I totally agree with you. What I meant in my post was that some american movies tend to portray you guys as the saviors of Europe. Yes, your help was greatly appreciated but it's not like you did all the work. And my point about Russia is that the most decisive battles have been fought on the eastern germany front.
The role of the russians was mostly ignored in north america because the cold war started right after WWII and both the US and Russia started demonization campaings against each other. I'm sure there are still more people in the US today that call communism evil than people who actually know what it is. (I'm not defending communism here)
The US may not need the NATO or WTO but both have been levegaged by it to bully other countries - economically or otherwise. But unfortutunately for you, kicking's France's ass is not the point. Heck, shouldn't the fact that you have much power imply that you use it with responsability?
As in Star Wars's empire, American foreign policies have all the arrogance and bullyness of imperialism at it's worse and it is no wonder it finds so few protests inside the country. (The average mind being told what to think by the corporate media) You people (the rednecks only) should get over the fact that you helped France in WWII. Movies about WWII like Saving Private Ryan are good to steer up nationnalism and in giving you the impression that you were kicking germany's ass.
Unfortunately, as much as Hollywood would like to rewrite history, or at least hide facts, Hitler's ass was kicked by the Russian army. This eternal patting in the back about WWII is ridiculous.
The only war that's being fought now is WWIII and it is an economical and information war where only corporarions win. Such bickering between two nation's citizens is only heping the powers that be (multinationnal powers) to do whatever they want. In a global economy, citizens gotta develop a global solidarity and free themselves of the restrictive nationalist mind sets of cold war propaganda.
I am very surprised to read so many defensive responses to this post. All of a sudden, the French are evil for this and that reason and people are weighting the probabilities of France going to war with countries who signed the UK-USA treaty. It is SHOCKING to read so many allusions to the fact that the US could kick France's ass by using either the NATO or the WTO!?!
Seems to me that all of a sudden, a lot of people are changing hats. This is such a redneck attitude. Yes, it IS true that ALL countries are actively using intelligence and counter-intelligence services and that, in a way, it's very hypocritic from the French government. BUT, in no way should these implicit facts serve as an excuse to legitimize spying with such "in your face" means. Or in other words, if you get caught with you hand in the bag, "get it the fuck out of there" (yeah, yeah, bad word). Keeping it there and saying that it's known others do it is not a valid excuse.
I will always remember this post as "The great redneck come out".
This guy is WAAAAYYYYY offtopic. He may have watched the movie: "Hackers" one time too many.
The subjet is about weather the government of the US (or the NSA, whatever) may be using information warfare on it's citizens (disinformation) and on it's corporations (DoS...I call it hacking from the good old days...that is... pre-Slashdot). I have studied many documents that would make such a senario very plausible. It was under Clinton's first elected years that a simulated "Electronic Pearl Harbor" was done by the US secret sevices. This is exactly what the E-Pearl Harbor senario was about but on a much smaller scale. E-Pearl Harbor being a grand scale destabilisation of the nation's information infrastructure by massive attack. I think most people in the know are jusdging this scenario to be highly unprobable.
Anyway, this kind of insecurity campaing is what we refer to as Psychological Operations (PSYOPS). For those interested on informative literature on the subject, here's a link to my web site which has a few papers about the PSYOPS and "cyber terrorism" Unfortunately, it's in french so you'll have to babelfish it if you wanna read it. PSYOPS
OK, I'm definitely boycotting these studios but I still need to watch movies once in a while. Anyone got some links to "evil-free" movie studios? The time has come to spend more money on alternative movie producers.
Both companies are not software companies. Andover is about content and VA is about hardware and services. There is nothing in this deal that would even remotely suggest such a theory.
I dont know about you people but ever since I have been using computers (1997) I've been reading about the predicted death of the PC on tech news sites. Every single time, I found that this was a marketing scheme to use the huge amount of attention the PC industry gets to promote some other product.
This post is not an exception. It's one thing to be excited about Linux's possible inroads into small devices and stuff but it's another to use marketing as news. I have never been one to complain about Slashdot's editorial choices but, put plainly, this sucks.
Here's a link to the GNU Eiffel Compiler. It looks great! + it includes an Eiffel to C copiler. I think I read somewhere that emacs supports it by default if your source files are *.e
Did you know that in the nineties, an Italian law was voted so that no fat woman can put a swim suit on the beach? In italy, a fat woman is considered indecent and not good for tourism.
Human rights in Italy are a farce. I mean, forget about repression of students and unions. There, it's that extra cholesterol that is a crime. As you may have guessed, feminism is not very strong in Italy.
