiness of the country's aging nuclear arsenal without actually detonating a nuclear device.
...and his opinion matters why? Sounds like he's got a giant basis for bias. He continues...
Sounds good to me.
"If Congress knew it would cost $5 billion up front, would they ever have funded it? No way," maintains Christopher Paine, who has monitored NIF's development for the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environment advocacy group, and has been one of its sharpest critics.
Paine, who in a critique once dubbed NIF "The Unlovable Laser," maintains that NIF should follow the same path. He says it isn't needed and poses a nuclear proliferation risk because it might make it easier in decades ahead to develop new nuclear weapons, not just maintain existing ones.
Since, every American knows the only use of anything nuclear is to kill people. So now, we take a "reliable" newsource like CNN.com - and not only shred any chance of getting "unbiased" information and toss it in the can.
Also, to contrast that idiots opinion, we get:
The JASONs, a group of scientists frequently called upon to review complex defense or national security issues,
that sounds a LITTLE more relevant, no?
has concluded that NIF "does not represent a significant proliferation risk" and is "fully compatible" with U.S.
I guess this is why I can't appreciate the news for telling me anything new now adays. Someone go develop a computer to report things without bias, then I'll be interested in reading the news.
As someone who replied to the original article (see bottom of original link) mentioned, it would've been interesting to have seen a true comprehensive analysis of OpenBSD, rather than a lot of "I think" and "I liked".
I would have appreciated the article more if it were a lot more in-depth, but perhaps that would've ward off others. I would like to see him not just talk about the install process (initially), but also how easy it was to install applications (and not just "I had to type too much"), configure them (interface-configuration, or purely text-editing), and finally - how well they all interacted. Now, I know that sounds more like an analysis of the individual applications rather than the operating system, but what is an operating system if not a platform that you use to interact with applications?
We also hear about the "new wireless" stuff... where was that? Test with multiple cards? USB-Wireless perhaps? PCMCIA Wireless? To tout such things (even in the review) and then not do anything with them is rather disappointing.
As said, combination lock. ...are you that much of a troll, or just stupid?
Join a cross-country team... or work out a lot - and you'll quickly realize why that is.
I either leave my house keys locked in my bike-bag that is locked to my bike (which is locked to a pole or the like), or leave them in the car. Cellphone - I'm working out, not taking calls. Wallet - what for? What am I buying at the gym?
Then again, all of this has absolutely nothing to do with the subject article.
There are cars without touch pads to enter the door now?
...that, and you're going to a gym - ride your bike there!
I work for (and attend) a State University. Our gym (in 2002) enacted similar policies and equipment. It was *optional* however, and was enacted for people who didn't want to have to carry around a membership-card or student/employee-ID just to be able to get into the gym (since most gym shorts don't have a pockets, and many people on campus just walk to/from the gym rather than driving or bringing a full bag and using a locker). It was an option for about one year, until they realized that the extreme costs of using the hardware and managing it (and its slight errors) far outweighed pleasing a minority of people who attended. It's good to see the technology developing, but I still prefer losing my identity to a bunch of little numbers on a card.
If I had MOD points, you would get all of them right now.
/. post I've ever seen" only to have some fool try to one-up the absolute idiocy surrounding some of this side.
It seems every day I respond at least once with "This is the stupidest
Because Firefox is free, and was replacing another free program. Openoffice is free, but would be "replacing" a program that all these people have already shelled out money for.
If it REALLY mattered a lot, I'm sure I could hunt down the teacher again (if he's still alive). My father was in his class at the time, and somewhere there are photographs of them receiving their "Certificates of Merit" or some other BS piece of paper that said "you did something good" as a nice way of saying "thanks for saving our asses."
If you're REALLY interested in it, you can look and find things - pending what you google on. Also, notice how I said these are "unsung heroes." If there was tons of information on the situation, then they would've been "sung," now wouldn't they?
Come live here in Central FLA... 2 miles from KSC and talk to the old Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed, and KSC workers, and I'm sure you'll hear a lot more about these "spaces saves" that you aren't going to find published anywhere.
I have the decency to - when hearing the same stories from multiple elders of mine who have never met each other - believe it.
Ahem, what about the Central Floridian Middle-School Teacher who took out his astronomy class to chart stars, and found out that if NASA had "fired the thrusters" at the time they had planned to - because they had charted the moon's alignment improperly - would've completely missed the mood and sent these guys spinning out into the middle of no where?
I mean, I figured when the movie came out that no one was going to mention that little "goof up" that NASA had - you know, it's not all good having your measurements and projections corrected by some teacher and his students from a junior high school while they're out stargazing with whatever telescopes their money could buy them - but I would love to see this at least mentioned somewhere.
They each got a certificate and I think even perhaps a hand-shake.
Ah, the little forgotten unsung heros of history.
P.S. Yes, I do rant about this everytime anything with Apollo 13 comes up in conversation.
I do believe this is the stupidest story I've ever seen posted here.
it doesn't reset itself after each search.
... well, you get the idea. I think it would be hasslesome to do one search on Dictionary.com and have it magically revert back to Google.com, but I guess that's why those crazy software designers have come up with wonderful things like preferences. Maybe this one will make it into the next version.
I considered that a feature. It's not that hard to look at the icon and see what engine you're using at the time. I find myself liking that it doesn't reset, as I'll find myself doing a paper and needing Wikipedia a lot, or NIV a lot, or
Schools need SSNs because they file paperwork for you with the government regarding the amount of "school expense" you've paid, along with tuition and the likes. They file almost as much tax paperwork with the government for every student as a bank would for a common customer (savings+checking+one or two investment accounts). It sure would make it fun for the government to get a bunch of files for "Bobby B. Brown" rather than "077-10-1199" now, wouldn't it?
...I also like how you say that in Minnesota you need your SSN for hunting and fishing licenses, but you argue that no one outside the government should need it. Well, do you think the money and information associated with your hunting and fishing licenses is just going to some random private organization?
That said, the fact that anyone would store SSNs on something such as a laptop just shows that they need to get smacked around a little bit.
Heh, funny... because I gave all these examples of having a cut finger and such, and right now I actually am nursing some asthma and haven't had a voice since Wednesday :). It's good to see %'s attached to those, and those are still pretty impressive. I figured the facial couldn't be too extremely secure, just because of how much I look like my sisters, etc...
Even still, a 20% rate doesn't seem that bad. Definitely not good for use alone, but couple something that positives 20% of the time with something that does 5% of the time with something else, and I can see how you'd have a pretty darn secure network/establishment/whatever else.
I was trying to think of where these have actually shown up, and come to think of it, living in Florida, my SeaWorld annual pass verifies me off of a hand-print scan. I think each time I go I have to re-place my hand on the reader about 3-5 times before it believes it's me. I guess that is pretty nice though, because it's picky enough to make me move my hand, rather than just reading something close and being accepting.
Good stuff to know, I keep watching the finger-print keyboard prices come down, but the software associated with it is still pretty insane.
Law Enforcement can gain access to safety deposit boxes, so your plan is slightly flawed there.
True, but pending your coding, it would take them quite a while to know to look on the key in the first place, much less knowing where you personally store it.
...that is unless you post it on a publically viewable webpage.
Seriously, just true curiosity, but what would you say the 3rd thing is? I assume (perhaps improperly, and in no certain order): 1) Price 2) Misinformation 3) Development?