Look at your history again. Every culture that has its roots in the Middle East has a flood story. No other cultures beyond the Middle East have any such story.
I think Python could be this easy. However, I think it would be too much to ask for to have people go to the Python website and download all the necessary stuff.
What I would like to see is someone package all the Python utilities and a nice IDE onto a CD and have it sold in stores at a cheap price (say $20 or less.) Not online, but in stores such as Wal-mart and Target, where parents can see it.
So perhaps spammers shouldn't be allowed to send such explicit emails to servers where it's known that kids have accounts, and only be allowed to send emails to servers with exclusively adult audiences.
Clock speed may not matter that much, but with Intel and AMD pushing their processors to 3 Ghz and above, it's going to be hard to keep toting that. There is only so much power that you can push through a lower clocked processor before it becomes pointless. Apple is probably coming to that realization now.
Actually, both of you have a point. My observation tells me that some of the higher-tech industries, such as IT and the auto industry, seem to have a better idea of justice. They seem more willing to pay people, no matter where they live, a fairer wage. The textile industry seems to be based solely on greed, and so the sweatshop workers get screwed over.
Before people start complaining about more people overseas taking jobs, let's realize that this means more people in impoverished jobs having access at better jobs. They may not be getting the pay they deserve, but they will be getting paid a lot better than many of their fellow persons. That better pay in relativity means they will be able to give themselves and their families a better standard of living, which every human being on this planet deserves. This is the goal of free trade, isn't it?
If we've been smart (this is slashdot, right?), we've been saving money to help us through tougher times. More jobs will always be created.
No, I would do what he says until I had a chance to disarm him or alert the police who would then proceed to disarm him or shoot him if necessary, then get him proper medical attention and send him to a small cell filled with hulking sodomites where he belongs. What, you say some countries don't have a trustworthy police force? Well, some cultures just suck that way...
Talk about bigotted. You do realize that the Iraqi people tried that, many, many times, even when they thought that Saddam was weakened (particularly after the first Gulf War), and guess what? Saddam still had the bigger guns, and decided to slaughter them. Iraqis weren't the only ones to try. Many others in other brutal regimes have tried and found the results to be murderously disastrous. Often times it's extremists that lead the revolutions, so when the regime is defeated, another extremist government is put in its place. Moderates almost never put up revolutions. Remember that the mob has eyes and ears everywhere and will destroy any attempts to take them from that position of power. Outside intervention can stop that power, but if not outside intervention, then another mob.
Seems like you have a poorer opinion of these people than I do. It's not easy to brainwash someone to behave in ways that go against their beliefs. It's their culture of hatred and submission that lets these things happen.
You sure about that? Then how do you explain Nazi Germany? Or even the USSR? An impoverished or battered population is very easy to seduce. When there is little food, no money, or just low morale, populations have a tendancy to look for a "saviour" (and I use that term very generally, I don't necessarily mean "saviour" in a religious sense.) That "saviour" almost always preaches ideals that can never be achieved.
As far as multinationals go, our government may not have authority in the other countries they operate in, and we shouldn't outlaw them, but we could certainly find ways to hold them more accountable, e.g. imposing taxes on them or at the very least putting more pressure on them to change conditions through means such as information campaigns that let consumers and shareholders know and understand where the products come from and where they're going.
Fault wouldn't lie entirely with me should a bum beat me on the head with a stick that I gave him, but I most certainly would have contributed to it. He may expect more help, perhaps financially, and when he doesn't get it, he may blame it on me.
However, societies are much more complex. We should have learnt from the fUSSR and communist China and their beginnings that power in the uneducated, impoverished masses is dangerous. They're easily persuaded by dangerous leaders who promise more than they can give. It's easy to get away with corruption when you have an impoverished and uneducated peoples. When you're given a significant amount of military power, it then becomes easy to suppress anyone that wants to change the situation. Could Saddam Hussein or the shah have turned out to be good guys? Sure, but there's something about power and corruption, there is a seeming correlation. Also, after the first Gulf War, we left the Iraqi population to their own revolution, only to have them brutally slaughtered.
We should definitely be more diligent about the leaders we give weapons and money to so that we are not bitten in the ass. Hindsight is 20/20, but we should definitely remember the consequences of our mistakes and make sure they're not repeated.
