So much effort to stop the unstoppable: movie piracy. They just don't get it: Since years, we are in the digital age. Change the fuckin' business model!!! Officially give your movies for downloading for, say, 1 euro/1 dollar. Now there's a steady income, instead of the multimillion losses for fighting in courts... Damn dinosaurs!
Poor people have been left without television broadcast reception! Fears are spreading that without their daily dosis, they may turn into real walking humans with thinking abilities! SPOOKY!
I don't have a clue! I am from the other hemisphere. But I don't think that there are no new persons in politics. Vote for them. Why vote for the old known scumbags? For the surprise? I hope you did not write that as an alibi for voting those old scumbags...
Well actually this is the category I put it into. Most people are indeed stupid. People have the potential to master their fates, and if they choose not to do it and always stay like sheep, I have the right to categorize them as stupid.
My suggestion is that everybody should do what I do: I vote only for people who consistently show competence, and I try to convince my environment to vote only likewise. Democracies have been put into a lot of """"'s because people abuse their democratic rights by voting like idiots.
Because after this tragic act of censorship, the people in the next elections, while having the opportunity to vote down the current government, most probably will not. Even if they do, they will most probably vote for another party that has most probably done something equally bad when they were government.
It's called mass amnesia, and its the reason why our democracies are in fact ""democracies"".
In my 10 years inside a network operation center of a 10K active hosts campus, I have seen this happening by two causes:
First, some smartass uni professor plugs two network outlets onto a switch of his own in order to 'double the bandwidth'.
Second, some semi-smartass professor wants to ghost at the same time all the computers in his lab, and uses a wrong multicast address (or even broadcast). This way his lab in Greece is ghosted, as well as some random PCs in Texas, US.
Needless to say, in order for those things to happen, some security measures on behalf of the net admins have been forgotten. But who's perfect?
everyone out of N persons pays 1/N of the bill, resulting in the paradoxical increasing of value for money: The more you eat, the less you pay!
Oh, and don't forget to give a contempting glance down to those cheapy miserables who have the face expression of '...but I only got a diet Coke...:-('
Little Marx says: In a employer-employee relationship, the employee lives by selling his working force (time you can say) to his employer.
His employer, if good organised, manages to make good use of these (say) 8 hours of available working force at hand. So, in a employer-employee relationship, 'work' is redefined as the time you dedicate to your employer in order for him to make use of it. By no logical means can it be defined as 'actual work' by the employer's whatever criteria.
In other words, you can't require that I be at 'work' at 09:00, and then I have to wait 30 unpaid minutes because you don't consider this 'work'...
I'm an linux only user since 2005, and I hate windows. After having presented my credentials, I want to say that I feel miserable to have to admit that Vista's GUI is prettier than both Gnome and (of course) KDE. Needless to say though, whoever sacrifices usability for beauty deserves neither.
I have thought over it many times and, regarding myself, I have concluded: I would prefer to live freely and unobserved and someday die in a terrorist attack, than live in a "security" hell for all my life with cameras and RFIDs up my ass.
Put aside the fact that surveillance almost never stops a attack - only it helps find the burned-out guys.
And some semantics: How many of you walk in the street and feels ''terrorized''? On the other hand, how many of you feel terrorized by the fact that your every moment is on tape, and your personal data wanders in places you don't know?
Many have a dual boot machine. My laptop has WinXP that I rarely use as first partition and then it's all garbage (if you don't have the passphrase).
So, I do the following: Before a journey to USA, I remove the GRUB loader, and windows just loads without questions. Who is gonna find out that I have a second encrypted partition in the 5 minutes of the search?
You know how it goes: Expansion brings complexity and complexity brings decay.
That's the case with windows. It was originally an OS, and it ended up mixing applications with the OS (e.g. IE), essentially destroying usability of both.
You're right my friend.
Enough with this 'do-this-don't-do-that', 'live healthy' etc etc, blah, blah.
As someone sarcastically remarked, 'if you want to live a hundred years, quit all the things that make you want to live a hundred years...'
Slashdot Mirror
... There's the smell they are looking for.
So much effort to stop the unstoppable: movie piracy. They just don't get it: Since years, we are in the digital age. Change the fuckin' business model!!! Officially give your movies for downloading for, say, 1 euro/1 dollar. Now there's a steady income, instead of the multimillion losses for fighting in courts... Damn dinosaurs!
Poor people have been left without television broadcast reception! Fears are spreading that without their daily dosis, they may turn into real walking humans with thinking abilities! SPOOKY!
