Real jobs?" Ha!Ha!Ha! "...you're anything but a frequent flier..." Duuude! I don't pay for shit- I have so many miles built up that I don't even think about it when I have to hop on a plane. It's just a matter of how self-centered you want to be. Get your shit together and you won't have this problem.
I've got enough 'frequent flier' miles built up that for the next three years my family and I don't have to worry about where we take our holiday.
How would I be "...promptly removed from the flight" in mid air? I have no problem with a HALO jump, but how is that implemented on commercial flights?
"VI'm sorry, some of us have real jobs..." So, you are the only one that has a 'real job'? Get over yourself, many of us have 'real jobs'! Don't try and complicate the world for your perceived entitlement. You are the one that has to take responsibility for your life/job, not the rest of us. If you are in such a bind on the flying, e-mail me and we might be able to transfer some of my 'frequent flier miles' to you. Otherwise, STFU!.
I will shoot myself in the face before I accept MS's ideology. I'm happy with Kubuntu 8.04, so GO AWAY MS. Check my post history-I gave up on MS's bullshit long ago.
"So I take it you don't fly often." So, you are wrong. I fly often, but as I actually pay attention to my surroundings by nature, I am not caught off guard. There are more than "one" sign, and yes, I see them. All of them, because I make a point of actually looking around me to tell what is going on. Get over yourself and your '5,000 dollars' worth of electronics you feel the need to travel with. I was raised to pay attention to what was happening around me and to make reasonable decisions based on that reality. \ There is no excuse for not having your stuff squared away. I have been doing it for decades with no problem. What I hate the most are those that want to try to 'game' the system. I despise those that want to hold the rest of us up with their 'entitled to bring it with us' mentality.
Good luck trying to 'work/play' with their laptop next to me on a flight.
I separate my work from travel, and will happily disrupt my co-seat mates.
From US President Franklin Roosevelt's First Inaugural Speech:
"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
"Wasn't the whole mantra several years back one of "We musn't change our way of life, or THEY will have won."?" Yeah, I remember hearing that often in all of the press conferences, speeches, etc. right after the attacks.
As a society here, we have lost our balls and our backbone.
Why did you not also quote the VERY NEXT SENTENCE FTA?
Here peabrain, I'll save you the trouble: "Passengers scanned in Baltimore said they did not know what the scanner did and were not told why they were directed into the booth.
Magazine-sized signs are posted around the checkpoint explaining the scanners, but passengers said they did not notice them."
Didn't notice all of the signs around the checkpoint....hmmm just like 6 year olds.
"How does a passenger refuse the scan if they're not told what's going on until after the fact, or given the option of refusing the scan?? They (and YOU) can start by pulling your heads out of your rectums and PAY ATTENTION to what's going on around you.
Yeah, I know your type: 'Me!Me!Me!-Gimme!Gimme!Gimme!'
That's what is wrong now:not scanners in airports per se, but idiots like you who DO need a nanny. You have brought the whole deal on all of us. *sarcasm* Thanks, asshat!
God is a Microsoft code-monkey? Hmmm....no wonder religions are so wacky and bug-ridden. It all makes sense now! Maybe the next service pack will patch that pesky 'fundamentalists try to take over all system resources and processes' bug.
I'll give you the benefit of doubt on this one, but at the same time, look at how the money was spent by the school systems.
Here, we have a jr. high that has roof leaks because one wall of an entire wing was built over a sink-hole: the foundation sinks>the wall tries to fall over to the outside (crack in attached wall goes from 1/2" at floor to 14-22" at roof/decking depending on time of year)>when it rains, water runs in a sheet down the wall>stresses roofing>multiple leaks form at every roof junction. There are three trailers set up as classrooms due to lack of classroom space in the main building-two of them had to be set aside as storage due to severe mold and fungus in the trailers. With the increased funding instead of dealing with those problems, they instead remodeled the gym, adding more bleachers/seating for the basketball games, built a new football stadium and increased seating, new track, remodeled the two year old baseball field, and hired two more coaches. A $200,00.00 USD bus to take the applicable sports team to away games. (no, it is not used for any other club or department-only sports teams) Oh, and all of the administration/staff got brand new computers. Not the teachers, computer labs, library, or students- just admin and admin staff.
This is not a cherry picked example, just the one I was intimately familiar with- I see the same happening all over the state. The sad fact that sports uses the biggest chunk of the education budget, not education or learning.
