from an essay I wrote a couple of months ago:
The Panopticon was a prison concept developed in the late 18th century. In the Panopticon prisoners were placed in individual cells arranged in a circle around a central tower. Prisoners could be observed at any time by a gaurd in the tower, but, because the tower had shuttered windows, they did not know when they were being watched or who may be watching.
Carnivore is the tower, we are all the prisoners.
We will never be allowed to see how the program works, because it may not be doing anything at all. It is not about catching criminals. The object is to take away the sense of anonymity, so that we know that we can be identified, and to create parnoia that we may watched at any time. The target is not criminals, but the general population. The effect is that it suppresses any radical ideas, creates complacence and conformity.
I need to go, the Thought Police will be at my door any moment...
What I'm wondering is if this is a service they are planning to charge for or if it will be free like helix-update. Either way, there are becoming more ways to automatically update packages in linux, and I wonder if this will lead to rivalries.
This sounds very similar to what Eazel plans to charge a subscription fee for.
And I noticed that Helix Red Carpet has channels for updating your distribution. Redhat already has an automatic updater for their bug fix releases, which they charge (excessive) support fees for. Nothing's stopping Helix code from mirroring Redhat (or any other distro) updates.
So Helix code has two choices: 1. charge for the service and compete with Redhat, Eazel, and others
or 2. give it away free and eliminate a revenue stream for other Linux companies (as well as themselves), making themselves the only (free) game in town.
Should be interesting...
Perhaps he's afraid that GNOME developers will start getting more corporate fundy money than KDE will? He keeps talking about "winning" and who's ahead. What does he think he's going to win? Is corporate funding the prize? GNOME was never about winning, it was about making the best truely free desktop possible. Anyone is welcome to help, and this guy thinks it's a bad thing?
Get over it man. GNOME is not fighting with you for the corporate bucks. GNOME was doing fine without their help and will only do better with it.
Do you mean to say that applications that were compiled to run on i386 Linux will be able to run on IA64 Linux? Will they lose any performance/ speed because of this?
As to your response to the moral issue: speak for yourself. My body, and more importantly my mind, belongs to me, not to the government or to any god. You god-fearing self righteous christians make me sick. Just because you would rather have someone else make your moral decisions for you (it's the "word of god"/the law), don't try to enforce your morality on me. If there is a hell, i'll see you there.
Also they mentioned the tendency of most BIOSes to screw up the configuration of PCI devices. With this, any Plug-n-Pray devices you have would be configured by linux instead of by your BIOS. I think. maybe.
Well, I just answered you on Gnotices, but for the benefit of/. readers: According to http://developer.gnome.org/status/roadmap.html the release date for Nautilus is "Late summer" - August or September. At that point it will become the desktop shell for Gnome. Hmm, August is two months away, and there haven't been any preview or development releases of Nautilus yet... We can always hope, right?
These screenshots started quite a battle over at Gnotices, which has been raging for days. So before it starts anew here, I would like to point out several things: 1) These are DEVELOPMENT screenshots, there has been no official release, not even a development release, it's all from their CVS. 2) Everything is / will be customizable. Don't like the icons? The icons can be changed. Don't like a particular way of viewing files? It can be changed. Think the sidebar takes up too much space? (Hopefullly) it can be hidden. 3) Everything is modular using Bonobo, so bloat is not an issue. Don't use your file manager as a web browser? The HTML component (Mozilla) won't be loaded into memory.
I'm sure this will do nothing to prevent the inevitable bitchings, but oh well.
What I would like to know is: which video card is best supported for direct rendering under Xfree86 4.0 ? I know nVidia's driver's are closed source, but I guess that's excusable if the work fully. Last I heard the ATI drivers were still in development. I haven't heard anything about how well the Matrox drivers work. And the 3dfx drivers don't fully support Mesa/ OpenGL, right?
I am not trying to be a troll. I am completely serious, although it was intended to be somewhat humourous as well. Microsoft's time has passed. Their monopoly is going to be broken up. They have nothing left to contribute to the world of computing. They already lost their hold on the server market to Linux. At this point they can either go out quietly, or do as much harm to their unfortunate customers as possible by trashing their weight around as they die.
Read the comments to this ZDnet article and the other one. Everyone claims to be an "IT expert" and has such informed things to say as "the solutions coming out of Microsoft are tested, not in someone's spare bedroom..." Right. Amazing displays of complete cluelessness. Are these people really making more money than me?
It was a big fat book with the green guy on the cover. It was the first 4 HHG2G books. The 5th one was more recent. They had it in the library, that was about 3 years ago.
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from an essay I wrote a couple of months ago:
The Panopticon was a prison concept developed in the late 18th century. In the Panopticon prisoners were placed in individual cells arranged in a circle around a central tower. Prisoners could be observed at any time by a gaurd in the tower, but, because the tower had shuttered windows, they did not know when they were being watched or who may be watching.
Carnivore is the tower, we are all the prisoners.
We will never be allowed to see how the program works, because it may not be doing anything at all. It is not about catching criminals. The object is to take away the sense of anonymity, so that we know that we can be identified, and to create parnoia that we may watched at any time. The target is not criminals, but the general population. The effect is that it suppresses any radical ideas, creates complacence and conformity.
