My point was, USians, EUians, CAians, everyone will come out and talk trash about the US here on slashdot, but everything else seems to be a sacred cow. Oh, this is slashdot, we don't say bad things about France when they are being idiots, instead we say China is the bastion of freedom in the world now. Slashdot seems like more sheep now than a place of objective discussion.
There are a few folks here that seem to look objectively at things, but that number is very small.
Look at the NVidia fanboys here. When ATI had the quack3 benchmarks everyone here swore they would never use ATI cards again. They claimed NVidia forever! They bitched that ATI didn't release drivers for X. But at that point ATI was helping with open source drivers with XFree86. Then ATI released binary drivers, and they all bitch that ATI sucks because their drivers don't support X 4.3. Then they released X 4.3 drivers. But now, NVidia is caught with their pants down and instead of sticking to their guns they claim that this is SOP in the video card market.
Same thing goes for their political stance. Consder before the Afgan war, folks were claiming it'd be another Vietnam, but guess what, it was over in months. There is rebuilding going on now. There is infrastructure going in now. There were not tons of starvations and deaths in the winter as so many here claimed.
Again in Iraq, folks were claiming that there was going to be another Vietnam. Wrong again, just a couple months we are done with military operations there. Then, did we go in and steal all the oil, nope. Instead we saved the oil wells so that the money can be used to rebuild the little amount of infrastructure that we destroyed (no mass deaths as predicted, except for from Saddam 10 years ago) and to build new infrastructure. We are in there looking at how we can redirect the rivers that Saddam diverted to starve his own people out and caused major environmental damage.
Its time for some folks here at slashdot to learn to look at things objectively. Instead they all act as sheep and "baaaah" along their slashdot party line.
Re:stun guns are not that effective
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I think one thing this article points out is that you do not want to give the attacker a weapon. A hand gun can be taken and used by the attacker and used against you.
Personally, I am all for an armed populace. But, since we typically do not have everyone on the streets armed, this kind of thing is useful.
You see, if everyone has a gun on them, then even if you are attacked, there is someone else who can cover you, since the odds are if you are attacked by surprise you will not have time to pull your gun.
Cops typically move in pairs if there is something of concern because if one is surprised, the other can help bail them out.
When you are one person, I think a jakect like this is a cool idea, since you have a certain amount of time between when the attacker attacks and when he can re-attack. You can pull out a gun at that point.
Where is the outrage? Where is the "End of the world!", "Only in capitalistic GB is this possible!", "The government hates us and will kill us all!"?
Any time the US thinks of anything of this sort we have people flocking to Canada or better yet China, where they still have freedoms. This has been posted almost 30 minutes when I reply here, yet there is not a single post modded above 2 (my threshold).
When the US even thinks of doing a national id card/database there is outrage and hate and spittle against the US. Why not when GB thinks of doing this?
Re:considered the father of Linux?
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I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design:-) (Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds)
Provided by Unix Fortune Thu Mar 6 09:15:14 EST 2003
I have a 9000 Pro working under linux with X4.3. The FireGL drivers work quite well.
I am using Gentoo with a plain'ole fashion 2.4.18 kernel.
$ emerge \=sys-kernel\vanilla-sources-2.4.18 $ cd/usr/src/linux $ make menuconfig CONFIG_MTRR, CONFIG_AGPGART, CONFIG_AGP_ $ make dep bzImage modules modules_install install kernel with lilo $ emerge xfree $ emerge ati-drivers $ fglrxconfig I had once problem with the fglrxconfig program. You might have to edit the/etc/XF86Config where it sets the pci device from PCI:1:0:1 to PCI:1:0:0.
Hmmm, I almost agree with you here. Problem is, then we have the government rooting around your home looking for a crime without evidence. We do need protection from the government.
However, when a crime is occuring on personal property I do not think that the same rules that apply to law enforcement should apply to the property owner.
Consider: In some states both parties must be aware that they are being recorded on the telephone. However, say some weirdo calls me in middle of the night and makes a death threat. Should I have to tell him, hold on, I have to tell you I am recording before you attempt to threaten my life? No, that is absurd.
One note on the honey pot idea though. If someone is using a honey pot as a jump off point to launch an attack from, the honey pot might be considered aiding a criminal in the act of commmiting a crime. Since the honey pot is intentionally put out there with security holes to act as a catch spot.
Just an idea. Sort of like vigilante justice, let the law enforment enforce the law.
Right now my site is defunct, but I can put up pictures of it at some point. It was a blast to make. I'll make sure to reply to one of your comments after I do that to let you know to go look.
