No shit, what are they going to do, monitor everything that's ever burned to CD or recorded to cassette? Are they going to ban memory, because you I hum songs I heard on the radio that I've never bought? Is that infringing on thier bloody profits?! You know what, I've never actually burned music (that I didn't buy) to a CD, not because I don't believe in it I just generally don't do it. Most of the time, I've bought all the music I like, and I'll lose the CD or it'll get scratched, so I'll download it and burn it. Even that's pretty rare for me... And I don't get to use my fucking CD burner?
Besides that, I record my own music. What in the hell am I supposed to do to put my data on a medium. Do I have to go to the "Ministry of Compact Disks" to get my music put on a piece of plastic I BOUGHT, recorded with equipment that I BOUGHT, with a CD burner that I BOUGHT.
Who in the hell do they think they are? You don't ban guns because people get shot, you deal with it on a case by case basis.
that people with naturally better hand-eye coordination, and concentration are better at games, and so they are more enjoyable to them and tend play them more than people that have slow coordination and concentration? Hmmm, ya think?!
All too often I'll boot an experimental kernel only to have it die on bootup -- no error message, no warning, but the last message will be, for example, "SCSI: ncr53c8xx version 0.3" -> then I know about where it died, and it gives me a good idea of what to take out of the kernel to try to get it to boot.
When I build a new kernel, I usually spend about 20 minutes going thru every single option. Making sure my modules.conf is correct and all my settings are right. Then... I got thru them all again to make sure I didn't miss something. I rarely if ever have a problem that leaves my system unbootable, most of the time it works the first time. If you use whether your system boots or not as an indicator of whether your kernel is built correctly you deserve what you get. You sound exactly like one of admins I replace as a contractor, so rock on buddy, thanks for the cash.
That's the whole point, all of the information in here is useless because more precise/the same information can be found elsewhere. Things like errors will obviously be left in. What we have now is a just a rolling of credits for linux developers, basically. Other OS's don't do this, even commercial UNIX, because if you don't know how to find this information the right way, you shouldn't be using it!
I know, I know people will go on about that last statement, "We need wider acceptance. Linux needs to be easier to use...", blah! I've been doing private consulting for linux based networks, and let me tell you I've seen some VERY FUCKED NETWORKS that were caused by linux distro's that were too easy to use! This is the whole reason that the tech economy is busting, you have all this easy to use, "automated" software. So nobody spends anytime on design and understanding what really goes on under the hood and in result make crappy setups. So in conclusion, keep the bullshit out of my bootup messages, make me learn where to find it the right way, and make everything harder. Because in the end it's going to make my life, as somebody that actually takes the time designing, writing requirements and documentation, a hell of a lot easier!
It's a beginning of a new era alright. An era of putting code that is destined to open us all up to a mess of portability, compatibility and security problems. That has no reason being in the kernel, for those of us that have respect for the basic decency of the UNIX programming model... And in the end, for no real benefit. Hooray! pfft.
So maybe it's changing some files, and not only adding them. Turn off services that would be automatically changing files for a minute(you do all the services that are running on your system and what they are changing and when right?!). Install the app, check modification times for all the files on the system if they are later then the time you intalled the app, the app probably changed them. If I were admining a unix box, and someone suggested installing a FileMon, or SysDiff type tool on my system I'd laugh at them and tell them to write a script just for the point of the matter! I mean come on!
Eh, even if there WAS SUCH TOOLS FOR UNIX, if you asked any good UNIX admin if you could install a tool on his/her system to do something as everyday and simple like this. He'd let out an evil laugh and run three commands that did the exact same thing as these tools before you could even download them. I always thought it was funny when I was a UNIX admin, and I worked along side some NT admins. They just think so in-the-box, I don't think it's thier fault though they don't even have an adequate shell! Things that I would have automated the hell out of they point/click and do manually every single day. Things that I could have written a simple 10 line shell script to do, they pay 1000 dollars for a site license for some 3rd party tool. It never ceased to amaze me...
