I didn't take it as a personal attack. My point is that step_dad != dont_care, which is essentially what Tomahawk was suggesting. Follow the thread: binarylarry said "loss of his child is punishment enough." Tomahawk rebuts, "...it wasn't actually _his_ child." I rebut that whether or not the child is biologically related does not necessarily have anything to do with whether or not the parent/guardian has emotional attachments with the child. To logically counter Tomahawk's thesis requires only a single counter-example, which I provided (myself). QED.
'Kay...just as soon as I no longer hear about rapes, murder, burglaries or other crimes in the news (or through the grapevine, just so you don't try banning freedom of speech while you're trying to ban firearms in the home). Since that ain't gonna happen....
I'm a step-dad, and if you think that makes a whit of difference as to how much I care about my step-daughter, then may I respectfully suggest that you don't have a frigging clue what you are talking about?
I'm not sure that makes anything any better. The description of how it was left out is plausible (maybe not convincing, but it could happen, at least). However, for the mother to be three feet away and not notice that the gun was left out, even when the child reached to pick it up, seems a little odd.
I'm not saying I disagree with you (I don't), but there is enough criminal negligence to pursue already. Don't go getting people worked up about something that is purely speculation.
Trigger pull on otc firearms is high enough that your average small child won't be firing it.
Really? Are you sure about that? I own several guns, and have shot several more. None, AFAIK, have been modified after purchase; the trigger pull is as it was set at the factory. Some of them have trigger pulls that require a decent pull; others have very, very light trigger pulls -- such that yes, a small child could shoot them. I have a 9mm that has a rather hefty trigger pull if it is not already cocked, but when shot single-action, has a relatively light trigger pull. I now own my dad's old.22 rifle that he used to let me shoot when I was about three (with his help, of course). The lightest of the bunch is my.300 Win-Mag rifle, which would probably fire if you sneezed near it.
And yes, for the record, I keep them locked so my daughter can't get to any of them.
I had always wondered about the wisdom of posting such videos on-line. I understand that the desire to brag about how fast you can ride your superbike or sports car can be pretty powerful, but if you take a video of yourself driving/riding well in excess of the speed limit, and then post it on-line, what is to stop the police from using it against you? You've essentially confessed to the crime, so all they would have to do is prove who was riding at the time. Is it really that hard to prove that? I guess there might be an issue with jurisdiction, too, but it still seems to me that anyone driving or riding that fast and then posting the video, deserves the jail time and/or fines they get. That's just stupid.
Except that a web browser doesn't show you the raw contents of what is being transferred back and forth. Okay, wget or lynx can, but why spend several minutes on the man pages trying to figure out which flags to use, when a simple telnet would already have showed you what you need to see. TCPDump and wireshark will give you the raw data, too, but that's sometimes an elephant gun when you are troubleshooting a mosquito sized problem. My entire point is that there is a multitude of tools that a knowledgeable admin can draw upon. Telnet is one of them. It's not always the appropriate tool, but sometimes it is, and I miss it when it isn't there, or when it is but it's a limited version.
Point taken. I'm the last one to say one size fits all, and I suspect that most of the people on/. are savvy enough to weigh the pros and cons of SSD vs. 2.5" SATA drive. I was just arguing that a lot of technical decisions are made by non-technical people solely on the basis of cost, without considering what that additional cost is buying.
Were I using telnet to gain a command shell on a remote device, you might have point (maybe). However, if you think that that's all telnet is good for, then you are showing just how little you understand about system administration.
For giggles, try this:
$ telnet slashdot.org 80
Trying 216.34.181.45...
Connected to slashdot.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET http://slashdot.org/
<...snip...>
$
If you can't see how that could possibly be useful for network testing, then I won't bother to continue arguing with you. I've got better things to do.
First, reread GPP: "They took telnet out of 64-bit versions of Windows:(".
Second, this was an example of a tool that is (sometimes) missing in Windows. IIRC, and I could be mistaken, it is missing from XP Home. GPP says it is missing in 64-bit Windows. Maybe so, maybe no, but even when it is present, it is significantly lobotomized by default. On 2K and XP, for example, when telnetting to port 25 or port 110 to send/receive e-mail manually (something I do regularly as an ISP sys admin), it does not echo back what you type by default, and it also royally screws with the formatting when you use the delete or backspace key (can't remember which; it's been a while). I recall seeing somewhere that there is a flag that you can set to alter this behaviour, but since I am already familiar with Linux, I'd just rather use it.