I don't have a clue! I am from the other hemisphere. But I don't think that there are no new persons in politics. Vote for them. Why vote for the old known scumbags? For the surprise? I hope you did not write that as an alibi for voting those old scumbags...
Well actually this is the category I put it into. Most people are indeed stupid. People have the potential to master their fates, and if they choose not to do it and always stay like sheep, I have the right to categorize them as stupid.
My suggestion is that everybody should do what I do: I vote only for people who consistently show competence, and I try to convince my environment to vote only likewise. Democracies have been put into a lot of """"'s because people abuse their democratic rights by voting like idiots.
Its people's fault. Plain and simple.
Because after this tragic act of censorship, the people in the next elections, while having the opportunity to vote down the current government, most probably will not. Even if they do, they will most probably vote for another party that has most probably done something equally bad when they were government.
It's called mass amnesia, and its the reason why our democracies are in fact ""democracies"".
...I presume.
In my 10 years inside a network operation center of a 10K active hosts campus, I have seen this happening by two causes:
First, some smartass uni professor plugs two network outlets onto a switch of his own in order to 'double the bandwidth'.
Second, some semi-smartass professor wants to ghost at the same time all the computers in his lab, and uses a wrong multicast address (or even broadcast). This way his lab in Greece is ghosted, as well as some random PCs in Texas, US.
Needless to say, in order for those things to happen, some security measures on behalf of the net admins have been forgotten. But who's perfect?
yeah... How about we give users some C tutorials, and let them write their own browser?
...NOT to lay hands on it!
One step away from DBB! (Daily Brain Backups)!
everyone out of N persons pays 1/N of the bill, resulting in the paradoxical increasing of value for money: The more you eat, the less you pay!
Oh, and don't forget to give a contempting glance down to those cheapy miserables who have the face expression of '...but I only got a diet Coke... :-('
DISCLAIMER: this was supposed to be funny, not flamebait, you ignorant OTHER-DISTRO LUSERS!
I was preparing to post almost the same thing.
Little Marx says: In a employer-employee relationship, the employee lives by selling his working force (time you can say) to his employer.
His employer, if good organised, manages to make good use of these (say) 8 hours of available working force at hand. So, in a employer-employee relationship, 'work' is redefined as the time you dedicate to your employer in order for him to make use of it. By no logical means can it be defined as 'actual work' by the employer's whatever criteria.
In other words, you can't require that I be at 'work' at 09:00, and then I have to wait 30 unpaid minutes because you don't consider this 'work'...
(except my mom and dad please!)
I'm an linux only user since 2005, and I hate windows. After having presented my credentials, I want to say that I feel miserable to have to admit that Vista's GUI is prettier than both Gnome and (of course) KDE. Needless to say though, whoever sacrifices usability for beauty deserves neither.
In the extend that widely believed lies create reality, the truth is actually what most people regard as true.
I have thought over it many times and, regarding myself, I have concluded: I would prefer to live freely and unobserved and someday die in a terrorist attack, than live in a "security" hell for all my life with cameras and RFIDs up my ass.
Put aside the fact that surveillance almost never stops a attack - only it helps find the burned-out guys.
And some semantics: How many of you walk in the street and feels ''terrorized''? On the other hand, how many of you feel terrorized by the fact that your every moment is on tape, and your personal data wanders in places you don't know?
Many have a dual boot machine. My laptop has WinXP that I rarely use as first partition and then it's all garbage (if you don't have the passphrase).
So, I do the following: Before a journey to USA, I remove the GRUB loader, and windows just loads without questions. Who is gonna find out that I have a second encrypted partition in the 5 minutes of the search?
>O-M-G We're all going to die! It's the end of the >world! Run!
No worries. Most people are dead, far before they stop breathing...
Rename your data to 'Barely legal college girls having first time sex - XXX Vol1/256.r001' and use p2p to spread them all over the world!
>I have 64 GB of RAM and my swap partition is the
>same size at 64 GB. I thought 128 GB is a little
>excessive.
I have 640KB RAM, and never needed more.
B.G.
That brings us further apart from the ultimate goal: 24 hours non-stop relaxing and enjoying life...
You know how it goes: Expansion brings complexity and complexity brings decay. That's the case with windows. It was originally an OS, and it ended up mixing applications with the OS (e.g. IE), essentially destroying usability of both.
You're right my friend. Enough with this 'do-this-don't-do-that', 'live healthy' etc etc, blah, blah. As someone sarcastically remarked, 'if you want to live a hundred years, quit all the things that make you want to live a hundred years...'