They use playing cards for encryption in the Cryptonomicon (actually a working algorithm). let's ban them too, besides why do hard working, honest Christian americans need to play cards for?
The war on drug is in itself is as American as Ho Chi Minh (no, I'm not advocating the Vietnam war).I don't aprove of McCarthy, neither do I approve of modern forms of McCarth-ism -- which is still the same thing, turning in your parents and your friends and co-workers. I think McCarthy himself was unAmerican -- the commitie for unAmerican activities was actually created to prosecute American nazi's, but instead was used to prosecute some of the strongest anti-nazi's ever in many cases.
Yes, they did. In fact, there is a famous case of that, the case of Pavlic Morozov. Basically in the 1930 he told on his father being a "kulak" (a wealthy farmer), and had his father executed as an enemy of the state -- due to a propaganda campaign which encouraged such to be done. He was then made into a hero. And that was only during the darkest hour, Stalinism -- even during Brejnev he was considered a traitor and an example of what kids should _NOT_ do. And here I see the same thing, in the middle of prosperity and the supposed diplomacy.
Ok, this is serious. Common prejudice stats that all the teen age geeks are script kiddies -- I totally disagree with that; but I do think that many new hackers have went through the script kiddie stage and have evolved from that into a UNIX geek. Have you?
I say automate the process. Image recognition is possible with software. Then we can create a team slashdot and see who scores the largest amount of craters:-)
I dont think BeOS is competition for Linux, just like Windows ME is not competition to Windows 2k. They are different type of OS. BeOS is a personal OS, multimedia OS, gaming OS. Linux is for serious development, server work, and general hacking:-). It's not competition, they can even help each other. Cross platform application can be made to compile well on both oses as Gimp, and many others already do.
And also in a small scale it's not the price that matters, it's the liberty and most of flexibility and quality.
Actually I think neither Gore nor Bush are qualified to deal with that matter. Who is, is probably Cheney. He actually got the coaloation together in the Gulf War conflict, a step which requires diplomatic skill. Anyone know a good sniper;-) (bug off echelon, i'm kidding)
BSD licensed code may be used in commercial, closed source software. Also the advertising clause was once problemous. However, this problem is not something which will stop me from using BSD -- the case is not as bad as Ssh v2, pine or older QPL.
actually i was able to boot it up later on after the instal with a ramdisk kernel (which came on the B floppy) but was unable to get any other kernel to work, even a recompiled ramdisk kernel.
I don't use NetBSD and OpenBSD because Linux is too popular. I think x is too popular, hence I will use y, is a very bad reason for using anything. I use it because for my purpose it does a better job then Linux, for example on a Sparc 2, BSD has better memory handling then does Linux and hence runs faster. As for the license, yes, it is a problem, but not worthy of not running the OS. Plus, for a user a license shouldn't matter much, it should for the developer though. But BSD is BSD and not GPL and I will not argue. Also, just saying BSD is a bit too broad. Linux too, borrows some bits of BSD code.
NetBSD 1.5 BETA 2 is worth trying as well. Runs *GREAT*. I use it for my NFS server machine, a machine on which neither OpenBSD nor Debian (my general choices of OS) would not install due to problems with the IDE bus. This installed and acts very stably. It also ships with OpenSSH:-) Very stable too. Going to make that machine my firewall sometime.
From what I've seen myriads of companies attempt to produce thin clients capble of virtually everything, but in a cuter packaging and easy to use. What they fail to see is that their thin client is not a thin client, but is merely a computer, just like others. Thin client has to do something special, not "surf-the-net" and then perhaps "write e-mail" and do word processing, but it has do something you would dedicated a system full time to, such as an X-terminal or any other terminal. Checkout what NCD offers as example of what thin clients should be.
Sure, Gates' points look great in theory, but the thing is they are not true. All kinds of clothing companies compete with each other, there are about 8.56 * 10^8 brands of pants you can wear, and according to Microsoft theory we wouldnt be wearing pants because of that. Helix Code is doing well, the hackers who work there are very happy with their employment and enjoy sallary and spend full time developing open-source. There are also those who do not work in Linux-only companies, but nevertheless write great deals of Linux software, such as Donald Becker, type dmesg | grep eth | grep becker and find out contribution.
