I wonder if they know that there are over 80,000 applications on the iPhone platform alone?
Feh. Politicians typically lose track of numbers once they get past however many fingers and/or toes they happen to have. I pity the poor staffers that are going to have to do the actual work...
When I visited Oz (ca. 1976), it seemed like a pretty decent country. Too bad the government there has opted to go the way of England.
That's just one of the reasons that I quit using Ubuntu -- for reasons known only to themselves, they just have to piss in perfectly good 3rd-party packages so they can brand them "Ubuntu".
Trying to install Open Office 3 when Ubuntu was still stuck at OOo2 finally revealed to me just how bad Ubuntu is about scattering crap all to hell-and-gone; it reminded entirely too much of how Microsoft operates.
The last time I was in Atlantic City (around 1980), they were using multiple decks and had a "shuffle now" card. When it was "dealt" to a customer, the current hand finished, the multi-deck shoe was shuffled, and the customer fit the "shuffle now" card randomly into the shoe.
If I recall correctly, the shoe looked like it held 6 or 8 decks (LOTS of cards!).
Personally, I gave up on casinos when I realized that they couldn't afford all that glitz and glamor unless they were winning a whole lot more than they were losing.
The difference is that in the last 50+ years, the U.S. has used it's nuclear arsenal exactly twice, and those during a time of war.
Iran, on the other hand, has repeatedly declared it's desire for the total annihilation of the the nation of Israel (among others).
Nor is the U.S. led and controlled by a radically conservative theocracy with a demonstrated intent to export insurrection with the stated goal of complete domination. Absent IAEA verification of the peaceful nature of their nuclear program, Iran has no justification to be pointing fingers. Iran with nuclear power is scary. Iran with nuclear weapons doesn't bear thinking about.
I suspect this is just another case of RoHS coming back to bite the electronics industry on the butt. I've used a number of the various lead-free solders, and it's bloody difficult to get a decent solder connection with them -- and even if you do, they still seem to get brittle/cold after some period of time. Too, there's the likelihood that the Chinese manufacturers cut a few corners to increase their profit margins, exacerbating the problem.
True, except for one tiny little detail: all the crap the infected/zombie machines spew out wastes bandwidth on the net and slows things down for the rest of us -- as well as trying to infect other machines. Not to mention the spam, DDoS-ing, and other jackassery going on.
He bought it from them and they have the serial number of the device they sent him. Why should it be a big deal for them to brick it on HIS request? If there's an issue with whoever wants to use it, it's between the other user and him, not him and Amazon.
Then again, I can understand how they wouldn't want to get into something where they don't know the gory details (i.e. he sold it and wants to ransom it for more money).
Seems like there might be a niche market here for a service to track (possibly using add-in 'root' software) high-end devices that are stolen.
Me, I don't have enough money that I can afford to forget and leave a $300 device laying around on an airplane...:-P
Sadly, we're getting a lot of transplanted Californians. They move here because they hate what California is turning into... then promptly start the same crap HERE.
Yup, there is a certain sense of deja vu, isn't there?:-)
Don't get me wrong - if KDE4 hadn't broken so severely and radically from 3.5, they'd likely have had a winner. The eye candy and all that IS nice; just not worth the missing/broken/works-inside-out functionality, IMHO. Me, I think they probably should have made the KDE4 golly-wog stuff as options IN ADDITION TO the functionality of 3.5 - i.e. new lib(s) that 4-specific apps could call, while maintaining compatibility with older 3.5 favorites.
But hey, what do I know -- I'm just an end-user:-)
Better still, I'd think the admins could tie the comment to a user/IP and just permanently ban said troll. I'm pretty sure I saw the same garbage yesterday morning, too.
I, for one, do. Just this morning, I wrote my first-ever/. Journal entry on my experience of installing and running several Linux distros -- and what I see as some of the problems slowing adoption of Linux.
Great. Just what we need: more clueless induhviduals clogging up the various educational systems.
Instead of making a college education available to anyone (what is the REAL value of a Bachelors degree these days? Or do you have to have a Masters to stand out?), how about we restrict it to those with a demonstrated skill/passion for their subject of choice?
Think about it: what does a good mechanic, plumber, electrician, or other tradesman charge, versus the salary of a Liberal Arts grad?
Check to see if there's a tech-type nonprofit in your area - a 'Computers for Kids', PC recyclers for older folks getting into college for the first time, that sort of thing.
You'll get a credit for your income taxes, and you'll be helping other people.
The 'missing' connection isn't that he was a spammer, but that he spammed illegally -- that is, he demonstrated a criminal/narcissistic mindset. It was that flawed character and thought process that induced him to include his wife and child.
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Feh. Politicians typically lose track of numbers once they get past however many fingers and/or toes they happen to have. I pity the poor staffers that are going to have to do the actual work...
When I visited Oz (ca. 1976), it seemed like a pretty decent country. Too bad the government there has opted to go the way of England.
A big-ass binary hairball to further clog the tubes.
How much additional traffic is this going to add to all the other interactive high-bandwidth stuff transiting the infrastructure?
That's just one of the reasons that I quit using Ubuntu -- for reasons known only to themselves, they just have to piss in perfectly good 3rd-party packages so they can brand them "Ubuntu".
