It is precisely *because* of the militancy inherent in Koranic Islam that the Umma expanded into the great Islamic empire of the Middle Ages. Expanding zones of conquest meant wealth, which allowed leisure and patronage for the arts and sciences. The same inherent militancy, under conditions of oppression, can't hope to effect the same result. There will probably never be another great Islamic empire. Christianity is growing faster than Islam in most of the third world, and now the global hegemon has effectively made a policy of perpetual war on Islam, although internal political forces have kept that policy in check.
I'm not OK with the existence of classified information. It is directly contradictory to the existence of meaningful democratic exercise. During War, all norms of ethics are discarded, in favor of might=right, and classification of information is a necessary evil. But it is not less evil for being necessary, and there is *no* valid justification for classified information during peacetime (i.e. NOW). If your information sources are illegal, that very fact needs to be made evident, so that the rule of law can be enforced. War supercedes the rule of law, so every administration in power, when it wishes to violate the laws which it has sworn to enforce, creates a pretextual condition of warfare. But laws creating information classifications that penalize journalists who expose corruption are unconscionable under any circumstances, in a democratic society, because they undermine, even refute the very basis for the legitimacy of the exercise of power by the government, specifically, the informed will of the governed.
According to the Chinese historians, Chin Shih Huang-Ti sent an expedition to seek out legendary eastern islands shortly before the birth of Christ. They never came back, and hence Japan was populated. I suppose that differential genetic analysis could resolve the conflicting accounts, if you accepted the results, but given the absymmal record of phylogenetic morphology, I can't consider any such results to be clearly determinative.
This is tangential, not offtopic:P
Re:Good God, are you Clueless?
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WiFi Triangulation
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· Score: 3, Informative
There's simply no way that the triangulation is based on ping times. They're talking about measurements of less than a meter, which is on the order of 3 nanoseconds at c. Much more sensible is to triangulate based on signal strength.
Yes, signal strength can be spoofed *downward*, but for commercial cards, it can't be spoofed *upward*, significantly, without the spoof being clearly detectible. Therefore, I disagree: It is a very useful supplement to perimeter security. The ability to defeat does not invalidate a security measure, unless the effort and expense involved is below the cost/benefit threshold.
Personally, I'd rather live in a society rich with mythology and legend than in a sterile cube.
Oh, and there *is* a town in Japan named Usa which does have electronics manufacturing facilities. Read the snopes link. The *only* factual complaint against the legend in this instance was due to the way they phrased it, i.e. that the name of the town was *changed* to Usa after World War II. The rest of the snopes article is interpretation, speculation, and spin.
Pardon me, but Snopes is full of bull. Many of their articles are pure political spin pieces. All of them are supercilious tripe, even when they manage to get the facts right, but worse they go on to derive invalid conclusions from their "facts", in order to refute their straw-man "legends".
Besides which, there was nothing -- nada -- zip -- zilch -- about the post to which you respond to give it the credibility which would merit a refutation, thus making your response a tendentious pedantry up with which I cannot put.
Well, Hong Kong is now P.R.China, and frankly, the rule of law has been eviscerated and replaced with cronyism. You can do business until you become successful, and then you have to have guanxi to survive. The more money you make, the bigger your guanxi has to be -- that means enormous kick-backs to the party cadres. China would be *the* global economic powerhouse by now, if Dengism had really stuck, and the markets were really open, but as it is, there are going to be 1.1 billion dirt poor people suffering and dying in grinding poverty, and 100 million adjunction functionaries in the cloud surrounding about 100,000 filthy rich princelings for the forseeable future. The old HK money is gradually bleeding away, and the HK economy is going down the tubes as it happens.
That's right. The Linux kernel has never been under CVS control, in it's centralized form as a development project under the leadership of its original author.
As to why this matters: There is effectively no source version control on the Linux kernel in it's public face right now, to the detriment of everyone who isn't exposed to it's private face. All the version history is lost to the world, possibly forever.
