I think jokes like that will get you strip-searched.:) Not because they have no sense of humor, but because their guidelines and training likely say "anything" out of the ordinary should be investigated further.
The USA government's responsibility is the USA. There are no obligations laid out in our constitution to "spread freedom" to the rest of the world; no matter what increasingly megolamanic rhetoric you have heard from Bush lately. Many people came to America precisely to escape non-free parts of the world and to make money. Your implications that we need to somehow force other countries to act the same way we do dims the brightness of that shining city on the hill, as well.
That is an absurd claim. Take a look at all of the HOWTOs in the linux documentation project dedicated to integrating with other systems. How to dual boot linux and windows, how to mount windows partitions, how to connect to appletalk networks, how to tweak your tcp window sizes for compatibility with certain routers/systems. And you give Samba as an example!? That very project was designed with integration of multiple operating system environments in mind!
Perhaps you need to look a bit closer to home for the source of your problems in getting help instead of blaming the community. For example, be sure to read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html.
And then add in letter combinations like "th". And then add in multiple different sounds from the same letters or combinations like the "th" in "think" versus the "th" in "this". The first is unvoiced, the second is voiced; like the difference between "f" and "v".
Command and control is a lot easier to do with voice recognition since the dictionary the engine has to choose from is so much smaller. Having voice recognition engines understand arbitrary words well is still a bit difficult.
If you don't want to be moderated as a troll, then don't use silly terms like "Objectionists", when the proper term is "Objectivists". And don't make those moronic pre-emptive whines about being moderated in a pathetic attempt to influence the moderators with reverse pschology.
I actually have mod points right now, but I felt like giving you some insight into why you likely get moderated down so often.
It wasn't a "knee jerk" response. It was just a lazy way of pointing out that there are very obvious advantages that the Bush administration sees in keeping us in this continual state of "war". For one, it makes it easier for them to expand their powers; which they have shamelessly been pursuing for quite some time.
Sorry to break it to you, but we are all apes right now.:)
There is no animal named 'ape'; it is a classification for a group of animals to which chimpanzees, gorillas, gibbons, and humans belong.
To be even more accurate, the apes are subdivided into two groups; the great apes(humans, chimps, gorillas, etc) and the lesser apes(gibbons). I just looked it up in wikipedia to verify my memory and it seems I was correct, except I left out the poor orangutans,:) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape
Apes are the members of the Hominoidea superfamily of primates, including humans. Currently, there are two families of hominoids:
* the family Hylobatidae consists of 4 genera and 12 species of gibbons, including the Lar Gibbon and the Siamang, collectively known as the "lesser apes"
* the family Hominidae consisting of gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, and humans, collectively known as the "great apes".
Not websites, which is a poor meidum for discussion anyway, but mailing lists and usenet and irc all still work fine; albeit with more necessary filters and moderation than was the case a decade ago when the net was mostly we science and computer geeks.;)
My first time in a wal-mart in my life was a year ago(I'm 31). The gaming section was one little part of an isle with the games locked in a glass case, and one demo unit. Most people I know buy games at EB/BestBuy/Compusa/circuit city etc. Perhaps that is skewed by the fact that they only built one nearby recently, but Wal-mart certainly don't have a monopoly.
(I just checked their website, there are actually 4 within 10 miles and 14 within 20!. I had no idea, heh.)
No. I'd tell you to get involved in politics. With the added bonus that politics are already partly open source.:)
Incidentally, an offtopic moderation for suggesting open source software?!/. sure has changed in the last few years.:) I think that is the first negative moderation I've received since the moderation system was introduced.
Upgrade to linux and/or open source software which rarely behaves so rudely and often has features to prevent others from doing so.
This isn't just a cop-out answer; I'm quite serious. You are essentially complaining about lack of control over what your software does. Well, take control of it!
Yeah, it works great. That's how I was able to/dev/null slashdot@mydomain once it started getting spammed years ago. I'm surprised I haven't started getting spam at slashdot2@mydomain. Either the Slash address obfuscation actually works or it is just always caught by my other filters,:)
On the other hand, bellsouth recently started blocking incoming port 25 traffic so I can't run my own family mail server anymore as I also have for many years on my adsl.
I suspect that is one reason why services like this are growing in popularity.
It's amusing that you used the term "phreaks" considering that Steve Jobs and Wozniak started out selling blue boxes to phreakers so they could make free long distance calls.:)
Dell has the same problem. It took me quite a few minutes of poking around, registering for an account thinking maybe it was necessary, before finally realizing that the big flash that my flashblock plugin had blocked at the top of the page wasn't an advertisement(like the other pages at dell.com) but was where the link to customize/purchase the product was.
I had to finally agree with you and am in the process of ditching fedora. I had upgraded my company's local servers(not production servers(those run RHEL)) to fedora from redhat and have had many issues. I would report bugs and they would get fixed in rawhide for inclusion in redhat enterprise and the current development fedora core, but never get fixed in the existing fedora core trees... that tells you where the priorities are.
So I finally made the switch to debian; it's not every slick, but is a lot more geared to what
we need; a very configurable stable platform to run our own or our customized
software on.
The security consciousness is very nice, too. After installing a simple
base system I did 'apt-get install ssh' and I got a dialog asking whether
it should disable ssh protocol 1 in the config and explaining why it
might be a good idea and the drawbacks.
It's a great combination between informative and somewhat user friendliness
and impressive configurability.
