In my day, the Intellivision was the "rich man's" atari. We all played the Atari 2600, the rich kids got the Intellivision, the poor kids got pong or Sears TeleGames, the weird kids got Odyssey and the Cool kids got Colecovision.
I never put / and/home on the same partition. As someone else pointed out, it makes changing distros possible without needing to restore a backup but it also makes upgrading the same distro easier. No need to format the/home partition when I went from Mandrake 10.0 to Mandriva 2007.1.
TOR allows you to access exit nodes across the boundaries that you speak of.
TOR goes away if they impose routing whitelists. You'll never get to the network in the first place.
A simple public proxy would in any other country would work too. Italian users did not seem to have much of a problem accessing The Pirate Bay when Italy attempted to ban it at it's cyber-borders as well.
You are assuming that things will stay the way they are. They will not. Why do you think all of these groups and politicians are against net neutrality?
What we'll be looking at is an enormous whitelist. Say 100,000 or so "approved" domains and everything else will be unreachable, because every ISP will be legally required to drop packets to a destination outside of the whitelist.
TOR doesn't fix that.
Otherwise you have banned the ability for people to communicate directly with people in other countries.
You can communicate with them, but only through approved channels. Freenet, TOR and whatever else comes next won't be on the whitelist because they allow you to do that very thing. They allow you to have unsupervised contact with people anywhere in the world.
Of course, there is still the possibility that governments may tighten up so much that it makes a day at Auschwitz look like a trip to Disneyland. Once again though, if that is true, we have bigger problems don't we??
The free flow of information is what can prevent such a tightening.
Currently, to effectively control the Internet, you must control it all.
You can control one region's acess to the internet by controlling the bottle necks.
If all of the ISPs in the US, Canada and the EU all decided to try this sort of thing. They could start whitelisting. You're only allowed to access the sites that are on board with the program. A site dissents? The get scratched from the white list.
It's hightly unlikely, but as soon as some congress-critter starts talking about why we need this to stop child porn, it'll pass unanimously.
I'm suspicious of this. I concede that illegal filesharing is a problem, but it sounds more like an attempt to turn the internet into a tightly controlled broadcase medium, like television.
You must not live in Pittsburgh. "The City" is filled with die hard Democrats and the machine will not permit someone to come in and run out of the blue.
It's a decent place, crime is low and real estate is affordable but a lot of things are ass backwards here.
Really, I have no problem with a "lousy start" policy of some sort, but to guarantee 50% while other students are giving and earning 100% annoys me to no end.
In the 1990s, during the Clinton era, liberals talked about how we should model outselves after England because of their low gun crime. We said that if there were a sudden rash of stabbings/slashings they'd move to institute knife control. We were called kooks, gun-nuts, paranoids and worse.
Now, just like we said 12 years ago. The UK is going batshit nuts to ban knives.... KNIVES... Mankind's tool since the bronze age.
Since *I* don't like it, I'll keep right on making noise about it until it is changed.
Making noise won't get a single thing changed. Unorganized bitching won't get a thing done. You want to fix things? Call your Senator, call your Representative, call your State Senator and Representative. Encourage other people to do the same.
Unless you actually DO SOMETHING, you'll be just like those old welfare bums that I remember from when I was a kid who used to sit around drinking cheap beer crying about how the "system" was a "sham".
Or maybe something crazy like, oh... lets see... one set of laws that covers how federal elections should be run, maybe passed at a federal level. You know, like other civilised countries have.
In this country, the Federal government's powers are limited. We have this little document called the Constitution that delinieates the powers of the federal government. As annoying as that is to some people, it's how things work here.
It doesn't matter. I was never unhappy with the OS. Besides, it's not the OS that gets anything done. It's the Apps. In recent years, Apps for creative endeavors have been produced for Windows as well as Mac.
If you eschew the "image" stuff, then paint "DELL" on the outside of your MacBook and buy new headphones for your iPod.
There's that, or I could buy an Acer laptop for 1/3 the price and a Creative MP3 player.
Avoiding a product because of the hype is at least as dumb as using a product because of the hype, don't you think?
Except that the only reason to use a Mac now is Hype.
EA says they will have staff standing by to grant more installations as necessary on a case by case basis. So, while this still isn't optimal, at least we are getting a compromise.
This is like a rapist saying that instead of anally violating you, he'll settle for oral. It's a shitty compromise.
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Jobs has fucking CANCER! No one expects him to live forever.
LK
If he used a dynamic DNS and had a task or cron job to update the DNS entry with every change in IP, it would have been simple.
LK
In my day, the Intellivision was the "rich man's" atari. We all played the Atari 2600, the rich kids got the Intellivision, the poor kids got pong or Sears TeleGames, the weird kids got Odyssey and the Cool kids got Colecovision.
LK
I never put / and /home on the same partition. As someone else pointed out, it makes changing distros possible without needing to restore a backup but it also makes upgrading the same distro easier. No need to format the /home partition when I went from Mandrake 10.0 to Mandriva 2007.1.
LK
Let's skip all of the nonsense...
If "when does life begin" is "above your pay grade", how can we trust your judgement on anything else?
