I've just filled out my census form, and when it asked for "Race", I wrote "Evil bastard". The question is, why are you such a racist? You insensitive CLOD!
Well, I spent a few years at sea when I was a younger man. I never have seen a "moral compass". And, I've certainly never seen a breached compass. How would a guy go about breaching a compass? Whatever - I'm sure that would be an offense punishable by keelhauling. And, yes, we hauled our keel along everywhere we went!
The cage is extraneous, and you know it. If the "scientist" is researching how to heal, but is unwilling to ensure that the wounds, ailments, or whatever are precisely administered, then the "scientist" is a fraud. You can't hire some chump off the street to come an and make random cuts on your mice, or randomly select and dismember the flies, or whatever. Research requires control - meaning the scientist controls every aspect of the research. Every aspect.
Seriously, getting people to install software only from a safe repository would be the greatest security move that MS could make. There are so many security holes in Windows, but the vast majority of crapware is installed voluntarily by some lackwit who responds to a banner ad or something with lots of pretty images and empty promises.
I don't much care how Microsoft spins it, as long as they educate people, and motivate them to secure their machines.
A lot of fanboys have claimed that "Windows can be as secure as Linux". I don't entirely believe that, but we all know that Windows can be a lot more secure than it is!!
So, what's going on? Has Microsoft decided to commercialize some of the open source concepts? Not a bad move, I guess. If you can convince people to only install software from safe repositories, infections worldwide will plummet. Of course, that won't stop drive-by infections, or "hackers" actively probing systems, but it would cut down on the number of people downloading trojans that claim to protect their computers from trojans.
I may break the rules here, and read TFA. No good slashdotter does that - but I've got plenty of good karma.
Gotta disagree. The "scientist" who can't handle the "grittier" parts isn't really a scientist. If you're doing a thesis about pulling the wings off of flies, and you've never actually pulled the wings off of flies, then you're a fraud, plain and simple.
"I don't need to know everything that it supports (why would I care?). I only need to know how well it supports my hardware.
Googling doesn't help much, because, frankly, it's quite a mess - you find a lot of old, outdated data (sometimes "outdated" by a month or two, e.g. by a fresh kernel, X, or other major package release), and this can go both ways - something that was fully supported fine before now has problems.
Name one."
Alright, it's obvious by now that I'm a firm supporter of Linux, and I dislike Windows. Further, I don't entirely agree with GP's post - but he has a point.
Soon after the Opterons came out, and Windows released WinXP in 64 bit, I decided that I was moving to 64 bit. I chose what looked like really good hardware - not quite cutting edge, but rather close to cutting edge at the time. Asus SK8V mainboard, with a single core Opteron clocked at 2 ghz. I needed WIFI, so I got Asus' cool WIFI card that installed into the last PCI slot on the mainboard.
I jumped through hoop after hoop trying to get WinXP 64 bit to use that card - beta drivers, decorated drivers, hacked drivers - it never worked.
Suse Linux 9.something just worked out of the box with that WIFI. That was the day that I pretty much said "Good Bye" to Windows.
Time went by, and I installed several operating systems on that machine, some worked better than others.
Not long ago, I was playing with OpenSuse - and it refuses to recognize that WIFI card. I wasn't determined enough to make it work, so I didn't dig in to find out why. But, GP has his point. Sometimes, things break. Whether it's the updated kernels, or OpenSuse just dropped support for proprietary drivers, or whatever, that card lost support.
Uhhhh - you're talking to a guy who pays $75/month for ~300k connection. I'm one of the forgotten rural customers. Tell you what - I'll take that.9 Mbit difference to replace what I actually get.
I won't overdo the praise for Europe, as I'm not sure just how good it is there. BUt, if I just watch this thread for awhile, I'm quite sure that we'll be enlightened.
Nice comparison. I'm about to fall out of my chair for lack of sleep. I need to remember to take a tour of news sites around the world. Just hit all their home pages, and see what kind of news each finds important enough for the front page.
iPads, Tiger Woods, and such trivial nonsense. Good grief.
