erm, he isn't putting any money up - he's sued all those newspapers and made more cash than a nazi war criminal's swiss bank account!
And now, I guess he's spent it all so.. its off to the courts to say how dreadful these images and videos are still on the internet and unless Google (or whoever) pulls them off, he'll receive another £1000 per day.
Frankly, for the amount of cash he screwed out of the papers, I'd let some fat german chick whip me.
Clumsy wording on my part, I consider spending a buttload of money on a legal case to suppress information that's out in public a sort of indirect use of hush money. I suspect that the option several people have already suggested will have to suffice, provide a message to all users originating searches from French IP blocks. If the French courts think they can compel Google to enact this on a global level, they're dreaming however.
He was engaging in private consensual acts that harmed no one and are nobody elses business. For that he was crucified in British tabloids to the point where he had to battle in courts and in media for months just in order to keep his job. I believe he won the court case and got quite a tidy sum from News of the World and in revenge he helped bankroll the court expenses of claimants in the phone tapping case against the paper which finally killed it. IMHO fair play to him. Going after google is a bit ridiculous though but not as ridiculous as the French law that apparently allowed him to win the case.
I completely agree, he hurt nobody but himself and I agree privacy should be protected. He won his case against that rat infested, mercifully now passed, den of knuckle-dragging imbeciles that was The News of the World and that was the right decision. As a private citizen he can do whatever he likes so long as it doesn't violate the rights of others as far as I'm concerned. There comes a point, however, when the cat's out of the bag and no matter how much money or power you have (or think you have) you're not going to squash it being exposed, especially in a world of near-instant global communication. I think old Max should just embrace it, give it up and realize that it's out there and it's never going away. Maybe if your public image is so precious then make a wise choice and don't engage in such activities or realize that if you do it could get out and ruin you, even if you win your case against whomever leaked evidence of your actions.
It also doesn't help his case that he's the son of a noted British fascist leader. Dressing up like a Nazi to get your rocks off when your dad was a Mussolini-loving totalitarian probably isn't a good idea, no matter how much hush money you think you can put up to keep it quiet. Interesting though that the FIA is based in France, I wonder if the courts had any incentive to rule in his favor eh?
I think this is the closest thing I've seen to being a "tech degree" though they still call it CompSci. I think the Bachelors in Information Systems and Business IT are the closest things to preparing people for the real world of IT. Even these, in my experience of working with people fresh out of them, are far less useful than a few years working at the coal face in a first line tech support job, especially one in a large business or education institution (ironically!). I got my first job at 18 with no degree and now I'm 29, still have no degree and am working on System z mainframes and have done sysadmin, computer forensics and consultancy jobs in between. Paper means nothing in the IT world, demonstrable skill and aptitude mean everything. If someone can prove that they've been able to adapt and learn then they're the people who'll get hired.
His point is valid though. I would LOVE to run everything on my laptop under KVM but my company requires it to be a Windows-based laptop due to the awful, Windows-only full disk encryption suite they employ so I, and possible many others, _have_ to run a Windows-based virtualization solution like VirtualBox. It's ironic in my situation as my job is looking after SuSE Linux servers running virtualized under z/VM on an IBM System z mainframe!
I'm curious, how is he a "jerkbag" for wanting freedom? Surely it would be the arrogant totalitarian who thinks they know what's best for everyone who would be, in your oh so highbrow words, the "jerkbag"?
I'd like that, even though I'm a zLinux sysadmin and we have guys who exclusively admin our pSeries boxes (all running AIX right now) I'd love a Power-based workstation running Linux for my desk!
It is clear that Guido Fawkes sponsored the construction of a new, illicit series of tubes to connect the hackers to Claire's tubes. Remember, it's not a big truck we're dealing with here.
I just say that people should have the right to ask their company to filter porn, and that this right should be granted by law. I don't really see why this is harmful. Really, I don't see why.
Nobody has a "right" not to see something or be exposed to something that they can easily avoid by choosing not to partake of it. Let's take an analogy to show why it's wrong. I don't like the smell of coffee, I choose not to drink it nor do I like to be around it but I accept that others do like it, some in my workplace. Just because I don't like the smell does that mean everyone at my company should be forced to not drink coffee? As to your point about the harmfulness of pornography you are right, it can lead to the breakdown of marriages and abnormal sexual development in people. The key word there is "can" not "does". It is very, very easy to avoid porn online and there are plentiful products out there that allow one to personally filter porn if they find it that tempting or are worried about their children seeing it. The real point is that when most people say "there should be a law" there most often shouldn't. People are, on the whole, responsible and those who aren't will find ways to circumvent laws anyway.
