Re:I'll support anything that gets rid of Billy Ba
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Actually, I think this hit list is totally stupid. Half the things on that list wouldn't fall under the law.
Because, of course, you're the resident expert on the law. Perhaps some concrete citations of WHY you believe they wouldn't fall under the law might help boost your credibility....
For the contrary viewpoint, I've been using WD drives for about 3 years for all my upgrades, and I haven't yet had a reliability problem with the disks. This is for 40G, 60G, 80G drives, consumer grade off the shelf from Best Buy or Micro Warehouse or whatever.
I had exactly the same question. JINI was touted as the ability for devices to self-register and interoperate. I suspect it was intended to be medium agnostic (USB/Firewire/bluetooth), but why don't we see any implementations?
The SPARC standard is an open standard, and we allow and encourage clones (Fujitsu has made them in the past, for one example). The license is not anything like open source or community licenses in the linux sense though. It's been around a lot longer than most of those licenses except GPL itself (SPARC was designed to be open from the get go in the late 80's).
I didn't say anything about removal of free will. It's just a variation of the quote "you cannot go against nature, because if you do... that's part of nature too." If God is the author of all, then all is his creation, the good, the bad, and the indifferent. That includes science.
If one wants to believe in God, in the sense of the monotheistic religions, then there is nothing man has or does that is not part of God's plan, and by extension therefore God's creation. This includes science. (interestingly, it also includes a host of other things that many xtians would like to disappear from the planet).
As far as disproving the beliefs of various faiths, you'd have to be awfully paranoid to think that's the point of science. Good to hear you're not in that camp.
Young, white, Christian men weren't scrutinized in the same way that young Muslims and Arab men are for a very sensible reason. It's a simple fact that the Arab culture is in opposition to Western culture and values. It simply makes statistical sense to keep an eye on those who are most likely to come from the country we're at war with.
You obviously weren't paying attention to the myriad scare stories about the White Aryan Resistance and the myriad militia groups in remote places during the 80's & 90's. There is a significant and demonstrably violent subculture of young white "Christian" men, among them Tim McVeigh, who are as real and present a threat as your nebulously defined "arab culture". They just aren't half as easy to target and isolate because they look like so many of us.
which means, as usual, eliminating the jobs of innocent programmers and tech support.
<sarcasm>Because after all, when a significant segment of your income is your support services organization, you definitely want to get rid of them.</sarcasm>
Or do you really think the patchwork quilt of Linux is easier to support than the relatively unified OS that is Solaris? I've been supporting Solaris for Sun for 7 years, and playing with Linux at home almost as long, and I have to say that Solaris' integration is much more cohesive in my opinion. And that makes it easier to support.
Re:UT2k3 - linux impressions
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A celeron 333 on a multitasking OS and you expected something like the latest UT to actually work well on your box?
And my point is that I can get the same feeling by handling the situation, growing in confidence, and never referring to God at all. So I honestly don't see what the point would be. I *don't* mean to criticize those who get comfort from this, though I am pretty critical of people who try to feed me pabalum answers to my question.
Maybe you were only expecting "yes" rather than "no" or "not yet" or "yes, but do this...". God does what is best for us, not necessarily what our heart desires. I have yet to receive the billion dollars I asked for.
Oh please. This is the most lame excuse known to man, and it's the one most commonly trotted out. It can be applied any and every instance where things just don't seem to go your way (and by the way requires no God either). Again: I play my hand just fine without God's advice, and have never received any "advice through circumstance" that I couldn't have inferred on my own without deluding myself that I had supernatural support of any kind.
Fellow fallable humans. Don't put your trust in them, put it in the Lord. Your compliant is what they did against you, not what he did.
Don't give me that BS either. Everything ANY of us knows about God we know either from 1) other fallable humans or 2) our own fallible insights. Someday, if there is a God, perhaps we will know. On this earth, none of us knows, and anyone who claims to know anything about God and what S/He wants is selling snake oil. That includes you. Your particular brand of snake oil is the evangelist brand, "I want everyone to believe like me", usually justified with "for their own good".
I trusted the Lord and all I got was a severe case of allergy to Organized Religion of any stripe (Yah, I know "this lousy T-shirt" has a better ring, but it's not strictly accurate). My trust only made me a patsy for every asshole under the sun, along with helping me justify my own self-righteousness to the detriment of anyone around me.
