But having an organization who honestly believes we should abandon most aspects of our current technological society in order to be more in tune with the planet polarizes the issue, and drives more moderate people away. But that's not what they said, it wouldn't be too much to let wiis actually switch off instead of standby, etc
Only one major candidate realised that the solution to londons gun crime 'problem' was NOT to give the police more powers, and he was an ex-policemen. Needless to say sense and reason weren't criteria in Londons electoral race so it didn't go so well for him.
stabbing somebody with a steak knife isn't so easy, especially if you want to kill them.
How come there are speed camera's all over your highways? To stop speeding, I never get peoples problem with speed cameras, dont like getting caught breaking the law either dont break it or change the law, dont bitch because you got caught. Why is the UK the first to try and do a national DNA database? To catch people with previous convictions, although I agree current plans are taking the scheme too far but that's a separate issue, and I attribute it to incompetence instead of malice, a DNA database doesn't do much to stop anti-government movements. if I didn't know better I would assume Queen Elizabeth has more power than we realize Actually she has the power to get rid of the government, cant be much more powerful than that.
Can you get done for destroying your keys though? e.g keep your key on a usb pen and when the police come knocking, microwave it (or whatever you have to do to break a flash drive)
bourgeoisie (owners of private property) Bourgeoisie refers only to controllers of the work force
Marxism defines the bourgeoisie as the social class which obtains income from ownership or trade in capital assets, or from commercial activities such as the buying and selling of commodities, wares, and services. In industrial capitalism, on the other hand, the bourgeoisie becomes the ruling class - which means it also owns the bulk of the means of production (land, factories, offices, capital, resources) as well as the means of coercion (national armed forces, prison systems, court systems). Ownership of the means of production enables it to employ and exploit the work of a large mass of wage workers (the working class) That is what is meant by 'bourgeoisie', those that own the tools the labour force need to work, and abuse this position of power, or to put it another way they're Microsoft, where as the GPL(hell any OSS license) is communist compatible as the workers own the tools and cant be exploited.
1st of scrap anything from mail/sun, they're just sensationalist right wing crap. Sure some attacks may have been stopped because of the new measures [citation most defiantly needed], but when a government that has banned all protests in certain areas and has a dedicated team of police to photograph protesters, I sure as hell dont want them reading my emails.
And I seriously doubt that somebody as dedicated to blowing people up as a terrorist, is going to be too lazy to use encryption. Or maybe they already do meaning this measure is already pointless?
OFF topic In fairness to Bin Laden, he actually has a much higher NC/C (Not Crazy/Crazy ration) than most slashdot posters. That's how its so easy for him to recruit because if you read his letters they're quite factional and logical, hell i agree with a lot of his points, its just that instead of slipping in an MS bash at the end, he tells you to blow people up.
And regarding the random sharia law bash you slipped in, I actually completly agree with what the Christian guy said, there should be some (one-way) links between sharia law and normal law, why should you have to go through divorce twice et ? And nobody has ever suggested that if your in the UK and not Muslim you should follow it tho.
Then there was the way in which the death of "Princess" Diana was treated in the British media at the time, which included trashing TV and radio schedules for several hours for no good reason. But that was optional, nobody forced the TV channels to be shit, nobody twisted the death of Princess Diana into a way to unite England and get them too ignore wrong doing by the government. Sure there was crappy sensationalism, but her death wasn't used as a way to control anybody. BTW I watched Sharpe that night due to the rescheduling, so it wasn't all bad.
And just because America may (I dont want to get into this argument again) indoctrinate thier population doesn't mean its ok for china to do it.
Marketing folks aren't dumb - they're highly paid and rating systems show what works and what doesn't. you dont think the marketing folk would lie to the PHB and pretend to make a difference.
your 1/2 right in your post anybody informed (not sure that's the right word, but meh) enough to read slashdot will have friends that are smart enough not to go, ooooh shiny, clicky, clicky, but I think something has to be said for the fact that marketing folks tell the higher ups their important and sell THAT message really well.
Dear moderators please do not confuse unpopular opinions See above to comments, with trolling, this is trolling you fucking douche bags, learn how to moderate!