Sure the Internet is new, Al Gore and George Bush are running for president, and school-shootings are new. But the concept is the same. An enemy within the country, a minority, a concept, which wants to subvert the majority, using deception, "propaganda" and "violence". In 1830's it was the Free Masons, in 1860-1900's it was the Indians, in 1914-1918 it was The Kaiser and the immigrants, in 1918-1989 it was the Commies. Sometimes it was just presedential speaches about "the evil empire", sometimes it was McCarthist witch-hunts, sometimes it was murder outright, sometimes it was just closing the gate. So why do we need another battle against "subversion" by the enemy within in the 21st century?
Yes, your argument is true, that compared to what right now is going in Burma or Indonesia is nothing compared to what's going in Malaysia. Sure, Malaysia even has an elected government. But elections can be rigged. Also, people just love demagogues and will vote for them, even if they are destined to become dictators. I can already imagine a 60 year old Asian men in a black business suit talking about a mother with 15 children who can't buy herself new shoes because her son stole money from her to play at an arcade? And guess what people will buy that. I can give you tons of example of true dictators who enjoy(or at least did enjoy) popular support and were populary elected. Fujimori, Lukashenka and Milosevic to name a few, but that is far from all. And remember that Malaysia is not in Western europe. Their potential electorate considers such ideas correct, since they fit their Confucian ideology, which defends trade offs of liberty for the sake of order.
And about the "not in your country thing", that is partially true but the internet is not confined to "your country". If you defend freedom of speech on the internet, you should look beyond. Just go and check how many linux user group malaysia has and how many active linux users. I bet that there's quite a large amount, and they too read slashdot, post comments and make jokes about moderates:-)
And how will that be enforced. Will they have distribution police that would remove from the Net other's people distributions. Sure, theoretically they may put out something which is so cool it over takes RedHat, Debian, Slackware, Mandrake to mention a few (although I dont see a possibility of that), but nothing is perfect. People will package their own. Linux is not an OS, Linux is a kernel; the OS is Slackware, Debian etc.. where they package the GNU utilities with it. So there is always one Linux, although if you wish to modify the kernel and distribute it there's nothing wrong with that. Also diversity of distributions is a great thing: all users have preferences of their own, and if a certain company caters to their users rather then "the market", we get much better quality software. After all, is there Debian Windows or RedHat Solaris?
Well a gtk application exists which does ICQ and AIM in the same window. There's also some IRC->ICQ and IRC->Im gateways. I personally prefer a GnomeICU on top, a gaim on the button and ircii-epic by the side.
Certainly a GOOD THING. Linux brings dedicatd geeks, dedicated geeks bring computer literacy. Something the Black Continent could use. And you'll soon have hordes of geeks from Africa, it's like in China: only a small percentage may use it, but Africa is huge.
Also, of course there's the co-notation of Africa with Idi Amin's, Abu Sanja's and Mobutu SeSeSeko's, famine, starvation and civil wars. But if you look at Europe in 1700 you'll see just that. Or look at Singapore or China circa 1930. Backwards nations can catch up.
Also, I remember a slashdot poll which asked which continent you were on and they left our Africa, but included Antarctida.
You can say that Ghandi's followers were going to the sea to get the salt just because the salt was cheaper there. You can say that was Rosa Park was doing was just illegal, she was just tired and wanted to sit where she wanted. Any deliberate breaking of a law which is not there for a good reason _is_ civil disobedience. And I disbelieve your argument, free software is just that free, I can download it, I can modify it, I can give it to my friend. If let's say Sony Music places licenses on it's records, it's not just protecting the music from being distributed for money, it's taking away it's freedom.
I am not sure that alien computers will be able to read an iso9660 file system. I like the idea of a disk with perforations in it better: if theyc can't see, they can feel.
Ok, don't start going into Napster withdrawal syndrome yet;-) There's an excelent alternative to that: OpenNAP. Its a napster network, free from Napster Corp. And there's plenty of users and music on the OpenNAP network too. The site also lists alternative clients, even for those using Windows. Plus there's gnutella and other alternatives (I have'nt checked them all out yet).