I should state that I partially support what we've done in Iraq. I was really uneasy before the war, but I think that taking out Saddam was a good thing. No government should be murdering and raping its own citizens. I don't agree with some of the reasons (other than removing an evil regime) such as WMDs (for which the evidence is still really shaky), but I think it will all work out. The ideas for rebuilding the country are right, but executed poorly, and were poorly prepared for.
I love this country and always will. However, that doesn't mean I should blindside myself to the truth of our past. Remember that Al Qaeda is our own fault. Osama bin Laden was trained by the CIA to fight the "atheistic Commies." We were the ones that gave them the weapons and the money to fight the USSR. In Iran, we gave one group of extremists to fight another group of extremists, and guess what, we had more extremists put into government that would later turn on us. Iraq is also partially our own fault. When Iran turned on us, we decided that its neighboring opponent, Iraq, could do all our dirty work (by giving them money and weapons), especially since they were already fighting. That gave the brutal regime that was already in power at the time even more power.
Oh, and what about the Philippines, a former colony of the US? That too was liberated after WWII, but it's still steeped in considerable poverty. Trust me, I've been there and seen it myself. I was shocked and I knew that wasn't even the worst as far as impoverished nations go. It was still very heartbreaking. It's now improving, but at a very, very slow rate.
I'm not trying to vindicate the UN here, and I wouldn't even want to. They've done a pretty shitty job of rebuilding countries too.
As far as Japan goes, I wouldn't give all the credit to the US. Japanese culture made it a lot easier for the US to rebuild the country. There is a big emphasis in their culture on pragmatism and hard work. That and the Korean war (which helped to boost Japan's industrial sectors by quite a bit) had a lot to do with their success. However, Japan still went through quite a number of hardships during its rebuilding process.
Western Europe still had a lot of money in the banks after WWII, which really helped them to bounce back.
Finally, I want to point out that once the seed of corruption is planted into a country, the plant that grows afterwards is very difficult to destroy. Western Europe and Japan had the benefit of suffering from much less internal corruption than other nations (particularly former European colonies, whose seeds of corruption were planted by the European colonizers.) The longer that the plant of corruption is allowed to grow, the more difficult it becomes to destroy because the people in that country grow used to it, and so if a new government is put in place, any corruption within the new government would be expected. The UN and the US have both underestimated the amount of effort that it would take to destroy this plant. Nation rebuilding is still extremely new, and no one really truly has any truly proven ways of doing it.
Ground troops are all trained these days in hand-to-hand combat. Technology is never meant to replace abilities as basic as that. Soldiers are expected to be able to work in a battlefield should their equipment fail. Should technology like this fail in a battlefield, that isn't going to render a soldier useless. Radios also use power that needs to be replenished from time to time and can also quite easily break. Why would this be any different?
The military is smarter than making a soldier solely reliable on the equipment they carry.
True, there is usually at least five people within a zip code in Wyoming.
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So what if it's not "functional" or seems "pointless." So what if it "goes over the top" for case modding. It's supposed to be art, which is the point of most case modding. If case modding was meant to be functional, the most we would ever do is add a few fans to our cases or some other such piece of hardware. The bland tan colored boxes wouldn't bother us.
Judge it for its aesthetic appeal, not for its functionalness or whether or not you would want to buy it (even if you did want to, I would doubt you would be able to.) Judging it by any other context is off topic.
All I really wanted to point out is that economics is rather arbitrary. An economic action happens whenever a person trades one resource for another, no matter how abstract those resources are. We place laws on other economic actions, even if such economic actions are silly or seem imbalanced (e.g. buying water in a bottle, or paying thousands of dollars on a painting an artist spent ten dollars and one hour of painting, or even gambling.)
I'm not saying we need to make laws on such trades, but to not consider them is a little hypocritical. I don't care personally whether any laws on such trades are made, but I would find it odd if no one thought about it. A lot of people used to find buying bottled water a little odd.
Ah, but there are people who have web pages hosted on computers that are not their own. Those servers could be shut down by their owners at any time. Does that make the web pages that people put on those servers the property of the servers' owners? Or, perhaps they're valueless since the people who put them on those servers have no direct control over them.
