Skill doesn't cost very much in terms of money to aquire.
The people who can bring down systems are the same people needed to protect them. It's in a way kind of like the wild west, but there are no black hats and white hats only dark and light grey.
The difference between a hacker, and a cracker is what they do with their skills. One man with a rifle is a hunter, another man with an identical rifle is a murderer. What you do is more important than what you are capable of doing.
6 months from now when the l0p(Lords of Pudding) cracks Jello's web site for publicity it won't be a well funded attack. It'll be a couple of rinky dink high school kids who allowed their talent to be used for non-productive ends.
Hacking has nothing to do with who's the best funded. It's about getting done what you need to get done no matter how you need to do it.
I'm sure that every hacker here has done some things that at least border on cracking at one time or another. Not that there was necessarily any malicious intent, it's just doing what needs to get done.
It's the script kiddies who've (at least in recent years) given us a bad name. It's the assholes WhO TyP3 3v3rY7hiNg LiK3 7hIs who make us look like a bunch of pimple faced rejects before the masses.
One thing that makes many hackers fertile recruiting ground is the total lack of respect for the ability and value of a good hacker. When a hacker has to stand by and watch a brainless marketting suit make millions for sitting around and thinking up crap like "Got Milk?" and "Think Different" it can make him want to make an undeniable statement and force people to recognize him. Also how many of us would be willing to pass up a pile of cash if someone offered it in exchange for getting access to Company X's fincancial records?
I've never caused any damage to any company's computer systems, just like the vast majority of my fellow slashdotters, but in a materialistic society how many of us would pass up the chance to make big pay checks if we did?
RAM prices are skyrocketing because of the earthquake in Taiwan. When the factories aren't permetted or able to run the supply drops. When the supply drops people want to buy as much as they can so that they aren't left high and dry when the supply disappears.
With a shorter supply and a greater demand ONLY A FOOL wouldn't ask mor efor that product.
Taking out an ICBM under controlled circumstances, doesn't mean that we're unconditionally safe by any means.
In order to get around such a system more sophisticated decoys could be used.
Can an anti-missile missile be defeated by an anti-anti-missile missle? This doesn't impress me. What will impress me is rail gun technology. Ground mounted or in space rail guns are the ticket.
People are less likely to change after they become comfortable with something. How many people stay in abusive marriages because they just can't bring themselves to make a change.
I don't think in metric outside of a chemistry lab. I weigh 205 pounds I had to fire up a calculator to figure out that I weigh 92.9kg.
I'm 6'1" tall. I had to do some calculating to narrow that down to approx 1.8 meters.
What stops politicians from "Forcing" the US to change is this. Old people are uncomfortable with learning something new. After 70 years of English measurements I don't blame them. Old people also vote more than any other demographic group. Universally people who propose things that the old people don't want don't get in office. People who do things that the old people don't want they don't stay in office.
LK
Re:Blue Steel Distribution + A few more ideas.
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Some of these will only be understood by people interested in firearms, but I couldn't help myself.
Instead of Run Levels Blue Steel should have "Conditions"
Condition 3 Boots to XDM for an Xwindows log in. Condition 2 Boots in multi user text only mode Condition 1 Single user text only mode. Condition FIRE Rebbots the system.
You must be fingerprinted, photographed and pay a $250 per year license "Fee" to be able to put it on a computer that is capable of fully automaticly booting itself (certain types of APM)
Restrictions on RISC based computers running Blue Steel as destructive devices (like street sweepers and strykers) which only serve the purpose enabling people to "Out Compute" the FBI and police.
Laws which limit the amount of ram allowed into a system running Blue Steel Distro because "High Capacity" DIMMS allow you more room to run processes to "shoot".
Charles Schumer and Bill Bradley introduce legislation making it a federal felony to give access to a desktop computer running the Blue Steel Distro to anyone under 18, or 21 on a laptop.
Addition of/dev/magazine which acts as a queue where processes wait before they actually get shot in the event of a multiple process "shoting".
Addition os/sbin/reload which is a script that stops all services and then restarts them.
Development of a Network Report Analysis program (NRA), which is similar to SATAN but points out the security flaws in other distros.
I have to get back to work or I'd keep this up all day.
