(Hackers) can sense totalitarianism approaching from a distance, as animals can sense an approaching thunderstorm.
People can sense approaching thunderstorms too, all you have to do is look around. Watch the leaves on trees. Smell the air. If that fails, look for dark clouds in the sky.
If the technology that they have let us know about is able to pick up a signal generated by a plasma TV, I really wonder what they're keeping under their hats.
Most of us only half-believe the stories about echelon and massive gov't surveillance but things like this tell me that our fears may be more reasonable than we think.
You know, I still don't understand why large-scale deployments like this guy need ANY spyware checks.
Because not every company is employing a bunch of idiots. Some users actually NEED to do things that are out of the ordinary.
If anyone has a complaint, tough.
IT's job is to secure the computers, but not just for the sake of security. It's to secure them so that people can do work. If you only care about one part of your job, that's a really good way to lose the rest of it.
I recently read an article where Kinko's reimages computers after guests pay to use them. This can take 5-10 minutes. What the hell? Just set a limited user and recreate that one folder. What are their administrators thinking?
How about this? It's easier to write a script to automaticalls reimage the machines than it is to take support calls from thousands of offices for tens of thousands customers who cant get things done all because you wanted to be an asshole and ride a power trip to show people that you control the machines.
In response to the questions during the install, I chose the following. In almost every case I selected the default options:
? Choose daemon since redwood virtual has a network connection ? Select the default URL ? Select yes to notify ? Select Internet Site when asked for configuration ? Select postmaster as the root account ? Select default mydomain.org ? Select defaults for mail routing etc...
Be sure to remember to add a user account for the postmaster later. I?ll come back to this shortly.
If you know enough to alias postmaster to root, set your default domain and set up mail routing you sir are too a linux geek.
I've had mixed results with ECS. I had a K7S5A for almost three years and it wasn't as stable as it could have been, but it was the best $40 board I could get. I now have an ECS N2U400A, it is sweet. It's fast and stable and I have no complaints at all about it.
Maybe I'm just too old school for this, but looking at the cost of a new Athlon 64 3000 and motherboard is so low that I wouldn't want to compromise and get the Sempron.
I'd prefer to spend the extra $20 or so and get the better chip.
Wouldnt an athlon 64 without 64 bit capability be an athlon XP with a new core and new socket?
Yes.
One of my buddies has an Athlon 64 3000+, it runs 32bit code at roughly the same speed as my Athlon XP 2800+. Unless it's just keeping an eye cast toward the future so that they can crank up the speed, I don't get why it's important to move to the new core either.
LK
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Yes, just killing babies to harvest stem cells would be wrong, but the fact of the matter is we're killing embryos anyway in abortion, so why not turn that loss into another's gain who might otherwise die?
I've heard this before. My response is if I see someone get murdered in the street, his wallet isn't doing him any good; why shouldn't I take it to improve my life? Because you can't extract good from evil.
People can opt to have their organs donated; why can a mother not opt to donate her embryos or fetus's for such purposes?
In what other case is someone allowed to determine what happens to the remains of their victim?
Unlike slavery, there does not seem to be a loss unless the research was done in a highly unethical manner with little thought to the lives of those involved.
How many TVs are made in the US? Some, but very few. Why are we losing heavy industry and manufacturing jobs? Because we can't compete with slave labor. That doesn't mean that we should start using prison inmates to drive our economy.
I do not advocate cloning people, nor cloning for purposes of harvesting, but rather to use what we already have and not merely throw it away.
Oddly enough, I'm in favor of human cloning. I don't understand the opposition to it.
If you totally disagree with abortion of any form, then most likely you will totally disagree with what I've just said but otherwise, I see no reason to close down this avenue of technology as it can be persued in an ethical manner.
Abortion is murder. You can't get any good out of it. I understand that you may disagree, but people like me are what drive the conservative agenda.
LK
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Probably one of the most telling things about Bush during the debates came out during the last debate when he sidestepped the question on whether he would repeal the Roe vs Wade decision.
