I miss those. Now, you get a pull out fucking poster that's a quick connect and sales flier. WTF? Am I supposed to hang that on the wall? I want jumper settings, schematics, and the damned source code. I don't even use that stuff any more - but I still want it.
Err... Actually, I am sort of getting back into programming but my days of hardware hacking are long behind me. I am old, lazy, and retired. I'll just read about the neat projects and have someone sell me the good ones that I like. Yes, yes I am that lazy. On the other hand, my brain is getting mushy. *sighs* So, I've gotta do something. Back to programming it is.
At any rate, I miss all those manuals. I miss the three ring binders. I think it was Sun, actually, who used the plastic binders with like 25 holes in them. I am pretty sure that was Sun. DEC used to have some nice material that came with 'em. IBM was actually awesome. Later, HP kind of did well - in the server area, and that was nice. I still have a whole bunch of that documentation, all stored away. I should probably ship it to what's his name, Mike? The guy that does all the archiving.
I should probably ask him, first. I've got all the stuff from the SparcStations I bought, their notebooks, old Digital Alpha boxes, that sort of thing - then the server room was covered in manuals until after they kicked me out of my own server room. It was for the best, the folks I'd hired were better than I. But still... I kind of miss it.
And I kind of miss the documentation. And the magazines. Sure, there's a giant internet now but I still miss the magazines.
All you've done is spout gibberish in your attempt to defend the fact that the correct terminology is essential to having a proper discussion on what is and isn't acceptable. If you don't know the difference between doodad one and doodad two do you really think you should be offering an opinion on the laws surrounding either? I tend to think not.
Do you know how many times my ID has been stolen? I was doxxed back before it was a thing (about 2008) and I've had my data leaked more times than I can count. I've got years and years of credit monitoring gifted to me but can't use it (I don't bother - it doesn't do a damned thing). Instead, I have the "do not issue credit" flag set at the major lending institutions and credit rating companies.
I suspect there's at least a dozen people running around claiming to be me, right this very minute.
Holy shit, people. Stay the fuck away from my cars. Do NOT smash a window. Get wedge car unlocking kit and leave it at home and carry a second one in your trunk for people you run into who need a hand. There's no need to smash your fucking window if you're locked out. Breaking into locked cars is a done deal - we've been pretty good at it for a long time.
Dude, I once lost my car... Not entirely unlike the movie except mine was way out in the woods in NW, Maine. (That's a pretty big area.)
On the other hand, I don't think I've ever actually lost my keys - even when I was drinking. But I did lose a car. I'm not typing the story out again but, suffice to say, you'd be surprised where you can put a Subaru if you don't care about it.
Do any of you crazy bastards actually know how cars work? *sighs*
To get into a locked car you need a plastic wedge and a hammer and then something to reach the inside to trigger the locking mechanism. You go in at the top-rear with the wedge and tap it in enough to spread it away from the door frame. You then pop the lock. You can buy a kit online - just lie and say you're a mechanic. Do NOT put that kit in your trunk, that's just silly. Get a second kit for your trunk so you can LET OTHER PEOPLE do it to their own car if they don't have AAA. Do not do it for them. It will bend the door a little. To bend the door back, use the same plastic wedge and put it between the bottom-rear of the open door and close it by pushing in at the top. Let it sit like that for a few minutes and you're good to go. That last step is not always required. A variety of wedge sizes is nice. No broken windows required.
That depends on where you live, sort of. Principally, they're still a thief but, if the car is running or the keys are in the ignition then it's "Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle." Well, that depends on where you live but in at least three jurisdictions that's the law as far as I understand it.
They're still going to prison but it's a different crime. There's also grand theft, which means it was a value greater than a certain amount, and amount that varies by jurisdiction - or so I'm given to understand.
My home is in NW, Maine. I get fine service from Fairpoint. It's only 12 but I get 14 down. It's something stupid like $35/mo and always working. Supposedly, they're putting fiber in. That doesn't make me as happy as it should. They'll neglect the copper. I've seen copper on the ground, plowed into a snowbank, and with a tree on top of it - it still worked. Lemme see fiber do that.
It's what the market will bear. In Romania, that $11 is more than many people can even begin to pay. In Romania, they're still driving wagons to town - pulled by tired old horses. The only people that can afford that, in Romania, are the people who go steal from neighboring countries and the handful of people who work in tech and government.
