I'm color blind to reds & greens There are draw backs to being color blind such as not fully appreciating rainbows or sunsets. I see those colors, just not as you do. That said, I see much more than most of you. I enjoy wildlife viewing & I see everything! Animals colored to blend into their habitat, doesn't work on me. Hunters in camo trying to blend into their surroundings, I see you fuckers, plain as day.
During WWII, the infantry used color blind soldiers to lead as they could see the snipers lurking in trees that others could not. Color blindness is not a handy cap. It's a gift.
My laptop has vista on it. I don't connect it to the tubes at all. It still does weird shit all the time. Does this mean vista is one large steaming pile of malware?
I don't see much progress being made in terms of the design decisions and best practices that prevent (Windows) machines from getting compromised in the first place.
This part of the problem rests solely on the shoulders of Microsoft and those that choose to use their products. Only M$ can fix their software. The only course of action their customer base can take is not to buy their products. I won't hold my breath on this though. Too many users out there are hopelessly dependent on the windoz platform. Additionally, most new computers you buy are loaded with M$. For example, last year I bought a new laptop. It came preloaded with Vista. Another older laptop came with XP. Both have been repartitioned and dual boot to *nix. Windoz is there for the few apps I use that will only run on *doz. My desktops I build myself and load with *nix only. I do what I can to boycott them, do you?
I would imagine if the Founding Fathers had any idea what our political mis-leaders both sides of the isle are doing today, they would roll over in their graves.
Texas is just leading the charge off the deep end of crazy stupid shit
Last year Apple went after supermarket Woolworths complaining their new logo which featured a 'W' fashioned into the shape of an apple. (Woolworths sells real apples.)"
Makes me wonder if Apple will next go after Apple Records. The Beatles used them near the end as their label The label has an Apple on it Things that make you go Hmmm
Can we get NO break at all? Several years ago the republican congress & pres were all on board with the national ID card to stop terrorism Now the WTF congress & pres? want a national ID card to stop illegal immigration Holly shit batman! WTF !!
I know this next bit will draw some fire but I have to anyway Thinking back from my childhood & church going days, I recall something called the Mark of the Beast. Something that is forced upon everyone and without it you cannot buy or sell. This proposal looks like a good start to "phase in", as they put it, the very thing that would prevent everyone from buying and selling without it. Now if these fucks can think of a way to make the thing global to effect everyone and tie it into religeo/political..
You do realize that KDE, for example, also uses the same HTML component - KHTML - for both its standalone browser, and help system
There is a very big difference here you miss. You're trying to compare the Linux security model with Microsoft's lack of any security model.
The act of compromising a Linux box in any way is a very difficult task, mostly impossible unless you have direct access to the thing.
Windoz on the other hand is the script kiddies wet dream. Very few windoz users have the knowledge to secure the their boxs and this is clearly evident by the percentage of M$ boxes pwnd by the botnets and variety of worms/viruses/trojans/malware running rampant in the wild.
Give me a break. Pressing the F1 key will kill your system? WTF is going on in redmond? Are these losers all on crack?
Don't be horrified... never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
Yep Too many 8 years olds with mod points that don't understand the subject matter may be the problem here The +5 insightful now is even more disturbing
Considering that the old new class of designer antimicrobials that your company developed for the handsoap market.. contributed to creation of this new designer bug strain... your optimism isn't giving me a warm fuzzy feeling right now
Army guy got his nuts shot off on the battle field The doctor attending him jokes lightly "Looks like they got your ammunition" The soldier replies "They would have also gotten my gun if I hadn't been thinking of my wife's sister"
Does that answer your question or do we need to draw you a picture?
Agreed If the sculptor wanted exclusive rights to this work in question, he should have put the thing in an art museum
To place a war memorial in a national public arena should make it public domain. Whats next? Will he now go after and sue everyone that has snapped this thing with their point & shoot?
I have a friend that is so disgusted with our government that he now votes against every incumbent that comes up for reelection Perhaps if we all took to this strategery, we could eventually rid ourselves of this scum that has fubar'd the country
I've been watching this technology, and resulting company for several years now. This is real!
This is very cool stuff. It takes average refuse that would go to a landfill, cooks it down into diesel fuel and fertilizer. It is completely self contained. It releases nothing into the environment. Generates it's own power and then some.
The up side here is that the military has finally taken notice. Maybe something good will become of it after all.
I seriously urge everyone out there to call your congress critter and urge them to pull the oil corporate dick from their mouths and allow this technology to be expanded and built on a national level. It would release us from our addiction to foreign fossil fuel reserves and stop us from financing terrorist sponsoring nations.
