Hasn't yum been able to use https for a while, IIRC, YAST2 can too, and so can apt. Several mirrors have https available. Seems mirror validation is solved, it's just not widely adopted by default.
Hotmail used to drop 90% of the emails that I sent _to_myself_ from other accounts. I have no idea if it still does; that account was disbanded as unusable.
Bill Clinton's entire elected experience before becoming President was 10 years as governor (of Arkansas), and IMO Obama has more gravitas
I'm not a fan of Clinton's but this _is_ a good resume. He was head of the executive branch of a state that is larger than a lot of countries. And ten years shows he is willing to stick to the job. I believe GP's point about the relative experience between Obama and Bill Clinton holds. I believe you're right about Obama's gravitas (as evidenced by people willing to ignore the resume).
There are two *different* Creation stories, right off the bat!
There are actually eight creation stories, but there's not necessarily any contradiction:
Populating the world:
Day1: Light
Day2: Sky/Sea
Day3: Land/Vegetation
Day4: Stars/Sun/Moon (continuous sources of light)
Day5: Fish/Birds
Day6: Land Animals/Humans
Specifically just in Eden (a prototype):
Day3: after land, before vegetation... Eden, complete with vegetation, animals, and one (male) human.
Day(unknown): a female human
Note that in the Adam and Eve story, there are other humans around (Cain mentioned them, married one, and built the city of Enoch in Nod; kind of pointless unless there's people), so the Adam and Eve story depends on the first story.
Like running on multiple platforms? Having a userbase that isn't all newbs checking it out for a couple minutes? Having suggestions on what to _do_ with it that can benefit meatspace unlike other 3d worlds?
Why do you believe the government ought to be in the business of regulating people's social lives?
Thankfully, the constitution doesn't grant the government that power.
I don't. At least not for adults; I merely stated an option (where GGP thought there was none) and a truth. Whether or not people want their government to have that power lies with the people being governed.
BTW, nice straw-man. (It's easy to do: "You're advocating punishment for X? Why do you believe government should be in the business of regulating people's Y lives?" where X,Y=theft,financial;rape,sex;canabalism,eating;xenocide,religious) I wasn't talking about regulating social lives, I was talking about punishment for stalking, assault, and harassment, crimes which happen to exist within the scope of "social lives". Society in general has looked the other way when the victims and perpetrators of these crimes are both young (boys will be boys). And occasionally, as in this case, if the victims are young and the perpetrator is a woman. At least the prosecutor is trying to get some sort of justice; a lot of slashdotters are of the mind that the woman is blameless just because there was no specific law in place ahead of time.
You'd trust someone else to make your tin-foil hat? What are you - crazy? TRUST NO ONE
Not even cain (14472), which means you might want to TRUST SOMEONE or EVERYONE. But flip a coin to decide, because if you're only supposed to trust someone, you might not be in the set of people you're supposed to trust.
Why hasn't the day arrived when everything on our hard drive exists on the cloud instead?
Because we can't trust kiosk hardware/software with our data, including passwords. The true computer geeks will insist on complete (portable) personal systems while the techno-illiterati will eventually use private and public kiosks (and get their data owned occasionally).
Even if these public kiosks are just docking stations with keyboard/video/mouse/NIC wireless connections to a personally owned smart-phone, the docking station can't be trusted not to store/redirect data transfered.
"Here's your GPS coordinates. Stray outside of this area, you stop working."
Deep within the bowels of the European Union, the century-long plan to destroy American Air-Conditioning is abandoned as the conspirators realize that the U.S. will destroy their own A.C. units in large numbers as GPS hiccups.
My parents kept using their single phone line (without Voicemail) for internet purposes, and I could never phone them. Plus, they didn't regularly check email, so I had to just drop by their house to contact them. I think it was the realization that _both_ of them could use the internet at once that sealed the deal (I wasn't about to set up connection sharing over dialup; didn't even let them know it was possible).:p
You know, the ones that pull up to your boat with AK-47s, kill you, and take your boat? Why aren't any of the G8 using spy satellites or spyplanes to catch them?
There are already claims that its possible to distinguish the protocols inside encrypted channels based on packet size and timming with quite high accuracy
Which means it's also possible to mimic the packet size and timing of another encrypted protocol with high accuracy.
How many of this stuff can be recovered by recycling?
Every last bit. In fact, even if we just throw the stuff away, mining it from trash dumps will be cheaper than mining it from the ground.
Regarding ubiquitous LCD displays making all of the world's Gallium in-use (non recyclable because it's being used)... By the time people in third world countries all have an LCD TV, first-world citizens will be watching laser-eye displays or jacking into the cyber-inter-virtual-web-net.
It seems to be a little-known or rarely-accepted fact among people with too much computer education that computers sometimes do whacky things and have unexplained errors. [...] knowing the nonsensical voodoo that makes things work is the job of people who offer support.
I can't stand being the magic-man. I can break computers by using them, and fix computers with my mere proximity. I will continue to say "It shouldn't do that!" and "That doesn't make any sense" until it _does_ make sense. Sure, you've lost three extra hours on your computer while I diagnose when I could have just farted in the computer's air-intake, but by applying a rigorous method I can develop preventative measures for this (assumed common) error for everyone's machines, and I can stop eating beans for every meal.
Slashdot Mirror
Hasn't yum been able to use https for a while, IIRC, YAST2 can too, and so can apt. Several mirrors have https available. Seems mirror validation is solved, it's just not widely adopted by default.
Hotmail used to drop 90% of the emails that I sent _to_myself_ from other accounts. I have no idea if it still does; that account was disbanded as unusable.
Adding, accidental SPAM often uses more bandwidth (in a small window) than real SPAM, because it's not trying to avoid detection.