What I'm curious about is if now Apple can be preemptive and force this to go to court and have the order slapped down. I'm not entirely sure of the model with writs, however. They *might* be able to now claim standing and go for a suit against the FBI specifically but I'm not sure how much that'd do unless it was considered precedent setting.
I'll be headed back home in the next few weeks. I've got a real compass. I have several. They've even got the sights on them so you can shoot your azimuth accurately. They're the flip-up clam-shell type of compasses, the only kind to have. I even have some that have a base with right angles so that you can stick 'em on top of a map and use the scale.
'Cause, if you want a compass - I've got a compass. I'll gift you one. Hell, somewhere in my boxes of stuff I have a bunch of them that fell off a truck when we were delivering supplies to the OCS part of Quantico. (It is amazing how much stuff falls off those trucks.) I'm positive that I've got a bunch of those left. I doubt anyone's stolen them, nobody knows how to use them.
I did like early-on Nero's wizard for burning. It wasn't bad. I remember sticking with whatever version it was that came with a burner that I bought and installed. I then went and tried the newest version (at the time) and they not only wanted me to pay for it but it was everything and the kitchen sink - including a player that set itself as the default - and offered no advanced installation, meaning I had to go reset the damned things to get them back to normal. There was no way to install it without the player and, at the time, the player wasn't *needed* but helped for playing DVDs.
And it was a huge memory hog - at a time when memory was still fairly expensive. I want to say this was sometime around 2005 when I'd tried the new version (I was still mostly using Windows then). It was also a HUGE download. I'd recently moved and had no access to broadband at the house so I downloaded it at my office - it was that large. I'm going to guess that "large" was in the 80 to 100 MB area for the installer.
I seem to recall marveling, albeit disgustedly, at the vast amounts of RAM it consumed. It was a memorable thing, no pun intended and not in a good way. What was amazing was that it had gone to that stage so quickly - just a few short years.
It wasn't unique in those regards... It's like everything wanted to be the one piece of software you depended on. Tweak applications started to contain anti-malware, anti-malware got rolled into one, firewalls started to include anti-virus, music players wanted to subsume your whole experience, email clients wanted in on it too, browsers started to include everything, and more. To top it off, the bastards stopped using difference files and started making you download the whole program again instead of just updates.
I wouldn't call it trickery if they make it clear and easy to get the information about what you're doing. Then again, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for those who just click without knowing what a click does. But, there are some that do not make it clear - those I have a problem with.
I can't say if that one made it clear or not, I've never tried it. I can say that the vast majority of those that I've used have made it clear enough and easy enough to opt out - so long as you read what you're doing. There are some who make it needlessly confusing and obfuscated and those fuckers need to die. Well, they need to at least get spit on in public.
But, to be clear, I don't mind it one bit if they make it clear that by leaving this box checked you'll be installing the Ask Toolbar. (Is that still a thing?) I don't even care if it is checked by default. I don't even care if it's mandatory that you install it - so long as they make it clear. If they don't make it clear then they can piss off.
I've got an instance of Transmission that has run on a nearly dedicated connection for a very long time. It was rebooted about a year ago. It seeds over 140 (at last count) Linux distros. It does so without fail, without hiccup, securely, and with little resource usage.
Use what works best for you but that's been working just fine for me. It's one of the few dedicated Linux boxes that I had set up before completely switching to using Linux exclusively. It's been running on Ubuntu - still on an older LTS, for ages and I don't think it has been rebooted in over a year.
That works for me. However, what you use is entirely up to you (of course). Light doesn't just mean how much space it takes up - it doesn't even mean just how many resources it takes up on boot. How much RAM is eaten up by your torrent client after it has been open for a few months? Is it still stable? Does that even matter to you?
The Mac version recently had malware installed with it. There was quite an ado about it. It was dealt with reasonably quickly by both the Transmission team and by Apple revoking a certificate - it appears (IIRC) that the cert had been stolen and the upload site had the original replaced. I'm sure you can easily find more data about it - or may already know about it. However, on the chance that you don't and somehow still have that version, it's something you might wish to learn about. So long as, as I understand it, you've updated to a newer version (or downgraded to an older one) then you're all set.