I remember paying nearly $300 for the VictorMaxx "VR" HMD. I was in college then, I got situated in my hammock and put on the HMD expecting to get dizzy while playing flight unlimited. It was a disappointment to say the least I felt like I was looking at a Sega Game Gear at the end of a shoebox. I took that SOB back a few days later.
>>On the other hand, to use a similar school analogy, you sound like a 10th grade nerd who feels he has to memorize 30 digits of PI in order to prove how smart he is.
3.14159 Is all I have memorized. I do however have PI to 1 million digits at home somewhere.
>>The point is usability, not making things as difficult as possible. Life is too short to have struggle with things that are better done by automation. Maybe you find configuring computers fun, but personally I enjoy using and programming them far more.
Configing them is a necessary evil. Through configing you learn the things that are necessary to use and costomize them. Although I can dabble in C++ I can usually find code and programs already written by other people that can do the things I need done.
>>In any case, your and my definition of 'install' is irrelevent if we're talking about average users installing Linux.
Linux, like *BSD, and even WinNT probably should never be for "Average Users". When you dumb a product down quality issues arrise. Imagine what Win9x could have been if they didn't have to keep backwards compatibility with DOS and Win3.1 apps.
>>Average users expect their computer to "just work" after installation.
The average user is a moron who only wants to get on AOL and download a little porn when the wife or parents aren't looking. The Average user wants his computer to read his mind and do what he wants it to do and not what he actally tells it to do.
It's a waste of finite resources to concentrate on making Linux easy for these idiots. That time and talent should be spent on making the OS more stable and powerful.
>>Personally, manually editing setup files and chasing down drivers got old a long time ago.
Looking for device drivers are a bitch, I concede that, but manually editing *.conf files can be a bit tedious but it is the best way to get a good understanding of what's going on. You sound like the 3rd grader who says "Why should I learn the multiplication tables? That's too hard. I can just use a calculator!"
You must understand how to do things the hard way before you can take shortcuts and do them the easy way.
When I was a kid I saw something like this at Sears, or JC Penny or some other department store. But, they had a floor model 21" TV Mag'd up to something like 40". It was Kinda cool because it made the picture bigger for like $100 or something, but the down side was that it was like DSCAN LCD display. You had to be DIRECTLY in front of it to see the image clearly.
I'd rather save my cheddar and my time to do some other worthwhile upgrade to my system.
I'm still waiting for the eye glasses that simulate a 60" display that those bastards from Beyond 2000 promised us.
>>How do they convince intelligent geeks that, after all, the long-term assurance of privacy and personal liberties isn't that important.
Seemingly reasonable people can disagree on topics from Abortion, to Gun Control, to Capital Punishment. People can see things in totally different ways. I would never help take away privacy and freedom but if I won the lottery I'd donate tons of case to my political causes. There are other people who'd never donate a cent to the groups that support my side of certain political issues who'd think that they are helping keep the world safe by eliminating privacy.
A person can be brainwashed into thinking anything as long as you indoctrinate them for long enough or if you get to them when they are ripe.
>>Please don't take quotes out of context. I'm including a little more of the original post for comparison:
I understand that what I quoted was a part of a larger statement, BUT it was the only part that was relevant to the issue that I was raising.
>>Of course, I happen to believe that Steve Forbes' politics are based on a sick cult of personality that follows extremely wealthy people around in a nation which values free market economics above all else.
This exactly what I mean. This is just as inane as when people on the right (the same side I'm on) criticize the president's policies because of his personal flaws (he has many) instead of pointing out the flaws in his decisions. It's not fair, it's not right and in the end it only makes you look worst than the one who ou are slamming.
>>Making Linux truly easy to install with a wide variety of driver support will do a lot more.
More of this crap again. What you see are a collection of valid responses to the "Linux is too hard to install for the masses complaint".
Linux isn't "hard" to install. If you've never done something before, sure it's hard. I had more trouble the first time I installed Win95 than I did the first time I installed RedHat 4.2.
>>Remember that Windows has sold literally 10s of millions of Win/95 and Win/98 upgrades. When upgrading, the O/S redetects all the hardware.
Utter horseshit. Windows has the same limitation as any other OS, it can only detect devices that it has drivers for. It can't redetect "all the hardware" if it doesn't know what it has found. That's why the unknown devices exist in the device manager. Because windows doens't know a 3d card from a network card if it doesn't have the correct driver to use it.
