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1. Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
2. A betrayal of trust or confidence.

ESR's followers are as bad as Rush's damn dittoheads. Stop letting someone else think for you (or in this case, speak for you) and think (speak) for yourself. The point is that content is that which fills, and to contain is to hold content. The fact that ESR (and you with him) reads more into the word than really is there has no bearing whatsoever on what it really means.

Or put simply (in deference to you, kent) the cream in the cream puff is content, but it's still called a cream puff, not a pastry spheroid. Similarly what makes a website significant is its content.

ESR's followers are as bad as Rush's damn dittoheads. Stop letting someone else think for you (or in this case, speak for you) and think (speak) for yourself. The point is that content is that which fills, and to contain is to hold content. The fact that ESR (and you with him) reads more into the word than really is there has no bearing whatsoever on what it really means.

Or put simply (in deference to you, kent) the cream in the cream puff is content, but it's still called a cream puff, not a pastry spheroid. Similarly what makes a website significant is its content.

ESR's followers are as bad as Rush's damn dittoheads. Stop letting someone else think for you (or in this case, speak for you) and think (speak) for yourself. The point is that content is that which fills, and to contain is to hold content. The fact that ESR (and you with him) reads more into the word than really is there has no bearing whatsoever on what it really means.

Or put simply (in deference to you, kent) the cream in the cream puff is content, but it's still called a cream puff, not a pastry spheroid. Similarly what makes a website significant is its content.

Buy a dictionary and look up the word "likely". You'll see it can mean "probably". Hence (assuming your quote is correct) they *did* say that "Rosen probably would agree", since "Rosen would likely agree" means the same thing.

In fact I'll save you the money:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=likely

Slight correction there: it's habeas corpus, not habeus corpus.

Actually, as per the American Heritage Dictionary, "terrorism" is defined as "The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons," or more simply, "the systematic use of violence as a means to intimidate or coerce societies or governments." Neither the US campaigns in Vietnam or Iraq nor the USSR's involvement in Afghanistan fits in either this definition or in people's canonical understanding of what "terrorism" means. Sorry.

"[The Taliban] supported the Al Qaeda because of what they believed, not because they wanted to terrorize US citizens."

...Except that what they believed in was terrorizing US citizens.

"One well-known former CIA chief testified in his book that the Taliban were created by US funds during the Soviet occupation years to create a strong religious resistance against USSR."

This may be true (though I haven't verified either way); however, if you make the assertion that somebody is "well-known," some credibility may be gained by pointing out the celebrity's name.

"A terrorist to some is a freedom fighter to others."

Absolutely. For instance, the good folks that blow up a pizza parlor in Jerusalem, or a Tel Aviv discotheque full of unarmed teenagers, or a Bali nightclub catering to Australian tourists, or a couple of office buildings in New York, are really freedom fighters and not terrorists, as some of us were foolishly led to believe. Tell us, though: whose freedom are they fighting for? And...freedom to do what? (Bonus question: what do all of the above freedom fighters have in common?)

Never sling around a word without completely understanding its definition and checking how it applies to yourself. Words like WMD, terrorist and wacky are some.

See brief discussion about the definition of "terrorism" (above).

"never treat anyone like the plague because he supported someone else. Many people even in America still defend communism..."

And many people in America and elsewhere still defend the Nazi party, and polygamy, and the Christian right, and the RIAA, etc. It doesn't mean that all these people should be tolerated rather than shunned.

"Face it, democracy is a total failure in poorer countries where people only vote for the person most seen on TV, which is the richest politician around."

You're right. Communism, fascism, and other forms of totalitarianism and oligarchy are a much better solution, where all the polititians except the richest one have been summarily shot and the people don't have to worry with voting for anyone at all, which is a good thing because the people are far too busy trying to find something to eat since the said government has either not bothered making sure people have enough food, or has intentionally impeded food distribution as a means of controlling the people.

Don't people at least try to learn from history?

American Heritage and Webster's dictionaries have "semicolon" without the hyphen.

I recon

I assume you meant that you reckon, or think or assume, that it might offend, and not that you reconnoitered, or made a preliminary inspection or scouted, that it would offend ("recon" being an accepted shortened form of "reconnoiter" in the verb sense you used, or "reconnaissance" in the noun form which you didn't).

