I thought it was pretty clear that I wasn't literally talking about myself, but the U.S. government.
It should go without saying that I personally would be horrified and enraged by such an act. But we'd be kidding ourselves to say that the United States' motivations are primarily moral, not political. On the scale of an entire nation... I'm not sure if we've reached that point yet. But history has plenty of examples of mass murder by seemingly righteous leaders.
Why? So that if I say yes, you can tell me I'm a pinko/anarchist/hater of freedom? Or if I say no, so you can tell me I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about?
People are leaving the United States out of disgust and fear. Comparisons are being made to pre-war Germany. The draft commission is coming back online. Suddenly religion is leaking into the government like blood out of a bullet-riddled Iraqi, and even more horrifically, most people seem to think that's okay. And despite vast technological superiority over all enemy nations, the U.S. continues to ramp up weapons development.
Something is deeply wrong in the U.S.
Now, I may be wrong, but I am not insane. The comparison to space aliens is ridiculous.
Uhm, you choice the window manager, which has no effect on apps.
No. That's not what KDE and Gnome are. Both KDE and Gnome have lots of "middleware" running the background to facilitate communication between applications and to provide the integration that makes the desktop seem so cohesive. Things like application configuration (like the Windows registry), enhanced drag-and-drop, etc.
On KDE, this is called MCOP, DCOP, sycoca, etc. Gnome has analogous (yet different) layers. Both KDE and Gnome are much more than simple window managers.
Have you ever started a KDE program while running a non-KDE window manager like TWM? It runs fine, but first it has to launch about a dozen "support" processes to set everything up to make it look like KDE is running.
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The real fight the US faces is NOT relatively high-tech foes like the Soviet Union, but low-tech guys armed with home-made bombs scavanged from artillery rounds and AK-47s.
A few measly freedom fighters with some old Russian guns? Please. The reason we are so mired in the Middle East right now isn't that we can't win, it's because we cannot allow ourselves to do what is necessary to win.
We could easily, permanently end the situation in Iraq. Sweep 500,000 troops through the country, shooting everyone they encounter. Or simply nuke it. We can't do these things for obvious political reasons. But to suggest that we are developing these new weapons such as EMP to protect us against these new, "difficult" enemies is ludicrous. They aren't hard to beat. It just requires ruthlessness to beat them, which we are unwilling to exhibit on the global stage.
No, these EMP weapons are most likely meant for use against U.S. citizens when they finally rebel, or against Europeans when they finally decide they've had enough of our bullshit. Any revolution in this country would be coordinated via cell phone, telephone, and internet. A simple weapon to knock all out simultaneously is something the government cannot afford not to have in its arsenal.
Wouldn't it then stand to reason that "e-bombs" would be more useful on civilian infrastructure/targets?
You hit the nail on the head. The US is looking after its own interests -- achieving total domination over its own population, and making it impossible for any armed rebellion against the government to possibly succeed. Think about it honestly. Does the U.S. really have anything to fear from any other country? I think not. Then why do we continue to develop such weapons?
Anyone who doesn't see revolution fomenting must have their eyes taped shut. Even more naive is the person who watches the government enhancing its military powers and thinks "Wow, they are protecting us from our enemies." No, they are protecting THEMSELVES from YOU.
Since September 11th we have been steadily walking down the road to Hell.
I was once in a university class called "Alpine Environments" in which we studied, well, the obvious. There was a student in class who seemed quite literally to be on acid at all times. He was barely comprehensible when he spoke, rocked back and forth in his seat constantly, and was generally pretty creepy.
One day in the class the professor says "Now, at elevations above 9000 feet it is extremely important to wear sunblock, since the ultraviolet radiation from the sun is much stronger where the air is thinner."
This guy shoots his hand up with a crazed look on his face and screams: "My God, are you saying there's RADIATION coming from the SUN?!" It took about five minutes of soothing, but he finally calmed back down and seemed to accept the fact that light, indeed, is radiation.
So don't laugh too hard. Some people might well be stupid enough to take your joke literally.
We're small, maybe, but not insignificant. With high probability, no other star within a thousand lightyears has an orbiting planet which supports intelligent life. Our star, Sol, has the priviledge of being OBSERVED. Sure, lots of stars have solar mass ejections. But not many stars can claim that they IMPRESSED anyone with them, since there was nobody there to see it.
Without us, the Sun would simply be farting in the wind... But with humans around, its explosive proclivities can be truly appreciated.
Well, considering that the word "historic" means "within the realm of written records," then yes, this is the biggest event that has been recorded in writing. There's a reason we call the dinosaurs (as an example) "prehistoric" and not "historic." They came BEFORE written history. Since these flares are the largest recorded in written history, the term "historic" is apt.
