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Too Much Gaming, Anyone?
Nrik noted a wired story about too much gaming and how sometimes a few too many hours of gaming can cause your mind to blur some lines. For me it was Tony Hawk- I played so much that I started sizing up curbs for grinding while driving home from work. Katamari Damacy has been a problem too. I'm fairly certain my car is large enough to pick up the railings on the overpass near my house. I'm even more certain that these thoughts are bad.
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GTA is bad mmk
while the women and children of Iraq are considered "collateral damage" for Bush's oil war
Yeah, I keep forgetting that when I see the drop in oil prices at the pump. Really though, has the Iraq war helped us with our oil supply or prices?
As for innocent civilians in Iraq, while they are truly victims of the war, the blame does not solely fall on US (or the allies). Consider the insurgents who could be part of the peace process rather than relying on road side bombs, suicide bombers, executions, etc... to create an atmosphere of fear to their own citizens.
Yeah, I keep forgetting that when I see the drop in oil prices at the pump. Really though, has the Iraq war helped us with our oil supply or prices?
ALl you care about is the cost of filling up your car? Spoken like a true Americunt.
The Linux Revolution Is Dying
./* | grep -v sizeof', I discovered 4 exploitable vulnerabilities in a matter of 15 minutes. More vulnerabilities were found in 2.6 than in 2.4. It's a pretty sad state of affairs for Linux security when someone can find 4 exploitable vulnerabilities in a matter of minutes." - Brad Spengler
In light of the disastrous 2.6 development model that has given sysadmins everywhere a headache by introducing development code into a production line, Linux has signed its own death knell. With more and more people looking to alternatives like FreeBSD 5.x, OS X, and DragonflyBSD, Linux is slowly shovelling the dirt beneath its feet to dig its own grave.
Linux And Windows
Quite simply, the revolution against Windows has run out of steam. While Linux was a viable alternative in the days of Windows 98, when the rallying cry of geeks everywhere was "Down with M$, Linux never crashes," we now have the majority of the Windows userbase running NT-based operating systems. Except in cases of hardware or driver issues, reliability is no longer an issue in the comparison between Linux and Windows.
Eventually, the movement became one of security. In the years after its release, Windows XP was discovered to have several high-profile security flaws. Microsoft underwent a major code audit and released SP2. The rallying cry for OSS was now about security.
However, the community has discovered major flaws in the Mozilla software suite, including bugs marked "confidential" for years at a time. Additionally, major security holes have been appearing in the 2.6 line of Linux kernels, some having existed for years and affecting the 2.4 line. Declaring Linux to be the secure alternative is no longer as true.
Worst of all, the Linux kernel developers have no clear process, nor any clear contact person, when it comes to security issues.
Evidence: http://lwn.net/Articles/118251/
Evidence: Long-time shell-provider SDF used Linux until they got hacked into. Now, it's a 64-bit version of NetBSD.
Evidence: PaX discovered the mlockall hole. It was fixed in PaX for two years. Linux just now (2005) caught up.
Evidence: "Using 'advanced static analysis': 'cd drivers; grep copy_from_user -r
The New Linux Development Model
With the 2.6 line of kernels, a new model has been adopted that is considered easier for the kernel developers. Instead of branching a 2.7 line, following the model of odd-numbered version numbers denoting development code, everything is now being thrown into 2.6.
"Not all 2.6.x kernels will be good; but if we do releases every 1 or 2 weeks, some of them *will* be good. The problem with the -rc releases is that we try to predict in advance which releases in advance will be stable, and we don't seem to be able to do a good job of that. If we do a release every week, my guess is that at least 1 in 3 releases will turn out to be stable enough for most purposes. But we won't know until after 2 or 3 days which releases will be the good ones." -- Ted T'So
In other words, this Linux kernel developer believes it is perfectly fine for one in three kernels of the stable line to actually be stable. The new development process is anti-user. "Release early, release often" has outlived its reliability and applicability to the real world.
The excuse given is that Linus is only one man, and there are only 24 hours in a day. If that is true, than Linus needs to address this shortcoming of the process; otherwise, the process is poorly managed.
The Community Has Regurgitated Itself
In a frenzy of newbies, the Linux community has grown, with Slashdot as its rallying center. The cycle of self-feeding groupthink has created a userbase unable to see outside its own perceptions. This leads to unrealistic attitudes about the safety and stability of Linux and its applicability to various solutions.
Contrast to the BSD community which employs a more academic approach.
Spoken like a moron...he never said that was ALL he cared about. If I ask how much a bottle of water is it means I probably care about getting some water and not just about the price tag. Why don't you quit ASSuming things to make your own idiocy seem like intelligence?
YBH. YHL. HAND.
IF she gives decent head, shes a keeper.
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
Many of the suicide bombers are comming from Syria and Jordan. Why are *they* terrorizing Iraq?
So you're saying we should of stayed out and let Sadam keep doing what he did best: opressing and killing?
I agree we probably did things the wrong way, but at least we're not setting up Iraq as the new 51st state, we're trying to give them a frame-work and then leave, make them part of the world and hopefully not another boiling cess-pool of extreamism either way (religious or pro-america).
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Taylor also said that after reviewing Quake III he had trouble getting his mind out of the game. "I'd play it, then walk out into the office corridor and realize I was looking at my co-workers as potential targets," said Taylor. "I was so used to killing anything that moved."
Wait, you mean that's not normal in the office?
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That's because you're not seeing it from the right angle. It's not a war *for* oil, it's a war for *control of* oil. You didn't expect that the oil industry (of which I am a part, fair disclosure and all) would want prices lower, did you?
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