I don't want my computer to be an overpriced status symbol, nor do I care to be "hip" (nor do I think Macs are "hip", but that's just me). I can see it being the BMW of geeks, but every once in a while you need a pickup truck, you know? And really, how many "hip" people care if you use a Mac or a PC? You are still a nerd to them.
For over 10 years we heard about how megahetrz didn't matter. About how we were primitive. About this and that. Now Appled changed to Intel... and guess what? Macbois jump on board as if Intel is a magic thing that just popped out of nowhere to help them. Not the case, and it just shows how much Apple has lied for the past years, and how much Mac users bought it as true, and how much they can't see that they have been lied to, and are STILL being lied to.
Sadly, "society" has done away with nature, or more, did a good job at making people so dumb they can't see it. The more you advance something the more you depend on it. People depend too much on the fake world made for them to see anything else.
The best idea is to send the code to be looked at. Given, you'd have to get some C programmers... but with all the BS in the Senate, the cost is probably much less.
Some of these are really priceless. I got one about a Cuban guy who wanted to start a revolution once, just the other day I got a funny one that was a ton of semi-random words, but it was hilarious still.
OMG, and all door makers need to make their doors so they can't be unlocked! Always have to have a key to open the door - from the inside or out, regardless of anything else.
"For example, an ISP providing a DSL or cable connection to a customer who shares the line wirelessly could simply charge for more bandwidth if their fixed-price "buffer" is exceeded. That would be an example of service terms embracing technology. But, now I'm getting to a whole other discussion for another story."
Or ISPs can stop whining and give the customer what he paid for - a DSL line. And if he ends up sharing it so much that it slows him down, then he can buy whatever better they have. ISPs saying "gimmi gimmi" is a very bad thing, and giving them more ways to say it is an extremely bad way. Instead they need to shut up and do what they are paid to, and stop trying to "take just a little off the top".
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So... if I leave my frount door open, I am robed, someone steals my gun (it's reported), then the robber kills someone with my gun, I was "aiding and abetting" them to kill the person?
This is why people with no insight shouldn't talk like they do.
So you think we need to replace our semi-dictatorship with a semi-dictatorship-theocracy? Yeah, good job. You are just as corrupt and single-minded as Bush. If it hasn't come to you yet, the ability to not believe religion (or our own) is one of the main freedoms we fight for.
Also, blaming atheism for police states seems a lot like bad logic. You think because the communists made mostly police states that all police states are the results of communism and atheism, am I right? Hello! Stop ignoring the facts. No one, I repeat no one, in a high place in the US gov (and I'd bet the UK gov) is an atheist. What are they, you ask? Christian!!!! What is to blame for a lot of corruption? RELIGION!
Those EVIL atheists running their super-secret shadow government, forcing you to think logically... oh wait, no, most of them are the ones fighting for your freedom to NOT think logically in wany damn way you want...
This is news to you? Since WWII most of the western world has been a Fear-Based society. Security > Freedom; forget those idiot "founding fathers", they didn't live in our time!!!!!
Right....
Freedom doesn't matter to the masses. Never did, never will. Only thing that matters is their ability to remain in the dark about the real world and stay in their own little world of fear.
Sadly, I am afraid of this mindset... you just can't win, I guess.
The other day. Yay, I guess. Now how long does it take to get into disros.... I refuse to deal with X on a low-level, after what happened last time. SuSE update or bust.
And for casings - cardboard does wonders. Really! If you must, get some metal duct tape (they sell it in home depot and places like that) and warp the cardboard in it (AFTER cutting it...), it will make it much stronger, heat tolerant (more or less non-flammable if you are dealing with high heat), water proof and look shiny.
I only go to Slashdot, Wikipedia, and CNN with cookies disabled, so really there isn't much to worry about from getting spyware, adware, and computer virii.
How wrong you are. Assuming you are talking about IE (I don't know any other reason you'd state that, so, I am), the "privacy" settings and activeX security is a JOKE. Only the low rung of spyware use activeX, most use methods that you have no way of stopping and sometimes don't even know it has been installed.
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The point is, it's just as wrong as Wikipedia, if not more, for the reasons you just stated. It's just more clear on Wikipedia, arguably a good thing.