Did you keep a Prayer diary? Or something like it. Setup a MS Projects of your life... Its funny though, but sometimes you need to really step back far to see how the pieces fell into place.
The point is, without prayer, those things are still falling into place. Therefore, the prayer part appears to be superfluous. I make my own destiny by taking the hand dealt to me and doing the best I can with it. Did God deal that hand? Perhaps. Do I need to ask his advice on how to play it? Apparently not, because I seem to be doing well on many levels without it. Is the game over? Might I change my mind before then? Who knows; certainly not I.
The problem with this argument is that every time I prayed to God (and I tried very hard for a very long time to be a good Xtian) I got nothing back. Nada.
And "friends" of mine who were also supposedly on the same wavelength and also talking with God for advice stabbed me in the back, ridiculed me, etc.
I have found, however, that if I just stop expecting God to fix things for me or give me advice that never comes, I am always able to make may way through my own hard times on my own, or with the help of other HUMANS who have been through similar things. Which, coincidentally, is just the same way I was making my way through them when I was trying to get God to help me.
And when I stopped expecting people to actually live up to the meaningless rhetoric they've learned from the Church to recite as rote while they're really being assholes ("God doesn't make junk...but elmegil sure is a fucking geek ain't he? And don't get me started on faggots!"), I've found that I can find the people who aren't really assholes a lot easier. And surprise surprise, not even a majority of them are Xtian (though there are some who are, and I give them their due props--Larry fits well among that group).
As far as it goes, it's probably fair to say that he's NOT blaming the engineers; he's saying the products aren't engineered for security, but it's clear to most observers that this is because the engineers have been told to focus on other aspects and ignore security (in large part) by management. An engineer who doesn't do what management wants doesn't stick around very long, no matter how talented s/he is.
The kernelmap shows beautifully the inherent modularity of the Linux Kernel. We think modularity of the source code is one of the important strategic advantages that the Linux Community has...
I've seen diagrams of Unix from the 70's that had exactly the same structure to them. Nothing new.
Furthermore, Solaris has been inherently modular (and has evolved to have fine grained locking and an almost fully preemptible kernel) since SVR4 was adopted by Sun as the basis for Solaris. I can't see spending the time to map Solaris too, but I bet if someone did, it would look exactly the same.
Dont' get me wrong, this is a nifty tool, looks neat, etc. But if someone wants to use it to claim uniqueness for Linux, they're barking up the wrong source tree.
I've built more pre-made furniture than I care to think about. Never has it been difficult. After reading instructions for two different pieces, you know how every piece is going to go together for every other piece you ever buy. Unless you're a complete moron, in which case I can't see reading the instructions to you helping any more than making you read them for yourself.
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Because, of course, you're the resident expert on the law. Perhaps some concrete citations of WHY you believe they wouldn't fall under the law might help boost your credibility....
I think the latter is considered "theft" not "supplying".
For the contrary viewpoint, I've been using WD drives for about 3 years for all my upgrades, and I haven't yet had a reliability problem with the disks. This is for 40G, 60G, 80G drives, consumer grade off the shelf from Best Buy or Micro Warehouse or whatever.
I had exactly the same question. JINI was touted as the ability for devices to self-register and interoperate. I suspect it was intended to be medium agnostic (USB/Firewire/bluetooth), but why don't we see any implementations?
On the other hand, it could just be another one of those faux ice ages like the ones predicted in the 70's over and over again.
The SPARC standard is an open standard, and we allow and encourage clones (Fujitsu has made them in the past, for one example). The license is not anything like open source or community licenses in the linux sense though. It's been around a lot longer than most of those licenses except GPL itself (SPARC was designed to be open from the get go in the late 80's).
no, I'm not.
Hasn't stopped them prior to this....
I didn't say anything about removal of free will. It's just a variation of the quote "you cannot go against nature, because if you do... that's part of nature too." If God is the author of all, then all is his creation, the good, the bad, and the indifferent. That includes science.
As far as disproving the beliefs of various faiths, you'd have to be awfully paranoid to think that's the point of science. Good to hear you're not in that camp.
Shoulda been titled "kiss my ass you dummies" :-)
keep them quite what???
You obviously weren't paying attention to the myriad scare stories about the White Aryan Resistance and the myriad militia groups in remote places during the 80's & 90's. There is a significant and demonstrably violent subculture of young white "Christian" men, among them Tim McVeigh, who are as real and present a threat as your nebulously defined "arab culture". They just aren't half as easy to target and isolate because they look like so many of us.
