For what it's worth, many Linksys routers run standard linux router distributions. The customized ones work a little easier, and are a firmware upload away.
Doesn't nullify your point... just pedantry on my part:)
It's not a perfect solution, but jailbreaking the phone does the same thing. Turns out that the software stack really is pretty powerful, with a bunch of great apps in the fourth-party installer (fourth as in disallowed 3rd)
It irks me to do it, but it takes maybe 3 minutes (with QuickPwn) every couple of months, and opens up a world of features.
McCain isn't taking Palin seriously; she hasn't actually done anything, has she?
His arrogance in picking her is indicitave of his sexism - he was hoping that Clinton women would give up all their principles and vote for a ticket opposed to what Clinton stood for.
After all, politics is the realm of men. Women will just go "OMG A WOMAN" and vote for her, right?
You're creating a straw man. Having a Muslim president doesn't mean you need to 'submit to Allah'. In fact, he'd probably tone his religin far, far back - if he was a muslim - to avoid reminding people about it. And we need less religion interfering in rational thought, anyway.
It's annoying when people are douches. Really, it is.
But the problem almost certainly your hardware. Lots of hardware sucks, that's not necessarily your fault, but it's not Linux's fault either.
If somebody 'in the know' offers to tell you how to work around the hardware's suckage, it might feel like splicing monkey DNA into the kernel. It could also be a boot option like noapci.
But it's not their fault, and it's not Linux's fault, that your hardware sucks
No, I'm not a fanboi. I use Windows XP at home, and quite enjoy it, but I like linux. I'm just trying to be fair
Basically, Linux does (and always has) coded workarounds to other peoples' (hardware manufacturers, primarily) dumbassery. They've gotten pretty good at it.
Let me say it again, because you didn't seem to understand: Your hardware is the problem. Linux supports ACPI flawlessly. Your hardware doesn't, so Linux doesn't work properly. If your hardware did support ACPI properly, Linux would work fine. Who's at fault here?
And, for what it's worth and as someone else already said, your hardware was made to work with Windows, not ACPI.
You have crap hardware. If you didn't, you wouldn't have this problem. Now, is it Linux's fault?
And finally, Linux has been - again - coding end-runs around this kind of dumbassery for years. Devs will continue to do it. Why not mention your specific laptop model to someone with the ability to fix it?
I understand what you're saying - it's not useful to you - but you're writing off linux as a whole because your hardware sucks. And that's not fair.
I have the WifiRouter (jailbreak) application on my phone and have a tested 1.4MBps while moving. My Motorola RAZR of a year or two ago (also HSDPA, and explicitly supported tethering) has the same performance in the same area.
So although I know the article says it's due to rendering speeds (which are noticeably bad on the iPhone at times), some people have been bitching about the network. It's not the network, or network hardware.
I implemented OpenID for myself (to be a provider) on my site this afternoon.
The reason it's so strange is because it's a different paradigm. To be fair, I didn't get it at-fucking-all when I found out Yahoo was a provider, and tried to use it.
Basically, the URL you input is essentially a fancy way of telling the site to redirect you to your provider, who certifies you on their page with their records, and getting a token back.
The upshot of this is that - with some confidence - you can say that the person you see now is the same you saw last time, and even on a different site.
It's all the challenge of a website registration, but only once
I think the difficulty people have with this is that the website isn't authenticating you or even taking any info! It's a relatively unexpected way to go about things, but it actually makes a lot of sense.
If you pretend the email address for a forum login is really a username (the email bit has no real significance most of the time), then the OpenID URL is also a username that you can consider equally meaningless. You're just presented with the same 'login' page everywhere.
Although I completely agree with you about usability - it literally made no sense until I set up my own provider. With better documentation it'd be fine.
I set up OpenID on my site this afternoon in two hours. Half of that was fucking around with Drupal to insert the correct tags in it.
That's to be my own provider. I already had one through Yahoo!.
