Thanks for the link. I've been thinking about buying a netbook. When I saw one of the screenshots showing the ui, I thought pretty much what you said. Oh look, it's WebTV! I've read people saying they do lots of things with them, provided that you install something better. So your link helps.
I don't usually post to old stories, but this needs to be said in the interest of accuracy.
Yes, tank man survived the Tiananmen square ordeal. I have seen the video of it. After the tank made I believe 2 turns (trying to go around him), and had stopped for a few minutes, a group of bystanders ran into the street and forced tank man off of the street.
This video was in a documentary called Tank Man, which I saw at documentarywire.com.
Unfortunately, this site is no longer around, or I would link you to the video. I'm also at work right now, so I can't google it.
Rarely does a single article capture so much of what is wrong with a culture. We have:
- Broken window - Excessive fines - Government corruption/collusion with private businesses - Legislated business models - Original sin as defined by the One True Authority. And, of course, only they have the cure.
Disgusting if you think about it for more than 15 seconds.
Unless you account for differing abilities you'll penalize teachers with the special ed kids in their class since some fraction of them will score below the required level; alternatively you may see a rise in SPEDs as schools and teachers realize that by mandating a child receive special adaptations during a test (as required by law) they can raise scores.
We may see? No, I work in public education, and I assure you, we are seeing that.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Well, it was one of the things I was thinking. I get a weird feeling from this article:
This is a job he was trained for. Extraordinarily, Hadow was raised by a woman - his father's old nanny - who had once worked for Scott of the Antarctic and who was hired to toughen the young man up with treatment that sounds as if it bordered on abuse: sending him out from his home in the Highlands into blizzards and gales with as few clothes on as possible. This only stopped when he was discovered to have frostnip. His father passed on a love of frozen adventure, and the boy was discovered to have unusual physical endurance. At Harrow School, for example, he single-handedly resurrected the dormant tradition of Long Ducker, which has pupils running a marathon-length course all the way to Marble Arch. He later worked as a sports agent, but found his calling after his father died. Spontaneously, at the deathbed, he vowed to get to the North Pole unaided. On his third attempt, he found himself in tears on his knees at the pole, saying: "I've done it, Dad. For you."
Look, I'm sure this guy is Brad Pitt or whatever, but this seems a little melodramatic. Why can't subs do this? What about rovers? They can't pathfind around the water? Still though, subs should have no problem, except that they're more expensive. I'm sure this is important, but TFA just has a really wankerish vibe to it.
a) as little data as possible needs to be given up in the first place b) when possible, non-identifying data should be used b) data needs to be retained for as short of a time period as possible
As usual, these are precisely the things that will not be done, and will in fact be fought against by society at all levels. Because we're idiots.
And as usual, if we actually did those things, then we might have less law and more liberty. Oh the horror.
I sent an email to friends and family the other day where I said, "It doesn't matter if we keep switching between right foot and left foot. We're still marching in the same direction."
Thank god these things are cyclical though. There's a natural limit to how tyrannical a society can get before it all just implodes.
----"While the Internet has generated many positive changes in the way we communicate and do business, its limitless nature offers anonymity that has opened the door to criminals looking to harm innocent children," U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said at a press conference on Thursday. "Keeping our children safe requires cooperation on the local, state, federal, and family level."----
As a Texan, I officially apologize, a thousand times over, for John Fucking Cornyn. This guy needs to go down.
Money has a way of ruining software, any sort of funds directed at any open source projects which are not directly relevant to the government's functions probably isn't a good thing.
If they really wanted to help open source, then just change the procurement rules.
If you want to sell an x86 board to the federal government, you will open up the bios, make it public domain, and it will be hosted on a federal.gov website.
Or how about chipsets, nics, sound and graphics chips? Now we're talking.
Make the hardware companies make their money by producing good hardware. Shock, horror! Don't force them to, just don't buy their crap if they don't comply.
Or if you want to sell an OS to the federal government, you must provide public domain code for imaging your OS. This could be the code they use themselves, so it would get thoroughly tested. Granted this doesn't help open source, but it would make my life a hell of a lot easier.
Thank you for putting a relevant ad on your page (the one to the independent download shop). That was the first internet ad I've intentionally clicked on in years.
We should be so lucky that all sites would do that.
To everyone else:
Is it really that hard to understand your target demographic? And another thing: Do you know why adblock plus didn't catch this? Probably because the image in question is hosted at beckermanlegal.com, rather than soullessAdCompanyFromHell.biz.
You sound like you know a bit about CJK. If you don't mind, I'd like to ask you some things about it, particularly as it relates to character encodings. Would you mind emailing me?