Device drivers is a completely different issue than ease of install. If you can't figure out how to install an OS on your PC, maybe you shouldn't be using it.
I used a UNIX system before I ever seriously used a DOS system. Maybe that's why I was able to pick up on certain concepts, but the point is still the same. If you can't master the installation of an OS on an x86 PC, then maybe that OS is over your head.
I couldn't do poop with an RS/6000 in terms of OS installation, but put an Athlon in front of me and I'll make it roll over and do tricks.
The author of this article didn't even give the installation of a new OS as much attention as most people give to washing their cars. It's no wonder that he found it so difficult.
He kicks around for a while and wonders off to eat some soup. He fiddles for a while and goes to check his e-mail.
If he'd sit the hell down and actually concentrate on what he's doing maybe it wouldn't be "Sooooooo Hard."
What happens when Win98 doesn't know what hardware it is? Say for example you have a video card that doesn't have built in support in 98. Like oh, a SiS 6326 chipset AGP card. (Speaking from personal experience here) Win98 will detect it as a "PCI VGA Video Device" or somesuch. How does that help in linux?
There should NOT be an "Idiot Distro" for linux. You can't get an insurance quote on your car if you don't know the VIN number/Engine Type and other related Data. Why should your computer be some appliance that any moron can sit down at and use?
When you dumb it down, you kill it. The idiot proof measures take up finite resources that end up not getting used for functionality.
If you don't know how to find out what video card or network card you have, maybe you should be installing ANY OS.
>>Steve Forbes is a trust-funded, socially conservative wingnut
Wingnut? Why because he thinks that we know better how to spend our money than the federal government does?
Since when is it a sin to have a rich father? His merits as a businessman are what matter, he has shown that he has the ability to make money.
I too have problems with him, but if you must attack him (or anyone else) please base those attacks on reality and real issues. Please elevate it to more than "I don't believe what he believes so he's an asshole".
LK
Re:Dude, Daemons/Deamons/Devils are MYTHICAL
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If you think for a moment about religion in general you can gain some insight into the origins of Demons/Devils/Gods and their appearance in our minds' eyes.
The horned god of the witches gained his appearance from various creatures in nature. He had arms and legs like a human. He had horns like many of the male animals throughout nature. He had breasts like our nurturing mothers.
Why? Because that is what early people saw everyday. If God created nature and everything in it, it would stand to reason that he'd leave pieces of himself in many of his creations. So god gave his horns to the Ram and Goat. He gave us his basic physical morphology(bi-pedal).
When Christianity rose to power they co-opted many things from other religions (like Celebrating Christmas the week of the winter solstice and Easter near the Passover) and demonized many other aspects of those same religions. That's why you've seen the image of satan as a horned man with hoofs. In the middle east and around the world there were groups of people who held the snake (serpent) as a sacred animal. What better method to ease them of such heresy than to make the serpent an instrument of satan?
What we imagine as God or the Devil stems from what the human mind is able to concieve and is a perfect illustration of our intellectual limitations.
I think that all of the guys from Scooby Doo (Excape Scrappy) had to be Gay. Fred was a big muscle bound sissy. If I were in the mystery machine, my number one goal would have been to kick a 3-way with Daphne and Velma.
>>Traditionally, the drive manufacturers sell their hottest drives only with a SCSI interface.
Because only SCSI can handle the throughput. It's possible to get 120 Mb/Sec sustained with SCSI. That ain't bloody likely with any forseeable form of IDE.
>>Currently, the 10k rpm drives aren't available with IDE interfaces simple because the manufacturers want to maintain a two-tiered pricing structure.
10,000 rpm rives are so fast that it would be a waste of money to make them in IDE.
They could continue to do so if they priced them at the same level as the SCSI drives. If you're right and they performance would be the same, people would pay for it.
>>But the lower speed drives perform equally well in both SCSI and IDE versions.
Older/Slower SCSI devices are on par with IDE. A perfect way to illustrate this is with older Macintoshes. When companies like Sonnet began to release G3 upgrades for Nubus macs one of the Magazines (Mac World/Addict/Or something I don't remember) did a test with MacBench. The SCSI disks on 4 year old NuBus Macs outperformed the IDE disks of last years PCI G3s.
