Oh - and to say that the US is using torture as part of their righteous christian way of doing things is a political agenda ??? Even when it's evident - it is a political agenda ???
Sometimes I wish I where an american - stupid and conceded and sure in my own ways...
Google was the ones who showed alta-vista how to do search. Now when they are NOT being contemporary (like the abu ghirab thing is recent events) - they DO appear censoring - coz we all think their technology couldn't be the problem
Yup that's it ! thnx to all of you for being so suggestible:D
And as you see yourself moderating these posts, you can't help feeling good about the slashdot community, how helpful they are, what a resource they are, and you start to see these posts as the very embodiment of these qualities and you see the options in the selectbox, and you ponder the various options, and somehow these posts seems to be even more ontopic and informative than the original story itself, and smiling to yourself you mod ALL these posts +5 Informative, and you feel good about being part of this wonderful community, and you feel good about showing your appreciation and you feel warm inside and the rest of the day you walk around slightly drooling from excessive smiling, forgetting that your zipper is undone, and everybody is so nice to you, even the guys in the handsome uniforms, who are so helpful and show you what a wonderful world there is outside the building.
This is totally OT, but yet somehow you feel a strong inner urge to just respond, you can't help thinking 'uhhmmm I'd so like to respond to this post, and as you reach for the reply link you blahblahbla'
*SNAP*
A month ago or so, Slashdot had a story about a service that worked like a distributed web-cache, a sort of p2p for ISPs.
The idea was that you could browse any page on the net, but by appending a certain domaine to the original domaine you wouldn't actually hit the box, but rather a distributed cache of the content of that box.
So you'd go
www.smallsite.org.xx.yy
and you wouldn't be slashdotting the poor smallsite box.
I can't remember the xx.yy part (I think it was some university in the States) and I can't remember what that service was called. I've tried extensive slashdot and google searches, but I obviously can't remember the keywords for this service.
'And as you've read the question, you dig deep into your memory, you come to the mountain of pizza-cardboxes and broken dreams and you go past that - all the way down, and you feel this urge to reply and you slowly reach for the TAB key and start tabbing your way down to the REPLY link....'
I cant for the life of me remember what that internet P2P browsing system was called. I remember that it was some american university. I've googled and searched Slashdot but I am suffering total aphasia (sic?)
The idea was that by appending a certain domain to your url you could browse a site via distributed p2p rather than hitting the box directly, like for instance
I often use the 'print this page' link - because when reading news it's often a far better layout for reading. Some sites pops up the printer page in a non-resizable puny little window. I'd like to be able to override the non-resizability ?
> "OMG! THEY BUY APPLES!" They own a large stake of the company,
No - they sold that large stake didn't they ?
>Repeat after me: "I am a loser. I fill the void that social retardation has left in my personality with stupid shit that nobody else gives a flying fuck about. My opinion does not matter to anyone but me. My continued insistence on software-as-religion is fucking stupid, and I need to go out and get laid or at LEAST interact with other humans in some way.
BUT the SBVFT are clearly lying, they are clearly organized by people who have done similar things in the past. Is that of no consequence to their message, is that not foul play ?
Calling Moores work foul play doesn't work. He is clearly stating his purpose (and nobody has collected the reward for proving him factaully at fault)
As for the many vets supporting it - there can be a tonne of reasons, mainly I think they are bitter that Kerry had the audacity to speak up about atrocities committed by the US in Vietnam. NONE of the vets in question served WITH Kerry. They either just served in Vietnam or in other boats.
The best option is to confront your son with the evidence, and force him to remove the offending programs. He will probably try to install the software again, but you will be able to tell that this is happening, if your machine offers to "download" one of the hacker applications. If this happens, it is time to give your son a stern talking to, and possibly consider punishing him with a grounding.
Hilarious !
Every time Good Ole' Internet Explorer of America asks for a plugin, the son gets a stern talking to and possibly a grounding:)
Google provides the client in a browser window. All you need to do is to click GIM on the google frontpage, and you're loggin on to the network.
Each chatline sent by the users is aggregated into a periodic search, adds are always on topic.
The userinterface is rich if the client supports it. Nothing too fancy, just typically google simple and to the point. If the client does not support it - it scales down gracefully, even to the point where it is totally server-based and relies on screenrefreshes (no frames of course)
The rich client is up for grabs. Anybody can implement their own frontend of GIM on their own webpage free of charge IF they show the google text-ads according to some guidelines laid out by google.
User base:
Google.com
It's there.
This would not preclude a downloadable executable that gave you voice/video/files transfer as well. The client would be based on Jabber - Google would even help extend the Jabber technology in order to accomplish this. Lotsa good karma on that one, plus a slew of both developers and clients.