For perhaps a better example, I believe it was Fyodor who complained that SP2 on XP (again, IIRC) broke the way Windows handles raw sockets, which significantly limited the way nmap works. I believe there have since been workarounds (not being a Windows user, I haven't bothered to follow the issue very closely), but that right there is the crux of the problem -- in my experience, I find that I have to work around Windows. OTOH, I can simply *use* Linux. Maybe that's because I use Linux more often, and therefore it seems intuitive to me, whereas Windows doesn't. Maybe someone who is really good at Windows would have to work around Linux. Whatever; it's all good. Linux is the most effective toolkit for me. If it's not for you, then more power to you.
In any case, good job making an uninformed decision about how informed my decisions are on the basis of two sentences I wrote on a forum [:rolleyes:]
BlackBox is really lightweight. It's what I run on my dinosaur 700MHz Celeron desktop at home (yeah, I pretty much always use a laptop or netbook any more). OTOH, I wouldn't give it to someone who's never used Linux before.
How much storage does yours have? My Mini-9 came with 32G of storage, of which I am currently using 52%, even after copying a bunch of crap to it. 'Course, I don't play the games you've mentioned above...
There are millions who don't know the difference, other than price. If my wife saw two identical-looking machines, one with an SSD drive, the other with a 2.5" SATA drive, she wouldn't even consider the difference in durability or battery life. She would complain about both things later, but at purchase time, she would go with the less expensive option (BTDT).
No thanks. I'll stick with Ubuntu on my Mini-9 and SSD drive. I have more storage than I need, no moving parts, a battery that lasts for-frigging-ever and no heads to impact the platters if I drop the netbook while it's on.
My Mini9 did. Granted, it was a slightly modified version of Ubuntu (a few packages were missing from the package manager), but it worked well enough that it was several months before I decided to install the full-blown version of 9.10. Even then, I doubt that any users that don't already have a favorite Linux distro would miss the things (openSSH server, for one) that lead me to install the full version of Ubuntu.
Start-up time isn't so important to me, because I typically have a web browser open when I am using my computer. If I only start my browser once or twice a day, that's not such a big deal. On the other hand, that does have the effect of making memory usage more important.
Slashdot Mirror
"Sunspots...cast a glare in my eyes."
I didn't take it as a personal attack. My point is that step_dad != dont_care, which is essentially what Tomahawk was suggesting. Follow the thread: binarylarry said "loss of his child is punishment enough." Tomahawk rebuts, "...it wasn't actually _his_ child." I rebut that whether or not the child is biologically related does not necessarily have anything to do with whether or not the parent/guardian has emotional attachments with the child. To logically counter Tomahawk's thesis requires only a single counter-example, which I provided (myself). QED.
Ideally???
'Kay...just as soon as I no longer hear about rapes, murder, burglaries or other crimes in the news (or through the grapevine, just so you don't try banning freedom of speech while you're trying to ban firearms in the home). Since that ain't gonna happen....
I'm a step-dad, and if you think that makes a whit of difference as to how much I care about my step-daughter, then may I respectfully suggest that you don't have a frigging clue what you are talking about?
I'm not sure that makes anything any better. The description of how it was left out is plausible (maybe not convincing, but it could happen, at least). However, for the mother to be three feet away and not notice that the gun was left out, even when the child reached to pick it up, seems a little odd.
What if it was an illegal gun?
What if it wasn't?
I'm not saying I disagree with you (I don't), but there is enough criminal negligence to pursue already. Don't go getting people worked up about something that is purely speculation.
Trigger pull on otc firearms is high enough that your average small child won't be firing it.
Really? Are you sure about that? I own several guns, and have shot several more. None, AFAIK, have been modified after purchase; the trigger pull is as it was set at the factory. Some of them have trigger pulls that require a decent pull; others have very, very light trigger pulls -- such that yes, a small child could shoot them. I have a 9mm that has a rather hefty trigger pull if it is not already cocked, but when shot single-action, has a relatively light trigger pull. I now own my dad's old .22 rifle that he used to let me shoot when I was about three (with his help, of course). The lightest of the bunch is my .300 Win-Mag rifle, which would probably fire if you sneezed near it.
And yes, for the record, I keep them locked so my daughter can't get to any of them.
Details, details...
One word for you (or is it two?): "Timezone"
I had always wondered about the wisdom of posting such videos on-line. I understand that the desire to brag about how fast you can ride your superbike or sports car can be pretty powerful, but if you take a video of yourself driving/riding well in excess of the speed limit, and then post it on-line, what is to stop the police from using it against you? You've essentially confessed to the crime, so all they would have to do is prove who was riding at the time. Is it really that hard to prove that? I guess there might be an issue with jurisdiction, too, but it still seems to me that anyone driving or riding that fast and then posting the video, deserves the jail time and/or fines they get. That's just stupid.