I have never not had a choice in providers - and I live in the United States, and I've lived all over the United States. Maybe it's dumb luck but I've always been able to get multiple DSL service providers, multiple dial-up providers, multiple ISDN providers, and now there are satellite, wireless, cable, etc...
Yeah, that's how I use the list. I'm still not sure why you're trying to help get me killed. Though, in your defense, it will make a hell of an interesting thread here on Slashdot. "David, aka KGIII, dies in gun battle at RNC. With a look of steeled determination, his last words where, 'This one's for you, Cowboy.' He was heard to mumble something else which makes little sense but the mumbling is presumed to have been about Beowulf, hot grits, and the year of Linux on the desktop."
Rights are actually kind of there to protect the rude. The people who adhere to the social standards do not really need protection.
That said, they are dangerous and need to be treated with respect. It's possible to do so while carrying them. I've no problem with safe and responsible firearm ownership - nor do I care if they carry in public, even if it's what you're calling an assault rifle. (Though it's odd that everyone attaches whatever definition they want to it, but we can work with your definition.) It's dumb but it's not inherently a problem.
If you find it rude then, by all means, find it rude and walk away. Do what you've got to do but don't try to take my liberties away because you find something rude. I can assure you, I find your table manners offensive but I'm not about to ask Mr. Government to step in and stop you from eating like a pig.
Correct, and the 2A only lists but one reason for which they made the amendment, it is not exclusive. It is why they can't take the right away - it's not the only amendment with an enumerated reason for existing nor is it exclusive in other amendments. The militia thing is tired and worn - it's been proven wrong and wrong again. Hell, this very thread has some good posts about that. I'm not sure why people keep beating that dead horse.
My understanding is they're one of the few news sites left where posts are not moderated unless someone hits the report button. Posts are posted automatically, without going through the registration queue.
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> one of those boxed binders
I miss those. Now, you get a pull out fucking poster that's a quick connect and sales flier. WTF? Am I supposed to hang that on the wall? I want jumper settings, schematics, and the damned source code. I don't even use that stuff any more - but I still want it.
Err... Actually, I am sort of getting back into programming but my days of hardware hacking are long behind me. I am old, lazy, and retired. I'll just read about the neat projects and have someone sell me the good ones that I like. Yes, yes I am that lazy. On the other hand, my brain is getting mushy. *sighs* So, I've gotta do something. Back to programming it is.
At any rate, I miss all those manuals. I miss the three ring binders. I think it was Sun, actually, who used the plastic binders with like 25 holes in them. I am pretty sure that was Sun. DEC used to have some nice material that came with 'em. IBM was actually awesome. Later, HP kind of did well - in the server area, and that was nice. I still have a whole bunch of that documentation, all stored away. I should probably ship it to what's his name, Mike? The guy that does all the archiving.
I should probably ask him, first. I've got all the stuff from the SparcStations I bought, their notebooks, old Digital Alpha boxes, that sort of thing - then the server room was covered in manuals until after they kicked me out of my own server room. It was for the best, the folks I'd hired were better than I. But still... I kind of miss it.
And I kind of miss the documentation. And the magazines. Sure, there's a giant internet now but I still miss the magazines.
Nah, those all open from the inside without power. Well - they *currently* do. That doesn't mean they won't change that in the future.
All you've done is spout gibberish in your attempt to defend the fact that the correct terminology is essential to having a proper discussion on what is and isn't acceptable. If you don't know the difference between doodad one and doodad two do you really think you should be offering an opinion on the laws surrounding either? I tend to think not.
Do you know how many times my ID has been stolen? I was doxxed back before it was a thing (about 2008) and I've had my data leaked more times than I can count. I've got years and years of credit monitoring gifted to me but can't use it (I don't bother - it doesn't do a damned thing). Instead, I have the "do not issue credit" flag set at the major lending institutions and credit rating companies.
I suspect there's at least a dozen people running around claiming to be me, right this very minute.
Like hell I wouldn't - and I've got enough money to buy a car or ten - in fact, I own multiple cars.
If I could download a car, I'd be clogging up the internet right now - downloading *all* of them.
*cough* Like a fully restored and marginally modified 1982 245? *cough*
Actually, it's a blast in the snow. That's about the only time it gets driven.