This could be solved by writing a cvs interface for bitkeeper, but I guess everyone else feels like I do: Why do a favor for McVoy when he's clearly trying to screw us in order to gain market cred with the Fortune 500s?
There's never any doubt that US laws apply to everyone, everywhere. Consider the case of Manuel Noriega, currently doing time in Club Fed. Consider the various persons in the Club for acts performed
in sovereign territories (e.g. Afghanistan) where those acts were entirely legal. Heck, there's really no limit to the power of the Feds, in law or in practice, at this point, since the Imperator^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HPresident can declare *anyone* to be an "enemy combatant" at any time,
and of course killing an "enemy combatant", or for that matter their families and neighbors, is never prosecuted.
And if the child is a fetus? Does the parent then have the right to make the choice whether to apply a life-saving (or life-discarding) medical treatment, in your view?
Said counterfeiters are in fact commiting massive acts of civil disobedience. Whether they are doing so from personal pecuniary interests or in an act of noble self-sacrifice is immaterial. The fact remains that they are *doing* something about the rape and subdivision of the Intellectual Commons.
You are a slave, and your children are slaves, owned and serving at the whim, *surviving* at the whim of the reigning plutocracy. I think you're fussing about the pinstriping on your guillotine. The only way to really address the corruption of the political process in the era of centralized control of the mass media is terrorism.
> Last time I checked, nobody lost his/her life or > the lives of family members and friends over a > free/proprietary software issue.
But you haven't checked, have you? Remember when the USN destroyer was shut down by NT4? How many commercial aircraft have been lost due to software errors? There's really no way of estimating, frankly. I only know of one clear case, in which an ATC screen display was misprogrammed, resulting in a collision with mass fatalities in Germany, but in general, when closed-source software costs lives it's very difficult to prove that it was the result of a software defect, and believe me, the vendor will spend every last dime they have making sure that you will never be able to pin the blame on them.
Free software is free speech, and whether the cost of defying censorship is jailtime, court awards, or a bullet in the head is immaterial to that fact.
That's the problem. Once you've read it, you are under their control. Until then, you are free to make a *reasonable* interpretation of the events.
itantic was doomed from the start
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Itanium Problems
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google for itanic, and you'll begin to see why. the continuing campaign is just throwing good money after bad. now is AMD's time to shine. i'm considering doing my next project closed source just so that i can release it exclusively as opteron-only, because i love being right.
Aye, sir. Your final point is the most significant. Mercantilism, which might also be called by the simpler and less euphonious name of corruption, is gradually proving the only competitive form of national economy. It is pervading Europe too. Nokia and the government of Finland are well nigh inseparable.
So many people remember Orwell's 1984 as a vision of totalitarian privacy invasion, and dread that single aspect of his prescient vision, but the division of the world into warring global regions of continental scale, all organized in a similar fashion, for the purpose of keeping the reins of power in the hands of an almost invisible elite seems to me at least as dreadful, and perhaps more descriptive of our real future.
well, the list goes on and on. From the period of the opium wars through the cultural revolution China was pretty badly ripped apart, and they really didn't contribute a lot to global culture and technology, but it's beginning to look like they are getting back on some pretty stable tracks after a long series of train wrecks.
I disagree. The soviets were buried by a combination of corruption within their empire, resulting in a disaffected populace, and being spent into the dirt by Ronald Regan's maniacal defense budgets -- i.e., corruption outside of their empire.
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It is precisely *because* of the militancy inherent
in Koranic Islam that the Umma expanded into the
great Islamic empire of the Middle Ages. Expanding
zones of conquest meant wealth, which allowed leisure
and patronage for the arts and sciences. The same
inherent militancy, under conditions of oppression,
can't hope to effect the same result. There will
probably never be another great Islamic empire.
Christianity is growing faster than Islam in most
of the third world, and now the global hegemon has
effectively made a policy of perpetual war on
Islam, although internal political forces have
kept that policy in check.
I'm not OK with the existence of classified
information. It is directly contradictory to the
existence of meaningful democratic exercise.