Silly me, and I thought the whole purpose of our military was to invade someone else's country and take their shit claiming rightful ownership.. those local inhabitants being merely squatters on resources belonging to us.
It is amazing how people used to Windows react the first time they use a Linux desktop. Also, note that Linux distros have to offer desktop managers that look like Windows in order to ease the transition.
Actually M$ ripped off the MAC desktop for their windoz interface in the beginning This makes the Linux desktop a no brainer. KDE & Gnome have followed with similar GUIs. Since then only minor enhancements have been introduced by each player to attempt something that defines their product over that of their competitor
Today we are left with the M$ vs the MAC marketing Juggernauts. And then there is Linux.
The only refreshing innovation I have seen in the past few years is the KDE move from V.3 to V.4 which I find refreshing to the lame changes by M$ from '95 -> '98 -> 2K -> XP -> Vista -> ??
What makes you feel comfortable and more productive is what is most important at the end of the day
My desktop is the latest KDE4 on top of Kubuntu. Wallpaper is a JPG of the Milkyway. I have NO icons cluttering it whatsoever. I added panels to the 3 remaining screen edges, all 4 set to auto hide. The added 3 contain application icons to launch my favorite apps. The top one hold most office & business apps. The left holds multimedia & right has system management and development app launchers.
This is something you cannot do with windoz or MAC. My desktop, my way.. This is innovation the other two do not offer and what separates Linux from them
Q. What purpose would this technology serve? A. Joe Camel floating high above in 3D over our schools recruiting new customers to the ranks.
They my even be able to personalize this one day Minority Report fashion " Joe slashdot geek, would you like a virtual prostitute today? Or maybe rent one of our new sexbots"
There is always 2 sides to any argument. The possibility of GW/CC is mostly theory at this point based on trends and observations noted over a nominal period of time performed by educated individuals in the scientific community. The anti-GW/CC crowd base their criteria on looking outside in winter and declaring hogwash because it's snowing in February in the northern hemisphere.
What's worse is something like this Utah bill, in that they merely call for more studies to occur before we do anything. Unfortunately the only study the skeptics ever do is navel gazing followed by bickering. These people are not scientists capable of any form intelligent study, or thought for that matter. They employ fiction writers to create their public announcements just like we hear everyday out of our government and government run agencies. All we ever hear is bullshit
Our options are pretty simple. We can bury our heads in the sand and pretend all is just hunky dory and continue to blather and squabble over the existence of the boggy man. Alternatively, we can change our methods of dealing with our industrial feces in the event we are actually fucking up our planet beyond repair. Otherwise, how will we know when we have crossed the threshold to point of no return and then face extinction or move off planet?
One thing is certain, the action we don't take today, we leave for our children. Eventually someone will have to face the music, and it won't be a song they will appreciate.
M$ has a very aggressive anti-Linux campaign they pour money into in volumes that would put a space station on mars along with the shuttle service to get there. Their mis-information campaign is well crafted to put doubt into the minds of anyone they can influence and maintain control of the market.
I have been running the KDE variant of Ubuntu for years. It beats all the competition hands down. Mandriva, Suse, Fedora, even the BSDs.. don't hold a candle to Ubuntu. The Ubuntu platform is a windoz killer system.
I know an M$ fanboi that is so adamant against Linux that he won't even try a live CD just to see what the fuss is about. In his mind, viruses are a fact of life and something to not be concerned about. IE is the only browser worth using. This is the mindset of the typical windoz user.
This is why Linux has not taken over the industry, plain & simple.
As far as PC gaming, Windoz does this and has the market. But gaming is not what computing is about. When I want to game, I have a console designed for gaming along with a large plasma screen. My computer is used for business, accounting & development. In this regard, Windoz is a worthless platform
.. so what would it take for one of you True Believers to reconsider your theory?
What would give me cause to discount the science indicating that the industrial revolution is causing out planet to warm unnaturally?
1. If the polar ice pack stops receding and once again remains solid through the summer months 2. The arctic glaciers stop receding and return to what they were 100 years ago 3. The arctic permafrost stops melting 4. The antarctic ice shelves stop receding 5. The ice shelves of Greenland stop receding
Just because the east coast and deep south get snow during the winter, means nothing. Winter is usually associated with cold and snow. Winter in Alaska with interior temperatures in the 30's in February is quite unusual. When temperature averages during winter are colder in Texas than Fairbanks Alaska, well, this is something to take notice.