Well, it is not way too hard to at least partially implement:
#!/usr/bin/perl
Use CGI; Use Strict;
my $query = new CGI;
if ($query->remote_host() =~ ".fr") { print "Nazi auctions are bad, mmkay... !"
etc..
But for the moral side, it's a shame that a country that pionered liberty in the modern era decides to censor what it feels is not moral. Sure enough, buying Nazi memorabilia is immoral to a national, whose own country has been brutally occupied by the nazis. But the government is not the guardian is moral, whether the auction is on the internet or not is not important.
The hypes and myths about cyber addiction are spreading rapidly. I got a phone call once, from relatives in former USSR. They are a bit worried, as they read an article that people become addicted to computers and can't tell from a virtual world to a real one. And this is in a country where there are only two internet service provides, bost state run and connecting through an ISDN line to Russia and the phone network won't support speeds higher then 28.8 kbps.
Why is that everyone would love to turn the computer into a thing that should only be limited to the popular, the normal and those who can hold on to their social lives? This defeats the purpose of a computer. Computer is not a social tool first of all and to those lonely and isolated it can serve as a tool to meet those with close interest. and the stories of "cyber addiction" and "getting-online to make new friends" would fit aolers more, who would do the same on a web tv or some other sick interpretation of a thin client.
Well the laptop that I myself use for desktop replacement is Compaq 1274 (In fact I am posting this message from the laptop now). No, it's not for playing Quake3 (I haven't tried, but I don't suppose its possible), but I could play unreal (in Mikeysoft OS) in a very low resolution, but it worked. It is great for coders, music lovers, just casual desktop users, net junkies but not 3d gamers. Here are the highlights: AMD-k6-2/366/64MBram/4.3GB. For more detailed information, you can check out a how-to that I have written at http://strlen.net/compaq1274.html
Happy laptoping. And it works perfectly in Linux too.
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They use playing cards for encryption in the Cryptonomicon (actually a working algorithm). let's ban them too, besides why do hard working, honest Christian americans need to play cards for?
The war on drug is in itself is as American as Ho Chi Minh (no, I'm not advocating the Vietnam war).I don't aprove of McCarthy, neither do I approve of modern forms of McCarth-ism -- which is still the same thing, turning in your parents and your friends and co-workers. I think McCarthy himself was unAmerican -- the commitie for unAmerican activities was actually created to prosecute American nazi's, but instead was used to prosecute some of the strongest anti-nazi's ever in many cases.
Yes, they did. In fact, there is a famous case of that, the case of Pavlic Morozov. Basically in the 1930 he told on his father being a "kulak" (a wealthy farmer), and had his father executed as an enemy of the state -- due to a propaganda campaign which encouraged such to be done. He was then made into a hero. And that was only during the darkest hour, Stalinism -- even during Brejnev he was considered a traitor and an example of what kids should _NOT_ do. And here I see the same thing, in the middle of prosperity and the supposed diplomacy.
Ok, this is serious. Common prejudice stats that all the teen age geeks are script kiddies -- I totally disagree with that; but I do think that many new hackers have went through the script kiddie stage and have evolved from that into a UNIX geek. Have you?
I say automate the process. Image recognition is possible with software. Then we can create a team slashdot and see who scores the largest amount of craters :-)
I dont think BeOS is competition for Linux, just like Windows ME is not competition to Windows 2k. They are different type of OS. BeOS is a personal OS, multimedia OS, gaming OS. Linux is for serious development, server work, and general hacking :-). It's not competition, they can even help each other. Cross platform application can be made to compile well on both oses as Gimp, and many others already do.
And also in a small scale it's not the price that matters, it's the liberty and most of flexibility and quality.
This is off topic as well, but by St. Petersburg, this is abreviation. And in Russia we still call it Leningrad, or "Peter".