So yes, the Sun has most likely had numerous PREhistoric solar flare events of this magnitude. But none in recorded history. It's a historic event.
Seems to me that the product formerly known as Redhat Linux, is now called Fedora. What's the big deal?
Because the word "Fedora" contains neither of the terms "RedHat" or "Linux." This is plain stupid.
If you're Dodge, you don't take a successful product such as "Dodge Durango" and rename it "Rattlesnake." Newcomers won't know what the fuck you're talking about, and old timers will resent the change. The new name doesn't include the name of the company (Red Hat) NOR does it contain even a hint of what the product IS (Linux). It's the dumbest thing I can possibly imagine.
Which is why I'm wondering if there is something we're missing. Because taken on its own, this looks like a real dumb move.
I suspect that for a reasonably significant portion of their market, Red Hat Linux (and cooresponding useful items like RHN) is the primary reason that their customers buy Enterprise. I hope they've considered this...
I keep seeing comments along these lines in this thread. It's not that I don't agree with the point (I certainly do), but I'm wondering how Red Hat could possibly not have considered this? I mean, I don't think they have a bunch of retards working for them, and if a bunch of Slashdot posters can figure this out, one would assume that RedHat could also.
Rebranding a product is always risky, and this time they've not only rebranded it ("Fedora") but they've dropped support and broken the up2date functionality (from what I've gathered -- I don't know for a fact). I can only assume that they have a few good cards up their sleeves, because this is a very drastic move and I have a hard time believing that RedHat is a company of morons. There's got to be something more going on here.
If you were guilty and did do it, why were you trying to weasle your way out of it
Maybe because he, like the vast majority of the rest of us, realizes that many traffic "violations" are only an excuse for the city to collect a few extra bucks? Maybe because he felt that, although he did violate a law, that the law was unfair, or his punishment unjust? Who knows.
All I know is, you've clearly never had to make a decision whether to stand before a judge and jury and endure a trial, or just plea out and avoid all that stress. Who's the pussy here?
So, if somebody like Google blatantly defied the robots.txt and crawled the entire site anyway, would this piss off the White House? We all know that robots.txt is a "gentleman's" agreement to not go certain places. It isn't an authentication or access control mechanism.
Would the White House sue for violation of the robots.txt file? Under what laws could they sue? Is robots.txt an implicit grant of permission to view copyrighted content? Would GWB press the Congress for a new bill, to mandate legal enforcement of the robots.txt?
That's probably not going to happen anytime soon, but it raises an interesting question. Is robots.txt legally enforceable? And if it was, would that be a good thing or a bad thing?
if you have a legacy device, you can use an adapter to connect to a USB port.
Yeah, next time I'm designing my own circuit to connect to a computer I'll bear that in mind. After all I can just shell out a few hundred dollars for a nice USB client controller, assorted circuit elements, design time, etc. Plus I'll get the joy of designing hardware to speak a complicated protocol which is massive overkill for my needs. Or I could use a device like you suggest, which would add all kinds of unpredictable packet latency and kill any chance of sychronous operation the thing may have had.
Yes, we seriously need to do away with these generic IO ports that have proven so useful to so many hobbiests and experimenters over the years. After all, the damn things costs like $2 to include on the board. You could possibly save a buck on the MSRP by omitting it! It's a total no brainer.
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Keep your hands off the "legacy" digital interfaces, Mr. Nearsighted.
Because the mobo screws screw down into the standoffs. A cheapy plastic standoff would only survive two or three screw/unscrew cycles before having to be replaced. (This is from direct experience with cheap-ass plastic standoffs)
A friend of mine (and sysadmin at work) took me into the server room late one night and hot swapped an IDE disk before my eyes. This wasn't a special server disk or anything, just a plain old IDE disk on a plain old system. It actually worked, although the IDE driver bitched quite a bit for the first few minutes (this was a Linux system). I thought I was going to soil my pants.
Obvious disclaimer: IDE disks are not designed to be hot swapped like that!
I'd be utterly stupefied if you actually got the duplexer to work. I've never seen one, on any brand of printer whatsoever, that actually worked properly...
Hahaha, this is the stupidest thing I've read in this article.
The only thing we'll gain from this is even fewer native Linux drivers.
Currently, Linux driver writers (and I don't mean companies, I mean individuals who write drivers for the kernel, which is how most of the drivers are written) have to rely on sketchy, little-to-no documentation for a piece of hardware. They usually don't get any support from the manufacturer. They write these drivers in their spare time, because they have a piece of hardware and they want it to work for them in Linux.
