Twitter, I have a reasonable request for you: please stop the sockpuppetry and, more importantly, please stop the trolling.
You seem to take every chance you get to hijack a thread and turn it into Microsoft or Windows bashing, even when it's not the issue at hand. This doesn't help anybody. It especially doesn't help your cause of advocating Linux, and I don't know why you think it does. As a Linux user and advocate (Debian, lenny, if you must know), I wish you would stop. There are far more useful and intelligent ways to spread Linux.
You also use your sockpuppets to try to lend legitimacy to your posts. This definitely doesn't help your cause at all. This pretty much only serves to disrupt slashdot and cause people to turn against you. Everything all of your sockpuppets say could just as easily be said by a single person. The more legitimate posts could definitely be said by a single person, and you might actually get modded up once in a while.
Your habit of accusing everyone who disagrees with you an idiot or a paid troll doesn't help either. The former makes you appear to be an arrogant asshole, as it implies that your opinion is correct, period, and no other opinion is at all legitimate. The latter makes you appear paranoid. This definitely doesn't help you.
So, I have one reasonable solution for you, and I highly suggest you take it: make one more new account. Stop using the twitter account and all of the sock puppets. Never mention twitter or the sock puppets with the new account. Pretty much, ignore your entire slashdot history. Stop hijacking threads into Microsoft bashing. Stop calling Microsoft "M$". I can't really instruct you to change your writing style, so it's entirely likely that people will catch on that it's you again.
As long as you follow my advice in whole, they most likely won't call you on it. Most people here are reasonable, and they'll be happy to live and let live. Hell, if you follow my advice in full and people insist on stalking you, I will personally do my best to stop them. If that includes ruining their karma, so be it (I get 15 mod points at a rate of about once per week, so it wouldn't be particularly hard), but I'd rather not go that route.
Please, just take this advice, and we can make Slashdot a better place for everybody.
If an employee is using abnormally high amounts of disk space, you have a reason to go look (granted, you should _talk_ to the user before looking, but you still have a reason). This is different from snooping.
tl;dr version: ATI & Intel have better drivers, but NVidia does better in making sure all of the latest products are supported, reinforcing my point while not harming the parent's.
I'll grant you that they're buggy and not on par with the Intel drivers, but you'll also note that wasn't my point. The real point is that the drivers exist and that they do work. I'm running 3D just fine in Linux right now on my NVidia card.
In fact, having recently switched from an ATI to an NVidia on my box (under AMD64 Lenny, for the record), I was happy to find that my NVidia card was actually _supported_. My old ATI (an x1550. Not a powerhouse by any means, but the GPU was where I skimped when I put this box together and ran short on cash) wasn't supported by any of the 3D drivers. My more recently acquired NVidia (a 7900 GT, handed down to me by a friend who upgraded to the 9800 gx2) card is supported by the NVidia drivers. I'm sure if the ATI card was supported, it would be much better, but unfortunately for me, this wasn't the case.
I don't know about backing up to a separate disc, but I definitely make an image of games I buy so I can run them without worrying about wearing out my disc.
Well, with modern physics and the whole space and time being the same thing, there *is* a conversion, it's just not very useful for these purposes. Or make much sense in this situation, for that matter.
Okay, I see it now. It's not that my mind is innocent (far from it, believe me; I'm a college student), but rather than I don't see getting a present for one's husband on Father's Day out of the ordinary enough that there could be any such implications in doing so.
Well, that and that he phrased it oddly. The first sentence makes it seem like the original poster had misread the summary, but everything he said actually just reinforced that the original poster had read it perfectly. I'm just going to stop now and chalk this one up to "poorly worded joke".
Well, Newton's so-called "Law of Gravity" is the perfect example of why we don't name *anything* laws anymore. Like why we still have Einstein's revised theory of gravity rather than revised law of gravity.
And the laws of thermodynamics are an entirely different deal altogether.
Did you know that they have electric terminals you can check in with without showing id? Or that you can check in online without even being at the airport? As long as you're not checking baggage, it's fine. Hell, quick search on the internet shows people have done quite fine without, even using the counter.
Yeah, people have. And as for checking in: you don't have to do it in person. I usually use the terminals to check in, which only requires a confirmation number. It's also possible to check in without being at the airport. Slightly difficult to check id that way....
The problem with all of the examples you gave are that passports are issued specifically for the purpose of demonstrating your right to enter a country, driver's licenses are issued specifically to demonstrate your right to drive (most carrying the secondary purpose of acting as an official government-issued ID which may be required from a governmental official with probable cause), library cards demonstrate your right to check out books in that library system, fishing licenses are issued to demonstrate your right to fish, etc. Hence, these are reasonable.
Now, since the government officially (though in practice it can) doesn't issue the right to fly (it is assumed, except in the cases (which I still consider to be total BS) where they have decided to the contrary), they don't issue any form of license for it, so there's no reason to show any such thing. And unless flying now shows criminal intentions, there's no need for the government to get your ID for it either. Hence, unreasonable search and seizure.
This solves the problem of you mugging little old ladies, but not the fundamental problem of what made you mug little old ladies in the first place. Good point. Next we should outlaw poverty. If you fall below the poverty line, we arrest you so you won't mug little old ladies. I like where this one is going....
Please, check your threading. I *agree* with atriusofbricia and was responding to dave420. (In fact, if you check the timestamps, you can logically determine that I probably couldn't see atriusofbricia's reply since it isn't likely I had read the comment threads that far in and posted in less than two minutes.)
(I speak as someone who can get 15 mbits at home if I were willing to pay and get gigabit at school)
You want ME to pay for YOUR broadband.
Yes. Well, not for mine, but for getting the nation all on broadband. I classify this with ME paying for OTHER PEOPLES' educations. A more educated populace leads to better conditions in this nation, which (down the road) will make it better for me.