Actually right after we got married she bought EQ. Well, after playing with it for a day or so, I bought a copy too. We just kicked our EQ habit around the new year. Now we play PS2 or WCIII together quite often.
Other projects are working on budget software together.
Yeah, we both want to pick up the "I love my geek" t's also. Then we can look terribley "cute" together.
Yeah, dremmels seem to be cat oriented. We built a cat tree a short while ago and the dremel was used extensively. What a wonderful device.
This is a no brainer. Most companies have places to put documents. Heck, there are great big systems that only do that, document management. Drop the resume into the document management system and set the rule to blow it away after the duration has expired. Nothing terribley exciting here.
If you are a small company, drop it onto a disk and toss it into a box labeled $current_year. This is not rocket science.
Companies being overloaded by this? Not likely unless they are so easily confused by managing documents, in which case should the company really be in the league of trying to get governement contracts?
Something I see a lot of kids in computer science (two points here, I'm not that old and I'm sure this holds for other fields also) do is put off learning. They want to jump right in and write games or some sort of gui applications. Its the glamour of the field they want to achieve. However, its learning the basics is what will make a student skilled.
Often when students are taught in computer science today schools try to teach java, or some other flavour of the year. But consider java: variables, functions, object oriented, interfaces, classes, io streams, huge libraries,... Is that something you want to learn right off the bat, certainly its something to try for, but it is completely overwhelming.
Now, consider learning a simple language, simple concepts apart, isolated from each other. What are the inputs and outputs, how does it react in a contrived situation. These help understanding. Would you want to explain how to do memeory management to a beginner programmer? Certainly not. However, make a lab on malloc() and free(), specifically and you can teach those aspects of the language and programming.
Many of todays systems are much to complex to teach. I would never reccomend teaching assembler from the linux kernel to an entry level, heck even an advanced level course. I would rather teach 8051 or 68k assembler. Then you can also break things into specific areas.
So, while you complain about your schools teaching methods, using outdated tech, and such, you might very well be wrong. Older systems are easier to teach isolated areas.
I accidently clicked a NYT article. Where was the usual warning that it was an NYT blah blah blah stuff? And for heavens sake, michael posted it without the std NYT blah blah blah warning. What is the world coming to?
Btw, I didn't read the article, but... I feel strangely compelled to comment since this is slashdot.
How do we get rid of all the folks who don't love computers now? Just recently someone I know left a programming position to go run his dad's hardware store. This was a good thing. He once brought a harddrive over my place (keep in mind he was a programmer for about 2-3 years before this) and said it was making this noise, and he wanted to see if I thought it might be bad. Well, I thought, no problem, I'll drop it in a machine and see what happens. Well, what happened was the most awful screech of heads upon the platter at roughly 5600 rpm. Folks in the next county could have told me that the drive was bad.
Well, anyways, the point being, he is only one of the many that need to be ejected from computers. He got in when the computers were good cash, but others like him have not left.
Hmm, that one has got to be the first fortune cookie fortune that I have not been able to add "... between the sheets" to and even crack a smile. Damn, you have ruined my entire chinese food experience.
Now I want to slip in one of your fortune cookies, "I hope you die." Between sheets or not.
The important issue is to meet your wife in your computer science classes. You know that one gorgeous woman in your computer science class, I married her.
For my birthday this year, I was allowed to pick up my own breadboard and random resistors and circuts. For Christmas last year I bought her a new case and case modding supplies (I swear I am the only man who can claim he bought his wife a dremel for Christmas and was thanked for it).
The important issue for getting a wife that lets you get what you want, is to make sure she wants the same things.
I mean with all the other people riding around on these, its unlikely they ever find him in the masses of people. Now if the theif had only stolen something less discernable, maybe he'd get caught trying to use it.
Aw heck, I bet 5 minutes on ebay would turn this thing up.
Ask your mom if she understands 900,000,000 and what it means. Then ask her if she knows what 50 libraries of congress might be. Something tells me that LoC might be a little more reasonable for the average laymen.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, that is fine.
My point was, USians, EUians, CAians, everyone will come out and talk trash about the US here on slashdot, but everything else seems to be a sacred cow. Oh, this is slashdot, we don't say bad things about France when they are being idiots, instead we say China is the bastion of freedom in the world now. Slashdot seems like more sheep now than a place of objective discussion.
There are a few folks here that seem to look objectively at things, but that number is very small.