I recon

I assume you meant that you reckon, or think or assume, that it might offend, and not that you reconnoitered, or made a preliminary inspection or scouted, that it would offend ("recon" being an accepted shortened form of "reconnoiter" in the verb sense you used, or "reconnaissance" in the noun form which you didn't).

Wine Is Not an Emulator!!!

Gee, why would people think it's an emulator? Don't get too upset, but it is an emulator in many senses of the word (Yes, I know WINE is an acronymn for Wine Is Not an Emulator).

- It just happens to implement a similar look and feel as Win
- It implements the Windows API on a non Windows system
- I can use it to execute the same Windows programs and achieve the same results as with MS Windows, which fits the the dictionary definition
- Oh, and it ends in 'E'. What does that stand for? Ethereal?

And GNU is Un*x.

Ever hear "the principal is your pal"? We learned it in grade school to tell the difference between the two.

principal ( P ) Pronunciation Key (prns-pl)
adj.

1. First, highest, or foremost in importance, rank, worth, or degree; chief. See Synonyms at chief.
2. Of, relating to, or being financial principal, or a principal in a financial transaction.

n.
1. One who holds a position of presiding rank, especially the head of an elementary school or high school.
From here.

I was finally told by a manager that any upload in excess of 35 minutes (size of file or type, etc have no bearing) would result in an automatic capping of the user's upstream.

What they're doing here is preventing their customers from operating servers. It's perfectly reasonable that they should want to do this: why should they provide commercial service for consumer prices? Their solution is pretty procrustean though.

Anyway, if you need unlimited uploads, you need a provider that allows it. Might cost more than you're spending now, but that's how business works.

Original poster claimed: However, most people from Utah ARE Mormons

You returned with: Only 55%

I would say 55% is MOST people like the parent stated.

you are retarded. he means here they are they will be said. He's not telling anyone to say them.

A sequence of stored data or programs awaiting processing. -- dicrionary.com

millennium

This is a response to Slick_Snake. Anybody who understands the difference between "translation" and "encryption" should skip it.

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There are people who can start with a stream of ones and zeroes, change them to hexadecimal, look up the first instruction, find the number of additional data to be included, interpret that data, and repeat for the rest of the stream.

Even for HelloWorld, this would take a very long time and much knowledge about how binaries are written for a particular architecture.

There are people (programmers) who can take a set of tasks and write a program to do it. There are some people who can take the program and turn it into binary code the machines can understand. That process would take a very long time.

The first paragraph is about "decompiling"; the third is about "compiling". Both tasks would take a very long time if done "by hand", so some of the first programs were tools to remove much of the work to make more tools. Operating systems and compilers reduce the grunt work of talking to hardware and translating from human-understandable to processor-understandable. Unix, gcc, and VisualStudio reduce the amount of time spent teaching the machines to do something. They also reduce the knowledge required. (Would you like a VB programmer poking bits into memory to create graphics?)

But both tasks are only translating from one language (C, Pascal, ...) into another (assembly).

So you are admitting that you require a program to understand the binary and convert it back into something that you can read
Even if the other poster had the skill, he would probably write a program to do it. Computers were invented to do very repetitive tasks.

That sounds exactly like decryption to me.
Please look up translation
- If I translate this post to German, and you do not understand German, it is still not encrypted, just translated.

My point wasn't that it was impossible to read the binary files only that is was very difficult to the point were few would attempt to and less actually could.
That is why we build tools. Difficult != impossible. In this case, it is not "difficult", just incredibly repetitve.
- Is assembly language still taught in computer school? It is not difficult. Processors do not understand very many verbs (mostly various ways of saying "get" this and "put" it there), and most of the nouns are memory locations. (They also know how to add one to a number!)

Just because a form of encryption can be broken doesn't mean that it is not encryption.
This post is encrypted in English. Please do not break the encryption.

Granted I do agree that compiling was not created as a form of encryption, but as programmers have become increasingly dependent on higher level languages they have become less and less familiar with byte code.
Just because you do not understand German does not mean everything written in German is "encrypted", it just means you cannot read it.
- Most 2-year-olds in America would have difficulty reading this English. That means that they do not know the language yet, not that this is encrypted.

