And IOS is an amateurish mess, both in design (userspace-less OS with ever-growing functionality is bound to get nasty security bugs in the process) and implementation (spaghetti).
I can't disagree more. Cisco IOS is popular due to the fact that it is so well designed. Every time I need to find an unfamiliar configuration setting on a Cisco router, all I have to do is type "?" and I see the variety of possible options. No other OS compares to this. In fact, on many occasion I've mentioned to my frinds that I wish Linux had similar interface. How else can you explain projects that try to emulate the IOS CLI on Linux?
But the rest of people don't rate and have no business taking a call in a theatre, a resturaunt, or even in the grocery
The importance of a call can be hard to determine from the outside listening in. I see no problem even with people taking leisure calls in a restaurant. It's no different than any other face-to-face conversation that may happen. If a person is being obnoxiously loud, ok, that makes sense. But that rule would apply to anyone in a restarant.
Therefore, could the solution here simply be cell free zones that are electronically enforced?
So the doctor, suit, or your average on-call peon misses an important page or call?! Hardly a good solution. Perhaps a better solution woud be enforcing proper ettiquite with a proprietor-determined fine.
...a cellphone ringer going off, or Laurence Fishburne yelling "Turn your f__king phone off!". I'd have to say I'd be shaking in my boots after hearing the latter.
But seriously, I don't see a problem a person having a cellphone on in the theatre, just as long as the ringer is off, and that the person does not answer it within the movie/performance. As a person who understands the restrictions of an on-call policy, I look at restricions such as this as throwing the baby out with the bathwater. People such as I would be unnecessarily restricted from public performances for a week or more, depending on how your company handles on-call. I personally followed an ettiquite of turning off the ringer, yet leaving the phone on to see if an important call comes in. Perhaps a better idea than banning is to fine those who disturb a performance whether by ringer or phone conversation, leaving the type of fine up to the theatre.
As I understand it, the new law does nothing new that wasn't already covered under old laws. The new law just specifies that the crime is committed using a computer.
1) Poke hole in plastic film
2) Microwave at high for 1 minute
3) Rotate 90 degrees
4) Microwave again for 1 minute.
5) Remove plastic film
6) Season to taste and enjoy!
I dunno. When I hear stuff like this is think of what happens when you start running traffic through a full-duplex NIC on a half-duplex LAN. If a full-duplex machine on the network starts sending/recieving traffic from the net, it's gonna seriously affect your throughput. I always suggest that people check through all their machines for full-duplex OR 100Mbit when using a 10M hub or a low-end 10/100 switching hub.
I don't see how this story fits into the realm of "News for Nerds". It's just the usual/. politcal pulpit story. WTF? I don't come to/. to read political spin. I come to read about computer/tech related stuff.
I guess it would make sense then that the US Government should sue Coffee farmers now too. After all, cigarettes are bad for you and we can sue "Big Tobacco" right? Maybe we should be suing Big Coffee now too. I can see it now. Starbucks sued because they sell coffee to young adults and intentionally increase the addictive caffeine per cup (Espresso).
I personally gave up coffee months ago. I knew there we health side effects. It's been known for years. I gave up smoking over a year ago for similar reasons. It really is a matter of chosing your poisons. People don't need to be protected from themselves. I just hate when Big Government (Socialist Liberals) tries to profit from the personal choices of some idiots in the populus.
Just trying to get people thinking about this so we don't have another Tobacco lawsuit on our hands.
...the Bush administration is hardly going to curb Microsoft's new juggernaut, which can proceed unimpeded for at least four years...
Perhaps Slashdot should change it's motto to "Liberal bias for Nerds. Stuff that we think you should believe". This is sickening. Hell, I could be watching CNN and get a less biased statement.
I dunno. I've been hearing about the holographic storage medium mentioned in the article for the past 2 decades and hey never seemed to get past the major hurdle of actually reading the data off without destroying it. I realize that they are having greater success with this, but I still have a hard time beleiving this will make it into the mainstream market for at least a couple more decades due to some unforseen hurdle.
I also I think there are too many people deleting nodes according to what they think is right. It pisses me off too. I was disgusted with even trying to when most noding attempts I made were moderated down, or whatever it's called, by the uber-noder gods.
I liked the original E. It was much more fun. Now it's just a place where we must bow before the noder-Gods, or your nodes get bashed.
