If you think Islam the faith tolerates violence, that they sanction the type of behaviour towards women, then it it is you that is clueless. "Not judging" in such a case is an abdication of your responsibility to think.
So you are in fact claiming you know the Whole Truth, or being able to discern it for everyone else? Just like some overly atheists and religious people. What is the difference between you and them?
Stop right there. He is not saying that, and there is no such conclusion to be drawn.
Since your first step is illogical, there is hardly any need to pay any attention to the rest of your rants right?
I fear my argument is lost against you though, so I won't continue. Just know that happiness always comes from within. And know that I know that I don't speak nor know the whole truth, and that I accept the truth in your words (the little scraps there are, haha!:o)
This is a bunch of bullshit. Happiness needs external conditions to work. Things like modern sanitation, lack of disease and such modern necessities to work.
I guess you must be an American? Or you've have had it good for too long, taking such things for granted. Go visit the rest of the world, broaden your horizons and tell me that you can be happy while having dysentry. I say you can't.
Ah - violence is the solution. Is that what you are telling children who feel victimized?
Here's a better analogy fuckhead WACO.
Here's a clue: You shouldn't feel offeended by me calling you a fuckhead. That's exactly what you advocate for perceived victimhood - slashing out. I doing it to you, the violence advocate.
Yes, the antitrust trial isn't the best way to deal with a corporation that frequenctly employs dirty business practices against their competitors. It is all so clear to me, yes yes.
I don't mind giving up a little money, a little "freedom", and a little control in return for less hassle, less complication, and less investment of time. I think for that reason, I am in the majority.
You are right. Dozens of purchases of RedHat Linux think this way.
That depends on what "not taking it lying down" means.
If you decide to learn a new skill and get out of that market, more power to you.
If you decide to change your business model and cater to a different type of client, good.
If you decide to think hard and come out with a better license than the GPL that gives you what you want, and also caters to your customers needs, excellent!
Getting a lawyer to sue RMS? Fuck you.
Misquote and misunderstand RMS, and sttempting to drag his name through mud. Fuck you.
Complaining and griping on slashdot? Ha. Let us laugh at you.
I think you have your priorities reversed. When we sell someone a printer, we are supposed to make his life easier. To do this, you provide printer drivers, and disclose all you about the printer, so that the customer does not have to keep coming to you for a fix. This is the rght thing to do, and for doing this, you deserve the job, and the money that goes with it.
Economics should be put into service of people, not the other way around.
If economics was all that important, all males should be pimps, and all women prostitues. You can make an economy work that way (there are some details that need to be worked out). Then everyone can have a job and be gainfully employed. That will work too.
If I where a core programmer working on the linux kernel in my spare time, I would consider companies which make linux distributions as parasits, taking an unfair advantage from my work (not giving me any refundings).
Linus himself does not think of it this way. For example, while he likes to hack the kernel, he doesn't want care about other user utilities like gcc, ls, rm, mv, etc that he depends upon. To do this, he relies on the efforts the Debian maintainers to provide him with a coherent distribution.
There was one time in which he revealed that he was using the kernel.org achives as a backup, should he lose the sources. Thus everyone contributions, and everyone has something to gain, even if it is not code.
To say that closed source programs have less duplication of effort s to ignore the mountains of duplication out there.
A simple exmaple: How many Palm-OS units conversion software are there out there that charge money? I remember searching for this a while a ago and I turned up AT LEAST 10 of them.
Open Source is not meant to solve that type of inefficiency. For reasons of ego and pride, such things will always exist.
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A philosophical atheist would have to conclude that the behavior of any object, anywhere at any time, was random and unpredictable, because there is no way to move by inductive reasoning from empirical observation to formulated theory UNLESS one has already assumed that there is a supervising principle on which to base a theory in the first place! The reason that Newton and his contemporaries believed in the Laws of Nature (which they did), is because Newton believed in a supreme Lawmaker or Lawgiver. This blatant attempt to put science and theology at odds is nothing more than uninformed philosophical sophistry and prejudice.
I agree that science and theology would be at odds if you attempt to put them together.
The belief in Law of Nature is no more a supersistious belief than the belief in the hardness of rock. A law of nature is not a law like the DMCA, which had to be drafted by human beings. It is a description of how things behave, generalised, abstractized, and summarized. Thus making the inference from law to lawgiver is just misleading yourself with a false analogy.
