Take a good look at the windows registry and tell me again about Apple's "OS incompetence". Apple's main problem is that Steve Jobs and most of it's big cheeses have been absolute dickheads. Apple's engineers are some of the best in the industry.
Apple has always brought new technology to the forefront and delivered it to the masses before the others. Namely the indroduction of the new 3.5" floppy in the 80's, the CD Rom, power management, RISC processors in computers for consumers, the GUI, Apple was supporting MKlinux before the media blitz, the elimination of the obsolete 3.5" floppy in the 90's, multiple monitors on one comuputer,,,,,, the list goes on and on.
Apple is run by a group of mental midgets no doubt, but their technology is and has always been top notch. They should have their advertising exec lined up against a brick wall and machinegunned, they've been screwing the pooch ever since the "1984" ad.
Even though I'm using an Apple machine right now, I'm not planning to purchase another one again because of the changes Steve Jobs has made to the core technology. Maybe he's on another acid flashback.
I believe the problem lies not in the fact the he got laid. I think the problem lies in the fact that he puts on 'aires' to get laid.
When I was in College for the first two weeks I had THREE room mates. One of them was born in Ireland. He had been in the US since he was about 10 or so, he had lost his accent, BUT he used to use a fake accent when women were around to strike get their attention.
After a while I got so sick of it, I told one of the girls "You know that's a fake accent right?". I then looked squarely at him and said "You can quit the act now, talk like you do when no women are around." (That's right Alex, if you're reading this I just outed you again)
>Nice guys have a hard time getting laid because of their easy attachment towards women, and women take advantage of that, women also can sense that you must not have much confidence if you can so easily become attached to them.
I definately agree on this point, nice guys never get the booty. When I was in high school I was one of the nice guys, I talked to my female friends on the phone for hours at a time, they'd call me to tell me about their man problems and ask me for advice. Well after watching these women give up the pussy to everyone except me I got kind of jaded. I started out not calling when I said I would and I ended up starting to get plain out rude. I told one girl with no room for other interpretation that I didn't care about her man problems, and didn't care to hear anymore. It was her fault for choosing that jerk and if she wanted to the situation to change, she'd have to change it.
Low and behold by my senior year of HS I began to get romantic attention from the ladies. Some beautiful, some not so beautiful but it was a rebirth for me. My best friend finally made the change earlier this year, after some whore walked all over him he stopped wanting to be nice. He's still honest with women (sometimes brutally honest) and he's all the happier for it.
Free advice for all of the no sex getting nice guys out there. Once per day try to replace the word "woman" or "lady" with the word "bitch". This is not about disrespecting women, it IS about changing the way you think about them. You must lose the notion that God had endowed women with some magical position of power in the universe as the sexual selector. Be honest, be self confident, and above all else be true to yourself.
If it were not for the LDP, I'd never have been able to get up and running with Red Hat 4.2 wayyyyy back when I bought it. Since then I've been able to install and play with several other versionas and distros. Yesterday I picked up Mandrake 6.0 and I owe my linux knowledge and prowess in very large part to the information available through the LDP.
IMO the LDP should be under the complete control of those who created it. You see how Linus is the patriarch of kernel development, that is how the LDP should be run.
Who can be trusted to be loyal to the project more than the one(s) who created it?
I think that a GPL type license for documentation would be a good idea, just perhaps stronger provisions to make sure that the original author of a document gets credit where it's due.
"Said documents can be copied, transmitted, edited, published by anyone provided
1. Original author(s) is (are) given credit for creation of said document.
2. Any changes made to the document are commented, and that reasonable efforts be made to give a copy of the changed document to the original author.
3. No fee be charged, beyond that of the price of the media and packaging, for distributions of the documents.
Hiawatha, you picked the WRONG crowd to cop this attitude with.
>>...I don't care for the idea of nerds mocking ordinary folks.
We're not talking about "Ordinary folks" here hiawatha. We're talking about the sort of absolute morons who think that the mouse is a foot pedal and that a computer works like a sewing machine.
