Yes, I agree, it is a bit suspicious. It's probably too late to go back and change it now though..
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You can register those types of domains through Register.com (I see someone has already registered fuckyou.com).. so it is NSI preventing it. I don't think the NSF is even involved in DNS anymore.
Real Marxists are not the straw puppets warned about at the Heritage Institute or the _Skeptical Inquirer_.
The Skeptical Inquirer?? I thought they were debunking UFOs, psychics, etc. I didn't know they were trying to debunk political philosophies.. I do know some of their members have Randroid/Libertarian leanings so you could be right..
The Mozilla decision was not caused by someone reading the C&B essay. It was already made before then.
I think some 'revision to history' has been done by certain people to convince us otherwise. Their reasons for doing it were probably to popularize open source and the mozilla project, nice ideas, but lies are lies.
REad the slashdot archives if you don't believe me.
Another way is to add the "X-no-archive: yes" header to your messages. If you are using Mutt put "my_hdr X-no-archive: yes" in your.muttrc (no quotes). This, however, doesn't work all the time. For example, some of the FreeBSD mailing lists are echoed to USENET newsgroups with the X-no-archive stripped out. There is nothing you can really do about this except not post to those mailing lists. Also, there are probably archiving engines out there which ignore X-no-archive just like there are probably web robots out there which ignore robots.txt
Also, you can be sure that governments keep track of all your newsgroup postings. news.cia.gov and so on.
The number one site as disney.com here is probably because most porn sites have a thing on the first page: if you are 21 click here to enter, if you are not 21 click here (or something similar). If someone clicks "if you are not" the webmaster has it link to disney.com as a sort of joke. This is done a lot. Not that I'd know.
A lot of people are still using old 386s and 486s for routers, cheap servers, cheap home machines. This is why it is important to preserve backwards compatibility. In fact, I am typing this on a Cyrix 5x86/100 mhz (a 486 clone).
Speaking of 3d stuff, check out GEL. It is an open source effort (BSD-like license) to develop a cooperative 3d world using much more modern technologies than Doom. Imagine realtime world creation in a cross between virtual reality and IRC. It is being developed by Real Programmers (the guy who created Active Worlds and a guy from the FreeBSD core team, plus some others with equally impressive resumes) so you know it is not just vaporware!
I'm not involved with this project, I just found it a few days ago and it looks cool. It's about time we start using 3D for things besides shoot-em-up games!
Unless it's really needed, of course. I mean, if the threat of nuclear war could be eliminated, then who wouldn't support using one or two nukes to stop Saddam from taking babies out of incubators, or to stop Slobodan from torturing helpless old women?
This is exactly why this technology should not be implemented by any nation!! It just ups the ante and drives countries to develop even more lethal, disgusting, deadly weaponry. Why use puny nuclear weapons when a biological weapon will do 10x the damage? Of course, this is great news for the defense industry, who, ironically, is the biggest backer of this project.
We need to return democracy to the US and get rid of the corrupt fat cats!
First, this ignores the possibility of becoming self-employed. The section I read mentions this, but dismisses it because only 10% of people are self employed. However the author fails to explain how this low proportion prevents it being a legitimate choice.
I don't think many small-time businesses can compete with giants like Wal-Mart. A small business cannot afford to build a plant in southeast asia so they can pay workers 5 cents a day. Also, there are some people who just don't want to run a business -- why should they be financially punished for not pursuing a career in business administration? Different people have different talents. Why should a bad CEO be payed 200 times more than what a good salesperson or secretary earns?
(section about the UK cut-- I don't know anything about the history of Britain)
Thirdly, the author seems to ignore (unless I failed to notice it) the possibility that anyone has of gaining control of the "means of production" themselves. It is actually fairly easy to set up your own business with your own employees, or for a group of people to form exactly the kind of workers federation that the article proposes. Come up with a sensible plan and the capitalists happily lend you control of the means of production. Prove it effective and you get to keep control. On the other hand if you fail to make best use of the resources you are consuming then control will be taken off you and given to someone who can do better.