As much as i hate you for your sock puppet bullshit i have to give you credit i was wondering why they'd done this and your explanation is spot on even if you are a twat.
I live in Beijing. Such sentiments as above sound so selfish and self-indulgent. Great shows of national mourning are not unusual, even in our own western countries (or at least they used to be). I am no apologist for China but, on this, please cut the Chinese a bit of slack. You have no idea how this tragedy has affected people in China and while three days of mourning might seem excessive it is not necessarily so here. Moreover, it helps focus the national mind on what has to be done next: no more hope for rescue, the need for rebuilding, fund raising, etc.
BTW, I have so far not been affected in my access to the internet or TV, etc. Mourning should be optional, it should not be used by any goverment to 'focus' a 'national mind', and distract it from other atrocities ( Read human rights, tibet, etc). The fact you even use the phrase 'national mind' just re-enfoces how well the patriot re-education act has worked.
p.s assuming your not brain-dead enough to think everything i write are western lies, stop to consider for a second how you can put a percentage correctness on philosophical writings? Mao would hate the Chinese government more than I do.
would worry about internet censorship in China at a time like this.
People are still crushed under rubble, entire towns are flattened, and all you fools can worry about is whether Chinese get their cheap entertainment and whether their Internet is monitored? There is a reason why your point of view is irrelevant and you're demonstrating why right now.
No need the firewall has done its job, now everything anti-Chinese is instantly written off as western lies. The government have managed to get the firewall into peoples heads, the actual firewall isn't needed any more.
This sounds like a bit of a push to get the nation even more indoctrinated. my friends lived in the UK his whole life and since the Tibet thing, he suddenly thinks all western media is bull.
Given that software keyloggers can be found, (rootkit detector and an encrypted partition) is it possible, perhaps only theoretically, to protect youself from phyical keyloggers without taking your keyboard apart? Do hardware keylogers supply thier own batteries or could it their power usage be (again theoretically) detected? Do they log messages from they computer to the keyboard (e.g lock changed)? could anti key loggers spam the keyboard with lock toggles until the memory fills up? With the ones that dump their logs when a key combination is pressed (this is more common in the ones you hide inside they keyboard, could the fact that somebody is trying at a million words per minute be logged?
sure none of these will keep the nsa off your back, but then again the spouse of the woman the OP is sleeping with is probably just going to have installed some cheap ass detectable software key logger, making 99% of the posts in this thread void (i only saw this containing any answers.
Exactly, and TBH i dont really give one when other peoples 'year of the desktop' is, ive only been using linux for 2 years now and while an increase in market share will mean more support for peripherals, as long as the linux crowd has enough dvelopers to take care of itself having 100% market share isnt really going to help it will just up the noise/signal ratio.
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Why would you want to smoke hemp, thats like smoking wool or something.
If you think fucking up countries in the middle east doesnt cause terrorism then your even more deluded than bin laden.
You do realise that Tony Blair retired almost a year ago.
Only one major candidate realised that the solution to londons gun crime 'problem' was NOT to give the police more powers, and he was an ex-policemen. Needless to say sense and reason weren't criteria in Londons electoral race so it didn't go so well for him.
stabbing somebody with a steak knife isn't so easy, especially if you want to kill them.
How come there are speed camera's all over your highways? To stop speeding, I never get peoples problem with speed cameras, dont like getting caught breaking the law either dont break it or change the law, dont bitch because you got caught.
Why is the UK the first to try and do a national DNA database? To catch people with previous convictions, although I agree current plans are taking the scheme too far but that's a separate issue, and I attribute it to incompetence instead of malice, a DNA database doesn't do much to stop anti-government movements.
if I didn't know better I would assume Queen Elizabeth has more power than we realize Actually she has the power to get rid of the government, cant be much more powerful than that.
Can you get done for destroying your keys though? e.g keep your key on a usb pen and when the police come knocking, microwave it (or whatever you have to do to break a flash drive)
only without the socialism so more like the nazk but that doesn't work so well.
1st of scrap anything from mail/sun, they're just sensationalist right wing crap.
Sure some attacks may have been stopped because of the new measures [citation most defiantly needed], but when a government that has banned all protests in certain areas and has a dedicated team of police to photograph protesters, I sure as hell dont want them reading my emails.
