No conservative US person would allow the country run on foreign software. This would mean that the federal government would run on Mac OS X or a custom US version of *nix.
Oh, it's better than that. Encryption export restrictions. The USA would (maybe literally) destroy MSFT if they tried to leave.
Well then... it sounds as though Washington would have better luck recouping its money if it simply raised the state income tax.
But by taxing Microsoft the Company, they tax *Everyone in the freakin World*... Expect Windows8 and Office2012 to cost at least $100 more than MS originally planned.
I don't print, because it's ugly: only infants who haven't learned to write properly yet use printing.
If we're going to resort to ad-hominem attacks, then I might as well point out that your thoughts are ugly and infantile. I wish you had only written them instead of typing them. If other people can actually read your cursive penmanship, you are a member of an extreme minority. Most people's cursive is and always has been uglier than their printing (ugly meaning looking less like the ideal of their respective types). Go back under your bridge.
You don't, you use the many available tools to do what you want to all the machines via scripts. This is the same thing you do when you realize that group policy only exists for a couple things and everything else you are on your own.
I admin both 'doze and 'nix, and although what you say about AD is true, you're not completely correct. AD is so handy to create GPOs with batch files to apply to machines automagically when they are thrown in an OU. Sure, you can always add computer names/IPs to a config file for automated scripts in cfengine, but AD is easy for subordinates to deal with.
Once you've got everything installed, I hear Filewave can be useful in deploying packages and keeping config files synced. I've also heard of headaches with the same product, so your mileage will certainly vary.
Cars do make noise. In my experience, the tires on the street make a lot more noise nowadays than the engines.
Adding artificial noise is silly and stupid.
When the wind is blowing the wrong way and the car is only going 35mph, it is easy to miss the tire noise. Adding artificial noise is serious life-saving intelligent action.
What privacy? Those are Google's emails. They were sent by your friends to Google. That they are about you and you are allowed to read them makes no difference to their ownership. /sarcasm...?
Writing in print is writing each letter like the printer does, without linking them ? How can you write an essay like that ? It must take ages ? In France we learn it and then quickly forget it to only write cursive.
Writing in cursive beats writing in print only when you're using a quill or fountain pen with an inkwell, to reduce ink-splash. Writing in print is faster, more legible, environmentally friendly, and more economical.
The thing with "doesn't matter to me" is that opinion on cursive writing is always going to be polarised. On a forum like Slashdot there's usually no point even raising the issue. The forum is largely populated with philistines who couldn't give a fuck about anything as individual as handwriting.
OK, I guess I made my own position clear enough in the last sentence. Yes, I still write with a fountain-pen (and sometimes even a quill) on paper in addition to using a keyboard.
There is still a lot to be said for a low-tech approach that is not vulnerable to power blackouts, viruses, malware or spyware.
That's what non-cursive writing (printing) is for. It's much more legible to people other than the writer.
I feel like requiring users to opt in and fully explaining to them what they are opting into is a better solution. I liked this technology (as a Facebook and Blockbuster Online user), and having it taken away because some vocal minority of paranoid privacy advocates are worried someone will find out that they watched Wild Things 2 last night is not American. This is a free country, if I want to open myself up to this, that should be my choice. Then again... obamacare, bailouts... I guess this isn't America anymore anyway.
This is a free country, if some people don't want companies illegally sharing their personally identifiable information (PII), they have a right to sue. This is a free country, if Facebook wants to shut down their service to quell that lawsuit, that's their right. BTW, you're still open to it, it just doesn't exist anymore.
That's one reason that "marijuana leads to harder drugs".
Nah, it's mostly that making it illegal drives you to a dealer, who often stocks the other stuff. Make it something you can buy at Safeway and that will stop.
Alcohol is perfectly legal, and yet people go to a dealer who stocks illegal marijuana anyway. Seems like the pattern wouldn't be any different, just the pieces in the pattern.
What is the distance of the repulsive death-stench versus the attractive food-stench? No matter how repulsive the death-stench is, if it's only a few cm, then the roaches are drawn by the food, whereupon they get trapped before realizing "ZOMG dead roaches!"
Wrong, all this plastic was going to be made into NEW plastics....
Some plastics don't recycle into other plastics well. Plus, a lot of people look at a recycle bin and trash can, and don't feel the urge to recycle if it just becomes plastic again. But announce that recycled plastics will be made into OIL and people will start recycling like crazy.
The disk access speed on those must be truly pathetic. Putting 15 drives on a single PCI bus is rather like trying to suck a bowling ball through a garden hose.
So just go down to your local sleezy street corner and hire a professional to set the system up. Experience is everything.
