Linux is flexible as hell, like other free OS's.
It's also popular and available at major chain stores.. a semi-frightening thought. (I actually saw SuSE 7.0 Personal and Professional at Best Buy. No upgrade though.. I'm going to wait a while so I can get a 2.4 kernel, a slightly more stable KDE 2, and X Free 4.0.x. )
Now, what I want to see is someone successfully hack a PlayStation2 (since the other PS/2 runs it just fine) to run Linux.
Maybe.. a distributed.net or Mersenne prime client? The CPU's really crank!
The best system that's been thought up to assure a true majority is INSTANT RUNOFF VOTING.
Basically, the system lets you vote for your top three candidates, in my case Ralph Nader, Harry Browne, and some one else who I'd think up later.
Now, let's say that no one gets a clear (50% + 1) majority. Then, the first-choice votes for all but the top two or three and the second (and, if necessary, third) choice votes would be counted towards these top few. Whoever gets the true majority first wins the election.
This way, we'd get no more Clintons (elected with
This has been argued to provide for a stronger presidency, as the winner would have some sort of mandate, but it still sucks that turnout is less than half (theoretical) nationwide. (I happen to think that if an election has less than half the eligible voters nationally voting, it should be redone. Wishful thinking, I know:)
So, for all you lazy bastards who are not thinking of voting, remember: If you do not get involved in politics, politics will get involved with you. (Also, if your state has you voting for judges, vote NO to all of them. They are all pricks. It's also a lot easier and a lot more fun.)
Federal taxation was introduced in the Civil War (in the US) to pay the immense costs of the battles and new-tech guns.
It was put in permanently in 1916 to stop opiate use. (The government required a drug license to sell heroin, morphine, and other opiates, and they were loathe to give them; thanks to this, prisons held great numbers of doctors who were otherwise quite good folks.)
Now, the tax is a government crutch to pay the ridiculous costs of the military. (No less than half the national debt is due to military spending. It looks smaller on government pie charts because they include social security expenses in the chart; it shouldn't be there because the social security funds are separate from general revenues. Take it out and re-evaluate, and you see we spend about half our taxes on both current and past military expenditures.)
Think about it.. Your circles won't be able to close. All that money into marketing "Pi is 3" will leave you with tires with flat parts (Think, ca-chunk,ca-chunk,ca-chunk), coins which can stand on a point, and open-top airplanes at 36,000 feet.
As far as e, e is around 2.78 and change. And, e raised to the pi times i power is -1.
Don't try to screw with the universe, dude. It screws back harder.
It's people like you which keep the machines in control:)
Medicare is a non-issue. You drop Medicare, and you have millions of very angry seniors getting your ass out of office tout suite.
Technology IS an issue. UCITA, DMCA, and Carnivore are the proverbial tips of the iceberg. And we're the Titanic.
Do you really think that THEY want the net to be freely available, with information as varied as the people that post it, with no checks? No. But, as long as the First Amendment is upheld, they can't do squat to the information.
But, if the information is turned criminal, then THEY can have a field day. That's what's happening in the MPAA v. 2600 (v. deliberate; this SOB is gonna get Supreme Court review); the MPAA wants to control how DVD movies are played, and so it got the law passed with ridiculous terms. (Like, you can, under certain conditions, circumvent copy controls. However, you can't use a device to do so. That's impossible. Let's hope the appellate courts and the SC see it that way.)
Hey, I'm all for owning a tool. (My personal collection will hopefully consist of a Mauser Broomhandle, a Luger, and a Mauser rifle. The new ones look fantastic.)
However, no one (yet) can claim Terra as their nation of alliance. There are too many fish in this small pool.
And most refuse to be eaten.
Would a unified Earth government be good? Questionable. (Look at Babylon 5. J. Michael puts in the scary concept of a corporate lawsuit bringing problems aplenty to the station.) Near term, meaning next 50 years, I say it would be bad. We need the next depression to hit. (Maybe those of us with tech skills could band together and destroy the Evil Empires' information infrastructure.)
This seems to be the place for flamebait; what the hell. Here's my pint of petrol.
