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Wrong.The measurements are inaccurate. The previous crime rate didn't include crimes committed by the state, which were likely more prevalent than modern gang crime.
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Agreed.I used to use bash, when I was a less frequent UNIX user, but got hooked on tcsh under Solaris. Now, I only use bash for occasional shell scripting. As for ksh, I avoid it all together. Still a good thing to see the source coming out though. The more shells, the merrier. To each his own.
BTW, there are some really cool
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If you want strong beer......you have to come to Portland, OR, and sample an ale called "Fred" (named after a local beer writer). It's brewed by the Hair of the Dog Brewing Company, and has an alcohol content of 11.5%.
I'd wager that's a bit stronger than Molson Ice (yes, that's blatantly unfair, but so were your characterizations of American brews).
As someone (Bob Hope?) once said, "That'll put hair on your chest, and part it in the middle."
If you ever get a chance to try this brew, do so. It's quite an experience.
Here's a brief review.
We have many, many fine brews here in Oregon. You might want to try them before slagging on American brewers.
One of my non-Oregon favorites (but not far from Oregon): Downtown Brown, from the Lost Coast Brewery in Eureka, California.
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Re:Who's buying Suns?You're thinking too small. Most PeeCee type systems rarely run more than, say, 60 or so processes at once.
You haven't seen my workstations...
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Do it for yourselfI'd rather have a GUI to do it. I doubt, however, that my boss would want to pay me to develop one and I'll be damned if I'm working on my off hours.
So, do it for yourself, then, instead of for your boss. It might make your life easier, and you'll probably learn something.
I wrote a GUI DNS thingy a while back in Perl/Tk. It was fun, and I learned a bit about GUI development under Perl.
Advanced Perl Programming has a chapter on Perl/Tk, and now there's even a whole O'Reilly book on Perl/Tk, I think.
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MPAA is subverting the lawMPAA goons are the ones subverting the law. There's a thing called "fair use" that has been established over the course of many years. DMCA explicitly states that it does *not* remove these rights. Yet, MPAA is trying to do *exactly* that through CSS.
Watching a DVD that you've purchased under Linux is perfectly legal. Making a copy of a DVD for your personal use is perfectly legal. Yet, MPAA tries to stop you from exercising your rights to do these *legal* things. That's what this is all about: MPAA breaking the law, and us putting a stop to it.
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Re:built on gnomeYes qt 2.0 is supposed to be more open source-ish, but I think that a commercial entity would still have to have some license to sell there product.
Not to be pedantic, but this is inaccurate.
They would only need to get the pay license if they want to distribute without source. If/how much they charge, and whether or not they are a "commercial" organization doesn't enter into it.
It's arguable that QPL is like GPL in this respect, and less like LGPL.
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Re:Opening Book != Stealing BookYou don't need any knowledge greater than the ability to use a knife to cut off the sellotape.
And you don't need any knowledge greater than the ability to run a program to use DeCSS.
You're talking about *writing* DeCSS? Well, OK...but you certainly need special knowledge to *make* a knife.
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What's "X-Windows?"I assume you are attempting to refer to the X Window System.
X (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) is an important part of any UNIX-like operating system in which GUI-based programs are used; without it, you lose network transparancy for GUI-based programs, which, believe it or not, can be quite useful in a multiuser environment.
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Not a waste at allSome of us will *never* get broadband without wireless. I need this now!
You forget that not everyone lives in an area served by numerous connectivity options.
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Re:How many of you have used Windows 2000?Slashdot bashed ZDNet, Cnet, etc for posting positive Windows 2000 reviews. At least those news companies are making an attempt at presenting both sides, they also tout linux from time to time.. Here at Slashdot you're only shown one side.
So, then, why don't you just go read zdnet or cnet, and spare us the pissing and moaning? Slashdot has always been a Linux/UNIX site...the people here have enough experience with Microsoft products to know that there is absolutely no reason to expect Windows 2000 to be any different than all the other substandard shit they ship every day.
Man...you'd think it was some sort of crime to hold an anti-MS opinion these days, with all they crying going on in these threads.
Oh, yeah...I'll try out Windows 2000...as soon as they ship it under GPL.
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Re:since you've already made up your mindsOh, well, I suppose since you've already made up your minds there's really no point in actually shipping Windows2000 after all.
Excellent idea! I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner.
Man...that would save the world a *lot* of headaches.
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Re:South Park The Movie predicted this ...Y'know, when I saw South Park: The Movie, and Bill Gates got shot, pretty much everyone in the theater applauded.