Security? There is none. Cell phone users don't seem to care who is around (in listening distance to their conversations) so SECURITY is a moot point! I have experienced this while working as a cashier at a local "shit and get" store. Most people are so caught up in their 'own little cellphone world' that they forget about anyone around them. Most people are so jaded about their surroundings while talking on cellphones that IT security does not even enter the picture.
I get so tired of it that I usually toss them out until they finish their conversation. Basically, have the respect and courtesy to deal with me and your purchase, or get the fsck out. I don't want to be subjected to your phone conversation. Deal with it.
Okay, I use Kubuntu 8.05,Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008050509 Firefox/3.0b5 with: Adblock +, and filterset, Noscript, and flashblock in Firefox3. Why can I not view replies to 'messages'? all I get is a blank page. Everything else on/. works...WTF? I have tried enabling/. in 'noscript', and have excepted/. from noscript and ad block, but still cannot read my messages...WTF?!!! It is frustrating because the ONLY thing I cannot do is read my messages! (thus reply in a timely fashion!)
I now have to resort to crawling in on my knees and ask of the/. community's knowledge and wisdom as to WTF???? How can I fix this? I did not have this problem with Kubuntu Fiesty and FireFox ver.2xxx, but definitely have this constantly now.
HELP!!!!Plz! I am NOT in ur computer wanting cheezburgersand LOL!
"Are you certain your random number generator was of sufficient quality and well seeded?" I know that MS tried to deal with this in Vista, but seeing as how most businesses are avoiding Vista, what about Psuedo Random Number Generator? Has this any effect on the issue? (it would seem it does on the surface due to the 'Joe Sixpack' effect. Am I missing something here?
All of the '133t' schemes seem to bypass Joe- so what good is it in the long run?
"Possession of lock picking equipment is intent." Very good point. the whole 'possession with intent' argument used by our Gov't. and law enforcement/court system is just pure FUD. Currently THEY get to define 'intent' just based on possession, and that is the problem. Common sense would dictate that 'intent' should be a seperate issue from possession, but by 'bundling' intent with possession,all bets are off. It seems to be 'the WAR on mentality has automagically equated possession with 'intent', despite the facts actually present.
The 'facts' don't matter as long as you fit (even loosely) the 'profile'.
ARRGHHH! This 'New World Order' mentality really chaps my ass.
How is Boston Harbor setup for a 21'st century Tea Party these days? I think we need to explore this question here in the USA. Just thinking...
P.S. I know I am ranting in an offtopic direction, but when I enlisted in the US Army, I took an oath to defend our Constitution from enemies both foreign and DOMESTIC. WTF?!?!?! I am really confused by what my proper course of action should be anymore. My instincts reload '1776-The Revolution' into RAM, but I doubt it would work now days with the apathy and 'consumerism' that is rampant here. I AM A CITIZEN (Egads- I hate this Newspeak Spelling, but nevermind), not a CONSUMER! I am a consumer when I go to a restaurant or pub- maybe when I go to a grocery store- otherwise I am a citizen, not a 'consumer'.
Is it too off-topic to say: I miss the social attitudes of my youth? (for reference, I was born in 1958- grad'ed HS in 1976- yes, I am older than dirt for most of you, and proud of it- I have seen a lot of really cool shit happening, but also a lot of not-cool shit too)
I have been confused about this also. I DO hang out at places other than/., but until all of the '/. twitter' troll posts, I had never even heard of the twitter weblog. I assumed they were connected somehow and totally dismissed the twitter weblog.
Now that I have seen the twitter weblog, I'm still tempted mentally to associate the two, and want to spam it with goatse.cx links to somehow balance the shite. (just kidding-sort of)
I could not get an answer from the twitter weblog about how many sock puppet accounts you could register though, so I guess I will pass on the whole thing, and attempt to just filter 'anything twitter' from my web experience, as any more in my mind twitter==mindless rant.
And before some twitter (weblog) fanboy tries to bust my chops, yes I know I could be 'missing out on something' with that attitude, well that also goes for a million and one other websites that I currently don't know about. Save it!
Yes, took me about 30 seconds to realize she was holding one! Most distracting! Hmmmm.... I think I need distracted again. *reloads link*
P.S. For those interested in the OCZ thingy, it's due out at the 'end of this year' and is expected to 'retail for around $300 USD' It took effort to RTFA instead of staring slack-jawed at the 'boothbabe', but the info was there.