1. Do you think these people are going to throw in the towel because they can run a Windows driver directly? No, these people are driven by ideology and the love of programming. They don't give a fuck if a Microsoft driver already exists. They don't run screaming to momma every time Microsoft takes a breath.
2. How could it possibly hurt the development of native drivers to have a working, integratable driver already available? Now instead of shooting in the dark, the developer can watch the behavior of the Windows driver, on their development platform of choice, and this greatly aids in reverse engineering the hardware.
We should kill of Linuxant before they hurt anyone.
Oh, fucking screw your head on straight. Being able to run a native Windows driver isn't going to cause any deaths. If people want to use this thing, then why not let them? Or do you want to force people to do things a certain way, kinda like Microsoft?
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It should go without saying that I personally would be horrified and enraged by such an act. But we'd be kidding ourselves to say that the United States' motivations are primarily moral, not political. On the scale of an entire nation... I'm not sure if we've reached that point yet. But history has plenty of examples of mass murder by seemingly righteous leaders.
Why? So that if I say yes, you can tell me I'm a pinko/anarchist/hater of freedom? Or if I say no, so you can tell me I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about?
People are leaving the United States out of disgust and fear. Comparisons are being made to pre-war Germany. The draft commission is coming back online. Suddenly religion is leaking into the government like blood out of a bullet-riddled Iraqi, and even more horrifically, most people seem to think that's okay. And despite vast technological superiority over all enemy nations, the U.S. continues to ramp up weapons development.
Something is deeply wrong in the U.S.
Now, I may be wrong, but I am not insane. The comparison to space aliens is ridiculous.
No. That's not what KDE and Gnome are. Both KDE and Gnome have lots of "middleware" running the background to facilitate communication between applications and to provide the integration that makes the desktop seem so cohesive. Things like application configuration (like the Windows registry), enhanced drag-and-drop, etc.
On KDE, this is called MCOP, DCOP, sycoca, etc. Gnome has analogous (yet different) layers. Both KDE and Gnome are much more than simple window managers.
Have you ever started a KDE program while running a non-KDE window manager like TWM? It runs fine, but first it has to launch about a dozen "support" processes to set everything up to make it look like KDE is running.
A few measly freedom fighters with some old Russian guns? Please. The reason we are so mired in the Middle East right now isn't that we can't win, it's because we cannot allow ourselves to do what is necessary to win.
We could easily, permanently end the situation in Iraq. Sweep 500,000 troops through the country, shooting everyone they encounter. Or simply nuke it. We can't do these things for obvious political reasons. But to suggest that we are developing these new weapons such as EMP to protect us against these new, "difficult" enemies is ludicrous. They aren't hard to beat. It just requires ruthlessness to beat them, which we are unwilling to exhibit on the global stage.
No, these EMP weapons are most likely meant for use against U.S. citizens when they finally rebel, or against Europeans when they finally decide they've had enough of our bullshit. Any revolution in this country would be coordinated via cell phone, telephone, and internet. A simple weapon to knock all out simultaneously is something the government cannot afford not to have in its arsenal.
You hit the nail on the head. The US is looking after its own interests -- achieving total domination over its own population, and making it impossible for any armed rebellion against the government to possibly succeed. Think about it honestly. Does the U.S. really have anything to fear from any other country? I think not. Then why do we continue to develop such weapons?
Anyone who doesn't see revolution fomenting must have their eyes taped shut. Even more naive is the person who watches the government enhancing its military powers and thinks "Wow, they are protecting us from our enemies." No, they are protecting THEMSELVES from YOU.
Since September 11th we have been steadily walking down the road to Hell.
One day in the class the professor says "Now, at elevations above 9000 feet it is extremely important to wear sunblock, since the ultraviolet radiation from the sun is much stronger where the air is thinner."
This guy shoots his hand up with a crazed look on his face and screams: "My God, are you saying there's RADIATION coming from the SUN?!" It took about five minutes of soothing, but he finally calmed back down and seemed to accept the fact that light, indeed, is radiation.
So don't laugh too hard. Some people might well be stupid enough to take your joke literally.
Without us, the Sun would simply be farting in the wind... But with humans around, its explosive proclivities can be truly appreciated.
So yes, the Sun has most likely had numerous PREhistoric solar flare events of this magnitude. But none in recorded history. It's a historic event.
Sincerely,
Your local anal-retentive
Because the word "Fedora" contains neither of the terms "RedHat" or "Linux." This is plain stupid.