<sarcasm>Because after all, when a significant segment of your income is your support services organization, you definitely want to get rid of them.</sarcasm>
Or do you really think the patchwork quilt of Linux is easier to support than the relatively unified OS that is Solaris? I've been supporting Solaris for Sun for 7 years, and playing with Linux at home almost as long, and I have to say that Solaris' integration is much more cohesive in my opinion. And that makes it easier to support.
A celeron 333 on a multitasking OS and you expected something like the latest UT to actually work well on your box?
p.s. personally I'll take fallable humans who don't pretend to be better than everyone else any day. Most Xtians seem to have superiority syndrome.
Trusting God led to trusting these people. I trusted God to direct me away from idiots, and that didn't work.
And my point is that I can get the same feeling by handling the situation, growing in confidence, and never referring to God at all. So I honestly don't see what the point would be. I *don't* mean to criticize those who get comfort from this, though I am pretty critical of people who try to feed me pabalum answers to my question.
Oh please. This is the most lame excuse known to man, and it's the one most commonly trotted out. It can be applied any and every instance where things just don't seem to go your way (and by the way requires no God either). Again: I play my hand just fine without God's advice, and have never received any "advice through circumstance" that I couldn't have inferred on my own without deluding myself that I had supernatural support of any kind.
Fellow fallable humans. Don't put your trust in them, put it in the Lord. Your compliant is what they did against you, not what he did.
Don't give me that BS either. Everything ANY of us knows about God we know either from 1) other fallable humans or 2) our own fallible insights. Someday, if there is a God, perhaps we will know. On this earth, none of us knows, and anyone who claims to know anything about God and what S/He wants is selling snake oil. That includes you. Your particular brand of snake oil is the evangelist brand, "I want everyone to believe like me", usually justified with "for their own good".
I trusted the Lord and all I got was a severe case of allergy to Organized Religion of any stripe (Yah, I know "this lousy T-shirt" has a better ring, but it's not strictly accurate). My trust only made me a patsy for every asshole under the sun, along with helping me justify my own self-righteousness to the detriment of anyone around me.
The point is, without prayer, those things are still falling into place. Therefore, the prayer part appears to be superfluous. I make my own destiny by taking the hand dealt to me and doing the best I can with it. Did God deal that hand? Perhaps. Do I need to ask his advice on how to play it? Apparently not, because I seem to be doing well on many levels without it. Is the game over? Might I change my mind before then? Who knows; certainly not I.
And "friends" of mine who were also supposedly on the same wavelength and also talking with God for advice stabbed me in the back, ridiculed me, etc.
I have found, however, that if I just stop expecting God to fix things for me or give me advice that never comes, I am always able to make may way through my own hard times on my own, or with the help of other HUMANS who have been through similar things. Which, coincidentally, is just the same way I was making my way through them when I was trying to get God to help me.
And when I stopped expecting people to actually live up to the meaningless rhetoric they've learned from the Church to recite as rote while they're really being assholes ("God doesn't make junk...but elmegil sure is a fucking geek ain't he? And don't get me started on faggots!"), I've found that I can find the people who aren't really assholes a lot easier. And surprise surprise, not even a majority of them are Xtian (though there are some who are, and I give them their due props--Larry fits well among that group).
As far as it goes, it's probably fair to say that he's NOT blaming the engineers; he's saying the products aren't engineered for security, but it's clear to most observers that this is because the engineers have been told to focus on other aspects and ignore security (in large part) by management. An engineer who doesn't do what management wants doesn't stick around very long, no matter how talented s/he is.
(I'm censuring the news, get it?)
I've seen diagrams of Unix from the 70's that had exactly the same structure to them. Nothing new.
Furthermore, Solaris has been inherently modular (and has evolved to have fine grained locking and an almost fully preemptible kernel) since SVR4 was adopted by Sun as the basis for Solaris. I can't see spending the time to map Solaris too, but I bet if someone did, it would look exactly the same.
Dont' get me wrong, this is a nifty tool, looks neat, etc. But if someone wants to use it to claim uniqueness for Linux, they're barking up the wrong source tree.
I've built more pre-made furniture than I care to think about. Never has it been difficult. After reading instructions for two different pieces, you know how every piece is going to go together for every other piece you ever buy. Unless you're a complete moron, in which case I can't see reading the instructions to you helping any more than making you read them for yourself.