I am OT VIII, the ONLY way a thetan ever gets in trouble, the ONLY way he can get trapped or become part of a cluster is by mocking-up and inaking pictures of bad experiences. All power comes from the ability to occupy a point. The base that separates two terminals must be firm or there will be no exchange of energy.
::walks around like a zombie with hands held in front of me::
Me too, that connection would be awesome for my studio. I could put them in a closet across the house... This in combination with a kvm type switching mechanism for multiple computers with one monitor/mouse/keyboard would be ideal...
I just want to clarify, my argument wasn't against you, because I believe that AOL should open up it's protocols, and users should have the freedom to use the software they want, but on the same token I see all these people bashing AOL like they are doing something wrong, when it's really there choice. And that I don't know the real story because it's been biasly portrayed, nothing against your or the rest of your team. I, like most people don't have the time to verify all the information and dig up everything to make an informed decision. So when something like this get's posted it's so easy for people to say "AOL sucks!", instead of being able to make an informed decision based on all the angles. I hope you didn't take offense to what I was saying, because I applaud your efforts for the sake of software freedom, and my lack of understanding about the issue only points back to my main argument about Journalism, and Slashdot. It does matter, because there are a lot of people that care about these issues, I just wish they were given all the information not lead by one person at Slashdot's haphazardly prepared opinion. Well, I wouldn't even call it prepared because they are just posting it without looking into it at all.
Bullshit, all they had to do was go to the link that they provided... Where is says:
It began Monday, when the IPs of some of the larger Jabber servers offering the AIM Transport as a feature (such as jabber.org and jabber.com) found their IP addresses firewalled from the AIM login servers. After discovering this, it took only minutes to move aim.jabber.org to another IP, but then it seemed that something had changed at the protocol level and AIM logins were being disconnected abruptly. The AIM Transport was quickly updated to correct the login block and service was restored. This happened again Tuesday and Wednesday, with more relocations and updates to fix new incompatibilities as they appeared.
Where does it say anything about libfaim? I'm assuming, though I don't really care enough to check. That Jabber uses the OSCAR protocol instead of TOC. OSCAR is constantly changing, and never really worked anyway. If you want to use AIM services, just use TOC... I just find it irritating the tone of the comment that AOL is doing something wrong. They don't have any obligation to spend the extra money in there development cycle to support or service third party clients. Jabber is doing something strange, like transporting clients from there domain to AOL, if AOL doesn't like what they are doing what's so wrong with them DENY'ing them. I'd do the same thing, as a good admin, to block some alien party sending packets to my systems that I have no control over. It's a liability to them... But now it's being made into a crusade. I just think that's wrong on the part of Jabber and on the part of the Slashdot staff.
Fine if Jabber wants to incorporate TOC into there clients, and do negotiations between the client and AOL that could probably get away with it. It's shady, but it works, and it's not going to hurt AOL. But insisting that AOL publish and spend money to cooperate with Jabber to set up a trust between Jabbers network, and AOL's network, and release the specs to a relateively experimental protocol, that changes often and that they probably spend a lot of money on to develop. I can see AOL's stance on this, they are trying to minimize the cost of support and hassle caused by a community that is not thier INTENDED audience. This whole thing is about misconstrueing the facts and making it a fanatical issue among the technical community to force AOL to comply, and it's just downright wrong.
You people are insane... AOL is providing a free service, at thier expense. PLUS, They opened the TOC protocol so everybody can use it... I'm using GAIM right now for crying out loud! Even if they didn't, they still provide an AIM client for linux, I think that's pretty generous in it's own right. This is complete hype journalism... Remember these are AOL's servers, they are fair, they are free and most importantly they should have the freedom to govern it as they choose so they can keep being able to afford to GIVE YOU SELFISH BASTARDS THIS SERVICE.
I can't believe this is even an issue. You paranoid, conspiracy types go way to far, way to often.
