Yeah and then he mentioned that there was still around 500,000 lines of code that "isn't doing very much". It was a great talk overall. I am actually very happy to see that the X server finally seems to be in the process of being phased out, or at least made less mandatory for a desktop system. Things like removing keyboard and mouse input from it are music to my ears.
Everyone was fully aware of what they were doing.... Except those who were not, and not looked after, and now busted. You can be proud of being a useful idiot all you want.
The people that targetted wikileaks were probably people that actually knew what they were doing, and weren't just blindly running a DDOS program they got from 4chan.
Don't be a useful idiot. Don't take your marching orders from people on the interet who don't give a fuck about you. A DDOS attack like the one 4-chan (let's call them what they are) did, could have actually been anonymous had the morons actually been hackers. This is what it looks like when one pseudo-hacker can write a DDOS program, and a bunch of tech-illiterate morons run it on their network without actually knowing what it's doing, or how to mask their identity.
And all of this could have been avoided had we not had a politcal party in control for ten years, that placed more importance on a bronze age book, than advancing our scientific knowledge.
Every few months I try out the 4.x line, and I always walk away disappointed. It's got so much potential, and it looks really nice, but basic things still don't function like they should. Either the plasma widgets are broken or buggy, or it can't handle basic things like auto-mounting network samba shares in Dolphin, or when it does it won't stream video over a network without downloading the files first. Just too many rough edges for my taste. The last version I tried was 4.5, and literally just ditched it a few days ago and went back to Gnome. I plan on trying it again on the 4.7 release.
I do that about once every 3 months, and then I remember why I always went back to Gnome. Gnome isn't flashy, but everything works, and it gets the job done.
This is why you don't just blindly do what people tell you to do. An attack like this could have easily have been pulled off in a manner where the people doing it would actually stay, you know, anonymous. Instead you have one guy that knows how to code up a sloppy DDOS app, and a bunch of lemmings that will use it on their networks, without any idea what its actually doing, or how to mask their identity.
David Gregory is a liberal?
I don't see where he blamed Sarah Palin there either, or do you honestly think using violent metaphors are great in politics?
Amazing. A week's worth of whining from this woman, and you couldn't come up with ONE freaking example of all of this blame being dumped on her.
I'm not sure what liberals you're referring to, but every liberal I know is still pissed off about the public option being taken out of health care reform. Same goes for Guantanamo still being open. Take a serious look at dailykos, firedoglake, or crooksandliars and you'll find plenty of liberal criticism of Obama.
As to liberals "still" blaming Palin for the Giffords shooting, I challenge you to show me one example of a liberal blog blaming her for it. I challenge you! Give me an example. Palin has whined about this for a week, acting like she's the victim, and yet I haven't seen one single person blame her for it.
I don't think that's the case at all. The only reason we have "dark matter" is because of astronomical observations. That is classic science. Make an observation, and then come up with a theory to explain it. From observations we know that there is some type of mass out there affecting gravity. We call it 'dark matter' because we don't know what it is. This isn't an aether theory, it's based on real observations.
They aren't claiming that 3D acceleration can't be done. They just can't keep it stable with anything but the nvidia proprietary drivers. For a specialized program like Blender that isn't much of a problem, because anyone serious about actually using it, will have an nvidia based system. A web browser isn't specialized, and if they release a version of it that only works with one companies cards, they're going to drown themselves in tech support hell coming from other users that are trying to use unstable drivers.
How can you expect people to take you seriously when you make the claim that OpenGL drivers on Windows are "non existent"? If by non-existent, you mean "are more mature and perform better than either OSX or Linux", then you might have a point...
I use Arch Linux, which I guess could fit into the "time-waster" type distro, and even there, the nvidia drivers are painless to install. They even work after kernel upgrades.
Reading comprehension problems? If you fined people who hired illegals that would be targetting those "rich businessman" that you feel the need to argue for. This idea is a left wing idea, but libertarians and conservatives would never think of doing something to penalize the sacred businessman.
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Yeah and then he mentioned that there was still around 500,000 lines of code that "isn't doing very much". It was a great talk overall. I am actually very happy to see that the X server finally seems to be in the process of being phased out, or at least made less mandatory for a desktop system. Things like removing keyboard and mouse input from it are music to my ears.
Everyone was fully aware of what they were doing.... Except those who were not, and not looked after, and now busted. You can be proud of being a useful idiot all you want.