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Well, according to General Relativity, all frame of reference are good to do Physics in. Decribing the sun moving around the earth can be made as consistent as describing the earth moving around the sun. The problem simplification. Using a heliocentric model, you can descibe the motion not only of Earth, but other objects straightforwardly. If you use the Earth centred frame of reference, then the math gets very complicated.
Judging from the comments, it seems as though the best way to get modded up is to express a view from the far right or far left. So I doubt this post will get very far:(
Actually, I would say that they get modded up as funny or flamebait - proving that no one, not even the moderators (crack-smoking or not crack-smoking) is immune from appeals to emotion. Reason and rationality is rare.
You do have a point about slashdot posters being arrogant pricks, in general.
But this is about the Gartner group. The whole point about this thread is the credibility of this so-called leader in marketting research. You cannot prove a point here by pleading to that credibility. That would be circular reasoning.
So keep your mind open, and listen to the slashdot crowd for once. They are the ones who have to live with the consequences of purchasing decisions made by management.
Well, I guess you have not met your misconfiugured router yet.
And I think you must be a wizard at guessing the motives the random people. (what exactly do you think random means). My experience as a system admin is that 99% of portscans are innocuous and don't ever happen again.
Your tough guy act might scare off people in a rowdy bar, but on the internet, a server is a server, tough guy or not. I pity the poor fellow who accidently and innocently portscans you, gets hauled to court and the judge who has to listen this tirade before throwing the case outside.
Maybe the case should get on Moral Court TV and at least provide the bored people watching it some amusement, and perhaps a little education.
You make stupd analogies, which hence lead to absurdity. The fact that you get absurdity is because you've made a stupid analogy, not because the original argument is silly.
It is true that the only way to check if a service provider is doing as he does is to scan his ports. That is the MINIMUM that you can do, without actually hacking the computer. Now prople want to outlot this.Well, without portsanning, you will HAVE to take the service provider's word on faith.
Think of it this way - suppore you taught networking and want to check your student's setup. How would you do it?
Boston Daily - Police have arrested a man, going by the name of Malcontent for gunning down an old lady in his front yard. The victim was a 84 year old Junice Jones who lived next door.
Eliza Jones, her daughter was distraught when we attempted to contact her. `She's such a sweet old lady, Why would anyone want to hurt her?'
When asked what she was doing on the neighbor's house, she only said she did not know. "She is very old, and her memory's not as good as before. She could have just wandered into the wrong house."
Further queries as to why Malcontent could not recognise his own neighbor was asked. "I don't know - the fellow keeps to himself, his house and windows all locked all the time. He's very secretive. I remember a year ago, when little Annie from down the street ran to his house, after having falled down a tree and getting cut. She asked him for a bandaid, and he growled something about not presuming to offer bandaids. He is a very sullen and nasty fellow."
Who is this Malcontent, and why did he commity this atricious act? Rumor as it that as POlice dragged him away, he was shouting something about a trespassing upon a private driveway. But that is an unconfirmed rumor, and as yet, we have idea of why exactly was going on through the mind of this unprovoked killing.
Here another novel idea: Presume that any host detected may possibly offer something. Try connecting to see if you get anything. If not successful, go away.
Which is more expedient? By which method the internet got started?
Well, you are right, reporting the portscans is the right thing to do, regardless of whether the perpetrators are in actual fact, attempting a cracking or not.
I have been hacked too, and I wished the people who I warned had been more responsible. Unfortunately, there are just as many irresponsible SysAd's as there are irreponsible script kiddies.
But these are distinct questions from decicing portscanning itself should be outlawed or not.
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If you think Islam the faith tolerates violence, that they sanction the type of behaviour towards women, then it it is you that is clueless. "Not judging" in such a case is an abdication of your responsibility to think.
Since your first step is illogical, there is hardly any need to pay any attention to the rest of your rants right?
Here's a better analogy fuckhead WACO.
Here's a clue: You shouldn't feel offeended by me calling you a fuckhead. That's exactly what you advocate for perceived victimhood - slashing out. I doing it to you, the violence advocate.
Music sharing's going underground again.
Yes, the antitrust trial isn't the best way to deal with a corporation that frequenctly employs dirty business practices against their competitors. It is all so clear to me, yes yes.
You are right. Dozens of purchases of RedHat Linux think this way.
If you decide to learn a new skill and get out of that market, more power to you.
If you decide to change your business model and cater to a different type of client, good.
If you decide to think hard and come out with a better license than the GPL that gives you what you want, and also caters to your customers needs, excellent!
