I spent the last week speccing out some Dell workstations and servers using the configurator on the Dell website. For all of them, I had the choice between Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. What's the story here?
Tell ya what, give me your address and I'll personally drop off a package at your front door. Then you can try and figure out whether it's got explosives in it or not.
Postmen do that millions of times each day, and nobody bats an eyelid.
I'm not sure how your comment relates to the closing down of this peripherally-related site distributing unofficial patches for pine. The pine project will continue regardless, and the various patches will presumably still be available from whoever wrote them, you'll just have to Google for them instead.
The ISS needs boosting into a higher orbit periodically to avoid burning up anyway, so any rubbish they eject will burn up eventually. Ejecting rubbish in the direction of earth wouldn't help though - read up on the counter-intuitive nature of orbital mechanics:-)
Your point would be perfectly valid if Ubuntu had *removed* bash, but they haven't. They've just forced you to stop making your unwarranted assumption about/bin/sh.:-)
Feel free to be equally unsympathetic next time I'm annoyed that some de facto standard has been ignored, though.;-)
I think that far more people would be worried about the dangers of phishing than would actually ever be a victim of it, so the economics works out. I can see potential issues with insurance fraud though. In the UK at least, most providers of home contents insurance refuse to pay out for cases of theft unless you report the crime to the police and there's physical evidence of a break-in. You'd need something similar, I suspect, or phishers would start offering to split the cash with people prepared to commit fraud for them.
RTFA: the law doesn't ban all violent pornography, only "material featuring violence that is, or appears to be, life-threatening or is likely to result in serious and disabling injury".
Have you even read the OP? It implicitly asks for solutions that don't involve "deleting everything and having to reinstall... programs". I think that answers your question.
If your air-con is over-efficient, you will save twenty times as much energy by turning the thermostat up than you could ever reclaim with this process - it's only ~5% efficient, remember?
FWIW, it is illegal to use a phone while driving in the UK, unless you use a hands-free system. It's also illegal to do anything else that interferes with your control of the vehicle, including eating. Listening to music is considered to increase alertness more than it distracts. Scrabbling in the passenger footwell for tapes would probably be a no-no though...
cf http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/ (in the UK). A fantastic site - the only reliable UK supplier of liquid smoke that I have yet found, amongst other things...
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Is Slashdot now a forum for random cranks to publish their personal rants? This isn't a story.
Heh, TFA makes the point, but I'm not sure most of the commenters here got it. :-)
I spent the last week speccing out some Dell workstations and servers using the configurator on the Dell website. For all of them, I had the choice between Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. What's the story here?
Dave Karraker, Sr. Director, Corporate Communications, Sony Computer Entertainment America, then picked up his ball and went home with it.
Tell ya what, give me your address and I'll personally drop off a package at your front door. Then you can try and figure out whether it's got explosives in it or not.
Postmen do that millions of times each day, and nobody bats an eyelid.
the morons who thought that an LED cartoon character giving the finger could be a bomb
;-)
I blame Hollywood.
I'm not sure how your comment relates to the closing down of this peripherally-related site distributing unofficial patches for pine. The pine project will continue regardless, and the various patches will presumably still be available from whoever wrote them, you'll just have to Google for them instead.
"Patches for pine" is a website that provides, um, patches for pine. It is not the pine project itself.
The ISS needs boosting into a higher orbit periodically to avoid burning up anyway, so any rubbish they eject will burn up eventually. Ejecting rubbish in the direction of earth wouldn't help though - read up on the counter-intuitive nature of orbital mechanics :-)
At least upgrading a partition from ext2 to ext3 is trivial...
Your point would be perfectly valid if Ubuntu had *removed* bash, but they haven't. They've just forced you to stop making your unwarranted assumption about /bin/sh. :-)
;-)
Feel free to be equally unsympathetic next time I'm annoyed that some de facto standard has been ignored, though.
Sorry, but if you assumed that /bin/sh was guaranteed to be bash, you only have yourself to blame.
you must be new here
I think that far more people would be worried about the dangers of phishing than would actually ever be a victim of it, so the economics works out. I can see potential issues with insurance fraud though. In the UK at least, most providers of home contents insurance refuse to pay out for cases of theft unless you report the crime to the police and there's physical evidence of a break-in. You'd need something similar, I suspect, or phishers would start offering to split the cash with people prepared to commit fraud for them.
RTFA: the law doesn't ban all violent pornography, only "material featuring violence that is, or appears to be, life-threatening or is likely to result in serious and disabling injury".
Have you even read the OP? It implicitly asks for solutions that don't involve "deleting everything and having to reinstall... programs". I think that answers your question.
The Americans call their convoluted system of measurements "English units" for some reason. ;-)
If your air-con is over-efficient, you will save twenty times as much energy by turning the thermostat up than you could ever reclaim with this process - it's only ~5% efficient, remember?
Meh, it would hardly be the first Europe/USA trade war.
Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit (whoever said that had obviously never seen Benny Hill), but that doesn't mean that using it makes you a dick.
FWIW, it is illegal to use a phone while driving in the UK, unless you use a hands-free system. It's also illegal to do anything else that interferes with your control of the vehicle, including eating. Listening to music is considered to increase alertness more than it distracts. Scrabbling in the passenger footwell for tapes would probably be a no-no though...
cf http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/ (in the UK). A fantastic site - the only reliable UK supplier of liquid smoke that I have yet found, amongst other things...
To make it even easier to remember, why not make the phrase an acronym for some well-known English word?
Google for "bluetooth UWB".
Typical Slashdot reader arrogance... ;-)