It is a common capitalist mistake to make efficiency equivalent to good. Leftists generally believe human life is more valuable than the dollar. Money is supposed to be a tool to serve us, we are not supposed to be serving money. This is not to say I believe we should give someone who does nothing the same pay as someone who works hard-- I just do not believe we should be slaves to production.
Considering this system from the point of view of the individual, I can't see any difference. Unless I want to be self-employed (with the same tradeoffs as today) I have to join one of these federations. Once in, I have to do what the currently appointed "managers" tell me to do. As an individual my vote will count for little, and if I am female a member of a minority then there is no reason to suppose that the other members of the collective will be any less bigoted towards me than a capitalist manager.
This is one of the (many) contradictions of "anarchism." Under a real socialist government minorities would be protected by law. Marx makes a number of good arguments against anarchism and "anarcho-socialism".. unfortunately most of these "anarcho-socialists" are too lazy to read Marx...
Last month 10,000 members of a harmless meditation group Falung Gong gathered around the Communist Party building for a few hours in Beijing to quietly meditate. For that, their organization has been outlawed, and it's members and leaders arrested and either executed or sent to "re-education" camps.
These Falun people are outlawed because they are one of those groups who practice "religious" healing. You know, the type who refuse to take their kid to the doctor when he's dying because they think it is better to pray over him than to help him.
But seriously, the Military, and NASA, develop soo much cool tech and we just take it for granted.
Like Windows NT on battleships? Yeah, you can tell there is a whole lot of intellect there. I'd trust the 3 year-old neighbor with a nuclear weapon before I'd trust the military.
It is very hard to configure. Fortunately you can get some basic configuration files for the standard setups and use them-- if you want to do anything fancy, good luck!
I don't think security is much of a worry in modern sendmail versions. They seem secure, although probably not as secure as qmail or postfix.
Actually I think I've heard a different interview than the other people on slashdot. He was on Talk of the Nation about a week ago-- it's a different program than the other slashdotters are talking about. If he was interviewed more than once I guess NPR really likes him. I wasn't impressed by him in the interview I heard but I'll take a look at his web page anyway-- I doubt he could be any WORSE than the current candidates.
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Yes, I agree, it is a bit suspicious. It's probably too late to go back and change it now though..
You can register those types of domains through Register.com (I see someone has already registered fuckyou.com) .. so it is NSI preventing it. I don't think the NSF is even involved in DNS anymore.
Since when is OpenBSD a split from FreeBSD??? And ESR a "vulgar Marxist?" LOL This guy needs to get his facts straight..
The Skeptical Inquirer?? I thought they were debunking UFOs, psychics, etc. I didn't know they were trying to debunk political philosophies.. I do know some of their members have Randroid/Libertarian leanings so you could be right..
I think some 'revision to history' has been done by certain people to convince us otherwise. Their reasons for doing it were probably to popularize open source and the mozilla project, nice ideas, but lies are lies.
REad the slashdot archives if you don't believe me.
Another way is to add the "X-no-archive: yes" header to your messages. If you are using Mutt put "my_hdr X-no-archive: yes" in your .muttrc (no quotes). This, however, doesn't work all the time. For example, some of the FreeBSD mailing lists are echoed to USENET newsgroups with the X-no-archive stripped out. There is nothing you can really do about this except not post to those mailing lists. Also, there are probably archiving engines out there which ignore X-no-archive just like there are probably web robots out there which ignore robots.txt
Also, you can be sure that governments keep track of all your newsgroup postings. news.cia.gov and so on.
Don't you mean Doctor Torvalds? :-)
Exactly. I can't even find the bloody newsgroups on Dejanews anymore!!!!! Isn't that the whole point of DejaNEWS after all?? sheesh.
The number one site as disney.com here is probably because most porn sites have a thing on the first page: if you are 21 click here to enter, if you are not 21 click here (or something similar). If someone clicks "if you are not" the webmaster has it link to disney.com as a sort of joke. This is done a lot. Not that I'd know.