Hell, you don't even need to go to all that My cell phone will buzz my computer speakers and door bell anytime closer than 5 ft to either Needless to say I never hold that thing to my head and use the speaker phone when using it
I don't care how much the industry tries to convince the public cell phones are harmless It's all bullshit.
You may just be over analizing the whole thing TCP/IP - prior art - alphabet soup - whatever...
This all starts with a lawyer, guns, money, and an idea that is obviously a twist on technology in public domain or owned by someone else
The lawyer creates a patent claim that is nothing but piles of select-but-random works obfuscated into a pile of mind numbing drivel presented in a way to make the USPTO reviewer feel stupid and bewildered, which is evidently easy to do. Intimidated by confusion the USPTO reviewer stamps the patent as approved.. "Now give me the money, and go away"
Millions of simoleons have changed hands, and at the end of the day we still have a USPTO the is nothing but a clusterfuck of incompetence, chaos and confusion. The lawyers are happy as well as the patent trolls.
Disconnecting people from the Internet over something they're not willingly doing is completely absurd, and in may ways should be considered criminal in the Western world
This statement of yours is completely absurd
A computer that's a zombie node of a botnet is most likely dishing out spam by the thousands by the minute effectively clogging the InterTubes with digital feces. Additionally it is also part of any DDoS attack associated w/ that particular botnet's activities.
This makes that computer engaging in criminal activities regardless of the owner's intentions. The owner of said computer is negligent and should have their connection isolated until the computer engaged in infraction is cleaned. If the owner continues to engage in connecting this machine to the interTubes, he/she should be fined and perhaps even have their box confiscated. Of course at this point, their box is probably also loaded with child pornography and serving it up along with the spam. This makes the owner guilty of criminal activities, willing or not, and should be subject to criminal prosecution.
We all know that 99.9% of these botnet zombies are all running some version of M$ windoz. Microsoft has made plenty of money selling this defective software and should be held accountable in fixing the sloppy code attributed with the infected systems. If they have a better upgrade such as Win-7, they should do the honourable thing and allow their client base to upgrade at great discount or even free.
Of course, I won't hold my breath on seeing M$ do anything honourable given their reputation of being the sleazy marketing company they are known to be by reputation.
Social engineered malware is a bitch I know someone that downloaded and opened one of those flashy virus cleaning apps off the internet Then was puzzled when her system went screwy
Slashdot Mirror
In answer to your Q
NO
I'm color blind to reds & greens
There are draw backs to being color blind such as not fully appreciating rainbows or sunsets. I see those colors, just not as you do.
That said, I see much more than most of you. I enjoy wildlife viewing & I see everything! Animals colored to blend into their habitat, doesn't work on me.
Hunters in camo trying to blend into their surroundings, I see you fuckers, plain as day.
During WWII, the infantry used color blind soldiers to lead as they could see the snipers lurking in trees that others could not.
Color blindness is not a handy cap. It's a gift.
This works as well
$ rm -Rf C:\windows
My laptop has vista on it.
I don't connect it to the tubes at all.
It still does weird shit all the time.
Does this mean vista is one large steaming pile of malware?
Welcome to the new police state
This part of the problem rests solely on the shoulders of Microsoft and those that choose to use their products. Only M$ can fix their software. The only course of action their customer base can take is not to buy their products. I won't hold my breath on this though. Too many users out there are hopelessly dependent on the windoz platform. Additionally, most new computers you buy are loaded with M$. For example, last year I bought a new laptop. It came preloaded with Vista. Another older laptop came with XP. Both have been repartitioned and dual boot to *nix. Windoz is there for the few apps I use that will only run on *doz. My desktops I build myself and load with *nix only. I do what I can to boycott them, do you?
I would imagine if the Founding Fathers had any idea what our political mis-leaders
both sides of the isle are doing today, they would roll over in their graves.
Texas is just leading the charge off the deep end of crazy stupid shit
Yeah, no shit!
If you make it past 2012
Then your next chance of certain death by comet impact will have to wait for 1.5 million years
Makes me wonder if Apple will next go after Apple Records.
The Beatles used them near the end as their label
The label has an Apple on it
Things that make you go Hmmm
Can we get NO break at all?
Several years ago the republican congress & pres were all on board with the national ID card to stop terrorism
Now the WTF congress & pres? want a national ID card to stop illegal immigration
Holly shit batman! WTF !!
I know this next bit will draw some fire but I have to anyway ..