It's usually faster to run ComboFix + MalwareBytes (half hour between the tools in most cases) than it is to nuke it from orbit and reinstall Windows. Unless you're paranoid, two programs will take care of your end of your extended family's implied social support contract.
It used to be A rocked, and then A and B rocked. Then B started to suck, so we used A & C, then malware defeated A, so we used D & C (C had to be used second), with a splash of E. A came back with a new version, and we'll call it F. F'n rocked! Then it sucked. etc.
I could never be bothered figuring out which version of what software _really_ cleans up this week's malware. I always would nuke from orbit (after judiciously backing up data using the drive as a neutered USB disk).
in a democracy, we all get what the worst of us deserve.
This is the most ridiculous statement I've ever read or heard. The worst of us deserve _execution_. None but the worst of us should be subjected to it. Perhaps you meant s/democracy/elementary school/ ?
"We're all staying inside for recess until Johnny learns to mind his manners."
Maybe Johnny *likes* staying inside during recess...
to stop thieves and free riders and to help creators actually get paid for their work
"The" purpose? No, that's just the only socially acceptable purpose. There's also lock-in, forcing you to re-buy content you already own, the ability to take content back from you either intentionally or just by making a server go dark. You sir, are disingenuous.
The term interception means to secretly hear, secretly record, or aid another to secretly hear or secretly record the contents of any wire or oral communication through the use of any intercepting device by any person other than a person given prior authority by all parties to such communication; [...]
So the cop talked a little too loud on the phone, the belligerent guy overheard, and he's suddenly guilty of interception? (I didn't RTFA)
If you reversed the bias and say asked IT pros whether they'd rather work with a serial killing evil psychopath who's usually right or the most wonderful person in the world who's usually wrong then chances are the results would come out reversed.
That all depends on whether the goal is to write a filesystem.
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No conservative US person would allow the country run on foreign software. This would mean that the federal government would run on Mac OS X or a custom US version of *nix.
Oh, it's better than that. Encryption export restrictions. The USA would (maybe literally) destroy MSFT if they tried to leave.
Well then... it sounds as though Washington would have better luck recouping its money if it simply raised the state income tax.
But by taxing Microsoft the Company, they tax *Everyone in the freakin World*... Expect Windows8 and Office2012 to cost at least $100 more than MS originally planned.
I don't print, because it's ugly: only infants who haven't learned to write properly yet use printing.
If we're going to resort to ad-hominem attacks, then I might as well point out that your thoughts are ugly and infantile. I wish you had only written them instead of typing them. If other people can actually read your cursive penmanship, you are a member of an extreme minority. Most people's cursive is and always has been uglier than their printing (ugly meaning looking less like the ideal of their respective types). Go back under your bridge.
When the wind is blowing the wrong way and the car is only going 35mph, it is easy to miss the tire noise.
Which is why it's important to always pay attention and look out for other traffic.
Is this an Abbot and Costello skit? We're talking about blind pedestrians...
It happens all the time. I'm sure they could do an audit of histories to actual posts to see how often.
You don't, you use the many available tools to do what you want to all the machines via scripts. This is the same thing you do when you realize that group policy only exists for a couple things and everything else you are on your own.
I admin both 'doze and 'nix, and although what you say about AD is true, you're not completely correct. AD is so handy to create GPOs with batch files to apply to machines automagically when they are thrown in an OU. Sure, you can always add computer names/IPs to a config file for automated scripts in cfengine, but AD is easy for subordinates to deal with.
Once you've got everything installed, I hear Filewave can be useful in deploying packages and keeping config files synced. I've also heard of headaches with the same product, so your mileage will certainly vary.
That will teach our bearded gourmet! There's no free(-as-in-speech) lunch!
I think you meant to write:
That will teach our beard gourmet! There's no free(-as-in-beer) after-lunch snack!
Cars do make noise. In my experience, the tires on the street make a lot more noise nowadays than the engines. Adding artificial noise is silly and stupid.
When the wind is blowing the wrong way and the car is only going 35mph, it is easy to miss the tire noise. Adding artificial noise is serious life-saving intelligent action.
What privacy? Those are Google's emails. They were sent by your friends to Google. That they are about you and you are allowed to read them makes no difference to their ownership.
/sarcasm ...?
Writing in print is writing each letter like the printer does, without linking them ? How can you write an essay like that ? It must take ages ? In France we learn it and then quickly forget it to only write cursive.
Writing in cursive beats writing in print only when you're using a quill or fountain pen with an inkwell, to reduce ink-splash. Writing in print is faster, more legible, environmentally friendly, and more economical.