Is it just me or this gave me the fealing of reading JonKatz? At first, I did not understand why so many slashdotters were against Katz's presence on Slashdot but by reading him often, I found out why.
I'm sure Sterling see's himself as some kind of techno-prophet and a chronicler of trends. The truth about this whole so called "revolution" is that it is only a revolution in America. There are more computers in the US than there are in the rest of the world. It's the same with this new economy thing. The boom is only in the US and "some" western countries. Besides, this economic model is not new. We had the same model at the beginning of the last century and it lead to the big crash. IMHO, this text sucked. (no flames implicitely requested)
There are more computers in the US then there is in in the sum of all of the other country's computers. There are a lot of people in china but not many have computers... and nuch less a connection to the internet.
I would not be surprised if there would be more computers in a country like Canada than there is in china.
The WTO is democratie's biggest ennemy. This is all a result of our flawed system.
Politicians finance their campaings with corporate money and in exchange they take care of corporate agenda's. The WTO is nothing but a multinationnal corporate mafia that has power OVER democraties.
I mean, this would be nice if The People could use it as an internationnal court to limit corporate misbehaviour but it turns out it's the other way around. The WTO is there so that corporations interests no longer need a govenment's aproval for anything they want to do.
The biggest INSULT to democraties is that the people who make decision at the WTO are chosen in totally arbitrary ways by the corporations themselves!!! Knowing this, can anyone say there is no Big Brother? This is even worse than an Imperialist state because it covers the whole damned planet. Ironically, who's "tax" money do you think is backing this up? Without music, life would be an error.
Taxes, as much a pain in the as as they can be, are what pays for schools, walkway, roads, public services, etc. To me, all this anti net tax talk is prooaganda and it holds no rationnal ground. And what is this "because they don't understand how it works" argument?!? The goverment doesen't have to "understand" technology. The only thing they have to know is that every time a merchant passes a transaction, wether nationnaly or internationnaly, there is a tax to pay. Now this has been how it works for everyone for countless years and I dont see why a category of merchants should have special and very unfair privileges. Without music, life would be an error.
It looks to me that Rob is using Slashdot raise his stock's value. Corel has been stuck with such rumors since the day Microsoft has monopolised the Office software space. It used to be rumors about Adobe buying Corel and now Red Hat. I personnaly think it would be foolish for Corel to sell out to Red Hat. They own a LOT of the kind of applications that Linux users (especially the new generation) have been drooling over.
It looks to me that Rob is using Slashdot raise his stock's value. Corel has been stuck with such rumors since the day Microsoft has monopolised the Office software space. It used to be rumors about Adobe buying Corel and now Red Hat. I personnaly think it would be foolish for Corel to sell out to Red Hat. They own a LOT of the kind of applications that Linux users (especially the new generation) have been drooling over. Without music, life would be an error.
I dont think the NSA is not aware of every possible sorting algorithm that ever existed. On the other hand, CNN has never had too little DISinformation to manipulate our perception on such things.
Slashdot Mirror
Ho shit, it was not aware that posting would undo all my moderation :-)
I just moderated him down for the same reasons that you mentionned.
Can anyone tell me if ZOPE is free sorftware? I went to the ZOPE web site but there's no reference to a licence.
The role of the russians was mostly ignored in north america because the cold war started right after WWII and both the US and Russia started demonization campaings against each other. I'm sure there are still more people in the US today that call communism evil than people who actually know what it is. (I'm not defending communism here)
As in Star Wars's empire, American foreign policies have all the arrogance and bullyness of imperialism at it's worse and it is no wonder it finds so few protests inside the country. (The average mind being told what to think by the corporate media) You people (the rednecks only) should get over the fact that you helped France in WWII. Movies about WWII like Saving Private Ryan are good to steer up nationnalism and in giving you the impression that you were kicking germany's ass.
Unfortunately, as much as Hollywood would like to rewrite history, or at least hide facts, Hitler's ass was kicked by the Russian army. This eternal patting in the back about WWII is ridiculous.
The only war that's being fought now is WWIII and it is an economical and information war where only corporarions win. Such bickering between two nation's citizens is only heping the powers that be (multinationnal powers) to do whatever they want. In a global economy, citizens gotta develop a global solidarity and free themselves of the restrictive nationalist mind sets of cold war propaganda.
Seems to me that all of a sudden, a lot of people are changing hats. This is such a redneck attitude. Yes, it IS true that ALL countries are actively using intelligence and counter-intelligence services and that, in a way, it's very hypocritic from the French government. BUT, in no way should these implicit facts serve as an excuse to legitimize spying with such "in your face" means. Or in other words, if you get caught with you hand in the bag, "get it the fuck out of there" (yeah, yeah, bad word). Keeping it there and saying that it's known others do it is not a valid excuse.