I said to my wife at that time that Microsoft's monopoly is over, because the average person had finally acquired contempt for their shoddy products, even if they were still using them.
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The appropriate place to run Win 2000...
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XFMail
XFMail does all that and more (no built-in USENET reader, though). Multiple POP or IMAP boxes, powerful filtering, PGP integration, threading, auto-view, address books, etc.
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Usenet II exists, but is (IMO) too restrictiveUsenet II was created sometime around 1996-97, I believe. It revived the old net.* hierarchy. It has some *very* stringent trust-based rules about who can join the network. This is a good thing, but it has limited the usefulness of Usenet II,
IMO, because the reach is just a bit too limited. I'm not saying they need to relax the rules, necessarily; I'm just saying that the fact that many otherwise clueful people don't even know Usenet II exists suggests that the strictness does have a negative side effect.
I'm a fairly long-time Usenet user (since 1990), but I don't use Usenet II, because it's just too restricted.
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Who the hell is moderating this crap UP?This guy is trolling, and/or has *no* idea what he's talking about.
Fair Use is well-established in U.S., and I believe, other countries' legal precedent. Copyright holders cannot legally restrict Fair Use of copyrighted material.
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You're right; I'm making a presumptionI'm presuming that a judge as prejudiced as this judge is against the defendants (and their arguments) will likely rule against the defendants...most likely repeating most of the nonsense he has offered in this preliminary decision.
At that point, the case will be appealed, and he will be overturned.
Congress and its masters (MPAA) have really made a mess of things with DMCA.
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Judge Kaplan is a pinheadThis decision is absurd.
What he is saying is that copyright holders can eliminate Fair Use through technological measures. This makes *no* sense whatsoever; it suggests that the law only applies to the technologically challenged.
If legal precedent means anything, it is common sense that technological impediments to Fair Use:
- may legally be circumvented
- are probably illegal prima facie (ooh, Latin)
- could be construed to represent contempt of court
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Right on!
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I think this is a good thingI haven't used AIX much, so I don't know that much about JFS, but I do know that many other regard it as an excellent file system. IBM was, last I heard, porting JFS to OS/2, so that it would finally have a journalling, secure file system (HPFS, while a decent FS for a single-user system, lacked any kind of built-in security as well as journalling).
I wonder which UNIX vendor-contributed FS will make it into distributions first: AIX or XFS.
Can anyone explain differences/advantages/disadvantages of the two filesystems, and perhaps how they compare to some of the other solutions (ReiserFS, ext3)?
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I'd get cable or DSL if I could......unfortunately, where I live, neither is available. Not even cable *TV*.
I was thinking about some kind of satellite service, but that route doesn't sound very promising.
Guess I'm still dialing up for a while.
Maybe Cisco's wireless thing will be my salvation...
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Re:Argh!!I don't have any answers, but would ask you this: which Win 95 are you running (i.e., Win 95 original retail version, Win 95 OEM SR2, etc.)? That may help others troubleshoot this problem.
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Re:What you could do: (also in courtroom?)Everyone should go read the transcript of the New York injunction hearing. I found it very enlightening... and it made me realize just what the DMCA is going to look like in practice. What I consider "fair use", and what the law now allows, are diverging.
I'm no lawyer...but I don't think the DMCA invalidates Fair Use...and I'm pretty sure the courts will ensure that that is the case, notwithstanding the N.Y. judge's apparent distaste for consumer rights.
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Great idea!Another interesting possibility, which is more involved, is some sort of anonymous cookie exchange. When your browser got a new cookie, it could automatically upload it to the cookie exchange server. The server would then send you a whole list of other matching cookies to use randomly. This would prevent the cookie sites from using large cookies with CRC's or MAC's to detect spoofed cookies. Since they would all be real, legit cookies, they would all be accepted by the tracking site. End result? Lots of random records with little to no marketing value.
I really like this idea. This should definitely be added to Mozilla. The way to combat these sort of practices isn't just to block them, but to make them impractical/unprofitable.
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OK...everyone use this cookieThis one is as good as any, I figure. I just created it by hand:
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Re:Win98 reboots a good thing then?
There is the NUL: device that I remember from DOS days; I think it'd still be there. It's just that in WinDOS, everything is not necessarily a file, so you can't necessarily use NUL: like
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What?!?!With the same argument I guess that since the police carry guns we can no longer critizise violent murderers? This is just plain silly and pathetic.
