Initial customer feedback from the entertainment industry in general has been very favorable
Earth to dickheads: Your main customer is supposed to be motherboard manufacturers, and then ( indirectly ) computer users. Since when is the entertainment industry a customer?
Oh wait. I suppose if you count those brown paper bags that Sony and Disney have been sending...
We have been using Roaring Penguin's commercial Mimedefang & Spamassassin combination, called "CanIt" for around a month now. ( Interestingly enough, Roaring Penguin seems unreachable at the moment. Hmmmmmm... )
It's incredibly effective. You can set up custom rules for identifying spam ( regex supported ), and the whole thing has a nice PHP-based interface. It was pretty easy to convince management that we needed it - typically management get the most spam anyway. And it's good to support a company pushing open source software:)
Previously I was using blacklists and my own ip-address list with iptables, but it just became too much, and this has dropped our spam from ridiculous levels to basically nothing.
... the same kind of action could be taken against war criminals who lie to their people and to the world about Iraq's WOMD.
How about strapping a lie detector on each politician and sacking them and taking their golden handshake away each time the machine says they're lying?
The question is: when will we allow them to get away with this big brother bullshit? Answer: watch them bring WOMD and terrorism into it. And the children - don't forget about the children. They'll play on your heart strings until you can't help but demand that each car has an auto-cop. And you'll only have your stupid gullible selves to blame.
The only reason I have a P3 is because a friend sold me their old one cheep. Did I throw out my old Pent100? Nope, I still have it around
Oh for fuck's sake! Like I said - there will always be some tight bastards out there who will soldier on with a fucking Pentium 100!
"Naaaaaaah duuuuuude! Seriously, Mozilla starts up in... like... 85 seconds if you pre-link it. I ain't upgrading 'till I have to. By the way, you still using that old Pentium III in the corner over there? Come on duuuuuuuuude. Can I have it? You said you were about to upgrade anyway......... Oh duuuuuuuuuude! You are sooooo cool. I'll always remember this. Thanks man!"
Walking off with mate's computer "... hehehehehehehe... sucker! "
I only got the new one for games
Yeah right!
"... Naaaaaaaah officer. This only LOOKS like a bong. No pot smoking going on here, sir..."
Seriously, if you don't like how your particular country is kow-towing to American demands, then that's your problem and YOU need to fix it. You ARE in a democracy, aren't you?
I don't consider our current form of government to be particularly respresentative ( I'm in Australia ).
Voting for one lying ( John Howard ), the thieving ( Pauling Hanson ) bastard ( Phillip Ruddock ) over another every 3 or 4 years isn't representative government. I'm sure the same is the case in the US and the UK. In the US, for example, I believe your past president was impeached on the grounds that he mislead the public ( about his sex life ) while Baby Bush paid his way in, and mislead the public over Iraq's 'massive' stocks of WOMD and somehow manages to dodge the impeachment problem Clinton had. Not that Clinton was a good president or anything... just pointing out that your system stinks as much as ours. Maybe even more - because it's bigger.
Please don't call what we have a democracy. Democracy sounds way too sophisticated. A democracy would have a referrendum before important events such as war. More than 50% of Australians were against invading Iraq without UN backing. I believe in Cuba, Turkey, and other places with 'democratic' governments, up to 98% of the people were against the war... but their governments were in bed with the Pentagon. No wonder some Arabs blew the fuck out of it. Must have had enough of their shit. Same goes for the WTC. Did anyone stop and consider that they might have been asking for it, and that it wasn't a randomly chosen target? And don't give me that "they hate our success// they hate our freedom" bullshit. Every sane person wants freedom for all. The problem that is a couple of rich people are prepared to sacrifice almost everyone elses' freedom for their own enrichment. And they call their methods 'democracy'. Bullshit.
Remember that Aptiva that you played around with for a while and hated back in your introductory computer gaming phase? It probably still works, doesn't have capacitors that blew out like ABIT and Gigabyte have had, has drivers for every major OS from Windows 3.1 and OS/2 2.1 to XP, and will run for the next ten years without much trouble. They build computers, not consumer appliances.
Such quality is important in some areas. Cars for example. But with computers, I would prefer to buy something which costs a quarter the price, and take my chances on it's life expectancy. Who really has a use for a 486 now? Sure you can use it for a print server, or a mail server, or whatever. By why? Your new 2Ghz will do this just as well, and won't skip a beat while doing it.