Actually I think neither Gore nor Bush are qualified to deal with that matter. Who is, is probably Cheney. He actually got the coaloation together in the Gulf War conflict, a step which requires diplomatic skill. Anyone know a good sniper ;-) (bug off echelon, i'm kidding)
BSD licensed code may be used in commercial, closed source software. Also the advertising clause was once problemous. However, this problem is not something which will stop me from using BSD -- the case is not as bad as Ssh v2, pine or older QPL.
actually i was able to boot it up later on after the instal with a ramdisk kernel (which came on the B floppy) but was unable to get any other kernel to work, even a recompiled ramdisk kernel.
I don't use NetBSD and OpenBSD because Linux is too popular. I think x is too popular, hence I will use y, is a very bad reason for using anything. I use it because for my purpose it does a better job then Linux, for example on a Sparc 2, BSD has better memory handling then does Linux and hence runs faster. As for the license, yes, it is a problem, but not worthy of not running the OS. Plus, for a user a license shouldn't matter much, it should for the developer though. But BSD is BSD and not GPL and I will not argue. Also, just saying BSD is a bit too broad. Linux too, borrows some bits of BSD code.
NetBSD 1.5 BETA 2 is worth trying as well. Runs *GREAT*. I use it for my NFS server machine, a machine on which neither OpenBSD nor Debian (my general choices of OS) would not install due to problems with the IDE bus. This installed and acts very stably. It also ships with OpenSSH :-) Very stable too. Going to make that machine my firewall sometime.
From what I've seen myriads of companies attempt to produce thin clients capble of virtually everything, but in a cuter packaging and easy to use. What they fail to see is that their thin client is not a thin client, but is merely a computer, just like others. Thin client has to do something special, not "surf-the-net" and then perhaps "write e-mail" and do word processing, but it has do something you would dedicated a system full time to, such as an X-terminal or any other terminal. Checkout what NCD offers as example of what thin clients should be.
Sure, Gates' points look great in theory, but the thing is they are not true. All kinds of clothing companies compete with each other, there are about 8.56 * 10^8 brands of pants you can wear, and according to Microsoft theory we wouldnt be wearing pants because of that. Helix Code is doing well, the hackers who work there are very happy with their employment and enjoy sallary and spend full time developing open-source. There are also those who do not work in Linux-only companies, but nevertheless write great deals of Linux software, such as Donald Becker, type dmesg | grep eth | grep becker and find out contribution.
Sure the Internet is new, Al Gore and George Bush are running for president, and school-shootings are new. But the concept is the same. An enemy within the country, a minority, a concept, which wants to subvert the majority, using deception, "propaganda" and "violence". In 1830's it was the Free Masons, in 1860-1900's it was the Indians, in 1914-1918 it was The Kaiser and the immigrants, in 1918-1989 it was the Commies. Sometimes it was just presedential speaches about "the evil empire", sometimes it was McCarthist witch-hunts, sometimes it was murder outright, sometimes it was just closing the gate. So why do we need another battle against "subversion" by the enemy within in the 21st century?
Yes, your argument is true, that compared to what right now is going in Burma or Indonesia is nothing compared to what's going in Malaysia. Sure, Malaysia even has an elected government. But elections can be rigged. Also, people just love demagogues and will vote for them, even if they are destined to become dictators. I can already imagine a 60 year old Asian men in a black business suit talking about a mother with 15 children who can't buy herself new shoes because her son stole money from her to play at an arcade? And guess what people will buy that. I can give you tons of example of true dictators who enjoy(or at least did enjoy) popular support and were populary elected. Fujimori, Lukashenka and Milosevic to name a few, but that is far from all. And remember that Malaysia is not in Western europe. Their potential electorate considers such ideas correct, since they fit their Confucian ideology, which defends trade offs of liberty for the sake of order.
And about the "not in your country thing", that is partially true but the internet is not confined to "your country". If you defend freedom of speech on the internet, you should look beyond. Just go and check how many linux user group malaysia has and how many active linux users. I bet that there's quite a large amount, and they too read slashdot, post comments and make jokes about moderates :-)
And how will that be enforced. Will they have distribution police that would remove from the Net other's people distributions. Sure, theoretically they may put out something which is so cool it over takes RedHat, Debian, Slackware, Mandrake to mention a few (although I dont see a possibility of that), but nothing is perfect. People will package their own. Linux is not an OS, Linux is a kernel; the OS is Slackware, Debian etc.. where they package the GNU utilities with it. So there is always one Linux, although if you wish to modify the kernel and distribute it there's nothing wrong with that. Also diversity of distributions is a great thing: all users have preferences of their own, and if a certain company caters to their users rather then "the market", we get much better quality software. After all, is there Debian Windows or RedHat Solaris?