Here's how it CAN matter:
It chips into the Mac's hegemony on sci-fi and movies in general, at least on screen. This went
back to Star Trek IV, the one with the whales, and Scotty trying to use the computer by talking un the one-button mouse.
Granted, yes, the futuristic and superfuturistic shows a la "Earth: Final Conflict", "Andromeda", the entirety of the "Star Trek" series, and "Babylon 5" don't show anything resembling a contemporary rig, but in shows based in the modern or near-future period use Macs like they're THE BIG THING.
Now, how it's NOT a big deal:
No Tux.. yet:)
GQP doesn't realize it looked the Penguin straight in the eyes and it looked funkadelic.
At least we don't have to worry about splashdown..
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Yet.
Mathematically, there's about a 3 in 10 chance a falling MIR station would hit land.
Then again, I'm happy. I'm trying out for Destination: MIR.
Talk about the potential for a real Geek In Space:)
Dude:
I wish to ask that you and all others who reply to posts kindly read the whole post before bitching in tandem with the original post's tune.
I prefer deadtree to bitform.
After all, the website is a free competition to the book! Who would buy the book when it was available for free online?
It's drekky logic. I would buy a copy of Encyclopaedia Brittanica in dead-tree form even though an inevitably more accurate version was available on the web.
I am not always near a phone line, and my skills at liberating access are (REDACTED).
This is going to be a political rant, a long and drawn-out one which will challenge the length of the article. I would give it a chance.
This article only talked about the Republocrats and Democritans, the corporate party with two heads. This is a common view that people have.
There are two other parties with candidates drawing statistically significant numbers; Buchanan and Nader. Now, I don't care for Buchanan; he's a refugee Republican who's a Reform to be on the ballot.
I'm going to talk about the Greens. I ask that you not moderate to Flamebait until you read this.
I will talk about many different facets of the Green Party's views and what was presented at one of the SupreRallies that were held for Ralph Nader.
Some big issues are election reform and camaign reform.
Let's talk about voting. Several concepts were promoted, among them proporational representation, instant runoff voting, and same-day voter registration.
Proportional representation is pretty much the only way a Republican could come from a Chicago district, or a Democrat from the highly conservative collar counties. Based on the raw percentage of people for the parties, the representation was altered to reflect those ratios. So if it's 40 % Democrat, 40 % Republican, 7% Green. and 3 % everyone else, and there are 20 seats for grabs, there would be 9 or 10 each Republicans and Democrats and 1 Green.
It's the only way that different voices get heard, because winner-take-all pluralities mean a minority can get the district. Not only a minority of voters, but a super-minority of voters, if the turnout is less than half.
Instant runoff voting is a simple system used to assure a true majority victor. People vote 1,2,3 for the candidates. (Example: Nader 1, Gore 2, Buchanan 3.) All the first-choice votes are counted, and let's say it ends up Gore 32%, Nader 30 %, Bush 25%, etc. The candidates who aren't in the top few are dropped, and the second-choice and third-choice votes are counted, if need be. In this way, no votes are wasted, no calls can be made for "spoilers" like Perot and Nader, and people are freer to vote their conscience; after all, you can vote for your favorite and a back-up in case s/he doesn't make the cut.
This also decreases election costs; no separate run-off elections need be held. And this system has been upheld in the courts.
The third concept is used already in six states, and "Da Governor" Jesse Ventura owes his election to it. Day-of-election registration is now feasible due to technological advances, like computers! Most states have multiple-week cutoffs, like Illinois which cut off registration at day minus four weeks and New York which cut it off at day minus three weeks, four days.
Same day registration lets people who were not interested prior to the election, so uninterested they did not reister, go to the polls and let their choice be heard.
As far as campaign reform, there are two basic reforms which, if applied, would immensely open up politics to the people: public financing of elections and freetime onair.
As Billionaires for Bush or Gore puts it, it would only cost $8 per person to publically finance elections. This means that the government pays for the costs of campaigning instead of monied interests.
This also means that the Billionaires and corporations' pull on the elections is significantly diminished. After all, the money isn't as needed.
The other reform, which works best in tandem with public financing of public elections, is onair freetime. Translation: If you run with public funds alone, you are entitled to a chunk of broadcast time on television and radio to put your platform, your agenda, your candidacy in front of the people of your district, your state, your nation. This airtime was free as long as you didn't take outside funds; and once you did, you lost the freetime.