Ordinary people take the time to learn what they want and need. I work in retail so I have experiences _first hand_ some of the types of stories that were posted on that site.
Here is a sample conversation(no exaggeration, but some sentances re-phrased.)
ME: Hello (my employer's name) how can I help you. IDIOT: I need to get my computer upgraded to run AOL 4.0, I have 5 RAMS and I need more.
ME: What kind of computer do you have? IDIOT: What do you mean?
ME: Do you know if it's a Mac or a PC? IDIOT: OH, it's a Mac.
ME: What model Mac is it? IDIOT: It's a performa.
ME: There are some numbers too, I need to find out the EXACT number so I can tell what type of memory you need to upGRADE it. IDIOT: Oh, It's a system 7.5.
ME: No, that's not it. On the front of your computer... IDIOT: There's just an apple below the screen, there are no numbers.
ME: No, that's your MONITOR, you need to look at the front of the COMPUTER. IDIOT: Oh, you mean the hard drive?
ME: No, I mean the computer, the hard drive is something INSIDE of the computer. IDIOT: Ok, it's a Performa 575.
ME: Well it's $X to max out the ram on that model. IDIOT: Ok, So that'll let me run AOL 4.0, right?
ME: If that's what the AOL people told you, you need, then yes. I personally don't know. I don't use or support AOL. IDIOT: Alright, when can I bring this in.
ME: Our hours are (insert hours here). IDIOT: What? How am I supposed to get there? You guys don't make it easy for the working people.
ME: Well, WE ARE working people too. IDIOT: I guess I'll have to try to make it in on your late day.
>In many cases, they really shouldn't have to understand the intricacies of a system; if the system were better designed, it'd be self-explanatory.
Even though you don't need to know how to build a clock, you should at least be able to tell time WITHOUT a digital watch. The average user doesn't need to understand why certain chipsets handle file I/O better than others, but they should know the 8.3 rules of the DOS filesystem.
>The fact that so many ordinary folks are mystified by computers speaks not to their stupidity, but the crudity of the technology and the limitations of the designers.
It speaks volumes about their stupidity. You don't deal with these morons EVERY FSCKING DAY, many of us do. Please haiwatha, do us all a favor and drop the "I'm not a geek like YOU" attitude.
>You can't broadcast music using an amateur radio license however. See above post.
I don't know if you could get around it by calling MP3s DATA files, instead of music. Or what if you used a weak cypher? How about if you transmitted "All Country, All The Time", nobody in his right mind would call THAT music.
While I'm at it, I'd like to see digital radio stations go on the air. Imgine being able to capture that digital signal and compressit to MP3 while you sit and listen. (BTW, I don't see this as being any different than using an audio tape to record radio broadcasts)
Would it be a violation of FCC rules to adapt cordless phones to do this?
>I highly doubt that this country would drop a nuke on one of it's own cities.
What if that city is in a state in rebellion against the US Federal Government? Do you think that they'd hesitate then? If New York decided that they were not going to be a part of the USA anymore. Just to make it interesting, let's say a few states containing military bases rebelled as well. The US Government would be fighting a force with similar military might, do you think that any president would hesitate to use nuclear weapons if he thought that it would save his political ass? Manhattan would become a parking lot.
>There are some fucked up politicians, but what soldier is going to follow THAT order? No way.
The military trains people to become mind numbed robots. If you get an order, you follow it. Back to Waco for a moment, the US Army Special Forces didn't have a problem at all with helping the FBI and BATF murder civillians because the orders came through the proper chain of command.
>Yes, and the #1 overwhelming culprit is guns. Anarchy in the US isn't working...and yes, when any moron can walk around carrying a semi-automatic handgun, that's anarchy.
This statement is only true if...
You mean someone who is physically capable of carrying one. Because not all states permit people to carry firearms. Fortunately my state does, and it has a rather low violent crime rate as a consequence of that.
But, by your reasoning anyone in the world can carry a semi-automatic handgun. After all, even if it's illegal it's still physically possible.
So according to you the entire world is plunged into anarchy.
