Most people (even most people in the US, for that matter) can't afford to be that picky about employers, or to be that gung-ho about possible discrimination (that is, even assuming the laws of their country are supposed to protect them from it; actually getting that protection can be quite costly in practice).
It's not even just about your sensitive data, it's also about being turned into a botnet node and ruining the internet for the rest of us. A good firewall may not be the only protection you need against that, but it's a good first step.
Minor "children diseases" are perhaps to be expected, but serious problems just aren't acceptable. Remember that this isn't new technology or an entirely new OS; it's just improvements on old technology and bugfixes. If that introduces serious new bugs, then yes, it does deserve a "haha" tag.
iPod hard drives are easier to engineer in the sense that you know what kind of software is going to be running on iPods and how they're going to be used. You don't have that kind of knowledge when it comes to laptops, so you have to aim for a good balance. Hitachi, though, apparently shot and missed by a mile.
He's talking about Facebook, not Myspace, so it's PHP. But only a small fraction of the source was revealed, too. Not nearly enough to get a working clone, or even a good idea of the inner workings of Facebook itself.
(As to what's the point of a private Myspace, Facebook worked very well as a private, college-only network.)
It wasn't hacked, one of the webservers was misconfigured and didn't interpret a few PHP files correctly. And only a very small portion of the source was exposed, too. Not nearly enough to just upload it somewhere and get a working clone.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. Honestly, the fact that he maintains Stallman and his followers are a PR nightmare is hilarious in the face of his racism and homophobia. Whatever good he may have done at one point, he's pissed on the goodwill of the open source community for so long it's time people stop giving him the attention he craves.
System -> Administration -> Software Sources -> Updates
You can select how often it checks for updates, though by default the options are daily, every two days, weekly, and every two weeks only. There aren't really any updates that are that urgent that you absolutely have to check every two seconds anyway, especially considering the number of users Ubuntu has and the strain that put the servers under.
It might not be the most intuitive place to put this sort of thing, but you could have done some research before you declared the software to be broken.
That's the main problem I've always had with Cedega, even ignoring the fact that the software just seems to suck.
There's also the greater risk involved with compatibility projects like Cedega and Wine. If every Windows app can also run on Linux machines, why would anyone develop native Linux apps, since they'd just be cutting into their potential audience? This is one of the things that killed OS/2 as well.
I'm not convinced anyone *would* have spoken up. If you try to deny the existence of a popular figure while people who knew him are still alive, you're almost guaranteed to get protests, but the other way around, it's easy for people to just blame it on their own incomplete knowledge. And considering that the average lifespan at the time was under 30 and Christianity only really took off after 50 AD or so, it becomes even less likely, since there wouldn't have been too many contemporaries alive anymore.
There wouldn't have been that many people in a position to check Roman records to the point where they can conclusively say he didn't exist either, and even if there were, that's easily dismissed as being a result of a conspiracy to deny the existence of Jesus in the first place. Conspiracy theories would have worked as well back then as they do now.
But as you say, the Romans *were* good record-keepers, and there wasn't exactly a shortage of prolific writers around 30 AD, even in Judea, who would have written about Jesus if he really had been worth writing about (and while random prophets and fake messiahs also weren't in short supply at the time, few of them were crucified by popular demand). The fact that no contemporaneous records or writings have survived at all is at least odd.
Dunno. To me, this suggests Jesus was made up, probably by Paul, and if there really was a historical basis for him, he would've been so unlike the Jesus described in the NT that it's pretty much meaningless to say they're the same person.
(The fact that the NT is basically just a collection of obvious symbolism and bits and pieces stolen from other legends seems to confirm that.)
Wait, what? Feudalism and all those delightful things that came with it came *after* the christianisation, and the most famous instances of people being forced to take arms against someone they'd never heard of just because they were told were the various Crusades.
Yes, you can make a case that the Church's benign influence eventually got rid of all this barbarism, but only if your audience is completely ignorant of European history and you're willing to make the whole thing up.
I'm not even going to attempt to address your attempt at invoking the Church for everything that's good in society, because I'm getting the impression I'm feeding a troll.
These types of self-pitying posts always show up in any discussion mentioning Christianity, and they're bullshit.