Ideally, it would be made a broadcaster's responcibility mandated by the FCC as a public
service requirement.
As far as the "Supreme Court" argument, both candidates' probable candidates for the possible holes in the Court would be the same: pro-business, anti-civil-liberty, anti-worker, pro-death, and pro-censorship.
Finally, one vote DOES count. In 1994 with the Contract On America, 19 districts were swung by 1,000 votes or less each. Those 19,000 votes or so equates to one vote per school district in this country.
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There's a great call from Nader's Raiders. His campaign is amazing; there's $5 million plus that has been raised from people - real humans - following all federal laws with regards to fundraising. No PAC money, no soft money, no corporate money, no donations over $1,000, and the average donation was less than $100.
Something, ain't it.
If you live in a state which is "tied up" for a certain candidate, and you have a fear of being a "spoiler" voter, don't worry and vote your mind.
The lesser of two evils leaves you with two evils.
Click on the link below. It's the dotted octet address of votenader.org.
For those of you with Dish Network: Check out channel 254. A speech by Ralph Nader is on the air.
For those of you with DirecTV as well: Check out Free Speech TV, channel 9415 on Dish and I know not which on DirecTV. They still show Ralph's acceptance speech. It's good viewing.
There are several fundamental differences between BSD's and Linux.
First off, the license is different. The BSD license leaves version contrrol with UC-Berkley. Period. You can also incorporate BSD code with closed-sourced projects. Linux is under the GPL, which leaves revision control to the programmers (though, with the kernel, the Final Word is given to Linus) and it mandates that if GPL code is put into a project, it must also be made GPL.
Secondly, BSD is a more mature project than Linux, and that drives people apart. In the earlier days of Linux, and to a certain point even now, you can end up with copyright on a small chunk of the Linux kernel. BSD is a lot harder to get in on, and even harder to inject fresh code in.
Third, while both projects have reputations for security, BSD takes the cake. People haven't hacked good BSD implementations, be it Free, Net, or BSDi. It takes less to lock down a BSD box than a Linux box, but I've been able to hold down a Linux box at a hacker con. (I also publicized the machine's IP in all the conference computer areas.)
Fourth, BSD has a reputation with big iron, whereas Linux is building it in right now. BSD is more stable in most instances than Linux.
Fifth, Linux has a cooler sounding name than BSD:)
I use both FreeBSD and Linux. So please, no flaimbait, huh?
1. PGP, at least the newer versions is susceptable to an attack. Use GnuPG instead. It's
developed outside the US in crypto-friendly Germany, and is pure raw open source implementation of public domain crypto.
2. Don't use Netscape. The Konqueror is a lot less noisy than Navigator; check out http://privacy.net/anonymizer and you'll see what your browser spews out.
3. Java is not your friend. Java downloads take a lot of time and resources, and it may require a second connection to a server, either the one feeding it to you or another site.
4. Turn graphics off. Remember the doubleclick 1x1 graphiccookie?
Since Vietnam and the news media's conversion from moderately trusted loss leader to money
making truth-spewer, the news has changed.
The Walter Cronkites of the world were pariahs, their purpose being to at least attempt to be the "public service" aspect of using our airwaves.
Later "reforms" made broadcast media less a public service and more an avenue towards high profits at relatively low cost per show. (A million dollar anchor job has to work five days a week, forty-eight plus weeks a year, whereas a sitcom whore making a million a year has months of free time per annum.) \
This is why I trust foreign news services more than domestic. I listen to Radio Taipei International, NHK (Japanese broadcast company), the Canadian and British Broadcast Companies over the shortwave and ITN News, BBC News, and Ta Nea tou Antenna (from Greece) on TV.
In a lecture he gave in Chicago, he said that the universe is in three physical dimentions because intelligent life couldn't EVOLVE elsewise.
Let's use some hypotheticals.
Imagine a two-d universe. Flat as a paper.
Now construct an animal that eats, digests, and excretes. Draw it on paper.
Too bad it literally falls apart.
Now, try the math of a four-d universe. Gravity will overcome energy very shortly, on the order of low millions of years, tops. This time span is NOT long enough for sentient lifeforms to develop.
