At first glance I was going to say "after XCP, OtherOS, and leaving unencrypted CC info on an internet facing database, what did you expect?" but on re-reading TFS, the data being deleted wasn't collected by Sony.
Maybe I should point out that "buying" data is stupid, you should buy media? Or that trusting ANY corporation to not be evil is stupid?
Indeed, and that seems to be advertiser's market right now -- only those with less than 3 digits in their IQs. But it probabably works, since there are 150 million Americans with two digit IQs.
Some of it recombines with the oxygen and becomes water again, but almost all of it, being lighter than the rest of the atmosphere, just floats off into space.
The odds are that there's life in other solar systems, and even greater (almost a certainty) that there's life elsewhere in the universe, but considering how slow EMF travels through the incredible distances between stars, it's also highly unlikely we'll come into contact with any of it any time soon.
There are only a handful of stars within 50 light years, and odds are good that there's no intelligent life on any of them. Odds are even greater that we could never communicate with them even if we knew they were there.
Why not just ignore DNS entirely and simply use the IP address? How many people actually type pepsi.com into the address bar? Nobody does, they google "pepsi".
I was running kubunto on the Acer notebook that got stolen last year and had no trouble logging into any wireless network. It just worked. I'd turn it on at Felbers and was instantly connected to Felbers' network, take it home and was connected to my own. The only password I had to enter was the network password, and then only once, the first time I logged into it. It remembered the network password from then on.
You're thinking like the RIAA. They used to be in the RECORD business, but now consider the "music business". It doesn't work like that.
If you're trying to sell bits, someone else will sell competing bits in a shiny box that they don't need a network connection for that the customer can resell and run you right out of business.
Fear of piracy is stupid unless your product is shit. Most people have no qualms about paying for what they get, and to make your product less desireable to them in order to keep it from those who aren't going to buy no matter what is incredibly stupid.
The RIAA isn't after "pirates", they want to kill their independant competetitors by making everyone think "piracy". They have radio, the indies don't. They know full damned well that "piracy" sells goods.
I'll never "buy" your software, no matter how good it is, if I can't box it up and resell it. If your business model demands that I lose my right to resell what I bought legitimately, fuck your business model and the horse it rode in on. I want nothing to do with it or you.
Harming your paying customers to get at those you percieve as harming you is brain-dead stupid. Another reason for not wanting your software -- I don't like doing business with idiots, or by people who sell to idiots.
If your business model involves fooling idiots, you're a thief.
I would suspect it was worse than that. I would suspect it was a case of "The white folks evacuated so take your time." However, considering what a clusterfuck of a failure the incompetent, way over his head FEMA director "Godd job Brownie" was, Hanlon's razor probably applies.
I don't think it was apathy, I think it was incompetence. Bush had a bad habit of appointing cronies like Brown who had no experience or training whatever for the job they were doing to important positions. Bush was just like Illinois' last Governor, who will be in Federal prison in a couple of weeks.
Concidering the damage heBush did to the country, I think Bush should be in a cell with Blago.
Linux guy coming to Apple's defense here -- in many Linux distros, there is both "delete" and "move to trash". When you delete something in Linux it's gone. Move it to the trash and it's the same as moving to Windows recycle bin.
He wasn't talking about physical violence, but discord. I'm having the same type of disagreement with my daughter that he was referring to. And you left out the most relevant part, which was that one should love God more than their children or parents.
Personally I dont think state and federal government should recognize ANY marriage. Only the joining of domestic partners for tax purposes.
I don't even think government should have a hand in that. Why should a widow with one child pay more in tax than a childless married couple earning the same amount?
Christianity isn't inherently peaceful and tolerant - that is just the form in fashion right now.
With the exception of "I bring not peace, but a sword" which doesn't mean what it sounds like in its greater context, give me one chapter and verse (and in context) that says to be intolerant and violent.
And it has to come from the NEW testament. It overrode the old testament and brought a new covenant. There are still far too many who think it's OK to stone adulterers.
Really? That memo must not have gotten around then. Or are you implying all the doctors that have been killed by "pro-lifers" were deserving of it?
