The problem with this is with the ultra friendly desktops the learning curve is not steep its almost non-existant. I personally jumped ship from Windows XP over to Slackware overnight with a little bit of prior experience in Slackware from so long ago it doesn't really count. Now my machines are all Sun RISC and X86 running Solaris and Slackware with no windows whatsoever.
This is not the ideal solution but it helps illustrate that the ultra friendly desktops aren't always it either.
I tried Ubuntu and I hated it I couldn't stand how it looked and it just felt wrong, Fedora feels the same way as do most of the others save FreeBSD, Slackware and, Solaris.
I know my personal preferences do not work for everyone and neither do my distro's of choice but it never ever hurts to suffer a little bit while you learn.
Don't forget liveCD versions are a nice way to test how things feel for you on the UI side before you make any more permanent changes.
The "american-centric" DNS system serves as a standard just like he said. There's no american conspiracy to keep any culture from using their traditional characters for DNS names it simply wasn't built for that. I personally can't wait for the day when I can get DNS in characters I've made up using my etch-a-sketch.
4) GENERAL Although not absolutely prohibited, officers should give additional consideration to the unique circumstances involved prior to applying the Taser to any of the following individuals: . A) Pregnant females; B) Elderly individuals or obvious juveniles; C) Individuals who are handcuffed or otherwise restrained; D) Individuals who have been recently sprayed with alcohol based Pepper Spray or who are otherwise in close proximity to any combustible material; E) Individuals whose position or activity may result in collateral injury (e.g. falls from significant heights, operating vehicles, etc.)
I think it pretty much works against them still. You can't possibly explain having to tase a passive resistor already in handcuffs they're pretty much restrained. Whether or not their pain compliance technique is right or not is another issue to them going completely overboard.
In all my encounters with the police I have had one treat me like I just might be a decent person. This proves that I should continue to distrust the police and other law enforcement agencies.
DBAN will not work in any server I have tried if your in a company setting. Maybe I'm a screwup though who knows.
Tried
Compaq (SmartArray Controller)
Dell (Perc both I and not I)
Supermicro (whatever it had)
HP (SmartArray again)
IBM (ServeRaid 8k)
Didn't bother trying a Sun server after that since none of the others seemed to work correctly.
Best bet in those cases is RHEL on 1 drive in something that holds 4 or so hard drives and just write something to dump random/urandom/zero to it like already mentioned.
I'd have mod'ed that up if you hadn't posted AC and I had some points. Its important that there be an easy starting point just to keep it moving forward.
Maybe out of 1000 people trying Ubuntu only 340 move on to something more advanced like Slackware and maybe out of that 340 only 50 or even just 5 contribute something to an open source project it's still new blood and fresh meat which is never bad for creativity.
I'm sure this will get mod'ed redundant too. Such is life.
Hopefully they will get wise to the sham that are the majority of your products and either switch or complain endlessly.
I bought the XP Pro license (like a dumbass I know) after pirating it for a couple years in an attempt to do the right thing and it really just made things worse somehow. Maybe thats because I don't have an easy way to take off SP2 with my legit license.
Of my 8 computers though it's 1 OpenBSD, 3 Slackware, 3 Solaris and 1 Windows. Hopefully by the time XP is at its EOL Transgaming Cedega will have seriously matured.
If you don't like they're priorities switch. Its not an option for some but Microsoft won't listen until they lose serious market share.
Im sure this is redundant somewhere down the line but I am pretty sure if you take the number of people that have been "randomly" searched and factor in the amount of times theyve flown I think it would be a good pointer towards how not random they really are.
If I have no criminal record and I fly 9 times and I am searched 8 while You fly 134,564 (exageration) and are searched 2 then I would say either my luck is horrid and I look like an asshole or its just flat out not random.
I would bet you could statistically work out profiling too (again probably redundant). But once we get both of these percents the question is, is it legal? I would say no not really but even more to the point how about the question, "Is anyone going to do anything about it?"
More and more people complain about the state of things and few are ready to say anything or do anything.
If they can get away with it, they will do it.
To quote someone else (probably):
Silence is Acceptance.
Horseshit...
I called Comcast to complain about the amount of spam I was getting from a single domain. Previously I had (or remember having) a method to block email as I chose. Now they're telling me to use filtering rules? Way to protect me there thanks. You can't whitelist you can't blacklist and your dynamic ip isn't so dynamic. Comcast doesn't care.
The Abuse@spammers has been more helpful than my own isp. But thats okay because they blacklisted The Well whom Ive never recieved a normal message from let alone spam.