Trying to install Open Office 3 when Ubuntu was still stuck at OOo2 finally revealed to me just how bad Ubuntu is about scattering crap all to hell-and-gone; it reminded entirely too much of how Microsoft operates.
The last time I was in Atlantic City (around 1980), they were using multiple decks and had a "shuffle now" card. When it was "dealt" to a customer, the current hand finished, the multi-deck shoe was shuffled, and the customer fit the "shuffle now" card randomly into the shoe.
If I recall correctly, the shoe looked like it held 6 or 8 decks (LOTS of cards!).
Personally, I gave up on casinos when I realized that they couldn't afford all that glitz and glamor unless they were winning a whole lot more than they were losing.
Beowulf cluster of....
Oh, wait...
Never mind.
I, for one, salute our new nano-particle overlords...
The difference is that in the last 50+ years, the U.S. has used it's nuclear arsenal exactly twice, and those during a time of war.
Iran, on the other hand, has repeatedly declared it's desire for the total annihilation of the the nation of Israel (among others).
Nor is the U.S. led and controlled by a radically conservative theocracy with a demonstrated intent to export insurrection with the stated goal of complete domination. Absent IAEA verification of the peaceful nature of their nuclear program, Iran has no justification to be pointing fingers. Iran with nuclear power is scary. Iran with nuclear weapons doesn't bear thinking about.
when they taxed tobacco, because I didn't smoke. I didn't complain when they taxed alcohol, because I didn't drink...."
I suspect this is just another case of RoHS coming back to bite the electronics industry on the butt. I've used a number of the various lead-free solders, and it's bloody difficult to get a decent solder connection with them -- and even if you do, they still seem to get brittle/cold after some period of time. Too, there's the likelihood that the Chinese manufacturers cut a few corners to increase their profit margins, exacerbating the problem.
It might be by the ten thousand emails a day, for starters...
True, except for one tiny little detail: all the crap the infected/zombie machines spew out wastes bandwidth on the net and slows things down for the rest of us -- as well as trying to infect other machines. Not to mention the spam, DDoS-ing, and other jackassery going on.
He bought it from them and they have the serial number of the device they sent him. Why should it be a big deal for them to brick it on HIS request? If there's an issue with whoever wants to use it, it's between the other user and him, not him and Amazon.
Then again, I can understand how they wouldn't want to get into something where they don't know the gory details (i.e. he sold it and wants to ransom it for more money).
Seems like there might be a niche market here for a service to track (possibly using add-in 'root' software) high-end devices that are stolen.
Me, I don't have enough money that I can afford to forget and leave a $300 device laying around on an airplane... :-P
Considering the Pranknet story, I'm going to have to say that dogs are smarter than a lot of TWENTY-two-year-olds.
Sadly, we're getting a lot of transplanted Californians. They move here because they hate what California is turning into... then promptly start the same crap HERE.
Nice, and interesting, too. Too bad that all the kefluffle is about the city of BOZEMAN.
That's the city of Bozeman, in the state of Montana.
Yup, there is a certain sense of deja vu, isn't there? :-)
Don't get me wrong - if KDE4 hadn't broken so severely and radically from 3.5, they'd likely have had a winner. The eye candy and all that IS nice; just not worth the missing/broken/works-inside-out functionality, IMHO. Me, I think they probably should have made the KDE4 golly-wog stuff as options IN ADDITION TO the functionality of 3.5 - i.e. new lib(s) that 4-specific apps could call, while maintaining compatibility with older 3.5 favorites.
But hey, what do I know -- I'm just an end-user :-)
It won't matter by the time the rest of the assorted bigger "gotcha!"s, bugs, whoopsies, errors, and general binary buggery get fixed.
Tried KDE4, found it unusable because of massive incompatibilities with 3.5-based apps (and lack of 4.x upgrades).
Tried KDE4.1, found it barely usable, but still lacking enough of the functionality of 3.5 that I switched back.
As far as I'm concerned, KDE4 is a lot of glitz with damn little to back it up. If/when KDE3.x goes away, I'll likely switch to Gnome.
Better still, I'd think the admins could tie the comment to a user/IP and just permanently ban said troll. I'm pretty sure I saw the same garbage yesterday morning, too.
I, for one, do. Just this morning, I wrote my first-ever /. Journal entry on my experience of installing and running several Linux distros -- and what I see as some of the problems slowing adoption of Linux.
So... any plans to address the growing problem of distro incompatibilities?
And when they DO find it, they have every right to completely uproot all the shrubbery on their easement so that they can gain access.
Great. Just what we need: more clueless induhviduals clogging up the various educational systems.
Instead of making a college education available to anyone (what is the REAL value of a Bachelors degree these days? Or do you have to have a Masters to stand out?), how about we restrict it to those with a demonstrated skill/passion for their subject of choice?
Think about it: what does a good mechanic, plumber, electrician, or other tradesman charge, versus the salary of a Liberal Arts grad?
Check to see if there's a tech-type nonprofit in your area - a 'Computers for Kids', PC recyclers for older folks getting into college for the first time, that sort of thing. You'll get a credit for your income taxes, and you'll be helping other people.
The 'missing' connection isn't that he was a spammer, but that he spammed illegally -- that is, he demonstrated a criminal/narcissistic mindset. It was that flawed character and thought process that induced him to include his wife and child.