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The people that targetted wikileaks were probably people that actually knew what they were doing, and weren't just blindly running a DDOS program they got from 4chan.
Don't be a useful idiot. Don't take your marching orders from people on the interet who don't give a fuck about you. A DDOS attack like the one 4-chan (let's call them what they are) did, could have actually been anonymous had the morons actually been hackers. This is what it looks like when one pseudo-hacker can write a DDOS program, and a bunch of tech-illiterate morons run it on their network without actually knowing what it's doing, or how to mask their identity.
And all of this could have been avoided had we not had a politcal party in control for ten years, that placed more importance on a bronze age book, than advancing our scientific knowledge.
Yeah I realize that. That's why I prefer Gnome over KDE. It just handles that stuff without any hassle.
Every few months I try out the 4.x line, and I always walk away disappointed. It's got so much potential, and it looks really nice, but basic things still don't function like they should. Either the plasma widgets are broken or buggy, or it can't handle basic things like auto-mounting network samba shares in Dolphin, or when it does it won't stream video over a network without downloading the files first. Just too many rough edges for my taste. The last version I tried was 4.5, and literally just ditched it a few days ago and went back to Gnome. I plan on trying it again on the 4.7 release.
I do that about once every 3 months, and then I remember why I always went back to Gnome. Gnome isn't flashy, but everything works, and it gets the job done.
This is why you don't just blindly do what people tell you to do. An attack like this could have easily have been pulled off in a manner where the people doing it would actually stay, you know, anonymous. Instead you have one guy that knows how to code up a sloppy DDOS app, and a bunch of lemmings that will use it on their networks, without any idea what its actually doing, or how to mask their identity.
You need to read up on how the Social Security program is actually funded, because right now you sound like an uninformed jackass.
Sarah Palin was only running for VP and she lost.
Yes let's squander yet another national treasure at the altar of the market...
David Gregory is a liberal? I don't see where he blamed Sarah Palin there either, or do you honestly think using violent metaphors are great in politics? Amazing. A week's worth of whining from this woman, and you couldn't come up with ONE freaking example of all of this blame being dumped on her.
I'm not sure what liberals you're referring to, but every liberal I know is still pissed off about the public option being taken out of health care reform. Same goes for Guantanamo still being open. Take a serious look at dailykos, firedoglake, or crooksandliars and you'll find plenty of liberal criticism of Obama. As to liberals "still" blaming Palin for the Giffords shooting, I challenge you to show me one example of a liberal blog blaming her for it. I challenge you! Give me an example. Palin has whined about this for a week, acting like she's the victim, and yet I haven't seen one single person blame her for it.
At least I see Democrats and liberals questioning Obama's motives. During Bush's 8 years the Republicans questioned nothing.
I don't think that's the case at all. The only reason we have "dark matter" is because of astronomical observations. That is classic science. Make an observation, and then come up with a theory to explain it. From observations we know that there is some type of mass out there affecting gravity. We call it 'dark matter' because we don't know what it is. This isn't an aether theory, it's based on real observations.
Then you aren't a libertarian. Real libertarians are 100% against going after business owners.
They aren't claiming that 3D acceleration can't be done. They just can't keep it stable with anything but the nvidia proprietary drivers. For a specialized program like Blender that isn't much of a problem, because anyone serious about actually using it, will have an nvidia based system. A web browser isn't specialized, and if they release a version of it that only works with one companies cards, they're going to drown themselves in tech support hell coming from other users that are trying to use unstable drivers.
How can you expect people to take you seriously when you make the claim that OpenGL drivers on Windows are "non existent"? If by non-existent, you mean "are more mature and perform better than either OSX or Linux", then you might have a point...
Nobody can provide reliable software on a close sourced platform? Really? You're really going to try to claim that?
I use Arch Linux, which I guess could fit into the "time-waster" type distro, and even there, the nvidia drivers are painless to install. They even work after kernel upgrades.
that there was a 64 bit version of Windows 3.0!
Reading comprehension problems? If you fined people who hired illegals that would be targetting those "rich businessman" that you feel the need to argue for. This idea is a left wing idea, but libertarians and conservatives would never think of doing something to penalize the sacred businessman.
Another example of people wanting to cut taxes, no matter what, and then act shocked when we can't foot the bill the for everything.