Except that a web browser doesn't show you the raw contents of what is being transferred back and forth. Okay, wget or lynx can, but why spend several minutes on the man pages trying to figure out which flags to use, when a simple telnet would already have showed you what you need to see. TCPDump and wireshark will give you the raw data, too, but that's sometimes an elephant gun when you are troubleshooting a mosquito sized problem. My entire point is that there is a multitude of tools that a knowledgeable admin can draw upon. Telnet is one of them. It's not always the appropriate tool, but sometimes it is, and I miss it when it isn't there, or when it is but it's a limited version.
But...but...but...it's just a harmless bunny rabbit!
Oblig.:
Ubuntu is actually just Windows Vista with a few custom themes, so the DLL should run just fine.
We don't end up writing all of our pages in C.
I know a guy who does. He's a bit of a freak, though, so that doesn't invalidate your point :)
Point taken. I'm the last one to say one size fits all, and I suspect that most of the people on /. are savvy enough to weigh the pros and cons of SSD vs. 2.5" SATA drive. I was just arguing that a lot of technical decisions are made by non-technical people solely on the basis of cost, without considering what that additional cost is buying.
Free is indeed good :)
That's a seriously ignorant comment.
Were I using telnet to gain a command shell on a remote device, you might have point (maybe). However, if you think that that's all telnet is good for, then you are showing just how little you understand about system administration.
For giggles, try this:
$ telnet slashdot.org 80 Trying 216.34.181.45... Connected to slashdot.org. Escape character is '^]'. GET http://slashdot.org/ <...snip...> $
If you can't see how that could possibly be useful for network testing, then I won't bother to continue arguing with you. I've got better things to do.
First, reread GPP: "They took telnet out of 64-bit versions of Windows :(".
Second, this was an example of a tool that is (sometimes) missing in Windows. IIRC, and I could be mistaken, it is missing from XP Home. GPP says it is missing in 64-bit Windows. Maybe so, maybe no, but even when it is present, it is significantly lobotomized by default. On 2K and XP, for example, when telnetting to port 25 or port 110 to send/receive e-mail manually (something I do regularly as an ISP sys admin), it does not echo back what you type by default, and it also royally screws with the formatting when you use the delete or backspace key (can't remember which; it's been a while). I recall seeing somewhere that there is a flag that you can set to alter this behaviour, but since I am already familiar with Linux, I'd just rather use it.
For perhaps a better example, I believe it was Fyodor who complained that SP2 on XP (again, IIRC) broke the way Windows handles raw sockets, which significantly limited the way nmap works. I believe there have since been workarounds (not being a Windows user, I haven't bothered to follow the issue very closely), but that right there is the crux of the problem -- in my experience, I find that I have to work around Windows. OTOH, I can simply *use* Linux. Maybe that's because I use Linux more often, and therefore it seems intuitive to me, whereas Windows doesn't. Maybe someone who is really good at Windows would have to work around Linux. Whatever; it's all good. Linux is the most effective toolkit for me. If it's not for you, then more power to you.
In any case, good job making an uninformed decision about how informed my decisions are on the basis of two sentences I wrote on a forum [:rolleyes:]
BlackBox is really lightweight. It's what I run on my dinosaur 700MHz Celeron desktop at home (yeah, I pretty much always use a laptop or netbook any more). OTOH, I wouldn't give it to someone who's never used Linux before.
How much storage does yours have? My Mini-9 came with 32G of storage, of which I am currently using 52%, even after copying a bunch of crap to it. 'Course, I don't play the games you've mentioned above...
There are millions who don't know the difference, other than price. If my wife saw two identical-looking machines, one with an SSD drive, the other with a 2.5" SATA drive, she wouldn't even consider the difference in durability or battery life. She would complain about both things later, but at purchase time, she would go with the less expensive option (BTDT).
No thanks. I'll stick with Ubuntu on my Mini-9 and SSD drive. I have more storage than I need, no moving parts, a battery that lasts for-frigging-ever and no heads to impact the platters if I drop the netbook while it's on.
but did it have Ubuntu on it by default?
My Mini9 did. Granted, it was a slightly modified version of Ubuntu (a few packages were missing from the package manager), but it worked well enough that it was several months before I decided to install the full-blown version of 9.10. Even then, I doubt that any users that don't already have a favorite Linux distro would miss the things (openSSH server, for one) that lead me to install the full version of Ubuntu.
Real geeks read straight html.
Start-up time isn't so important to me, because I typically have a web browser open when I am using my computer. If I only start my browser once or twice a day, that's not such a big deal. On the other hand, that does have the effect of making memory usage more important.