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2003/9/4 [Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:10064 Activity:nil |
9/3 Rather than resorting to personal attacks maybe you should articulate why Coulter's and O'reilly political beliefs are wrong. Attack the ideas not the people. \_ how about the same for Franken. His thesis, apart from all the partisan wrangling is very simple. He points out some very specific examples of certain people lying. And from that, O'Reilly, and indeed the FNC can't help themselves from lobbing a pointless lawsuit filled with nothing but ad hominem against him. Attack the ideas... --scotsman \- i think a lot of people are claiming those two are assholes. i.e. they are quite upfront about attacking the individuals. in some cases, the idea-person distinction is blurry ... i dont think it is useful to distinguish between say DAvid Duke, the racist, and David Duke, the minor politician with racist ideas. --psb \_ Nice logic, so Oreilly and Coulter are equivalent to to Duke (who BTW was for most of his career a Dem). I think you might want to reconsider who you consider fanatical - usually the left exhibits more restraint before invoking the race card. \- i'm making two points: 1. most people are consciously attacking the people and not the ideas. 2. sometimes this is not unreasonable or it is relevant. i think the sarcastic "nice logic" applies to your positing the "equivalence". usually the right doesnt accuse me of being a leftist. and to be accused of being a fanatical lefty ... well is that an attack on the man or the idea? i think "fanatical" applied to the person. so if i were to at this point call you a hypocrite, i suppose i'd be attacking the man too. --psb \_ I'm not really interested in tautilogical persiflage. Perhaps we'd agree the quality of criticism reflects depth of thought. I don't have much more to say. |
2003/9/4 [Computer/HW/Laptop] UID:10065 Activity:nil |
9/3 My laptop running XP has two build-in mice: a little button on the keyboard and also the traditional touchpad. The touchpad is annoying and I want to turn it off. Under XP how can I do this? Thanks. \_ I'm shocked at this (I love my touchpad). However, it depends on the device. You should be able to disable the device in the device manager, but if it simply is a PS/2 interface it may be hard to get rid of. \_ I'm not shocked. People have strong preferences when it comes to their pointer devices. I totally prever the trackpoint, so I but IBM ThinkPads. \_ Fascinating. That's why I don't buy Thinkpads. Good point. \_ Holy shit! people are different?? \_ It's not just a preference issue for me. One minute using the trackpoint and my RSI starts tingling. \_ link:csua.org/u/446?arstechnica.infopop.net \_ You might try downloading manufacturer device drivers for the pointing device. The driver for my pointing device on my dell allows me to disable one or the other. |
2003/9/4 [Uncategorized] UID:10066 Activity:nil |
9/3 How do I go about collecting money from a judgement I won? \- see the Nolo Press Small Claim Ct book. --psb |
2003/9/4 [Uncategorized] UID:10067 Activity:nil |
9/3 Is Bustamante in the prison union's pocket too? \_ Well we know he's a racist (Mecha) and wants to implement gas price controls (WTF!!???) \_ Would a non-idiot like to answer my question? -op |
2003/9/4 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:10068 Activity:nil |
9/3 Bush happy to use emigre's lies: link:csua.org/u/444 |
2003/9/4 [Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:10069 Activity:nil 53%like:28046 |
9/3 This is probably really old, but still entertaining for O'Reilly haters http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/pundits/bill-oreilly (work-safe) \_ How could it be old if it's referring to August 2003? \_ eh, I was confusing it with the Glick interview. Anyways, here's the complete transcript of that. http://wienerboard.com/thread.php/id=11534&page= and a sound file http://www.littlemeanfish.com/media/oreilyfreakout.mp3 \_ Oh yes, and if you had any respect for Al Franken, it went out the window in the incident listed there. Al went over his time limit by 5 minutes. He spent 6 minutes slowly telling the story of the Polk/Peabody mistake. Granted, O'Reilly should have owned up to the mistake, but the event was a pile-on. The so called 'moderator' was fawning over Franken and Ivins. It was disgusting. (Especially since Ivins has so much trouble with facts herself.) \_ Um, hello. Franken is a comedian, and doesn't paint himself as any more than that. O'Reilly claims to be a "Fair and Balanced" journalist under the fair and balanced purveyance of Fox News. Which has been more truthful? It wasn't a pile on, as you claim. Indeed, if you listen to the cheers of the audience for O'Reilly during his time, it's astounding that Franken was able to speak as long as he did. You know why? Because he's not trying to be something he's not, and people recognize that honesty. --scotsman \_ but I get a sense that Franken himself knows he's a nut. O'Reilly on the other hand ... You could also say, "Even a nut can make O'Reilly look stupid" \_ But he didn't make O'Reilly look stupid except to those who already think he is. He looked like a petty cretin. And when O'Reilly pointed out that