If UCITA becomes tha law of the land (And I hope that it does NOT) all AOL has to do is tinker with the protocol a little again to break MS' client and if MS compensates they've broken the reverse engineering provision of UCITA.
Though I despise both parties in this dispute I have to side with AOL. AOL's servers handle all of the IM traffic and it's not right for M$ to be able to use AOL's servers for free and make money by selling advertising on their client. This is like me getting a copy of Win9X and duplicating the CD and distributing my copies with a copy of a CD-Key generator.
AOL has every right to break M$' client. It's their protocol, they're their servers. M$ is once again acting like a bull in a china store. AOL is the only company with the muscle to fight them off. Imagine AOL office, platform independant office suite that you get as a part of your internet connection fee.
In today's world David can not fight Goliath. You need another philistine to do the deed.
>Right - because a few more handguns and they would have certainly defeated the German army.
The Jews in thw Warsaw ghetto kept the German army at bay with 10 cheap handguns. The Nazis had to burn it to the ground to get them out. If Afghanistan the soviets were kept at bay by people on horseback who had AKs and a few shoulder mounted missiles.
>This is the largest fallacy of the gun nuts - that guns can protect you against your goverment.
Anti-gun nuts seem to think that it's better to roll over and die rather than fight the good fight.
Didn't work at Waco. Wouldn't have worked in any of the instances you mentioned.
The FBI didn't murder EVERYONE at Waco, so yes it did work.
>Ask Randy Weaver how well guns protected his family against the government.
I've corresponded with the Weavers before. Randy, Rachel, Sarah, Elisheba and Kevin Harris are alive, and the Weavers are millionaires.
When Kevin put a bullet through Bill Degan's chest he was legally justified. Hence his aquittal.
It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
>How can you bypass blowfish encryption on the passwords, PGP for emails etc?
Keyboard sniffers. A device that records or broadcasts every keystroke you make can be used to gather all of your passwords. When they feel that they have enough of them, they can go get a "proper" warrant, take your machine and have access to all of your goodies.
A rather low-tech solution to all of the high-tech encryption out there.
>You can carry a shotgun to church, but you cannot export strong encryption.
Aside from work, I carry a firearm most places that I go. So what? I also used to keep my entire HD encrypted way back when. So what?
Even though I think that it's stupid, I understand the reasoning for restricting crypto exports. The rules are made up by a bunch of fat old white guys who still believe that "EVERYTHING GOOD" comes from this country. According to that logic, if we stop strong crypto from getting out then, it won't exist outside of this country.
>The government has let the red herring of the gun debate captivate the public while it destroys all personal privacy.
Red herring?
Ask the Indians and white people in Angola if it's a red herring. Ask the Christians and educated people of Cambodia if it's a red herring. Ask the Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals of Nazi occupied europe if it's a red herring.
Oh, I forgot, you can't ask them, their governments took their guns away and killed or expatriated them.
>Look, guys, I'm as much a privacy advocate as the next guy, but the Bill of Rights CLEARLY states that a warrant is grounds to enter and search.
This could and should be made into a 5th amendment issue. If the computer can legally be considered an extension of the user, the 5th amendment could be extended to cover it's contents.
Many types of surveillance were expensive and difficult to implement, that's why it was only used when there was already reasonable suspicion. Today it's cheap and easy to tap phones and the FBI can get a warrant to do so on a whim. (unless you're involved with doing illegal favors for the president).
I'm against this. If I'm a drug dealer or a terrorist there will be real world examples of my breaking the law which can be prosecuted. If I'm a drug dealer, I have to actually make the sale somewhere. If I'm a gangster I have to actually pull the trigger to kill someone. We may as well criminalize violent thought while we're at it.
This is nothing new. Our government has been lying to us since at least the 1940s. Sometimes the lies were necessary like in the case of the Manhattan Project, in other cases it was to cover people's asses' like the case of the JFK assassination.
Nutty or not, I have seen UFOs. I was a kid and that even in many ways shaped my world view. I knew what I saw, yet almost every adult I knew told me that they did not exist. That I did not see what I know I saw.
Then I found out about Project Blue Book, the military kept records on UFO sigitings. And not even the military could explain all of the Blue Book sighings.
