I use Bing at work by accident when I type something into the address bar for IE 6 that triggers a search. That is pretty much it. (We are blocked from changing the search engine otherwise I wouldn't even see it then. Heck, I can't even change the menus in start menu, but that is a whole other complaint.)
I find Google results a whole lot better for me - but I imagine that is because Google has profiled me and knows how to tailor the results to suite me.
My mom was a nurse at the county hospital in San Antonio. In the 90's the a lot of verbiage changed including calling people admitted to the hospital from customers instead of patients.
Why would facebook (or any other viral entity) stop trying to make more money, even if they don't need it?
I'll take it further - why would anybody stop trying to make money even if they don't need it? I don't need the quarterly bonus I receive, but I am not about to turn it down. If there was a way to get more, I would take it.
Far left? The fucker leans so far to the right he practically falls over.
He passed the health care bill the republicans proposed under gingrinch, he kept gitmo, what more do you want him to blow Rush?
Cool. So I hope you are emailing and calling your congressman to help veto this horrible conservative health care bill.
But honestly, the real problem is that whenever your side gets someone in that implementing the very ideas you want, you bitch that they did not go far enough. And that is really just a cover so when those ideas are shown flawed and not to work, you have already distanced yourselves from them. operagost addresses one of your critisms and your response is the typical "not far enough."
I have heard Carter, Clinton, and Obama all be called right wing nut jobs and I love it as it shows just how full of shit the extreme left is in their calls for unity, moderation, and compromise. There is no group that is more "our way or the highway" than the radical (but calls themselves moderate) left.
Just curious, I understand wanting a public option, but why single payor? Does the private sector really offend you that much? Do you really see people who have Medicare treated with that much more dignity than those with private insurance (I usually see the opposite.)
Also, voting for this is not a Republican/Democrat debate. It is a debate about power.
Neither side want to give it up because both side see the day where they are in power.
I was against the Patriot Act from the start for the same reason I am against giving the government control over my health care. Sure the current guy might have the best intentions, but can you say the same about the next guy?
Another option is going back to IE. I use the browser that gives me more features/performance/whatever (I went years ago from IE to Netscape, then back to IE, then Firefox and finally I'm using Chrome). If I'll find both FF & Chrome lacking something I "need" in everyday internet surfing, I'll simply switch browser to one that have the missing feature.
This attitude is why IE6 was around so long with almost no competition. It is the same rational people use to use against firefox - "why use firefox when site x does not work on it." Fortunately for all us of - including IE users since competition forced microsoft to start developing their browser again - a lot of other people did not follow your way of thinking.
Actually, I think this is already possible. There's a registry setting to specify the program you use for the graphical shell (i.e. what Windows starts after you log on).
It is. I used to run blackbox and openbox on windows
To get new customers? If I only care about getting an iphone and don't care about the carrier, I will pick the one with the better plan.
You just need one company to decide they want to take the other's business and then the price war begins. For better or worse, no company is satisfied with only holding on to what it already has.
I'll bet you're one of those people who would love to have a Thought Police, if or when the technology ever arrives that can read thoughts. Then all non-politically correct thoughts can be purged from everyone's minds!
And you are one of those people that hate having a conversation, right? Or are you one of those people who felt that if people should fly, they would all have wings and there was no point in discussing anything different.
elrous0 was starting a discussion and opened it playing the devils advocate (or he really feels this may possibly be a good idea.) It is useful and interesting to discuss and reason things out.
It may be easier, but you miss on on insights and commentary from other users. That is the whole selling point of Slashdot for me since I usually have already read the news somewhere else.
Too bad they rarely build the kbuild package for experiential kernels so that users can actually install the needed kernel header packages.
I don't understand why they even upload them when they are not instable due to dependency conflicts. That said, we are talking about experiential so there is not suppose to be a guarantee that it is installable. It really does feel like a strange effort though since anyone using hardware or software that requires a kernel module to be compiled cannot assist with the testing.
The kbuild package in experimental is for 2.6.36 and I remembering being really surprised that that one was there at the time.
The article is titled "The Right's War On Net Neutrality."
This is a troll article that bashes one side only - according to your post, both sides on the mainstream are against it.
This is becoming typical of slashdot and its members.
Just like modding the person who called me a retard +1 and then modding all my posts -1.
I guess that shouldn't bother me and posting that it does just invites more of the same but this site is becoming the next huffington post and it really frustrates me. I really used to enjoy coming here.
Sorry to sound off at you, s73v3r, since you actually are just continuing the discussion.
No they're not, retard. I'm sure that's what Fox and talk radio tell you, but it's not so.
What a well thought out response.
You left out actual examples such as whom is pushing net neutrality that is not also pushing the Fairness Doctrine.