Holy shit, people. Stay the fuck away from my cars. Do NOT smash a window. Get wedge car unlocking kit and leave it at home and carry a second one in your trunk for people you run into who need a hand. There's no need to smash your fucking window if you're locked out. Breaking into locked cars is a done deal - we've been pretty good at it for a long time.
Dude, I once lost my car... Not entirely unlike the movie except mine was way out in the woods in NW, Maine. (That's a pretty big area.)
On the other hand, I don't think I've ever actually lost my keys - even when I was drinking. But I did lose a car. I'm not typing the story out again but, suffice to say, you'd be surprised where you can put a Subaru if you don't care about it.
Do any of you crazy bastards actually know how cars work? *sighs*
To get into a locked car you need a plastic wedge and a hammer and then something to reach the inside to trigger the locking mechanism. You go in at the top-rear with the wedge and tap it in enough to spread it away from the door frame. You then pop the lock. You can buy a kit online - just lie and say you're a mechanic. Do NOT put that kit in your trunk, that's just silly. Get a second kit for your trunk so you can LET OTHER PEOPLE do it to their own car if they don't have AAA. Do not do it for them. It will bend the door a little. To bend the door back, use the same plastic wedge and put it between the bottom-rear of the open door and close it by pushing in at the top. Let it sit like that for a few minutes and you're good to go. That last step is not always required. A variety of wedge sizes is nice. No broken windows required.
That depends on where you live, sort of. Principally, they're still a thief but, if the car is running or the keys are in the ignition then it's "Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle." Well, that depends on where you live but in at least three jurisdictions that's the law as far as I understand it.
They're still going to prison but it's a different crime. There's also grand theft, which means it was a value greater than a certain amount, and amount that varies by jurisdiction - or so I'm given to understand.
My home is in NW, Maine. I get fine service from Fairpoint. It's only 12 but I get 14 down. It's something stupid like $35/mo and always working. Supposedly, they're putting fiber in. That doesn't make me as happy as it should. They'll neglect the copper. I've seen copper on the ground, plowed into a snowbank, and with a tree on top of it - it still worked. Lemme see fiber do that.
It's what the market will bear. In Romania, that $11 is more than many people can even begin to pay. In Romania, they're still driving wagons to town - pulled by tired old horses. The only people that can afford that, in Romania, are the people who go steal from neighboring countries and the handful of people who work in tech and government.
Capital gains are taxed at regular income rates IF they are from short-term investments - meaning less than a calendar year.
What I'm curious about is if now Apple can be preemptive and force this to go to court and have the order slapped down. I'm not entirely sure of the model with writs, however. They *might* be able to now claim standing and go for a suit against the FBI specifically but I'm not sure how much that'd do unless it was considered precedent setting.
I'll be headed back home in the next few weeks. I've got a real compass. I have several. They've even got the sights on them so you can shoot your azimuth accurately. They're the flip-up clam-shell type of compasses, the only kind to have. I even have some that have a base with right angles so that you can stick 'em on top of a map and use the scale.
'Cause, if you want a compass - I've got a compass. I'll gift you one. Hell, somewhere in my boxes of stuff I have a bunch of them that fell off a truck when we were delivering supplies to the OCS part of Quantico. (It is amazing how much stuff falls off those trucks.) I'm positive that I've got a bunch of those left. I doubt anyone's stolen them, nobody knows how to use them.
I did like early-on Nero's wizard for burning. It wasn't bad. I remember sticking with whatever version it was that came with a burner that I bought and installed. I then went and tried the newest version (at the time) and they not only wanted me to pay for it but it was everything and the kitchen sink - including a player that set itself as the default - and offered no advanced installation, meaning I had to go reset the damned things to get them back to normal. There was no way to install it without the player and, at the time, the player wasn't *needed* but helped for playing DVDs.
And it was a huge memory hog - at a time when memory was still fairly expensive. I want to say this was sometime around 2005 when I'd tried the new version (I was still mostly using Windows then). It was also a HUGE download. I'd recently moved and had no access to broadband at the house so I downloaded it at my office - it was that large. I'm going to guess that "large" was in the 80 to 100 MB area for the installer.
I seem to recall marveling, albeit disgustedly, at the vast amounts of RAM it consumed. It was a memorable thing, no pun intended and not in a good way. What was amazing was that it had gone to that stage so quickly - just a few short years.