Well a gtk application exists which does ICQ and AIM in the same window. There's also some IRC->ICQ and IRC->Im gateways. I personally prefer a GnomeICU on top, a gaim on the button and ircii-epic by the side.
Certainly a GOOD THING. Linux brings dedicatd geeks, dedicated geeks bring computer literacy. Something the Black Continent could use. And you'll soon have hordes of geeks from Africa, it's like in China: only a small percentage may use it, but Africa is huge.
Also, of course there's the co-notation of Africa with Idi Amin's, Abu Sanja's and Mobutu SeSeSeko's, famine, starvation and civil wars. But if you look at Europe in 1700 you'll see just that. Or look at Singapore or China circa 1930. Backwards nations can catch up.
Also, I remember a slashdot poll which asked which continent you were on and they left our Africa, but included Antarctida.
You can say that Ghandi's followers were going to the sea to get the salt just because the salt was cheaper there. You can say that was Rosa Park was doing was just illegal, she was just tired and wanted to sit where she wanted. Any deliberate breaking of a law which is not there for a good reason _is_ civil disobedience. And I disbelieve your argument, free software is just that free, I can download it, I can modify it, I can give it to my friend. If let's say Sony Music places licenses on it's records, it's not just protecting the music from being distributed for money, it's taking away it's freedom.
I am not sure that alien computers will be able to read an iso9660 file system. I like the idea of a disk with perforations in it better: if theyc can't see, they can feel.
Ok, don't start going into Napster withdrawal syndrome yet ;-) There's an excelent alternative to that: OpenNAP. Its a napster network, free from Napster Corp. And there's plenty of users and music on the OpenNAP network too. The site also lists alternative clients, even for those using Windows. Plus there's gnutella and other alternatives (I have'nt checked them all out yet).
Well, it is not way too hard to at least partially implement:
#!/usr/bin/perl
Use CGI;
Use Strict;
my $query = new CGI;
if ($query->remote_host() =~ ".fr") {
print "Nazi auctions are bad, mmkay... !"
etc..
But for the moral side, it's a shame that a country that pionered liberty in the modern era decides to censor what it feels is not moral. Sure enough, buying Nazi memorabilia is immoral to a national, whose own country has been brutally occupied by the nazis. But the government is not the guardian is moral, whether the auction is on the internet or not is not important.
The hypes and myths about cyber addiction are spreading rapidly. I got a phone call once, from relatives in former USSR. They are a bit worried, as they read an article that people become addicted to computers and can't tell from a virtual world to a real one. And this is in a country where there are only two internet service provides, bost state run and connecting through an ISDN line to Russia and the phone network won't support speeds higher then 28.8 kbps.
Why is that everyone would love to turn the computer into a thing that should only be limited to the popular, the normal and those who can hold on to their social lives? This defeats the purpose of a computer. Computer is not a social tool first of all and to those lonely and isolated it can serve as a tool to meet those with close interest. and the stories of "cyber addiction" and "getting-online to make new friends" would fit aolers more, who would do the same on a web tv or some other sick interpretation of a thin client.
Well the laptop that I myself use for desktop replacement is Compaq 1274 (In fact I am posting this message from the laptop now). No, it's not for playing Quake3 (I haven't tried, but I don't suppose its possible), but I could play unreal (in Mikeysoft OS) in a very low resolution, but it worked. It is great for coders, music lovers, just casual desktop users, net junkies but not 3d gamers. Here are the highlights: AMD-k6-2/366/64MBram/4.3GB. For more detailed information, you can check out a how-to that I have written at http://strlen.net/compaq1274.html
Happy laptoping. And it works perfectly in Linux too.