Fisrt off, don't be so quick to assume that our representatives call our email spam. The article states that abusive SPAM prevents them from getting to all our email. It does NOT say that they regard our email as spam. I'm sure that our government has a better grasp on technology than CmdrTaco would like you to beleive. How do you confirm the origin of snail-mail? Similarly reliable methods could be applied to email.
CmdrTaco is very misleading in his editorial comment. The article does not state that the reps. regard our email as spam. They DO understand bits and bytes, as is evidenced by the comments made by our reps. What IS being said is that the reps. regard abusive SPAM as being a major hurdle in reading all the email they recieve.
Read. It prevents perpetuating non-truths.
Amen. I wish that Taco would editorialize less about politcal issues. It leads to misleading mistakes like this. It turns into unwarranted governement-bashing.
"Peer review"
So what you are saying is that all/. posters and contributors run to the nearest peer and ask him to proofread the comment or story he is about to send? I know that I try to proofread my own comments before sending, but proofreading your own work is useless, as most of us have found from our attempts in school to do so. We scan over the comment, looking for errors, but most of us will still see "FreeBSD" if that's what we intended to write, regardless of what may actually be on the page.
Um, excuse me. That potato needs an "e".
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I know this is going to sounds like flames spewing forth, but I think it needs to be said.
Is anyone else sick of comments about typos in/. headlines?
Yeah, it's FreeBSD, not FreeBDS. Yes the name in the pres. poll was Ralph Nader, not Ralph Neder. You knew it, and so do I. Chances are, the/. Crew will notice it sooner or later too, and propmtly correct the mistake. I liken the annoyance of these posts to chat sessions where others correct your typos. It doesn't need to be pointed out. After all, how many typos can you find in the common comment thread? Should we correct all those too?
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You can run apt4rpm on Redhat as well. I've been using it for months now. APT + RPM are a match made in heaven.
I went to the airport several times this year. They checked my shoes for bombs :-) Other than that, it's been pretty normal.
And IOS is an amateurish mess, both in design (userspace-less OS with ever-growing functionality is bound to get nasty security bugs in the process) and implementation (spaghetti).
I can't disagree more. Cisco IOS is popular due to the fact that it is so well designed. Every time I need to find an unfamiliar configuration setting on a Cisco router, all I have to do is type "?" and I see the variety of possible options. No other OS compares to this. In fact, on many occasion I've mentioned to my frinds that I wish Linux had similar interface. How else can you explain projects that try to emulate the IOS CLI on Linux?
this.
Thanks.
But the rest of people don't rate and have no business taking a call in a theatre, a resturaunt, or even in the grocery
The importance of a call can be hard to determine from the outside listening in. I see no problem even with people taking leisure calls in a restaurant. It's no different than any other face-to-face conversation that may happen. If a person is being obnoxiously loud, ok, that makes sense. But that rule would apply to anyone in a restarant.
Therefore, could the solution here simply be cell free zones that are electronically enforced?
So the doctor, suit, or your average on-call peon misses an important page or call?! Hardly a good solution. Perhaps a better solution woud be enforcing proper ettiquite with a proprietor-determined fine.
...a cellphone ringer going off, or Laurence Fishburne yelling "Turn your f__king phone off!". I'd have to say I'd be shaking in my boots after hearing the latter.
But seriously, I don't see a problem a person having a cellphone on in the theatre, just as long as the ringer is off, and that the person does not answer it within the movie/performance. As a person who understands the restrictions of an on-call policy, I look at restricions such as this as throwing the baby out with the bathwater. People such as I would be unnecessarily restricted from public performances for a week or more, depending on how your company handles on-call. I personally followed an ettiquite of turning off the ringer, yet leaving the phone on to see if an important call comes in. Perhaps a better idea than banning is to fine those who disturb a performance whether by ringer or phone conversation, leaving the type of fine up to the theatre.
As I understand it, the new law does nothing new that wasn't already covered under old laws. The new law just specifies that the crime is committed using a computer.
Yay for government pork!
1) Poke hole in plastic film 2) Microwave at high for 1 minute 3) Rotate 90 degrees 4) Microwave again for 1 minute. 5) Remove plastic film 6) Season to taste and enjoy!
I dunno. When I hear stuff like this is think of what happens when you start running traffic through a full-duplex NIC on a half-duplex LAN. If a full-duplex machine on the network starts sending/recieving traffic from the net, it's gonna seriously affect your throughput. I always suggest that people check through all their machines for full-duplex OR 100Mbit when using a 10M hub or a low-end 10/100 switching hub.