The thing with "doesn't matter to me" is that opinion on cursive writing is always going to be polarised. On a forum like Slashdot there's usually no point even raising the issue. The forum is largely populated with philistines who couldn't give a fuck about anything as individual as handwriting. OK, I guess I made my own position clear enough in the last sentence. Yes, I still write with a fountain-pen (and sometimes even a quill) on paper in addition to using a keyboard. There is still a lot to be said for a low-tech approach that is not vulnerable to power blackouts, viruses, malware or spyware.
That's what non-cursive writing (printing) is for. It's much more legible to people other than the writer.
That situation would be likely to kill a seeing person as well.
A seeing person that has his eyes closed, maybe. Cars should make noise; not all intersections have streetlights.
If only we had taken a page from Bugs Bunny and drawn the line on a cliff's edge.
I feel like requiring users to opt in and fully explaining to them what they are opting into is a better solution. I liked this technology (as a Facebook and Blockbuster Online user), and having it taken away because some vocal minority of paranoid privacy advocates are worried someone will find out that they watched Wild Things 2 last night is not American. This is a free country, if I want to open myself up to this, that should be my choice. Then again... obamacare, bailouts... I guess this isn't America anymore anyway.
This is a free country, if some people don't want companies illegally sharing their personally identifiable information (PII), they have a right to sue. This is a free country, if Facebook wants to shut down their service to quell that lawsuit, that's their right. BTW, you're still open to it, it just doesn't exist anymore.
That's one reason that "marijuana leads to harder drugs".
Nah, it's mostly that making it illegal drives you to a dealer, who often stocks the other stuff. Make it something you can buy at Safeway and that will stop.
Alcohol is perfectly legal, and yet people go to a dealer who stocks illegal marijuana anyway. Seems like the pattern wouldn't be any different, just the pieces in the pattern.
Wonder how his addiction will do in jail...
"You have been poked by Ben Dover."
What is the distance of the repulsive death-stench versus the attractive food-stench? No matter how repulsive the death-stench is, if it's only a few cm, then the roaches are drawn by the food, whereupon they get trapped before realizing "ZOMG dead roaches!"
Wrong, all this plastic was going to be made into NEW plastics....
Some plastics don't recycle into other plastics well. Plus, a lot of people look at a recycle bin and trash can, and don't feel the urge to recycle if it just becomes plastic again. But announce that recycled plastics will be made into OIL and people will start recycling like crazy.
Unrelated: This thread reminded me of this cartoon: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037181/ http://www.disneyshorts.org/years/1944/plasticsinventor.html
The disk access speed on those must be truly pathetic. Putting 15 drives on a single PCI bus is rather like trying to suck a bowling ball through a garden hose.
So just go down to your local sleezy street corner and hire a professional to set the system up. Experience is everything.
It's usually faster to run ComboFix + MalwareBytes (half hour between the tools in most cases) than it is to nuke it from orbit and reinstall Windows. Unless you're paranoid, two programs will take care of your end of your extended family's implied social support contract.
It used to be A rocked, and then A and B rocked. Then B started to suck, so we used A & C, then malware defeated A, so we used D & C (C had to be used second), with a splash of E. A came back with a new version, and we'll call it F. F'n rocked! Then it sucked. etc.
I could never be bothered figuring out which version of what software _really_ cleans up this week's malware. I always would nuke from orbit (after judiciously backing up data using the drive as a neutered USB disk).
in a democracy, we all get what the worst of us deserve.
This is the most ridiculous statement I've ever read or heard. The worst of us deserve _execution_. None but the worst of us should be subjected to it. Perhaps you meant s/democracy/elementary school/ ?
"We're all staying inside for recess until Johnny learns to mind his manners."
Maybe Johnny *likes* staying inside during recess...
to stop thieves and free riders and to help creators actually get paid for their work
"The" purpose? No, that's just the only socially acceptable purpose. There's also lock-in, forcing you to re-buy content you already own, the ability to take content back from you either intentionally or just by making a server go dark. You sir, are disingenuous.
The term interception means to secretly hear, secretly record, or aid another to secretly hear or secretly record the contents of any wire or oral communication through the use of any intercepting device by any person other than a person given prior authority by all parties to such communication; [...]
So the cop talked a little too loud on the phone, the belligerent guy overheard, and he's suddenly guilty of interception? (I didn't RTFA)
If you reversed the bias and say asked IT pros whether they'd rather work with a serial killing evil psychopath who's usually right or the most wonderful person in the world who's usually wrong then chances are the results would come out reversed.
That all depends on whether the goal is to write a filesystem.