I believe that if they do this - they'll probably end up a penny or two better off, I know I'd do it if I were them
Hey, that was a good post. Thanks for taking the time out.
Yes I criticize a lot - I know. But the 'head of the class' should be the head because he is the wisest, not because he is the biggest. The bully mentality alienates your friends and enrage your enemies. This is already happening big time.
I haven't heard about the election-fraud accusations in Germany, but we've had them in my country (Denmark). There is no doubt nor dispute about who got the votes in neither Germany nor my country though and you cannot imagine a society that has no corrupted individuals. You are right, Italy seems a farce under Berlosconi, and I really do NOT wanna turn this into a 'XX is better than YY' type thing, EU is far from any paradise, and we've certainly got our shit to work out.
However since you do the comparison, neither Germany nor Italy engages in preemptive warfare (thnx in big part to the US), but the US does. At least that is the impression you are left with if you first read PNAC and then consider who the prominent PNAC members are (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz...).
Oh, I don't believe for one second that these guys are stupid. Bonkers they may be - but stupid they're not. They know very well what they're doing. I am not sure they quite realise what their actions might entail (nor do I for that matter), but I am also not sure that they care too much.
No - what I meant when I said bonkers was you guys - the ones who lives in US, the real US. The ones whose votes will determine life and death matters all over the world. The ones whose votes will shape the international climate, the ones who won't vote because they 'it does not matter, nothing can be done anyways, I am not willing to waste my time trying'. That really seems odd.
US is so big, and you're probably right, we don't have diversity in the face the way you do. I am posting this from rather comfortable little DK (best place in the world, then our right wing took over), I am not in Romania or Albania or on the Balkans, I am not even in Italy. It's easy for me to sit here and be high-strung. That however, does not alter the fact that you guys really need to DO something. I just hope that this one time your apathy will be left at home when you go voting and that your election will end with the only reasonable outcome.
US is NOT the moral leader of the world, it's just the biggest military force in existence. A lot of US folks may not realise that, but that's how everybody else sees it. You can change that...
You said you torpedoed my point, and you came across rather snug about it. I therefore assumed that you were of a different and opposing opinion.
You implied that no matter the leadership, they'd be crooked, and yeah - u are probably right. Right now they just seem extremely crooked, hence the link to PNAC.
I don't claim anything about what you said, I ask you a question - that's why I have attached a '?' to the end of last sentence.
As for your willingness to debate... You start by 'torpedoing' me, then while proclaiming that you are 'willing to debate' you assert that I 'pull shit out of thin air'. I'll let that hang for a while.
Well - we pretty much agree then. I used fsck not to get sidetracked. Then I got sidetracked anyways, but sidetracked into agreement.
An unforeseen turn of events I must say.
>A lot of the rest of the US are just quieter about it than I am
You obviously know that better than I do. I live in Europe and I have never been to the States.
However it is my impression that 'quiter' would more appropriatly be "doesn't know/doesn't wanna know/doesn't care". An attitude that granted, seems to soak through all of the western countries, but with US being the all time champ.
I don't normally care much about politics (yup - that probably makes me a hipocryte right now), but these days the US is a tough act to swallow. The most powerful nation on earth, and they're completely bonkers. That's the kind of impression your current administration leaves the rest of the world with.
A country that sees it self as a beacon of democracy, freedom and human rights. Yet they can't educate their population to the point that it actually cares about voting. Probably as well, 'cause they can't conduct a normal democratic procedure anyways. They cannot distribute wealth in a reasonable way amongst the population and the whole idea of 'carrying a gun equals freedom' - and that's an issue ???
If you guys weren't loaded with nukes and what have you, it would be kind of funny. As it stands - it's scary.
Oh - and I do love a lot of what the US gives the world (no sarcasm). Music and arts in particular.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think the Finns celebrate thanksgiving - they're not THAT pro-US
moron
I shouldn't post when I am drunk :)
Far from all Americans are of course like that, and I apologize to them.
*were
Oh - and to say that the US is using torture as part of their righteous christian way of doing things is a political agenda ??? Even when it's evident - it is a political agenda ???
Sometimes I wish I where an american - stupid and conceded and sure in my own ways...
Bullshit !
