Re:Is command line vs. GUI a false dichotomy?
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A GUI is like a car with an automatic transmission. It is simple to use, works well enough for most people, but does not provide that much control over how the engine runs. If you're an old lady in a Buick, you want an automatic.
A CLI is like a stickshift. It's not as easy to use as the automatic, there is a steeper learning curve. Once it is mastered, you have much more control over the vehicle you are driving. If you're a guy in a Porsche, you have a stick.
"I think Internet-censorship in school libraries is highly desirable, even if it's not perfect;it's better to have at least some form of protection than none"
Protection from what? Exposure to the fact that people (GASP!) have sex, or don't always keep their clothing on.
The kind of protection that web filtering offers is simply protection from your own mind. In order for someone to be truly be educated, diverse viewpoints and lifestyles need to be discussed.
By controlling the information that people have access to, they way they think is controlled.
Some people could argue that some things are not "appropriate" to be viewed in public. But it is not the business of the government to decide what it is okay for us to view. Also the public library is the major, if not only, source of information for many people. Some people cannot afford computers, let alone internet access. Some people can't even afford books!
The libraries should be free to be storehouses of information, not political tools used to make fundies efforts at forcing their viewpoint on everyone under the guise of protecting the children.
Perhaps pornographic web pages should be put up that would easily bypass filtering software. This could be done fairly easily, just a bunch of thumbnails and pics, no words at all. Maybe the pages could even have intentionally misleading titles, like "How to make chocolate chip cookies". If enough people did this, filtering software would be rendered useless. Then it, and it's advocates would go away.
After reading your post I have decided to put up a list of movies that used Linux for their computer animation. I'm not really much of a movie buff though. If people will email me titles of films that used Linux in special effects I will post them on my webpage.
I agree that for a DoS to be an act of civil disobedience it would have to be done without any detection-foiling methods used. Those responsible would be saying "Regardless of the concequences, we will not put up with you or your behavior. Now do what you will." If the DoS is done with anti detection methods used it is something different, terrorism. In this case, the attackers are sending a different message. They are, in effect, saying "We are going to get you, you don't know where we are coming from, and good luck finding us." Sending the former message takes much more courage than the latter. It is much easier to shoot someone in the back than to walk up to them and cut their throat.
There are several similarities between proto-nazi Germany and Russia in it's current state. Both are formerly powerful, well-to-do countries. Both have fallen on extremely hard times, and both because of some obvious turning point. In the case of Germany it was losing World War I, and for Russia it was the fall of the Soviet Union. In situations like this, easy answers are very attractive. I'm not saying that Russia is going to turn into the next nazi Germany, and I hope it won't. Most Russians are at least decently educated, and probably wouldn't fall for ranting about superiority of the Russian people...etc.
A while ago (few years actually) I heard of a head transplant that was performed between two monkeys. Their heads were physically removed and put onto eachother's bodies. Both of the monkeys survived, however they were also both paralyzed from the neck down. I can say that someday in the future this could be done with humans, and perhaps cloned bodies. In order for this to be ethically viable, I think that a clone would have to be grown that only has a brain stem. Removing the brain of a human with a forebrain (the thinking part) would probably be murder, and the process would be illegal.
I hope that they do it, and I hope that they succeed. More countries in space=more people doing r&d into space travel=that much sooner that we get all that cool space shit from the movies (moon bases, asteroid mining, etc). Maybe this is what it will take to get our (US) commie-phobic politicians to start investing in the space program again.
Perhaps a plastic tape could be used for backups. A clear tape could have black stripes printed across it. Then just shine a laser through it to a reader on the other side. This would provide a flashing laser light, and that will end up as 1s and 0s.
There is no Linux based censorware because it simply would not sell. Linux is still bleeding edge "geek" technology. Supporters of censorware, at least the more vocal ones, seem to be Bible-thumping members of the Religious Right. These people want simple answers for everything. Where did everything come from? Easy..God made it. How do we handle all the problems in school? Easy..Have everybody pray. These are NOT the people who want to have to (gasp) think to use their computer, they want nice, clean, simple answers.
"if we put God back in schools.....the would would be a peaceful place" Maybe we should also throw in a new inquisition, another round of witch trials, and some nice slavery and near genocide too. Nice, peaceful torture and wholesale slaughter, and all under the grace of God himself.