It wasn't unique in those regards... It's like everything wanted to be the one piece of software you depended on. Tweak applications started to contain anti-malware, anti-malware got rolled into one, firewalls started to include anti-virus, music players wanted to subsume your whole experience, email clients wanted in on it too, browsers started to include everything, and more. To top it off, the bastards stopped using difference files and started making you download the whole program again instead of just updates.
I was kind of annoyed for a while.
I wouldn't call it trickery if they make it clear and easy to get the information about what you're doing. Then again, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for those who just click without knowing what a click does. But, there are some that do not make it clear - those I have a problem with.
I can't say if that one made it clear or not, I've never tried it. I can say that the vast majority of those that I've used have made it clear enough and easy enough to opt out - so long as you read what you're doing. There are some who make it needlessly confusing and obfuscated and those fuckers need to die. Well, they need to at least get spit on in public.
But, to be clear, I don't mind it one bit if they make it clear that by leaving this box checked you'll be installing the Ask Toolbar. (Is that still a thing?) I don't even care if it is checked by default. I don't even care if it's mandatory that you install it - so long as they make it clear. If they don't make it clear then they can piss off.
I've got an instance of Transmission that has run on a nearly dedicated connection for a very long time. It was rebooted about a year ago. It seeds over 140 (at last count) Linux distros. It does so without fail, without hiccup, securely, and with little resource usage.
Use what works best for you but that's been working just fine for me. It's one of the few dedicated Linux boxes that I had set up before completely switching to using Linux exclusively. It's been running on Ubuntu - still on an older LTS, for ages and I don't think it has been rebooted in over a year.
That works for me. However, what you use is entirely up to you (of course). Light doesn't just mean how much space it takes up - it doesn't even mean just how many resources it takes up on boot. How much RAM is eaten up by your torrent client after it has been open for a few months? Is it still stable? Does that even matter to you?
It really is about what works best for you.
The Mac version recently had malware installed with it. There was quite an ado about it. It was dealt with reasonably quickly by both the Transmission team and by Apple revoking a certificate - it appears (IIRC) that the cert had been stolen and the upload site had the original replaced. I'm sure you can easily find more data about it - or may already know about it. However, on the chance that you don't and somehow still have that version, it's something you might wish to learn about. So long as, as I understand it, you've updated to a newer version (or downgraded to an older one) then you're all set.
I have never not had a choice in providers - and I live in the United States, and I've lived all over the United States. Maybe it's dumb luck but I've always been able to get multiple DSL service providers, multiple dial-up providers, multiple ISDN providers, and now there are satellite, wireless, cable, etc...
Yeah, that's how I use the list. I'm still not sure why you're trying to help get me killed. Though, in your defense, it will make a hell of an interesting thread here on Slashdot. "David, aka KGIII, dies in gun battle at RNC. With a look of steeled determination, his last words where, 'This one's for you, Cowboy.' He was heard to mumble something else which makes little sense but the mumbling is presumed to have been about Beowulf, hot grits, and the year of Linux on the desktop."
Rights are actually kind of there to protect the rude. The people who adhere to the social standards do not really need protection.
That said, they are dangerous and need to be treated with respect. It's possible to do so while carrying them. I've no problem with safe and responsible firearm ownership - nor do I care if they carry in public, even if it's what you're calling an assault rifle. (Though it's odd that everyone attaches whatever definition they want to it, but we can work with your definition.) It's dumb but it's not inherently a problem.
If you find it rude then, by all means, find it rude and walk away. Do what you've got to do but don't try to take my liberties away because you find something rude. I can assure you, I find your table manners offensive but I'm not about to ask Mr. Government to step in and stop you from eating like a pig.
Pfft... That'd not kill me. I'm a superhero. I've even got my underpants on outside my pants to prove it.
Correct, and the 2A only lists but one reason for which they made the amendment, it is not exclusive. It is why they can't take the right away - it's not the only amendment with an enumerated reason for existing nor is it exclusive in other amendments. The militia thing is tired and worn - it's been proven wrong and wrong again. Hell, this very thread has some good posts about that. I'm not sure why people keep beating that dead horse.
My understanding is they're one of the few news sites left where posts are not moderated unless someone hits the report button. Posts are posted automatically, without going through the registration queue.