Google was the ones who showed alta-vista how to do search. Now when they are NOT being contemporary (like the abu ghirab thing is recent events) - they DO appear censoring - coz we all think their technology couldn't be the problem
I can't see them via google.dk (Denmark)
Yup that's it ! thnx to all of you for being so suggestible :D
:)
And as you see yourself moderating these posts, you can't help feeling good about the slashdot community, how helpful they are, what a resource they are, and you start to see these posts as the very embodiment of these qualities and you see the options in the selectbox, and you ponder the various options, and somehow these posts seems to be even more ontopic and informative than the original story itself, and smiling to yourself you mod ALL these posts +5 Informative, and you feel good about being part of this wonderful community, and you feel good about showing your appreciation and you feel warm inside and the rest of the day you walk around slightly drooling from excessive smiling, forgetting that your zipper is undone, and everybody is so nice to you, even the guys in the handsome uniforms, who are so helpful and show you what a wonderful world there is outside the building.
There that should take care of the mods
This is totally OT, but yet somehow you feel a strong inner urge to just respond, you can't help thinking 'uhhmmm I'd so like to respond to this post, and as you reach for the reply link you blahblahbla'
*SNAP*
A month ago or so, Slashdot had a story about a service that worked like a distributed web-cache, a sort of p2p for ISPs.
The idea was that you could browse any page on the net, but by appending a certain domaine to the original domaine you wouldn't actually hit the box, but rather a distributed cache of the content of that box.
So you'd go
www.smallsite.org.xx.yy
and you wouldn't be slashdotting the poor smallsite box.
I can't remember the xx.yy part (I think it was some university in the States) and I can't remember what that service was called. I've tried extensive slashdot and google searches, but I obviously can't remember the keywords for this service.
'And as you've read the question, you dig deep into your memory, you come to the mountain of pizza-cardboxes and broken dreams and you go past that - all the way down, and you feel this urge to reply and you slowly reach for the TAB key and start tabbing your way down to the REPLY link....'
I cant for the life of me remember what that internet P2P browsing system was called. I remember that it was some american university. I've googled and searched Slashdot but I am suffering total aphasia (sic?)
The idea was that by appending a certain domain to your url you could browse a site via distributed p2p rather than hitting the box directly, like for instance
www.fearofslashdoteffect.com.xx.yy
banana-wumpus at 6.5 already ???
Boy I am on 0.1.0 and I just love it - gotta check out this new stuff !
While the Wikipedia effort may fall subject to criticism, you have to admit that they're certainly working hard for it
Thnx a bundle - u just gotta love Firefox :)
BTW. I did it thru about:config instead.
Is there an overview over all these settings somewhere ?
Prevent pop-up windows from being not-resizable ?
I often use the 'print this page' link - because when reading news it's often a far better layout for reading. Some sites pops up the printer page in a non-resizable puny little window. I'd like to be able to override the non-resizability ?
How many votes are expected to be processed by the Diehard machines ?
> "OMG! THEY BUY APPLES!" They own a large stake of the company,
No - they sold that large stake didn't they ?
>Repeat after me: "I am a loser. I fill the void that social retardation has left in my personality with stupid shit that nobody else gives a flying fuck about. My opinion does not matter to anyone but me. My continued insistence on software-as-religion is fucking stupid, and I need to go out and get laid or at LEAST interact with other humans in some way.
Eat your own dogfood man !
BUT the SBVFT are clearly lying, they are clearly organized by people who have done similar things in the past. Is that of no consequence to their message, is that not foul play ?
Calling Moores work foul play doesn't work. He is clearly stating his purpose (and nobody has collected the reward for proving him factaully at fault)
As for the many vets supporting it - there can be a tonne of reasons, mainly I think they are bitter that Kerry had the audacity to speak up about atrocities committed by the US in Vietnam. NONE of the vets in question served WITH Kerry. They either just served in Vietnam or in other boats.
I've been hooked on IL2 too, it's a fantastic game - especially online.
Never tried the TrackIR - but would've if I could've
The best option is to confront your son with the evidence, and force him to remove the offending programs. He will probably try to install the software again, but you will be able to tell that this is happening, if your machine offers to "download" one of the hacker applications. If this happens, it is time to give your son a stern talking to, and possibly consider punishing him with a grounding.
Hilarious !
Every time Good Ole' Internet Explorer of America asks for a plugin, the son gets a stern talking to and possibly a grounding :)
Ouch - man u're tough !
This has been fixed - remember Firefox is only at 0.93.
A lot of folks praise Firefox and more and more are using it. To me it's pretty simple: Firefox is the best browser, and it's not even finished yet.
Ease of use:
Google provides the client in a browser window. All you need to do is to click GIM on the google frontpage, and you're loggin on to the network.
Each chatline sent by the users is aggregated into a periodic search, adds are always on topic.