No. Since the police carry guns we can no longer criticize citizens who carry guns.
Or, more accurately: If the police were allowed to kill people without cause (in the name of "the people," of course), then, yes, we would be kind of out of order if we criticized other murderers.
The state deliberately has wider powers than the individual to ensure order and civilization.
The state's only legitimate power derives from the consent of the governed. How many governed are going to consent to this kind of madness?
I, for one, am going to start boycotting Australia. These things are happening everywhere to some degree, but they are completely out of hand Down Under.
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No, that *is* a dumb law
It seeks to address the symptom, and ignores the cause of the problem, like most dumb laws.
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Re:She'll be missed...
"Do I have any openings that this man might fit?"
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Re:JostaOTOH there's a bus company in Brazil called "Ass".
Someone needs to get Wesley Willis to Brazil! I'm certain he would love to ride the "Ass Bus."
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Re:stop the fud?It's not really a matter of someone's opinion being unpopular; it's a matter of experience.
Many NT monk^H^H^H^H"admins" have not had any appreciable experience with UNIX/Linux. So, their pronouncements about the "superiority" of NT are questionable, at best.
Most Linux and UNIX users, on the other hand, are likely to have had significant experience with Windows (even NT), simply due to its wide infect^H^H^H^H^Hdeployment. God knows, I've had to deal with NT for years, and know more than I really ever wanted to know about it, and its reliablilty/scalablity (and lack thereof).
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You're not getting away with that oneWindows has had a journaling file system for how long, and Linux is now only getting one?
First of all, most Windows installations are 95/98 or 3.x. They most definitely do *not* have a journaling file system, or anything even resembling one.
Secondly, WRT Windows NT, I *thought* NTFS was journaling, and said so in a thread recently. Many people corrected me, and pointed out that NTFS is not a true journaling file system, it only logs metadata.
NT5/W2K/WhateverTheFuckIt'sCalledThisWeek is finally going to have an actual journaling filesystem.
Likewise, Linux should get XFS before too long. Not with the initial 2.4 release, but Linus says it might make it into 2.4.x eventually.
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Re:fud fud and more fudAnd anything about how lunux apps are ?so well integrated? would be complete bullshit).
No it wouldn't. Here is the "integrator" of Linux/UNIX software: |
That's right, the friendly pipe. You might fear him, but you need not; he is your friend. He will help you the true power within your computer, and within yourself.
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Insightful? En vogue!It is en vogue to say things "against the grain" (i.e., anti-Linux, anti-Free Software, anti-Slashdot, pro-Microsoft) and these kinds of posts regularly get moderated up.
But, I assure you, these kinds of posts are not especially insightful.
I forget the name of the particular fallacy employed in this particular post, but involves using "a grain of truth" and extrapolating to an absurd degree.
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Shareholder suit?
As the eToys people must have known this would generate negative publicity, and the stock value has plummeted recently, couldn't eToys shareholders sue the eToys officers for failure to prudently carry out their fiduciary responsibilities?
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Ummmm....-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55979 Oct 20 07:24 CREDITS
That's not too much to ask from Apple, is it?
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Re:This is socio-political feedbackSo-called representative democracy is nothing of the sort, because there is no opportunity to influence individual issues through the election sledgehammer, and in any event only candidates that follow the approved line get the funding that's needed to get anywhere in politics these days.
Actually, there is such a mechanism in many states, including Washington, Oregon and California: referendum and initiative.
Trouble is, elected officials and judges are trying as hard as they can to thwart this mechanism (see Calif. Prop. 187).
Naturally, there are dangers associated with anything as purely democratic as referenda and initiatives, but some deference should be given to the will of the people in absence of any citizen's rights being violated.
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MTBE
Of course, people should keep in mind that it was the State of California that *mandated* MTBE use in the first place...even after it was known to be harmful.
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Moderation is brokenAnd on top of that it got a +1 moderation!!!!
This has been happening quite often lately. Bad moderation is out of control; it is not being checked by meta-moderation.
I really think they need to only allow moderator points to accounts with karma over 20 or something.
Funny thing is that I have a decent karma, but have only moderated twice. And I've been reading and posting to Slashdot for two years.
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Re:A question for youWhat I am saying is that the idea that somehow government employees (i.e., police, military, etc.) can be trusted with firearms, but ordinary citizens cannot, is, in my opinion, specious.
Government employees are no more stable, responsible, etc., than any other person, so as long as they have firearms, others should as well.
