I honestly expected a better reply from you than a strawman argument ignoring the difference between a rouge individual and an organization being aided and protected by a government
You've been told by your government and your biased media that Bin Laden is indeed responsible, and that the talibans have supported him. Now, pray tell, have you seen any proof?
No.
That's all the arguments I need to have.
Re:You're doing the right thing
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Coder or Architect?
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That does sound more like code-optimisation:) That's one of the "fire-fighting" roles, i.e, the customer demands a factor 2 speedup or memory consumption reduced by 50%... that's when the techie architect steps in and starts to slaughter..
I've worked at a company developing a quite-known operation system. I know about several components performing the same task, yet are duplicated. The OS in question is targetted at embedded system (in a way) which makes it even worse.
Even if you believe the US is "Evil", I don't see how you can possibly dispute the US declaring war on those that declared war on the US, and attacking those that attacked the US.
If I bomb something in Denmark, does that give Denmark the right to wage a war against Sweden - even though the Swedish government agrees to have me put to trial on Norway?
Of course not. But the US thinks they're somehow allowed to launch attacks against anyone whenever they want to.
You're doing the right thing
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I'm in the same position, and my advice is to take architectual, technical lead and "fire-fighting" roles. I.e, no slave-coding.
Make sure that your work is visible though, i.e, be prepared to show that your chosen architectures and the directions you've had the projects take are the successful ones. Management has some problems sometimes with people not producing x lines of code each day...
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17, @12:33PM (#2442170) I'm one of the several hundred thousand Europeans protesting against USA-sponsored terrorism.
Good. Then I trust you won't mind when we don't come to your aid when Muslim fanatics strike your country. Ungrateful bastard.
There's your racist.
Now to quote you:
The bombing is precision bombing. Very few non-terrorist non-taliban getting hit. If there were some way to reduce the innocent civilian casualties to zero then that would be great. Unfortunately it's not possible. Considering the raw tonnage of bombs dropped it's pretty impressive the death toll is so low. Bin Laden has stated the terrorist attacks will continue. The USA has a right to defend itself.
Don't you see the problem here? You've just justified killing innocent civilians because _you_ consider yourself at war. Now wake up - the afghan people have NOT in any way supported attacks on your country. They're NOT at war with the US. If there's any evidence (I haven't seen any, have you?) that bin Laden is behind the attacks - then why haven't the US agreed to the Taliban offer to have a trial in a neutral country?
Because your precious US state knows they have no evidence that would hold up in court.
Do you know that the terrorists consider themselves to be at war with the US? Do you realise that the arguments you just used are THE SAME as they're using, to justify killing innocent civilians?
No, I don't think so. Americans are so bloody ignorant they don't even question their own press...
Facts are - the USA is killing innocent civilians who had NOTHING to do with the terrorist attacks. There's NO justification for that, whatsoever.
You need to look up the definition of racism. Stating that you should be afraid of Muslims is a rasist comment - stating that you should be afraid of terrorists is not.
The afghan people, being bombed by the US, has had nothing to do with the attacks. The US is well known for killing innocent civilians whenever they feel it's necessary - and in this case it's just more obvious than usual.
I said a while back, and I repeat, that I expect that the third world war will be started by the US - trying to impose "the American Way" upon people who DON'T WANT IT.
Anything ignorant americans write is considered funny by the rest of the world:) Slashdot is my main laughter of the day.
Read the whole thread, the americans in there weren't joking - and that's plain scary.
(i.e, one of them said that although yes, Europeans have cellular SMS, no one he knows see the point of having it. I guess the 3/4 of a billion (!) SMS sent _each day_ by the rest of the world just show that we're.. uh.. lagging behind the US? *lol*)
We're still doing all that, in the embedded/telecom/PDA sector.
Home computers are as far as I'm concerned, dead. I want something for my home-cinema set that allows me to browse the web, read my email and do my banking. I also want a PDA/phone combo that I always carry with me, about the size of the Ericsson T68 where I can be reached via Instant Messaging, check my net-synched calendar etc.
Playing games? Dedicated machinery - just as I have separate components for playing DVDs, amplifying sounds and decoding digital cable.
... I work full-time as a software engineer. I _hate_ going home to yet another one of those hated machines that make a lot of noise, look ugly in my living room and tries to be everything but not really good at anything. PCs.
Umm.. Symbian's alive and kicking:) Ericsson R380, R380e and the Nokia 9210 are all based on ER6-versions of Epoc. You also have the Psion Industrial side of things, still producing rugged handhels for that market based on Epoc.
Oh, and Sanyo recently showed a PDA running Epoc (Quartz 6.1) vs the one they've shown before (Quartz 6.0) so I fail to see your point:)
Yeah, right. If it wasn't for the USA, all the Europeans would still be sending messages by carrier pigeon.
We made the damn digital era.
*laughing*.. another US citizen that hasn't got a clue on what happens (and has happened) out there in the big world outside of the little US-borders. I really feel pity for you, because even when someone tells you that you're wrong, you're just likely to respond with some US-fed propaganda.
Here's a few clues: The US is _way_ behind in telecom and wireless. WAY behind.
Do you mean PGPi with "PGP Freeware"? If so, maybe your company ought to read the license...
2.2. Can I use PGPi for commercial purposes?
Yes, you can, but you must obtain a commercial use license from Network Associates Inc. or its authorized representatives. (The GNU Privacy Guard can be used for commercial purposes without any license.)