Heh. Just because he's being extradited and charged in the U.S. doesn't mean it will stick with 10 years per or he will be forced to pay the extremely asanine price quoted for "damage".
He hasn't set foot in a U.S. court yet and you folks are already foaming at the mouth.
You think he would be in any less trouble if he was screwing around in the British Military's computers?
don't forget to put in the standard minimum time too. For those calls I like 20 minutes.
I get a good bit of these when people wonder why they aren't getting their full bandwidth commit as the result of a cnet style broadband test. These are the customers who aren't even on T1's they just use the standard feed with no sla once it hits the public internet and don't like to be told there isn't a whole lot anyone can do about it.
What about when they beat the hell out of you for not allowing them to violate your rights? It may not be Rodney King style but a beat down is still a beat down.
~Rep. Lamar Smith had a question: 'Could not Amazon.com be accused of being a ~troll for patenting the one-click?'
I'm kind of confused as to how this negates the fact it should be fixed.
Also the extraneous comment about him smiling concerns me. He is overly pleased with himself for having the observational powers of a 10 year old child.
Nintendo hasn't really been a threat to either company for many years. It makes perfect sense that microsoft would rather split your money with nintendo than have you buy a playstation. It's also not unreasonable to say that a parent (unless the kid is spoiled to hell) will not buy their child a playstation 3, Xbox 360 AND Nintendo. Unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised if this logical assumption was completely untrue at this point.
I am also compelled to add that no game could match Double Dragon and Ninja Gaiden for NES.
I think the fundamental difference between windows and linux, is the community. Linux is subject to this kind of scrutiny where I don't think window's gets nearly as much. So you will hear the occasional outcry about there being too many holes or this gaping security flaw or this critical error in linux kernels and distrobutions but it's something the community will take care of and fix themselves where we don't have to wait on Apple or Microsoft or IBM or anyone to come up with a fix. Another thing that gives linux the advantage in this kind of debate is the degree to which it can be customized for the user. The user does not have to install each and every single component where in windows it can be fairly difficult although not impossible to leave things out.
There will always be people that care about open source around to take care of their favorite distrobution and if you think your favorite distrobution needs a little bit of a change and you can't write the needed code theres always a place to suggest it and then discuss why or why not its a good/bad idea. Personally I try to donate whatever I can to my distro of choice because I think its that good and it fits. In my attempt to quit smoking I've started donating what I would have spent on patches or smokes to slackware. If you like your distrobution donate and I doubt it will become an issue.
If this kind of thing is a concern of yours there is always something you can do to pitch in even if a simple hello world! is beyond your ability.
Im kinda tempted to setup another machine and load it with as many email addresses as possible. Logic to me says if they start spamming you and you remain a bluefrog member then they are going to choke the hell out of their networks with unsubscribe messages. I have no idea what the bluefrog ratio is but I would guess its 1 to 1. If they increase the mail they send you 10-20 fold the systems they are sending from will get 10 to 20 fold more autoreply's from bluefrog. I don't know what bluefrog's hosting situation is but I bet the mail going out is alot easier for bluefrog than it is for the spammers who probably have smaller operations and have to recieve it. If they are already hurting I doubt they can keep the tactic up for long and the increased traffic generated by their increased traffic is probably enough to cripple a mail server and drag a network down.
Some of the mails from the "hackers" don't seem to well thought out either. Whether or not the BlueFrog company is run by Jewish people is completely irrelevant. Whether or not bluefrog's tactic's are illegal is questionable. So they are spamming the spammers big deal who cares. And the whole fair play thing is laughable. Sure I don't want the email's so I go to the unsubscribe link and enter my real email address and they sell it to 20 other companies I would hardly call that fair. While I try to stay somewhat ethical and I don't agree with DDoS attacks I find it extremely hard to care if someone sending out massive amounts of mail gets attacked. I'm actually kind of upset that Im missing out on the fun.
HAHA I figured that would come up so yeah I can definately say Im not surprised I just hope it doesn't pass. Someone has to be smart enough to know this is very bad.
Whenever you let a corporation get their hands on a law they mold it to best suit them and that is exactly what has happened.
Why in the HELL would you let Microsoft or any other company PERIOD to write or even assist in the writing of a law like this. All Im saying is that they wrote the law to protect the computer from all illegal activites but give them and every other company free reign on your machine. Thats NEVER good! What kind of dumbass do you need to be to see this is a positive thing?