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Re:But this is really an *economic* argumentThis is an opinion based on Windows Now (Price remains the same forever) and Linux Tommorow (It will get easier to use) There is however a flaw in this reasoning, while undoubtably sooner or later Linux will become easy enough for the average office worker to use, this doesn't mean Windows will always be priced the same.
No, Windows won't have to be priced the same; as ESR pointed out, it will have to be even *more* expensive, otherwise they are going to take a serious revenue hit.
Microsoft has no incentive to lower the price on their OS as the market has no real alternatives at the moment. I'm sure that if alternatives arise then Microsoft will hurry and slash their prices. Suddenly for the average office worker that free Linux install may not seem as attractive as the $20 Windows install.
If they cut licensing to $20, they are going to have some serious revenue issues. They may not have much choice, though.
Also remember that OEM manufacters get windows at a discount. Microsoft may be incompetent in court, but they're hardly buisness idiots
No one's saying they're "business idiots." What we're talking about here is a fundamental shift in the way software is distributed. Their paradigm is obsolete.
And, I already took the discount into account. What's the list price for Windows 98? $179 or something? Through discounts they get that down to $80-90, or if they're Dell, maybe to $55. $400/50=8. So, even if you got down to $50, you'd be talking about 1/8 the price of a cheap box for the OS. I think that's going to prove to be too much. OEMs will make the final decision, but this isn't 1991; there are a lot more competitors.
Microsoft will be able to collect their Windows tax only as long as it takes OEMs to start shipping preconfigured Linux boxes in any appreciable volume. I really think it's inevitable; it has nothing to do with what anyone wants to happen.
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Exim...agreed.I really like Exim. It does what I need it to do, with minimal fuss. I also like that Exim is GPLd.
And, it's really quite flexible. There are other good MTAs of course, but I wouldn't count Sendmail among them.
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Abit board?
Anyone know if Abit is going to do an Athlon board? I really like their MBs. I'm going to do a BP-6 for now, but would like to have Athlon as an option down the road.
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But this is really an *economic* argumentI think ESR is exactly right about the future of Windows and Microsoft, because of the *economic* considerations involved. As ESR points out, hardware is getting cheaper and cheaper. Microsoft, however, needs more and more income. Something's got to give.
At the point where Linux becomes easy enough to use for office workers, IHVs are going to start bundling it to save themselves $80 a box. Corel Linux may be the distribution that makes this possible, or perhaps the next RedHat. How can you possibly absorb $80 per unit on a product that costs $400? It's a real problem for Microsoft; don't underestimate it.
Now, if Sun lets IHVs bundle StarOffice without licensing fees, I don't need to tell you what kind of a threat that represents to Microsoft Office revenues.
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Geeks don't make good sheepleThat's what this is all about; the powers that be in government-controlled "education" centers want young people who can be formed into nice little sheeple, who won't challenge assumptions, and aren't suspicious of government.
So, they are simply trying to identify people who represent a threat to their tyranny early on.
Perhaps next, they'll have some kind of symbol that geeks will have to wear.
We need a new amendment to the Constitution to seperate school and state.
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Wasn't it actually Al Gore?
I know the Willie Horton issue was raised initially by a Democrat; I believe (but could be mistaken) that it was Al Gore's campaign that used it first.
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Re:MS is leading you into a trap!As far as I see it, the reasons for the US (at least) being a republic are based more in logistical issues and the idea that various elected government officials will do what's right for the people, taking into account their highly developed senses of morals and justice, et al.
I believe you're missing one of the most, if not the most, important points of republican government. A republic, as opposed to a democracy, is designed to protect the rights of minorities (it doesn't always do so, of course, but that's an implementation issue, not necessarily a design flaw).
If Americans decide not to conduct business as usual with some country, then that's our call to make.
And I'd say the most "democratic" way for them to express their views on that is in the marketplace, not by government fiat; wouldn't you agree?
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Democracy is...
...two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for lunch.
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IBM had some good ideasIn addition to the OS/2 Workplace Shell that is oustanding to this day, back in the mid '90s, IBM was doing some good interface work that has been abandoned. Maybe some of that could be a guide for the future development of these projects.
They wanted to use a human-looking "agent," basically a little head on your screen, that would listen for your commands, and provide you with information. The agent could assist you with tasks, and could take care of tasks at a given time which you assigned previously (y'know, like cron).
Also, the ideas they had about document display with Taligent/OpenDoc were of some value, I believe.
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