Basic economics tells us that anything can have value, as long as someone wants to pay for it.
The guy ought to be more clear about the messages he tries to get across. This is just too vague:
Electronic hobbyists will do what they want to do...the numbers are not really that big. It's not a commercial as much as it is an intellectual property issue and we always pursue those. If someone finds a way to cheat, we close it down and do an update so people can't anymore.
I don't think he's against modchips, but he doesn't want people to use modchips for purposes other than putting Linux on a box, i.e. using it to cheat on XBox Live! or pirate/copyright infringe games. He (and probably the rest of Microsoft) don't seem to care if people use a modchip to put Linux on the XBox, and there doesn't seem like there is much they would be able to do about it anyway.
If you backup everything, how do you know that you're not backing up the virus that's infecting the computer? If you've restored everything, and you still have a virus, you haven't fixed anything.
This concept isn't particularily new. It's easy to write a script that will check a partiular piece of the system by running some sort of diagnostic command (e.g. netstat), parse the output, and make sure everything looks normal. If something doesn't look normal, just stop the process and restart, or whatever you need to do to get some service back up an running, or secured, or whatever is needed to make the system normal again.
Make sure that script is part of a crontab that's run somewhat frequently, and things should recover on their own as soon as they fail (well, within the time-frame that you have the script running within your crontab.)
"Undo" feature? That's what backups are for.
Of course, the article was thinking that this would be built into the software, but I don't think that is that much better of a solution. In fact, I would say that that would make things more complicated than anything.
As I said elsewhere in response to another comment, we shouldn't try to stop such technology just because it can be used for nefarious purposes. If we did, we'd be as bad and pessimisstic as the RIAA.
Early detection of cancer can lead to cures. Why would we want to keep that possibility out of the hands of cancer patients and those at risk for cancer?
We need to be vigilant that such technology is used for only private medical testing.
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Look at your history again. Every culture that has its roots in the Middle East has a flood story. No other cultures beyond the Middle East have any such story.
Since it's based on KHTML from Konqueror, in many respects it's more compliant than Mozilla.
If you have to question something that is the "truth," then perhaps it's not "truth."
I think Python could be this easy. However, I think it would be too much to ask for to have people go to the Python website and download all the necessary stuff.
What I would like to see is someone package all the Python utilities and a nice IDE onto a CD and have it sold in stores at a cheap price (say $20 or less.) Not online, but in stores such as Wal-mart and Target, where parents can see it.
So perhaps spammers shouldn't be allowed to send such explicit emails to servers where it's known that kids have accounts, and only be allowed to send emails to servers with exclusively adult audiences.
Clock speed may not matter that much, but with Intel and AMD pushing their processors to 3 Ghz and above, it's going to be hard to keep toting that. There is only so much power that you can push through a lower clocked processor before it becomes pointless. Apple is probably coming to that realization now.
Actually, both of you have a point. My observation tells me that some of the higher-tech industries, such as IT and the auto industry, seem to have a better idea of justice. They seem more willing to pay people, no matter where they live, a fairer wage. The textile industry seems to be based solely on greed, and so the sweatshop workers get screwed over.
Is that Joe CEO or Joe Gullible? Can't be that hard to test software out yourself, can it?
Before people start complaining about more people overseas taking jobs, let's realize that this means more people in impoverished jobs having access at better jobs. They may not be getting the pay they deserve, but they will be getting paid a lot better than many of their fellow persons. That better pay in relativity means they will be able to give themselves and their families a better standard of living, which every human being on this planet deserves. This is the goal of free trade, isn't it?
If we've been smart (this is slashdot, right?), we've been saving money to help us through tougher times. More jobs will always be created.
Give it a rest. OSS isn't about working for free, it's about caring about what you're working on, and letting others give the same kind of care.
If a company can get the same or better quality at a lower price, why not?
Does anyone have an idea of why end users use the software they use in the face of all the reasons/reccomendatios not to?
Because panic is so much fun??
No, I would do what he says until I had a chance to disarm him or alert the police who would then proceed to disarm him or shoot him if necessary, then get him proper medical attention and send him to a small cell filled with hulking sodomites where he belongs. What, you say some countries don't have a trustworthy police force? Well, some cultures just suck that way...