>>SCSI is overrated, I get 8 MB/s sustained with my wimpy little 6 GB UDMA 33 drive.
This is like saying the sex is overrated. After all a bottle of lotion and a nudie mag will cost less than one Christmas or Birthday with a girlfriend. Right?
SCSI is much better than IDE or EIDE or UDMA33. A nice defragged 7200 RPM SCSI2 drive will pound the snot out of a UDMA 33. Wide SCSI2 under similar circumstances will pound a UDMA 66 into the ground.
At home and at work I have multiple computers some with SCSI, some with IDE there is no comparison between the two. Watch a computer with a PII-300 and an IDE hard drive boot slower than a P-233 with an UWSCSI2 and you'll see what I mean. I run Red Hat 6 on both systems and the P-233 with 32mb boots faster than a PII-300 with 64.
Apps launch faster with SCSI. Disk I/O is so much better with SCSI that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that it's faster. If you can afford it SCSI is the way to go.
Paper will never crash or lock up. I can read a stack of papers in the bath-tub. I can print out the exact order in which I need to update files while I do repeated reboots. Paper is surge and blackout proof. In an emergency I can use the corners of a paper to clean steak particles from my teeth or dust from under my fingernails.
I've never folded a monitor into a hella cool airplane.
I get most of my daily information ration from what I see onscreen, but the important or amusing things that I see, I print out. You can't tack a monitor up to the wall.You can't slip a monitor under the boss' desk or onto a co-workers desk when nobody is looking so that you can stealthily pass the buck.
It'll be a LONG time before we all work in paperless offices.
Perhaps it has not been absolute rule since 400 years ago, BUT until relatively recently (taking the country's ENTIRE history into account) the "Royals" got almost anything that they wanted.
After all, it was only 223 years ago that the actions of King George and reactions to them sparked a war between our two countries.
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Skill doesn't cost very much in terms of money to aquire.
The people who can bring down systems are the same people needed to protect them. It's in a way kind of like the wild west, but there are no black hats and white hats only dark and light grey.
The difference between a hacker, and a cracker is what they do with their skills. One man with a rifle is a hunter, another man with an identical rifle is a murderer. What you do is more important than what you are capable of doing.
6 months from now when the l0p(Lords of Pudding) cracks Jello's web site for publicity it won't be a well funded attack. It'll be a couple of rinky dink high school kids who allowed their talent to be used for non-productive ends.
Hacking has nothing to do with who's the best funded. It's about getting done what you need to get done no matter how you need to do it.
I'm sure that every hacker here has done some things that at least border on cracking at one time or another. Not that there was necessarily any malicious intent, it's just doing what needs to get done.
It's the script kiddies who've (at least in recent years) given us a bad name. It's the assholes WhO TyP3 3v3rY7hiNg LiK3 7hIs who make us look like a bunch of pimple faced rejects before the masses.
One thing that makes many hackers fertile recruiting ground is the total lack of respect for the ability and value of a good hacker. When a hacker has to stand by and watch a brainless marketting suit make millions for sitting around and thinking up crap like "Got Milk?" and "Think Different" it can make him want to make an undeniable statement and force people to recognize him. Also how many of us would be willing to pass up a pile of cash if someone offered it in exchange for getting access to Company X's fincancial records?
I've never caused any damage to any company's computer systems, just like the vast majority of my fellow slashdotters, but in a materialistic society how many of us would pass up the chance to make big pay checks if we did?
LK
RAM prices are skyrocketing because of the earthquake in Taiwan. When the factories aren't permetted or able to run the supply drops. When the supply drops people want to buy as much as they can so that they aren't left high and dry when the supply disappears.
With a shorter supply and a greater demand ONLY A FOOL wouldn't ask mor efor that product.
LK
Taking out an ICBM under controlled circumstances, doesn't mean that we're unconditionally safe by any means.
In order to get around such a system more sophisticated decoys could be used.
Can an anti-missile missile be defeated by an anti-anti-missile missle? This doesn't impress me. What will impress me is rail gun technology. Ground mounted or in space rail guns are the ticket.
LK
The article is about quantum encryption, NOT quantum computing. The article was about using photons to securely transmit a one time pad using photons.
Quantum encryption doesn't require quantum computers.