Throughout human history we have seen these things. In Japan there are ancient records of objects that looked like "flying earthenware vessels". For you christians and jews out there look up the story of Elija. He was taken to heaven on a firey disc.
Elija never died. He earned a "Get out of death free" card and was directly able to bypass death. So says the mythology, at least.
I do not know if UFOs are EBEs, remnants of time travel experiments, or natural phenomena that we don't have the science to explain yet but they are very real. Not every witness is mistaken, lying, stupid or insane. There are millions of us going back thousands of years.
>It may be CHRP based but I highly doubt it will have an Apple ROM on board. No ROM, no Mac OS.
I'm sorry, but you are incorrect. MacOS 8.0 has been loaded onto IBM PowerPC machines with no MacOS ROM. From what I understand it's a real bitch to tinker with the open firmware to make it work, but it IS possible.
These may or may not be able to run it, but the MacOS ROM is not necessarily needed. After all the iMac and Blue & White G3 have a Mac OS ROM file on the Hard drive in addition to the physical chips.
By your reasoning one can conclude that there is no causal relationship between smoking and lung cancer. After all, not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer and not every person who gets lung cancer is a smoker.
In Nazi occupied Europe the jews who had no guns got the worst of the deal. In the Warsaw ghetto the jews there had 10 cheap pistols and they kept the Nazis at bay for nearly two weeks.
The Nazis had to burn that place to the ground to get them out.
A deaf man with a hearing aid, is less deaf than a deaf man without one.
I feel bad for that poor little webserver. If it can't stand up to a good slashdotting, it's not worth anything.
But seriously, imagine a webserver embedded in your answering machine (with IPv6 this is possible) so that you can check your messages from your web browser at work. I didn't read the whole thing, but this baby can't draw much power. I think that a 9volt would run this thing for several months.
What will we do about this? Probably nothing. This piece of rap legislation will get shoved down our throats like the CDA only there is no secion of the Bill of Rights upon which this can be overturned.
We take this shit lying down and the people who propose it get bolder with each pass. You non-thinking law and order types who spout drivel like "Kevin Mitnick is getting exactly what he deserves. Don't give me any of that 'constitutional rights' crap you anarchist!" are the very reason for this. Bad laws should never come into being, if they do they should be nullified.
How long before GM and Ford make an EULA for their cars? You can't reverse engineer your new Mustang, so that design flaws are forever a protected secret under the force of law. If you allow this to happen it will get worse. You can't allow the camel to get his nose under the tent.
This is not some minor change in copyright law, this is a VERY big deal. It has to do with whether or not you have the right to control what is in and on your own computer.
Are geeks the gutless wimps that they say we are? Or are we strong and capable of uniting against a common enemy? UCITA is that enemy. If we can't unite to stop this, we may as well bend over right now, because implied consent to anal rape will be added to EULAs next and there's not a thing we will be able to do to stop it.
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Take a good look at the windows registry and tell me again about Apple's "OS incompetence". Apple's main problem is that Steve Jobs and most of it's big cheeses have been absolute dickheads. Apple's engineers are some of the best in the industry.
Apple has always brought new technology to the forefront and delivered it to the masses before the others. Namely the indroduction of the new 3.5" floppy in the 80's, the CD Rom, power management, RISC processors in computers for consumers, the GUI, Apple was supporting MKlinux before the media blitz, the elimination of the obsolete 3.5" floppy in the 90's, multiple monitors on one comuputer,,,,,, the list goes on and on.
Apple is run by a group of mental midgets no doubt, but their technology is and has always been top notch. They should have their advertising exec lined up against a brick wall and machinegunned, they've been screwing the pooch ever since the "1984" ad.
Even though I'm using an Apple machine right now, I'm not planning to purchase another one again because of the changes Steve Jobs has made to the core technology. Maybe he's on another acid flashback.
LK
I believe the problem lies not in the fact the he got laid. I think the problem lies in the fact that he puts on 'aires' to get laid.