Thinking back from my childhood & church going days, I recall something called the Mark of the Beast. Something that is forced upon everyone and without it you cannot buy or sell. This proposal looks like a good start to "phase in", as they put it, the very thing that would prevent everyone from buying and selling without it. Now if these fucks can think of a way to make the thing global to effect everyone and tie it into religeo/political
No paranoia, just an observation
There is a very big difference here you miss.
You're trying to compare the Linux security model with Microsoft's lack of any security model.
The act of compromising a Linux box in any way is a very difficult task, mostly impossible unless you have direct access to the thing.
Windoz on the other hand is the script kiddies wet dream.
Very few windoz users have the knowledge to secure the their boxs and this is clearly evident by the percentage of M$ boxes pwnd by the botnets and variety of worms/viruses/trojans/malware running rampant in the wild.
Give me a break. Pressing the F1 key will kill your system? WTF is going on in redmond? Are these losers all on crack?
Yep
Too many 8 years olds with mod points that don't understand the subject matter may be the problem here
The +5 insightful now is even more disturbing
Considering that the old new class of designer antimicrobials that your company developed for the handsoap market .. contributed to creation of this new designer bug strain ... your optimism isn't giving me a warm fuzzy feeling right now
Your Q reminds me of an old joke
Army guy got his nuts shot off on the battle field
The doctor attending him jokes lightly "Looks like they got your ammunition"
The soldier replies "They would have also gotten my gun if I hadn't been thinking of my wife's sister"
Does that answer your question or do we need to draw you a picture?
Agreed
If the sculptor wanted exclusive rights to this work in question, he should have put the thing in an art museum
To place a war memorial in a national public arena should make it public domain.
Whats next? Will he now go after and sue everyone that has snapped this thing with their point & shoot?
I have a friend that is so disgusted with our government that he now votes against every incumbent that comes up for reelection
Perhaps if we all took to this strategery, we could eventually rid ourselves of this scum that has fubar'd the country
I've been watching this technology, and resulting company for several years now. This is real!
This is very cool stuff. It takes average refuse that would go to a landfill, cooks it down into diesel fuel and fertilizer. It is completely self contained. It releases nothing into the environment. Generates it's own power and then some.
The up side here is that the military has finally taken notice. Maybe something good will become of it after all.
I seriously urge everyone out there to call your congress critter and urge them to pull the oil corporate dick from their mouths and allow this technology to be expanded and built on a national level. It would release us from our addiction to foreign fossil fuel reserves and stop us from financing terrorist sponsoring nations.
Check it out
http://www.cleanenergyprojects.com/
Silly me, and I thought the whole purpose of our military was to invade someone else's country and take their shit claiming rightful ownership .. those local inhabitants being merely squatters on resources belonging to us.
Actually M$ ripped off the MAC desktop for their windoz interface in the beginning
This makes the Linux desktop a no brainer. KDE & Gnome have followed with similar GUIs.
Since then only minor enhancements have been introduced by each player to attempt something that defines their product over that of their competitor
Today we are left with the M$ vs the MAC marketing Juggernauts. And then there is Linux.
The only refreshing innovation I have seen in the past few years is the KDE move from V.3 to V.4 which I find refreshing to the lame changes by M$ from '95 -> '98 -> 2K -> XP -> Vista -> ??
What makes you feel comfortable and more productive is what is most important at the end of the day
My desktop is the latest KDE4 on top of Kubuntu. Wallpaper is a JPG of the Milkyway. I have NO icons cluttering it whatsoever. I added panels to the 3 remaining screen edges, all 4 set to auto hide. The added 3 contain application icons to launch my favorite apps. The top one hold most office & business apps. The left holds multimedia & right has system management and development app launchers.
This is something you cannot do with windoz or MAC. My desktop, my way ..
This is innovation the other two do not offer and what separates Linux from them
Yep, my thoughts exactly
Q. What purpose would this technology serve?
A. Joe Camel floating high above in 3D over our schools recruiting new customers to the ranks.
They my even be able to personalize this one day Minority Report fashion
" Joe slashdot geek, would you like a virtual prostitute today? Or maybe rent one of our new sexbots"
There is always 2 sides to any argument. The possibility of GW/CC is mostly theory at this point based on trends and observations noted over a nominal period of time performed by educated individuals in the scientific community. The anti-GW/CC crowd base their criteria on looking outside in winter and declaring hogwash because it's snowing in February in the northern hemisphere.