You've got to be kidding!! Don't ruin a cool chip name with a bad music theme.
A lot of people are still using old 386s and 486s for routers, cheap servers, cheap home machines. This is why it is important to preserve backwards compatibility. In fact, I am typing this on a Cyrix 5x86/100 mhz (a 486 clone).
Huh?
I'm not involved with this project, I just found it a few days ago and it looks cool. It's about time we start using 3D for things besides shoot-em-up games!
This is exactly why this technology should not be implemented by any nation!! It just ups the ante and drives countries to develop even more lethal, disgusting, deadly weaponry. Why use puny nuclear weapons when a biological weapon will do 10x the damage? Of course, this is great news for the defense industry, who, ironically, is the biggest backer of this project.
We need to return democracy to the US and get rid of the corrupt fat cats!
45,000 lines of code just to connect to a pop3 or imap server and download some mail?? Sounds like it is getting a bit top heavy... :-0
I don't think many small-time businesses can compete with giants like Wal-Mart. A small business cannot afford to build a plant in southeast asia so they can pay workers 5 cents a day. Also, there are some people who just don't want to run a business -- why should they be financially punished for not pursuing a career in business administration? Different people have different talents. Why should a bad CEO be payed 200 times more than what a good salesperson or secretary earns?
(section about the UK cut-- I don't know anything about the history of Britain)
Thirdly, the author seems to ignore (unless I failed to notice it) the possibility that anyone has of gaining control of the "means of production" themselves. It is actually fairly easy to set up your own business with your own employees, or for a group of people to form exactly the kind of workers federation that the article proposes. Come up with a sensible plan and the capitalists happily lend you control of the means of production. Prove it effective and you get to keep control. On the other hand if you fail to make best use of the resources you are consuming then control will be taken off you and given to someone who can do better.
It is a common capitalist mistake to make efficiency equivalent to good. Leftists generally believe human life is more valuable than the dollar. Money is supposed to be a tool to serve us, we are not supposed to be serving money. This is not to say I believe we should give someone who does nothing the same pay as someone who works hard-- I just do not believe we should be slaves to production.
Considering this system from the point of view of the individual, I can't see any difference. Unless I want to be self-employed (with the same tradeoffs as today) I have to join one of these federations. Once in, I have to do what the currently appointed "managers" tell me to do. As an individual my vote will count for little, and if I am female a member of a minority then there is no reason to suppose that the other members of the collective will be any less bigoted towards me than a capitalist manager.
This is one of the (many) contradictions of "anarchism." Under a real socialist government minorities would be protected by law. Marx makes a number of good arguments against anarchism and "anarcho-socialism".. unfortunately most of these "anarcho-socialists" are too lazy to read Marx...
News for Christians. Stuff that we should pray for.
Innocents?!? They were criminals resisting arrest!
Just remove the setuid bit from as much as you can, clean out inetd and there shouldn't be too much to worry about.
Yes, Novell servers crash on a regular basis. Other OS's are more reliable.
These Falun people are outlawed because they are one of those groups who practice "religious" healing. You know, the type who refuse to take their kid to the doctor when he's dying because they think it is better to pray over him than to help him.
Like Windows NT on battleships? Yeah, you can tell there is a whole lot of intellect there. I'd trust the 3 year-old neighbor with a nuclear weapon before I'd trust the military.
I don't think security is much of a worry in modern sendmail versions. They seem secure, although probably not as secure as qmail or postfix.
They probably have chsh and passwd disabled for security reasons. (they have to be setuid root)
Actually I think I've heard a different interview than the other people on slashdot. He was on Talk of the Nation about a week ago-- it's a different program than the other slashdotters are talking about. If he was interviewed more than once I guess NPR really likes him. I wasn't impressed by him in the interview I heard but I'll take a look at his web page anyway-- I doubt he could be any WORSE than the current candidates.