He's laid more fiber from Washington to Boston than all of Europe. Hmmm. He's probably telling the truth. If Verizon has laid one mile of fiber somewhere between Washington and Boston, and they don't own a single foot of fiber in Europe, then he's technicaly telling the truth. Or, if we choose to look at that another way, European telcos have not put down any fiber between Washington and Boston - so Verizon has laid more fiber than all of Europe.
But, he's obviously trying to claim that Verizon owns more fiber between those two cities than all of the governments and telcos in Europe have ever put down, combined, in Europe. Which seems pretty preposterous. I'm willing to bet without even googling that is a lie.
BUT, from everything our European freinds write here and elsewhere, their service covers them EVERYWHERE. Gigabyte service even out in the boonies. Our boonies still depend on dial up phone modems.
The braggart loses, no matter how we slice and dice his comments.
You know - that's pretty close to reality. We are the AI, and not an especially advanced AI. We are programmed to go after short term profits, and little else. The US is very nearly incapable of formulating a 4 year plan, let alone a 20 year plan.
The human player isn't especially skilled in this game. But, moderate skills coupled with a strategy, add in a bit of creativity and adaptability - yes, the human will almost certainly beat the AI.
The US has a history of sleeping at the wheel, right up to the brink of disaster, then flying into action and saving the day. And, we have become complacent because of that. Someday, we'll wake up at the brink, and no amount of action will save our sorry butts. And, China may well be the precipice that breaks us.
"The one thing I need to find out is how to run OSX in a VM in Ubuntu."
That subject is taboo in most places. It can be done, but no one wants you to know it. I'm kind of stuck, because I'm running aging equipment that don't have the most modern virtualization support. I've downloaded half a dozen tools for installing Mac OS's into a VM, and they always barf on me. I really need to update my machines. Socket 940 and 939 Opterons are obsolete now, in spite of the prices I paid for them when they were new.
It could have been feedback from Ubuntu fans. I missed the switch to Yahoo - but if I had seen it, I would have weighed in with my disapproval. I haven't used Yahoo more than a few times in my life, for a reason. There is nothing I need, want, or like on Yahoo.
Not destroy - just DOMINATE. Assassin's Mace. As you say, they are quite happy to rake in the cash - while it lasts. But, it is becoming obvious to more and more people that the flow of cash cannot last. The US is broke, more than 1/4 of our population is hopelessly in debt, our government is hopelessly in debt, and we are watching corporate America move our assets overseas.
Yes, the cash flow is finite - and some day, the chips will be called in.
Only the United States thinks that China is a "partner". We are deluded fools. China has a clear cut plan to DOMINATE the US, militarily, economically, and technologically within 20 years, and that's about half gone.
They may not achieve their goals in the time alloted, but hey, so what if it takes 30 years. They have a goal, and we are aimless morons. Guess who comes out ahead.
First - he was obeying standing general orders, and rules of engagement.
Second - there were clearly AK-47's in sight during this video. The one weapon that was identified improperly seems to have been the "RPG" which turned out to be a camera. Phhht. Ever heard of the "fog of war"? It's more than just a catchy phrase in a wargame.
Tell me, at exactly what point in that video can you identify children as children? Until the US soldier (presumably a medic, but not necessarily so) carried the child away from the van, I saw no image that might have been identified as a child.
It was pretty clear that the adults were attempting to aid and abet an enemy though.
What is it that you think happens in war zones again? Do I need to explain it? They shot at us, we shot at them, someone attempted to take control of the situation in the combat zone, and we stopped them. Maybe they shouldn't have brought their little girls to a gunfight. I certainly wouldn't bring MY children to a gunfight!!
You've been in combat, I take it. You've been shot at. You speak from experience. You've also seen combat from a gunship.
I'm pretty sure that you've never seen combat, and you have little idea what you're talking about. You've swallowed the propaganda handed out along with the video, hook, line, and sinker.