"Beware wolves in sheep's clothing." Just because somebody goes to church and claims to be a Christian doesn't make him one. In fact, that's this month's sermons at my church, "the practical athiest," the person who claims to be Christian but doesn't follow Christ's teachings.
I see you're not a Christian, and probably not an adherent to Islam, either.
And in neither religion are you damned to hell for not believing, you are damned by your own sins. If you live without sin you go to heaven in both. However, only one man has ever led a sin-free life that I've ever heard of.
Christianity offers you a loophole out of the hell you caused for yourself.
In Christianity, tolerance is MANDATED. All are sinners. As Jesus himself said, "judge not." That's tolerance. It isn't up to me to keep you from blaspheming or screwing somebody else's wife.
No, ruling a law unconstitutional does NOT create a new law. It removes an illegal law from the books -- the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and if a law overrides your rights, it is not legal and a judge should throw it out.
There is no chicken and egg problem. Dinasaurs layed eggs, and chickens are descended from dinasaurs. The egg came first and everyone should know that by now.
Besides, who has chicken for breakfast?
Unfortunately, I saw a poll just this morning that said over half of people thought the chicken came first. There sure are a lot of uneducated people.
Yes, but isn't most of that taxes to partially fund health care? I'd gladly pay double for gasoline if it meant I didn't have to buy health insurance, especially since I don't drive much anyway. $20 worth of $3.75 gasoline lasts me a week, and health insurance is damned expensive, even though I rarely see a doctor.
I had the same problem (I think) on an Acer notebook, but it was worse in Windows. It took me a month to find out where to shut off the "tap to click" bug that they call a feature. It took less than 5 minutes in KDE.
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At first glance I was going to say "after XCP, OtherOS, and leaving unencrypted CC info on an internet facing database, what did you expect?" but on re-reading TFS, the data being deleted wasn't collected by Sony.
Maybe I should point out that "buying" data is stupid, you should buy media? Or that trusting ANY corporation to not be evil is stupid?
I am. It still works, why replace it? Waste of good money I could spend elsewhere. I mean, I'm a nerd but I'm not Bill Gates.
When the last CRT burns out (or phosphors become too dim) I'll replace it.
Indeed, and that seems to be advertiser's market right now -- only those with less than 3 digits in their IQs. But it probabably works, since there are 150 million Americans with two digit IQs.
Magnetic media are also subject to erasure by EMF. Optical media is the way to go.
Some of it recombines with the oxygen and becomes water again, but almost all of it, being lighter than the rest of the atmosphere, just floats off into space.
The odds are that there's life in other solar systems, and even greater (almost a certainty) that there's life elsewhere in the universe, but considering how slow EMF travels through the incredible distances between stars, it's also highly unlikely we'll come into contact with any of it any time soon.
There are only a handful of stars within 50 light years, and odds are good that there's no intelligent life on any of them. Odds are even greater that we could never communicate with them even if we knew they were there.
And ponies, too. Good luck with that...
Why not just ignore DNS entirely and simply use the IP address? How many people actually type pepsi.com into the address bar? Nobody does, they google "pepsi".
I was running kubunto on the Acer notebook that got stolen last year and had no trouble logging into any wireless network. It just worked. I'd turn it on at Felbers and was instantly connected to Felbers' network, take it home and was connected to my own. The only password I had to enter was the network password, and then only once, the first time I logged into it. It remembered the network password from then on.
Someone please mod the parent AC up so his insightful comment will be seen. How he describes the process is exactly how it works.
You're thinking like the RIAA. They used to be in the RECORD business, but now consider the "music business". It doesn't work like that.
If you're trying to sell bits, someone else will sell competing bits in a shiny box that they don't need a network connection for that the customer can resell and run you right out of business.
Fear of piracy is stupid unless your product is shit. Most people have no qualms about paying for what they get, and to make your product less desireable to them in order to keep it from those who aren't going to buy no matter what is incredibly stupid.
The RIAA isn't after "pirates", they want to kill their independant competetitors by making everyone think "piracy". They have radio, the indies don't. They know full damned well that "piracy" sells goods.
I'll never "buy" your software, no matter how good it is, if I can't box it up and resell it. If your business model demands that I lose my right to resell what I bought legitimately, fuck your business model and the horse it rode in on. I want nothing to do with it or you.