I am not stating that pushing one agenda should taint all of your agendas just that both sides are quick to paint everything the other said with the same brush.
But in this particular case, yes, people who oppose net neutrality because they believe it's about censoring conservative voices on the Internet are misinformed
They think this because the people pushing net neutrality are usually the same ones pushing to bring back the Fairness Doctrine
Before people think about how stupid people are for making this assumption, look at all the reactions whenever Rush says anything. People are quick to assume what he meant rather than to listen to what was actually said (like the poster above stating Rush said the Chevy Volt hybrid only goes 40 miles and leaving out that he actually said Chevy Volt hybrid only goes 40 miles on battery power before switching over to gas power.)
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Lowest common denominator sounds nice. The set of regulations that all nation states can agree on should be fairly lightweight,
You are assuming they start with an "allow everything" policy. If they start with a "deny everything" policy then "the set of regulations that all nation states can agree on should be fairly lightweight" will result with a very heavily restricted internet.
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Why did you switch?
I use Bing at work by accident when I type something into the address bar for IE 6 that triggers a search. That is pretty much it. (We are blocked from changing the search engine otherwise I wouldn't even see it then. Heck, I can't even change the menus in start menu, but that is a whole other complaint.)
I find Google results a whole lot better for me - but I imagine that is because Google has profiled me and knows how to tailor the results to suite me.
He read the title and trusted who wrote it since the people who wrote it had the matching letter next to their name (D)
My mom was a nurse at the county hospital in San Antonio. In the 90's the a lot of verbiage changed including calling people admitted to the hospital from customers instead of patients.
She felt the same as you regarding that term..
Please don't...
It is offtopic and should be modded that way.
Here is the actual article discussion if you want to bitch on-topic.
http://meta.slashdot.org/story/11/01/25/163257/Slashdot-Launches-Re-Design
Why would facebook (or any other viral entity) stop trying to make more money, even if they don't need it?
I'll take it further - why would anybody stop trying to make money even if they don't need it? I don't need the quarterly bonus I receive, but I am not about to turn it down. If there was a way to get more, I would take it.
That's why I rarely (almost never) use negative mods.
I don't trust my objectivity so choose to boost posts rather than to try to crush them.
Far left?
The fucker leans so far to the right he practically falls over.
He passed the health care bill the republicans proposed under gingrinch, he kept gitmo, what more do you want him to blow Rush?
Cool. So I hope you are emailing and calling your congressman to help veto this horrible conservative health care bill.
But honestly, the real problem is that whenever your side gets someone in that implementing the very ideas you want, you bitch that they did not go far enough. And that is really just a cover so when those ideas are shown flawed and not to work, you have already distanced yourselves from them. operagost addresses one of your critisms and your response is the typical "not far enough."
I have heard Carter, Clinton, and Obama all be called right wing nut jobs and I love it as it shows just how full of shit the extreme left is in their calls for unity, moderation, and compromise. There is no group that is more "our way or the highway" than the radical (but calls themselves moderate) left.
Just curious, I understand wanting a public option, but why single payor? Does the private sector really offend you that much? Do you really see people who have Medicare treated with that much more dignity than those with private insurance (I usually see the opposite.)
Also, voting for this is not a Republican/Democrat debate. It is a debate about power.
Neither side want to give it up because both side see the day where they are in power.
I was against the Patriot Act from the start for the same reason I am against giving the government control over my health care. Sure the current guy might have the best intentions, but can you say the same about the next guy?
As a republican, I can honestly tell you that we don't want him. You can keep him.
It also shows how little chance there is for a common ground with people like you that you see him as a conservative.
I find Obama very far left for US politics and am amazed that this would even need to be debated
Another option is going back to IE.
I use the browser that gives me more features/performance/whatever (I went years ago from IE to Netscape, then back to IE, then Firefox and finally I'm using Chrome).
If I'll find both FF & Chrome lacking something I "need" in everyday internet surfing, I'll simply switch browser to one that have the missing feature.
This attitude is why IE6 was around so long with almost no competition. It is the same rational people use to use against firefox - "why use firefox when site x does not work on it." Fortunately for all us of - including IE users since competition forced microsoft to start developing their browser again - a lot of other people did not follow your way of thinking.
I think that was his point. Not sure why he was modded troll.
He highlighted the only browser that does not support h.264
Actually, I think this is already possible. There's a registry setting to specify the program you use for the graphical shell (i.e. what Windows starts after you log on).
It is. I used to run blackbox and openbox on windows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbox
To get new customers? If I only care about getting an iphone and don't care about the carrier, I will pick the one with the better plan.
You just need one company to decide they want to take the other's business and then the price war begins. For better or worse, no company is satisfied with only holding on to what it already has.