Evidence? American troops were fired on, and the response was swift and deadly. That is as it should be. It's possible and quite likely that those people in the video actually are the ones who shot at Hotel 26.
Suggestion for you. Run Memtest86+ and give your memory a good working over. I had a burning problem not to long ago, which was solved when a failing stick of memory was removed from the system. I'm not making any promises, but the test is cheap.;^)
Landlubbers. If they can't see the other bank, then it must be an ocean.
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Pure horse shit.
Did you listen to the radio chatter? Did you read the captions supplied?
Once again, for the obtuse who refuse to look, listen, and think:
That gunship was called in by a ground unit, Hotel 26, which was under fire. Bullets were being fired at a US ground unit from this location. The gunship came in, and cleared away armed personnel. In fact, that reporter was embedded with an enemy unit, just like reporters have been embedded with US forces. The only mistake made in the entire video was the identification of a camera as an RPG.
Personally, if it were my call, I probably wouldn't have fired on the van. I say, "probably". I might have, had I actually been there. But, the van had no internationally recognized markings on it - no Red Cross, no Red Crescent. I saw people in a van aiding and abetting a member of an armed group that had fired upon our side on the ground.
Unless and until you understand that Hotel 26 had taken fire from this area, and almost certainly THESE ARMED PEOPLE, then you have zero understanding of what you saw on the video.
Did the van have a recognizable sign that it was an ambulance, something like a red cross, or a red crescent? No? Then, the occupants were aiding and abetting an enemy. No laws broken.
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Hey, stupid! Yo Mama is an OMNIVORE! Yo Granma would eat anything that didn't eat her first! Yo Great Granny has CANINES!!
Get over it - humans are predators - they were DESIGNED (by God or by nature) to eat flesh.
Here, try some A-1 sauce on that medium rare steak. It's delicious. Man, I just love that slightly pink center. BLOOD!! Mmmm-mmmm GOOD!
I've just filled out my census form, and when it asked for "Race", I wrote "Evil bastard". The question is, why are you such a racist? You insensitive CLOD!
"breaches the moral compass of society"
Well, I spent a few years at sea when I was a younger man. I never have seen a "moral compass". And, I've certainly never seen a breached compass. How would a guy go about breaching a compass? Whatever - I'm sure that would be an offense punishable by keelhauling. And, yes, we hauled our keel along everywhere we went!
The cage is extraneous, and you know it. If the "scientist" is researching how to heal, but is unwilling to ensure that the wounds, ailments, or whatever are precisely administered, then the "scientist" is a fraud. You can't hire some chump off the street to come an and make random cuts on your mice, or randomly select and dismember the flies, or whatever. Research requires control - meaning the scientist controls every aspect of the research. Every aspect.
Let them do it. I have no problem with it.
Seriously, getting people to install software only from a safe repository would be the greatest security move that MS could make. There are so many security holes in Windows, but the vast majority of crapware is installed voluntarily by some lackwit who responds to a banner ad or something with lots of pretty images and empty promises.
I don't much care how Microsoft spins it, as long as they educate people, and motivate them to secure their machines.
A lot of fanboys have claimed that "Windows can be as secure as Linux". I don't entirely believe that, but we all know that Windows can be a lot more secure than it is!!
So, what's going on? Has Microsoft decided to commercialize some of the open source concepts? Not a bad move, I guess. If you can convince people to only install software from safe repositories, infections worldwide will plummet. Of course, that won't stop drive-by infections, or "hackers" actively probing systems, but it would cut down on the number of people downloading trojans that claim to protect their computers from trojans.
I may break the rules here, and read TFA. No good slashdotter does that - but I've got plenty of good karma.
Gotta disagree. The "scientist" who can't handle the "grittier" parts isn't really a scientist. If you're doing a thesis about pulling the wings off of flies, and you've never actually pulled the wings off of flies, then you're a fraud, plain and simple.
"I don't need to know everything that it supports (why would I care?). I only need to know how well it supports my hardware.