Man, screw this, it was just the Jabber AIM transport that allows Jabber users to chat with AIM users. What does this have to do with clients based off the libfaim libary? Slashdot's people need to take some CLASSES IN JOURNALISM, if they are going to refer to themselves as journalists. This is the type of reactionary, hype journalism that I would expect from the National Enquirer. What good is this story going to do besides plant false ideas in 100 of thousands of technically inclined people heads? AOL is providing a service, off of their servers, they have every right to choose who does, and who doesn't use this service. This is perfectly ethical, and legal. We don't really need to see the product of your investigations until you have hard evidence. I don't really care about your editorial comments unless you have verified facts.
I fell for it, too, but I expect more from my sources of information. THEY should check THEIR sources, I shouldn't have to do it for them! I appreciate a lot of the news that I get on slashdot, but over and over again it just seems like a standard conspiracy theory rag. More and more frequently I see that "Update" section under stories to correct the fact that they followed a false lead. That "Update" funcationality shouldn't be used after the fact to correct misinformation, it should be used to get late breaking additions to the story that's already been verified.
Is this the new Slashdot? Where you post a story that some evil company is doing something evil, then I have to research it to find out, there is actually no story. Most of the time it's just companies acting in their best interests, on a perfectly ethical and legal level. Sometimes they aren't, but most of the time they are! I've read a few editorials where the writer refered to themselves and slashdot as a journalistic institution. If you are going to do that, at least have the decency to follow a lead, and verify it before posting it! Seriously... If you are aren't going to follow the most basic ethos of journalism please stop acting in a journalistic fashion. If you aren't going to have the decency to study and understand the journalistic process, get off your soap box and post "Just the facts". Or better yet, spend some of that moola and hire a real journalist to do it for you...
This isn't a vulnerability in anything... This is not even programmer error, just programmer complete idiocy. It's just common sense not to send pricing information in your POST data. That's just ignorant, you might as well put a field in there to change the price. It's the equivalent...
I wonder how many Windows users are actively waiting for Linux programs to use. (TuxRacer one day maybe?) The version number is low but this is an interesting, oddball project.
Wooah! Somebody woke up hungover and hasn't had there coffee yet!
It's not slander or libel unless it can be proved the content was purposefully meant to be misconstrued as the truth. In this case it was obviously a parody. Good thing we don't go by your version of what is "mean and wrong". I still appreciate the fact that I can speak freely without being punished.
Why is there a demand to get rid of the rebel flag from the Georgia state flag but not for the NAACP to change it's name? Hypocrites everywhere!
Because Georgia enstated the rebel "stars and bars" flag in 1956, immediatelly after school integration was forced in that state. There is no long standing history behind that flag as the GA state flag, it was backlash against the civil rights movement of the time. Also, the "stars and bars" isn't technically the flag of the confederacy which I believe most people could take as a symbol of history of the state, it's the rebel *battle* flag.
Also, it's a general rule that when addressing a people or culture, you use the respect and address them as they want to be addressed. That's a long standing view that seems perfectly logical to me, not at all hypocritical. For example, when you aren't a member of a religion, in the presence of those that are you insert "Praise his (or her) name" in from of the name of the diety. It's just common ettiquette.
I've always found it interesting that Christians worship the form of Christianity nurtured and spread throughout the world by the civilization that killed Christ. That being Romans... There were actually many forms of Christianity, it just so happens that the one that was accepted was the one that seems to embrace mind-numbing, brain washing dicta of the church. For example, this talk back from the MSNBC site:
Amen. Dr. Caplan is missing a key element in his theory. Those of us who have faith have already answered the question of creationism. Scientists want to overanalyze until they get the answer they want. Life is so much more fulfilling once you accept God and live your life instead
of constantly analyzing it.
This kind of statement would have been ludricous to a Gnostic Christian, who believed in self understanding thru a never ending exploration of ones consciousness and the nature around them.
Fortunately, the Romans were able to kill off every other form of christianity except the one that met thier standards for a religion that benefited them. Very strange no one has been able to see thru this in the last 2 thousand years...