*shrug* They (managers) are impossible to housebreak, untrainable, always trying to hump your leg, cause ulcers, and are a bloody nuisance to boot. Everyone (but the managers) already knows this.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/09/28enterwin_1.html "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, otherwise known as Dancing with Big Brother, tells the world to stop using the Web browser you fought long and hard to tie into your operating system. That's what happened to beleaguered Microsoft when the department's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) recently recommended users switch to alternate browser platforms to avoid the security holes in IE caused largely by ActiveX.
And Microsoft isn't objecting. Microsoft's own Slate even posted an article advocating Firefox, a Mozilla offshoot, in favor of IE until Microsoft gets its security act together. "
Those three (all related to the same incident to be fair-not three separate ones) are just off the top of my head, and the results of about 45 seconds on Google.
"The proposed bill makes exception for ISPs to manage traffic in reasonable cases..." Who gets to decide 'reasonable cases'? BT traffic? any encrypted traffic?, whatever ISP's decide traffic they don't like?
Hopefully there are important details we are missing out on- if not, then you Canadians are fscked over again. (no, there is no moral superiority involved here, we in the USA are fscked up even worse!)
"...I see the issue in that we are all criminals..."
Fsck you and the white mule you rode in on.
The last time I participated in copyright infringement was recording a Bill Cosby LP to cassette in 1968. That was probably even 'Fair Use' as the cassette I recorded from my friend's LP, I actually owned. It just made it convenient for us both having a recording we could listen to away from our phonographs, as the cassette player worked for about 3 hours from battery power wherever we went.
Yes, I'll admit to OMG!!Pirates!!! forty years ago for an album my friend and I actually possessed (yes:each of us had the LP, and only one cassette recording between us both!)
I think I see where you are coming from, but I'm not sure enough to jump on your bandwagon. Your 'blanket' statements alienate most of us.
Oh yeah, did I say "fsck you and the white mule you rode in on?"
Slashdot Mirror
Nah, she swallowed.
Real jobs?"
Ha!Ha!Ha!
"...you're anything but a frequent flier..."
Duuude! I don't pay for shit- I have so many miles built up that I don't even think about it when I have to hop on a plane.
It's just a matter of how self-centered you want to be.
Get your shit together and you won't have this problem.
I've got enough 'frequent flier' miles built up that for the next three years my family and I don't have to worry about where we take our holiday.
How would I be "...promptly removed from the flight" in mid air? I have no problem with a HALO jump, but how is that implemented on commercial flights?
"VI'm sorry, some of us have real jobs..."
So, you are the only one that has a 'real job'?
Get over yourself, many of us have 'real jobs'!
Don't try and complicate the world for your perceived entitlement. You are the one that has to take responsibility for your life/job, not the rest of us.
If you are in such a bind on the flying, e-mail me and we might be able to transfer some of my 'frequent flier miles' to you.
Otherwise, STFU!.
This should not be an issue...Kill it before it breeds!
Anything else is just excuses
Quit enabling this shit, otherwise it is your own fault.
I will shoot myself in the face before I accept MS's ideology.
I'm happy with Kubuntu 8.04, so GO AWAY MS.
Check my post history-I gave up on MS's bullshit long ago.
"So I take it you don't fly often."
So, you are wrong. I fly often, but as I actually pay attention to my surroundings by nature, I am not caught off guard.
There are more than "one" sign, and yes, I see them. All of them, because I make a point of actually looking around me to tell what is going on.
Get over yourself and your '5,000 dollars' worth of electronics you feel the need to travel with.
I was raised to pay attention to what was happening around me and to make reasonable decisions based on that reality.
\
There is no excuse for not having your stuff squared away. I have been doing it for decades with no problem.
What I hate the most are those that want to try to 'game' the system. I despise those that want to hold the rest of us up with their 'entitled to bring it with us' mentality.
Good luck trying to 'work/play' with their laptop next to me on a flight.
I separate my work from travel, and will happily disrupt my co-seat mates.
Trans fats?
Meh, a chocolate mousse once bit my sister!
From US President Franklin Roosevelt's First Inaugural Speech:
"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
"Wasn't the whole mantra several years back one of "We musn't change our way of life, or THEY will have won."?"
Yeah, I remember hearing that often in all of the press conferences, speeches, etc. right after the attacks.
As a society here, we have lost our balls and our backbone.
Why did you not also quote the VERY NEXT SENTENCE FTA?
Here peabrain, I'll save you the trouble:
"Passengers scanned in Baltimore said they did not know what the scanner did and were not told why they were directed into the booth.
Magazine-sized signs are posted around the checkpoint explaining the scanners, but passengers said they did not notice them."
Didn't notice all of the signs around the checkpoint....hmmm just like 6 year olds.