Talk about bigotted. You do realize that the Iraqi people tried that, many, many times, even when they thought that Saddam was weakened (particularly after the first Gulf War), and guess what? Saddam still had the bigger guns, and decided to slaughter them. Iraqis weren't the only ones to try. Many others in other brutal regimes have tried and found the results to be murderously disastrous. Often times it's extremists that lead the revolutions, so when the regime is defeated, another extremist government is put in its place. Moderates almost never put up revolutions. Remember that the mob has eyes and ears everywhere and will destroy any attempts to take them from that position of power. Outside intervention can stop that power, but if not outside intervention, then another mob.
Seems like you have a poorer opinion of these people than I do. It's not easy to brainwash someone to behave in ways that go against their beliefs. It's their culture of hatred and submission that lets these things happen.
You sure about that? Then how do you explain Nazi Germany? Or even the USSR? An impoverished or battered population is very easy to seduce. When there is little food, no money, or just low morale, populations have a tendancy to look for a "saviour" (and I use that term very generally, I don't necessarily mean "saviour" in a religious sense.) That "saviour" almost always preaches ideals that can never be achieved.
As far as multinationals go, our government may not have authority in the other countries they operate in, and we shouldn't outlaw them, but we could certainly find ways to hold them more accountable, e.g. imposing taxes on them or at the very least putting more pressure on them to change conditions through means such as information campaigns that let consumers and shareholders know and understand where the products come from and where they're going.
Fault wouldn't lie entirely with me should a bum beat me on the head with a stick that I gave him, but I most certainly would have contributed to it. He may expect more help, perhaps financially, and when he doesn't get it, he may blame it on me.
However, societies are much more complex. We should have learnt from the fUSSR and communist China and their beginnings that power in the uneducated, impoverished masses is dangerous. They're easily persuaded by dangerous leaders who promise more than they can give. It's easy to get away with corruption when you have an impoverished and uneducated peoples. When you're given a significant amount of military power, it then becomes easy to suppress anyone that wants to change the situation. Could Saddam Hussein or the shah have turned out to be good guys? Sure, but there's something about power and corruption, there is a seeming correlation. Also, after the first Gulf War, we left the Iraqi population to their own revolution, only to have them brutally slaughtered.
We should definitely be more diligent about the leaders we give weapons and money to so that we are not bitten in the ass. Hindsight is 20/20, but we should definitely remember the consequences of our mistakes and make sure they're not repeated.
I should state that I partially support what we've done in Iraq. I was really uneasy before the war, but I think that taking out Saddam was a good thing. No government should be murdering and raping its own citizens. I don't agree with some of the reasons (other than removing an evil regime) such as WMDs (for which the evidence is still really shaky), but I think it will all work out. The ideas for rebuilding the country are right, but executed poorly, and were poorly prepared for.
If you had RTFA'd, you'd know that one of the goals of this project was to lighten the load that the modern day soldier carries.
I love this country and always will. However, that doesn't mean I should blindside myself to the truth of our past. Remember that Al Qaeda is our own fault. Osama bin Laden was trained by the CIA to fight the "atheistic Commies." We were the ones that gave them the weapons and the money to fight the USSR. In Iran, we gave one group of extremists to fight another group of extremists, and guess what, we had more extremists put into government that would later turn on us. Iraq is also partially our own fault. When Iran turned on us, we decided that its neighboring opponent, Iraq, could do all our dirty work (by giving them money and weapons), especially since they were already fighting. That gave the brutal regime that was already in power at the time even more power.
Oh, and what about the Philippines, a former colony of the US? That too was liberated after WWII, but it's still steeped in considerable poverty. Trust me, I've been there and seen it myself. I was shocked and I knew that wasn't even the worst as far as impoverished nations go. It was still very heartbreaking. It's now improving, but at a very, very slow rate.
I'm not trying to vindicate the UN here, and I wouldn't even want to. They've done a pretty shitty job of rebuilding countries too.