And I seriously doubt that somebody as dedicated to blowing people up as a terrorist, is going to be too lazy to use encryption. Or maybe they already do meaning this measure is already pointless?
OFF topic
In fairness to Bin Laden, he actually has a much higher NC/C (Not Crazy/Crazy ration) than most slashdot posters. That's how its so easy for him to recruit because if you read his letters they're quite factional and logical, hell i agree with a lot of his points, its just that instead of slipping in an MS bash at the end, he tells you to blow people up.
And regarding the random sharia law bash you slipped in, I actually completly agree with what the Christian guy said, there should be some (one-way) links between sharia law and normal law, why should you have to go through divorce twice et ? And nobody has ever suggested that if your in the UK and not Muslim you should follow it tho.
I cant wait for WINE to support it.
Does it translate linux api/abi calls to windows ones or is it doing something else to avoid being an emulator?
Both have 100% noise ratios as polygraphs are complete rubbish.
And just because America may (I dont want to get into this argument again) indoctrinate thier population doesn't mean its ok for china to do it.
your 1/2 right in your post anybody informed (not sure that's the right word, but meh) enough to read slashdot will have friends that are smart enough not to go, ooooh shiny, clicky, clicky, but I think something has to be said for the fact that marketing folks tell the higher ups their important and sell THAT message really well.
Dear moderators please do not confuse unpopular opinions See above to comments, with trolling, this is trolling you fucking douche bags, learn how to moderate!
As much as i hate you for your sock puppet bullshit i have to give you credit i was wondering why they'd done this and your explanation is spot on even if you are a twat.
BTW, I have so far not been affected in my access to the internet or TV, etc. Mourning should be optional, it should not be used by any goverment to 'focus' a 'national mind', and distract it from other atrocities ( Read human rights, tibet, etc). The fact you even use the phrase 'national mind' just re-enfoces how well the patriot re-education act has worked.
p.s assuming your not brain-dead enough to think everything i write are western lies, stop to consider for a second how you can put a percentage correctness on philosophical writings? Mao would hate the Chinese government more than I do.
While i agree with you point after 9/11 the major broadcasters did sensor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_deemed_inappropriate_by_Clear_Channel_following_the_September_11%2C_2001_attacks
(pretty much any anti wto song + any thing to do with planes + anything by RATM)
fortunately it wasn't government forced tho
would worry about internet censorship in China at a time like this.
People are still crushed under rubble, entire towns are flattened, and all you fools can worry about is whether Chinese get their cheap entertainment and whether their Internet is monitored? There is a reason why your point of view is irrelevant and you're demonstrating why right now.
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No need the firewall has done its job, now everything anti-Chinese is instantly written off as western lies. The government have managed to get the firewall into peoples heads, the actual firewall isn't needed any more.
This sounds like a bit of a push to get the nation even more indoctrinated. my friends lived in the UK his whole life and since the Tibet thing, he suddenly thinks all western media is bull.
that or a push to bind the comunity together for even greater levels of brainwashing
Given that software keyloggers can be found, (rootkit detector and an encrypted partition) is it possible, perhaps only theoretically, to protect youself from phyical keyloggers without taking your keyboard apart?
Do hardware keylogers supply thier own batteries or could it their power usage be (again theoretically) detected?
Do they log messages from they computer to the keyboard (e.g lock changed)? could anti key loggers spam the keyboard with lock toggles until the memory fills up?
With the ones that dump their logs when a key combination is pressed (this is more common in the ones you hide inside they keyboard, could the fact that somebody is trying at a million words per minute be logged?
sure none of these will keep the nsa off your back, but then again the spouse of the woman the OP is sleeping with is probably just going to have installed some cheap ass detectable software key logger, making 99% of the posts in this thread void (i only saw this containing any answers.
Exactly, and TBH i dont really give one when other peoples 'year of the desktop' is, ive only been using linux for 2 years now and while an increase in market share will mean more support for peripherals, as long as the linux crowd has enough dvelopers to take care of itself having 100% market share isnt really going to help it will just up the noise/signal ratio.