If you're really serious about having hard printouts that you want to later get back in should a disaster occur, an idea I would have would be to base64 encode the text and then print it using a fixed width font in order to make OCR easier down the line. The downside of this is that should the scan not be great or the paper become degraded then you may find you'd get weird encoding issues if, say, a lowercase "l" is read as an uppercase "I" I'd also take hashes of the text files and print them in the header/footer as a rudimentary way of verifying the files are the same after scanning them back. Maybe do a few tests before committing to such a method, this is totally off the top of my head BTW!
I predict that Mir will last a lot longer than we all expect despite being made on a budget and falling to pieces by the end of its life. It will then fragment and what's left will end up in the south Pacific.
True indeed, however the current branch switched over to MariaDB back in March (changelog) So Slack 15 or 14.1, whichever comes next, will be shipped with MariaDB insted of MySQL.
I only had one BSOD in 2.5 years with my Windows 7 system exclusing athe latest ATI drivers which had an issue with my bois after 12.10.
That is pretty stable in my book and I find this hard to believe they crash every 30 minutes. Even Windows 3.11 without protected memory on a dos kernel where one app can take down the whole damn system was not that bad.
Did you reply to the wrong comment or something? I didn't mention anything about a crash every 30 minutes or a BSOD.
get the TN-6600 toner cartridge for that thing, I've had one in my HL-1030 for about the last three years and it's still going after well over 18,000 pages.
I was curious if it would find it so left it running when I ran to the grocery store, it was still sat there (using no CPU and an unchanging amount of memory) 45 minutes later when I returned. Patient enough for you? That's when I killed it and started over. In that situation do you think a non-technical user would have done the same or do what he/she has been trained to do over the last couple of decades and reboot their machine? I couldn't possibly speculate;-)
Thanks for the civility BTW, your levelheaded tone really contributes to the rational discussion we have going on here
A non-technical user wouldn't have a dual-boot setup, rendering the question moot, the printer would be plugged in with Windows up and would have installed properly (assuming the person followed the directions).
You're right that a non-technical user wouldn't have dual boot but that fails to tackle the fact that I got a completely feedback free error on a platform supposedly lauded for its flawless handling of hardware. Unless, that is, you're implying that my dual boot setup somehow had an effect on Windows' ability to handle hardware installed in a separate OS on the same disk? I don't think you were implying that though. I wasn't super clear in my previous comment in that the printer was not plugged in during the reboot, I plugged it in fresh after Windows had booted. I guess the real point is that no system is perfect and those who would argue any system is flawless in its handling of anything probably doesn't really understand it or has very limited exposure or experience. That's not a slam toward you fred, as you are not directly claiming that. I just found it interesting that in my situation the opposite to expected conventional wisdom occurred. This wouldn't likely be the case always but it was the case this time. I admit that the Lexmark all-in-one I used recently worked flawlessly in Win7 but the scanner is unusable in Linux.
You're joking, right? Windows hardware support is excellent and it comes bundled with not only a boatload of drivers, but offers a way of automatically downloading and installing drivers for new devices. Don't blame Windows if some vendors don't want to allow Microsoft to ship drivers, or if their hardware requires a super-special driver to set a hardware register to the length of the lead hardware engineers penis before it will work. As for the driver discs, you'll find that they almost always bundled with crap - the vendor's "custom" scan toolkit, a copy of Acrobat, a manual in PDF form, etc.
12. I can't hack on the Windows source code.
He's most likely not used Windows since 7 came out, pre-7 driver support from Windows update was questionable, now you can get almost any driver you need automatically (as long as you have your network driver) but in the XP and earlier days it was...not so good.
In general this is quite true but it doesn't always work perfectly. I recently acquired a Brother HL1450 monochrome laser printer (connected over USB). It installed flawlessly and silently through CUPS on my Slackware laptop and when I rebooted to Win7 to install it, as I do need Windows for a couple of things, Windows Update sat there spinning the cursor and saying "Searching for Drivers" or something similar. I ended up killing it, unplugging and plugging back in and _then_ it worked pretty well. So in the end it worked but for a non technical user which scenario was more straightforward?