It was the only way he could respond without losing votes.
If he had supported Roe V Wade he would have lost the support of his base. If he had supported the reversal of Roe V Wade he would have lost the support of pro abortion "moderates".
Kerry only has to please one group on that issue. He has to say that he supports Roe V Wade. No pro lifers are voting for Kerry. So he doesn't have to worry about losing their votes.
I find it outragous that we'd just hand off the potentials of this to other countries; its a fact that someone is going to develop and bring this technology to fruitation and the first nations to seize upon it will be the ones who will most likely have the upperhand during atleast the first period of expansion within that industry.
China has slave labor. As a result of that, they can produce many goods more cheaply than anyone else in the world. I'm sure you're not going to suggest that we do the same thing, are you?
Some things have too high of a cost, regardless of the benefits.
LK
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There are other things that are probably more polarizing than either of those. I suspect that except for a few other types of single-issue voters, the election will be decided mostly on whether one thought Bush's foreign policy was reasonable - in the sense of trumping up justification for overthrowing the government of some country that was no particular threat to us.
Gee, you're letting your bias seep through huh?
Seriously, I understand the point of view that says this election will hinge on the Iraq war. I disagree.
With the exception of people who have children in the Persian Gulf, that war isn't a huge concern.
Both major parties are made up of big block of single issue voters.
Abortion voters. The democrats have to take a stance against any restriction of the practice. Republicans have to pass any restrictions they can.
Everyone realizes that the only way the landscape can possibly change with regard to this issue is a change in the balance of power in the Supreme Court. Justices will most likely remain on the bench until a President who is in line with their politics is in office. The way the balance of power will change is if a justice dies while an opposition President is in office.
This issue is so explosive because the people who vote on it WILL leave a party if they feel betrayed.
Gun control voters. This is more of a volitile issue for Republicans than Democrats because once again. The Republicans have to worry about 3-4 million members of their base getting up and leaving the table if they vote wrong in Congress. The Democrats' only real peril with regard to this issue is pissing off too much of the opposition base, like they did in 1994.
Greenies. These are the people who only vote Democrat if there is no other choice. These are the people that the Democrats are trying to steal away from Nader.
Tax Cuts. This is more of an 'icing on the cake' issue than anything else. People aren't going to switch their vote just based on the minor details of a tax cut. Republicans want to cut everyone's taxes. Democrats want to cut taxes for people making under $200k annually. I suppose that only time will tell who's right, but this isn't really anyone's primary issue.
Foreign Policy voters are only slightly more of a factor than Tax Cut voters. It's another 'icing on the cake' issue. People who were leaning away from Bush anyway may use it for the last piece of justification that they need.
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(Hackers) can sense totalitarianism approaching from a distance, as animals can sense an approaching thunderstorm.
People can sense approaching thunderstorms too, all you have to do is look around. Watch the leaves on trees. Smell the air. If that fails, look for dark clouds in the sky.
LK
I'm sure that a part of the decision was not making Linux more attractive for low to mid end servers.
It's already less expensive than Windows, if they charge more for dual or quad cores, the will really jack up the Windows TCO.
Microsoft is a business, they want to make money. Sometimes you can make more money by selling things at a lower price.
LK
If a third party candidate with moderate charisma ran under a specific set of issues, he or she could generate a lot of steam [1].
WTF do you mean "if"? Perot did that in 1992.
LK
They're spread throughout the country, though. It doesn't matter what they believe...they aren't a swing state.
Tell that to Gore. If he had been able to woo Nader voters in Florida, he'd be the president.
LK
If the technology that they have let us know about is able to pick up a signal generated by a plasma TV, I really wonder what they're keeping under their hats.
Most of us only half-believe the stories about echelon and massive gov't surveillance but things like this tell me that our fears may be more reasonable than we think.
LK
You know, I still don't understand why large-scale deployments like this guy need ANY spyware checks.
Because not every company is employing a bunch of idiots. Some users actually NEED to do things that are out of the ordinary.