If you'd read the article, you'd know that.
LK
People are less likely to change after they become comfortable with something. How many people stay in abusive marriages because they just can't bring themselves to make a change.
I don't think in metric outside of a chemistry lab. I weigh 205 pounds I had to fire up a calculator to figure out that I weigh 92.9kg.
I'm 6'1" tall. I had to do some calculating to narrow that down to approx 1.8 meters.
What stops politicians from "Forcing" the US to change is this. Old people are uncomfortable with learning something new. After 70 years of English measurements I don't blame them. Old people also vote more than any other demographic group. Universally people who propose things that the old people don't want don't get in office. People who do things that the old people don't want they don't stay in office.
LK
Some of these will only be understood by people interested in firearms, but I couldn't help myself.
/dev/magazine which acts as a queue where processes wait before they actually get shot in the event of a multiple process "shoting".
/sbin/reload which is a script that stops all services and then restarts them.
Instead of Run Levels Blue Steel should have "Conditions"
Condition 3 Boots to XDM for an Xwindows log in.
Condition 2 Boots in multi user text only mode
Condition 1 Single user text only mode.
Condition FIRE Rebbots the system.
You must be fingerprinted, photographed and pay a $250 per year license "Fee" to be able to put it on a computer that is capable of fully automaticly booting itself (certain types of APM)
Restrictions on RISC based computers running Blue Steel as destructive devices (like street sweepers and strykers) which only serve the purpose enabling people to "Out Compute" the FBI and police.
Laws which limit the amount of ram allowed into a system running Blue Steel Distro because "High Capacity" DIMMS allow you more room to run processes to "shoot".
Charles Schumer and Bill Bradley introduce legislation making it a federal felony to give access to a desktop computer running the Blue Steel Distro to anyone under 18, or 21 on a laptop.
Addition of
Addition os
Development of a Network Report Analysis program (NRA), which is similar to SATAN but points out the security flaws in other distros.
I have to get back to work or I'd keep this up all day.
LK
Real shooters don't take the shot unless they know they are going to hit the mark.
However in any linux distro if you type in the wrong PID when you "kill" you might stop the wrong process.
LK
I remember paying nearly $300 for the VictorMaxx "VR" HMD. I was in college then, I got situated in my hammock and put on the HMD expecting to get dizzy while playing flight unlimited. It was a disappointment to say the least I felt like I was looking at a Sega Game Gear at the end of a shoebox. I took that SOB back a few days later.
LK
>>On the other hand, to use a similar school analogy, you sound like a 10th grade nerd who feels he has to memorize 30 digits of PI in order to prove how smart he is.
3.14159 Is all I have memorized. I do however have PI to 1 million digits at home somewhere.
>>The point is usability, not making things as difficult as possible. Life is too short to have struggle with things that are better done by automation. Maybe you find configuring computers fun, but personally I enjoy using and programming them far more.
Configing them is a necessary evil. Through configing you learn the things that are necessary to use and costomize them. Although I can dabble in C++ I can usually find code and programs already written by other people that can do the things I need done.
LK
>>In any case, your and my definition of 'install' is irrelevent if we're talking about average users installing Linux.
Linux, like *BSD, and even WinNT probably should never be for "Average Users". When you dumb a product down quality issues arrise. Imagine what Win9x could have been if they didn't have to keep backwards compatibility with DOS and Win3.1 apps.
>>Average users expect their computer to "just work" after installation.
The average user is a moron who only wants to get on AOL and download a little porn when the wife or parents aren't looking. The Average user wants his computer to read his mind and do what he wants it to do and not what he actally tells it to do.
It's a waste of finite resources to concentrate on making Linux easy for these idiots. That time and talent should be spent on making the OS more stable and powerful.
>>Personally, manually editing setup files and chasing down drivers got old a long time ago.
Looking for device drivers are a bitch, I concede that, but manually editing *.conf files can be a bit tedious but it is the best way to get a good understanding of what's going on. You sound like the 3rd grader who says "Why should I learn the multiplication tables? That's too hard. I can just use a calculator!"
You must understand how to do things the hard way before you can take shortcuts and do them the easy way.