When I was in College for the first two weeks I had THREE room mates. One of them was born in Ireland. He had been in the US since he was about 10 or so, he had lost his accent, BUT he used to use a fake accent when women were around to strike get their attention.
After a while I got so sick of it, I told one of the girls "You know that's a fake accent right?". I then looked squarely at him and said "You can quit the act now, talk like you do when no women are around." (That's right Alex, if you're reading this I just outed you again)
>Nice guys have a hard time getting laid because of their easy attachment towards women, and women take advantage of that, women also can sense that you must not have much confidence if you can so easily become attached to them.
I definately agree on this point, nice guys never get the booty. When I was in high school I was one of the nice guys, I talked to my female friends on the phone for hours at a time, they'd call me to tell me about their man problems and ask me for advice. Well after watching these women give up the pussy to everyone except me I got kind of jaded. I started out not calling when I said I would and I ended up starting to get plain out rude. I told one girl with no room for other interpretation that I didn't care about her man problems, and didn't care to hear anymore. It was her fault for choosing that jerk and if she wanted to the situation to change, she'd have to change it.
Low and behold by my senior year of HS I began to get romantic attention from the ladies. Some beautiful, some not so beautiful but it was a rebirth for me. My best friend finally made the change earlier this year, after some whore walked all over him he stopped wanting to be nice. He's still honest with women (sometimes brutally honest) and he's all the happier for it.
Free advice for all of the no sex getting nice guys out there. Once per day try to replace the word "woman" or "lady" with the word "bitch". This is not about disrespecting women, it IS about changing the way you think about them. You must lose the notion that God had endowed women with some magical position of power in the universe as the sexual selector. Be honest, be self confident, and above all else be true to yourself.
LK
People complain about US crypto export laws. If you're not BSing me, Canada is even more ass backwards on Crypto than is Uncle Sam.
So what you're telling me in Canada, German is a form of Crypto?
But anyway, I think that we were talking about the US because of someone bringing up the FCC.
LK
In Canada you will pay $5 for a pack of cigarettes.
In Canada you will now pay almost $2 in taxes on blank CDs.
Hey you guys should revolt, wait a minute you guys are in a socialist nation, you've been disarmed by your government.
Come on down south, we're willing to accept people who want freedom.
LK
In Canada you will pay $5 for a pack of cigarettes.
In Canada you will now pay almost $2 in taxes on blank CDs.
Hey you guys should revolt, wait a minute you guys are in a socialist nation, you've been disarmed by your government.
Come one down south, we're willing to accept people who want freedom.
LK
>No, that's BSD-style. Copyright and courtesy require this, not the GNU licenses.
My mistake, I've skimmed soo many licenses without actually reading them completely I guess it's easy to mix them up.
LK
How about FOLLOWING THE LINK AND READING THE PAGE!
They list a possible bug menu, however I did notice one arachnid on there.
LK
If it were not for the LDP, I'd never have been able to get up and running with Red Hat 4.2 wayyyyy back when I bought it. Since then I've been able to install and play with several other versionas and distros. Yesterday I picked up Mandrake 6.0 and I owe my linux knowledge and prowess in very large part to the information available through the LDP.
IMO the LDP should be under the complete control of those who created it. You see how Linus is the patriarch of kernel development, that is how the LDP should be run.
Who can be trusted to be loyal to the project more than the one(s) who created it?
I think that a GPL type license for documentation would be a good idea, just perhaps stronger provisions to make sure that the original author of a document gets credit where it's due.
"Said documents can be copied, transmitted, edited, published by anyone provided
1. Original author(s) is (are) given credit for creation of said document.
2. Any changes made to the document are commented, and that reasonable efforts be made to give a copy of the changed document to the original author.
3. No fee be charged, beyond that of the price of the media and packaging, for distributions of the documents.
Just my 2
LK
Hiawatha, you picked the WRONG crowd to cop this attitude with.
>>...I don't care for the idea of nerds mocking ordinary folks.
We're not talking about "Ordinary folks" here hiawatha. We're talking about the sort of absolute morons who think that the mouse is a foot pedal and that a computer works like a sewing machine.