During War, all norms of ethics are discarded,
in favor of might=right, and classification of
information is a necessary evil. But it is not
less evil for being necessary, and there is *no*
valid justification for classified information
during peacetime (i.e. NOW). If your information
sources are illegal, that very fact needs to be
made evident, so that the rule of law can be
enforced. War supercedes the rule of law, so
every administration in power, when it wishes to
violate the laws which it has sworn to enforce,
creates a pretextual condition of warfare. But
laws creating information classifications that
penalize journalists who expose corruption are
unconscionable under any circumstances, in a
democratic society, because they undermine, even
refute the very basis for the legitimacy of the
exercise of power by the government, specifically,
the informed will of the governed.
According to the Chinese historians, Chin Shih Huang-Ti sent an expedition to seek out legendary
eastern islands shortly before the birth of Christ.
They never came back, and hence Japan was populated. I suppose that differential genetic analysis could resolve the conflicting accounts, if you accepted
the results, but given the absymmal record of
phylogenetic morphology, I can't consider any such
results to be clearly determinative.
This is tangential, not offtopic:P
There's simply no way that the triangulation is
based on ping times. They're talking about
measurements of less than a meter, which is
on the order of 3 nanoseconds at c. Much more
sensible is to triangulate based on signal
strength.
Yes, signal strength can be spoofed *downward*,
but for commercial cards, it can't be spoofed
*upward*, significantly, without the spoof being
clearly detectible. Therefore, I disagree: It
is a very useful supplement to perimeter security.
The ability to defeat does not invalidate a
security measure, unless the effort and expense
involved is below the cost/benefit threshold.
Personally, I'd rather live in a society rich with
mythology and legend than in a sterile cube.
Oh, and there *is* a town in Japan named Usa which
does have electronics manufacturing facilities.
Read the snopes link. The *only* factual complaint
against the legend in this instance was due to the
way they phrased it, i.e. that the name of the town
was *changed* to Usa after World War II. The rest
of the snopes article is interpretation,
speculation, and spin.
Pardon me, but Snopes is full of bull.
Many of their articles are pure political spin
pieces. All of them are supercilious tripe, even
when they manage to get the facts right, but
worse they go on to derive invalid conclusions
from their "facts", in order to refute their
straw-man "legends".
Besides which, there was nothing -- nada -- zip --
zilch -- about the post to which you respond to
give it the credibility which would merit a
refutation, thus making your response a tendentious
pedantry up with which I cannot put.
Well, Hong Kong is now P.R.China, and frankly,
the rule of law has been eviscerated and replaced
with cronyism. You can do business until you
become successful, and then you have to have
guanxi to survive. The more money you make, the
bigger your guanxi has to be -- that means enormous
kick-backs to the party cadres. China would be
*the* global economic powerhouse by now, if
Dengism had really stuck, and the markets were
really open, but as it is, there are going to be
1.1 billion dirt poor people suffering and dying
in grinding poverty, and 100 million adjunction
functionaries in the cloud surrounding about
100,000 filthy rich princelings for the forseeable
future. The old HK money is gradually bleeding
away, and the HK economy is going down the tubes
as it happens.
I think you know not where of you speak.
There's no reason to copy part of the bios on a
modchip, since that part of the bios is already
on the original box.
That's right. The Linux kernel has never been
under CVS control, in it's centralized form as
a development project under the leadership of its
original author.
As to why this matters:
There is effectively no source version control on
the Linux kernel in it's public face right now, to
the detriment of everyone who isn't exposed to
it's private face. All the version history is
lost to the world, possibly forever.
This could be solved by writing a cvs interface
for bitkeeper, but I guess everyone else feels
like I do: Why do a favor for McVoy when he's
clearly trying to screw us in order to gain
market cred with the Fortune 500s?
#include is really more flexible, because you can
have macro expansions in the included text without
re-#defining the whole function body.
As for parameters, do
#define PARAM1 abc
#define PARAM2 def
#include "function.i"
#undef PARAM1
#undef PARAM2
I suggest using Linux on the Toshiba as well. See handhelds.org and linuxdevices.com.
