Well your neighbours overseas (dutch) have used machinery for *years* now...
It's so damn easy. Walk to the machine, push the button with the name of the person you want to vote on, the name appears in a small lcd screen, then push some OK button, done.
Nobody taught us to fear snakes, heights, growling large animals with big pointy teeth, nor did anybody teach us to be attracted to rounded shapes with big eyes (children, puppies...) or the opposite sex.
Well indeed people taught you that. Your parents taught you to be careful. In dark alleys. On a 'high' ladder. Standing on the couch. Talking to strangers. For weird looking dogs. Etcetera, careful careful careful. At first you're not allowed farther than the street you live at and they sometimes even get mad at you when you show more exploration drift than you're 'allowed', instead of guiding you into the new area. It's the message when you grow up, when you learn those things.
In the middle ages the 'ideal' woman didn't have big boobs and a flat tummy. Big boobs are 'in' now because they used to be forbidden to look at and it's no longer a sin. Well, depending where you live of course. You fall in love with whom you want to. People just don't know what they know hence they just 'feel' something.
What do you think happens if a multicultural family adopts a kid whose mother and father are convinced KKK members? Or a switch at birth time? How will the kid grow up and hence, behave?
You can put fears in people's minds and you can take them away. The whole difference is what the people know about the subject. People can overcome fear for dogs by seeing someone playing with a dog, then playing with a dog themselves, and so on. What's the difference? They no longer think it's something to fear.
I'm not afraid when someone points a pencil in my direction, but I start to worry deeply when someone points a gun in my direction. What's the difference? I *know* I can't be shot with a pencil... My knowledge makes the difference, not my genes.
Are my blue eyes not natural, because not everybody has them? Is it natural to be short, since I'm 6'2"?
Those are physical aspects of a human body, while xenophobia is something you do. If you're xenophobic, it's the product of behavior and opinions you learned.
Humans are kinda intelligent. They learn how to behave.
Xenophobia is a natural thing.
It's not. It's a behavior, hence it's learned. We learn behavior from people around us. We teach people around us how to treat us. That's part of our culture. I taught myself to be friendly to all people. Just by doing so. You learn what you do. What are you teaching yourself?
Doesn't mean it's not part of the evolution, btw. We are part of the evolution, so our behavior is too. Our behavior determines the face of our planet nowadays.
What's also funny is that some Europeans feel inferior to "the Americans." Maybe some people are just morons.
People who "feel" that way aren't just morons, they just measure their own worth against their superiority. They think they're either superior or inferior.
Sure dude. Why doncha read some history books tomorrow, and then go find some friendly "Indian" to talk to? Perhaps you'll find some in the "reservations". While you're looking for them, you might as well go look for some Hiroshima survivors, and talk to Vietnam veterans.
Then you can go visit Colombia to see the millions of acres land destroyed by American poison, justified by their stupid War on Drugs. When you're bored after that, you can visit the millions of Americans in jail for "offenses" in the same part. While you're there, you can see if the games of dominance and guilt really makes them better people.
Just for knowledge, not to feel responsible! Feeling responsible for something somebody else did is kinda stupid. As is putting the blame on people who had nothing to do with any of those historical facts.
Right, amigo?
-- Proud like a god, don't pretend to be blind (Guano Apes)
The short of the matter is Xenophobia is a natural part of us. It's rational thought that allows us as a society to look past it.
I can't disagree with you more. Xenophobia is not natural. People learn it. In speech. In behavior. It's a cultural thing.
I know a kid, 5 years old. His parents are white, so so is he. They just moved to a new neighbourhood. The old neighbourhood was mostly white, so at school, his class was also mostly white. The new neighbourhood is multicultural, so at school, the class is also multicultural. With multicultural I mean people from all continents. It simply works that way when you're 6 years old and your parents are looking for a school nearby.
Now if xenophobia is a natural part of us, please explain to me why this 5 year old kid had new friends both at school in his new neighbourhood almost instantly. His parents were still moving in, while he already played with his new friends.
Xenophobia has been part of our culture for a long long time. Imagine you're one of our ancient forefathers, long ago. Those were rough times. If you messed up, you could be thrown out of the tribe. You were either friend or enemy.