Franken's claim of O'Reilly's "lies" was a pretty weak one, and did he have another shot to take. Franken responded by asking O'Reilly where he grew up, in town A or B (apparently claiming that O'Reilly had made two different claims previously). O'Reilly responded quickly that he grew up in the A region of town B. It was pretty sad for Franken, really. This is the guy who called Ann Coulter a bitch several times in his book. Really classy. \_ It was "Levittown" and "Westbury". The difference is East Palo Alto vs. Atherton. There is no "Atherton" region of East Palo Alto. There is no Westbury area of Levittown. \_ O'Reilly claimed the show he was part of had won a Peabody. It never did. Not only that the award they DID win was won after he left the show. How is that weak? \_ O'Reilly's references to an award for the show was a response to criticism of *the show*. His response: "we won a Peabody" referred to the show. He should have properly said "they" rather than "we" and "Polk" rather than "Peabody." However, I routinely refer to past employers as "we" rather than "they"--it's just a slip of the tongue. It's not as big a deal as Franken was making it out to be. Though O'Reilly should have owned up to the mistake and apologized instead of trivializing it. However, he was being called a liar in front of an unfriendly crowd, so I can understand his being a bit flustered. \_ O'Reilly had made the Peabody claim before then too. It was just that this was the first time someone called him on it. \_ http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/peabodyfacts1.htm Shows a previous example that is precisely the same context--someone criticizing the show, and O'Reilly defending it by referring to awards. He screwed up, and should be more open about it. But it's not a big deal. \_ And Ann Coulter is the woman who claimed that the press wasn't making enough of the fact that the 9/11 hijackers were Middle Eastern Muslims. Was anyone besides her not clear on the issue? \_ Ann Coulter is such a bitch. This is the woman that says her greatest hero is Joe McCarthy, and that all liberals are guilty of treason against the United States. Al Franken is great - finally a liberal Rush Limbaugh. \_ Al Franken doesn't make shit up. \_ You may need to read up on Joe McCarthy, and why she says that before you dismiss the statement out of hand. (Oh, and BTW, Coulter routinely uses hyperbole) \_ So what you are saying is that if you agree with someone they can do no wrong? \_ No, and I don't know how you concluded that. \_ Because you dismiss out of hand the use of hyperbole. And McCarthy really was quite the Nazi-lovin' bastard. \_ READ UP on McCarthy? The man ruined lives and created a politically oppressive fog that stifled ordinary Americans from even discussing politics, all to further his own petty career. Hyperbole or not, there are a few people that are simply not heroic, for any reason. \_ Did you read this from a primary source or are you simply parroting what you've been told? Seriously--I've heard these hand-waving claims for quite a while, but once I actually investigated it and read primary sources, I can't believe all those claims. \_ Venona proved McCarthy was 100% RIGHT. Of course, some knew this all along. But as always, the left if full of 'useful idiots', to paraphrase Lenin. \_ Actually, I thought O'Reilly was a pretty smart guy, two or three years ago. |
2003/9/4 [Recreation/Dating] UID:10070 Activity:low |
9/4 So I was having dinner with a friend of mine and he said at some point that he didnt have a conscience. Appropriately, he acknowledged it was a defect, but he didnt feel bad about it. Do any of you want to admit the same thing? Know anybody to doesn't have a conscience? I am wondering how common this is. \_ do you just live in a hole? Read the paper and scan for "Halliburton". There are huge numbers of people "without a conscience." And while I don't think that is a good thing, I do believe the whole notion of "having a conscience" is contrived mainly to keep people from straying their societal bounds. What do you think? \- being a greedy bastard != no conscience. Do you think haliburton people dont care about their kids, for example? I think some of these corporate criminial should be put in "hard" prisons but I dont think this is an example of "no conscience" unless you dilute that to cover practically any criminal. --psb \_ I define conscience as the qualm one feels as he is about to hurt somebody in some way, or to entertain such an act or just the likelihood of unwittingly commiting it. If so, conscience is more a continuum than the conscience one can have is more a continuum than binary, and a great number of people barely have any all. Having too little conscience is a handicap only if one does not have the cunningness to match and conceal it. Having BTW, neither your implicit nor my explicit definition of conscience equates with what a dictionary nearby says, but that is irrelevant as conscience can be defined by the individual. Hitler might think he has a lot of conscience. too much, however, is almost always a debilitating defect. \_ Yeah, your friend's defective. It's the mark of a sociopath. Those are the sorts of people who kill a whole family "just to see what it is like." And of course, not