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VDSL service is being tested in the Phoenix area. It provides 256k internet connection, and digital cable tv over phone lines. There is, of course, the distance-from-the-central-office limitation, but it still is an alternative to cable modems/tv.
Do you honestly believe that any country would nuke it's own territory? Sure, a couple hydrogen bombs would nicely do away with any rebel forces, but it would also leave vast expanses of toxic wasteland. Plus all those neat, unstable heavy elements would blow around, spreading poison to more areas.
The goal of the second ammendment is simple. The government as a whole should be outgunned by the people as a whole. Then if the government is no longer for and by the people, and starts to opress them, the people will be able to overthrow them. If the people are not armed, and the government is truely totalitarian and opressive, no ammount of peaceful dissent will work. The only workable option, violence, will be gone.
This could create a whole new niche market in Britian. Non speed controlled cars could be taken across by people moving into the country from elsewhere in Europe. Then the cars could be sold, at greatly inflated prices, to people who do not want to deal with the devices. Also the used car market would boom as well. Anything fast would go for alot more money, even those ass-ugly Firebirds from the '70s. Last of all there will be people who illegally remove the speed control device, similar to people who remove the catalytic converters in the U.S. This new "feature" will do nothing to stop committed speeders, and be a major headache for the average driver.
The top gadget of all time should simply be tools. If we had never learned to use tools, we would still be running around naked in the woods being eaten by predators.
Java is wonderful on the server side, but has failed miserably on the client side. For a client side revolution, Write Once Run Anywhere simply doesn't work. A different approach should be taken. It would be wonderful if a completely and totally os-independant, standardized API was developed. The bottom would drop out of porting time, and porting cost. With a reduced porting cost, revenue from non-mainstream operating systems would be higher, and perhaps profitable. That means, of course more Linux apps, more Mac apps, more BeOS apps.............
I do tech support for a largeish ISP. Apparently there is something majorly wrong with Open Transport in OS 9. In fact we have not yet been able to get a single customer connected who is running it. All of you mac people using modems to connect to the net may want to hold off until they get this one fixed.
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Let's say your disk was getting full. All the admin would have to do is copy, for example the contents of /usr onto the new disk
. Then just mount the new disk to /usr, and everything looks the same to the end user, and all the programs that look for things in /usr too.
Please remove the above.
A CLI is like a stickshift. It's not as easy to use as the automatic, there is a steeper learning curve. Once it is mastered, you have much more control over the vehicle you are driving. If you're a guy in a Porsche, you have a stick.
Protection from what? Exposure to the fact that people (GASP!) have sex, or don't always keep their clothing on.
The kind of protection that web filtering offers is simply protection from your own mind. In order for someone to be truly be educated, diverse viewpoints and lifestyles need to be discussed.
By controlling the information that people have access to, they way they think is controlled.
Some people could argue that some things are not "appropriate" to be viewed in public. But it is not the business of the government to decide what it is okay for us to view. Also the public library is the major, if not only, source of information for many people. Some people cannot afford computers, let alone internet access. Some people can't even afford books!
The libraries should be free to be storehouses of information, not political tools used to make fundies efforts at forcing their viewpoint on everyone under the guise of protecting the children.
Perhaps pornographic web pages should be put up that would easily bypass filtering software. This could be done fairly easily, just a bunch of thumbnails and pics, no words at all.
Maybe the pages could even have intentionally misleading titles, like "How to make chocolate chip cookies".
If enough people did this, filtering software would be rendered useless. Then it, and it's advocates would go away.
After reading your post I have decided to put up a list of movies that used Linux for their computer animation. I'm not really much of a movie buff though. If people will email me titles of films that used Linux in special effects I will post them on my webpage.
I agree that for a DoS to be an act of civil disobedience it would have to be done without any detection-foiling methods used. Those responsible would be saying "Regardless of the concequences, we will not put up with you or your behavior. Now do what you will."
If the DoS is done with anti detection methods used it is something different, terrorism.
In this case, the attackers are sending a different message. They are, in effect, saying "We are going to get you, you don't know where we are coming from, and good luck finding us."
Sending the former message takes much more courage than the latter. It is much easier to shoot someone in the back than to walk up to them and cut their throat.
There are several similarities between proto-nazi Germany and Russia in it's current state.