So, at least, why is the universe 3D? Because otherwise there wouldn't be anyone around to question its existance.
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I believe an essential componant of the term OPERATING SYSTEM is that the damned thing has to OPERATE!
I use Macs, Widiot Boxes, and Linux, and of the three the only one with genuine, unequivocal stability and fault tolerance is Linux.
Running stable software on Windows and on Macs will cause systems failure, in the Aqua Image of Doom on Windows and the Little Annoying Exploder on Macs.
Tell me you've ever crashed a Linux installation running stable software, like a point-release of a browser, The GIMP, X11...
You read the Jargon File? I am reminded of the blue goo versus gray goo.
For those of you who aren't aware of the two, the Gray Goo is evil stuff, skews the world to pollution and toxic waste... while Blue Goo is anti-gray, restoring the Natural Order of Things. It produces oxygen, replants the rainforest, scrubs sulfur oxides out of the atmosphere, recreates extinct species, cleans the oceans...
I think that OS Hardware and Nano in particular is the best way of making sure that there IS a Blue Goo which can overcome closed, corporate Gray.
Morse could be used just fine. Special characters have prosigns, or run-together letter combos, to represent them.
Examples:
open parenthesis "(" is KN (-.--.)
close parenthesis ")" is KK (-.--.-)
double quotes """ is AF or RR (.-..-.)
There is a PDF at http://www.arrl.org/notes/1832/ch30.pdf which has the full lists of the ASCII codes, Baudot codes, and International Morse Code or CW.
For you non-hams, EME (earth-moon-earth) or 'moonbounce' is the transmission of a very high wattage signal from a land station, bouncing it off the moon, and getting it on a sensitive reciever.
Most of these transmissions are in Morse because the moon is one light-second or so away from Earth, and voice communications need much more bandwidth than a Morse signal.
Do you really think that customs people would have a problem with walking through the lower level of an International terminal with a shirt coated in code, illegible to them?
No.
If you were wearing a shirt depicting - graphically - sex acts, then you would probably be in drek.
But code? Gimme a break.
Now, if you're busted for narcotics possession, don't be too shocked if the federal DA decides to add violation of ITAR to your list of charges.
I was about to bitch that there was a sizeable chunk of easter-egg code, and then I realized something obvious:
Office suites probably contain on the order of the mid to upper millions of lines of code, and another couple hundred of text may not make much of a difference (if they embed it far enough).
Communism: 1 a : a theory advocating elimination of private property b : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed
Socialism: 1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
Both definitions courtesy EB.com.
There are a major difference between socialism and communism: in a socialist state a) all are not equal, and may be paid differently, while theoretical communism means all are paid the same; b) the government controls the means of production and how it's distributed, whereas a communist state has the owners own the factories and theoretically all can access the products as needed.
The US is not a democracy or a socialist state; it is a corporate republic, where the biggest corps get their concerns heard first and, if there's time in the end, maybe a few, minor issues could be heard.
Now, you say Browne's politics are 'excellent.' That's all well and good, but governments are needed to protect people from those who would abuse them.
A weak government is an invitation for a large corporation to come in and abuse the people. (See Nike's Asian sweatshops.)
Governments are needed to make sure companies don't screw the workers by paying them less than the minimum wage (though even that wage is a piece of shit).
Governments are needed to keep monopolies out of the picture.
Finally, what good is your bitching if you don't vote? Your vote DOES make a difference.
If you live in a state which is supposedly locked up for a certain candidate, then why not vote? If you like the supposed winner, it won't make a difference, and if you don't like the assuming prick, then you'll be helping your candidate!
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Linux is flexible as hell, like other free OS's. It's also popular and available at major chain stores.. a semi-frightening thought. (I actually saw SuSE 7.0 Personal and Professional at Best Buy. No upgrade though.. I'm going to wait a while so I can get a 2.4 kernel, a slightly more stable KDE 2, and X Free 4.0.x. ) Now, what I want to see is someone successfully hack a PlayStation2 (since the other PS/2 runs it just fine) to run Linux. Maybe.. a distributed.net or Mersenne prime client? The CPU's really crank!