That's a good point. As an example (I'm a 22 btw, and I learned thru the kind of teaching you describe.) The other day I was writing some software at work, and I needed to multiply two values together for some sample input and I had simply forgotten how to do it with paper! Extremely disappointed in myself I used a calculator, and later I was able to do it and a couple other problems in my head fairly quickly as a test. I realized that in math at school we were able to use calculators and I hadn't done it in so long, I had just forgotten.
I agree with you on that a middle ground needs to be worked out. However, your statement to "make them conform" just won't work. I don't think it's particularly wrong, but our culture today encourages kids to not take that crap. Even my nephews and nieces, kids just a few years younger than me, adhere to this even more so than I did. If kids feel they being treated unfairly, whether they are or aren't, they are more likely to just stop responding or retaliate than to give in. Our culture glamorizes that.
I think this may actually be a step in the right direction. There is a pretty big percentage of mental invalids as you say, but I don't think there is a whole generation of them, far from it. In your time, besides the civil rights movement of course, there was little "task-based" organization towards creating bigger and better things. Timothy Leary gave people acid in an effort to fix "what" was wrong, but no conception of "how" to do it. The hippies protested "what" they felt was wrong, but provided little "how" and so essentially just waited until the Vietnam War ended. Todays children are raised in an free thinking environment, which can mean we don't have as much cultural baggage to overcome in being effective. And... we can be much more equipped to whoop ass and take names when given the correct tools and information (sadly, when provided with the wrong tools we may not always whoop ass for the good guys, though.)
I think the reason people are afraid of it is much simpler than they believe it's "unethical", or "wrong". Sure that may be the prescribed reaction based on the dogma that some are brought up with. But, I think the real reason is it just doesn't happen in nature and it's unsettling to think about. Say a 5 year old child is lost in a car accident, and the parents clone a new child that is physically EXACTLY the same. Would that be wrong? Nah. However, thinking about is somehow psychologically disturbing. Bringing back all those memories of the child you had lost and go through your natural process of grief. It's just... well, confusing when you start thinking about how it would be.
Also, humans on a fundamental level, while we are social, also require to be different. It's how we establish ourselves in the pecking order. Or maybe creating duplicates is unsettling because it immediately strikes us as how we see ourselves in dream states. Which is typically a place where we do what we *really* feel. Where we all can be monsters or we are tormented. Where we are highly sexual and more often than not unethical. I know that if was standing there looking down on a 10 year younger duplicate of myself looking up at me I would definately have a flash back.
Okay, so maybe if I had raised the child from infancy it wouldn't be so shocking. But my point is that the immediate notion, you have to admit, is strange. And people love to attack things that are strange...
There is accelerated support for the GeForce2 in Xfree86-4.0.2. Also a new.9.6 version of the drivers came out pretty recently from NVidia and I was able to get them working. I wasn't with.9.5 due to incompatibilities with my AGP bus.
Don't hold me to this, but if you download the cvs of Xfree86 there is most likely a dri module for the GeForce2 by now (since they got the accelerated server, I bet they are workin on the dri module in due course).
Actually Mandrake 7.2 was already set up for the new kernel. ie they used/etc/modules.conf instead of conf.modules and had the correct versions of the packages required. I was able to install 2.4.0-testx without any hassles at all... I believe you could even install the 2.4.0-testx kernels from an rpm on the extensions CD.
Tesla held the patents for the product that chump Guglielmo Marconi was using... Tesla just didn't have the business mind to rush radio to market. He was working on his grander visions of wireless power transmission. As Tesla said, "good luck to Marconi, he's using seventeen of my patents." In fact in 1943, when the US Supreme court reverses an older decision, strikes down the Marconi patents, and awards priority to Tesla, #645,576.
It's actually kinda disturbing that they would even put that "other guy" as the inventor. It's been widely held as fact that Tesla invented radio for the past 60 years. Yet still the old saying that "history is written by the winners". Still remains to be true, even on slashdot.
