I totally agree with you. It's extremely scary, but how can we fix the problem?
From what I can tell, there aren't enough "educated" people that care enough to make a difference. For instance, out of everyone that reads this site and agrees that all this additional privacy invasion is bad, how many people would actually DO something to make a difference and end this nonsense?
I realize that a lot of the things I read on this site are semi-biased sometimes, but the overall feeling I'm getting is not good.
We all realize that more monitoring is not necessarily a good thing or a solution to any problem, but how do we truly inform the people that don't understand, especially those who are making decisions for us in politics?
I've written some of my state reps but I'm just not sure that's doing the job. Is there a bigger organization that will stand up for us and privacy?
It seems like ChiliSoft ASP would be a good purchase for RedHat or SuSE. That way they can opensource it and say, "See, our Apache webservers support ASP right out of the box."
For that matter, I guess they don't even need to opensource it. They could include it as part of their package.
In my experiences, the lack of ASP is the biggest turnoff for people using IIS but interested in switching to Apache. I know PHP is a good solution, but it takes a while to port hundreds of applications written in VBScript and Jscript.
You'd be surprised. I've tried to buy jscript.com a couple of times and the first time he wanted like $25,000 and I think he's down to $1000 now but geez... I'll give him $50 for it.
In 2-3 years a whole lot of.com,.net and.org domains will become available.
Some people will keep on cybersquatting, but any domain name worth cybersquatting that's not infringing on trademarks has already been sold.
I'm halfway cybersquatting... I have a couple of domain names that I haven't done anything with other than point them to my servers. I do have plans for both of them though, just have other stuff that has higher priority.
When we cheered over here, it wasn't because innocent civilians were killed, it was because we were beating Saddam. (sp?)
They were shouting "Praise god" correct? What exactly were they cheering for? Who is their enemy? George Bush? Innocent Americans?
Maybe you are right and there is no difference, but I kind of still feel like there is a big difference.
What 'god' do they serve? I've heard people claim that their 'god' and our almighty God are the same being but after today I definately am convinced that they are not.
I'm assuming that the United States is in the right and the people cheering on TV are in the wrong. Hopefully that's a valid assumption.
The way I see it we only have a few options:
1. Kill them all.
2. Try to wait it out and hope that they don't keep attacking.
3. Take out their leaders.
What else can we do? If we take out their leaders, won't new ones just step up to bat, possibly more ignorant than the original?
If we level them they will hate us even more for the short term. Maybe they'd love us for it in the long run.
Do we have the capability to level them without nuclear power?
"I wonder if it was a bunch of crazy Americans or if it was a bunch of crazy Muslims."
The only thing that makes me think it wasn't any Americans is because we look out for ourselves and it's not our style to do suicide missions.
However, the thing that makes me think it wasn't any Muslims is because they didn't have guns. I just hope that someone can bring light to everything and we will see justice.
I'm not a racist person, but after seeing those people on TV today cheering about innocent American's being killed, I've got to admit that I felt a bit of blood lust and wouldn't have had a problem dropping a 757 on them.
Can someone please explain to me the people that were cheering in the streets? Wow, that made my blood boil.
Do they fully understand what happened? Surely, by their own standards those people were good people and wouldn't wish the death of thousands of innocent people would they?
If we retaliate by leveling their countries, are we any better than them? I'm kind of split right now, but I think Bush did the right thing by warning countries that harbored terrorists that they were in danger.
We should go get them and make them pay tenfold. That's what we did to Japan and look at how well Japan came back with a civilized government and people.
Personally, I'm wondering if tomorrow could possibly be the last day on earth? All it would take is a full scale nuclear war. Send one nuke and everyone retailiates. Is it anymore improbable than two planes hitting two towers of the WTC?
I'm glad to see our nation uniting and that people are willing to help by giving blood and saying prayers, but one thing that disturbs me (and I'm not trying to troll here) is why are they only trusting in God now in the time of trouble? Will God even hear the prayers of people that have been living their lives in sin and not obeying him for years?
I don't know, but could someone with knowledge on the subject explain to me about the people cheering in the streets waving their flags? What is their mentality? Why do they hate the United States?
No I can't. I've already blown too much money and once you're in the Missouri University system you can't get out unless you want to spend time and money retaking classes you've already taken.
I need a school that offers night classes. I've got 90+ hours (including an Associate's degree) towards a comp. sci. degree but I've got no options except Umsl if I want to take classes at night towards my 4 year degree.
I've got a.net company that hasn't gone out of business. And failure or not I will not go back to school. Freaking University of Missouri St. Louis SUCKS!!!!!!