The userinterface is rich if the client supports it. Nothing too fancy, just typically google simple and to the point. If the client does not support it - it scales down gracefully, even to the point where it is totally server-based and relies on screenrefreshes (no frames of course)
The rich client is up for grabs. Anybody can implement their own frontend of GIM on their own webpage free of charge IF they show the google text-ads according to some guidelines laid out by google.
User base:
Google.com
It's there.
This would not preclude a downloadable executable that gave you voice/video/files transfer as well. The client would be based on Jabber - Google would even help extend the Jabber technology in order to accomplish this. Lotsa good karma on that one, plus a slew of both developers and clients.
I believe that if they do this - they'll probably end up a penny or two better off, I know I'd do it if I were them
Hey, that was a good post. Thanks for taking the time out.
Yes I criticize a lot - I know. But the 'head of the class' should be the head because he is the wisest, not because he is the biggest. The bully mentality alienates your friends and enrage your enemies. This is already happening big time.
I haven't heard about the election-fraud accusations in Germany, but we've had them in my country (Denmark). There is no doubt nor dispute about who got the votes in neither Germany nor my country though and you cannot imagine a society that has no corrupted individuals. You are right, Italy seems a farce under Berlosconi, and I really do NOT wanna turn this into a 'XX is better than YY' type thing, EU is far from any paradise, and we've certainly got our shit to work out.
However since you do the comparison, neither Germany nor Italy engages in preemptive warfare (thnx in big part to the US), but the US does. At least that is the impression you are left with if you first read PNAC and then consider who the prominent PNAC members are (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz...).
Oh, I don't believe for one second that these guys are stupid. Bonkers they may be - but stupid they're not. They know very well what they're doing. I am not sure they quite realise what their actions might entail (nor do I for that matter), but I am also not sure that they care too much.
No - what I meant when I said bonkers was you guys - the ones who lives in US, the real US. The ones whose votes will determine life and death matters all over the world. The ones whose votes will shape the international climate, the ones who won't vote because they 'it does not matter, nothing can be done anyways, I am not willing to waste my time trying'. That really seems odd.
US is so big, and you're probably right, we don't have diversity in the face the way you do. I am posting this from rather comfortable little DK (best place in the world, then our right wing took over), I am not in Romania or Albania or on the Balkans, I am not even in Italy. It's easy for me to sit here and be high-strung. That however, does not alter the fact that you guys really need to DO something. I just hope that this one time your apathy will be left at home when you go voting and that your election will end with the only reasonable outcome.
US is NOT the moral leader of the world, it's just the biggest military force in existence. A lot of US folks may not realise that, but that's how everybody else sees it. You can change that...
Here's a video for you
I am sorry if I come off staunch, I am just soo fucking amazed by the beast that is the US. The whole Swift-boat-liars-for-whatever affair, FOX news, Bush in general, Fahrenheit 9/11 etc...
Thnx for your post, it was a good read and I'd mod u up if I could.
You said you torpedoed my point, and you came across rather snug about it. I therefore assumed that you were of a different and opposing opinion.
You implied that no matter the leadership, they'd be crooked, and yeah - u are probably right. Right now they just seem extremely crooked, hence the link to PNAC.
I don't claim anything about what you said, I ask you a question - that's why I have attached a '?' to the end of last sentence.
As for your willingness to debate... You start by 'torpedoing' me, then while proclaiming that you are 'willing to debate' you assert that I 'pull shit out of thin air'. I'll let that hang for a while.
Well - we pretty much agree then. I used fsck not to get sidetracked. Then I got sidetracked anyways, but sidetracked into agreement.
An unforeseen turn of events I must say.
>A lot of the rest of the US are just quieter about it than I am
You obviously know that better than I do. I live in Europe and I have never been to the States.
However it is my impression that 'quiter' would more appropriatly be "doesn't know/doesn't wanna know/doesn't care". An attitude that granted, seems to soak through all of the western countries, but with US being the all time champ.
I don't normally care much about politics (yup - that probably makes me a hipocryte right now), but these days the US is a tough act to swallow. The most powerful nation on earth, and they're completely bonkers. That's the kind of impression your current administration leaves the rest of the world with.
A country that sees it self as a beacon of democracy, freedom and human rights. Yet they can't educate their population to the point that it actually cares about voting. Probably as well, 'cause they can't conduct a normal democratic procedure anyways. They cannot distribute wealth in a reasonable way amongst the population and the whole idea of 'carrying a gun equals freedom' - and that's an issue ???
If you guys weren't loaded with nukes and what have you, it would be kind of funny. As it stands - it's scary.
Oh - and I do love a lot of what the US gives the world (no sarcasm). Music and arts in particular.