Computers should work well for the first 5 years of their life, and then... who cares what. Maybe they should self destruct and turn into some non-hazardous biodegradable dust that sweeps itself up. But as for IBM having an advantage because their stuff lasts longer than ASUS's or Gigabyte's... I just don't see that as an advantage. In fact it's a disadvantage, because the benefit you get from it ( being able to run a print server on it 15 years after buying it ) is outweighed by the initial cost, which is about 4x the cost of a regular computer.
Yes, BUT... A right-wing arsehole like Bush ( senior or junior ) is not very well going to throw money at these peoples' welfare. As far as the current government is concerned, these people are as much the enemy as the Arabs with their phantom WOMD. You see homeless people are the ones who are owed the MOST by right-wing bastards such as Bush and his gang of corporate cowboys. If all wealth were distrubted fairly, then a majority of Bush's treasures would be given to the homeless. I have no doubt that his party's policies of robbing the poor and giving to the rich have made most homeless people what they are now.
With the US government's current foreign policy, it's no wonder other countries are skeptical of software from companies such as Microsoft that are 'in bed' with them ( see Microsoft anti-trust trial for evidence of relationship between Microsoft and government ). If Microsoft wants to stay on top, they will have to distance themselves from the US government, or they will simply not be trusted. Or perhaps it's too late...
last time I looked at his C it was ugly, unportable sh*t
Oh really? One thing you forgot to mention in your post was the location of the alternative window manager you have been developing which demonstrates how things *should* be coded. Armchair critics... Last time I checked, evas was running on systems from x86 linux to win32 to Shaps' Zaurus to Qtopia to win32 ce to directfb. And a MacOS port is on the way. Of course compared to your cutting-edge window manager and 2d / 3d rendering backend ( that is 50 times faster than hardware acceleration ), Rasterman's effort must look like a child's 3-day venture into BASIC programming on his daddy's old Commodore 64. Where's that link again? Armchair boy?
I would advise extreme caution before sending someone like Ballmer. You know how much the Chinese like their pork. If he did go, I would certainly like to have a video of the meeting. I'm sure his monkey-dance antics would have a different affect on a Chinese audience.
Genetic engineering. You think that only the positive side to the technology will be developed? You know about how Hitler thought that Germans were the supreme race? You know how the Jews think they are the supreme race? There are extremists in all corners of the Earth. I'm pretty sure there are some in China. And their human rights record is down there with the worst of them. Allowing genetic engineering to develop in this direction is allowing extremists to attempt to create the next supreme race. Most likely they will fail miserably, but if the subjects survive and can reproduce, then we have a big problem. Very big.
I have no problem with science and progress. But I fear that our scientific knowledge is growing far more rapidly than our wisdom and social structures.
This technology in these times is a recipe for disaster. Look at the last couple of years.
Do you think the world is ready for this technology, or will we stumble into it blindly and apathetically and blame 'them' ( them: scientists, government, those pulling the strings of our government, the rest of the world who stood by and watched as we sealed our fate ) later when the shit hits the fan?
Just about every webmail I've seen has been on an https connection, which is lightyears more secure than pop3 and imap, which is what just about everyone uses
Hardly. The POP3 and IMAP connections you describe, that "just about everyone uses" are between the user and their ISP, over a modem connection. Whether they use plain text or not is beside the point, because the traffic never gets on the 'net - just over the phone lines. So that makes them more secure than your HTTPS which is easily interceptible and only needs to have the encryption cracked.
If you're not talking about modem-to-modem traffic, then you really should be using IMAP over SSL etc.
You're getting your issues confuses, which is exactly what Bush camp want. You see all the above issues have nothing to do with WOMD - the reason Iraq was invaded. And by the way, I don't wear a tin-foil hat. But I assume you make use of a penis-extender.
"More Weapons of Mass Distruction" - No, Iraq can not build any now. Terrorists have lost a big potential supplier
Yeah right. Not one> WOMD has been found yet ( in the control of Iraq - if we are looking for WOMD, maybe the inspectors should check out Israel - or good 'old USA ). Saddam had enough issues keeping his own people under control. He had no world domination plans, unlike some. I'm not defending Saddam by the way - just pointing out that the US military, in all it's glory, has not found one piece of evidence that the war was justified on WOMD grounds.
"Unjustified" - The United Nations is on record saying he had the weapons but had not provided evidence of their destruction.
If we're quoting people, I remember a quote from a certain now-dead weapons inspector who said "... there are many dark figures playing dark games.., ". I also seem to remember Hans Blix having some quite nasty things to say about baby Bush's motives for war. And there the Australian ASIO agent who quite over Iraq, saying that having seen all the 'evidence' presented, that he can only conclude that our governments are lying to us about their motives. And there are the fake documents that are popping up about Saddam supposedly trying to buy uranium from an African country. The list goes on.