Encrypt - to convert from one system of communication into another; especially : to convert a message into code Decrypt - to discover the underlying meaning of
You are confusing definitions for code.
2: a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
3: (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions

The act of translating programs into computer code is not the same as encrypting for secrecy.

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Personal Information:
- I am a programmer.
- I do not understand German. I could attempt to translate by hand with a German-English dictionary. Or I could use a computer program to translate. Guess which I prefer.
- I am not good at reading or writing computer assembly language.
- I am a very good programmer.

This is a response to Slick_Snake. Anybody who understands the difference between "translation" and "encryption" should skip it.

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There are people who can start with a stream of ones and zeroes, change them to hexadecimal, look up the first instruction, find the number of additional data to be included, interpret that data, and repeat for the rest of the stream.

Even for HelloWorld, this would take a very long time and much knowledge about how binaries are written for a particular architecture.

There are people (programmers) who can take a set of tasks and write a program to do it. There are some people who can take the program and turn it into binary code the machines can understand. That process would take a very long time.

The first paragraph is about "decompiling"; the third is about "compiling". Both tasks would take a very long time if done "by hand", so some of the first programs were tools to remove much of the work to make more tools. Operating systems and compilers reduce the grunt work of talking to hardware and translating from human-understandable to processor-understandable. Unix, gcc, and VisualStudio reduce the amount of time spent teaching the machines to do something. They also reduce the knowledge required. (Would you like a VB programmer poking bits into memory to create graphics?)

But both tasks are only translating from one language (C, Pascal, ...) into another (assembly).

So you are admitting that you require a program to understand the binary and convert it back into something that you can read
Even if the other poster had the skill, he would probably write a program to do it. Computers were invented to do very repetitive tasks.

That sounds exactly like decryption to me.
Please look up translation
- If I translate this post to German, and you do not understand German, it is still not encrypted, just translated.

My point wasn't that it was impossible to read the binary files only that is was very difficult to the point were few would attempt to and less actually could.
That is why we build tools. Difficult != impossible. In this case, it is not "difficult", just incredibly repetitve.
- Is assembly language still taught in computer school? It is not difficult. Processors do not understand very many verbs (mostly various ways of saying "get" this and "put" it there), and most of the nouns are memory locations. (They also know how to add one to a number!)

Just because a form of encryption can be broken doesn't mean that it is not encryption.
This post is encrypted in English. Please do not break the encryption.

Granted I do agree that compiling was not created as a form of encryption, but as programmers have become increasingly dependent on higher level languages they have become less and less familiar with byte code.
Just because you do not understand German does not mean everything written in German is "encrypted", it just means you cannot read it.
- Most 2-year-olds in America would have difficulty reading this English. That means that they do not know the language yet, not that this is encrypted.

Encrypt - to convert from one system of communication into another; especially : to convert a message into code Decrypt - to discover the underlying meaning of
You are confusing definitions for code.
2: a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
3: (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions

The act of translating programs into computer code is not the same as encrypting for secrecy.

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Personal Information:
- I am a programmer.
- I do not understand German. I could attempt to translate by hand with a German-English dictionary. Or I could use a computer program to translate. Guess which I prefer.
- I am not good at reading or writing computer assembly language.
- I am a very good programmer.

issue of someone in beurocracy[SIC]

"issue of someone in beurocracy(sp?)

thats the word I was looking for.. I think either one works

But I don't like car dealers either, and you don't see me hotwiring cars off of their lot because I think they're in a corrupt business. The point is that THEIR corruption doesn't justify MY corrupt actions. Or as your mother undoubtedly told you, two wrongs doesn't make a right.

And you people complaing about the use of the word "steal".....that's what it is. When you take something that isn't yours, whether it's physical or bits of data over the internet, that's stealing, folks.

Unless you reply otherwise, I'll assume your answer is an emphatic yes.

Alternatively, the correct analogy you should be using is when, in the distant future, Star Trek-style replicators are used to duplicate cars on lots.