Look at the NVidia fanboys here. When ATI had the quack3 benchmarks everyone here swore they would never use ATI cards again. They claimed NVidia forever! They bitched that ATI didn't release drivers for X. But at that point ATI was helping with open source drivers with XFree86. Then ATI released binary drivers, and they all bitch that ATI sucks because their drivers don't support X 4.3. Then they released X 4.3 drivers. But now, NVidia is caught with their pants down and instead of sticking to their guns they claim that this is SOP in the video card market.
Same thing goes for their political stance. Consder before the Afgan war, folks were claiming it'd be another Vietnam, but guess what, it was over in months. There is rebuilding going on now. There is infrastructure going in now. There were not tons of starvations and deaths in the winter as so many here claimed.
Again in Iraq, folks were claiming that there was going to be another Vietnam. Wrong again, just a couple months we are done with military operations there. Then, did we go in and steal all the oil, nope. Instead we saved the oil wells so that the money can be used to rebuild the little amount of infrastructure that we destroyed (no mass deaths as predicted, except for from Saddam 10 years ago) and to build new infrastructure. We are in there looking at how we can redirect the rivers that Saddam diverted to starve his own people out and caused major environmental damage.
Its time for some folks here at slashdot to learn to look at things objectively. Instead they all act as sheep and "baaaah" along their slashdot party line.
I think one thing this article points out is that you do not want to give the attacker a weapon. A hand gun can be taken and used by the attacker and used against you.
Personally, I am all for an armed populace. But, since we typically do not have everyone on the streets armed, this kind of thing is useful.
You see, if everyone has a gun on them, then even if you are attacked, there is someone else who can cover you, since the odds are if you are attacked by surprise you will not have time to pull your gun.
Cops typically move in pairs if there is something of concern because if one is surprised, the other can help bail them out.
When you are one person, I think a jakect like this is a cool idea, since you have a certain amount of time between when the attacker attacks and when he can re-attack. You can pull out a gun at that point.
So, I guess in combination this is a good idea.
Fezzini: Inconceivable!
Inigo: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Where is the outrage? Where is the "End of the world!", "Only in capitalistic GB is this possible!", "The government hates us and will kill us all!"?
Any time the US thinks of anything of this sort we have people flocking to Canada or better yet China, where they still have freedoms. This has been posted almost 30 minutes when I reply here, yet there is not a single post modded above 2 (my threshold).
When the US even thinks of doing a national id card/database there is outrage and hate and spittle against the US. Why not when GB thinks of doing this?
I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-)
(Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds)
Provided by Unix Fortune
Thu Mar 6 09:15:14 EST 2003
Bzzt, wrong.
/usr/src/linux /etc/XF86Config where it sets the pci device from PCI:1:0:1 to PCI:1:0:0.
I have a 9000 Pro working under linux with X4.3. The FireGL drivers work quite well.
I am using Gentoo with a plain'ole fashion 2.4.18 kernel.
$ emerge \=sys-kernel\vanilla-sources-2.4.18
$ cd
$ make menuconfig
CONFIG_MTRR, CONFIG_AGPGART, CONFIG_AGP_
$ make dep bzImage modules modules_install
install kernel with lilo
$ emerge xfree
$ emerge ati-drivers
$ fglrxconfig
I had once problem with the fglrxconfig program. You might have to edit the
Hmmm, I almost agree with you here. Problem is, then we have the government rooting around your home looking for a crime without evidence. We do need protection from the government.
However, when a crime is occuring on personal property I do not think that the same rules that apply to law enforcement should apply to the property owner.
Consider: In some states both parties must be aware that they are being recorded on the telephone. However, say some weirdo calls me in middle of the night and makes a death threat. Should I have to tell him, hold on, I have to tell you I am recording before you attempt to threaten my life? No, that is absurd.
One note on the honey pot idea though. If someone is using a honey pot as a jump off point to launch an attack from, the honey pot might be considered aiding a criminal in the act of commmiting a crime. Since the honey pot is intentionally put out there with security holes to act as a catch spot.
Just an idea. Sort of like vigilante justice, let the law enforment enforce the law.
Right now my site is defunct, but I can put up pictures of it at some point. It was a blast to make. I'll make sure to reply to one of your comments after I do that to let you know to go look.
Cool beans.
Actually right after we got married she bought EQ. Well, after playing with it for a day or so, I bought a copy too. We just kicked our EQ habit around the new year. Now we play PS2 or WCIII together quite often.
Other projects are working on budget software together.
Yeah, we both want to pick up the "I love my geek" t's also. Then we can look terribley "cute" together.
Yeah, dremmels seem to be cat oriented. We built a cat tree a short while ago and the dremel was used extensively. What a wonderful device.