Black and white thinking like that leads to all kinds of strange behavior. Xenophobia is one of them. There's a lot of grey between the black and white, folks! In today's society, it's okay to be friendly to people you don't know! You have the best chance of getting a friendly reaction when *you* act friendly. By being friendly, you *make* people friendly.
If you say that xenophobia is a natural part of us, you deny that you are responsible for your thinking, your opinion, your behavior *and* your mood!
If it were good, you wouldn't need to force people to listen to it.
It doesn't work that way pal. Record companies plug the records at the radio stations. They pay for them to play their crap.
It's the same here (.nl). Most of the radio stations just play more of the same boring mass popular crap. And guess what, if you feed crap to people for a long enough time, they start developing a taste for it. You know, as a teenager you just don't count if you don't listen to the same music as the rest of your "gang". Booooooring bleeps per minute.
These aren't admins, but windows people with "firewalls" like zoneAlarm or blackice or something. They don't know what a ident lookup is. They just see the message from their "firewall", stress out that they've been "hacked" and complain to wherever the program suggests.
Not to mention the fact that ALL of those inventions, including the wheel and fire, started as "incremental improvement".
So is radio, television, PC, and the Internet. If you follow it all back into history, you'll see all of this stuff is a combination of already existing stuff.
Of course they have a higher clickthrough and get more money for it.
Advertizers just *love* targeting ads. They want to spent their money where they have the most selling potential.
One way to do that is to track the customers' behavior to learn about the interests of that specific costumer.
Or, we let the customer tell us what information they want, and we'll deliver that *and* information from independent third-party sources on the internet. They can easily do that because they already have the search engine to search for any content on the internet. It just searches their ads database too.
That sounds like a perfectly cool business plan to me. The company keeps track of ads instead of user data. The few lines at the top of my search results don't bother me at all. If I wanted to, I could use Google as some sort of ads on request machine to get offers of whatever I want.
Besides that, Google is the best search engine out there at the moment. And, they use Linux:-)
The problem is that probably none of the beta testers would have bothered to leave this particular service enabled since there wouldn't BE any updates to check for prior to release
If I were to test a new distro with a new feature like this, I'd make sure that there'd BE updates to test it.
True, but it does tell us one thing, the benchmarks are a minimum of 2 weeks old.
That's very true:-)
I'd suspect that the benchmarks went up on the page as soon as they were ready. I mean, why would you delay posting them once they were completed?
Several reasons are possible. I could imagine that they finished more than one set of benchmarks at once, so they have more than one story. At the same time, they don't want to flood the site with benchmarks and stories. So they keep one of 'em on the shelves.
Or they do all the testing one weekend (or two weekends), and the story around the charts some time later because something more important came up in their lifes.
Also, somebody might have corrected some spelling mistake on the pages, which would influence the date when it was last modified.
Perhaps I'd like to share my script and don't care as much about the box itself? Many people liked my scripts and used them or built something else from it.
I am sure there are no known security holes in it. No reason to be paranoid.
I'm not absolutely sure there are no unknown security holes in it somewhere. Neither is slashdot... and they give away slash...
For unprivileged ports, use ! -y to accept packets which aren't SYN packets. Be aware you might run into trouble with ftp. The client will get connections on unpriv'd ports in port mode, the server will get 'em in passive mode.
My masq box is a 486/66 with 32 MB as well and woopsie:
1:58am up 195 days, 23:58, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.06, 0.01
It's fast enough to do whatever masquerading you want. It'll even handle mail/ftp/http just fine. Though I'm not sure if it'll survive/. load;-)
Slashdot Mirror
Well your neighbours overseas (dutch) have used machinery for *years* now...
It's so damn easy. Walk to the machine, push the button with the name of the person you want to vote on, the name appears in a small lcd screen, then push some OK button, done.
Keeps lines short and makes counting easy.
The "hobby" is now about 3GHz processors, lights and liquid cooling, recording your own DVDs, and multi-gigabit wireless connectivity.
That depends on the hobbyist.
Nobody taught us to fear snakes, heights, growling large animals with big pointy teeth, nor did anybody teach us to be attracted to rounded shapes with big eyes (children, puppies...) or the opposite sex.