I'll bet you're one of those people who would love to have a Thought Police, if or when the technology ever arrives that can read thoughts. Then all non-politically correct thoughts can be purged from everyone's minds!
And you are one of those people that hate having a conversation, right? Or are you one of those people who felt that if people should fly, they would all have wings and there was no point in discussing anything different.
elrous0 was starting a discussion and opened it playing the devils advocate (or he really feels this may possibly be a good idea.) It is useful and interesting to discuss and reason things out.
It may be easier, but you miss on on insights and commentary from other users. That is the whole selling point of Slashdot for me since I usually have already read the news somewhere else.
Too bad they rarely build the kbuild package for experiential kernels so that users can actually install the needed kernel header packages.
I don't understand why they even upload them when they are not instable due to dependency conflicts. That said, we are talking about experiential so there is not suppose to be a guarantee that it is installable. It really does feel like a strange effort though since anyone using hardware or software that requires a kernel module to be compiled cannot assist with the testing.
The kbuild package in experimental is for 2.6.36 and I remembering being really surprised that that one was there at the time.
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/linux-kbuild-2.6.36
It doesn't matter what country the story is about. You will always have 1/2 dozen + insightful posts that pretty much sum up as "America is worse."
Mention another country as worse and you will be appropriately rated troll or off-topic.
Yea, like the Reagan administration said, "Monopolies are a good thing, because they competition alive."
citation?
I tried to google it and got "no results found"
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Monopolies+are+a+good+thing%2C+because+they+competition+alive.%22
When you start your post with inaccurate information, it really clouds the rest of your post.
The article is titled "The Right's War On Net Neutrality."
This is a troll article that bashes one side only - according to your post, both sides on the mainstream are against it.
This is becoming typical of slashdot and its members.
Just like modding the person who called me a retard +1 and then modding all my posts -1.
I guess that shouldn't bother me and posting that it does just invites more of the same but this site is becoming the next huffington post and it really frustrates me. I really used to enjoy coming here.
Sorry to sound off at you, s73v3r, since you actually are just continuing the discussion.
No they're not, retard. I'm sure that's what Fox and talk radio tell you, but it's not so.
What a well thought out response.
You left out actual examples such as whom is pushing net neutrality that is not also pushing the Fairness Doctrine.
I am not stating that pushing one agenda should taint all of your agendas just that both sides are quick to paint everything the other said with the same brush.
But in this particular case, yes, people who oppose net neutrality because they believe it's about censoring conservative voices on the Internet are misinformed
They think this because the people pushing net neutrality are usually the same ones pushing to bring back the Fairness Doctrine
Before people think about how stupid people are for making this assumption, look at all the reactions whenever Rush says anything. People are quick to assume what he meant rather than to listen to what was actually said (like the poster above stating Rush said the Chevy Volt hybrid only goes 40 miles and leaving out that he actually said Chevy Volt hybrid only goes 40 miles on battery power before switching over to gas power.)
I got one last night.
Mozilla Add-ons to davidbroome
show details 6:52 PM (11 hours ago)
Dear addons.mozilla.org user,
The purpose of this email is to notify you about a possible disclosure
of your information which occurred on December 17th. On this date, we
were informed by a 3rd party who discovered a file with individual user
records on a public portion of one of our servers. We immediately took
the file off the server and investigated all downloads. We have
identified all the downloads and with the exception of the 3rd party,
who reported this issue, the file has been download by only Mozilla
staff. This file was placed on this server by mistake and was a partial
representation of the users database from addons.mozilla.org. The file
included email addresses, first and last names, and an md5 hash
representation of your password. The reason we are disclosing this event
is because we have removed your existing password from the addons site
and are asking you to reset it by going back to the addons site and
clicking forgot password. We are also asking you to change your password
on other sites in which you use the same password. Since we have
effectively erased your password, you don't need to do anything if you
do not want to use your account. It is disabled until you perform the
password recovery.
We have identified the process which allowed this file to be posted
publicly and have taken steps to prevent this in the future. We are also
evaluating other processes to ensure your information is safe and secure.
Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact the
infrastructure security team directly at infrasec@mozilla.com. If you
are having issues resetting your account, please contact
amo-admins@mozilla.org.
We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.
Chris Lyon
Director of Infrastructure Security
Nope. They will invalidate this patent or pay the holder off just to keep this out of the news.
This will change nothing.
Lowest common denominator sounds nice. The set of regulations that all nation states can agree on should be fairly lightweight,
You are assuming they start with an "allow everything" policy. If they start with a "deny everything" policy then "the set of regulations that all nation states can agree on should be fairly lightweight" will result with a very heavily restricted internet.