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I don't want my computer to be an overpriced status symbol, nor do I care to be "hip" (nor do I think Macs are "hip", but that's just me). I can see it being the BMW of geeks, but every once in a while you need a pickup truck, you know? And really, how many "hip" people care if you use a Mac or a PC? You are still a nerd to them.
For over 10 years we heard about how megahetrz didn't matter. About how we were primitive. About this and that. Now Appled changed to Intel... and guess what? Macbois jump on board as if Intel is a magic thing that just popped out of nowhere to help them. Not the case, and it just shows how much Apple has lied for the past years, and how much Mac users bought it as true, and how much they can't see that they have been lied to, and are STILL being lied to.
You do have one. It's just built into your OS.
Books and paintings. Really, get with the program...
Sadly, "society" has done away with nature, or more, did a good job at making people so dumb they can't see it. The more you advance something the more you depend on it. People depend too much on the fake world made for them to see anything else.
The best idea is to send the code to be looked at. Given, you'd have to get some C programmers... but with all the BS in the Senate, the cost is probably much less.
...that the US government 150% violant.
Not to mention the army made a game more violant then BF2.
Some of these are really priceless. I got one about a Cuban guy who wanted to start a revolution once, just the other day I got a funny one that was a ton of semi-random words, but it was hilarious still.
Maybe I am easily amused.
Even that doesn't work. They even got to China. I don't even think NK is safe for long, you know Kim and his downloaded movies and MP3s....
OMG, and all door makers need to make their doors so they can't be unlocked! Always have to have a key to open the door - from the inside or out, regardless of anything else.
Couldn't do it without ya!
"For example, an ISP providing a DSL or cable connection to a customer who shares the line wirelessly could simply charge for more bandwidth if their fixed-price "buffer" is exceeded. That would be an example of service terms embracing technology. But, now I'm getting to a whole other discussion for another story." Or ISPs can stop whining and give the customer what he paid for - a DSL line. And if he ends up sharing it so much that it slows him down, then he can buy whatever better they have. ISPs saying "gimmi gimmi" is a very bad thing, and giving them more ways to say it is an extremely bad way. Instead they need to shut up and do what they are paid to, and stop trying to "take just a little off the top". [/rant]
In today's world, your frigging business is the frigging business of too many morons in power.
So... if I leave my frount door open, I am robed, someone steals my gun (it's reported), then the robber kills someone with my gun, I was "aiding and abetting" them to kill the person?
This is why people with no insight shouldn't talk like they do.
Well, I'm with Oz (I'm in the US but everyone I know is in Oz...); I suck.
Thinking there is anything worth looking at on myspace.
So you think we need to replace our semi-dictatorship with a semi-dictatorship-theocracy? Yeah, good job. You are just as corrupt and single-minded as Bush. If it hasn't come to you yet, the ability to not believe religion (or our own) is one of the main freedoms we fight for.
Also, blaming atheism for police states seems a lot like bad logic. You think because the communists made mostly police states that all police states are the results of communism and atheism, am I right? Hello! Stop ignoring the facts. No one, I repeat no one, in a high place in the US gov (and I'd bet the UK gov) is an atheist. What are they, you ask? Christian!!!! What is to blame for a lot of corruption? RELIGION!
Those EVIL atheists running their super-secret shadow government, forcing you to think logically... oh wait, no, most of them are the ones fighting for your freedom to NOT think logically in wany damn way you want...
I think you mean "CRIMETHINK" ;)
Where is V when you need him????
This is news to you? Since WWII most of the western world has been a Fear-Based society. Security > Freedom; forget those idiot "founding fathers", they didn't live in our time!!!!!
Right....
Freedom doesn't matter to the masses. Never did, never will. Only thing that matters is their ability to remain in the dark about the real world and stay in their own little world of fear.
Sadly, I am afraid of this mindset... you just can't win, I guess.
The other day. Yay, I guess. Now how long does it take to get into disros.... I refuse to deal with X on a low-level, after what happened last time. SuSE update or bust.
And for casings - cardboard does wonders. Really! If you must, get some metal duct tape (they sell it in home depot and places like that) and warp the cardboard in it (AFTER cutting it...), it will make it much stronger, heat tolerant (more or less non-flammable if you are dealing with high heat), water proof and look shiny.
Why is THAT rated offtopic???
The point is, it's just as wrong as Wikipedia, if not more, for the reasons you just stated. It's just more clear on Wikipedia, arguably a good thing.