Well indeed people taught you that. Your parents taught you to be careful. In dark alleys. On a 'high' ladder. Standing on the couch. Talking to strangers. For weird looking dogs. Etcetera, careful careful careful. At first you're not allowed farther than the street you live at and they sometimes even get mad at you when you show more exploration drift than you're 'allowed', instead of guiding you into the new area. It's the message when you grow up, when you learn those things.
In the middle ages the 'ideal' woman didn't have big boobs and a flat tummy. Big boobs are 'in' now because they used to be forbidden to look at and it's no longer a sin. Well, depending where you live of course. You fall in love with whom you want to. People just don't know what they know hence they just 'feel' something.
What do you think happens if a multicultural family adopts a kid whose mother and father are convinced KKK members? Or a switch at birth time? How will the kid grow up and hence, behave?
You can put fears in people's minds and you can take them away. The whole difference is what the people know about the subject. People can overcome fear for dogs by seeing someone playing with a dog, then playing with a dog themselves, and so on. What's the difference? They no longer think it's something to fear.
I'm not afraid when someone points a pencil in my direction, but I start to worry deeply when someone points a gun in my direction. What's the difference? I *know* I can't be shot with a pencil... My knowledge makes the difference, not my genes.
Don't fear psychology, learn about it.
Hand,
A.
Are my blue eyes not natural, because not everybody has them? Is it natural to be short, since I'm 6'2"?
Those are physical aspects of a human body, while xenophobia is something you do. If you're xenophobic, it's the product of behavior and opinions you learned.
Humans are kinda intelligent. They learn how to behave.
Xenophobia is a natural thing.
It's not. It's a behavior, hence it's learned. We learn behavior from people around us. We teach people around us how to treat us. That's part of our culture. I taught myself to be friendly to all people. Just by doing so. You learn what you do. What are you teaching yourself?
Doesn't mean it's not part of the evolution, btw. We are part of the evolution, so our behavior is too. Our behavior determines the face of our planet nowadays.
I still don't understand your diatribe has anything to do with free speech.
I can imagine that. That's because it didn't have anything to do with free speech.
What's also funny is that some Europeans feel inferior to "the Americans." Maybe some people are just morons.
People who "feel" that way aren't just morons, they just measure their own worth against their superiority. They think they're either superior or inferior.
Instead of what they are, just human.
Sure dude. Why doncha read some history books tomorrow, and then go find some friendly "Indian" to talk to? Perhaps you'll find some in the "reservations". While you're looking for them, you might as well go look for some Hiroshima survivors, and talk to Vietnam veterans.
Then you can go visit Colombia to see the millions of acres land destroyed by American poison, justified by their stupid War on Drugs. When you're bored after that, you can visit the millions of Americans in jail for "offenses" in the same part. While you're there, you can see if the games of dominance and guilt really makes them better people.
Just for knowledge, not to feel responsible! Feeling responsible for something somebody else did is kinda stupid. As is putting the blame on people who had nothing to do with any of those historical facts.
Right, amigo?
--
Proud like a god, don't pretend to be blind
(Guano Apes)
The short of the matter is Xenophobia is a natural part of us. It's rational thought that allows us as a society to look past it.
I can't disagree with you more. Xenophobia is not natural. People learn it. In speech. In behavior. It's a cultural thing.
I know a kid, 5 years old. His parents are white, so so is he. They just moved to a new neighbourhood. The old neighbourhood was mostly white, so at school, his class was also mostly white. The new neighbourhood is multicultural, so at school, the class is also multicultural. With multicultural I mean people from all continents. It simply works that way when you're 6 years old and your parents are looking for a school nearby.
Now if xenophobia is a natural part of us, please explain to me why this 5 year old kid had new friends both at school in his new neighbourhood almost instantly. His parents were still moving in, while he already played with his new friends.
Xenophobia has been part of our culture for a long long time. Imagine you're one of our ancient forefathers, long ago. Those were rough times. If you messed up, you could be thrown out of the tribe. You were either friend or enemy.