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No shit, what are they going to do, monitor everything that's ever burned to CD or recorded to cassette? Are they going to ban memory, because you I hum songs I heard on the radio that I've never bought? Is that infringing on thier bloody profits?! You know what, I've never actually burned music (that I didn't buy) to a CD, not because I don't believe in it I just generally don't do it. Most of the time, I've bought all the music I like, and I'll lose the CD or it'll get scratched, so I'll download it and burn it. Even that's pretty rare for me... And I don't get to use my fucking CD burner?
Besides that, I record my own music. What in the hell am I supposed to do to put my data on a medium. Do I have to go to the "Ministry of Compact Disks" to get my music put on a piece of plastic I BOUGHT, recorded with equipment that I BOUGHT, with a CD burner that I BOUGHT.
Who in the hell do they think they are? You don't ban guns because people get shot, you deal with it on a case by case basis.
that people with naturally better hand-eye coordination, and concentration are better at games, and so they are more enjoyable to them and tend play them more than people that have slow coordination and concentration? Hmmm, ya think?!
All too often I'll boot an experimental kernel only to have it die on bootup -- no error message, no warning, but the last message will be, for example, "SCSI: ncr53c8xx version 0.3" -> then I know about where it died, and it gives me a good idea of what to take out of the kernel to try to get it to boot.
When I build a new kernel, I usually spend about 20 minutes going thru every single option. Making sure my modules.conf is correct and all my settings are right. Then... I got thru them all again to make sure I didn't miss something. I rarely if ever have a problem that leaves my system unbootable, most of the time it works the first time. If you use whether your system boots or not as an indicator of whether your kernel is built correctly you deserve what you get. You sound exactly like one of admins I replace as a contractor, so rock on buddy, thanks for the cash.
That's the whole point, all of the information in here is useless because more precise/the same information can be found elsewhere. Things like errors will obviously be left in. What we have now is a just a rolling of credits for linux developers, basically. Other OS's don't do this, even commercial UNIX, because if you don't know how to find this information the right way, you shouldn't be using it!
I know, I know people will go on about that last statement, "We need wider acceptance. Linux needs to be easier to use...", blah! I've been doing private consulting for linux based networks, and let me tell you I've seen some VERY FUCKED NETWORKS that were caused by linux distro's that were too easy to use! This is the whole reason that the tech economy is busting, you have all this easy to use, "automated" software. So nobody spends anytime on design and understanding what really goes on under the hood and in result make crappy setups. So in conclusion, keep the bullshit out of my bootup messages, make me learn where to find it the right way, and make everything harder. Because in the end it's going to make my life, as somebody that actually takes the time designing, writing requirements and documentation, a hell of a lot easier!
Uh, you don't need to use kernel space to achive this kind of performance in linux... Check this out...
X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space.
It's a beginning of a new era alright. An era of putting code that is destined to open us all up to a mess of portability, compatibility and security problems. That has no reason being in the kernel, for those of us that have respect for the basic decency of the UNIX programming model... And in the end, for no real benefit. Hooray! pfft.
Well yeah, tripwire. But really, you don't need something that elaborate. Just get a test box and:
./install ; find / > file.list2 ; diff file.list1 file.list2
find / > file.list1 ;
So maybe it's changing some files, and not only adding them. Turn off services that would be automatically changing files for a minute(you do all the services that are running on your system and what they are changing and when right?!). Install the app, check modification times for all the files on the system if they are later then the time you intalled the app, the app probably changed them. If I were admining a unix box, and someone suggested installing a FileMon, or SysDiff type tool on my system I'd laugh at them and tell them to write a script just for the point of the matter! I mean come on!
Eh, even if there WAS SUCH TOOLS FOR UNIX, if you asked any good UNIX admin if you could install a tool on his/her system to do something as everyday and simple like this. He'd let out an evil laugh and run three commands that did the exact same thing as these tools before you could even download them. I always thought it was funny when I was a UNIX admin, and I worked along side some NT admins. They just think so in-the-box, I don't think it's thier fault though they don't even have an adequate shell! Things that I would have automated the hell out of they point/click and do manually every single day. Things that I could have written a simple 10 line shell script to do, they pay 1000 dollars for a site license for some 3rd party tool. It never ceased to amaze me...
