but without nukes there is no apocalypse wtf? or doom's day. Isn't our role to go destroy ourselves so that JC can put a stop to it? or does our world have real choices?
At the time of the writing of Revelations, and almost 2000 years after, the belief was that JC's return _would_be_ the apocalypse. The ability of man to ruin the world is very recent; only a couple generations old.
Back surgeries to relieve pain are, in the majority of cases, no better than nonsurgical treatment, and knee surgery is no better than sham knee surgery where surgeons 'pretend' to do surgery while the patient is under light anesthesia.
To bring this topic back home; much better would be 3 strikes and you're assigned to a write man pages for the opensource X.org projects.
That's easy:
Xorg(1)
NAME Xorg - X11R7 X server
SYNOPSIS Xorg [:display] [option...]
DESCRIPTION The Full Documentation for Xorg is written in info form, which can be read by using the info command, as the author has a personal vendetta against man pages. This man page is created as a courtesy to people who don't like hypertext style documentation. Suffer through info or do without documentation, b!+ch3s !!1!
SEE ALSO X(7), Xserver(1), xdm(1), xinit(1), xorg.conf(5), xorgconfig(1), Web site <http://www.x.org>. info pages: info xorg
Previously on "Condensation":
Johnny: Helen, there's moisture on the outside of my glass.
Helen: It's condensation Johnny.
Johnny: But what about the fog on the windows?
Helen: It's not fog Johnny, it too is called condensation.
If EA doesn't want me to resell my copy of $GAME, they can open up a video arcade so that I can't sell $GAME after I've played it. I bought it, it's mine, and I should be able to sell it.
Anyone got any insights into Apple's complete disinterest in the mid-range notebook market?
If they start to appear common, they lose their hip mystique and can't charge as much for the higher-end models. And to be fair, I'm regurgitating something I've read on/. a bajillion times, so it's not my insight.
Point out to me just ONE of those types of social attacks that are used against linux and Mac OS systems, that have been successful in infecting more than a very tiny - if any - percentage of machines running those operating systems. Or that COULD BE. You can't just download a screensaver or some other executable on any unix-based system, and have it execute automagically without specifically making it capable of doing so.
Execute automagically? Installing the binaries with root privs was implied. Just because a higher proportion of Linux users are clueful doesn't mean that social attacks stop working.
Jesus, man. Are you really trying to tell me it's just as easy to insert a userland executable into a unix-based OS that can frak the operating system to the root level as it is to insert one into a windows OS?
Yes
Are you out of your mind? Or just ignorant?
I am neither. I am annoyed with "admins" like yourself who think that Linux is magically safe. They blindly type in the commands to wget a pre-compiled rpm for "betterer th@n decss" from some.ru or.cn, and install it, because some guy on a forum somewhere said it was the best way to watch video XYZ or to compute FOO to the Nth degree. Then their workstation starts brute forcing port 22 on other people's networks, and I have to go to their office, smack them in the back of the head and tell them that sudo privs are not a right.
How could you discuss TIME CUBE without a link? Didn't you read the page recently? "Without Financial Support, I May Shut Down." TIME CUBE needs your support now more than ever! http://www.timecube.com/ *
* I take no responsibility for your sanity if you click the above link.
There needs to be a gigantic "FUCK YOU, LEAVE ME ALONE, LET ME SURF THE WEB AS THE FLYING SPAGHETTI WEASEL INTENDED" button in the settings.
There is.
In about:config, change browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to -1
No, that's the "FUCK YOU, LEAVE ME ALONE, LET ME SURF THE WEB AS firefox 3.0 pretends THE FLYING SPAGHETTI WEASEL INTENDED, but it still wastes CPU cycles trying to match cached pages (which really hurts on a single core, slower system), redirects to the wrong URLs and can't follow simple IP addresses" button. I've resorted to using konqueror for any simple web diagnoses, because firefox is starting to fall under its own weight.
So anyone who says "Oh, I can keep my machine virus free" - whoopdefuckingdoo, so what, so can I. Most people can't, and it's because Microsoft can't write a decent *secure* fucking operating system to save their stock options.
Most people can't because keeping something secure requires a security mindset that most people can't/don't/won't adopt. These are the same people that hold a security door open for a waiting "delivery man", leave their spare house key in the obvious fake rock, answer telephone surveys with all of their personal info, etc. It has nothing to do with the OS. I've had to teach some _smart_ people running Linux why downloading random.rpms/.debs/binaries is a bad thing.
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but without nukes there is no apocalypse wtf? or doom's day. Isn't our role to go destroy ourselves so that JC can put a stop to it? or does our world have real choices?
At the time of the writing of Revelations, and almost 2000 years after, the belief was that JC's return _would_be_ the apocalypse. The ability of man to ruin the world is very recent; only a couple generations old.
Back surgeries to relieve pain are, in the majority of cases, no better than nonsurgical treatment, and knee surgery is no better than sham knee surgery where surgeons 'pretend' to do surgery while the patient is under light anesthesia.