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In an ironic twist, the worst of the three situations was my wife's Macbook. I decided to share it off my Slackware server over CUPS, a trademark of Apple Inc. The standard format for an IPP printer is something like ipp://server/printers/printer or http://server:631/printers/printer. The MacOS dialog for adding a printer doesn't (at least in the oldish version of OS X on her lappy) allow for this standard input and splits it over several separate input fields. I ended up loading up firefox and adding it through the CUPS web interface, much easier!
As to your point about The Oatmeal not being funny anymore, that's pretty subjective to be honest, I tend to find his stuff funny but that's comedy, I'm not a Bill Hicks fan and yet millions miss him dearly, I love Steven Wright and many disagree! My point is there is no way of objectively saying whether something is funny or not. I'm with you on FunnyJunk though, just seems like a 4chanish hole for unpleasant crap by the one like I clicked from another commenter in this thread.
Second where does someones rights end? Why do the protesters rights to free speech matter more than peoples rights to use public transit?
Because the right to free speech is enumerated in the Bill Of Rights whereas public transit is not. Public transit is a locally provided service that is a convenience, one that many have come to rely on in large metropolitan areas like the Bay Area, but a convenience nonetheless. It is _NOT_ a right.
I thought the same. There should be some rocky sea features between the Ubuntu/Fedora hemisphere's and the Gentoo, Slack, Arch etc area. Also the Slack island should be a fair amount smaller (and I say that as a _long_ time Slack user).
I don't care about bad taste jokes, being a South Park fan, but get your facts straight if you're going to make a joke. Plural Marriage has been banned in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1890 and those choosing to ignore this ban (very rare) are subject to excommunication.
And don't forget "who gave them their regional mono/duopolies?" Uh huh. The speed of corporate asshattery never ceases to amaze me. Not two minutes after I pointed out that we own the infrastructure that post got modded down.
Probably because of your blatant double standards. Your argument implies that you have no problem with the government having a monopoly over a certain system but you do have a problem with private corporations having the same. Please don't give me the argument that government is accountable for its failures because they are elected and can be kicked out if they do something you don't like that's just bullshit, bureaucratic monopolies that administer such industries are untouchable no matter who is in office.
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erm, he isn't putting any money up - he's sued all those newspapers and made more cash than a nazi war criminal's swiss bank account!
And now, I guess he's spent it all so .. its off to the courts to say how dreadful these images and videos are still on the internet and unless Google (or whoever) pulls them off, he'll receive another £1000 per day.
Frankly, for the amount of cash he screwed out of the papers, I'd let some fat german chick whip me.
Clumsy wording on my part, I consider spending a buttload of money on a legal case to suppress information that's out in public a sort of indirect use of hush money. I suspect that the option several people have already suggested will have to suffice, provide a message to all users originating searches from French IP blocks. If the French courts think they can compel Google to enact this on a global level, they're dreaming however.
He was engaging in private consensual acts that harmed no one and are nobody elses business. For that he was crucified in British tabloids to the point where he had to battle in courts and in media for months just in order to keep his job. I believe he won the court case and got quite a tidy sum from News of the World and in revenge he helped bankroll the court expenses of claimants in the phone tapping case against the paper which finally killed it. IMHO fair play to him. Going after google is a bit ridiculous though but not as ridiculous as the French law that apparently allowed him to win the case.
I completely agree, he hurt nobody but himself and I agree privacy should be protected. He won his case against that rat infested, mercifully now passed, den of knuckle-dragging imbeciles that was The News of the World and that was the right decision. As a private citizen he can do whatever he likes so long as it doesn't violate the rights of others as far as I'm concerned. There comes a point, however, when the cat's out of the bag and no matter how much money or power you have (or think you have) you're not going to squash it being exposed, especially in a world of near-instant global communication. I think old Max should just embrace it, give it up and realize that it's out there and it's never going away. Maybe if your public image is so precious then make a wise choice and don't engage in such activities or realize that if you do it could get out and ruin you, even if you win your case against whomever leaked evidence of your actions.
It also doesn't help his case that he's the son of a noted British fascist leader. Dressing up like a Nazi to get your rocks off when your dad was a Mussolini-loving totalitarian probably isn't a good idea, no matter how much hush money you think you can put up to keep it quiet. Interesting though that the FIA is based in France, I wonder if the courts had any incentive to rule in his favor eh?
We will gladly welcome you into the loving arms of Bob and the Slackware community!
