"Distros by and large are just choice of kernel, arch, how they package, pile 0 libraries, and what apps ya got."
Exactly... and GNOME does not want to limit itself to any particular kernel, arch, package system, etc. To many people and organizations, those fundamentals matter a great deal more than which desktop runs on top of it.
Evidence wouldn't show us that searching for security holes improves security... Rather, such a judgement requires reasoning and evalution of the evidence. Common sense stuff, here.
Do smashing cars head-on into brick walls improve car safety? No, of course not. Evalution of the results of the crash, and using those findings to build better cars, that is what improves car safety, and the situation is entirely analogous in the security world. The assumption is that there is always a weakest link in security, that link is the most likely one to be exploited, and the trick is finding that link and strengthening it against attacks in the future, hopefully to the point where it is more likely that other links are weaker.
However wrong the review may be, he is rather conceited. One thing I've noticed about review on Slashdot recently is a number of self-serving reviews and uninformed opinions (usually on tech matters) from "honestpuck", so I'm not really surprised that he would take advantage of our time and attention by identifying himself politically.
It's a shame, because I've really enjoyed/. book reviews by others.
I live in Texas, and if that's the case, I strongly advise state or local public officials to close all of their public e-mail accounts, and only use web-based contact fill-out forms.
"The long sleepless nights, the time spent explaining very simple things to really stoopid people, and the ability to tune out the rest of the world all really help when dealing with children."
That reminds me something I saw, and excerpt from the pilot film of Sesame Street... The scene takes place in a boardroom.
"Okay... so we are going to make this TV show for young people, right?"
To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if this "boycott" is breaking an agreement between the founder and the buyers, much less a handful of laws out there to protect buyers from a sell-and-smash job.
PCs are not cell phones, and to be honest, I think many people would be more than willing to pay for their cell phones if it meant that this absurd concept of "minute plans" died a sudden and painful death. The personal computer is a device people can see and feel. It is propery, and no matter how revolutionary and great Windows may eventually become, the owner of a PC is the person who wants to decide what will happen to their computer and how it will be used.
I feel a bit of truth in what Sun and Microsoft is saying, but ONLY when it applies to enterprise computing. A solution that is uniform and just works across the organization is far more valuable than managing hardware purchases and having to put together a coherent IT strategy. In that way, the cost of future workstation PCs will be far more transparent, much in the same way that a corporate cell-phone plan makes a lot of sense to certain organizatgions rather than a mix-and-match network created by the employees.... still, neither work indivudal PC users at home. And, I hope, it never will.
You'll have to check the laws in your area, but at the very least, the list is missing a knife, pepper spray, brass knuckles, and a packet of instant foam... Bite into it, then the attacker, and do your best to fake rabies.:)
EVEN IF that power is granted to them indirectly by lenders.
Close... It's "granted" directly by the lenders, who are working within the agreement made between the lender and the borrower. It's indirect only to the borrower. It could be argued that the Fair Credit Reporting Act was needed probably because credit reporting agencies and loan institutions have probably been regulated in the US to the point where problems that would normally be fixed within the marketplace were no longer fixable.
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The other side of the production coin is the "no new refineries, and the active refineries are at peak" chant that the oil companies have been pointing to as a reason for the high price, and OPEC has been starting to point to for justification for not pushing out more crude. While there's a bit of truth to both, and there is a bit of incentive to open more refineries, I feel certain that there is no way they will be able to meet demand at the current rates of growth.
Call me an optimist, but stateside, I expect gas to hit around 4 or 5 dollars in the next few years, per capita consumption to go way down, plenty of lifestyle changes (I'll probably riding a bike to 5 miles work in a few months, after the heat goes down here in Texas and I buy a new bike), and globally, a slowing down in population growth... Expect more 'oil companies' to continue rebranding themselves as energy companies.
I am well aware of the problems faced by one of associates in Nairobi (Kenya)... Their facilities lacked air conditioning, and bets were being placed on how much longer a group of machines (that were assigned a data acquistion and server role) would last in more extreme days.
There is NOTHING wrong with asking people in certain countries about the chances of getting sand in their PCs.
(As far as your AC/karma issue goes, get over it. Nobody cares.)
"Apparently with $200 worth of sound equipment and software, these keyboard clicks can be translated to within 80% accuracy. Of course, a whole lot of this is just theory."
Anybody who saw the episode of the CBS evening buddy-cop-drama "Due South: A Hawk and a Handsaw" knows that you don't need any special equipment. Just get a Canadian Mountie, have him listen to a nurse while she types in her password, and after several tries, the Mountie will be able to reproduce the password based solely on the sound of the clicks... Results are even better if the password is typed in to the tune of "I've been working on the railroad.".