Googling doesn't help much, because, frankly, it's quite a mess - you find a lot of old, outdated data (sometimes "outdated" by a month or two, e.g. by a fresh kernel, X, or other major package release), and this can go both ways - something that was fully supported fine before now has problems.
Name one."
Alright, it's obvious by now that I'm a firm supporter of Linux, and I dislike Windows. Further, I don't entirely agree with GP's post - but he has a point.
Soon after the Opterons came out, and Windows released WinXP in 64 bit, I decided that I was moving to 64 bit. I chose what looked like really good hardware - not quite cutting edge, but rather close to cutting edge at the time. Asus SK8V mainboard, with a single core Opteron clocked at 2 ghz. I needed WIFI, so I got Asus' cool WIFI card that installed into the last PCI slot on the mainboard.
I jumped through hoop after hoop trying to get WinXP 64 bit to use that card - beta drivers, decorated drivers, hacked drivers - it never worked.
Suse Linux 9.something just worked out of the box with that WIFI. That was the day that I pretty much said "Good Bye" to Windows.
Time went by, and I installed several operating systems on that machine, some worked better than others.
Not long ago, I was playing with OpenSuse - and it refuses to recognize that WIFI card. I wasn't determined enough to make it work, so I didn't dig in to find out why. But, GP has his point. Sometimes, things break. Whether it's the updated kernels, or OpenSuse just dropped support for proprietary drivers, or whatever, that card lost support.
Uhhhh - you're talking to a guy who pays $75/month for ~300k connection. I'm one of the forgotten rural customers. Tell you what - I'll take that .9 Mbit difference to replace what I actually get.
I won't overdo the praise for Europe, as I'm not sure just how good it is there. BUt, if I just watch this thread for awhile, I'm quite sure that we'll be enlightened.
Nice comparison. I'm about to fall out of my chair for lack of sleep. I need to remember to take a tour of news sites around the world. Just hit all their home pages, and see what kind of news each finds important enough for the front page.
iPads, Tiger Woods, and such trivial nonsense. Good grief.
He's laid more fiber from Washington to Boston than all of Europe. Hmmm. He's probably telling the truth. If Verizon has laid one mile of fiber somewhere between Washington and Boston, and they don't own a single foot of fiber in Europe, then he's technicaly telling the truth. Or, if we choose to look at that another way, European telcos have not put down any fiber between Washington and Boston - so Verizon has laid more fiber than all of Europe.
But, he's obviously trying to claim that Verizon owns more fiber between those two cities than all of the governments and telcos in Europe have ever put down, combined, in Europe. Which seems pretty preposterous. I'm willing to bet without even googling that is a lie.
BUT, from everything our European freinds write here and elsewhere, their service covers them EVERYWHERE. Gigabyte service even out in the boonies. Our boonies still depend on dial up phone modems.
The braggart loses, no matter how we slice and dice his comments.
You know - that's pretty close to reality. We are the AI, and not an especially advanced AI. We are programmed to go after short term profits, and little else. The US is very nearly incapable of formulating a 4 year plan, let alone a 20 year plan.
The human player isn't especially skilled in this game. But, moderate skills coupled with a strategy, add in a bit of creativity and adaptability - yes, the human will almost certainly beat the AI.
The US has a history of sleeping at the wheel, right up to the brink of disaster, then flying into action and saving the day. And, we have become complacent because of that. Someday, we'll wake up at the brink, and no amount of action will save our sorry butts. And, China may well be the precipice that breaks us.
"The one thing I need to find out is how to run OSX in a VM in Ubuntu."
That subject is taboo in most places. It can be done, but no one wants you to know it. I'm kind of stuck, because I'm running aging equipment that don't have the most modern virtualization support. I've downloaded half a dozen tools for installing Mac OS's into a VM, and they always barf on me. I really need to update my machines. Socket 940 and 939 Opterons are obsolete now, in spite of the prices I paid for them when they were new.
"- mess with about:config (disable safebrowsing, etc.)"
OMGZ - you disable safebrowsing? Can't you get gonorrhea or something from that?