LK
If "when does life begin" is "above your pay grade", how can we trust your judgement on anything else?
LK
TOR allows you to access exit nodes across the boundaries that you speak of.
TOR goes away if they impose routing whitelists. You'll never get to the network in the first place.
A simple public proxy would in any other country would work too. Italian users did not seem to have much of a problem accessing The Pirate Bay when Italy attempted to ban it at it's cyber-borders as well.
You are assuming that things will stay the way they are. They will not. Why do you think all of these groups and politicians are against net neutrality?
What we'll be looking at is an enormous whitelist. Say 100,000 or so "approved" domains and everything else will be unreachable, because every ISP will be legally required to drop packets to a destination outside of the whitelist.
TOR doesn't fix that.
Otherwise you have banned the ability for people to communicate directly with people in other countries.
You can communicate with them, but only through approved channels. Freenet, TOR and whatever else comes next won't be on the whitelist because they allow you to do that very thing. They allow you to have unsupervised contact with people anywhere in the world.
Of course, there is still the possibility that governments may tighten up so much that it makes a day at Auschwitz look like a trip to Disneyland. Once again though, if that is true, we have bigger problems don't we??
The free flow of information is what can prevent such a tightening.
LK
Currently, to effectively control the Internet, you must control it all.
You can control one region's acess to the internet by controlling the bottle necks.
If all of the ISPs in the US, Canada and the EU all decided to try this sort of thing. They could start whitelisting. You're only allowed to access the sites that are on board with the program. A site dissents? The get scratched from the white list.
It's hightly unlikely, but as soon as some congress-critter starts talking about why we need this to stop child porn, it'll pass unanimously.
LK
I'm suspicious of this. I concede that illegal filesharing is a problem, but it sounds more like an attempt to turn the internet into a tightly controlled broadcase medium, like television.
No more freerepublic and no more dailykos.
LK
Oh, and NONE of the people who own actual Macs pirate their OS.
LK
You must not live in Pittsburgh. "The City" is filled with die hard Democrats and the machine will not permit someone to come in and run out of the blue.
It's a decent place, crime is low and real estate is affordable but a lot of things are ass backwards here.
LK
I too live in Allegheny county. This summer when I was moving, I seriously considered moving to Westmoreland county to escape the lunacy of Pittsbugh.
It's almost like the machine politicians of the city get together every 6 months and ask each other "How can we fuck up this region even worse?"
Onorato's first solution to any problem is "A new tax!" I'm surprised that he found the balls to stand up to the PAT union last week.
LK
Really, I have no problem with a "lousy start" policy of some sort, but to guarantee 50% while other students are giving and earning 100% annoys me to no end.
Why? 50% is still an F.
LK
You don't understand the way the world works, and that is why you lose.
LK
I AM a Republican. I will be voting for McCain.
LK
You'd bend over and take it in your collective ass if someone convinced you that it was way to stay safe.
LK
Saddam is dead and there is no USSR. I'd say you're quite right.
LK
In the 1990s, during the Clinton era, liberals talked about how we should model outselves after England because of their low gun crime. We said that if there were a sudden rash of stabbings/slashings they'd move to institute knife control. We were called kooks, gun-nuts, paranoids and worse.
Now, just like we said 12 years ago. The UK is going batshit nuts to ban knives....
KNIVES... Mankind's tool since the bronze age.
Next, it'll be rock control.
LK
I suppose that both of you will need to dual boot.
LK
Since *I* don't like it, I'll keep right on making noise about it until it is changed.
Making noise won't get a single thing changed. Unorganized bitching won't get a thing done. You want to fix things? Call your Senator, call your Representative, call your State Senator and Representative. Encourage other people to do the same.
Unless you actually DO SOMETHING, you'll be just like those old welfare bums that I remember from when I was a kid who used to sit around drinking cheap beer crying about how the "system" was a "sham".
LK
Or maybe something crazy like, oh... lets see... one set of laws that covers how federal elections should be run, maybe passed at a federal level. You know, like other civilised countries have.
In this country, the Federal government's powers are limited. We have this little document called the Constitution that delinieates the powers of the federal government. As annoying as that is to some people, it's how things work here.
LK
Dude, OS X is so much better than OS 7/8.
It doesn't matter. I was never unhappy with the OS. Besides, it's not the OS that gets anything done. It's the Apps. In recent years, Apps for creative endeavors have been produced for Windows as well as Mac.
If you eschew the "image" stuff, then paint "DELL" on the outside of your MacBook and buy new headphones for your iPod.
There's that, or I could buy an Acer laptop for 1/3 the price and a Creative MP3 player.
Avoiding a product because of the hype is at least as dumb as using a product because of the hype, don't you think?
Except that the only reason to use a Mac now is Hype.
LK
The problem is the violation, what hole it is in is secondary.
LK
So why should you keep it?
Because it's MY land...
And if someone else uses your land and improves it, why should YOU benefit from the work done by them because you were lazy???
Because it's MY land...
LK
EA says they will have staff standing by to grant more installations as necessary on a case by case basis. So, while this still isn't optimal, at least we are getting a compromise.
This is like a rapist saying that instead of anally violating you, he'll settle for oral. It's a shitty compromise.
LK