I think this is the closest thing I've seen to being a "tech degree" though they still call it CompSci. I think the Bachelors in Information Systems and Business IT are the closest things to preparing people for the real world of IT. Even these, in my experience of working with people fresh out of them, are far less useful than a few years working at the coal face in a first line tech support job, especially one in a large business or education institution (ironically!). I got my first job at 18 with no degree and now I'm 29, still have no degree and am working on System z mainframes and have done sysadmin, computer forensics and consultancy jobs in between. Paper means nothing in the IT world, demonstrable skill and aptitude mean everything. If someone can prove that they've been able to adapt and learn then they're the people who'll get hired.
His point is valid though. I would LOVE to run everything on my laptop under KVM but my company requires it to be a Windows-based laptop due to the awful, Windows-only full disk encryption suite they employ so I, and possible many others, _have_ to run a Windows-based virtualization solution like VirtualBox. It's ironic in my situation as my job is looking after SuSE Linux servers running virtualized under z/VM on an IBM System z mainframe!
I'm curious, how is he a "jerkbag" for wanting freedom? Surely it would be the arrogant totalitarian who thinks they know what's best for everyone who would be, in your oh so highbrow words, the "jerkbag"?
The irony of a product named Unity being the lone DE to use Mir must be lost on Canonical!
I'd like that, even though I'm a zLinux sysadmin and we have guys who exclusively admin our pSeries boxes (all running AIX right now) I'd love a Power-based workstation running Linux for my desk!
It is clear that Guido Fawkes sponsored the construction of a new, illicit series of tubes to connect the hackers to Claire's tubes. Remember, it's not a big truck we're dealing with here.
I just say that people should have the right to ask their company to filter porn, and that this right should be granted by law. I don't really see why this is harmful. Really, I don't see why.
Nobody has a "right" not to see something or be exposed to something that they can easily avoid by choosing not to partake of it. Let's take an analogy to show why it's wrong. I don't like the smell of coffee, I choose not to drink it nor do I like to be around it but I accept that others do like it, some in my workplace. Just because I don't like the smell does that mean everyone at my company should be forced to not drink coffee? As to your point about the harmfulness of pornography you are right, it can lead to the breakdown of marriages and abnormal sexual development in people. The key word there is "can" not "does". It is very, very easy to avoid porn online and there are plentiful products out there that allow one to personally filter porn if they find it that tempting or are worried about their children seeing it. The real point is that when most people say "there should be a law" there most often shouldn't. People are, on the whole, responsible and those who aren't will find ways to circumvent laws anyway.
If you're really serious about having hard printouts that you want to later get back in should a disaster occur, an idea I would have would be to base64 encode the text and then print it using a fixed width font in order to make OCR easier down the line. The downside of this is that should the scan not be great or the paper become degraded then you may find you'd get weird encoding issues if, say, a lowercase "l" is read as an uppercase "I" I'd also take hashes of the text files and print them in the header/footer as a rudimentary way of verifying the files are the same after scanning them back. Maybe do a few tests before committing to such a method, this is totally off the top of my head BTW!
I predict that Mir will last a lot longer than we all expect despite being made on a budget and falling to pieces by the end of its life. It will then fragment and what's left will end up in the south Pacific.
True indeed, however the current branch switched over to MariaDB back in March (changelog) So Slack 15 or 14.1, whichever comes next, will be shipped with MariaDB insted of MySQL.
I only had one BSOD in 2.5 years with my Windows 7 system exclusing athe latest ATI drivers which had an issue with my bois after 12.10.
That is pretty stable in my book and I find this hard to believe they crash every 30 minutes. Even Windows 3.11 without protected memory on a dos kernel where one app can take down the whole damn system was not that bad.
Did you reply to the wrong comment or something? I didn't mention anything about a crash every 30 minutes or a BSOD.
get the TN-6600 toner cartridge for that thing, I've had one in my HL-1030 for about the last three years and it's still going after well over 18,000 pages.
Nice, thanks for the recommendation!
I was curious if it would find it so left it running when I ran to the grocery store, it was still sat there (using no CPU and an unchanging amount of memory) 45 minutes later when I returned. Patient enough for you? That's when I killed it and started over. In that situation do you think a non-technical user would have done the same or do what he/she has been trained to do over the last couple of decades and reboot their machine? I couldn't possibly speculate ;-)
Thanks for the civility BTW, your levelheaded tone really contributes to the rational discussion we have going on here
A non-technical user wouldn't have a dual-boot setup, rendering the question moot, the printer would be plugged in with Windows up and would have installed properly (assuming the person followed the directions).