Obviously from the eyes of any atheist, Islam is just as wrong as Christianity is, but since most Slashdot posted are Westerners, obviously any discussion about religion is going to turn to the most popular religion in the West, which is still Christianity, simply because it has a much, much greater impact on our daily lives than Islam does, fear-mongering about Islamism aside. There's no need to tag posts about Islam with "flyingspaghettimonster", since the absurdities of Islam are readily apparent to most people in the West already. The very same absurdities in Christianity are overlooked by most Westerners, simply because they're Christian themselves, so yes, tagging stories about Christianity with it is still necessary.
Also, has it ever occured to you that maybe you perceive any discussion about Christianity as an attack simply because it strikes closer to home? Get over your persecution complex already.
Yeah, I don't know why people like to mention Josephus. Even if the testimonium flavianum hadn't been known to be a forgery for ages, he was born in 37 CE. Hardly a contemporary source.
There's a slight hole in your argument. Namely, there are no contemporaneous accounts of Jesus at all. The earliest mention is, in fact, in the gospels, which came at least a generation after he supposedly lived, and can't really be considered an objective source of information at any rate. The earliest non-christian sources generally held up as evidence came much, much later, and talk about Christians as a group, not about Jesus Christ, which doesn't prove anything. There's good evidence even Paul himself regarded Jesus as a fictional character.
Yes, by trolling every single article even remotely related to Linux, you're definitely demonstrating how unfanatical you are. Looks like you need a hobby.
If by "time" you mean "thousands of years". Mercury is much easier to clean up, and it can be put to decent use, essentially removing it from the environment and making sure it doesn't just keep accumulating. Radioactive waste doesn't have such a use.
Considering that the majority of all CO2, particulate, soot and trace elements like mercury are spewed into the atmosphere by coal fired plants, I don't understand why the environmentalists aren't clamoring for more nuke plants.
Because nuclear waste is a fuck of a lot more persistent than CO2, soot, and mercury, and much harder to clean up. This is especially true in the US, where few efforts are made to process it and everything is just dumped somewhere.
Extradition treaties don't allow the US government to apply US laws to Swedish nationals acting completely in accordance with Swedish law on Swedish soil, regardless of what some people may think.
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Nazism != fascism.
The word you're looking for is totalitarianism.
Most people (even most people in the US, for that matter) can't afford to be that picky about employers, or to be that gung-ho about possible discrimination (that is, even assuming the laws of their country are supposed to protect them from it; actually getting that protection can be quite costly in practice).
There is: tell your friends you don't want any requests, and unfriend anyone who sends you one anyway.
It's not even just about your sensitive data, it's also about being turned into a botnet node and ruining the internet for the rest of us.
A good firewall may not be the only protection you need against that, but it's a good first step.
Minor "children diseases" are perhaps to be expected, but serious problems just aren't acceptable. Remember that this isn't new technology or an entirely new OS; it's just improvements on old technology and bugfixes.
If that introduces serious new bugs, then yes, it does deserve a "haha" tag.
iPod hard drives are easier to engineer in the sense that you know what kind of software is going to be running on iPods and how they're going to be used. You don't have that kind of knowledge when it comes to laptops, so you have to aim for a good balance.
Hitachi, though, apparently shot and missed by a mile.
He's talking about Facebook, not Myspace, so it's PHP.
But only a small fraction of the source was revealed, too. Not nearly enough to get a working clone, or even a good idea of the inner workings of Facebook itself.
(As to what's the point of a private Myspace, Facebook worked very well as a private, college-only network.)
It wasn't hacked, one of the webservers was misconfigured and didn't interpret a few PHP files correctly.
And only a very small portion of the source was exposed, too. Not nearly enough to just upload it somewhere and get a working clone.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. Honestly, the fact that he maintains Stallman and his followers are a PR nightmare is hilarious in the face of his racism and homophobia.
Whatever good he may have done at one point, he's pissed on the goodwill of the open source community for so long it's time people stop giving him the attention he craves.
Watermarking in this sense is a type of steganography.
Except that it would be illegal to distribute from US servers, as well.
System -> Administration -> Software Sources -> Updates
You can select how often it checks for updates, though by default the options are daily, every two days, weekly, and every two weeks only. There aren't really any updates that are that urgent that you absolutely have to check every two seconds anyway, especially considering the number of users Ubuntu has and the strain that put the servers under.