You don't understand how OpenID works, really. That's OK - I didn't until I set up this afternoon - but you shouldn't go on about it if you don't know how it works.
Basically, you log into a site with your OpenID. That's basically a fancy website with a login box. The provider is the one who certifies you as who you say you are - with a password, smart card, or SSL cert; it's up to them.
Then you get to decide whether having an email address (which can be had for free in seconds) is more 'authenticating' than having a provider certify you. So for forums and things, it's fine.
Yes, it's ridiculously insecure - anybody can be their own provider, and anybody can get a free ID from a provider! Oh noes! But it's actually pretty good at certifying that somebody is the same person as they were last time, or from somewhere else.
So this is to replace the user/pass you need at forums and blogs to post comments or download stuff. Basically. And it does that pretty well.
On a somewhat related note, why the hell is an email address better than a openid.yahoo.com/username ? Because it's what people know best? Try again.
Here's the problem: I don't believe a "secular society" is even possible in logical terms. What defines a crime, if not morality? Anytime you describe laws in terms of "right" and "wrong," you are entering the realm of morality."
Perhaps secular means something to you, but it means religion of some sort to me. I resent the idea that morality is tied to religion, because it implies that - as an atheist - I can't be moral. I don't have any religious tenets to uphold that make me moral.
And morals do spring into being, more or less, on some introspection. It's mainly an extension of the "golden rule" you may remember from school, about treating others like you'd treat yourself.
For example, I'm an EMT, volunteer, so I'm not in it for the money. I was off-call one day, heard a call go out that happened to be around my corner, and went. Guy had had a heart attack, so I started CPR, defibrillator, and saved his life.
What makes me annoyed is when people imply that my compulsion to do 'the right thing' must be based on more than my idea that I'd want that kind of concern for a fellow man. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but people seem to assume that I wouldn't do this without some sort of religion kicking my ass into line. It's not that complicated - I have the abilities, means, and time to help other people, so I do.
I'd consider it WORKSFORME, because that only implies the singular person. Bug free means free of any bugs... and a bug is something that doesn't work properly. Even if you don't run that code-path, it still isn't (or wouldn't) behave properly.
No need to be a dick. Saying you're writing in assembler (where assembler is a tool that takes operators and operands, and converts them into 0s and 1s) just sounds stupid. Plus it's wrong... like he said, assembler is a program, assembly is a language. You don't write in GCC, do you?
I won't reiterate everything everybody else said about Steam. I will add that we tolerate - hell, almost enjoy - having it because it adds value.
Let me say that again - it adds value to the product. The steam client is free, and when you log in on a new computer, a recent format, or a friend's computer your games are available. No screwing around finding CD's or (worse) CD-keys. Friends work across games (a lot like XBOX Live) - something that disparate games won't have. You can play when the game's only about half downloaded (no idea how - it's dark magic)
Again - with all the things the DRM enables, the content-protection bit might as well only be a side-effect of the features.
To put it another way - Steam DRM has been cracked. For a while. But I still buy from Steam, because it's easier, faster, and more full-featured than the pirate.
And give Slashdot's historic disregard of non-bias
To be fair, they are a blog (except before some bastard came up with the word 'blog')
In any case, which would you rather have? Hidden bias, or open bias? People side one way or the other... it's always had an impact. It's just less visible now.
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Which is why it makes an excellent shooting target.
The code was Linux.
For what it's worth, many Linksys routers run standard linux router distributions. The customized ones work a little easier, and are a firmware upload away.
Doesn't nullify your point... just pedantry on my part :)
It's not a perfect solution, but jailbreaking the phone does the same thing. Turns out that the software stack really is pretty powerful, with a bunch of great apps in the fourth-party installer (fourth as in disallowed 3rd)
It irks me to do it, but it takes maybe 3 minutes (with QuickPwn) every couple of months, and opens up a world of features.