If anyone has a complaint, tough.
IT's job is to secure the computers, but not just for the sake of security. It's to secure them so that people can do work. If you only care about one part of your job, that's a really good way to lose the rest of it.
I recently read an article where Kinko's reimages computers after guests pay to use them. This can take 5-10 minutes. What the hell? Just set a limited user and recreate that one folder. What are their administrators thinking?
How about this? It's easier to write a script to automaticalls reimage the machines than it is to take support calls from thousands of offices for tens of thousands customers who cant get things done all because you wanted to be an asshole and ride a power trip to show people that you control the machines.
LK
Hell yes. That would be fantastic.
LK
Lord was cool. I used to like laying the bone to Violet.
But Usurper was my favorite.
Pimp Wars was cool too.
I used to wait until 12:01 to start calling BBSes to make sure I got my BRE, LORD, and Usurper turn in early.
Damn I miss those days.
LK
Let's see.
? Choose daemon since redwood virtual has a network connection
? Select the default URL
? Select yes to notify
? Select Internet Site when asked for configuration
? Select postmaster as the root account
? Select default mydomain.org
? Select defaults for mail routing etc...
Be sure to remember to add a user account for the postmaster later. I?ll come back to this shortly.
If you know enough to alias postmaster to root, set your default domain and set up mail routing you sir are too a linux geek.
LK
This will help the tech reach the "critical mass" much sooner
Maybe after gmail is out of beta and more people can sign up for it.
LK
There's a MSI logo on the ad in the papers, but when I went to the Concord Fry's today they said it was a print mistake and wouldn't honor it.
Then you didn't make enough noise. Once you use the words "State Attorney General" and "Better Business Bureau", most places will knuckle under.
Besides, unless you are a Gentoo user, what the heck do you need that much CPU for anyway?
Compiles. Games. Database queries. Emulation.
It doesn't matter what I'm using them for. The point is I'm using them.
LK
I've had mixed results with ECS. I had a K7S5A for almost three years and it wasn't as stable as it could have been, but it was the best $40 board I could get. I now have an ECS N2U400A, it is sweet. It's fast and stable and I have no complaints at all about it.
LK
Maybe I'm just too old school for this, but looking at the cost of a new Athlon 64 3000 and motherboard is so low that I wouldn't want to compromise and get the Sempron.
I'd prefer to spend the extra $20 or so and get the better chip.
LK
Wouldnt an athlon 64 without 64 bit capability be an athlon XP with a new core and new socket?
Yes.
One of my buddies has an Athlon 64 3000+, it runs 32bit code at roughly the same speed as my Athlon XP 2800+. Unless it's just keeping an eye cast toward the future so that they can crank up the speed, I don't get why it's important to move to the new core either.
LK
Yes, just killing babies to harvest stem cells would be wrong, but the fact of the matter is we're killing embryos anyway in abortion, so why not turn that loss into another's gain who might otherwise die?
I've heard this before. My response is if I see someone get murdered in the street, his wallet isn't doing him any good; why shouldn't I take it to improve my life? Because you can't extract good from evil.
People can opt to have their organs donated; why can a mother not opt to donate her embryos or fetus's for such purposes?
In what other case is someone allowed to determine what happens to the remains of their victim?
Unlike slavery, there does not seem to be a loss unless the research was done in a highly unethical manner with little thought to the lives of those involved.
How many TVs are made in the US? Some, but very few. Why are we losing heavy industry and manufacturing jobs? Because we can't compete with slave labor. That doesn't mean that we should start using prison inmates to drive our economy.
I do not advocate cloning people, nor cloning for purposes of harvesting, but rather to use what we already have and not merely throw it away.
Oddly enough, I'm in favor of human cloning. I don't understand the opposition to it.
If you totally disagree with abortion of any form, then most likely you will totally disagree with what I've just said but otherwise, I see no reason to close down this avenue of technology as it can be persued in an ethical manner.
