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by forca 12y ago
I agree. As a veteran myself, I often wondered about the decisions to move from the proven 7.62 to the not-so-effective 5.56. Back in WWII, if a German soldier took at .30-06 in the chest from an M1, he wasn't getting up from it. Even
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by forca 12y ago
Cannot say I don't welcome Uber getting curtailed in all these places. Like many people have said, I doubt the drivers have the insurance to cover their passengers should something really bad happen whilst a passenger is in the car. So
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by forca 12y ago
I really miss the "old days" of programming. Things were simpler then. I fondly remember the early 80s programming on a Commodore 64, then moving to the early IBM machines and DOS. Even though I favour a nix environment, there is
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by forca 12y ago
Depends. If you install Ubuntu, for example, and do nothing but be an end user, no. If you install Debian or Slackware or Fedora, or CentOS and actually learn how the internals work by installing software, setting up networks, firewalls, pr
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by forca 12y ago
No. Go away. Nerd culture needs to be cultivated and rewarded. Full stop. We, at least in the US and in Western Europe are no longer making anything. We are no longer makers. Sure, a few places make stuff, but the risk/reward idealism
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by forca 12y ago
Yes. I hate receiving documents in .docx or any other proprietary format, especially if I have not agreed to that format prior to receiving them. I like plain text if at all possible. I'll happily receive PDFs because I can view them u
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by forca 12y ago
Yes, I know about this, and thank you for reminding me, but in the end, I just don't trust software. I really do like old school and I stick with it. I write most of my docs as text in either vi or nano. I neither want nor need formatt
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by forca 12y ago
This is a very good reason to never use software in the so-called "cloud". I also remember years ago when someone showed me "Track Changes" in MS Word and other programs and how you could go back and look at, say, a bid
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by forca 12y ago
I don't use the software in question. I only use AdBlock Plus and some creative OS-side tweaks under Linux to accomplish what I need. I don't need to use the software to go after ad companies.
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by forca 12y ago
It's a big deal because it's disingenuous.
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by forca 12y ago
I wonder what the viability of setting up a subscription service proxy that mobile users (and others) could point their mobile phones to that strips out all the dreck? I know there are VPS offerings that do this. Webhosting companies do off
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by forca 12y ago
Sites love to view user history. It helps them build up a profile to sell to marketers. You want to deny sites access to this info if you can, In FF, you can do this by toggling to "false" layout.css.visited_links_enabled under ab
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by forca 12y ago
The sites don't always know the ad servers have been compromised. A person visits a site, allows ads/3rd-party cookies, is surfing with admin rights, the ad servers gladly push their drive-by malware and ta-da... infected user. It
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by forca 12y ago
No one is advocating anything except not tracking users. I already block ads like most people here. They are a vector for malware, they track users, they sell that data. Make money by charging for content. I miss the old days when people ha
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by forca 12y ago
Desktop generally. Also iPhone users frequently are quoted higher prices than Android users. I've seen this with my own eyes.
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by forca 12y ago
I actually have a subscription in my AdBlock Plus that also kills these "requests". It's called Adblock Warning Removal List.
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by forca 12y ago
I glady pay for Internet access, cable TV, the cinema, magazines, other content I view. The problem I have is with tracking. Ads should never do anything save show an ad. There should be no attempt to learn about me or track me or sell my d
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by forca 12y ago
Not even close with the analogy. Unless the content is behind a paywall, it's "free". Want to make money? Charge access. If your content is THAT compelling, people will line up and hand you money. Using a backhanded revenue m
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by forca 12y ago
There is something also mean-spirited about tracking users. Yeah, yeah, I've heard it's all anonymous, but I've been in the IT industry for a very long time, and I know for a fact they can identify the users with enough time.
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by forca 12y ago
I realize this won't be popular, but I really have no feelings for ad networks. - They allow shoddy security on their servers - They track users against their will - Info on me is sold w/o my knowledge or consent - Ads are a poor
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by forca 12y ago
This. God transcends His creations as well as time (also a creation).
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by forca 12y ago
Mandrake made Linux exciting immediately w/o having to do Slackware-like config file nightmares.
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by forca 12y ago
What do you think of Midori as a daily browser (assuming you didn't apt-get something else)? I think it's a decent browser, it's only drawback is it's single-threaded.
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by forca 12y ago
I rather like the notion of Ubuntu's Unity interface. It reminds me of my favourite window manager, Window Maker, which I'm running at the moment. I recommend Ununtu to those who don't want to muck about much. Like you, I don
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by forca 12y ago
No flame war intended; just calling out what I've seen in my work in the past.
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by forca 12y ago
I have noticed over the last ten or so years that FreeBSD in particular is ridiculously stable -- far more so than any Linux distro I have tried, including Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian. I have stable Linux machines running Debian and I have
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by forca 12y ago
I purchased a Virgin Mobile handset and associated activation card. The phone is not tied to my name at all since I paid cash for it and I pay cash for the $35 top-up cards monthly. I activated the phone as "Prepaid Caller". I use
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by forca 12y ago
People should not be tracked. Full stop. Even with their permission. We are headed for worse than Orwell ever imagined. I cannot believe some people consent to this. There will come a time and soon whereby people will not be able to do a th
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by forca 12y ago
Please... leave your PC stance at the door. Really. Grown men are never offended at stuff like this...
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by forca 12y ago
I'm talking devs and sysadmins. I agree with you that NetBSD is the friendliest of the bunch. Theo de Raadt is a great guy. He gets a bad rap when it's undeserved. What the OBSD guys is very serious stuff. He gets a lot of flak bu

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