Ordinary people take the time to learn what they want and need. I work in retail so I have experiences _first hand_ some of the types of stories that were posted on that site.
Here is a sample conversation(no exaggeration, but some sentances re-phrased.)
ME: Hello (my employer's name) how can I help you.
IDIOT: I need to get my computer upgraded to run AOL 4.0, I have 5 RAMS and I need more.
ME: What kind of computer do you have?
IDIOT: What do you mean?
ME: Do you know if it's a Mac or a PC?
IDIOT: OH, it's a Mac.
ME: What model Mac is it?
IDIOT: It's a performa.
ME: There are some numbers too, I need to find out the EXACT number so I can tell what type of memory you need to upGRADE it.
IDIOT: Oh, It's a system 7.5.
ME: No, that's not it. On the front of your computer...
IDIOT: There's just an apple below the screen, there are no numbers.
ME: No, that's your MONITOR, you need to look at the front of the COMPUTER.
IDIOT: Oh, you mean the hard drive?
ME: No, I mean the computer, the hard drive is something INSIDE of the computer.
IDIOT: Ok, it's a Performa 575.
ME: Well it's $X to max out the ram on that model.
IDIOT: Ok, So that'll let me run AOL 4.0, right?
ME: If that's what the AOL people told you, you need, then yes. I personally don't know. I don't use or support AOL.
IDIOT: Alright, when can I bring this in.
ME: Our hours are (insert hours here).
IDIOT: What? How am I supposed to get there? You guys don't make it easy for the working people.
ME: Well, WE ARE working people too.
IDIOT: I guess I'll have to try to make it in on your late day.
>In many cases, they really shouldn't have to understand the intricacies of a system; if the system were better designed, it'd be self-explanatory.
Even though you don't need to know how to build a clock, you should at least be able to tell time WITHOUT a digital watch. The average user doesn't need to understand why certain chipsets handle file I/O better than others, but they should know the 8.3 rules of the DOS filesystem.
>The fact that so many ordinary folks are mystified by computers speaks not to their stupidity, but the crudity of the technology and the limitations of the designers.
It speaks volumes about their stupidity. You don't deal with these morons EVERY FSCKING DAY, many of us do. Please haiwatha, do us all a favor and drop the "I'm not a geek like YOU" attitude.
LK
>You can't broadcast music using an amateur radio license however. See above post.
I don't know if you could get around it by calling MP3s DATA files, instead of music. Or what if you used a weak cypher? How about if you transmitted "All Country, All The Time", nobody in his right mind would call THAT music.
While I'm at it, I'd like to see digital radio stations go on the air. Imgine being able to capture that digital signal and compressit to MP3 while you sit and listen. (BTW, I don't see this as being any different than using an audio tape to record radio broadcasts)
Would it be a violation of FCC rules to adapt cordless phones to do this?
LK
>I highly doubt that this country would drop a nuke on one of it's own cities.
What if that city is in a state in rebellion against the US Federal Government? Do you think that they'd hesitate then? If New York decided that they were not going to be a part of the USA anymore. Just to make it interesting, let's say a few states containing military bases rebelled as well. The US Government would be fighting a force with similar military might, do you think that any president would hesitate to use nuclear weapons if he thought that it would save his political ass? Manhattan would become a parking lot.
>There are some fucked up politicians, but what soldier is going to follow THAT order? No way.
The military trains people to become mind numbed robots. If you get an order, you follow it. Back to Waco for a moment, the US Army Special Forces didn't have a problem at all with helping the FBI and BATF murder civillians because the orders came through the proper chain of command.
LK
>Yes, and the #1 overwhelming culprit is guns. Anarchy in the US isn't working...and yes, when any moron can walk around carrying a semi-automatic handgun, that's anarchy.
This statement is only true if...
You mean someone who is physically capable of carrying one. Because not all states permit people to carry firearms. Fortunately my state does, and it has a rather low violent crime rate as a consequence of that.
But, by your reasoning anyone in the world can carry a semi-automatic handgun. After all, even if it's illegal it's still physically possible.
So according to you the entire world is plunged into anarchy.