having a conscience, he doesn't feel bad about not having a conscience. Not having one is a potentially fatal flaw, because everyone ELSE will eventually kill you because of your dangerousness. \_ you should read the short story "null-o", by Phillip K Dick. \_ You know, I did read it, but I've forgotten. If it's not too much trouble, could you remind me? --PeterM \_ I heard there is a form of autism that actually entails not having empathy and a conscience. It seemed very close to the description of a sociopath. But I was told it was a form of autism. --chris \_ Is half of the human race autistic? If one does not have conscience, how does he know he does not? This is not like color blindness, which can be objectively tested. \_ The psych department at Cal would gladly argue that it can be objectively tested. \_ the psych department wouuld convince him he's gay so they can have sex with him \_ I see. And how did that make you feel? \_ Maybe the friend is putting "conscience" in quotes. "I don't have what most people would call a 'conscience'. I see stealing, cheating, and lying everywhere, and so I don't feel bad about it. I don't kill or anything like that not because it's so inherently wrong, but because the cost of getting caught is too great." \_ So are any of you willing to admit you dont have a conscience? Or reveal the name of someone on soda who doesnt? This was not somebody who was obviously comes across as a sociopath. \_ oj@soda has no conscience. \_ One of my ex'es was a sociopath. No joke, she told me "I have no shame." I guess I should have dumped \_ That's a long way away from being a sociopath. Not to mention probably not literally true. her then. \_ What is an example of something she did in this vein? \_ Sounds like fun to me. \_ Sorry to hear that. What happened? Did you got married? |
2003/9/4 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:10071 Activity:nil |
9/4 Last night's debate: /csua/tmp/debate_2003_09_03.mp3 (First 20-30 mins are Davis responding to questions) \_ Bad perms. \_ Oops. Fixed. -emarkp \_ ok how is this clip more special than the others and why should we spend time listening to this particular clip? \_ Oh, just die. \_ It was the first debate between the candidates. And it's the full 2 hours. \_ You mean ( candidates - arnold ) |
2003/9/4 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:10072 Activity:nil |
9/4 Does anyone know whether there's a way to use interface names in an ipfilter/ipnat configuration, as opposed to an interface's IP address? -John \_ With ipfw there was, and I think ipf has a way to. Must dig some. ... with pf (openbsd) it is very simple. --scotsman \_ Yeah pf is the reason I had OpenBSD on this box previously, but it began behaving very erratically, I found the upgrade process to be incredibly time-consuming and badly documented, and searching through mailing list archives for answers to questions I had usually turned up something analogous to "read the fucking source and quit wasting our time, idiot". In short, unusable for a box that just has to work. By the way, I met the guy who wrote pf; he's really cool. -John \_ If you've switched to FreeBSD, I think there was some project to port pf over. I don't know how far along they are, but that may be an option by now. ...Aha /usr/ports/security/pf --scotsman |
2003/9/4 [Finance/Banking] UID:10073 Activity:kinda low |
9/4 i heard something i think is false, but i wonder if someone here can confirm or deny it. someone claimed that if you call the agency that services your student loan and offer to pay off the whole thing in one shot they'll make a deal with you to decrease the amount by more than just the interest. has anyone seen this happen? i'm guessing whoever thought they were getting a discount just failed to understand the concept of interest, since this seems like very very odd behavior for a loan agency. what's the deal here? I'm about to pay off my loans and i want to get the best deal possible. \_ I've a possible explanation. Perhaps they realize that they can loan your returned money out to someone else for more than enough to make up for your discount. Perhaps some hapless fool with an 18% credit card debt. And perhaps they have already received the federal subsidy for giving you your loan. Therefore, it's an unadulterated win for them to have your money back. --PM \_ ok, i hadn't thought of it that way. i'll call them up and try to bargain. thanks. \_ If you have one of those 5% loans, they are loaning you money way below market rates, so they would want to have it back. If it is a 8 or 10% loan you are probably sol. \_ I just looked into this. If you have a Direct Loan (800.848.0979) forget it, they said because it's federal money they don't do "settlement offers". Most likely your friend had a loan with a private company or he defaulted. The only thing you can do with a Direct Loan is if you pay it off within the first 103 days they will waive the interest and origination fees. |
2003/9/4 [Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:10074 Activity:nil |
9/4 What program do I use to block spam on my csua email account? \_ spamassassin \_ man spam \_ ifile \_ I have been using ifile for a while and ... its just not good enough, even trained with thousands of spams... |