The best system that's been thought up to assure a true majority is INSTANT RUNOFF VOTING. Basically, the system lets you vote for your top three candidates, in my case Ralph Nader, Harry Browne, and some one else who I'd think up later. Now, let's say that no one gets a clear (50% + 1) majority. Then, the first-choice votes for all but the top two or three and the second (and, if necessary, third) choice votes would be counted towards these top few. Whoever gets the true majority first wins the election. This way, we'd get no more Clintons (elected with This has been argued to provide for a stronger presidency, as the winner would have some sort of mandate, but it still sucks that turnout is less than half (theoretical) nationwide. (I happen to think that if an election has less than half the eligible voters nationally voting, it should be redone. Wishful thinking, I know :)
So, for all you lazy bastards who are not thinking of voting, remember: If you do not get involved in politics, politics will get involved with you. (Also, if your state has you voting for judges, vote NO to all of them. They are all pricks. It's also a lot easier and a lot more fun.)
Federal taxation was introduced in the Civil War (in the US) to pay the immense costs of the battles and new-tech guns.
It was put in permanently in 1916 to stop opiate use. (The government required a drug license to sell heroin, morphine, and other opiates, and they were loathe to give them; thanks to this, prisons held great numbers of doctors who were otherwise quite good folks.)
Now, the tax is a government crutch to pay the ridiculous costs of the military. (No less than half the national debt is due to military spending. It looks smaller on government pie charts because they include social security expenses in the chart; it shouldn't be there because the social security funds are separate from general revenues. Take it out and re-evaluate, and you see we spend about half our taxes on both current and past military expenditures.)
Whatever :)
Try writing cogent slash when you're sleep deprived and buzzed due to a visit to the casino on your 21st birthday.
So I missed a digit, oh well.
...and failed miserably.
Think about it.. Your circles won't be able to close. All that money into marketing "Pi is 3" will leave you with tires with flat parts (Think, ca-chunk,ca-chunk,ca-chunk), coins which can stand on a point, and open-top airplanes at 36,000 feet.
As far as e, e is around 2.78 and change. And, e raised to the pi times i power is -1.
Don't try to screw with the universe, dude. It screws back harder.
It's people like you which keep the machines in control :)
Medicare is a non-issue. You drop Medicare, and you have millions of very angry seniors getting your ass out of office tout suite.
Technology IS an issue. UCITA, DMCA, and Carnivore are the proverbial tips of the iceberg. And we're the Titanic.
Do you really think that THEY want the net to be freely available, with information as varied as the people that post it, with no checks? No. But, as long as the First Amendment is upheld, they can't do squat to the information.
But, if the information is turned criminal, then THEY can have a field day. That's what's happening in the MPAA v. 2600 (v. deliberate; this SOB is gonna get Supreme Court review); the MPAA wants to control how DVD movies are played, and so it got the law passed with ridiculous terms. (Like, you can, under certain conditions, circumvent copy controls. However, you can't use a device to do so. That's impossible. Let's hope the appellate courts and the SC see it that way.)
Hey, I'm all for owning a tool. (My personal collection will hopefully consist of a Mauser Broomhandle, a Luger, and a Mauser rifle. The new ones look fantastic.)
:)
However, no one (yet) can claim Terra as their nation of alliance. There are too many fish in this small pool.
And most refuse to be eaten.
Would a unified Earth government be good? Questionable. (Look at Babylon 5. J. Michael puts in the scary concept of a corporate lawsuit bringing problems aplenty to the station.) Near term, meaning next 50 years, I say it would be bad. We need the next depression to hit. (Maybe those of us with tech skills could band together and destroy the Evil Empires' information infrastructure.)
I'm blasted, so moderate at will
And a very Stoned Halloween to you, too.
This seems to be the place for flamebait; what the hell. Here's my pint of petrol. Here's how it CAN matter: It chips into the Mac's hegemony on sci-fi and movies in general, at least on screen. This went back to Star Trek IV, the one with the whales, and Scotty trying to use the computer by talking un the one-button mouse. Granted, yes, the futuristic and superfuturistic shows a la "Earth: Final Conflict", "Andromeda", the entirety of the "Star Trek" series, and "Babylon 5" don't show anything resembling a contemporary rig, but in shows based in the modern or near-future period use Macs like they're THE BIG THING. Now, how it's NOT a big deal: No Tux.. yet :)
GQP doesn't realize it looked the Penguin straight in the eyes and it looked funkadelic.