LK
If UCITA becomes tha law of the land (And I hope that it does NOT) all AOL has to do is tinker with the protocol a little again to break MS' client and if MS compensates they've broken the reverse engineering provision of UCITA.
Though I despise both parties in this dispute I have to side with AOL. AOL's servers handle all of the IM traffic and it's not right for M$ to be able to use AOL's servers for free and make money by selling advertising on their client. This is like me getting a copy of Win9X and duplicating the CD and distributing my copies with a copy of a CD-Key generator.
AOL has every right to break M$' client. It's their protocol, they're their servers. M$ is once again acting like a bull in a china store. AOL is the only company with the muscle to fight them off. Imagine AOL office, platform independant office suite that you get as a part of your internet connection fee.
In today's world David can not fight Goliath. You need another philistine to do the deed.
LK
>Right - because a few more handguns and they would have certainly defeated the German army.
The Jews in thw Warsaw ghetto kept the German army at bay with 10 cheap handguns. The Nazis had to burn it to the ground to get them out. If Afghanistan the soviets were kept at bay by people on horseback who had AKs and a few shoulder mounted missiles.
>This is the largest fallacy of the gun nuts - that guns can protect you against your goverment.
Anti-gun nuts seem to think that it's better to roll over and die rather than fight the good fight.
Didn't work at Waco. Wouldn't have worked in any of the instances you mentioned.
The FBI didn't murder EVERYONE at Waco, so yes it did work.
>Ask Randy Weaver how well guns protected his family against the government.
I've corresponded with the Weavers before. Randy, Rachel, Sarah, Elisheba and Kevin Harris are alive, and the Weavers are millionaires.
When Kevin put a bullet through Bill Degan's chest he was legally justified. Hence his aquittal.
It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
LK
>How can you bypass blowfish encryption on the passwords, PGP for emails etc?
Keyboard sniffers. A device that records or broadcasts every keystroke you make can be used to gather all of your passwords. When they feel that they have enough of them, they can go get a "proper" warrant, take your machine and have access to all of your goodies.
A rather low-tech solution to all of the high-tech encryption out there.
LK
>You can carry a shotgun to church, but you cannot export strong encryption.
Aside from work, I carry a firearm most places that I go. So what? I also used to keep my entire HD encrypted way back when. So what?
Even though I think that it's stupid, I understand the reasoning for restricting crypto exports. The rules are made up by a bunch of fat old white guys who still believe that "EVERYTHING GOOD" comes from this country. According to that logic, if we stop strong crypto from getting out then, it won't exist outside of this country.
>The government has let the red herring of the gun debate captivate the public while it destroys all personal privacy.
Red herring?
Ask the Indians and white people in Angola if it's a red herring. Ask the Christians and educated people of Cambodia if it's a red herring. Ask the Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals of Nazi occupied europe if it's a red herring.
Oh, I forgot, you can't ask them, their governments took their guns away and killed or expatriated them.
>Look, guys, I'm as much a privacy advocate as the next guy, but the Bill of Rights CLEARLY states that a warrant is grounds to enter and search.
This could and should be made into a 5th amendment issue. If the computer can legally be considered an extension of the user, the 5th amendment could be extended to cover it's contents.
Many types of surveillance were expensive and difficult to implement, that's why it was only used when there was already reasonable suspicion. Today it's cheap and easy to tap phones and the FBI can get a warrant to do so on a whim. (unless you're involved with doing illegal favors for the president).
I'm against this. If I'm a drug dealer or a terrorist there will be real world examples of my breaking the law which can be prosecuted. If I'm a drug dealer, I have to actually make the sale somewhere. If I'm a gangster I have to actually pull the trigger to kill someone. We may as well criminalize violent thought while we're at it.
LK
This is nothing new. Our government has been lying to us since at least the 1940s. Sometimes the lies were necessary like in the case of the Manhattan Project, in other cases it was to cover people's asses' like the case of the JFK assassination.
Nutty or not, I have seen UFOs. I was a kid and that even in many ways shaped my world view. I knew what I saw, yet almost every adult I knew told me that they did not exist. That I did not see what I know I saw.