Abortion is murder. You can't get any good out of it. I understand that you may disagree, but people like me are what drive the conservative agenda.
LK
Probably one of the most telling things about Bush during the debates came out during the last debate when he sidestepped the question on whether he would repeal the Roe vs Wade decision.
It was the only way he could respond without losing votes.
If he had supported Roe V Wade he would have lost the support of his base. If he had supported the reversal of Roe V Wade he would have lost the support of pro abortion "moderates".
Kerry only has to please one group on that issue. He has to say that he supports Roe V Wade. No pro lifers are voting for Kerry. So he doesn't have to worry about losing their votes.
I find it outragous that we'd just hand off the potentials of this to other countries; its a fact that someone is going to develop and bring this technology to fruitation and the first nations to seize upon it will be the ones who will most likely have the upperhand during atleast the first period of expansion within that industry.
China has slave labor. As a result of that, they can produce many goods more cheaply than anyone else in the world. I'm sure you're not going to suggest that we do the same thing, are you?
Some things have too high of a cost, regardless of the benefits.
LK
There are other things that are probably more polarizing than either of those. I suspect that except for a few other types of single-issue voters, the election will be decided mostly on whether one thought Bush's foreign policy was reasonable - in the sense of trumping up justification for overthrowing the government of some country that was no particular threat to us.
Gee, you're letting your bias seep through huh?
Seriously, I understand the point of view that says this election will hinge on the Iraq war. I disagree.
With the exception of people who have children in the Persian Gulf, that war isn't a huge concern.
Both major parties are made up of big block of single issue voters.
Abortion voters. The democrats have to take a stance against any restriction of the practice. Republicans have to pass any restrictions they can.
Everyone realizes that the only way the landscape can possibly change with regard to this issue is a change in the balance of power in the Supreme Court. Justices will most likely remain on the bench until a President who is in line with their politics is in office. The way the balance of power will change is if a justice dies while an opposition President is in office.
This issue is so explosive because the people who vote on it WILL leave a party if they feel betrayed.
Gun control voters. This is more of a volitile issue for Republicans than Democrats because once again. The Republicans have to worry about 3-4 million members of their base getting up and leaving the table if they vote wrong in Congress. The Democrats' only real peril with regard to this issue is pissing off too much of the opposition base, like they did in 1994.
Greenies. These are the people who only vote Democrat if there is no other choice. These are the people that the Democrats are trying to steal away from Nader.
Tax Cuts. This is more of an 'icing on the cake' issue than anything else. People aren't going to switch their vote just based on the minor details of a tax cut. Republicans want to cut everyone's taxes. Democrats want to cut taxes for people making under $200k annually. I suppose that only time will tell who's right, but this isn't really anyone's primary issue.
Foreign Policy voters are only slightly more of a factor than Tax Cut voters. It's another 'icing on the cake' issue. People who were leaning away from Bush anyway may use it for the last piece of justification that they need.
LK
i am. and your girlfriend cheats on you.
But...your mom promised me she'd be faithful.
boo hoo
What is the Progressive breaking point?
Ironically, their brakings points are the same as ours (Conservative Republicans).
Abortion. Gun Control. Tax Cuts.
They're just on the other side.
All of the other issues that they pay lip service to don't really mean anything to them.
LK
idiots. wait and watch. this will be made a troll.
Wow, -1, Troll. You must be a psychic.
LK
I can rescue my system from my Mandrake CD. At the menu type in "rescue" and you get access to everything you need.
I had to do this once when I had some directory corruption.
LK
I think I'd call it "ski boots".
LK
TiVo for radio! RaVio? RaTiVo? RaDiVo?
TV with io mixed in, = TiVo
AM with io mixed in, = AiMo
FM with io mixed in, = FiMo
XM with io mixed in, = XiMo
LK
I wouldn't call it hacking. More like reverse engineering the old service and building a new.
That's pretty much what the original hackers did. Took existing things and changed them to suit their needs.
LK
Wheel Base.
LK