#include "function.i"
There's never any doubt that US laws apply to everyone, everywhere. Consider the case of Manuel Noriega, currently doing time in Club Fed. Consider the various persons in the Club for acts performed in sovereign territories (e.g. Afghanistan) where those acts were entirely legal. Heck, there's really no limit to the power of the Feds, in law or in practice, at this point, since the Imperator^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HPresident can declare *anyone* to be an "enemy combatant" at any time, and of course killing an "enemy combatant", or for that matter their families and neighbors, is never prosecuted.
Okay, so Blue beats a grandmaster, Fritz beats Blue,
and a grandmaster beats Fritz. Why does this remind
me more of paper-scissors-rock than chess.
Clearly, mastery in chess has more than one-dimension.
And if the child is a fetus? Does the parent then
have the right to make the choice whether to apply
a life-saving (or life-discarding) medical
treatment, in your view?
Said counterfeiters are in fact commiting massive
acts of civil disobedience. Whether they are doing
so from personal pecuniary interests or in an act
of noble self-sacrifice is immaterial. The fact
remains that they are *doing* something about the
rape and subdivision of the Intellectual Commons.
Power flows from the end of a gun. -Mao Ze Dong
You are a slave, and your children are slaves, owned
and serving at the whim, *surviving* at the whim of
the reigning plutocracy. I think you're fussing
about the pinstriping on your guillotine. The only
way to really address the corruption of the
political process in the era of centralized control
of the mass media is terrorism.
> Last time I checked, nobody lost his/her life or
> the lives of family members and friends over a
> free/proprietary software issue.
But you haven't checked, have you? Remember when
the USN destroyer was shut down by NT4? How many
commercial aircraft have been lost due to software
errors? There's really no way of estimating,
frankly. I only know of one clear case, in which
an ATC screen display was misprogrammed, resulting
in a collision with mass fatalities in Germany,
but in general, when closed-source software costs
lives it's very difficult to prove that it was the
result of a software defect, and believe me, the
vendor will spend every last dime they have making
sure that you will never be able to pin the blame
on them.
Free software is free speech, and whether the cost
of defying censorship is jailtime, court awards,
or a bullet in the head is immaterial to that fact.
This article should get beaten up pretty badly in moderation for being disingenuous and willfully fallacious.
> anti-MS bigotry
That's an oxymoron, son.
> It makes much more sense when you read it.
That's the problem. Once you've read it, you
are under their control. Until then, you are
free to make a *reasonable* interpretation of
the events.
google for itanic, and you'll begin to see why.
the continuing campaign is just throwing good
money after bad. now is AMD's time to shine.
i'm considering doing my next project closed source
just so that i can release it exclusively as
opteron-only, because i love being right.
Aye, sir. Your final point is the most significant.
Mercantilism, which might also be called by the
simpler and less euphonious name of corruption,
is gradually proving the only competitive form of
national economy. It is pervading Europe too.
Nokia and the government of Finland are well nigh
inseparable.
So many people remember Orwell's 1984 as a vision
of totalitarian privacy invasion, and dread that
single aspect of his prescient vision, but the
division of the world into warring global regions
of continental scale, all organized in a similar
fashion, for the purpose of keeping the reins of
power in the hands of an almost invisible elite
seems to me at least as dreadful, and perhaps
more descriptive of our real future.
Nice understatement. How about
....
1) lighter-than-air flight
2) heavier-than-air flight
3) paper
4) printing
5) books
6) paper money
7) ceramics
8) plastic
9) hydraulics
well, the list goes on and on. From the period
of the opium wars through the cultural revolution
China was pretty badly ripped apart, and they
really didn't contribute a lot to global culture
and technology, but it's beginning to look like
they are getting back on some pretty stable
tracks after a long series of train wrecks.
> that strategy buried the Soviet Empire
I disagree. The soviets were buried by a
combination of corruption within their empire,
resulting in a disaffected populace,
and being spent into the dirt by Ronald Regan's
maniacal defense budgets -- i.e., corruption
outside of their empire.