FYI, the current nvidia drivers for linux do not support 7300, 7600, or 7900 yet(the drivers are 3 months old). I spent a bunch of time researching my upgrade from ti4200 to narrow down my choice to either the 7600gt($200) or 7900gt($300) (which are the best bang for the buck, I think) before realizing the linux driver situation. Hopefully they release them soon before I have to go with something else; also upgrading my 5 year old dual 1Ghz durons.:)
That is not incompatible with my statements. I enjoyed WoW very much myself.
the whole "they consult phsycologists to make MMOs," tinfoil hat material, seriously.
Take a look at some of the topics for game developer conferences. Getting people addicted is very much a concern. A very quick search returned this for "Game Developers Conference 2006":
This session reviews the psychology and system thinking behind game design, and explore how to use game mechanics to create a mobile experience that's fun, compelling and addictive.
The hurricane last year was my favor.:) I lost power for 10 days and spent more days past that doing roof repair/cleanup work. Those days allowed me to quit cold turkey.:) Prior to the hurricane I had played WoW nearly everyday for 6 months. (I started the day after my gf left to teach english in japan)
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I think jokes like that will get you strip-searched. :) Not because they have no sense of humor, but because their guidelines and training likely say "anything" out of the ordinary should be investigated further.
The USA government's responsibility is the USA. There are no obligations laid out in our constitution to "spread freedom" to the rest of the world; no matter what increasingly megolamanic rhetoric you have heard from Bush lately. Many people came to America precisely to escape non-free parts of the world and to make money. Your implications that we need to somehow force other countries to act the same way we do dims the brightness of that shining city on the hill, as well.
Perhaps you need to look a bit closer to home for the source of your problems in getting help instead of blaming the community. For example, be sure to read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html .
And then add in letter combinations like "th". And then add in multiple different sounds from the same letters or combinations like the "th" in "think" versus the "th" in "this". The first is unvoiced, the second is voiced; like the difference between "f" and "v".
http://perlbox.sourceforge.net/
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/
Command and control is a lot easier to do with voice recognition since the dictionary the engine has to choose from is so much smaller. Having voice recognition engines understand arbitrary words well is still a bit difficult.
That's an absurd argument. Wikipedia is great partly because it does have articles on things that are not in Britannica.
I actually have mod points right now, but I felt like giving you some insight into why you likely get moderated down so often.
I was playing DDO last night and some enemy elf said, "Stop stabbing me!". (Gwylan's Stand quest)
"Stop poking me!"
It wasn't a "knee jerk" response. It was just a lazy way of pointing out that there are very obvious advantages that the Bush administration sees in keeping us in this continual state of "war". For one, it makes it easier for them to expand their powers; which they have shamelessly been pursuing for quite some time.
There is no animal named 'ape'; it is a classification for a group of animals to which chimpanzees, gorillas, gibbons, and humans belong.
To be even more accurate, the apes are subdivided into two groups; the great apes(humans, chimps, gorillas, etc) and the lesser apes(gibbons). :)
I just looked it up in wikipedia to verify my memory and it seems I was correct, except I left out the poor orangutans,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape
We have always been at war with Oceania.
Not websites, which is a poor meidum for discussion anyway, but mailing lists and usenet and irc all still work fine; albeit with more necessary filters and moderation than was the case a decade ago when the net was mostly we science and computer geeks. ;)
(I just checked their website, there are actually 4 within 10 miles and 14 within 20!. I had no idea, heh.)
Incidentally, an offtopic moderation for suggesting open source software?! /. sure has changed in the last few years. :) I think that is the first negative moderation I've received since the moderation system was introduced.
This isn't just a cop-out answer; I'm quite serious. You are essentially complaining about lack of control over what your software does. Well, take control of it!
You have won this thread simply for spelling "masturbating" correctly wthout an "e".
On the other hand, bellsouth recently started blocking incoming port 25 traffic so I can't run my own family mail server anymore as I also have for many years on my adsl. I suspect that is one reason why services like this are growing in popularity.
It's amusing that you used the term "phreaks" considering that Steve Jobs and Wozniak started out selling blue boxes to phreakers so they could make free long distance calls. :)
Check out bookmarklets like "Clean Read" to make news articles legible on overcrowded sites: http://www.smokinggun.com/code/bookmarklets.php
I've also taken to using bookmarklets like "Clean Read" to make news articles legible on overcrowded sites: http://www.smokinggun.com/code/bookmarklets.php
So I finally made the switch to debian; it's not every slick, but is a lot more geared to what we need; a very configurable stable platform to run our own or our customized software on.
The security consciousness is very nice, too. After installing a simple base system I did 'apt-get install ssh' and I got a dialog asking whether it should disable ssh protocol 1 in the config and explaining why it might be a good idea and the drawbacks. It's a great combination between informative and somewhat user friendliness and impressive configurability.
FYI, the current nvidia drivers for linux do not support 7300, 7600, or 7900 yet(the drivers are 3 months old). I spent a bunch of time researching my upgrade from ti4200 to narrow down my choice to either the 7600gt($200) or 7900gt($300) (which are the best bang for the buck, I think) before realizing the linux driver situation. Hopefully they release them soon before I have to go with something else; also upgrading my 5 year old dual 1Ghz durons. :)
That is not incompatible with my statements. I enjoyed WoW very much myself.
the whole "they consult phsycologists to make MMOs," tinfoil hat material, seriously.
Take a look at some of the topics for game developer conferences. Getting people addicted is very much a concern. A very quick search returned this for "Game Developers Conference 2006":
The hurricane last year was my favor. :) I lost power for 10 days and spent more days past that doing roof repair/cleanup work. Those days allowed me to quit cold turkey. :) Prior to the hurricane I had played WoW nearly everyday for 6 months. (I started the day after my gf left to teach english in japan)