McCain isn't taking Palin seriously; she hasn't actually done anything, has she?
His arrogance in picking her is indicitave of his sexism - he was hoping that Clinton women would give up all their principles and vote for a ticket opposed to what Clinton stood for.
After all, politics is the realm of men. Women will just go "OMG A WOMAN" and vote for her, right?
You're creating a straw man. Having a Muslim president doesn't mean you need to 'submit to Allah'. In fact, he'd probably tone his religin far, far back - if he was a muslim - to avoid reminding people about it. And we need less religion interfering in rational thought, anyway.
It's annoying when people are douches. Really, it is.
But the problem almost certainly your hardware. Lots of hardware sucks, that's not necessarily your fault, but it's not Linux's fault either.
If somebody 'in the know' offers to tell you how to work around the hardware's suckage, it might feel like splicing monkey DNA into the kernel. It could also be a boot option like noapci.
But it's not their fault, and it's not Linux's fault, that your hardware sucks
No, I'm not a fanboi. I use Windows XP at home, and quite enjoy it, but I like linux. I'm just trying to be fair
No, the problem is your hardware.
Basically, Linux does (and always has) coded workarounds to other peoples' (hardware manufacturers, primarily) dumbassery. They've gotten pretty good at it.
Let me say it again, because you didn't seem to understand: Your hardware is the problem. Linux supports ACPI flawlessly. Your hardware doesn't, so Linux doesn't work properly. If your hardware did support ACPI properly, Linux would work fine. Who's at fault here?
And, for what it's worth and as someone else already said, your hardware was made to work with Windows, not ACPI.
You have crap hardware. If you didn't, you wouldn't have this problem. Now, is it Linux's fault?
And finally, Linux has been - again - coding end-runs around this kind of dumbassery for years. Devs will continue to do it. Why not mention your specific laptop model to someone with the ability to fix it?
I understand what you're saying - it's not useful to you - but you're writing off linux as a whole because your hardware sucks. And that's not fair.
to...promote the general Welfare...
That's pretty clear. The government, fundamentally, is created and empowered by us to be beneficial to us. Not sit on its ass and do nothing.
Allowing people to survive is why government exists in the first place. Allowing people to be healthy isn't too far of a jump from that.
I have the WifiRouter (jailbreak) application on my phone and have a tested 1.4MBps while moving. My Motorola RAZR of a year or two ago (also HSDPA, and explicitly supported tethering) has the same performance in the same area.
So although I know the article says it's due to rendering speeds (which are noticeably bad on the iPhone at times), some people have been bitching about the network. It's not the network, or network hardware.
I implemented OpenID for myself (to be a provider) on my site this afternoon.
The reason it's so strange is because it's a different paradigm. To be fair, I didn't get it at-fucking-all when I found out Yahoo was a provider, and tried to use it.
Basically, the URL you input is essentially a fancy way of telling the site to redirect you to your provider, who certifies you on their page with their records, and getting a token back.
The upshot of this is that - with some confidence - you can say that the person you see now is the same you saw last time, and even on a different site.
It's all the challenge of a website registration, but only once
I think the difficulty people have with this is that the website isn't authenticating you or even taking any info! It's a relatively unexpected way to go about things, but it actually makes a lot of sense.
If you pretend the email address for a forum login is really a username (the email bit has no real significance most of the time), then the OpenID URL is also a username that you can consider equally meaningless. You're just presented with the same 'login' page everywhere.
Although I completely agree with you about usability - it literally made no sense until I set up my own provider. With better documentation it'd be fine.
You're missing the point.
I set up OpenID on my site this afternoon in two hours. Half of that was fucking around with Drupal to insert the correct tags in it.
That's to be my own provider. I already had one through Yahoo!.
You don't understand how OpenID works, really. That's OK - I didn't until I set up this afternoon - but you shouldn't go on about it if you don't know how it works.