He's a quack. Knee surgery is never any good?
If we build a giant flywheel, or pump sand, or some sort of mechanical energy storage...
--Chancellor Palpatine
Wasn't he paraphrasing Caesar?
And Hitler
To bring this topic back home; much better would be 3 strikes and you're assigned to a write man pages for the opensource X.org projects.
That's easy:
... it starts experimenting with inter-dimensional portal guns.
To give social misfits an excuse. 92% of all cases are self-diagnosed.
Tautologically, 0% of cases are self-diagnosed.
U Fail. LOLOLOL
When the president does it, it's not illegal.
"Tricky"
FOSS / Linux needs more developers who don't ignore critics. Critics (yes, even legitimate ones) abound.
But isn't the President "making content available"?
I once had (sigh) an IR2 in my office for 6 months. I don't think I slept at home the entire time.
The nightmares of switching between streams were that bad huh?
Its naught spelled with awl capitols either. Language devolves, and people grammer wrong. Get used^H too it.
Previously on "Condensation":
Johnny: Helen, there's moisture on the outside of my glass.
Helen: It's condensation Johnny.
Johnny: But what about the fog on the windows?
Helen: It's not fog Johnny, it too is called condensation.
Yes, the OMG Ponies theme from years past was awesome. This and other stories today make me lose faith in /. as a nerd-news source.
so is /. just going to be a melangé of all the April Fools jokes from around the web today?
No, just the ones in poor taste, giving people false hope.
A German engineer, a French airline pilot, and four Russians walk into a bar. The bartender says: ...
...Didn't you see your friends hit the bar first? Blind leading the blind...
I call Godwin!
*rolls d%*
Double Zero! A rift in space-time opens and Godwin steps out. "What do you want? I'm a busy man. This had better not be about Nazis."
If EA doesn't want me to resell my copy of $GAME, they can open up a video arcade so that I can't sell $GAME after I've played it. I bought it, it's mine, and I should be able to sell it.
Anyone got any insights into Apple's complete disinterest in the mid-range notebook market?
If they start to appear common, they lose their hip mystique and can't charge as much for the higher-end models. And to be fair, I'm regurgitating something I've read on /. a bajillion times, so it's not my insight.
...we need the cash.
Point out to me just ONE of those types of social attacks that are used against linux and Mac OS systems, that have been successful in infecting more than a very tiny - if any - percentage of machines running those operating systems. Or that COULD BE. You can't just download a screensaver or some other executable on any unix-based system, and have it execute automagically without specifically making it capable of doing so.
Execute automagically? Installing the binaries with root privs was implied. Just because a higher proportion of Linux users are clueful doesn't mean that social attacks stop working.
Jesus, man. Are you really trying to tell me it's just as easy to insert a userland executable into a unix-based OS that can frak the operating system to the root level as it is to insert one into a windows OS?
Yes
Are you out of your mind? Or just ignorant?
I am neither. I am annoyed with "admins" like yourself who think that Linux is magically safe. They blindly type in the commands to wget a pre-compiled rpm for "betterer th@n decss" from some .ru or .cn, and install it, because some guy on a forum somewhere said it was the best way to watch video XYZ or to compute FOO to the Nth degree. Then their workstation starts brute forcing port 22 on other people's networks, and I have to go to their office, smack them in the back of the head and tell them that sudo privs are not a right.
How could you discuss TIME CUBE without a link? Didn't you read the page recently? "Without Financial Support, I May Shut Down." TIME CUBE needs your support now more than ever!
http://www.timecube.com/ *
* I take no responsibility for your sanity if you click the above link.
There needs to be a gigantic "FUCK YOU, LEAVE ME ALONE, LET ME SURF THE WEB AS THE FLYING SPAGHETTI WEASEL INTENDED" button in the settings.
There is.
In about:config, change browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to -1
No, that's the "FUCK YOU, LEAVE ME ALONE, LET ME SURF THE WEB AS firefox 3.0 pretends THE FLYING SPAGHETTI WEASEL INTENDED, but it still wastes CPU cycles trying to match cached pages (which really hurts on a single core, slower system), redirects to the wrong URLs and can't follow simple IP addresses" button. I've resorted to using konqueror for any simple web diagnoses, because firefox is starting to fall under its own weight.
Every new feature added to an Operating System puts another hundred Computer Operators in the bread line.
So anyone who says "Oh, I can keep my machine virus free" - whoopdefuckingdoo, so what, so can I. Most people can't, and it's because Microsoft can't write a decent *secure* fucking operating system to save their stock options.
Most people can't because keeping something secure requires a security mindset that most people can't/don't/won't adopt. These are the same people that hold a security door open for a waiting "delivery man", leave their spare house key in the obvious fake rock, answer telephone surveys with all of their personal info, etc. It has nothing to do with the OS. I've had to teach some _smart_ people running Linux why downloading random .rpms/.debs/binaries is a bad thing.