I need to go, the Thought Police will be at my door any moment...
BLOOD !!!!
... again.
Spiffy graphics do not make a good game. Blood's graphics were crap, but man is it fun to play on my friend's lan.
I live
to +5, hilarious. I would, but i used up my mod points yesterday.
GNOME = GNU Network Object Model Environment. Sorry to nitpick.
What I'm wondering is if this is a service they are planning to charge for or if it will be free like helix-update. Either way, there are becoming more ways to automatically update packages in linux, and I wonder if this will lead to rivalries.
This sounds very similar to what Eazel plans to charge a subscription fee for.
And I noticed that Helix Red Carpet has channels for updating your distribution. Redhat already has an automatic updater for their bug fix releases, which they charge (excessive) support fees for. Nothing's stopping Helix code from mirroring Redhat (or any other distro) updates.
So Helix code has two choices: 1. charge for the service and compete with Redhat, Eazel, and others or 2. give it away free and eliminate a revenue stream for other Linux companies (as well as themselves), making themselves the only (free) game in town.
Should be interesting...
If you have E installed, Helix-Gnome will let you switch to it from the control center.
Perhaps he's afraid that GNOME developers will start getting more corporate fundy money than KDE will? He keeps talking about "winning" and who's ahead. What does he think he's going to win? Is corporate funding the prize? GNOME was never about winning, it was about making the best truely free desktop possible. Anyone is welcome to help, and this guy thinks it's a bad thing?
Get over it man. GNOME is not fighting with you for the corporate bucks. GNOME was doing fine without their help and will only do better with it.
Do you mean to say that applications that were compiled to run on i386 Linux will be able to run on IA64 Linux? Will they lose any performance/ speed because of this?
Did anyone ever make a usable N64 emulator? How about one for linux :) Now that would be nice. :) :) My, the trolls are out in abundance this evening...
Yes, but what if the mice start spending all their time sitting around thinking?
Over their trade mark "IntelliMouse".
As to your response to the moral issue: speak for yourself. My body, and more importantly my mind, belongs to me, not to the government or to any god. You god-fearing self righteous christians make me sick. Just because you would rather have someone else make your moral decisions for you (it's the "word of god"/the law), don't try to enforce your morality on me. If there is a hell, i'll see you there.
Also they mentioned the tendency of most BIOSes to screw up the configuration of PCI devices. With this, any Plug-n-Pray devices you have would be configured by linux instead of by your BIOS. I think. maybe.
Then you must read this article. That is all I have to say.
Well, I just answered you on Gnotices, but for the benefit of /. readers: According to http://developer.gnome.org/status/roadmap.html the release date for Nautilus is "Late summer" - August or September. At that point it will become the desktop shell for Gnome. Hmm, August is two months away, and there haven't been any preview or development releases of Nautilus yet... We can always hope, right?
These screenshots started quite a battle over at Gnotices, which has been raging for days. So before it starts anew here, I would like to point out several things:
1) These are DEVELOPMENT screenshots, there has been no official release, not even a development release, it's all from their CVS.
2) Everything is / will be customizable. Don't like the icons? The icons can be changed. Don't like a particular way of viewing files? It can be changed. Think the sidebar takes up too much space? (Hopefullly) it can be hidden.
3) Everything is modular using Bonobo, so bloat is not an issue. Don't use your file manager as a web browser? The HTML component (Mozilla) won't be loaded into memory.
I'm sure this will do nothing to prevent the inevitable bitchings, but oh well.
What I would like to know is: which video card is best supported for direct rendering under Xfree86 4.0 ? I know nVidia's driver's are closed source, but I guess that's excusable if the work fully. Last I heard the ATI drivers were still in development. I haven't heard anything about how well the Matrox drivers work. And the 3dfx drivers don't fully support Mesa/ OpenGL, right?
Hmm. Seems like the agpgart module has not made it's way into this one, and the patch for 2.2.13 does not work.
The windows builds of Mozilla come with Java, so I hear. We're just stuck waiting for someone to make a useable Java plugin for Linux.
I am not trying to be a troll. I am completely serious, although it was intended to be somewhat humourous as well. Microsoft's time has passed. Their monopoly is going to be broken up. They have nothing left to contribute to the world of computing. They already lost their hold on the server market to Linux. At this point they can either go out quietly, or do as much harm to their unfortunate customers as possible by trashing their weight around as they die.
Read the comments to this ZDnet article and the other one. Everyone claims to be an "IT expert" and has such informed things to say as "the solutions coming out of Microsoft are tested, not in someone's spare bedroom..." Right. Amazing displays of complete cluelessness. Are these people really making more money than me?
It was a big fat book with the green guy on the cover. It was the first 4 HHG2G books. The 5th one was more recent. They had it in the library, that was about 3 years ago.
I guess Newton didn't know that sound doesn't travel in a vacuum, huh?
Are there any worth getting in the $200 dollar range? Doesn't have to be great, just usable.
Blue Screen Of Death? It ain't your processor, buddy, it's your operating system.