From this his webpage: "I am an advocate of the Linux operating system, and I work on a commercial product developed mostly for the Linux operating system. I do this for money, enjoyment and to further expand my knowledge and experience." "I have strong feelings about politics and 'civil liberties'. I do not believe in capitalism or the free market. I am a hard line anti-American (please note, I do not dislike Americans, only the fucked up political entity that the poor souls have to live in). I do not believe representative democracy works." (bold emphasis mine)
I don't think anybody working for Human Resources at Apple would touch this person, and I wouldn't blame anyone else of steering clear of him either. He's obviously a hypocrite... speaks loudly about anti-cpaitalism, but working on a 'commercial product for Linux' speaks volumes about his character.
On the first point, most people who would be offended by the "OK" sign are very well aware of its popular use in America and several other countries...
The fish, however... No, I don't think they 'match in American vernacular'. I'd say smells in either would have more to do with bacteria (death in one, treatable conditions in the other) than anything else. When I think of "Long John Silver's", my gutterthoughts don't go any lower than "Silverfish Platter".
Disclaimer: my first major in college was documentary film That reminds me... I understand that there's a shirt over at Texas A&M for Liberal Arts majors. It claims "You do more work by 8 AM than we do all day."
Both all crashed and/or locked up on me frequently
GNOME 2.6 crashed or locked up on you frequently? Can you elaborate? What programs locked up? Were you using 2.6 development packages from a distro still working (but not finished) with a final release? Did you file any bugs with your findings?
I hate to say it, but you probably weren't using a beta release of Windows 2000 on your desktop at work...:)
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There's nothing like coming in to work in the morning and reading "When Tanks Think and Attack"
"Distros by and large are just choice of kernel, arch, how they package, pile 0 libraries, and what apps ya got."
Exactly... and GNOME does not want to limit itself to any particular kernel, arch, package system, etc. To many people and organizations, those fundamentals matter a great deal more than which desktop runs on top of it.
Stolen today from Calum Benson's blog:
Q. Why do women love England footballers?
A. Because they're on top for 90 minutes and still come second.
Name of Avril's song is "Don't Tell Me"
3 minutes per play * 109 plays = 327 minutes.
7 days per week * 24 hours per day * 60 minutes per hour = 10080 minutes per week
327 minutes of song "Don't Tell Me" / 10080 minutes of airtime = 3.2 % of airtime devoted to the song "Don't Tell Me"
3.2% of 60 minutes = 1 minute 55 seconds of "Don't Tell Me" played per hour
Essentially, they played a song, Avril Lavine's "Don't Tell Me", enough in one week that it could occupy 2 minutes out of every hour.
If Avril's song was around 3 minutes long, then about 2 minutes out of every 60 was devoted to "Don't Tell Me."
Evidence wouldn't show us that searching for security holes improves security... Rather, such a judgement requires reasoning and evalution of the evidence. Common sense stuff, here.
Do smashing cars head-on into brick walls improve car safety? No, of course not. Evalution of the results of the crash, and using those findings to build better cars, that is what improves car safety, and the situation is entirely analogous in the security world. The assumption is that there is always a weakest link in security, that link is the most likely one to be exploited, and the trick is finding that link and strengthening it against attacks in the future, hopefully to the point where it is more likely that other links are weaker.
However wrong the review may be, he is rather conceited. One thing I've noticed about review on Slashdot recently is a number of self-serving reviews and uninformed opinions (usually on tech matters) from "honestpuck", so I'm not really surprised that he would take advantage of our time and attention by identifying himself politically.
/. book reviews by others.
It's a shame, because I've really enjoyed
I live in Texas, and if that's the case, I strongly advise state or local public officials to close all of their public e-mail accounts, and only use web-based contact fill-out forms.
"The long sleepless nights, the time spent explaining very simple things to really stoopid people, and the ability to tune out the rest of the world all really help when dealing with children."
That reminds me something I saw, and excerpt from the pilot film of Sesame Street... The scene takes place in a boardroom.
"Okay... so we are going to make this TV show for young people, right?"
"- Right."
"And they can't read?"
"- Yes."
"... and they can't count either?"
"- Yes - Uh huh - yeah"
"Then how about we call the show 'Hey, Stupid!'"
"people overlook it because they don't want to admit that Microsoft still gets this part right"
And I assume the right way means, 9 times out of 10, that you should reboot the system after you install the drivers?
To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if this "boycott" is breaking an agreement between the founder and the buyers, much less a handful of laws out there to protect buyers from a sell-and-smash job.
PCs are not cell phones, and to be honest, I think many people would be more than willing to pay for their cell phones if it meant that this absurd concept of "minute plans" died a sudden and painful death. The personal computer is a device people can see and feel. It is propery, and no matter how revolutionary and great Windows may eventually become, the owner of a PC is the person who wants to decide what will happen to their computer and how it will be used.