I guess it wouldn't be a virus then, it'd be an antibody...
I am OT VIII, the ONLY way a thetan ever gets in trouble, the ONLY way he can get trapped or become part of a cluster is by mocking-up and inaking pictures of bad experiences. All power comes from the ability to occupy a point. The base that separates two terminals must be firm or there will be no exchange of energy.
::walks around like a zombie with hands held in front of me::
Me too, that connection would be awesome for my studio. I could put them in a closet across the house... This in combination with a kvm type switching mechanism for multiple computers with one monitor/mouse/keyboard would be ideal...
Temas,
I just want to clarify, my argument wasn't against you, because I believe that AOL should open up it's protocols, and users should have the freedom to use the software they want, but on the same token I see all these people bashing AOL like they are doing something wrong, when it's really there choice. And that I don't know the real story because it's been biasly portrayed, nothing against your or the rest of your team. I, like most people don't have the time to verify all the information and dig up everything to make an informed decision. So when something like this get's posted it's so easy for people to say "AOL sucks!", instead of being able to make an informed decision based on all the angles. I hope you didn't take offense to what I was saying, because I applaud your efforts for the sake of software freedom, and my lack of understanding about the issue only points back to my main argument about Journalism, and Slashdot. It does matter, because there are a lot of people that care about these issues, I just wish they were given all the information not lead by one person at Slashdot's haphazardly prepared opinion. Well, I wouldn't even call it prepared because they are just posting it without looking into it at all.
Later bro
Bullshit, all they had to do was go to the link that they provided... Where is says:
It began Monday, when the IPs of some of the larger Jabber servers offering the AIM Transport as a feature (such as jabber.org and jabber.com) found their IP addresses firewalled from the AIM login servers. After discovering this, it took only minutes to move aim.jabber.org to another IP, but then it seemed that something had changed at the protocol level and AIM logins were being disconnected abruptly. The AIM Transport was quickly updated to correct the login block and service was restored. This happened again Tuesday and Wednesday, with more relocations and updates to fix new incompatibilities as they appeared.
Where does it say anything about libfaim? I'm assuming, though I don't really care enough to check. That Jabber uses the OSCAR protocol instead of TOC. OSCAR is constantly changing, and never really worked anyway. If you want to use AIM services, just use TOC... I just find it irritating the tone of the comment that AOL is doing something wrong. They don't have any obligation to spend the extra money in there development cycle to support or service third party clients. Jabber is doing something strange, like transporting clients from there domain to AOL, if AOL doesn't like what they are doing what's so wrong with them DENY'ing them. I'd do the same thing, as a good admin, to block some alien party sending packets to my systems that I have no control over. It's a liability to them... But now it's being made into a crusade. I just think that's wrong on the part of Jabber and on the part of the Slashdot staff.
Fine if Jabber wants to incorporate TOC into there clients, and do negotiations between the client and AOL that could probably get away with it. It's shady, but it works, and it's not going to hurt AOL. But insisting that AOL publish and spend money to cooperate with Jabber to set up a trust between Jabbers network, and AOL's network, and release the specs to a relateively experimental protocol, that changes often and that they probably spend a lot of money on to develop. I can see AOL's stance on this, they are trying to minimize the cost of support and hassle caused by a community that is not thier INTENDED audience. This whole thing is about misconstrueing the facts and making it a fanatical issue among the technical community to force AOL to comply, and it's just downright wrong.
You people are insane... AOL is providing a free service, at thier expense. PLUS, They opened the TOC protocol so everybody can use it... I'm using GAIM right now for crying out loud! Even if they didn't, they still provide an AIM client for linux, I think that's pretty generous in it's own right. This is complete hype journalism... Remember these are AOL's servers, they are fair, they are free and most importantly they should have the freedom to govern it as they choose so they can keep being able to afford to GIVE YOU SELFISH BASTARDS THIS SERVICE.
I can't believe this is even an issue. You paranoid, conspiracy types go way to far, way to often.