Tested Versions:
Microsoft tested the following products to assess whether they are affected by these vulnerabilities. Previous versions are no longer supported, and may or may not be affected by these vulnerabilities.
Office 98 for Macintosh
Office 2001 for Macintosh
Office 2000 for Windows
Office 2002 for Windows
Do note - just because older versions aren't supported Microsoft won't check if the whole is there!
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Which, of course, you can build one using Linux and its file-permission system ...
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You've been told by your government and your biased media that Bin Laden is indeed responsible, and that the talibans have supported him. Now, pray tell, have you seen any proof?
No.
That's all the arguments I need to have.
I've worked at a company developing a quite-known operation system. I know about several components performing the same task, yet are duplicated. The OS in question is targetted at embedded system (in a way) which makes it even worse.
That's a good start for "code deletion"
If I bomb something in Denmark, does that give Denmark the right to wage a war against Sweden - even though the Swedish government agrees to have me put to trial on Norway?
Of course not. But the US thinks they're somehow allowed to launch attacks against anyone whenever they want to.
Make sure that your work is visible though, i.e, be prepared to show that your chosen architectures and the directions you've had the projects take are the successful ones. Management has some problems sometimes with people not producing x lines of code each day
I'm one of the several hundred thousand Europeans protesting against USA-sponsored terrorism.
Good. Then I trust you won't mind when we don't come to your aid when Muslim fanatics strike your country. Ungrateful bastard.
There's your racist.
Now to quote you:
The bombing is precision bombing. Very few non-terrorist non-taliban getting hit. If there were some way to reduce the innocent civilian casualties to zero then that would be great. Unfortunately it's not possible. Considering the raw tonnage of bombs dropped it's pretty impressive the death toll is so low. Bin Laden has stated the terrorist attacks will continue. The USA has a right to defend itself.
Don't you see the problem here? You've just justified killing innocent civilians because _you_ consider yourself at war. Now wake up - the afghan people have NOT in any way supported attacks on your country. They're NOT at war with the US. If there's any evidence (I haven't seen any, have you?) that bin Laden is behind the attacks - then why haven't the US agreed to the Taliban offer to have a trial in a neutral country?
Because your precious US state knows they have no evidence that would hold up in court.
Do you know that the terrorists consider themselves to be at war with the US? Do you realise that the arguments you just used are THE SAME as they're using, to justify killing innocent civilians?
No, I don't think so. Americans are so bloody ignorant they don't even question their own press
Facts are - the USA is killing innocent civilians who had NOTHING to do with the terrorist attacks. There's NO justification for that, whatsoever.
The afghan people, being bombed by the US, has had nothing to do with the attacks. The US is well known for killing innocent civilians whenever they feel it's necessary - and in this case it's just more obvious than usual.
I said a while back, and I repeat, that I expect that the third world war will be started by the US - trying to impose "the American Way" upon people who DON'T WANT IT.
You feel good about being a rasist? Nazi swine.
Read the whole thread, the americans in there weren't joking - and that's plain scary.
(i.e, one of them said that although yes, Europeans have cellular SMS, no one he knows see the point of having it. I guess the 3/4 of a billion (!) SMS sent _each day_ by the rest of the world just show that we're
I wonder if this Anonymous Coward realised just now what a fool he made of himself yesterday.
Home computers are as far as I'm concerned, dead. I want something for my home-cinema set that allows me to browse the web, read my email and do my banking. I also want a PDA/phone combo that I always carry with me, about the size of the Ericsson T68 where I can be reached via Instant Messaging, check my net-synched calendar etc.
Playing games? Dedicated machinery - just as I have separate components for playing DVDs, amplifying sounds and decoding digital cable.
... I work full-time as a software engineer. I _hate_ going home to yet another one of those hated machines that make a lot of noise, look ugly in my living room and tries to be everything but not really good at anything. PCs.
Oh, and Sanyo recently showed a PDA running Epoc (Quartz 6.1) vs the one they've shown before (Quartz 6.0) so I fail to see your point
We made the damn digital era.
*laughing*
Here's a few clues: The US is _way_ behind in telecom and wireless. WAY behind.
(oh, and look up who Charles Babbage was
... and that's a blessing, Epoc is by far superiour to Palm OS ... :)
Uhhh ... you must be in the US. Bluetooth is alive and kicking here in Europe thanks.
here
Been out for a while, quite popular. Yes, it will appear in the US too, called Nokia 9290.
The R380 is btw released as 380e, an updated (much faster) version with USB as well now.
(and of these, the 9210 will appear in the us as 9290)
Links:
Symbian
Ericsson
Nokia
2.2. Can I use PGPi for commercial purposes?
Yes, you can, but you must obtain a commercial use license from Network Associates Inc. or its authorized representatives. (The GNU Privacy Guard can be used for commercial purposes without any license.)
My Eudora 5.1 got a nice PGP-plugin from there. In the standard 7.0.3 package.
Even the info on how he did it is posted on the symbiandevnet.com website.
I haven't evaluated scripting in OpenOffice though, can someone comment on the possibility for malicious code being run there at all?
Tested Versions:
Microsoft tested the following products to assess whether they are affected by these vulnerabilities. Previous versions are no longer supported, and may or may not be affected by these vulnerabilities.
Office 98 for Macintosh
Office 2001 for Macintosh
Office 2000 for Windows
Office 2002 for Windows
Do note - just because older versions aren't supported Microsoft won't check if the whole is there!