Both are formerly powerful, well-to-do countries. Both have fallen on extremely hard times, and both because of some obvious turning point. In the case of Germany it was losing World War I, and for Russia it was the fall of the Soviet Union.
In situations like this, easy answers are very attractive.
I'm not saying that Russia is going to turn into the next nazi Germany, and I hope it won't. Most Russians are at least decently educated, and probably wouldn't fall for ranting about superiority of the Russian people...etc.
Hey what's up AC? How are your goosestepping lessons going? Burn any good books lately?
A while ago (few years actually) I heard of a head transplant that was performed between two monkeys. Their heads were physically removed and put onto eachother's bodies.
Both of the monkeys survived, however they were also both paralyzed from the neck down.
I can say that someday in the future this could be done with humans, and perhaps cloned bodies.
In order for this to be ethically viable, I think that a clone would have to be grown that only has a brain stem. Removing the brain of a human with a forebrain (the thinking part) would probably be murder, and the process would be illegal.
Speaking of wine, dev release 20000131 is out now.
I hope that they do it, and I hope that they succeed. More countries in space=more people doing r&d into space travel=that much sooner that we get all that cool space shit from the movies (moon bases, asteroid mining, etc).
Maybe this is what it will take to get our (US) commie-phobic politicians to start investing in the space program again.
Perhaps a plastic tape could be used for backups. A clear tape could have black stripes printed across it. Then just shine a laser through it to a reader on the other side. This would provide a flashing laser light, and that will end up as 1s and 0s.
And how much time are you wasting?
There is no Linux based censorware because it simply would not sell. Linux is still bleeding edge "geek" technology.
Supporters of censorware, at least the more vocal ones, seem to be Bible-thumping members of the Religious Right.
These people want simple answers for everything. Where did everything come from? Easy..God made it. How do we handle all the problems in school? Easy..Have everybody pray. These are NOT the people who want to have to (gasp) think to use their computer, they want nice, clean, simple answers.
HAL got his name because H comes before I, A comes before B, and L comes before M.
"if we put God back in schools.....the would would be a peaceful place"
Maybe we should also throw in a new inquisition, another round of witch trials, and some nice slavery and near genocide too. Nice, peaceful torture and wholesale slaughter, and all under the grace of God himself.
VDSL service is being tested in the Phoenix area. It provides 256k internet connection, and digital cable tv over phone lines. There is, of course, the distance-from-the-central-office limitation, but it still is an alternative to cable modems/tv.
Do you honestly believe that any country would nuke it's own territory? Sure, a couple hydrogen bombs would nicely do away with any rebel forces, but it would also leave vast expanses of toxic wasteland. Plus all those neat, unstable heavy elements would blow around, spreading poison to more areas.
The goal of the second ammendment is simple. The government as a whole should be outgunned by the people as a whole.
Then if the government is no longer for and by the people, and starts to opress them, the people will be able to overthrow them.
If the people are not armed, and the government is truely totalitarian and opressive, no ammount of peaceful dissent will work. The only workable option, violence, will be gone.
This could create a whole new niche market in Britian. Non speed controlled cars could be taken across by people moving into the country from elsewhere in Europe. Then the cars could be sold, at greatly inflated prices, to people who do not want to deal with the devices.
Also the used car market would boom as well. Anything fast would go for alot more money, even those ass-ugly Firebirds from the '70s.
Last of all there will be people who illegally remove the speed control device, similar to people who remove the catalytic converters in the U.S.
This new "feature" will do nothing to stop committed speeders, and be a major headache for the average driver.
The top gadget of all time should simply be tools. If we had never learned to use tools, we would still be running around naked in the woods being eaten by predators.
Java is wonderful on the server side, but has failed miserably on the client side.
For a client side revolution, Write Once Run Anywhere simply doesn't work. A different approach should be taken.
It would be wonderful if a completely and totally os-independant, standardized API was developed. The bottom would drop out of porting time, and porting cost.
With a reduced porting cost, revenue from non-mainstream operating systems would be higher, and perhaps profitable. That means, of course more Linux apps, more Mac apps, more BeOS apps.............
People get connected, but then they get the unable to create network socket connection error from netscape.
I do tech support for a largeish ISP. Apparently there is something majorly wrong with Open Transport in OS 9.
In fact we have not yet been able to get a single customer connected who is running it.
All of you mac people using modems to connect to the net may want to hold off until they get this one fixed.