Yet.
:)
Mathematically, there's about a 3 in 10 chance a falling MIR station would hit land.
Then again, I'm happy. I'm trying out for Destination: MIR.
Talk about the potential for a real Geek In Space
Dude: I wish to ask that you and all others who reply to posts kindly read the whole post before bitching in tandem with the original post's tune. I prefer deadtree to bitform.
It doesn't seem rediculous at all.
After all, the website is a free competition to the book! Who would buy the book when it was available for free online?
It's drekky logic. I would buy a copy of Encyclopaedia Brittanica in dead-tree form even though an inevitably more accurate version was available on the web.
I am not always near a phone line, and my skills at liberating access are (REDACTED).
This is going to be a political rant, a long and drawn-out one which will challenge the length of the article. I would give it a chance.
This article only talked about the Republocrats and Democritans, the corporate party with two heads. This is a common view that people have.
There are two other parties with candidates drawing statistically significant numbers; Buchanan and Nader. Now, I don't care for Buchanan; he's a refugee Republican who's a Reform to be on the ballot.
I'm going to talk about the Greens. I ask that you not moderate to Flamebait until you read this.
I will talk about many different facets of the Green Party's views and what was presented at one of the SupreRallies that were held for Ralph Nader.
Some big issues are election reform and camaign reform.
Let's talk about voting. Several concepts were promoted, among them proporational representation, instant runoff voting, and same-day voter registration.
Proportional representation is pretty much the only way a Republican could come from a Chicago district, or a Democrat from the highly conservative collar counties. Based on the raw percentage of people for the parties, the representation was altered to reflect those ratios. So if it's 40 % Democrat, 40 % Republican, 7% Green. and 3 % everyone else, and there are 20 seats for grabs, there would be 9 or 10 each Republicans and Democrats and 1 Green.
It's the only way that different voices get heard, because winner-take-all pluralities mean a minority can get the district. Not only a minority of voters, but a super-minority of voters, if the turnout is less than half.
Instant runoff voting is a simple system used to assure a true majority victor. People vote 1,2,3 for the candidates. (Example: Nader 1, Gore 2, Buchanan 3.) All the first-choice votes are counted, and let's say it ends up Gore 32%, Nader 30 %, Bush 25%, etc. The candidates who aren't in the top few are dropped, and the second-choice and third-choice votes are counted, if need be. In this way, no votes are wasted, no calls can be made for "spoilers" like Perot and Nader, and people are freer to vote their conscience; after all, you can vote for your favorite and a back-up in case s/he doesn't make the cut.
This also decreases election costs; no separate run-off elections need be held. And this system has been upheld in the courts.
The third concept is used already in six states, and "Da Governor" Jesse Ventura owes his election to it. Day-of-election registration is now feasible due to technological advances, like computers! Most states have multiple-week cutoffs, like Illinois which cut off registration at day minus four weeks and New York which cut it off at day minus three weeks, four days.
Same day registration lets people who were not interested prior to the election, so uninterested they did not reister, go to the polls and let their choice be heard.
As far as campaign reform, there are two basic reforms which, if applied, would immensely open up politics to the people: public financing of elections and freetime onair.
As Billionaires for Bush or Gore puts it, it would only cost $8 per person to publically finance elections. This means that the government pays for the costs of campaigning instead of monied interests.
This also means that the Billionaires and corporations' pull on the elections is significantly diminished. After all, the money isn't as needed.
The other reform, which works best in tandem with public financing of public elections, is onair freetime. Translation: If you run with public funds alone, you are entitled to a chunk of broadcast time on television and radio to put your platform, your agenda, your candidacy in front of the people of your district, your state, your nation. This airtime was free as long as you didn't take outside funds; and once you did, you lost the freetime.
Ideally, it would be made a broadcaster's responcibility mandated by the FCC as a public
service requirement.