Not just intentional SPAM, but also unintentional SPAM, stuff that stupid admins thought was "not going to a real address", but really was. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1737248
Bill Clinton's entire elected experience before becoming President was 10 years as governor (of Arkansas), and IMO Obama has more gravitas
I'm not a fan of Clinton's but this _is_ a good resume. He was head of the executive branch of a state that is larger than a lot of countries. And ten years shows he is willing to stick to the job. I believe GP's point about the relative experience between Obama and Bill Clinton holds. I believe you're right about Obama's gravitas (as evidenced by people willing to ignore the resume).
There are two *different* Creation stories, right off the bat!
There are actually eight creation stories, but there's not necessarily any contradiction:
Populating the world:
Day1: Light
Day2: Sky/Sea
Day3: Land/Vegetation
Day4: Stars/Sun/Moon (continuous sources of light)
Day5: Fish/Birds
Day6: Land Animals/Humans
Specifically just in Eden (a prototype):
Day3: after land, before vegetation... Eden, complete with vegetation, animals, and one (male) human.
Day(unknown): a female human
Note that in the Adam and Eve story, there are other humans around (Cain mentioned them, married one, and built the city of Enoch in Nod; kind of pointless unless there's people), so the Adam and Eve story depends on the first story.
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Which explains why Shadowrun and Halo2(PC) are in bargain bins for $5 (both require Vista).
Or a silkscreened shipit version and $20.
Someone like... Canonical? http://www.canonical.com/services/support
expect things to get better.
Like running on multiple platforms? Having a userbase that isn't all newbs checking it out for a couple minutes? Having suggestions on what to _do_ with it that can benefit meatspace unlike other 3d worlds?
Why do you believe the government ought to be in the business of regulating people's social lives?
Thankfully, the constitution doesn't grant the government that power.
I don't. At least not for adults; I merely stated an option (where GGP thought there was none) and a truth. Whether or not people want their government to have that power lies with the people being governed.
BTW, nice straw-man. (It's easy to do: "You're advocating punishment for X? Why do you believe government should be in the business of regulating people's Y lives?" where X,Y=theft,financial;rape,sex;canabalism,eating;xenocide,religious) I wasn't talking about regulating social lives, I was talking about punishment for stalking, assault, and harassment, crimes which happen to exist within the scope of "social lives". Society in general has looked the other way when the victims and perpetrators of these crimes are both young (boys will be boys). And occasionally, as in this case, if the victims are young and the perpetrator is a woman. At least the prosecutor is trying to get some sort of justice; a lot of slashdotters are of the mind that the woman is blameless just because there was no specific law in place ahead of time.
Another option is to get a law made regarding malicious "(social) life destruction". It's a wrong that society is finally recognizing.
You'd trust someone else to make your tin-foil hat? What are you - crazy? TRUST NO ONE
Not even cain (14472), which means you might want to TRUST SOMEONE or EVERYONE. But flip a coin to decide, because if you're only supposed to trust someone, you might not be in the set of people you're supposed to trust.
Technically, she wasn't sentient when Perseus used her head in King Polydectes' court either. [/Pedantry]
Why hasn't the day arrived when everything on our hard drive exists on the cloud instead?
Because we can't trust kiosk hardware/software with our data, including passwords. The true computer geeks will insist on complete (portable) personal systems while the techno-illiterati will eventually use private and public kiosks (and get their data owned occasionally). Even if these public kiosks are just docking stations with keyboard/video/mouse/NIC wireless connections to a personally owned smart-phone, the docking station can't be trusted not to store/redirect data transfered.
If your friends use it[Twitter], you won't be able to escape it; otherwise, it will seem irrelevant.
My friends have been using it a lot. It still seems irrelevant.
ssh client without jailbreaking. open moko wins.
I didn't see anything answering GP's (or my) questions there.
"Here's your GPS coordinates. Stray outside of this area, you stop working."
Deep within the bowels of the European Union, the century-long plan to destroy American Air-Conditioning is abandoned as the conspirators realize that the U.S. will destroy their own A.C. units in large numbers as GPS hiccups.
My parents kept using their single phone line (without Voicemail) for internet purposes, and I could never phone them. Plus, they didn't regularly check email, so I had to just drop by their house to contact them. I think it was the realization that _both_ of them could use the internet at once that sealed the deal (I wasn't about to set up connection sharing over dialup; didn't even let them know it was possible). :p
You know, the ones that pull up to your boat with AK-47s, kill you, and take your boat? Why aren't any of the G8 using spy satellites or spyplanes to catch them?
There are already claims that its possible to distinguish the protocols inside encrypted channels based on packet size and timming with quite high accuracy
Which means it's also possible to mimic the packet size and timing of another encrypted protocol with high accuracy.
How many of this stuff can be recovered by recycling?
Every last bit. In fact, even if we just throw the stuff away, mining it from trash dumps will be cheaper than mining it from the ground.
Regarding ubiquitous LCD displays making all of the world's Gallium in-use (non recyclable because it's being used)... By the time people in third world countries all have an LCD TV, first-world citizens will be watching laser-eye displays or jacking into the cyber-inter-virtual-web-net.
Don't you mean "those people tomorrow" Mr. Time Traveler?
It seems to be a little-known or rarely-accepted fact among people with too much computer education that computers sometimes do whacky things and have unexplained errors. [...] knowing the nonsensical voodoo that makes things work is the job of people who offer support.
I can't stand being the magic-man. I can break computers by using them, and fix computers with my mere proximity. I will continue to say "It shouldn't do that!" and "That doesn't make any sense" until it _does_ make sense. Sure, you've lost three extra hours on your computer while I diagnose when I could have just farted in the computer's air-intake, but by applying a rigorous method I can develop preventative measures for this (assumed common) error for everyone's machines, and I can stop eating beans for every meal.