When the economy really turns to shit, we'll likely start invading other resource-rich nations and stealing from them. That will likely escalate into WW3.
Because a core tenet of the American mindset is this: No matter the problem, it can't possibly be my fault. And by extension, we view our country as blameless in all respects. Even to the point that we're confused and offended if anyone else dares resist us.
First comment I've read in this story that's even in the ballpark of reality.
No one wants to face the fact that we're fucked, that there's nothing but time that can fix this, and that, even if there was something we could do, we (of course) would be too stupid or spineless to actually do it.
Remove their monopoly on prosecuting criminal offenses? Why shouldn't they be charged with kidnapping? Why shouldn't cops be charged with murder when someone is shot in a middle-of-the-night-no-knock-raid from some anonymous tip?
Yes, I am insane. But you know, would it really be worse than what we have? Probably be good just to put the fear of the mob into them, if only for a year or so.
The true Divines are Tiber Septim, Boethia, and Mara!
But seriously, I thought the corprus religions in the caves were the single most badass thing about that game. Well, that and being a legally sanctioned hitman.
"And before someone brings it up - it's not that difficult to work around the "it'll prompt you for your password" protection that supposedly will warn you if something tries to take advantage of your admin status. You just need to know a bit about the command line, since the Applications directory is writable to anyone in the admin group."
You're saying it's not hard for an attacker to fake the password request dialog? I'm curious because TMK linux doesn't do this at all, and vista has the thing where it fades the entire screen, but I've never seen what OSX does, and I'd like to know how much of a vulnerability it is.
What if microsoft made you put in an admin password on startup, but made your default account a limited user? And since, on home OEM systems, they usually log you in automatically, why not require something like F8 safe mode to login as admin?
That way, people would still be able log in as admin if necessary, but it would provide a decent idiot filter. When you temporarily need admin, like when you're installing a new program, just pop up a dialog and let them put in the password once. Yeah, I know, but at least vista does the fade thing when this would happen.
Sure, this might make things more difficult for a while, before people get used to it. But anyone who's ever tried to image a windows install knows that microsoft has no problem making things unnecessarily difficult when they want to. I've heard this is better with vista, but have not had to image it yet.
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Thanks for the link. I've been thinking about buying a netbook. When I saw one of the screenshots showing the ui, I thought pretty much what you said. Oh look, it's WebTV! I've read people saying they do lots of things with them, provided that you install something better. So your link helps.
Right on about eliminating tax exempt status.
Who gets to decide who's going to be tax exempt? Well, government of course. Bad idea.
Here is the video. You can see the part I'm talking about shortly after the beginning.
I don't usually post to old stories, but this needs to be said in the interest of accuracy.
Yes, tank man survived the Tiananmen square ordeal. I have seen the video of it. After the tank made I believe 2 turns (trying to go around him), and had stopped for a few minutes, a group of bystanders ran into the street and forced tank man off of the street.
This video was in a documentary called Tank Man, which I saw at documentarywire.com.
Unfortunately, this site is no longer around, or I would link you to the video. I'm also at work right now, so I can't google it.
Rarely does a single article capture so much of what is wrong with a culture. We have:
- Broken window
- Excessive fines
- Government corruption/collusion with private businesses
- Legislated business models
- Original sin as defined by the One True Authority. And, of course, only they have the cure.
Disgusting if you think about it for more than 15 seconds.
We may see? No, I work in public education, and I assure you, we are seeing that.
Ok, who was the wiseass who invited the RNC to start writing /. summaries?
Doh, just lost my mod points.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Well, it was one of the things I was thinking. I get a weird feeling from this article:
Look, I'm sure this guy is Brad Pitt or whatever, but this seems a little melodramatic. Why can't subs do this? What about rovers? They can't pathfind around the water? Still though, subs should have no problem, except that they're more expensive. I'm sure this is important, but TFA just has a really wankerish vibe to it.
I can't read tfa at work.
A few things. Change the law such that:
a) as little data as possible needs to be given up in the first place
b) when possible, non-identifying data should be used
b) data needs to be retained for as short of a time period as possible
As usual, these are precisely the things that will not be done, and will in fact be fought against by society at all levels. Because we're idiots.
And as usual, if we actually did those things, then we might have less law and more liberty. Oh the horror.
The amount of time spent daily doing job searches is inversely proportional to the amount of money you have left.
Cool analogy.
I sent an email to friends and family the other day where I said, "It doesn't matter if we keep switching between right foot and left foot. We're still marching in the same direction."