What's worse is something like this Utah bill, in that they merely call for more studies to occur before we do anything. Unfortunately the only study the skeptics ever do is navel gazing followed by bickering. These people are not scientists capable of any form intelligent study, or thought for that matter. They employ fiction writers to create their public announcements just like we hear everyday out of our government and government run agencies. All we ever hear is bullshit
Our options are pretty simple. We can bury our heads in the sand and pretend all is just hunky dory and continue to blather and squabble over the existence of the boggy man. Alternatively, we can change our methods of dealing with our industrial feces in the event we are actually fucking up our planet beyond repair. Otherwise, how will we know when we have crossed the threshold to point of no return and then face extinction or move off planet?
One thing is certain, the action we don't take today, we leave for our children. Eventually someone will have to face the music, and it won't be a song they will appreciate.
M$ has a very aggressive anti-Linux campaign they pour money into in volumes that would put a space station on mars along with the shuttle service to get there. Their mis-information campaign is well crafted to put doubt into the minds of anyone they can influence and maintain control of the market.
I have been running the KDE variant of Ubuntu for years. It beats all the competition hands down. Mandriva, Suse, Fedora, even the BSDs .. don't hold a candle to Ubuntu. The Ubuntu platform is a windoz killer system.
I know an M$ fanboi that is so adamant against Linux that he won't even try a live CD just to see what the fuss is about. In his mind, viruses are a fact of life and something to not be concerned about. IE is the only browser worth using. This is the mindset of the typical windoz user.
This is why Linux has not taken over the industry, plain & simple.
As far as PC gaming, Windoz does this and has the market. But gaming is not what computing is about. When I want to game, I have a console designed for gaming along with a large plasma screen. My computer is used for business, accounting & development. In this regard, Windoz is a worthless platform
What would give me cause to discount the science indicating that the industrial revolution is causing out planet to warm unnaturally?
1. If the polar ice pack stops receding and once again remains solid through the summer months
2. The arctic glaciers stop receding and return to what they were 100 years ago
3. The arctic permafrost stops melting
4. The antarctic ice shelves stop receding
5. The ice shelves of Greenland stop receding
Just because the east coast and deep south get snow during the winter, means nothing.
Winter is usually associated with cold and snow.
Winter in Alaska with interior temperatures in the 30's in February is quite unusual.
When temperature averages during winter are colder in Texas than Fairbanks Alaska, well, this is something to take notice.
Hell, you don't even need to go to all that
My cell phone will buzz my computer speakers and door bell anytime closer than 5 ft to either
Needless to say I never hold that thing to my head and use the speaker phone when using it
I don't care how much the industry tries to convince the public cell phones are harmless
It's all bullshit.
You may just be over analizing the whole thing ...
TCP/IP - prior art - alphabet soup - whatever
This all starts with a lawyer, guns, money, and an idea that is obviously a twist on technology in public domain or owned by someone else .. "Now give me the money, and go away"
The lawyer creates a patent claim that is nothing but piles of select-but-random works obfuscated into a pile of mind numbing drivel presented in a way to make the USPTO reviewer feel stupid and bewildered, which is evidently easy to do. Intimidated by confusion the USPTO reviewer stamps the patent as approved
Millions of simoleons have changed hands, and at the end of the day we still have a USPTO the is nothing but a clusterfuck of incompetence, chaos and confusion. The lawyers are happy as well as the patent trolls.
This statement of yours is completely absurd
A computer that's a zombie node of a botnet is most likely dishing out spam by the thousands by the minute effectively clogging the InterTubes with digital feces. Additionally it is also part of any DDoS attack associated w/ that particular botnet's activities.
This makes that computer engaging in criminal activities regardless of the owner's intentions. The owner of said computer is negligent and should have their connection isolated until the computer engaged in infraction is cleaned. If the owner continues to engage in connecting this machine to the interTubes, he/she should be fined and perhaps even have their box confiscated. Of course at this point, their box is probably also loaded with child pornography and serving it up along with the spam. This makes the owner guilty of criminal activities, willing or not, and should be subject to criminal prosecution.
We all know that 99.9% of these botnet zombies are all running some version of M$ windoz. Microsoft has made plenty of money selling this defective software and should be held accountable in fixing the sloppy code attributed with the infected systems. If they have a better upgrade such as Win-7, they should do the honourable thing and allow their client base to upgrade at great discount or even free.
Of course, I won't hold my breath on seeing M$ do anything honourable given their reputation of being the sleazy marketing company they are known to be by reputation.
Social engineered malware is a bitch
I know someone that downloaded and opened one of those flashy virus cleaning apps off the internet
Then was puzzled when her system went screwy
You can't patch stupid