As far as the "Supreme Court" argument, both candidates' probable candidates for the possible holes in the Court would be the same: pro-business, anti-civil-liberty, anti-worker, pro-death, and pro-censorship.
Finally, one vote DOES count. In 1994 with the Contract On America, 19 districts were swung by 1,000 votes or less each. Those 19,000 votes or so equates to one vote per school district in this country.
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There's a great call from Nader's Raiders. His campaign is amazing; there's $5 million plus that has been raised from people - real humans - following all federal laws with regards to fundraising. No PAC money, no soft money, no corporate money, no donations over $1,000, and the average donation was less than $100.
Something, ain't it.
If you live in a state which is "tied up" for a certain candidate, and you have a fear of being a "spoiler" voter, don't worry and vote your mind.
The lesser of two evils leaves you with two evils.
Click on the link below. It's the dotted octet address of votenader.org.
For those of you with Dish Network: Check out channel 254. A speech by Ralph Nader is on the air.
For those of you with DirecTV as well: Check out Free Speech TV, channel 9415 on Dish and I know not which on DirecTV. They still show Ralph's acceptance speech. It's good viewing.
Here endeth the lesson.
There are several fundamental differences between BSD's and Linux.
:)
First off, the license is different. The BSD license leaves version contrrol with UC-Berkley. Period. You can also incorporate BSD code with closed-sourced projects. Linux is under the GPL, which leaves revision control to the programmers (though, with the kernel, the Final Word is given to Linus) and it mandates that if GPL code is put into a project, it must also be made GPL.
Secondly, BSD is a more mature project than Linux, and that drives people apart. In the earlier days of Linux, and to a certain point even now, you can end up with copyright on a small chunk of the Linux kernel. BSD is a lot harder to get in on, and even harder to inject fresh code in.
Third, while both projects have reputations for security, BSD takes the cake. People haven't hacked good BSD implementations, be it Free, Net, or BSDi. It takes less to lock down a BSD box than a Linux box, but I've been able to hold down a Linux box at a hacker con. (I also publicized the machine's IP in all the conference computer areas.)
Fourth, BSD has a reputation with big iron, whereas Linux is building it in right now. BSD is more stable in most instances than Linux.
Fifth, Linux has a cooler sounding name than BSD
I use both FreeBSD and Linux. So please, no flaimbait, huh?
Several things stick out...
1. PGP, at least the newer versions is susceptable to an attack. Use GnuPG instead. It's
developed outside the US in crypto-friendly Germany, and is pure raw open source implementation of public domain crypto.
2. Don't use Netscape. The Konqueror is a lot less noisy than Navigator; check out http://privacy.net/anonymizer and you'll see what your browser spews out.
3. Java is not your friend. Java downloads take a lot of time and resources, and it may require a second connection to a server, either the one feeding it to you or another site.
4. Turn graphics off. Remember the doubleclick 1x1 graphiccookie?
Hell, I use Lynx for a lot of browsing.
Since Vietnam and the news media's conversion from moderately trusted loss leader to money
making truth-spewer, the news has changed.
The Walter Cronkites of the world were pariahs, their purpose being to at least attempt to be the "public service" aspect of using our airwaves.
Later "reforms" made broadcast media less a public service and more an avenue towards high profits at relatively low cost per show. (A million dollar anchor job has to work five days a week, forty-eight plus weeks a year, whereas a sitcom whore making a million a year has months of free time per annum.) \
This is why I trust foreign news services more than domestic. I listen to Radio Taipei International, NHK (Japanese broadcast company), the Canadian and British Broadcast Companies over the shortwave and ITN News, BBC News, and Ta Nea tou Antenna (from Greece) on TV.
In a lecture he gave in Chicago, he said that the universe is in three physical dimentions because intelligent life couldn't EVOLVE elsewise.
Let's use some hypotheticals.
Imagine a two-d universe. Flat as a paper.
Now construct an animal that eats, digests, and excretes. Draw it on paper.
Too bad it literally falls apart.
Now, try the math of a four-d universe. Gravity will overcome energy very shortly, on the order of low millions of years, tops. This time span is NOT long enough for sentient lifeforms to develop.
So, at least, why is the universe 3D? Because otherwise there wouldn't be anyone around to question its existance.