I feel a bit of truth in what Sun and Microsoft is saying, but ONLY when it applies to enterprise computing. A solution that is uniform and just works across the organization is far more valuable than managing hardware purchases and having to put together a coherent IT strategy. In that way, the cost of future workstation PCs will be far more transparent, much in the same way that a corporate cell-phone plan makes a lot of sense to certain organizatgions rather than a mix-and-match network created by the employees.... still, neither work indivudal PC users at home. And, I hope, it never will.
You'll have to check the laws in your area, but at the very least, the list is missing a knife, pepper spray, brass knuckles, and a packet of instant foam... Bite into it, then the attacker, and do your best to fake rabies. :)
I would have no idea.... I was surprised to find that he left Red Hat as of a few days ago, though.
EVEN IF that power is granted to them indirectly by lenders.
Close... It's "granted" directly by the lenders, who are working within the agreement made between the lender and the borrower. It's indirect only to the borrower. It could be argued that the Fair Credit Reporting Act was needed probably because credit reporting agencies and loan institutions have probably been regulated in the US to the point where problems that would normally be fixed within the marketplace were no longer fixable.
The other side of the production coin is the "no new refineries, and the active refineries are at peak" chant that the oil companies have been pointing to as a reason for the high price, and OPEC has been starting to point to for justification for not pushing out more crude. While there's a bit of truth to both, and there is a bit of incentive to open more refineries, I feel certain that there is no way they will be able to meet demand at the current rates of growth.
Call me an optimist, but stateside, I expect gas to hit around 4 or 5 dollars in the next few years, per capita consumption to go way down, plenty of lifestyle changes (I'll probably riding a bike to 5 miles work in a few months, after the heat goes down here in Texas and I buy a new bike), and globally, a slowing down in population growth... Expect more 'oil companies' to continue rebranding themselves as energy companies.
This type of content would fit wonderfully in "Ask Slashdot."
"Rather, it would be like asking a Californian if the frequent earthquakes disrupt the telecoms grid"....
:)
You know, I've never thought to ask that question, but I would get some insight on the topic.
I am well aware of the problems faced by one of associates in Nairobi (Kenya)... Their facilities lacked air conditioning, and bets were being placed on how much longer a group of machines (that were assigned a data acquistion and server role) would last in more extreme days.
There is NOTHING wrong with asking people in certain countries about the chances of getting sand in their PCs.
(As far as your AC/karma issue goes, get over it. Nobody cares.)
"Apparently with $200 worth of sound equipment and software, these keyboard clicks can be translated to within 80% accuracy. Of course, a whole lot of this is just theory."
Anybody who saw the episode of the CBS evening buddy-cop-drama "Due South: A Hawk and a Handsaw" knows that you don't need any special equipment. Just get a Canadian Mountie, have him listen to a nurse while she types in her password, and after several tries, the Mountie will be able to reproduce the password based solely on the sound of the clicks... Results are even better if the password is typed in to the tune of "I've been working on the railroad.".
If you want quality content, you need to be a subscribe... Otherwise, the community version of slashdot will EAT YOUR BRANE.
From this his webpage:
"I am an advocate of the Linux operating system, and I work on a commercial product developed mostly for the Linux operating system. I do this for money, enjoyment and to further expand my knowledge and experience."
"I have strong feelings about politics and 'civil liberties'. I do not believe in capitalism or the free market. I am a hard line anti-American (please note, I do not dislike Americans, only the fucked up political entity that the poor souls have to live in). I do not believe representative democracy works." (bold emphasis mine)
I don't think anybody working for Human Resources at Apple would touch this person, and I wouldn't blame anyone else of steering clear of him either. He's obviously a hypocrite... speaks loudly about anti-cpaitalism, but working on a 'commercial product for Linux' speaks volumes about his character.
On the first point, most people who would be offended by the "OK" sign are very well aware of its popular use in America and several other countries...
The fish, however... No, I don't think they 'match in American vernacular'. I'd say smells in either would have more to do with bacteria (death in one, treatable conditions in the other) than anything else. When I think of "Long John Silver's", my gutterthoughts don't go any lower than "Silverfish Platter".
Disclaimer: my first major in college was documentary film
That reminds me... I understand that there's a shirt over at Texas A&M for Liberal Arts majors. It claims "You do more work by 8 AM than we do all day."
Both all crashed and/or locked up on me frequently
:)
GNOME 2.6 crashed or locked up on you frequently? Can you elaborate? What programs locked up? Were you using 2.6 development packages from a distro still working (but not finished) with a final release? Did you file any bugs with your findings?
I hate to say it, but you probably weren't using a beta release of Windows 2000 on your desktop at work...