Is this terribly exciting?
This is a no brainer. Most companies have places to put documents. Heck, there are great big systems that only do that, document management. Drop the resume into the document management system and set the rule to blow it away after the duration has expired. Nothing terribley exciting here.
If you are a small company, drop it onto a disk and toss it into a box labeled $current_year. This is not rocket science.
Companies being overloaded by this? Not likely unless they are so easily confused by managing documents, in which case should the company really be in the league of trying to get governement contracts?
Isolation.
... Is that something you want to learn right off the bat, certainly its something to try for, but it is completely overwhelming.
Something I see a lot of kids in computer science (two points here, I'm not that old and I'm sure this holds for other fields also) do is put off learning. They want to jump right in and write games or some sort of gui applications. Its the glamour of the field they want to achieve. However, its learning the basics is what will make a student skilled.
Often when students are taught in computer science today schools try to teach java, or some other flavour of the year. But consider java: variables, functions, object oriented, interfaces, classes, io streams, huge libraries,
Now, consider learning a simple language, simple concepts apart, isolated from each other. What are the inputs and outputs, how does it react in a contrived situation. These help understanding. Would you want to explain how to do memeory management to a beginner programmer? Certainly not. However, make a lab on malloc() and free(), specifically and you can teach those aspects of the language and programming.
Many of todays systems are much to complex to teach. I would never reccomend teaching assembler from the linux kernel to an entry level, heck even an advanced level course. I would rather teach 8051 or 68k assembler. Then you can also break things into specific areas.
So, while you complain about your schools teaching methods, using outdated tech, and such, you might very well be wrong. Older systems are easier to teach isolated areas.
I accidently clicked a NYT article. Where was the usual warning that it was an NYT blah blah blah stuff? And for heavens sake, michael posted it without the std NYT blah blah blah warning. What is the world coming to?
Btw, I didn't read the article, but... I feel strangely compelled to comment since this is slashdot.
How do we get rid of all the folks who don't love computers now? Just recently someone I know left a programming position to go run his dad's hardware store. This was a good thing. He once brought a harddrive over my place (keep in mind he was a programmer for about 2-3 years before this) and said it was making this noise, and he wanted to see if I thought it might be bad. Well, I thought, no problem, I'll drop it in a machine and see what happens. Well, what happened was the most awful screech of heads upon the platter at roughly 5600 rpm. Folks in the next county could have told me that the drive was bad.
Well, anyways, the point being, he is only one of the many that need to be ejected from computers. He got in when the computers were good cash, but others like him have not left.
My bad, your .sig was a popular quote by a Dr. Kotman in college. I had only heard it from him and his students making fun of him.
Curious? Does the name Dr. Kotman mean anything to you?
Here on slashdot, Buddha will ruin your karma if you *gasp* write Biblical passages. Here is where intolerance reigns and the sheep are all lost.
... between the sheets.
Hmm, that one has got to be the first fortune cookie fortune that I have not been able to add "... between the sheets" to and even crack a smile. Damn, you have ruined my entire chinese food experience.
Now I want to slip in one of your fortune cookies, "I hope you die." Between sheets or not.
The important issue is to meet your wife in your computer science classes. You know that one gorgeous woman in your computer science class, I married her.
For my birthday this year, I was allowed to pick up my own breadboard and random resistors and circuts. For Christmas last year I bought her a new case and case modding supplies (I swear I am the only man who can claim he bought his wife a dremel for Christmas and was thanked for it).
The important issue for getting a wife that lets you get what you want, is to make sure she wants the same things.
I mean with all the other people riding around on these, its unlikely they ever find him in the masses of people. Now if the theif had only stolen something less discernable, maybe he'd get caught trying to use it.
Aw heck, I bet 5 minutes on ebay would turn this thing up.
Sleazy lawyers.
..."
I wonder if lawyers get spam with "make money fast, do a class action suit against
Ask your mom if she understands 900,000,000 and what it means. Then ask her if she knows what 50 libraries of congress might be. Something tells me that LoC might be a little more reasonable for the average laymen.
Furthermore, '[LifeLog adds] physical information (like how we feel)
Soft and squishy, mainly around the belly area.
But I'm getting thinner slowly.
And some part of you does not believe what you originally said?
Second, I think my wife might have issues with a brothel. Maybe you need one?
Einstein is an idiot?
:-P
Bummer for him. Talk about revisionism.
Hmmm, you seem a bit irrational here. Seeing how there hasn't been a single comment of that nature. Perhaps you are just a bigot?
Says the cute little lemur, who know's s/he won't be tested on.