It might not be the most intuitive place to put this sort of thing, but you could have done some research before you declared the software to be broken.
That's the main problem I've always had with Cedega, even ignoring the fact that the software just seems to suck.
There's also the greater risk involved with compatibility projects like Cedega and Wine. If every Windows app can also run on Linux machines, why would anyone develop native Linux apps, since they'd just be cutting into their potential audience?
This is one of the things that killed OS/2 as well.
Dammit. Imagine I posted that as Plain Old Text, so it has paragraphs.
I'm not convinced anyone *would* have spoken up. If you try to deny the existence of a popular figure while people who knew him are still alive, you're almost guaranteed to get protests, but the other way around, it's easy for people to just blame it on their own incomplete knowledge. And considering that the average lifespan at the time was under 30 and Christianity only really took off after 50 AD or so, it becomes even less likely, since there wouldn't have been too many contemporaries alive anymore. There wouldn't have been that many people in a position to check Roman records to the point where they can conclusively say he didn't exist either, and even if there were, that's easily dismissed as being a result of a conspiracy to deny the existence of Jesus in the first place. Conspiracy theories would have worked as well back then as they do now. But as you say, the Romans *were* good record-keepers, and there wasn't exactly a shortage of prolific writers around 30 AD, even in Judea, who would have written about Jesus if he really had been worth writing about (and while random prophets and fake messiahs also weren't in short supply at the time, few of them were crucified by popular demand). The fact that no contemporaneous records or writings have survived at all is at least odd. Dunno. To me, this suggests Jesus was made up, probably by Paul, and if there really was a historical basis for him, he would've been so unlike the Jesus described in the NT that it's pretty much meaningless to say they're the same person. (The fact that the NT is basically just a collection of obvious symbolism and bits and pieces stolen from other legends seems to confirm that.)
Wait, what? Feudalism and all those delightful things that came with it came *after* the christianisation, and the most famous instances of people being forced to take arms against someone they'd never heard of just because they were told were the various Crusades. Yes, you can make a case that the Church's benign influence eventually got rid of all this barbarism, but only if your audience is completely ignorant of European history and you're willing to make the whole thing up. I'm not even going to attempt to address your attempt at invoking the Church for everything that's good in society, because I'm getting the impression I'm feeding a troll.
These types of self-pitying posts always show up in any discussion mentioning Christianity, and they're bullshit.
Obviously from the eyes of any atheist, Islam is just as wrong as Christianity is, but since most Slashdot posted are Westerners, obviously any discussion about religion is going to turn to the most popular religion in the West, which is still Christianity, simply because it has a much, much greater impact on our daily lives than Islam does, fear-mongering about Islamism aside.
There's no need to tag posts about Islam with "flyingspaghettimonster", since the absurdities of Islam are readily apparent to most people in the West already. The very same absurdities in Christianity are overlooked by most Westerners, simply because they're Christian themselves, so yes, tagging stories about Christianity with it is still necessary.
Also, has it ever occured to you that maybe you perceive any discussion about Christianity as an attack simply because it strikes closer to home?
Get over your persecution complex already.
Yeah, I don't know why people like to mention Josephus. Even if the testimonium flavianum hadn't been known to be a forgery for ages, he was born in 37 CE. Hardly a contemporary source.
There's a slight hole in your argument. Namely, there are no contemporaneous accounts of Jesus at all. The earliest mention is, in fact, in the gospels, which came at least a generation after he supposedly lived, and can't really be considered an objective source of information at any rate. The earliest non-christian sources generally held up as evidence came much, much later, and talk about Christians as a group, not about Jesus Christ, which doesn't prove anything.
There's good evidence even Paul himself regarded Jesus as a fictional character.
Yes, by trolling every single article even remotely related to Linux, you're definitely demonstrating how unfanatical you are.
Looks like you need a hobby.
Your confidence in the free market is quaint, but history has already shown it just doesn't work.
If by "time" you mean "thousands of years". Mercury is much easier to clean up, and it can be put to decent use, essentially removing it from the environment and making sure it doesn't just keep accumulating. Radioactive waste doesn't have such a use.
Extradition treaties don't allow the US government to apply US laws to Swedish nationals acting completely in accordance with Swedish law on Swedish soil, regardless of what some people may think.