Then I found out about Project Blue Book, the military kept records on UFO sigitings. And not even the military could explain all of the Blue Book sighings.
Throughout human history we have seen these things. In Japan there are ancient records of objects that looked like "flying earthenware vessels". For you christians and jews out there look up the story of Elija. He was taken to heaven on a firey disc.
Elija never died. He earned a "Get out of death free" card and was directly able to bypass death. So says the mythology, at least.
I do not know if UFOs are EBEs, remnants of time travel experiments, or natural phenomena that we don't have the science to explain yet but they are very real. Not every witness is mistaken, lying, stupid or insane. There are millions of us going back thousands of years.
LK
>It may be CHRP based but I highly doubt it will have an Apple ROM on board. No ROM, no Mac OS.
I'm sorry, but you are incorrect. MacOS 8.0 has been loaded onto IBM PowerPC machines with no MacOS ROM. From what I understand it's a real bitch to tinker with the open firmware to make it work, but it IS possible.
These may or may not be able to run it, but the MacOS ROM is not necessarily needed. After all the iMac and Blue & White G3 have a Mac OS ROM file on the Hard drive in addition to the physical chips.
LK
>Besides piraters, Apple just won't give those OEMs a license to MacOS.
All you have to do it buy a commercially wrapped version of Mac OS and bingo you have a license.
The Mac ROMs are the difficult part to get. But if these boards are CHRP compliant, then there is a good chance that you can run Mac OS 8.0 on them.
>You can't just go to CompUSA and buy MacOS and install it on your cool new PPC workstation.
Incorrect, if the machine is CHRP based, then you can run 8.0 on it.
LK
>So they crashed and instead of giving away the machine they ended the contest.
Didn't you even READ their statement? If you can crack into an identically configed box, you still win it.
LK
By your reasoning one can conclude that there is no causal relationship between smoking and lung cancer. After all, not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer and not every person who gets lung cancer is a smoker.
In Nazi occupied Europe the jews who had no guns got the worst of the deal. In the Warsaw ghetto the jews there had 10 cheap pistols and they kept the Nazis at bay for nearly two weeks.
The Nazis had to burn that place to the ground to get them out.
A deaf man with a hearing aid, is less deaf than a deaf man without one.
LK
>Counterexamples: How about Japan? People usually don't have guns,its not a police state. Or how about Germany, France, Canada?
Germany is a bad example, in the 1930's the banned guns and it lead to the murder of 12 million people.
Just one of many bad examples, where the people have no guns bad things happen to them.
http://jpfo.org/genocide.htm
http://jpfo.org/L-laws.htm
LK
I feel bad for that poor little webserver. If it can't stand up to a good slashdotting, it's not worth anything.
But seriously, imagine a webserver embedded in your answering machine (with IPv6 this is possible) so that you can check your messages from your web browser at work. I didn't read the whole thing, but this baby can't draw much power. I think that a 9volt would run this thing for several months.
LK
What will we do about this? Probably nothing. This piece of rap legislation will get shoved down our throats like the CDA only there is no secion of the Bill of Rights upon which this can be overturned.
We take this shit lying down and the people who propose it get bolder with each pass. You non-thinking law and order types who spout drivel like "Kevin Mitnick is getting exactly what he deserves. Don't give me any of that 'constitutional rights' crap you anarchist!" are the very reason for this. Bad laws should never come into being, if they do they should be nullified.
How long before GM and Ford make an EULA for their cars? You can't reverse engineer your new Mustang, so that design flaws are forever a protected secret under the force of law. If you allow this to happen it will get worse. You can't allow the camel to get his nose under the tent.
This is not some minor change in copyright law, this is a VERY big deal. It has to do with whether or not you have the right to control what is in and on your own computer.
Are geeks the gutless wimps that they say we are? Or are we strong and capable of uniting against a common enemy? UCITA is that enemy. If we can't unite to stop this, we may as well bend over right now, because implied consent to anal rape will be added to EULAs next and there's not a thing we will be able to do to stop it.
LK