You're right that a non-technical user wouldn't have dual boot but that fails to tackle the fact that I got a completely feedback free error on a platform supposedly lauded for its flawless handling of hardware. Unless, that is, you're implying that my dual boot setup somehow had an effect on Windows' ability to handle hardware installed in a separate OS on the same disk? I don't think you were implying that though. I wasn't super clear in my previous comment in that the printer was not plugged in during the reboot, I plugged it in fresh after Windows had booted. I guess the real point is that no system is perfect and those who would argue any system is flawless in its handling of anything probably doesn't really understand it or has very limited exposure or experience. That's not a slam toward you fred, as you are not directly claiming that. I just found it interesting that in my situation the opposite to expected conventional wisdom occurred. This wouldn't likely be the case always but it was the case this time. I admit that the Lexmark all-in-one I used recently worked flawlessly in Win7 but the scanner is unusable in Linux.
You're joking, right? Windows hardware support is excellent and it comes bundled with not only a boatload of drivers, but offers a way of automatically downloading and installing drivers for new devices. Don't blame Windows if some vendors don't want to allow Microsoft to ship drivers, or if their hardware requires a super-special driver to set a hardware register to the length of the lead hardware engineers penis before it will work. As for the driver discs, you'll find that they almost always bundled with crap - the vendor's "custom" scan toolkit, a copy of Acrobat, a manual in PDF form, etc.
He's most likely not used Windows since 7 came out, pre-7 driver support from Windows update was questionable, now you can get almost any driver you need automatically (as long as you have your network driver) but in the XP and earlier days it was...not so good.
In general this is quite true but it doesn't always work perfectly. I recently acquired a Brother HL1450 monochrome laser printer (connected over USB). It installed flawlessly and silently through CUPS on my Slackware laptop and when I rebooted to Win7 to install it, as I do need Windows for a couple of things, Windows Update sat there spinning the cursor and saying "Searching for Drivers" or something similar. I ended up killing it, unplugging and plugging back in and _then_ it worked pretty well. So in the end it worked but for a non technical user which scenario was more straightforward?
slightly off topic side note
In an ironic twist, the worst of the three situations was my wife's Macbook. I decided to share it off my Slackware server over CUPS, a trademark of Apple Inc. The standard format for an IPP printer is something like ipp://server/printers/printer or http://server:631/printers/printer. The MacOS dialog for adding a printer doesn't (at least in the oldish version of OS X on her lappy) allow for this standard input and splits it over several separate input fields. I ended up loading up firefox and adding it through the CUPS web interface, much easier!
As to your point about The Oatmeal not being funny anymore, that's pretty subjective to be honest, I tend to find his stuff funny but that's comedy, I'm not a Bill Hicks fan and yet millions miss him dearly, I love Steven Wright and many disagree! My point is there is no way of objectively saying whether something is funny or not. I'm with you on FunnyJunk though, just seems like a 4chanish hole for unpleasant crap by the one like I clicked from another commenter in this thread.
Second where does someones rights end? Why do the protesters rights to free speech matter more than peoples rights to use public transit?
Because the right to free speech is enumerated in the Bill Of Rights whereas public transit is not. Public transit is a locally provided service that is a convenience, one that many have come to rely on in large metropolitan areas like the Bay Area, but a convenience nonetheless. It is _NOT_ a right.
I thought the same. There should be some rocky sea features between the Ubuntu/Fedora hemisphere's and the Gentoo, Slack, Arch etc area. Also the Slack island should be a fair amount smaller (and I say that as a _long_ time Slack user).
I don't care about bad taste jokes, being a South Park fan, but get your facts straight if you're going to make a joke. Plural Marriage has been banned in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1890 and those choosing to ignore this ban (very rare) are subject to excommunication.
And don't forget "who gave them their regional mono/duopolies?" Uh huh. The speed of corporate asshattery never ceases to amaze me. Not two minutes after I pointed out that we own the infrastructure that post got modded down.
Probably because of your blatant double standards. Your argument implies that you have no problem with the government having a monopoly over a certain system but you do have a problem with private corporations having the same. Please don't give me the argument that government is accountable for its failures because they are elected and can be kicked out if they do something you don't like that's just bullshit, bureaucratic monopolies that administer such industries are untouchable no matter who is in office.