The Clinton administration bombed him over this when he kicked out inspectors.
"The others did it too" is no excuse for ANY action. So Clinton is a dickhead as well. Obviously the issues go far deeper than any one person or political party. The simple fact is that there are no WOMD to be found in Iraq, and no amount of bullshit right-wing propoganda will change that fact.
Indonesia? They just blew up another hotel "... that was mainly frequented by westerners...". There have been 'promises' of more action all over the news recently. Don't tell me you haven't noticed, or that you haven't associated this with the invasion of Iraq. Or perhaps the US media is silently discarding the news? We get it in Australia...
Perhaps we should plaster on the front of every paper that 6000 Iraqi civilians have died due to the US led war against Iraq. Compared to the 200k civilians that were seemingly "lost" by Saddam's secret police
The problems with that argument:
1) We supposedly went to war not to liberate the Iraqi people, but to rid the world of terrorists and weapons of mass destruction. Now there are more terrorists, and more weapons of mass destruction.
2) Removing Saddam from power did not require a 'shock and awe' campagin, or carpet bombings, or any significant military involvement. You want Saddam removed? Send one of his CIA buddies in and assassinate him. If can do it to Kennedy, why not Saddam? Why did so many people have to die just to remove Saddam? Saddam was not the issue. The issue was US economic supremacy via US military supremacy. Any attempt to explain the illegal invasion of Iraq in a different light are pathetically blatent lies.
i'll just cut this list short by saying the whole fucking world is being attacked because America gives isreal weapons. Yeah thats reasonable
You don't think that it upsets Islamic people that the US gives Weapons of Mass Destruction (tm) to their enemies ( Israel ) while at the same time invades and conquers another country ( Iraq ) based on forged evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction? Seriously, you must see the hypocracy here.
when it is politics half the people morph into some uber-idiot hybred
I assume you are referring to the half that are not from the US. When half the people disagree with you, it is time to consider the alternative view they are putting forward.
And how, exactly, would impeaching our president and changing our foreign policy deter Islamists from wanting to destroy "The Great Satan"? They have been at war with us for more than 30 years, we're only now coming to fully realize it.
Simple. Stop playing "The Great Satan". Soon after, people will stop wanting to destroy you. And you think the US doesn't torture prisoners? I heard one of your 'interrogators' on the news a couple of months ago saying they would "stop at NOTHING to ensure the safety of US citizens". The guy was asked whether this meant torturing prisoners. He responded by repeated his last sentence. You wonder why Islamics have been at war with you for the past 30 years? Ever had a look at your history in the area? Heard of Israel? Palestine? You do know what the US did in there, don't you? Let me guess... they don't teach THAT kind of history at school. Just the George Washington crap.
Australia's David Hicks has been held by the US without charges and without access to a lawyer and without any contact with his family for a couple of years now. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd been tortured daily - that would be why they're holding 'terrorists' in Cuba... Cuba doesn't have such strict laws re: people's rights, and it's even more corrupt than the US.
So what do you Maher "Mike" Hawash's and David Hicks' his options were?
I think they would be this:
Plead guilty and tell the media what we want the world to hear, or be executed.
Which option would you choose?
If the US was serious about protecting their citizens from terrorists, they should consider impeaching their president, and changing their foreign policy. That would be a far more effective terrorist-deterrant than kidnapping individuals and making an example of them. That's only going to piss off more people.
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Earth to dickheads: Your main customer is supposed to be motherboard manufacturers, and then ( indirectly ) computer users. Since when is the entertainment industry a customer?
Oh wait. I suppose if you count those brown paper bags that Sony and Disney have been sending...
We have been using Roaring Penguin's commercial Mimedefang & Spamassassin combination, called "CanIt" for around a month now. ( Interestingly enough, Roaring Penguin seems unreachable at the moment. Hmmmmmm... )
:)
It's incredibly effective. You can set up custom rules for identifying spam ( regex supported ), and the whole thing has a nice PHP-based interface. It was pretty easy to convince management that we needed it - typically management get the most spam anyway. And it's good to support a company pushing open source software
Previously I was using blacklists and my own ip-address list with iptables, but it just became too much, and this has dropped our spam from ridiculous levels to basically nothing.
Well worth a look...
... the same kind of action could be taken against war criminals who lie to their people and to the world about Iraq's WOMD.
How about strapping a lie detector on each politician and sacking them and taking their golden handshake away each time the machine says they're lying?
The question is: when will we allow them to get away with this big brother bullshit? Answer: watch them bring WOMD and terrorism into it. And the children - don't forget about the children. They'll play on your heart strings until you can't help but demand that each car has an auto-cop. And you'll only have your stupid gullible selves to blame.