Harming your paying customers to get at those you percieve as harming you is brain-dead stupid. Another reason for not wanting your software -- I don't like doing business with idiots, or by people who sell to idiots.
If your business model involves fooling idiots, you're a thief.
If this is our biggest barrier to developing one tomorrow, then why don't we have these already?
Because nobody has figured out exactly how one would warp space, only that it's theoretically possible.
I would suspect it was worse than that. I would suspect it was a case of "The white folks evacuated so take your time." However, considering what a clusterfuck of a failure the incompetent, way over his head FEMA director "Godd job Brownie" was, Hanlon's razor probably applies.
I don't think it was apathy, I think it was incompetence. Bush had a bad habit of appointing cronies like Brown who had no experience or training whatever for the job they were doing to important positions. Bush was just like Illinois' last Governor, who will be in Federal prison in a couple of weeks.
Concidering the damage heBush did to the country, I think Bush should be in a cell with Blago.
HOLD STRONG SISTERS AND BROTHERS!
Lots easier to hold weak sisters and brothers than it is to hold strong ones.
Linux guy coming to Apple's defense here -- in many Linux distros, there is both "delete" and "move to trash". When you delete something in Linux it's gone. Move it to the trash and it's the same as moving to Windows recycle bin.
He wasn't talking about physical violence, but discord. I'm having the same type of disagreement with my daughter that he was referring to. And you left out the most relevant part, which was that one should love God more than their children or parents.
Personally I dont think state and federal government should recognize ANY marriage. Only the joining of domestic partners for tax purposes.
I don't even think government should have a hand in that. Why should a widow with one child pay more in tax than a childless married couple earning the same amount?
Christianity isn't inherently peaceful and tolerant - that is just the form in fashion right now.
With the exception of "I bring not peace, but a sword" which doesn't mean what it sounds like in its greater context, give me one chapter and verse (and in context) that says to be intolerant and violent.
And it has to come from the NEW testament. It overrode the old testament and brought a new covenant. There are still far too many who think it's OK to stone adulterers.
Really? That memo must not have gotten around then. Or are you implying all the doctors that have been killed by "pro-lifers" were deserving of it?
"Beware wolves in sheep's clothing." Just because somebody goes to church and claims to be a Christian doesn't make him one. In fact, that's this month's sermons at my church, "the practical athiest," the person who claims to be Christian but doesn't follow Christ's teachings.
Whether or not there's intelligent life out there, I seriously doubt that we would recognise any alien signals as communication.
Some SF on this subject:
A strange discovery
We still haven't found extraforgostnic life
Both look at it from the perspective of aliens looking for us.
I see you're not a Christian, and probably not an adherent to Islam, either.
And in neither religion are you damned to hell for not believing, you are damned by your own sins. If you live without sin you go to heaven in both. However, only one man has ever led a sin-free life that I've ever heard of.
Christianity offers you a loophole out of the hell you caused for yourself.
In Christianity, tolerance is MANDATED. All are sinners. As Jesus himself said, "judge not." That's tolerance. It isn't up to me to keep you from blaspheming or screwing somebody else's wife.
No, ruling a law unconstitutional does NOT create a new law. It removes an illegal law from the books -- the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and if a law overrides your rights, it is not legal and a judge should throw it out.
Basically it's a chicken and egg problem
There is no chicken and egg problem. Dinasaurs layed eggs, and chickens are descended from dinasaurs. The egg came first and everyone should know that by now.
Besides, who has chicken for breakfast?
Unfortunately, I saw a poll just this morning that said over half of people thought the chicken came first. There sure are a lot of uneducated people.
Yes, but isn't most of that taxes to partially fund health care? I'd gladly pay double for gasoline if it meant I didn't have to buy health insurance, especially since I don't drive much anyway. $20 worth of $3.75 gasoline lasts me a week, and health insurance is damned expensive, even though I rarely see a doctor.
I had the same problem (I think) on an Acer notebook, but it was worse in Windows. It took me a month to find out where to shut off the "tap to click" bug that they call a feature. It took less than 5 minutes in KDE.