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The problem with this is with the ultra friendly desktops the learning curve is not steep its almost non-existant. I personally jumped ship from Windows XP over to Slackware overnight with a little bit of prior experience in Slackware from so long ago it doesn't really count. Now my machines are all Sun RISC and X86 running Solaris and Slackware with no windows whatsoever.
This is not the ideal solution but it helps illustrate that the ultra friendly desktops aren't always it either.
I tried Ubuntu and I hated it I couldn't stand how it looked and it just felt wrong, Fedora feels the same way as do most of the others save FreeBSD, Slackware and, Solaris.
I know my personal preferences do not work for everyone and neither do my distro's of choice but it never ever hurts to suffer a little bit while you learn.
Don't forget liveCD versions are a nice way to test how things feel for you on the UI side before you make any more permanent changes.
I'd mod you up but I don't have any points :p
The "american-centric" DNS system serves as a standard just like he said. There's no american conspiracy to keep any culture from using their traditional characters for DNS names it simply wasn't built for that. I personally can't wait for the day when I can get DNS in characters I've made up using my etch-a-sketch.
4) GENERAL
Although not absolutely prohibited, officers should give additional consideration to the unique circumstances involved prior to applying the
Taser to any of the following individuals: .
A) Pregnant females;
B) Elderly individuals or obvious juveniles;
C) Individuals who are handcuffed or otherwise restrained;
D) Individuals who have been recently sprayed with alcohol based Pepper
Spray or who are otherwise in close proximity to any combustible material;
E) Individuals whose position or activity may result in collateral injury (e.g.
falls from significant heights, operating vehicles, etc.)
I think it pretty much works against them still. You can't possibly explain having to tase a passive resistor already in handcuffs they're pretty much restrained. Whether or not their pain compliance technique is right or not is another issue to them going completely overboard.
In all my encounters with the police I have had one treat me like I just might be a decent person. This proves that I should continue to distrust the police and other law enforcement agencies.
DBAN will not work in any server I have tried if your in a company setting. Maybe I'm a screwup though who knows. Tried Compaq (SmartArray Controller) Dell (Perc both I and not I) Supermicro (whatever it had) HP (SmartArray again) IBM (ServeRaid 8k) Didn't bother trying a Sun server after that since none of the others seemed to work correctly. Best bet in those cases is RHEL on 1 drive in something that holds 4 or so hard drives and just write something to dump random/urandom/zero to it like already mentioned.
I just burned the inside of my nose with hot coffee, I'd mod you up but it's not my turn. That and PERL was a great language.
I'd have mod'ed that up if you hadn't posted AC and I had some points. Its important that there be an easy starting point just to keep it moving forward.
Maybe out of 1000 people trying Ubuntu only 340 move on to something more advanced like Slackware and maybe out of that 340 only 50 or even just 5 contribute something to an open source project it's still new blood and fresh meat which is never bad for creativity.
I'm sure this will get mod'ed redundant too. Such is life.
Hopefully they will get wise to the sham that are the majority of your products and either switch or complain endlessly.
I bought the XP Pro license (like a dumbass I know) after pirating it for a couple years in an attempt to do the right thing and it really just made things worse somehow. Maybe thats because I don't have an easy way to take off SP2 with my legit license.
Of my 8 computers though it's 1 OpenBSD, 3 Slackware, 3 Solaris and 1 Windows. Hopefully by the time XP is at its EOL Transgaming Cedega will have seriously matured.
If you don't like they're priorities switch. Its not an option for some but Microsoft won't listen until they lose serious market share.
Im sure this is redundant somewhere down the line but I am pretty sure if you take the number of people that have been "randomly" searched and factor in the amount of times theyve flown I think it would be a good pointer towards how not random they really are. If I have no criminal record and I fly 9 times and I am searched 8 while You fly 134,564 (exageration) and are searched 2 then I would say either my luck is horrid and I look like an asshole or its just flat out not random. I would bet you could statistically work out profiling too (again probably redundant). But once we get both of these percents the question is, is it legal? I would say no not really but even more to the point how about the question, "Is anyone going to do anything about it?" More and more people complain about the state of things and few are ready to say anything or do anything. If they can get away with it, they will do it. To quote someone else (probably): Silence is Acceptance.
Horseshit... I called Comcast to complain about the amount of spam I was getting from a single domain. Previously I had (or remember having) a method to block email as I chose. Now they're telling me to use filtering rules? Way to protect me there thanks. You can't whitelist you can't blacklist and your dynamic ip isn't so dynamic. Comcast doesn't care. The Abuse@spammers has been more helpful than my own isp. But thats okay because they blacklisted The Well whom Ive never recieved a normal message from let alone spam.