P.S. You'd say I "stole" parts of your message, yes?

merkin : A pubic wig for women.

Hacker
One who is proficient at using or programming a computer; a computer buff.
One who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer network or file.

While this does include black hats it does not include script kiddies.

Cracker
One who makes unauthorized use of a computer, especially to tamper with data or programs.

This, however, do to the fact that it does not mention programming or skill, would refer to a script kiddie.

As far as the hacker/jedi analogy, to become a jedi you have to start out good. The bad guys are the sith. While good jedi do go bad, the trend in hacking is more for a black hat to go gray than white to go black.

M.D. Inc.

Hacker
One who is proficient at using or programming a computer; a computer buff.
One who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer network or file.

While this does include black hats it does not include script kiddies.

Cracker
One who makes unauthorized use of a computer, especially to tamper with data or programs.

This, however, do to the fact that it does not mention programming or skill, would refer to a script kiddie.

As far as the hacker/jedi analogy, to become a jedi you have to start out good. The bad guys are the sith. While good jedi do go bad, the trend in hacking is more for a black hat to go gray than white to go black.

M.D. Inc.

use Google's cache to quickly hunt down sesitive pages,

Try hacking a dictionary.

Actually, it is a word, just a nonstandard one. Fine for /.

Tapwave is bordering on winning the "Most Useless Website Award For A Company Trying To Break-In To An Oligopolistic Market."

Oooo, who will take home the "Crappie?"

You think the people at the Violence Policy Center are runaway slaves? You're an even bigger moron than I thought ...

jeremycec writes " Evidently, nothing's been resolved since 2001 , when this happened the first time. In these Memorandum Opinion and Preliminary Injunction documents from Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., we see how the court stepped in to pull the plug on a system, which, through its abject lack of due care, left someone's important financial information wide open to attackers. According to the former CIO of the Bureau of Indian Affairs: 'For all practical purposes, we have no security, we have no infrastructure, ... Our entire network has no, firewalls on it. I don't like running a network that can be breached by a high school kid.' So, when the BIA could get no relief through Interior's IT Dept., it went to the courts. Source: Government Computer News "

Also look here for a quick introduction to morphology. Pay special attention to bullet six (zero morphology).

Please smack yourself several times in the head with a large crowbar until you understand linguistics.

Smack yourself, dolt. From dictionary.com: tr.v. tasked, tasking, tasks 1. To assign a task to or impose a task on. 2. To overburden with labor; tax.

Really?

Thank you, pkhuong for clearing that up. People hear socialism and they think communism.

Dictionary.com actually goes a bit further in the definition of socialism:

"The word, however, is used with a great variety of meaning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general tendency is to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by society on behalf of the poor, . . . radical social reform which disturbs the present system of private property . . . The tendency of the present socialism is more and more to ally itself with the most advanced democracy."

Easy there, Darl. Chill out before you pop an aneurism.

The most popular product is ALWAYS the superior product, the consumers have made it so.

Definition of "Superior"

Nowhere in that definition does it indicate that "superior" is a synonym of "popular"

Do you also believe that the Backstreet Boys are superior to all other music artists because more radio stations play them?

The fact is, I haven't tried to redefine "superior" pal, you have.

IPv6 addresses are 128 bits. The resulting list of IP addresses is two googols long, an enormous number. "It's a nearly infinite address space," said Cisco Systems Vice President Sangeeta Anand.

I've wasted a dozen hours I couldn't afford trying to get Mandrake 9.1 working on a network on my very well-supported IBM laptop. It installs OK, but absolutely refuses to get correct DNS server information from DHCP.

No Windows client (9x, NT, 2K) has ever had a problem, but Mandrake refuses to let itself talk to the rest of the world, making it totally useless for anything more serious than frozen bubble.

I no longer have time to spend trying to figure out how to fix broken software, so I'm sticking with Windows on the desktop for another year or two.

It's sad really, I've been regularly giving Linux a try on the desktop since 1997, and it's never made the grade even once - that's right, not even one time have I had any Linux distro I've tried flawlessly install and allow access to the network.