LK
When I was a kid I saw something like this at Sears, or JC Penny or some other department store. But, they had a floor model 21" TV Mag'd up to something like 40". It was Kinda cool because it made the picture bigger for like $100 or something, but the down side was that it was like DSCAN LCD display. You had to be DIRECTLY in front of it to see the image clearly.
I'd rather save my cheddar and my time to do some other worthwhile upgrade to my system.
I'm still waiting for the eye glasses that simulate a 60" display that those bastards from Beyond 2000 promised us.
LK
>>How do they convince intelligent geeks that, after all, the long-term assurance of privacy and personal liberties isn't that important.
Seemingly reasonable people can disagree on topics from Abortion, to Gun Control, to Capital Punishment. People can see things in totally different ways. I would never help take away privacy and freedom but if I won the lottery I'd donate tons of case to my political causes. There are other people who'd never donate a cent to the groups that support my side of certain political issues who'd think that they are helping keep the world safe by eliminating privacy.
A person can be brainwashed into thinking anything as long as you indoctrinate them for long enough or if you get to them when they are ripe.
LK
>>Please don't take quotes out of context. I'm including a little more of the original post for comparison:
I understand that what I quoted was a part of a larger statement, BUT it was the only part that was relevant to the issue that I was raising.
>>Of course, I happen to believe that Steve Forbes' politics are based on a sick cult of personality that follows extremely wealthy people around in a nation which values free market economics above all else.
This exactly what I mean. This is just as inane as when people on the right (the same side I'm on) criticize the president's policies because of his personal flaws (he has many) instead of pointing out the flaws in his decisions. It's not fair, it's not right and in the end it only makes you look worst than the one who ou are slamming.
LK
>>Making Linux truly easy to install with a wide variety of driver support will do a lot more.
More of this crap again. What you see are a collection of valid responses to the "Linux is too hard to install for the masses complaint".
Linux isn't "hard" to install. If you've never done something before, sure it's hard. I had more trouble the first time I installed Win95 than I did the first time I installed RedHat 4.2.
>>Remember that Windows has sold literally 10s of millions of Win/95 and Win/98 upgrades. When upgrading, the O/S redetects all the hardware.
Utter horseshit. Windows has the same limitation as any other OS, it can only detect devices that it has drivers for. It can't redetect "all the hardware" if it doesn't know what it has found. That's why the unknown devices exist in the device manager. Because windows doens't know a 3d card from a network card if it doesn't have the correct driver to use it.
Device drivers is a completely different issue than ease of install. If you can't figure out how to install an OS on your PC, maybe you shouldn't be using it.
I used a UNIX system before I ever seriously used a DOS system. Maybe that's why I was able to pick up on certain concepts, but the point is still the same. If you can't master the installation of an OS on an x86 PC, then maybe that OS is over your head.
I couldn't do poop with an RS/6000 in terms of OS installation, but put an Athlon in front of me and I'll make it roll over and do tricks.
LK
The author of this article didn't even give the installation of a new OS as much attention as most people give to washing their cars. It's no wonder that he found it so difficult.
He kicks around for a while and wonders off to eat some soup. He fiddles for a while and goes to check his e-mail.
If he'd sit the hell down and actually concentrate on what he's doing maybe it wouldn't be "Sooooooo Hard."
LK
'Scuse me?
What happens when Win98 doesn't know what hardware it is? Say for example you have a video card that doesn't have built in support in 98. Like oh, a SiS 6326 chipset AGP card. (Speaking from personal experience here) Win98 will detect it as a "PCI VGA Video Device" or somesuch. How does that help in linux?
There should NOT be an "Idiot Distro" for linux. You can't get an insurance quote on your car if you don't know the VIN number/Engine Type and other related Data. Why should your computer be some appliance that any moron can sit down at and use?
When you dumb it down, you kill it. The idiot proof measures take up finite resources that end up not getting used for functionality.
If you don't know how to find out what video card or network card you have, maybe you should be installing ANY OS.
LK
>>Steve Forbes is a trust-funded, socially conservative wingnut
Wingnut? Why because he thinks that we know better how to spend our money than the federal government does?
Since when is it a sin to have a rich father? His merits as a businessman are what matter, he has shown that he has the ability to make money.
I too have problems with him, but if you must attack him (or anyone else) please base those attacks on reality and real issues. Please elevate it to more than "I don't believe what he believes so he's an asshole".