I believe an essential componant of the term OPERATING SYSTEM is that the damned thing has to OPERATE!
I use Macs, Widiot Boxes, and Linux, and of the three the only one with genuine, unequivocal stability and fault tolerance is Linux.
Running stable software on Windows and on Macs will cause systems failure, in the Aqua Image of Doom on Windows and the Little Annoying Exploder on Macs.
Tell me you've ever crashed a Linux installation running stable software, like a point-release of a browser, The GIMP, X11...
Try saying that about Macs and Win-snore.
Funny!
You read the Jargon File? I am reminded of the blue goo versus gray goo.
For those of you who aren't aware of the two, the Gray Goo is evil stuff, skews the world to pollution and toxic waste... while Blue Goo is anti-gray, restoring the Natural Order of Things. It produces oxygen, replants the rainforest, scrubs sulfur oxides out of the atmosphere, recreates extinct species, cleans the oceans...
I think that OS Hardware and Nano in particular is the best way of making sure that there IS a Blue Goo which can overcome closed, corporate Gray.
- open parenthesis "(" is KN (-.--.)
- close parenthesis ")" is KK (-.--.-)
- double quotes """ is AF or RR (.-..-.)
There is a PDF at http://www.arrl.org/notes/1832/ch30.pdf which has the full lists of the ASCII codes, Baudot codes, and International Morse Code or CW.For your information:
For you non-hams, EME (earth-moon-earth) or 'moonbounce' is the transmission of a very high wattage signal from a land station, bouncing it off the moon, and getting it on a sensitive reciever.
Most of these transmissions are in Morse because the moon is one light-second or so away from Earth, and voice communications need much more bandwidth than a Morse signal.
Besides, constant 2 second delays suck.
Do it!
Do it!
Do it!
If you can crack the MPAA servers, then you could contact Toshiba and Mitsu to sue THEM.
While you're at it.. Crack dvdcca.org as well.
And the oscar.com website for the Academy Awards.
And anyone else who is a figurehead of the MP industry.
-=note: acts not sanctioned by author. thy felonies are thine own, and it is thy seat in San Quentin.=-
Do you really think that customs people would have a problem with walking through the lower level of an International terminal with a shirt coated in code, illegible to them?
No.
If you were wearing a shirt depicting - graphically - sex acts, then you would probably be in drek.
But code? Gimme a break.
Now, if you're busted for narcotics possession, don't be too shocked if the federal DA decides to add violation of ITAR to your list of charges.
If you can figure out a way to engrave it onto a building that's
A: Up
B: Under constant surveilance
C: A place the xPD can enter at ANY time
D: In plain public view
More power to you.
However, they'd probably news blackout this story.
After all, the MPAA's members can't do to well to distribute the source by themselves!
Funny..
I was about to bitch that there was a sizeable chunk of easter-egg code, and then I realized something obvious:
Office suites probably contain on the order of the mid to upper millions of lines of code, and another couple hundred of text may not make much of a difference (if they embed it far enough).
Hmm.....
Communism: 1 a : a theory advocating elimination of private property b : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed
Socialism: 1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
Both definitions courtesy EB.com.
There are a major difference between socialism and communism: in a socialist state a) all are not equal, and may be paid differently, while theoretical communism means all are paid the same; b) the government controls the means of production and how it's distributed, whereas a communist state has the owners own the factories and theoretically all can access the products as needed.
The US is not a democracy or a socialist state; it is a corporate republic, where the biggest corps get their concerns heard first and, if there's time in the end, maybe a few, minor issues could be heard.
Now, you say Browne's politics are 'excellent.' That's all well and good, but governments are needed to protect people from those who would abuse them.
A weak government is an invitation for a large corporation to come in and abuse the people. (See Nike's Asian sweatshops.)
Governments are needed to make sure companies don't screw the workers by paying them less than the minimum wage (though even that wage is a piece of shit).
Governments are needed to keep monopolies out of the picture.
Finally, what good is your bitching if you don't vote? Your vote DOES make a difference.
If you live in a state which is supposedly locked up for a certain candidate, then why not vote? If you like the supposed winner, it won't make a difference, and if you don't like the assuming prick, then you'll be helping your candidate!