Getting a lawyer to sue RMS? Fuck you.
Misquote and misunderstand RMS, and sttempting to drag his name through mud. Fuck you.
Complaining and griping on slashdot? Ha. Let us laugh at you.
Economics should be put into service of people, not the other way around.
If economics was all that important, all males should be pimps, and all women prostitues. You can make an economy work that way (there are some details that need to be worked out). Then everyone can have a job and be gainfully employed. That will work too.
Unlike the BSD, which can only be said to be a gift, never an exchange.
Not giving him the printer source to solve his printing problems also caused RMS misery.
Linus himself does not think of it this way. For example, while he likes to hack the kernel, he doesn't want care about other user utilities like gcc, ls, rm, mv, etc that he depends upon. To do this, he relies on the efforts the Debian maintainers to provide him with a coherent distribution.
There was one time in which he revealed that he was using the kernel.org achives as a backup, should he lose the sources. Thus everyone contributions, and everyone has something to gain, even if it is not code.
We cannot in good conscience, deprive buggy-whip manufacturers of their revenue. To do so would be IMMORAL and UNECONOMIC.
A simple exmaple: How many Palm-OS units conversion software are there out there that charge money? I remember searching for this a while a ago and I turned up AT LEAST 10 of them.
Open Source is not meant to solve that type of inefficiency. For reasons of ego and pride, such things will always exist.
I agree that science and theology would be at odds if you attempt to put them together.
The belief in Law of Nature is no more a supersistious belief than the belief in the hardness of rock. A law of nature is not a law like the DMCA, which had to be drafted by human beings. It is a description of how things behave, generalised, abstractized, and summarized. Thus making the inference from law to lawgiver is just misleading yourself with a false analogy.
Well, according to General Relativity, all frame of reference are good to do Physics in. Decribing the sun moving around the earth can be made as consistent as describing the earth moving around the sun. The problem simplification. Using a heliocentric model, you can descibe the motion not only of Earth, but other objects straightforwardly. If you use the Earth centred frame of reference, then the math gets very complicated.
Actually, I would say that they get modded up as funny or flamebait - proving that no one, not even the moderators (crack-smoking or not crack-smoking) is immune from appeals to emotion. Reason and rationality is rare.
But this is about the Gartner group. The whole point about this thread is the credibility of this so-called leader in marketting research. You cannot prove a point here by pleading to that credibility. That would be circular reasoning.
So keep your mind open, and listen to the slashdot crowd for once. They are the ones who have to live with the consequences of purchasing decisions made by management.
And I think you must be a wizard at guessing the motives the random people. (what exactly do you think random means). My experience as a system admin is that 99% of portscans are innocuous and don't ever happen again.
Maybe the case should get on Moral Court TV and at least provide the bored people watching it some amusement, and perhaps a little education.
Thankfully you did get the point. Arguments by analogy prove nothing.
It is true that the only way to check if a service provider is doing as he does is to scan his ports. That is the MINIMUM that you can do, without actually hacking the computer. Now prople want to outlot this.Well, without portsanning, you will HAVE to take the service provider's word on faith.
Think of it this way - suppore you taught networking and want to check your student's setup. How would you do it?
Eliza Jones, her daughter was distraught when we attempted to contact her. `She's such a sweet old lady, Why would anyone want to hurt her?'
When asked what she was doing on the neighbor's house, she only said she did not know. "She is very old, and her memory's not as good as before. She could have just wandered into the wrong house."
Further queries as to why Malcontent could not recognise his own neighbor was asked. "I don't know - the fellow keeps to himself, his house and windows all locked all the time. He's very secretive. I remember a year ago, when little Annie from down the street ran to his house, after having falled down a tree and getting cut. She asked him for a bandaid, and he growled something about not presuming to offer bandaids. He is a very sullen and nasty fellow."
Who is this Malcontent, and why did he commity this atricious act? Rumor as it that as POlice dragged him away, he was shouting something about a trespassing upon a private driveway. But that is an unconfirmed rumor, and as yet, we have idea of why exactly was going on through the mind of this unprovoked killing.
Which is more expedient? By which method the internet got started?
I have been hacked too, and I wished the people who I warned had been more responsible. Unfortunately, there are just as many irresponsible SysAd's as there are irreponsible script kiddies.
But these are distinct questions from decicing portscanning itself should be outlawed or not.
Yeah! Exactly. See that bastard walking up that our driveway like the road belonged to him. Just shoot him sonny, like your Pa tells you to.