Heh. Just because he's being extradited and charged in the U.S. doesn't mean it will stick with 10 years per or he will be forced to pay the extremely asanine price quoted for "damage".
He hasn't set foot in a U.S. court yet and you folks are already foaming at the mouth.
You think he would be in any less trouble if he was screwing around in the British Military's computers?
don't forget to put in the standard minimum time too. For those calls I like 20 minutes.
I get a good bit of these when people wonder why they aren't getting their full bandwidth commit as the result of a cnet style broadband test. These are the customers who aren't even on T1's they just use the standard feed with no sla once it hits the public internet and don't like to be told there isn't a whole lot anyone can do about it.
What about when they beat the hell out of you for not allowing them to violate your rights? It may not be Rodney King style but a beat down is still a beat down.
~Rep. Lamar Smith had a question: 'Could not Amazon.com be accused of being a ~troll for patenting the one-click?'
I'm kind of confused as to how this negates the fact it should be fixed.
Also the extraneous comment about him smiling concerns me. He is overly pleased with himself for having the observational powers of a 10 year old child.
Nintendo hasn't really been a threat to either company for many years. It makes perfect sense that microsoft would rather split your money with nintendo than have you buy a playstation. It's also not unreasonable to say that a parent (unless the kid is spoiled to hell) will not buy their child a playstation 3, Xbox 360 AND Nintendo. Unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised if this logical assumption was completely untrue at this point. I am also compelled to add that no game could match Double Dragon and Ninja Gaiden for NES.
I think the fundamental difference between windows and linux, is the community. Linux is subject to this kind of scrutiny where I don't think window's gets nearly as much. So you will hear the occasional outcry about there being too many holes or this gaping security flaw or this critical error in linux kernels and distrobutions but it's something the community will take care of and fix themselves where we don't have to wait on Apple or Microsoft or IBM or anyone to come up with a fix. Another thing that gives linux the advantage in this kind of debate is the degree to which it can be customized for the user. The user does not have to install each and every single component where in windows it can be fairly difficult although not impossible to leave things out.
There will always be people that care about open source around to take care of their favorite distrobution and if you think your favorite distrobution needs a little bit of a change and you can't write the needed code theres always a place to suggest it and then discuss why or why not its a good/bad idea. Personally I try to donate whatever I can to my distro of choice because I think its that good and it fits. In my attempt to quit smoking I've started donating what I would have spent on patches or smokes to slackware. If you like your distrobution donate and I doubt it will become an issue.
If this kind of thing is a concern of yours there is always something you can do to pitch in even if a simple hello world! is beyond your ability.
Im kinda tempted to setup another machine and load it with as many email addresses as possible. Logic to me says if they start spamming you and you remain a bluefrog member then they are going to choke the hell out of their networks with unsubscribe messages. I have no idea what the bluefrog ratio is but I would guess its 1 to 1. If they increase the mail they send you 10-20 fold the systems they are sending from will get 10 to 20 fold more autoreply's from bluefrog. I don't know what bluefrog's hosting situation is but I bet the mail going out is alot easier for bluefrog than it is for the spammers who probably have smaller operations and have to recieve it. If they are already hurting I doubt they can keep the tactic up for long and the increased traffic generated by their increased traffic is probably enough to cripple a mail server and drag a network down. Some of the mails from the "hackers" don't seem to well thought out either. Whether or not the BlueFrog company is run by Jewish people is completely irrelevant. Whether or not bluefrog's tactic's are illegal is questionable. So they are spamming the spammers big deal who cares. And the whole fair play thing is laughable. Sure I don't want the email's so I go to the unsubscribe link and enter my real email address and they sell it to 20 other companies I would hardly call that fair. While I try to stay somewhat ethical and I don't agree with DDoS attacks I find it extremely hard to care if someone sending out massive amounts of mail gets attacked. I'm actually kind of upset that Im missing out on the fun.
HAHA I figured that would come up so yeah I can definately say Im not surprised I just hope it doesn't pass. Someone has to be smart enough to know this is very bad. Whenever you let a corporation get their hands on a law they mold it to best suit them and that is exactly what has happened.
Why in the HELL would you let Microsoft or any other company PERIOD to write or even assist in the writing of a law like this. All Im saying is that they wrote the law to protect the computer from all illegal activites but give them and every other company free reign on your machine. Thats NEVER good! What kind of dumbass do you need to be to see this is a positive thing?