Bullshit.
Decrypt - yes. You need to decrypt a DVD before playing it.
Copy - no. You can copy a DVD with the encryption in-tact.
This is about licencing fees. Each player must be licensed.
Each time someone tells you it's about copy protection, punch them in the face for me.
Oh for fuck's sake!
Like I said - there will always be some tight bastards out there who will soldier on with a fucking Pentium 100!
"Naaaaaaah duuuuuude! Seriously, Mozilla starts up in
Oh duuuuuuuuuude! You are sooooo cool. I'll always remember this. Thanks man!"
Walking off with mate's computer "
Yeah right!
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Seriously, if you don't like how your particular country is kow-towing to American demands, then that's your problem and YOU need to fix it. You ARE in a democracy, aren't you?
... just pointing out that your system stinks as much as ours. Maybe even more - because it's bigger.
... but their governments were in bed with the Pentagon. No wonder some Arabs blew the fuck out of it. Must have had enough of their shit. Same goes for the WTC. Did anyone stop and consider that they might have been asking for it, and that it wasn't a randomly chosen target? And don't give me that "they hate our success // they hate our freedom" bullshit. Every sane person wants freedom for all. The problem that is a couple of rich people are prepared to sacrifice almost everyone elses' freedom for their own enrichment. And they call their methods 'democracy'. Bullshit.
I don't consider our current form of government to be particularly respresentative ( I'm in Australia ).
Voting for one lying ( John Howard ), the thieving ( Pauling Hanson ) bastard ( Phillip Ruddock ) over another every 3 or 4 years isn't representative government. I'm sure the same is the case in the US and the UK. In the US, for example, I believe your past president was impeached on the grounds that he mislead the public ( about his sex life ) while Baby Bush paid his way in, and mislead the public over Iraq's 'massive' stocks of WOMD and somehow manages to dodge the impeachment problem Clinton had. Not that Clinton was a good president or anything
Please don't call what we have a democracy. Democracy sounds way too sophisticated. A democracy would have a referrendum before important events such as war. More than 50% of Australians were against invading Iraq without UN backing. I believe in Cuba, Turkey, and other places with 'democratic' governments, up to 98% of the people were against the war
Such quality is important in some areas. Cars for example. But with computers, I would prefer to buy something which costs a quarter the price, and take my chances on it's life expectancy. Who really has a use for a 486 now? Sure you can use it for a print server, or a mail server, or whatever. By why? Your new 2Ghz will do this just as well, and won't skip a beat while doing it.
Computers should work well for the first 5 years of their life, and then
Yes, BUT...
A right-wing arsehole like Bush ( senior or junior ) is not very well going to throw money at these peoples' welfare. As far as the current government is concerned, these people are as much the enemy as the Arabs with their phantom WOMD. You see homeless people are the ones who are owed the MOST by right-wing bastards such as Bush and his gang of corporate cowboys. If all wealth were distrubted fairly, then a majority of Bush's treasures would be given to the homeless. I have no doubt that his party's policies of robbing the poor and giving to the rich have made most homeless people what they are now.
With the US government's current foreign policy, it's no wonder other countries are skeptical of software from companies such as Microsoft that are 'in bed' with them ( see Microsoft anti-trust trial for evidence of relationship between Microsoft and government ).
If Microsoft wants to stay on top, they will have to distance themselves from the US government, or they will simply not be trusted.
Or perhaps it's too late...
Spoiled sports!
Exactly what kind of cracker writes stuff like this?
Oh really?
One thing you forgot to mention in your post was the location of the alternative window manager you have been developing which demonstrates how things *should* be coded. Armchair critics...
Last time I checked, evas was running on systems from x86 linux to win32 to Shaps' Zaurus to Qtopia to win32 ce to directfb. And a MacOS port is on the way.
Of course compared to your cutting-edge window manager and 2d / 3d rendering backend ( that is 50 times faster than hardware acceleration ), Rasterman's effort must look like a child's 3-day venture into BASIC programming on his daddy's old Commodore 64.
Where's that link again? Armchair boy?
I would advise extreme caution before sending someone like Ballmer. You know how much the Chinese like their pork.
If he did go, I would certainly like to have a video of the meeting. I'm sure his monkey-dance antics would have a different affect on a Chinese audience.
An IIS server farm?
Now THAT sounds like a intelligent thing to do!
You make me laugh.
Genetic engineering.