2003/9/4 [Science] UID:10075 Activity:nil |
9/4 Is pam (pluggable auth modules) a worthwhile technology? All I ever see are fixes for it, and it seems hard to implement. \_ i prefer secure pam. \_ looks like spam. Heh. Ok I'll stay outa booze. |
2003/9/4 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:10076 Activity:nil |
9/4 What happened to http://slashdot.org? \_ "Same thing that happened to Crystal Pepsi. It sucked, so it went away" \_ Hey, I liked crystal Pepsi. \_ How do they make Pepsi One taste so much better than Diet Pepsi? That one calorie sure packs a wallop. \_ Hint: check the relative caffeine contents. |
2003/9/4-5 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:10077 Activity:nil |
9/4 Do MS/DOS systems crash? \_ Why wouldn't they? \_ I dont't know. Simplicity? I just don't remember having to reboot my DOS boxes back in the day. Maybe I'm forgetting. \_ Even my Commodore 64 has crashed before. \_ They can freeze when some program takes over (dos is only a program loader, not manager) and won't exit nicely. \_ that's "relative" because it was usually a 3rd party program you executed taht crashed. otherwise you could spend all day typing "dir" and "copy" and there would be no crashes. \_ good point. \_ DOS programs used to crash and burn all the time. No memory protection in the OS led to all sorts of chaos from stray memory writes. This forced coders to fix most of their bad code. Now they're not forced to be as careful, so they arent ... \_ Microsoft had entire legions of programmers who's sole job was to insert code into MS-DOS that would make Lotus123 crash, so yes MS-DOS used to crash now and then \_ Heh. MS/DOS has no VM. Draw your own conclusions from there. -- ilyas \_ DOS itself *never* crashed. It's only a program loader. \_ Well, two of VM's jobs are illusion of infinite memory and address space isolation. Without the OS providing the latter, it is no wonder the programs run amok. I can't say it's the programs' fault either. \_ It's the programs' fault. They know the environment they're being written for and should play nice. The fact is DOS didn't need isolation because it was intended to only launch one program at a time which was given full control of the system. Anyone trying to run multiple programs was waaaaay out of spec and got what they were asking for. \_ in general, complex systems with dependencies have more points of failure. Take NASA for example. They have an extremely complex system, and adding sensors and monitors add even more complexity making the system more crash prone. A common way to get around it is using the TMR system (triple modular redundancy). However the voting system is not fault tolerant, so often there are redundant voters as well. But by adding even more redundancy you add on even more complexity, and modeling it is a nightmare. In short, there is only so much progress you can make by adding redundancies in the system, at which point your system will simply become more complex and more crash prone. -ucla cs student \_ they taught you all that in sk00l? wow! |
2003/9/4-5 [Computer/SW/Database, Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:10078 Activity:nil |
9/4 For files that end in .avi, is it a fairly simple matter to tell what codec is necessary to play it, e.g. DivX or XviD? I'm talking about programmatical methods here, like reading headers or something. \_ http://www.geocities.com/ajmas/software/rifffileinfo \_ why programmatic? are you going to write your own tool? there are plenty of good tools out there already (e.g. http://www.headbands.com/gspot), and I don't think you want to maintain your own independent fourcc->codec database. \_ prompt% man magic |
2003/9/4-5 [Computer/SW/Virus] UID:10079 Activity:nil |
9/4 Is WeatherBug Spyware? \_ Duh. |
2003/9/4 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:10080 Activity:nil 75%like:10090 |
9/4 Fast for Bush! http://www.heartlight.org/fast |
2003/9/4-5 [Computer/SW/Compilers] UID:10081 Activity:nil |
9/4 I have a legacy make system that needs to work on several platforms w/ different compilers. To build for platform X, you type "make -f X_make" at the top level. I'm trying to get to a modicum of sanity about this by actually using dependencies correctly. The problem: I need to have dependencies in subdirectories, and those dependencies also need to be built using the X_make makefile, not Makefile or Y_make. Is there a way to specify this without actually setting up a target for each subdirectory that does "cd subdir; make -f X_make; cd .." ? Thanks in advance. \_ make depend? or "makedepend"? |
2003/9/4-5 [Computer/HW/Laptop] UID:10082 Activity:nil |
9/4 Can anyone lend me a compact flash card for the next few days (this is going out to the soda crowd)? I need to use Norton Ghost, my laptop has no CDROM or floppy drive, and it can boot off CF, which seems to me the best way to go. Also, I could use USB CDROM or fdisk. Feel free to mail me. Thanks, jhs \_ Does it boot off net? |
2003/9/4 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:10083 Activity:nil |
9/4 Democratic candidate debates on TV tonight on PBS: 6 PM Mountain time, from Albuquerque, New Mexico. \_ Who? Aren't they irrelevant ? \_ No cookie for YOU. |
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