"How does a passenger refuse the scan if they're not told what's going on until after the fact, or given the option of refusing the scan??
They (and YOU) can start by pulling your heads out of your rectums and PAY ATTENTION to what's going on around you.
Yeah, I know your type:
'Me!Me!Me!-Gimme!Gimme!Gimme!'
That's what is wrong now:not scanners in airports per se, but idiots like you who DO need a nanny. You have brought the whole deal on all of us.
*sarcasm* Thanks, asshat!
These are server chips, so IBM is trying to engineer a partial solution to the Slashdot Effect, bane of servers worldwide.
Besides, this is not IBM's first rodeo. I imagine that they might have put just a little bit of thought into this.
God is a Microsoft code-monkey?
Hmmm....no wonder religions are so wacky and bug-ridden. It all makes sense now!
Maybe the next service pack will patch that pesky 'fundamentalists try to take over all system resources and processes' bug.
You might want to throw 'watching concrete harden' in the mix for the impatient/short attention span 'twitch' gamers.
I'll give you the benefit of doubt on this one, but at the same time, look at how the money was spent by the school systems.
Here, we have a jr. high that has roof leaks because one wall of an entire wing was built over a sink-hole:
the foundation sinks>the wall tries to fall over to the outside (crack in attached wall goes from 1/2" at floor to 14-22" at roof/decking depending on time of year)>when it rains, water runs in a sheet down the wall>stresses roofing>multiple leaks form at every roof junction.
There are three trailers set up as classrooms due to lack of classroom space in the main building-two of them had to be set aside as storage due to severe mold and fungus in the trailers.
With the increased funding instead of dealing with those problems, they instead remodeled the gym, adding more bleachers/seating for the basketball games, built a new football stadium and increased seating, new track, remodeled the two year old baseball field, and hired two more coaches. A $200,00.00 USD bus to take the applicable sports team to away games. (no, it is not used for any other club or department-only sports teams) Oh, and all of the administration/staff got brand new computers. Not the teachers, computer labs, library, or students- just admin and admin staff.
This is not a cherry picked example, just the one I was intimately familiar with- I see the same happening all over the state. The sad fact that sports uses the biggest chunk of the education budget, not education or learning.
Security?
There is none.
Cell phone users don't seem to care who is around (in listening distance to their conversations) so SECURITY is a moot point!
I have experienced this while working as a cashier at a local "shit and get" store. Most people are so caught up in their 'own little cellphone world' that they forget about anyone around them.
Most people are so jaded about their surroundings while talking on cellphones that IT security does not even enter the picture.
I get so tired of it that I usually toss them out until they finish their conversation.
Basically, have the respect and courtesy to deal with me and your purchase, or get the fsck out. I don't want to be subjected to your phone conversation. Deal with it.
Okay, I use Kubuntu 8.05,Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008050509 Firefox/3.0b5 with: /. works...WTF? /. in 'noscript', and have excepted /. from noscript and ad block, but still cannot read my messages...WTF?!!!
/. community's knowledge and wisdom as to WTF????
Adblock +, and filterset, Noscript, and flashblock in Firefox3.
Why can I not view replies to 'messages'? all I get is a blank page. Everything else on
I have tried enabling
It is frustrating because the ONLY thing I cannot do is read my messages! (thus reply in a timely fashion!)
I now have to resort to crawling in on my knees and ask of the
How can I fix this?
I did not have this problem with Kubuntu Fiesty and FireFox ver.2xxx, but definitely have this constantly now.
HELP!!!!Plz! I am NOT in ur computer wanting cheezburgersand LOL!
"So, what's MSFT's point again?"
Swallow you whole into MS's Monoculture.
When will it be ported to DDR?
Get on with your lives, nothing to see here!
"Are you certain your random number generator was of sufficient quality and well seeded?"
I know that MS tried to deal with this in Vista, but seeing as how most businesses are avoiding Vista, what about Psuedo Random Number Generator?
Has this any effect on the issue? (it would seem it does on the surface due to the 'Joe Sixpack' effect. Am I missing something here?
All of the '133t' schemes seem to bypass Joe- so what good is it in the long run?
Just asking, as it is a concern.
I would start here:System encryption , and System encryption
"Possession of lock picking equipment is intent."
Very good point. the whole 'possession with intent' argument used by our Gov't. and law enforcement/court system is just pure FUD. Currently THEY get to define 'intent' just based on possession, and that is the problem.
Common sense would dictate that 'intent' should be a seperate issue from possession, but by 'bundling' intent with possession,all bets are off.