Man, screw this, it was just the Jabber AIM transport that allows Jabber users to chat with AIM users. What does this have to do with clients based off the libfaim libary? Slashdot's people need to take some CLASSES IN JOURNALISM, if they are going to refer to themselves as journalists. This is the type of reactionary, hype journalism that I would expect from the National Enquirer. What good is this story going to do besides plant false ideas in 100 of thousands of technically inclined people heads? AOL is providing a service, off of their servers, they have every right to choose who does, and who doesn't use this service. This is perfectly ethical, and legal. We don't really need to see the product of your investigations until you have hard evidence. I don't really care about your editorial comments unless you have verified facts.
I fell for it, too, but I expect more from my sources of information. THEY should check THEIR sources, I shouldn't have to do it for them! I appreciate a lot of the news that I get on slashdot, but over and over again it just seems like a standard conspiracy theory rag. More and more frequently I see that "Update" section under stories to correct the fact that they followed a false lead. That "Update" funcationality shouldn't be used after the fact to correct misinformation, it should be used to get late breaking additions to the story that's already been verified.
Is this the new Slashdot? Where you post a story that some evil company is doing something evil, then I have to research it to find out, there is actually no story. Most of the time it's just companies acting in their best interests, on a perfectly ethical and legal level. Sometimes they aren't, but most of the time they are! I've read a few editorials where the writer refered to themselves and slashdot as a journalistic institution. If you are going to do that, at least have the decency to follow a lead, and verify it before posting it! Seriously... If you are aren't going to follow the most basic ethos of journalism please stop acting in a journalistic fashion. If you aren't going to have the decency to study and understand the journalistic process, get off your soap box and post "Just the facts". Or better yet, spend some of that moola and hire a real journalist to do it for you...
Thanks
I just logged in...
This isn't a vulnerability in anything... This is not even programmer error, just programmer complete idiocy. It's just common sense not to send pricing information in your POST data. That's just ignorant, you might as well put a field in there to change the price. It's the equivalent...
I wonder how many Windows users are actively waiting for Linux programs to use. (TuxRacer one day maybe?) The version number is low but this is an interesting, oddball project.
;-)
Wooah! Somebody woke up hungover and hasn't had there coffee yet!
It's okay, I'm there with ya bud...
It's not slander or libel unless it can be proved the content was purposefully meant to be misconstrued as the truth. In this case it was obviously a parody. Good thing we don't go by your version of what is "mean and wrong". I still appreciate the fact that I can speak freely without being punished.
Why is there a demand to get rid of the rebel flag from the Georgia state flag but not for the NAACP to change it's name? Hypocrites everywhere!
Because Georgia enstated the rebel "stars and bars" flag in 1956, immediatelly after school integration was forced in that state. There is no long standing history behind that flag as the GA state flag, it was backlash against the civil rights movement of the time. Also, the "stars and bars" isn't technically the flag of the confederacy which I believe most people could take as a symbol of history of the state, it's the rebel *battle* flag.
Also, it's a general rule that when addressing a people or culture, you use the respect and address them as they want to be addressed. That's a long standing view that seems perfectly logical to me, not at all hypocritical. For example, when you aren't a member of a religion, in the presence of those that are you insert "Praise his (or her) name" in from of the name of the diety. It's just common ettiquette.
I've always found it interesting that Christians worship the form of Christianity nurtured and spread throughout the world by the civilization that killed Christ. That being Romans... There were actually many forms of Christianity, it just so happens that the one that was accepted was the one that seems to embrace mind-numbing, brain washing dicta of the church. For example, this talk back from the MSNBC site:
Amen. Dr. Caplan is missing a key element in his theory. Those of us who have faith have already answered the question of creationism. Scientists want to overanalyze until they get the answer they want. Life is so much more fulfilling once you accept God and live your life instead of constantly analyzing it.
This kind of statement would have been ludricous to a Gnostic Christian, who believed in self understanding thru a never ending exploration of ones consciousness and the nature around them.
Fortunately, the Romans were able to kill off every other form of christianity except the one that met thier standards for a religion that benefited them. Very strange no one has been able to see thru this in the last 2 thousand years...