As far as Japan goes, I wouldn't give all the credit to the US. Japanese culture made it a lot easier for the US to rebuild the country. There is a big emphasis in their culture on pragmatism and hard work. That and the Korean war (which helped to boost Japan's industrial sectors by quite a bit) had a lot to do with their success. However, Japan still went through quite a number of hardships during its rebuilding process.
Western Europe still had a lot of money in the banks after WWII, which really helped them to bounce back.
Finally, I want to point out that once the seed of corruption is planted into a country, the plant that grows afterwards is very difficult to destroy. Western Europe and Japan had the benefit of suffering from much less internal corruption than other nations (particularly former European colonies, whose seeds of corruption were planted by the European colonizers.) The longer that the plant of corruption is allowed to grow, the more difficult it becomes to destroy because the people in that country grow used to it, and so if a new government is put in place, any corruption within the new government would be expected. The UN and the US have both underestimated the amount of effort that it would take to destroy this plant. Nation rebuilding is still extremely new, and no one really truly has any truly proven ways of doing it.
Ground troops are all trained these days in hand-to-hand combat. Technology is never meant to replace abilities as basic as that. Soldiers are expected to be able to work in a battlefield should their equipment fail. Should technology like this fail in a battlefield, that isn't going to render a soldier useless. Radios also use power that needs to be replenished from time to time and can also quite easily break. Why would this be any different?
The military is smarter than making a soldier solely reliable on the equipment they carry.
True, there is usually at least five people within a zip code in Wyoming.
So what if it's not "functional" or seems "pointless." So what if it "goes over the top" for case modding. It's supposed to be art, which is the point of most case modding. If case modding was meant to be functional, the most we would ever do is add a few fans to our cases or some other such piece of hardware. The bland tan colored boxes wouldn't bother us.
Judge it for its aesthetic appeal, not for its functionalness or whether or not you would want to buy it (even if you did want to, I would doubt you would be able to.) Judging it by any other context is off topic.
All I really wanted to point out is that economics is rather arbitrary. An economic action happens whenever a person trades one resource for another, no matter how abstract those resources are. We place laws on other economic actions, even if such economic actions are silly or seem imbalanced (e.g. buying water in a bottle, or paying thousands of dollars on a painting an artist spent ten dollars and one hour of painting, or even gambling.)
I'm not saying we need to make laws on such trades, but to not consider them is a little hypocritical. I don't care personally whether any laws on such trades are made, but I would find it odd if no one thought about it. A lot of people used to find buying bottled water a little odd.
Ah, but there are people who have web pages hosted on computers that are not their own. Those servers could be shut down by their owners at any time. Does that make the web pages that people put on those servers the property of the servers' owners? Or, perhaps they're valueless since the people who put them on those servers have no direct control over them.
Basic economics tells us that anything can have value, as long as someone wants to pay for it.
I don't think he's against modchips, but he doesn't want people to use modchips for purposes other than putting Linux on a box, i.e. using it to cheat on XBox Live! or pirate/copyright infringe games. He (and probably the rest of Microsoft) don't seem to care if people use a modchip to put Linux on the XBox, and there doesn't seem like there is much they would be able to do about it anyway.
If you backup everything, how do you know that you're not backing up the virus that's infecting the computer? If you've restored everything, and you still have a virus, you haven't fixed anything.
and cron them in.
This concept isn't particularily new. It's easy to write a script that will check a partiular piece of the system by running some sort of diagnostic command (e.g. netstat), parse the output, and make sure everything looks normal. If something doesn't look normal, just stop the process and restart, or whatever you need to do to get some service back up an running, or secured, or whatever is needed to make the system normal again.
Make sure that script is part of a crontab that's run somewhat frequently, and things should recover on their own as soon as they fail (well, within the time-frame that you have the script running within your crontab.)
"Undo" feature? That's what backups are for.
Of course, the article was thinking that this would be built into the software, but I don't think that is that much better of a solution. In fact, I would say that that would make things more complicated than anything.
As I said elsewhere in response to another comment, we shouldn't try to stop such technology just because it can be used for nefarious purposes. If we did, we'd be as bad and pessimisstic as the RIAA.
Early detection of cancer can lead to cures. Why would we want to keep that possibility out of the hands of cancer patients and those at risk for cancer?
We need to be vigilant that such technology is used for only private medical testing.