I will always remember this post as "The great redneck come out".
The subjet is about weather the government of the US (or the NSA, whatever) may be using information warfare on it's citizens (disinformation) and on it's corporations (DoS ...I call it hacking from the good old days ...that is... pre-Slashdot). I have studied many documents that would make such a senario very plausible. It was under Clinton's first elected years that a simulated "Electronic Pearl Harbor" was done by the US secret sevices. This is exactly what the E-Pearl Harbor senario was about but on a much smaller scale. E-Pearl Harbor being a grand scale destabilisation of the nation's information infrastructure by massive attack. I think most people in the know are jusdging this scenario to be highly unprobable.
Anyway, this kind of insecurity campaing is what we refer to as Psychological Operations (PSYOPS).
For those interested on informative literature on the subject, here's a link to my web site which has a few papers about the PSYOPS and "cyber terrorism" Unfortunately, it's in french so you'll have to babelfish it if you wanna read it. PSYOPS
Viva la revolution!
*gulp* I'll miss Woody Allen
Both companies are not software companies. Andover is about content and VA is about hardware and services. There is nothing in this deal that would even remotely suggest such a theory.
This post is not an exception. It's one thing to be excited about Linux's possible inroads into small devices and stuff but it's another to use marketing as news. I have never been one to complain about Slashdot's editorial choices but, put plainly, this sucks.
I'm joining! Not that I really care about the code itself but it's availability is important to me. Go figure.
NT = NoThing
http://smalleiffel.loria.fr/
Here's a link to the GNU Eiffel Compiler. It looks great! + it includes an Eiffel to C copiler. I think I read somewhere that emacs supports it by default if your source files are *.e
Human rights in Italy are a farce. I mean, forget about repression of students and unions. There, it's that extra cholesterol that is a crime. As you may have guessed, feminism is not very strong in Italy.
I'm sure Sterling see's himself as some kind of techno-prophet and a chronicler of trends. The truth about this whole so called "revolution" is that it is only a revolution in America. There are more computers in the US than there are in the rest of the world. It's the same with this new economy thing. The boom is only in the US and "some" western countries. Besides, this economic model is not new. We had the same model at the beginning of the last century and it lead to the big crash.
IMHO, this text sucked. (no flames implicitely requested)
I would not be surprised if there would be more computers in a country like Canada than there is in china.
Know your enemy
Rage against the machine
Without music, life would be an error.
Politicians finance their campaings with corporate money and in exchange they take care of corporate agenda's. The WTO is nothing but a multinationnal corporate mafia that has power OVER democraties.
I mean, this would be nice if The People could use it as an internationnal court to limit corporate misbehaviour but it turns out it's the other way around. The WTO is there so that corporations interests no longer need a govenment's aproval for anything they want to do.
The biggest INSULT to democraties is that the people who make decision at the WTO are chosen in totally arbitrary ways by the corporations themselves!!! Knowing this, can anyone say there is no Big Brother? This is even worse than an Imperialist state because it covers the whole damned planet. Ironically, who's "tax" money do you think is backing this up?
Without music, life would be an error.
Taxes, as much a pain in the as as they can be, are what pays for schools, walkway, roads, public services, etc. To me, all this anti net tax talk is prooaganda and it holds no rationnal ground. And what is this "because they don't understand how it works" argument?!? The goverment doesen't have to "understand" technology. The only thing they have to know is that every time a merchant passes a transaction, wether nationnaly or internationnaly, there is a tax to pay. Now this has been how it works for everyone for countless years and I dont see why a category of merchants should have special and very unfair privileges.
Without music, life would be an error.
It looks to me that Rob is using Slashdot raise his stock's value. Corel has been stuck with such rumors since the day Microsoft has monopolised the Office software space. It used to be rumors about Adobe buying Corel and now Red Hat. I personnaly think it would be foolish for Corel to sell out to Red Hat. They own a LOT of the kind of applications that Linux users (especially the new generation) have been drooling over.
Without music, life would be an error.
It looks to me that Rob is using Slashdot raise his stock's value. Corel has been stuck with such rumors since the day Microsoft has monopolised the Office software space. It used to be rumors about Adobe buying Corel and now Red Hat. I personnaly think it would be foolish for Corel to sell out to Red Hat. They own a LOT of the kind of applications that Linux users (especially the new generation) have been drooling over.
Without music, life would be an error.
I dont think the NSA is not aware of every possible sorting algorithm that ever existed. On the other hand, CNN has never had too little DISinformation to manipulate our perception on such things.
Without music, life would be an error.