I don't see how this story fits into the realm of "News for Nerds". It's just the usual /. politcal pulpit story. WTF? I don't come to /. to read political spin. I come to read about computer/tech related stuff.
Maybe so, but they wouldn't be nearly as liberal. Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff that's Liberal.
Also, the country is littered with mines from 10+ years of war, which are redistributed with each rockslide along mountain trails.
Somehow I doubt that a landmine can be sensitive enough to react a footstep, but rugged enough to withstand a landslide without exploding.
Why doesn't /. refer to "Sen. Fritz Hollings" as "Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-SC)", Hmm? I thought Republicans were the ones who were money-corrupt?
/. to be unbiased and objective.
Of course, when CmdrTaco is running the show, I shouldn't expect
I guess it would make sense then that the US Government should sue Coffee farmers now too. After all, cigarettes are bad for you and we can sue "Big Tobacco" right? Maybe we should be suing Big Coffee now too. I can see it now. Starbucks sued because they sell coffee to young adults and intentionally increase the addictive caffeine per cup (Espresso).
I personally gave up coffee months ago. I knew there we health side effects. It's been known for years. I gave up smoking over a year ago for similar reasons. It really is a matter of chosing your poisons. People don't need to be protected from themselves. I just hate when Big Government (Socialist Liberals) tries to profit from the personal choices of some idiots in the populus.
Just trying to get people thinking about this so we don't have another Tobacco lawsuit on our hands.
Why is this story considered geek news? Hmm, weird. Oh wait, that's right... Slashdot: The soapbox for liberal slant.
...the Bush administration is hardly going to curb Microsoft's new juggernaut, which can proceed unimpeded for at least four years...
Perhaps Slashdot should change it's motto to "Liberal bias for Nerds. Stuff that we think you should believe". This is sickening. Hell, I could be watching CNN and get a less biased statement.
I dunno. I've been hearing about the holographic storage medium mentioned in the article for the past 2 decades and hey never seemed to get past the major hurdle of actually reading the data off without destroying it. I realize that they are having greater success with this, but I still have a hard time beleiving this will make it into the mainstream market for at least a couple more decades due to some unforseen hurdle.
Funny, my Dell has had a DVD drive for some time and they support linux? Or is this because it ships with software for it?
I also I think there are too many people deleting nodes according to what they think is right. It pisses me off too. I was disgusted with even trying to when most noding attempts I made were moderated down, or whatever it's called, by the uber-noder gods. I liked the original E. It was much more fun. Now it's just a place where we must bow before the noder-Gods, or your nodes get bashed.
Fisrt off, don't be so quick to assume that our representatives call our email spam. The article states that abusive SPAM prevents them from getting to all our email. It does NOT say that they regard our email as spam.
I'm sure that our government has a better grasp on technology than CmdrTaco would like you to beleive. How do you confirm the origin of snail-mail? Similarly reliable methods could be applied to email.
CmdrTaco is very misleading in his editorial comment. The article does not state that the reps. regard our email as spam. They DO understand bits and bytes, as is evidenced by the comments made by our reps. What IS being said is that the reps. regard abusive SPAM as being a major hurdle in reading all the email they recieve. Read. It prevents perpetuating non-truths.
Amen. I wish that Taco would editorialize less about politcal issues. It leads to misleading mistakes like this. It turns into unwarranted governement-bashing.
"Peer review" /. posters and contributors run to the nearest peer and ask him to proofread the comment or story he is about to send? I know that I try to proofread my own comments before sending, but proofreading your own work is useless, as most of us have found from our attempts in school to do so. We scan over the comment, looking for errors, but most of us will still see "FreeBSD" if that's what we intended to write, regardless of what may actually be on the page.
So what you are saying is that all
I know this is going to sounds like flames spewing forth, but I think it needs to be said. Is anyone else sick of comments about typos in /. headlines?
Yeah, it's FreeBSD, not FreeBDS. Yes the name in the pres. poll was Ralph Nader, not Ralph Neder. You knew it, and so do I. Chances are, the /. Crew will notice it sooner or later too, and propmtly correct the mistake. I liken the annoyance of these posts to chat sessions where others correct your typos. It doesn't need to be pointed out. After all, how many typos can you find in the common comment thread? Should we correct all those too?