This is pretty basic stuff, and I'm a 20-year Unix veteran, so I'm pretty capable, but I also have better things to do than chase endless bugs and misconfigurations in flaky distros - bugs that should have been fixed long before the software shipped.

It really is sad, but even today, Linux is still not up to snuff as a desktop, which is why it will have to remain confined to server duty for another year or two - until someone finally builds a distro that *does* work.

"Stabbed in the back" would be better, but I think that a more appropriate sentiment would be "hijacked": Since Safari is based on the same engine as Konqueror, if Safari development lags the project could be hijacked by the Konqueror devlopers.

Don't forget Frist is from TN, the center of the country music industry - probably the closest you can get to Hollywood without actually going to Hollywood. And he has plenty of pull of his own.

I'm rather sick of these radical modern day liberals (as opposed to old school liberals, who actually believed in liberty) being called "conservatives." These modern day robber barrons are not conservators of anything except greed. I have in mind a much appropriate word to describe them...

cue matrix analogies.

Matrix Analogies indeed... perhaps you need to question the "independence" rhetoric you've been fed all these years. That "frontier" you spoke of belonged to someone else (Native Americans). Sure, in my childhood, I used to eat and breathe the same love fore indepedence, until I went to visit foreign countries. There I found people who were interdependent... they understood that there was no frontier, and that whatever you did impacted other people.

Welcome to the interdependent world... you're about a century late.

I'm guessing your Latin's weaker than you think.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=obligated

So, no, we can't erase it from the language. Feel free to try though. And 'tho' isn't a word. Can we _please_ get rid of it? And it's is the contraction. Get it straight.

very few Slashdot submitters or editors show basic competance

That would be competence.

Happy now?

Oh, and while I don't doubt that you know a few English majors that were good at programming, your statement would only make any sense if MOST English majors were good at programming. The thought process for reducing things to simple steps is at odds with the normal authors thought process in my experience.

>One of their sole means

Well, sabotage is a sole method of protest, if not the sole one.

>One of their sole means

Well, sabotage is a sole method of protest, if not the sole one.

Extreme Payne

Supreme Payne

Paramount Payne

Ultimate Payne

Superlative Payne

Mostest Payne

Mmm, on second thought, my buddy Mostest might have a problem with that last one.

Linux is more closely related (at least in terms of origin) to *shutter* Minix.

I think you meant shudder .

Hope this helps.

Ever notice how Slashdot stories often have far too many links? Since the front page doesn't get the little [slashot.org]-style URL warnings, I'm always afraid of being linked to a certain .cx site or a disturbing picture of a girl... spewing.... something... This article was pretty good, though. it didn't link to easy-to-find pages like Google, Yahoo, IBM, Microsoft, etc.

Oh well, Slashdot, you are my friend!

Open Source projects are the opposite of bureaucratic, they flourish, grow and decline according to their popularity.

Too bad really that TCP/IP and the many BSD tools weren't released under the GPL... or MS wouldn't be singing these tunes.

The land and the people that we call Greece and Greeks are in their own language Hellas and Hellenes. Greek is a form of the Latin Graecus, which in various modifications (grieche, grec, greco, etc.) is used in all Western languages. Graecus is Graikos, an older name for the people. Graikos was a mythical son of Thessalos. Or, since this should rather be understood as derived inversely (the person as an eponymous myth from the race), various other derivations have been proposed. Graikos (a form Hraikos also exists) is said to have meant originally "shaggy-haired", or "freeman", or "dweller in a valley" (W. Pape, "Worterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen", 3rd ed., Brunswick, 1870, s.v. Graikoi). The first people so called were the people of Dodona in Epirus, then the Greeks in general. After the common use of the other name, Hellene, this one still survived. It occurs occasionally in classical writers; after Alexander it became common, especially among Greeks abroad (in Alexandria, etc.). From them it was adopted into Latin. But in Greek, too, it lasts through the Middle Ages as an alternative name for the Hellenes of classical times (Stephen of Byzantium, about A.D. 400: Graikos, ho Hellen quoted by Sophocles in "Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods", New York, 1893, s.v. Graikos). Latins and other foreigners, as well as Greeks writing to such people, use it not seldom for any Greek, as "Graecus" in Latin.