LK
If you think for a moment about religion in general you can gain some insight into the origins of Demons/Devils/Gods and their appearance in our minds' eyes.
The horned god of the witches gained his appearance from various creatures in nature. He had arms and legs like a human. He had horns like many of the male animals throughout nature. He had breasts like our nurturing mothers.
Why? Because that is what early people saw everyday. If God created nature and everything in it, it would stand to reason that he'd leave pieces of himself in many of his creations. So god gave his horns to the Ram and Goat. He gave us his basic physical morphology(bi-pedal).
When Christianity rose to power they co-opted many things from other religions (like Celebrating Christmas the week of the winter solstice and Easter near the Passover) and demonized many other aspects of those same religions. That's why you've seen the image of satan as a horned man with hoofs. In the middle east and around the world there were groups of people who held the snake (serpent) as a sacred animal. What better method to ease them of such heresy than to make the serpent an instrument of satan?
What we imagine as God or the Devil stems from what the human mind is able to concieve and is a perfect illustration of our intellectual limitations.
LK
I think that all of the guys from Scooby Doo (Excape Scrappy) had to be Gay. Fred was a big muscle bound sissy. If I were in the mystery machine, my number one goal would have been to kick a 3-way with Daphne and Velma.
LK
>>Traditionally, the drive manufacturers sell their hottest drives only with a SCSI interface.
Because only SCSI can handle the throughput. It's possible to get 120 Mb/Sec sustained with SCSI. That ain't bloody likely with any forseeable form of IDE.
>>Currently, the 10k rpm drives aren't available with IDE interfaces simple because the manufacturers want to maintain a two-tiered pricing structure.
10,000 rpm rives are so fast that it would be a waste of money to make them in IDE.
They could continue to do so if they priced them at the same level as the SCSI drives. If you're right and they performance would be the same, people would pay for it.
>>But the lower speed drives perform equally well in both SCSI and IDE versions.
Older/Slower SCSI devices are on par with IDE. A perfect way to illustrate this is with older Macintoshes. When companies like Sonnet began to release G3 upgrades for Nubus macs one of the Magazines (Mac World/Addict/Or something I don't remember) did a test with MacBench. The SCSI disks on 4 year old NuBus Macs outperformed the IDE disks of last years PCI G3s.
LK
>>SCSI is overrated, I get 8 MB/s sustained with my wimpy little 6 GB UDMA 33 drive.
This is like saying the sex is overrated. After all a bottle of lotion and a nudie mag will cost less than one Christmas or Birthday with a girlfriend. Right?
SCSI is much better than IDE or EIDE or UDMA33. A nice defragged 7200 RPM SCSI2 drive will pound the snot out of a UDMA 33. Wide SCSI2 under similar circumstances will pound a UDMA 66 into the ground.
At home and at work I have multiple computers some with SCSI, some with IDE there is no comparison between the two. Watch a computer with a PII-300 and an IDE hard drive boot slower than a P-233 with an UWSCSI2 and you'll see what I mean. I run Red Hat 6 on both systems and the P-233 with 32mb boots faster than a PII-300 with 64.
Apps launch faster with SCSI. Disk I/O is so much better with SCSI that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that it's faster. If you can afford it SCSI is the way to go.
LK
Paper will never crash or lock up. I can read a stack of papers in the bath-tub. I can print out the exact order in which I need to update files while I do repeated reboots. Paper is surge and blackout proof. In an emergency I can use the corners of a paper to clean steak particles from my teeth or dust from under my fingernails.
I've never folded a monitor into a hella cool airplane.
I get most of my daily information ration from what I see onscreen, but the important or amusing things that I see, I print out. You can't tack a monitor up to the wall.You can't slip a monitor under the boss' desk or onto a co-workers desk when nobody is looking so that you can stealthily pass the buck.
It'll be a LONG time before we all work in paperless offices.
LK
Perhaps it has not been absolute rule since 400 years ago, BUT until relatively recently (taking the country's ENTIRE history into account) the "Royals" got almost anything that they wanted.
After all, it was only 223 years ago that the actions of King George and reactions to them sparked a war between our two countries.
LK
I use a Mac+Netscape 4.6 and when I had "'"s in my sig they showed up to some people at "?"s
LK