I can't understand 90% of the professors because of their heavy accents.
I don't want to sound racist because I'm not but if I can't understand what the heck they're saying they shouldn't be teaching.
School isn't for everyone.
We'd be screwed if people started coding better...
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I mean what would we do with all this 1 GHz+ processors and 512mb+ chunks of ram? If everyone starts coding better we could go back to older machines and be faster than we are now.
Theoretically part of "stopping the hate" of 56k modems would be to make websites cleaner with less "junk" graphics... yet they want people to add a banner to their site? Am I missing something?
I believe Westplex Information Network started in 1994 or 1995.
www.win.org
You get a free e-mail address and lynx dialup access for free and in addition you can pay $8/month for a PPP connection.
It's more or less a good service. It does have short outages from time to time and during busy periods it gives you a two hour window to stay online and then you get booted and have to dial back in. This is by design.
Never again will I trust them or buy a product from them. They don't understand the meaning of tech support and they want to charge $2.95/minute for some no talent arse clown to sit on the other end of the phone and throw people for a loop.
It takes quite a bit of research to even find customer service to complain to about the crappy tech support.
If it takes longer to release a good game then that's fine, but the thing I'm a bit burned on is the fact that all the people who purchased warcraft II now have fast computers and it's not playable. You have to re-purchase the game as the battle.net edition to fix the mouse and scrolling speeds. Shouldn't that have been a free patch? Why on earth should I have to buy it twice?
Granted it's an older game, but there nothing as fun as marching into a village with an army of trolls throwing axes. New Troll here! Who you want me kill?
I should go download it from a warez site to show my disaproval.
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I totally agree with you. It's extremely scary, but how can we fix the problem?
From what I can tell, there aren't enough "educated" people that care enough to make a difference. For instance, out of everyone that reads this site and agrees that all this additional privacy invasion is bad, how many people would actually DO something to make a difference and end this nonsense?
I feel so powerless.
I realize that a lot of the things I read on this site are semi-biased sometimes, but the overall feeling I'm getting is not good.
We all realize that more monitoring is not necessarily a good thing or a solution to any problem, but how do we truly inform the people that don't understand, especially those who are making decisions for us in politics?
I've written some of my state reps but I'm just not sure that's doing the job. Is there a bigger organization that will stand up for us and privacy?
It seems that there are already enough distractions.
What does everyone have to hide?
If we were all moral people (including the companies that are monitoring us) privacy wouldn't be such a big deal.
Prove me wrong.
It seems like ChiliSoft ASP would be a good purchase for RedHat or SuSE. That way they can opensource it and say, "See, our Apache webservers support ASP right out of the box."
For that matter, I guess they don't even need to opensource it. They could include it as part of their package.
In my experiences, the lack of ASP is the biggest turnoff for people using IIS but interested in switching to Apache. I know PHP is a good solution, but it takes a while to port hundreds of applications written in VBScript and Jscript.
I've been using the Windows version for a while now.
They keep adding improvements fairly steadily. Each release is more stable and has better features than the last.
They really had nothing to lose going open source.
You'd be surprised. I've tried to buy jscript.com a couple of times and the first time he wanted like $25,000 and I think he's down to $1000 now but geez... I'll give him $50 for it.
There is nothing right about .biz either.
.com, .net and .org domains will become available.
In 2-3 years a whole lot of
Some people will keep on cybersquatting, but any domain name worth cybersquatting that's not infringing on trademarks has already been sold.
I'm halfway cybersquatting... I have a couple of domain names that I haven't done anything with other than point them to my servers. I do have plans for both of them though, just have other stuff that has higher priority.
Robots today are like computers were yesterday... We are underestimating their use and capability.
We just haven't figured out what to do with them yet.
A receiver would only tell the cell phone carrier where they were, it wouldn't tell the person on the other end of the line where they were.
With the current situation this would do no good. The survivors already know they are under a pile of rubble. GPS won't shed any new light for them.
When we cheered over here, it wasn't because innocent civilians were killed, it was because we were beating Saddam. (sp?)
They were shouting "Praise god" correct? What exactly were they cheering for? Who is their enemy? George Bush? Innocent Americans?
Maybe you are right and there is no difference, but I kind of still feel like there is a big difference.
What 'god' do they serve? I've heard people claim that their 'god' and our almighty God are the same being but after today I definately am convinced that they are not.
Any country that harbors them is as good as the terrorist themselves right?
What benefit do they have to protect terrorists?
What stops a government from forming terrorist groups and harboring them so that they can attack us without retaliation?
I think we're going to lay waste to the middle east.