It seems to be 'the WAR on mentality has automagically equated possession with 'intent', despite the facts actually present.
The 'facts' don't matter as long as you fit (even loosely) the 'profile'.
ARRGHHH! This 'New World Order' mentality really chaps my ass.
How is Boston Harbor setup for a 21'st century Tea Party these days? I think we need to explore this question here in the USA. Just thinking...
P.S. I know I am ranting in an offtopic direction, but when I enlisted in the US Army, I took an oath to defend our Constitution from enemies both foreign and DOMESTIC. WTF?!?!?!
I am really confused by what my proper course of action should be anymore. My instincts reload '1776-The Revolution' into RAM, but I doubt it would work now days with the apathy and 'consumerism' that is rampant here. I AM A CITIZEN (Egads- I hate this Newspeak Spelling, but nevermind), not a CONSUMER! I am a consumer when I go to a restaurant or pub- maybe when I go to a grocery store- otherwise I am a citizen, not a 'consumer'.
Is it too off-topic to say: I miss the social attitudes of my youth? (for reference, I was born in 1958- grad'ed HS in 1976- yes, I am older than dirt for most of you, and proud of it- I have seen a lot of really cool shit happening, but also a lot of not-cool shit too)
I have been confused about this also. /., but until all of the '/. twitter' troll posts, I had never even heard of the twitter weblog. I assumed they were connected somehow and totally dismissed the twitter weblog.
I DO hang out at places other than
Now that I have seen the twitter weblog, I'm still tempted mentally to associate the two, and want to spam it with goatse.cx links to somehow balance the shite. (just kidding-sort of)
I could not get an answer from the twitter weblog about how many sock puppet accounts you could register though, so I guess I will pass on the whole thing, and attempt to just filter 'anything twitter' from my web experience, as any more in my mind twitter==mindless rant.
And before some twitter (weblog) fanboy tries to bust my chops, yes I know I could be 'missing out on something' with that attitude, well that also goes for a million and one other websites that I currently don't know about. Save it!
Yes, took me about 30 seconds to realize she was holding one!
Most distracting!
Hmmmm.... I think I need distracted again. *reloads link*
P.S. For those interested in the OCZ thingy, it's due out at the 'end of this year' and is expected to 'retail for around $300 USD'
It took effort to RTFA instead of staring slack-jawed at the 'boothbabe', but the info was there.
*shrug* They (managers) are impossible to housebreak, untrainable, always trying to hump your leg, cause ulcers, and are a bloody nuisance to boot. Everyone (but the managers) already knows this.
"...Microsoft has never warned anyone to start using Firefox when a remote execution exploit in IE was discovered!"
/. it was covered:
I wouldn't be so sure about that if I was you. Think back about four years ago, right here on
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/05/1440228
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/09/28enterwin_1.html "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, otherwise known as Dancing with Big Brother, tells the world to stop using the Web browser you fought long and hard to tie into your operating system. That's what happened to beleaguered Microsoft when the department's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) recently recommended users switch to alternate browser platforms to avoid the security holes in IE caused largely by ActiveX.
And Microsoft isn't objecting. Microsoft's own Slate even posted an article advocating Firefox, a Mozilla offshoot, in favor of IE until Microsoft gets its security act together. "
http://www.slate.com/id/2103152/
Those three (all related to the same incident to be fair-not three separate ones) are just off the top of my head, and the results of about 45 seconds on Google.
"The proposed bill makes exception for ISPs to manage traffic in reasonable cases..."
Who gets to decide 'reasonable cases'?
BT traffic? any encrypted traffic?, whatever ISP's decide traffic they don't like?
Hopefully there are important details we are missing out on- if not, then you Canadians are fscked over again.
(no, there is no moral superiority involved here, we in the USA are fscked up even worse!)
"...I see the issue in that we are all criminals..."
Fsck you and the white mule you rode in on.
The last time I participated in copyright infringement was recording a Bill Cosby LP to cassette in 1968. That was probably even 'Fair Use' as the cassette I recorded from my friend's LP, I actually owned. It just made it convenient for us both having a recording we could listen to away from our phonographs, as the cassette player worked for about 3 hours from battery power wherever we went.
Yes, I'll admit to OMG!!Pirates!!! forty years ago for an album my friend and I actually possessed (yes:each of us had the LP, and only one cassette recording between us both!)
I think I see where you are coming from, but I'm not sure enough to jump on your bandwagon.
Your 'blanket' statements alienate most of us.
Oh yeah, did I say "fsck you and the white mule you rode in on?"