Thank god these things are cyclical though. There's a natural limit to how tyrannical a society can get before it all just implodes.
----"While the Internet has generated many positive changes in the way we communicate and do business, its limitless nature offers anonymity that has opened the door to criminals looking to harm innocent children," U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said at a press conference on Thursday. "Keeping our children safe requires cooperation on the local, state, federal, and family level."----
As a Texan, I officially apologize, a thousand times over, for John Fucking Cornyn. This guy needs to go down.
(At work, can't read the dude's blog.)
Money has a way of ruining software, any sort of funds directed at any open source projects which are not directly relevant to the government's functions probably isn't a good thing.
If they really wanted to help open source, then just change the procurement rules.
If you want to sell an x86 board to the federal government, you will open up the bios, make it public domain, and it will be hosted on a federal .gov website.
Or how about chipsets, nics, sound and graphics chips? Now we're talking.
Make the hardware companies make their money by producing good hardware. Shock, horror! Don't force them to, just don't buy their crap if they don't comply.
Or if you want to sell an OS to the federal government, you must provide public domain code for imaging your OS. This could be the code they use themselves, so it would get thoroughly tested. Granted this doesn't help open source, but it would make my life a hell of a lot easier.
To NYCL:
Thank you for putting a relevant ad on your page (the one to the independent download shop). That was the first internet ad I've intentionally clicked on in years.
We should be so lucky that all sites would do that.
To everyone else:
Is it really that hard to understand your target demographic? And another thing: Do you know why adblock plus didn't catch this? Probably because the image in question is hosted at beckermanlegal.com, rather than soullessAdCompanyFromHell.biz.
Vote NYCL for Secretary of the Clue Stick 2010!
PrezBO?? REally?
Seeing that word makes me reconsider my stance on the first amendment.
Hi.
You sound like you know a bit about CJK. If you don't mind, I'd like to ask you some things about it, particularly as it relates to character encodings. Would you mind emailing me?
REEL BIG PHAN
no spaces
at google's mail server
Thanks.
When the economy really turns to shit, we'll likely start invading other resource-rich nations and stealing from them. That will likely escalate into WW3.
Because a core tenet of the American mindset is this: No matter the problem, it can't possibly be my fault. And by extension, we view our country as blameless in all respects. Even to the point that we're confused and offended if anyone else dares resist us.
First comment I've read in this story that's even in the ballpark of reality.
No one wants to face the fact that we're fucked, that there's nothing but time that can fix this, and that, even if there was something we could do, we (of course) would be too stupid or spineless to actually do it.
Things are starting to catch up with us.
Remove their monopoly on prosecuting criminal offenses? Why shouldn't they be charged with kidnapping? Why shouldn't cops be charged with murder when someone is shot in a middle-of-the-night-no-knock-raid from some anonymous tip?
Yes, I am insane. But you know, would it really be worse than what we have? Probably be good just to put the fear of the mob into them, if only for a year or so.
Heretic!
The true Divines are Tiber Septim, Boethia, and Mara!
But seriously, I thought the corprus religions in the caves were the single most badass thing about that game. Well, that and being a legally sanctioned hitman.
Curious, what do you mean by this:
"And before someone brings it up - it's not that difficult to work around the "it'll prompt you for your password" protection that supposedly will warn you if something tries to take advantage of your admin status. You just need to know a bit about the command line, since the Applications directory is writable to anyone in the admin group."
You're saying it's not hard for an attacker to fake the password request dialog? I'm curious because TMK linux doesn't do this at all, and vista has the thing where it fades the entire screen, but I've never seen what OSX does, and I'd like to know how much of a vulnerability it is.
What if microsoft made you put in an admin password on startup, but made your default account a limited user? And since, on home OEM systems, they usually log you in automatically, why not require something like F8 safe mode to login as admin?
That way, people would still be able log in as admin if necessary, but it would provide a decent idiot filter. When you temporarily need admin, like when you're installing a new program, just pop up a dialog and let them put in the password once. Yeah, I know, but at least vista does the fade thing when this would happen.
Sure, this might make things more difficult for a while, before people get used to it. But anyone who's ever tried to image a windows install knows that microsoft has no problem making things unnecessarily difficult when they want to. I've heard this is better with vista, but have not had to image it yet.
Nicely done. Software patents are ridiculous for many of the same reasons that all patents are ridiculous. Let's get rid of them all.
I wasn't aware of that. Makes about as much sense as most of our other laws, I guess.
Doh. Guess those weren't the FRENCHMEN, were they?
Never liked this nerd license anyway.