I think Bush will do it right this time.
I'm assuming that the United States is in the right and the people cheering on TV are in the wrong. Hopefully that's a valid assumption.
The way I see it we only have a few options:
1. Kill them all.
2. Try to wait it out and hope that they don't keep attacking.
3. Take out their leaders.
What else can we do? If we take out their leaders, won't new ones just step up to bat, possibly more ignorant than the original?
If we level them they will hate us even more for the short term. Maybe they'd love us for it in the long run.
Do we have the capability to level them without nuclear power?
That was the first thing that I thought of...
"I wonder if it was a bunch of crazy Americans or if it was a bunch of crazy Muslims."
The only thing that makes me think it wasn't any Americans is because we look out for ourselves and it's not our style to do suicide missions.
However, the thing that makes me think it wasn't any Muslims is because they didn't have guns. I just hope that someone can bring light to everything and we will see justice.
I'm not a racist person, but after seeing those people on TV today cheering about innocent American's being killed, I've got to admit that I felt a bit of blood lust and wouldn't have had a problem dropping a 757 on them.
Can someone please explain to me the people that were cheering in the streets? Wow, that made my blood boil.
Do they fully understand what happened? Surely, by their own standards those people were good people and wouldn't wish the death of thousands of innocent people would they?
If we retaliate by leveling their countries, are we any better than them? I'm kind of split right now, but I think Bush did the right thing by warning countries that harbored terrorists that they were in danger.
We should go get them and make them pay tenfold. That's what we did to Japan and look at how well Japan came back with a civilized government and people.
Personally, I'm wondering if tomorrow could possibly be the last day on earth? All it would take is a full scale nuclear war. Send one nuke and everyone retailiates. Is it anymore improbable than two planes hitting two towers of the WTC?
I'm glad to see our nation uniting and that people are willing to help by giving blood and saying prayers, but one thing that disturbs me (and I'm not trying to troll here) is why are they only trusting in God now in the time of trouble? Will God even hear the prayers of people that have been living their lives in sin and not obeying him for years?
I don't know, but could someone with knowledge on the subject explain to me about the people cheering in the streets waving their flags? What is their mentality? Why do they hate the United States?
No I can't. I've already blown too much money and once you're in the Missouri University system you can't get out unless you want to spend time and money retaking classes you've already taken.
I need a school that offers night classes. I've got 90+ hours (including an Associate's degree) towards a comp. sci. degree but I've got no options except Umsl if I want to take classes at night towards my 4 year degree.
How in the heck was I trolling?
I've got a .net company that hasn't gone out of business. And failure or not I will not go back to school. Freaking University of Missouri St. Louis SUCKS!!!!!!
I can't understand 90% of the professors because of their heavy accents.
I don't want to sound racist because I'm not but if I can't understand what the heck they're saying they shouldn't be teaching.
School isn't for everyone.
I mean what would we do with all this 1 GHz+ processors and 512mb+ chunks of ram? If everyone starts coding better we could go back to older machines and be faster than we are now.
Theoretically part of "stopping the hate" of 56k modems would be to make websites cleaner with less "junk" graphics... yet they want people to add a banner to their site? Am I missing something?
Westplex actually serves all of St. Charles county which is maybe 200,000 people.
No where near the size of Houston, but it's a relatively simple process. You start small and grow the service based on demand.
It will probably suck for the first year or so as they get everything worked out.
I believe Westplex Information Network started in 1994 or 1995.
www.win.org
You get a free e-mail address and lynx dialup access for free and in addition you can pay $8/month for a PPP connection.
It's more or less a good service. It does have short outages from time to time and during busy periods it gives you a two hour window to stay online and then you get booted and have to dial back in. This is by design.
They're working on offering DSL.
Never again will I trust them or buy a product from them. They don't understand the meaning of tech support and they want to charge $2.95/minute for some no talent arse clown to sit on the other end of the phone and throw people for a loop.
It takes quite a bit of research to even find customer service to complain to about the crappy tech support.
If it takes longer to release a good game then that's fine, but the thing I'm a bit burned on is the fact that all the people who purchased warcraft II now have fast computers and it's not playable. You have to re-purchase the game as the battle.net edition to fix the mouse and scrolling speeds. Shouldn't that have been a free patch? Why on earth should I have to buy it twice?
Granted it's an older game, but there nothing as fun as marching into a village with an army of trolls throwing axes. New Troll here! Who you want me kill?
I should go download it from a warez site to show my disaproval.
Nerds around the world will stand in line for warcraft 3 based on the stuff I've seen so far.
Port away!