It could have been feedback from Ubuntu fans. I missed the switch to Yahoo - but if I had seen it, I would have weighed in with my disapproval. I haven't used Yahoo more than a few times in my life, for a reason. There is nothing I need, want, or like on Yahoo.
Not destroy - just DOMINATE. Assassin's Mace. As you say, they are quite happy to rake in the cash - while it lasts. But, it is becoming obvious to more and more people that the flow of cash cannot last. The US is broke, more than 1/4 of our population is hopelessly in debt, our government is hopelessly in debt, and we are watching corporate America move our assets overseas.
Yes, the cash flow is finite - and some day, the chips will be called in.
That is China's plan, after all.
Only the United States thinks that China is a "partner". We are deluded fools. China has a clear cut plan to DOMINATE the US, militarily, economically, and technologically within 20 years, and that's about half gone.
They may not achieve their goals in the time alloted, but hey, so what if it takes 30 years. They have a goal, and we are aimless morons. Guess who comes out ahead.
First - he was obeying standing general orders, and rules of engagement.
Second - there were clearly AK-47's in sight during this video. The one weapon that was identified improperly seems to have been the "RPG" which turned out to be a camera. Phhht. Ever heard of the "fog of war"? It's more than just a catchy phrase in a wargame.
Tell me, at exactly what point in that video can you identify children as children? Until the US soldier (presumably a medic, but not necessarily so) carried the child away from the van, I saw no image that might have been identified as a child.
It was pretty clear that the adults were attempting to aid and abet an enemy though.
What is it that you think happens in war zones again? Do I need to explain it? They shot at us, we shot at them, someone attempted to take control of the situation in the combat zone, and we stopped them. Maybe they shouldn't have brought their little girls to a gunfight. I certainly wouldn't bring MY children to a gunfight!!
You've been in combat, I take it. You've been shot at. You speak from experience. You've also seen combat from a gunship.
I'm pretty sure that you've never seen combat, and you have little idea what you're talking about. You've swallowed the propaganda handed out along with the video, hook, line, and sinker.
Evidence? American troops were fired on, and the response was swift and deadly. That is as it should be. It's possible and quite likely that those people in the video actually are the ones who shot at Hotel 26.
Try reading this interview/discussion. Reuters admits that the reporter was embedded with an enemy unit. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2010/04/06/DI2010040600750.html The clueless, like yourself, don't even know that much.
Now, that's an option that I didn't have when I was learning my way around Linux. Damned good idea!
Suggestion for you. Run Memtest86+ and give your memory a good working over. I had a burning problem not to long ago, which was solved when a failing stick of memory was removed from the system. I'm not making any promises, but the test is cheap. ;^)
"The creatures reside deep in one of the harshest environments on earth: the Mediterranean Ocean's L'Atalante basin"
We don't have a Mediterranean Ocean here on Earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea
Landlubbers. If they can't see the other bank, then it must be an ocean.
Pure horse shit.
Did you listen to the radio chatter? Did you read the captions supplied?
Once again, for the obtuse who refuse to look, listen, and think:
That gunship was called in by a ground unit, Hotel 26, which was under fire. Bullets were being fired at a US ground unit from this location. The gunship came in, and cleared away armed personnel. In fact, that reporter was embedded with an enemy unit, just like reporters have been embedded with US forces. The only mistake made in the entire video was the identification of a camera as an RPG.
Personally, if it were my call, I probably wouldn't have fired on the van. I say, "probably". I might have, had I actually been there. But, the van had no internationally recognized markings on it - no Red Cross, no Red Crescent. I saw people in a van aiding and abetting a member of an armed group that had fired upon our side on the ground.
Unless and until you understand that Hotel 26 had taken fire from this area, and almost certainly THESE ARMED PEOPLE, then you have zero understanding of what you saw on the video.
Did the van have a recognizable sign that it was an ambulance, something like a red cross, or a red crescent? No? Then, the occupants were aiding and abetting an enemy. No laws broken.