That's a good point. As an example (I'm a 22 btw, and I learned thru the kind of teaching you describe.) The other day I was writing some software at work, and I needed to multiply two values together for some sample input and I had simply forgotten how to do it with paper! Extremely disappointed in myself I used a calculator, and later I was able to do it and a couple other problems in my head fairly quickly as a test. I realized that in math at school we were able to use calculators and I hadn't done it in so long, I had just forgotten.
I agree with you on that a middle ground needs to be worked out. However, your statement to "make them conform" just won't work. I don't think it's particularly wrong, but our culture today encourages kids to not take that crap. Even my nephews and nieces, kids just a few years younger than me, adhere to this even more so than I did. If kids feel they being treated unfairly, whether they are or aren't, they are more likely to just stop responding or retaliate than to give in. Our culture glamorizes that.
I think this may actually be a step in the right direction. There is a pretty big percentage of mental invalids as you say, but I don't think there is a whole generation of them, far from it. In your time, besides the civil rights movement of course, there was little "task-based" organization towards creating bigger and better things. Timothy Leary gave people acid in an effort to fix "what" was wrong, but no conception of "how" to do it. The hippies protested "what" they felt was wrong, but provided little "how" and so essentially just waited until the Vietnam War ended. Todays children are raised in an free thinking environment, which can mean we don't have as much cultural baggage to overcome in being effective. And... we can be much more equipped to whoop ass and take names when given the correct tools and information (sadly, when provided with the wrong tools we may not always whoop ass for the good guys, though.)
I think the reason people are afraid of it is much simpler than they believe it's "unethical", or "wrong". Sure that may be the prescribed reaction based on the dogma that some are brought up with. But, I think the real reason is it just doesn't happen in nature and it's unsettling to think about. Say a 5 year old child is lost in a car accident, and the parents clone a new child that is physically EXACTLY the same. Would that be wrong? Nah. However, thinking about is somehow psychologically disturbing. Bringing back all those memories of the child you had lost and go through your natural process of grief. It's just... well, confusing when you start thinking about how it would be.
Also, humans on a fundamental level, while we are social, also require to be different. It's how we establish ourselves in the pecking order. Or maybe creating duplicates is unsettling because it immediately strikes us as how we see ourselves in dream states. Which is typically a place where we do what we *really* feel. Where we all can be monsters or we are tormented. Where we are highly sexual and more often than not unethical. I know that if was standing there looking down on a 10 year younger duplicate of myself looking up at me I would definately have a flash back.
Okay, so maybe if I had raised the child from infancy it wouldn't be so shocking. But my point is that the immediate notion, you have to admit, is strange. And people love to attack things that are strange...
There is accelerated support for the GeForce2 in Xfree86-4.0.2. Also a new .9.6 version of the drivers came out pretty recently from NVidia and I was able to get them working. I wasn't with .9.5 due to incompatibilities with my AGP bus.
Don't hold me to this, but if you download the cvs of Xfree86 there is most likely a dri module for the GeForce2 by now (since they got the accelerated server, I bet they are workin on the dri module in due course).
Actually Mandrake 7.2 was already set up for the new kernel. ie they used /etc/modules.conf instead of conf.modules and had the correct versions of the packages required. I was able to install 2.4.0-testx without any hassles at all... I believe you could even install the 2.4.0-testx kernels from an rpm on the extensions CD.
Tesla held the patents for the product that chump Guglielmo Marconi was using... Tesla just didn't have the business mind to rush radio to market. He was working on his grander visions of wireless power transmission. As Tesla said, "good luck to Marconi, he's using seventeen of my patents." In fact in 1943, when the US Supreme court reverses an older decision, strikes down the Marconi patents, and awards priority to Tesla, #645,576.
It's actually kinda disturbing that they would even put that "other guy" as the inventor. It's been widely held as fact that Tesla invented radio for the past 60 years. Yet still the old saying that "history is written by the winners". Still remains to be true, even on slashdot.