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Twitter, I have a reasonable request for you: please stop the sockpuppetry and, more importantly, please stop the trolling.
You seem to take every chance you get to hijack a thread and turn it into Microsoft or Windows bashing, even when it's not the issue at hand. This doesn't help anybody. It especially doesn't help your cause of advocating Linux, and I don't know why you think it does. As a Linux user and advocate (Debian, lenny, if you must know), I wish you would stop. There are far more useful and intelligent ways to spread Linux.
You also use your sockpuppets to try to lend legitimacy to your posts. This definitely doesn't help your cause at all. This pretty much only serves to disrupt slashdot and cause people to turn against you. Everything all of your sockpuppets say could just as easily be said by a single person. The more legitimate posts could definitely be said by a single person, and you might actually get modded up once in a while.
Your habit of accusing everyone who disagrees with you an idiot or a paid troll doesn't help either. The former makes you appear to be an arrogant asshole, as it implies that your opinion is correct, period, and no other opinion is at all legitimate. The latter makes you appear paranoid. This definitely doesn't help you.
So, I have one reasonable solution for you, and I highly suggest you take it: make one more new account. Stop using the twitter account and all of the sock puppets. Never mention twitter or the sock puppets with the new account. Pretty much, ignore your entire slashdot history. Stop hijacking threads into Microsoft bashing. Stop calling Microsoft "M$". I can't really instruct you to change your writing style, so it's entirely likely that people will catch on that it's you again.
As long as you follow my advice in whole, they most likely won't call you on it. Most people here are reasonable, and they'll be happy to live and let live. Hell, if you follow my advice in full and people insist on stalking you, I will personally do my best to stop them. If that includes ruining their karma, so be it (I get 15 mod points at a rate of about once per week, so it wouldn't be particularly hard), but I'd rather not go that route.
Please, just take this advice, and we can make Slashdot a better place for everybody.
Shut up, Twitter.
If an employee is using abnormally high amounts of disk space, you have a reason to go look (granted, you should _talk_ to the user before looking, but you still have a reason). This is different from snooping.
tl;dr version: ATI & Intel have better drivers, but NVidia does better in making sure all of the latest products are supported, reinforcing my point while not harming the parent's.
I'll grant you that they're buggy and not on par with the Intel drivers, but you'll also note that wasn't my point. The real point is that the drivers exist and that they do work. I'm running 3D just fine in Linux right now on my NVidia card.
In fact, having recently switched from an ATI to an NVidia on my box (under AMD64 Lenny, for the record), I was happy to find that my NVidia card was actually _supported_. My old ATI (an x1550. Not a powerhouse by any means, but the GPU was where I skimped when I put this box together and ran short on cash) wasn't supported by any of the 3D drivers. My more recently acquired NVidia (a 7900 GT, handed down to me by a friend who upgraded to the 9800 gx2) card is supported by the NVidia drivers. I'm sure if the ATI card was supported, it would be much better, but unfortunately for me, this wasn't the case.
Yes, no ambiguity at all. There's definitely no companies close to the car industry with the initials "GM"....
And some people still play 2e. I fail to see your point.
I think you missed what a 9800 GTX2 is (ie, 2 9800s).
Actually, NVidia's pretty good about getting Linux drivers for new cards out relatively quickly.
When we have laws relating to accessibility, yeah, yeah we do have such control.
I don't know about backing up to a separate disc, but I definitely make an image of games I buy so I can run them without worrying about wearing out my disc.
Then why are these people installing the locks in the first place? That seems kind of silly to me.
Well, with modern physics and the whole space and time being the same thing, there *is* a conversion, it's just not very useful for these purposes. Or make much sense in this situation, for that matter.
Well, that and that he phrased it oddly. The first sentence makes it seem like the original poster had misread the summary, but everything he said actually just reinforced that the original poster had read it perfectly. I'm just going to stop now and chalk this one up to "poorly worded joke".
I fail to see your point. That reinforces the GP's point, doesn't it?
And the laws of thermodynamics are an entirely different deal altogether.
Did you know that they have electric terminals you can check in with without showing id? Or that you can check in online without even being at the airport? As long as you're not checking baggage, it's fine. Hell, quick search on the internet shows people have done quite fine without, even using the counter.
Yeah, people have. And as for checking in: you don't have to do it in person. I usually use the terminals to check in, which only requires a confirmation number. It's also possible to check in without being at the airport. Slightly difficult to check id that way....
And here's a story of someone flying without id at all: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/06/71115
Now, since the government officially (though in practice it can) doesn't issue the right to fly (it is assumed, except in the cases (which I still consider to be total BS) where they have decided to the contrary), they don't issue any form of license for it, so there's no reason to show any such thing. And unless flying now shows criminal intentions, there's no need for the government to get your ID for it either. Hence, unreasonable search and seizure.
Just because you show your ID three times doesn't mean others can't get away with not showing their IDs. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/06/71115
Goddammit, I mis-interpreted the slashdot threading. Ignore me.
I believe that was supposed to be a joke regarding your "as long as you don't need 100% purity".... At least, I hope so.
Please, check your threading. I *agree* with atriusofbricia and was responding to dave420. (In fact, if you check the timestamps, you can logically determine that I probably couldn't see atriusofbricia's reply since it isn't likely I had read the comment threads that far in and posted in less than two minutes.)
(I speak as someone who can get 15 mbits at home if I were willing to pay and get gigabit at school)
You want ME to pay for YOUR broadband.
Yes. Well, not for mine, but for getting the nation all on broadband. I classify this with ME paying for OTHER PEOPLES' educations. A more educated populace leads to better conditions in this nation, which (down the road) will make it better for me.