Basically, you log into a site with your OpenID. That's basically a fancy website with a login box. The provider is the one who certifies you as who you say you are - with a password, smart card, or SSL cert; it's up to them.
Then you get to decide whether having an email address (which can be had for free in seconds) is more 'authenticating' than having a provider certify you. So for forums and things, it's fine.
Yes, it's ridiculously insecure - anybody can be their own provider, and anybody can get a free ID from a provider! Oh noes! But it's actually pretty good at certifying that somebody is the same person as they were last time, or from somewhere else.
So this is to replace the user/pass you need at forums and blogs to post comments or download stuff. Basically. And it does that pretty well.
On a somewhat related note, why the hell is an email address better than a openid.yahoo.com/username ? Because it's what people know best? Try again.
Both have, several times in fact.
Be warned; this is already on metasploit. The intrepid can find this for themselves...
Testing it to see if it actually works though.
Because that's what happened with social security, right?
Oh, wait...
Alright, poop is coming out
Perhaps I was overly harsh.
What threw me off was the line:
Here's the problem: I don't believe a "secular society" is even possible in logical terms. What defines a crime, if not morality? Anytime you describe laws in terms of "right" and "wrong," you are entering the realm of morality."
Perhaps secular means something to you, but it means religion of some sort to me. I resent the idea that morality is tied to religion, because it implies that - as an atheist - I can't be moral. I don't have any religious tenets to uphold that make me moral.
And morals do spring into being, more or less, on some introspection. It's mainly an extension of the "golden rule" you may remember from school, about treating others like you'd treat yourself.
For example, I'm an EMT, volunteer, so I'm not in it for the money. I was off-call one day, heard a call go out that happened to be around my corner, and went. Guy had had a heart attack, so I started CPR, defibrillator, and saved his life.
What makes me annoyed is when people imply that my compulsion to do 'the right thing' must be based on more than my idea that I'd want that kind of concern for a fellow man. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but people seem to assume that I wouldn't do this without some sort of religion kicking my ass into line. It's not that complicated - I have the abilities, means, and time to help other people, so I do.
So atheists are immoral jackasses. Good to know.
Do you honestly feel people can't avoid being dicks without the threat of fire and brimstone?
Some people just aren't tools, you know.
Wow you're pretty funny.
Jesus, sometimes people scare me. Unless you were actually joking, of course.
Hysterical? Not quite - he just didn't mince words telling a guy to back up the 'ridiculous' claims he made.
I'd consider it WORKSFORME, because that only implies the singular person. Bug free means free of any bugs... and a bug is something that doesn't work properly. Even if you don't run that code-path, it still isn't (or wouldn't) behave properly.
No need to be a dick. Saying you're writing in assembler (where assembler is a tool that takes operators and operands, and converts them into 0s and 1s) just sounds stupid. Plus it's wrong... like he said, assembler is a program, assembly is a language. You don't write in GCC, do you?
I won't reiterate everything everybody else said about Steam. I will add that we tolerate - hell, almost enjoy - having it because it adds value.
Let me say that again - it adds value to the product. The steam client is free, and when you log in on a new computer, a recent format, or a friend's computer your games are available. No screwing around finding CD's or (worse) CD-keys. Friends work across games (a lot like XBOX Live) - something that disparate games won't have. You can play when the game's only about half downloaded (no idea how - it's dark magic)
Again - with all the things the DRM enables, the content-protection bit might as well only be a side-effect of the features.
To put it another way - Steam DRM has been cracked. For a while. But I still buy from Steam, because it's easier, faster, and more full-featured than the pirate.
Spore, on the other hand...
And give Slashdot's historic disregard of non-bias
To be fair, they are a blog (except before some bastard came up with the word 'blog')
In any case, which would you rather have? Hidden bias, or open bias? People side one way or the other... it's always had an impact. It's just less visible now.
I'm fairly sure that's what he said. He even specifically mentioned photoshop