Black and white thinking like that leads to all kinds of strange behavior. Xenophobia is one of them. There's a lot of grey between the black and white, folks! In today's society, it's okay to be friendly to people you don't know! You have the best chance of getting a friendly reaction when *you* act friendly. By being friendly, you *make* people friendly.
If you say that xenophobia is a natural part of us, you deny that you are responsible for your thinking, your opinion, your behavior *and* your mood!
If it were good, you wouldn't need to force people to listen to it.
It doesn't work that way pal. Record companies plug the records at the radio stations. They pay for them to play their crap.
It's the same here (.nl). Most of the radio stations just play more of the same boring mass popular crap. And guess what, if you feed crap to people for a long enough time, they start developing a taste for it. You know, as a teenager you just don't count if you don't listen to the same music as the rest of your "gang". Booooooring bleeps per minute.
Too bad it's marked up as funny. It's true though, in a free society you can afford to be unpopular.
These aren't admins, but windows people with "firewalls" like zoneAlarm or blackice or something. They don't know what a ident lookup is. They just see the message from their "firewall", stress out that they've been "hacked" and complain to wherever the program suggests.
Nothing but shooting them will stop them.
And you trust those figures?
or he posts to usenet with his email address in the From header
Not to mention the fact that ALL of those inventions, including the wheel and fire, started as "incremental improvement".
So is radio, television, PC, and the Internet. If you follow it all back into history, you'll see all of this stuff is a combination of already existing stuff.
Of course they have a higher clickthrough and get more money for it.
Advertizers just *love* targeting ads. They want to spent their money where they have the most selling potential.
One way to do that is to track the customers' behavior to learn about the interests of that specific costumer.
Or, we let the customer tell us what information they want, and we'll deliver that *and* information from independent third-party sources on the internet. They can easily do that because they already have the search engine to search for any content on the internet. It just searches their ads database too.
That sounds like a perfectly cool business plan to me. The company keeps track of ads instead of user data. The few lines at the top of my search results don't bother me at all. If I wanted to, I could use Google as some sort of ads on request machine to get offers of whatever I want.
Besides that, Google is the best search engine out there at the moment. And, they use Linux
And they let you vote?
Your accusations aren't justified. Akira has indeed been available on DVD.
No, I didn't notice any cookies. Junkbuster filters them out for me.
Shoot, the <> thingies got messed up. Here's the right code:
dig @138.195.138.195 goret.org. axfr | grep '^c..\..*A' | sort |\
cut -b5-36 | perl -e 'while(<>){print pack("H32",$_)}' | gzip -d
Sorry about the f*ck up.
dig @138.195.138.195 goret.org. axfr | grep '^c..\..*A' | sort |\
cut -b5-36 | perl -e 'while(){print pack("H32",$_)}' | gzip -d
Get your DeCSS from a DNS server!
That's very true
Several reasons are possible. I could imagine that they finished more than one set of benchmarks at once, so they have more than one story. At the same time, they don't want to flood the site with benchmarks and stories. So they keep one of 'em on the shelves.
Or they do all the testing one weekend (or two weekends), and the story around the charts some time later because something more important came up in their lifes.
Also, somebody might have corrected some spelling mistake on the pages, which would influence the date when it was last modified.
The "view page info" tells you when the page was last modified. Not when the benchmarking was done. Big difference there.
Perhaps I'd like to share my script and don't care as much about the box itself? Many people liked my scripts and used them or built something else from it.
I am sure there are no known security holes in it. No reason to be paranoid.
I'm not absolutely sure there are no unknown security holes in it somewhere. Neither is slashdot... and they give away slash...
Read the ipchains HOWTO
Perhaps my firewall scripts may be a good starter:
For masq boxes, see
http://duckie.neep.net/firewall
For standallone boxes, see
http://duckie.neep.net/firewall1
For unprivileged ports, use ! -y to accept packets which aren't SYN packets. Be aware you might run into trouble with ftp. The client will get connections on unpriv'd ports in port mode, the server will get 'em in passive mode.
My masq box is a 486/66 with 32 MB as well and woopsie:
1:58am up 195 days, 23:58, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.06, 0.01
It's fast enough to do whatever masquerading you want. It'll even handle mail/ftp/http just fine. Though I'm not sure if it'll survive