If you're Dodge, you don't take a successful product such as "Dodge Durango" and rename it "Rattlesnake." Newcomers won't know what the fuck you're talking about, and old timers will resent the change. The new name doesn't include the name of the company (Red Hat) NOR does it contain even a hint of what the product IS (Linux). It's the dumbest thing I can possibly imagine.
Which is why I'm wondering if there is something we're missing. Because taken on its own, this looks like a real dumb move.
I keep seeing comments along these lines in this thread. It's not that I don't agree with the point (I certainly do), but I'm wondering how Red Hat could possibly not have considered this? I mean, I don't think they have a bunch of retards working for them, and if a bunch of Slashdot posters can figure this out, one would assume that RedHat could also.
Rebranding a product is always risky, and this time they've not only rebranded it ("Fedora") but they've dropped support and broken the up2date functionality (from what I've gathered -- I don't know for a fact). I can only assume that they have a few good cards up their sleeves, because this is a very drastic move and I have a hard time believing that RedHat is a company of morons. There's got to be something more going on here.
Oh wait...
He may rest in peace, but the model ship rests in pieces.
If you were guilty and did do it, why were you trying to weasle your way out of it
Maybe because he, like the vast majority of the rest of us, realizes that many traffic "violations" are only an excuse for the city to collect a few extra bucks? Maybe because he felt that, although he did violate a law, that the law was unfair, or his punishment unjust? Who knows.
All I know is, you've clearly never had to make a decision whether to stand before a judge and jury and endure a trial, or just plea out and avoid all that stress. Who's the pussy here?
Would the White House sue for violation of the robots.txt file? Under what laws could they sue? Is robots.txt an implicit grant of permission to view copyrighted content? Would GWB press the Congress for a new bill, to mandate legal enforcement of the robots.txt?
That's probably not going to happen anytime soon, but it raises an interesting question. Is robots.txt legally enforceable? And if it was, would that be a good thing or a bad thing?
Your thoughts?
Yeah, next time I'm designing my own circuit to connect to a computer I'll bear that in mind. After all I can just shell out a few hundred dollars for a nice USB client controller, assorted circuit elements, design time, etc. Plus I'll get the joy of designing hardware to speak a complicated protocol which is massive overkill for my needs. Or I could use a device like you suggest, which would add all kinds of unpredictable packet latency and kill any chance of sychronous operation the thing may have had.
Yes, we seriously need to do away with these generic IO ports that have proven so useful to so many hobbiests and experimenters over the years. After all, the damn things costs like $2 to include on the board. You could possibly save a buck on the MSRP by omitting it! It's a total no brainer.
</sarcasm>
Keep your hands off the "legacy" digital interfaces, Mr. Nearsighted.
Down with X Windows, MacOS X, LinuX, and UNIX in general!
Screw the letter X!
Heh, I had to look up the definition of SWMBO. I had originally guessed "Single White Male with Body Odor" but I was wrong :-/
Because the mobo screws screw down into the standoffs. A cheapy plastic standoff would only survive two or three screw/unscrew cycles before having to be replaced. (This is from direct experience with cheap-ass plastic standoffs)
Obvious disclaimer: IDE disks are not designed to be hot swapped like that!
All these TLAs are becoming a real PITA, IMHO. HAND.
I'd be utterly stupefied if you actually got the duplexer to work. I've never seen one, on any brand of printer whatsoever, that actually worked properly...
He added color support to Nethack!
Truly a visionary icon of our time!
The entire concept of "mach" is moot in a vacuum...
The only thing we'll gain from this is even fewer native Linux drivers.
Currently, Linux driver writers (and I don't mean companies, I mean individuals who write drivers for the kernel, which is how most of the drivers are written) have to rely on sketchy, little-to-no documentation for a piece of hardware. They usually don't get any support from the manufacturer. They write these drivers in their spare time, because they have a piece of hardware and they want it to work for them in Linux.
1. Do you think these people are going to throw in the towel because they can run a Windows driver directly? No, these people are driven by ideology and the love of programming. They don't give a fuck if a Microsoft driver already exists. They don't run screaming to momma every time Microsoft takes a breath.
2. How could it possibly hurt the development of native drivers to have a working, integratable driver already available? Now instead of shooting in the dark, the developer can watch the behavior of the Windows driver, on their development platform of choice, and this greatly aids in reverse engineering the hardware.
We should kill of Linuxant before they hurt anyone.
Oh, fucking screw your head on straight. Being able to run a native Windows driver isn't going to cause any deaths. If people want to use this thing, then why not let them? Or do you want to force people to do things a certain way, kinda like Microsoft?
Grow up, you paranoid loony.
Hey, that's a good one! ;-)