You think that only the positive side to the technology will be developed? You know about how Hitler thought that Germans were the supreme race? You know how the Jews think they are the supreme race? There are extremists in all corners of the Earth. I'm pretty sure there are some in China. And their human rights record is down there with the worst of them. Allowing genetic engineering to develop in this direction is allowing extremists to attempt to create the next supreme race. Most likely they will fail miserably, but if the subjects survive and can reproduce, then we have a big problem. Very big.
No number of robots can protect you from world opinion. If only all your military spending were redirected to something useful...
I have no problem with science and progress.
But I fear that our scientific knowledge is growing far more rapidly than our wisdom and social structures.
This technology in these times is a recipe for disaster. Look at the last couple of years.
Do you think the world is ready for this technology, or will we stumble into it blindly and apathetically and blame 'them' ( them: scientists, government, those pulling the strings of our government, the rest of the world who stood by and watched as we sealed our fate ) later when the shit hits the fan?
Hardly. The POP3 and IMAP connections you describe, that "just about everyone uses" are between the user and their ISP, over a modem connection. Whether they use plain text or not is beside the point, because the traffic never gets on the 'net - just over the phone lines. So that makes them more secure than your HTTPS which is easily interceptible and only needs to have the encryption cracked.
If you're not talking about modem-to-modem traffic, then you really should be using IMAP over SSL etc.
You're getting your issues confuses, which is exactly what Bush camp want. You see all the above issues have nothing to do with WOMD - the reason Iraq was invaded.
And by the way, I don't wear a tin-foil hat. But I assume you make use of a penis-extender.
Yeah right. Not one> WOMD has been found yet ( in the control of Iraq - if we are looking for WOMD, maybe the inspectors should check out Israel - or good 'old USA ). Saddam had enough issues keeping his own people under control. He had no world domination plans, unlike some. I'm not defending Saddam by the way - just pointing out that the US military, in all it's glory, has not found one piece of evidence that the war was justified on WOMD grounds.
If we're quoting people, I remember a quote from a certain now-dead weapons inspector who said "
"The others did it too" is no excuse for ANY action. So Clinton is a dickhead as well. Obviously the issues go far deeper than any one person or political party.
The simple fact is that there are no WOMD to be found in Iraq, and no amount of bullshit right-wing propoganda will change that fact.
Indonesia? They just blew up another hotel "
There have been 'promises' of more action all over the news recently. Don't tell me you haven't noticed, or that you haven't associated this with the invasion of Iraq. Or perhaps the US media is silently discarding the news? We get it in Australia...
The problems with that argument:
1) We supposedly went to war not to liberate the Iraqi people, but to rid the world of terrorists and weapons of mass destruction. Now there are more terrorists, and more weapons of mass destruction.
2) Removing Saddam from power did not require a 'shock and awe' campagin, or carpet bombings, or any significant military involvement. You want Saddam removed? Send one of his CIA buddies in and assassinate him. If can do it to Kennedy, why not Saddam? Why did so many people have to die just to remove Saddam? Saddam was not the issue. The issue was US economic supremacy via US military supremacy. Any attempt to explain the illegal invasion of Iraq in a different light are pathetically blatent lies.
It's a pitty people like you don't congregate in one spot, maybe with a big 'X' hovering above you. It would make it safer for the decent among us.
You don't think that it upsets Islamic people that the US gives Weapons of Mass Destruction (tm) to their enemies ( Israel ) while at the same time invades and conquers another country ( Iraq ) based on forged evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction? Seriously, you must see the hypocracy here.
I assume you are referring to the half that are not from the US.
When half the people disagree with you, it is time to consider the alternative view they are putting forward.
Simple. Stop playing "The Great Satan". Soon after, people will stop wanting to destroy you.
And you think the US doesn't torture prisoners? I heard one of your 'interrogators' on the news a couple of months ago saying they would "stop at NOTHING to ensure the safety of US citizens". The guy was asked whether this meant torturing prisoners. He responded by repeated his last sentence.
You wonder why Islamics have been at war with you for the past 30 years? Ever had a look at your history in the area? Heard of Israel? Palestine? You do know what the US did in there, don't you? Let me guess
Australia's David Hicks has been held by the US without charges and without access to a lawyer and without any contact with his family for a couple of years now. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd been tortured daily - that would be why they're holding 'terrorists' in Cuba ... Cuba doesn't have such strict laws re: people's rights, and it's even more corrupt than the US.
So what do you Maher "Mike" Hawash's and David Hicks' his options were?
I think they would be this:
Plead guilty and tell the media what we want the world to hear, or be executed.
Which option would you choose?
If the US was serious about protecting their citizens from terrorists, they should consider impeaching their president, and changing their foreign policy. That would be a far more effective terrorist-deterrant than kidnapping individuals and making an example of them. That's only going to piss off more people.