"they're all wrong on something important." True but of course that is going to be true no matter who is running. Anyone who is not you is going to disagree with you on at least one issue that you think is important. Ok maybe you and a couple of other people in the world. The point of the matter is not who is right or wrong on any one issue. The point is does the persons overall view of the world and the role of governemnt fit with yours in such a way that you can see them doing a pretty good job. This is why I support Browne. Simply put he *is* wrong on some issues. But overall his viewpoint is that government should be very small do for me those few things that I, my family and my friends can not do for ourselves and get out of the rest of my life. This is a overall viewpoint I can agree with. Now some might say he is "wrong" on the spam question. But given the freedom to do so I can take care of a spam problem and there is,IMHO, no good way to write a antispam law without having other freedoms be limited. Therefore because I can agree with most points and because I can really get behind the overall worldview I will be voting Browne.
I agree with you that it is a rotten thing and that they should *not* have the right to do this. I just have not been able to find anything to convince myself that that is the case. If you know of any links and/or solid info on this please let me know.
No no they did not and yes they do have a right to force them into oblivion. Should they have a right to do so? NO. Do they have a right to do so? Yes under the current law they do. The only bargain they made with the public was to provide a whatever they said was in the box when they sold the box to someone. Is there some kind of social contract going on here. Not at all. Should they act as though there were. Yes I think so. My whole point was and is that they have their heads up their asses and that they do treat software as though it needs to bo controlled and limited. As for me I will not give such people my money. Of course since Id seems to pretty much be on the cluetrain I don't have alot to worry about.
the phrase "the Internet crashed" just makes no sense I very much doubt that a network designed to withstand nuclear war went down because too many people were on it. Most likely they mean that a large number of servers on which sites reporting news about the election were,in effect,/.ed. But of course in 1996 it did not take alot to bring a site down with too many people a bit harder these days in particular for a big news site. Also most ISPs are much better today then they were at that point. Kind of silly but it does bring up the fact that most people out there do not understand at all what is going on in the tech world. Stories like this on/. make me sad come on people at least use the right terms and don't spread the ignorance of those who think that "the Internet crashed".
this could be very good. You are right in that most of the techies for whom this would be a good thing have been around for awhile and that these are the people who don't need it for the money but more for the taking care of the kids so they can get their job done sort of thing. I think that setting up a onsite deal would be overkill too much money and not enough people using it. But arranging for a last minute drop off at a place that is close to work and with whom the company has a good realationship would be a good thing. This would give them a good way to take care an emergency. I'm thinking that most of the techs who need something ongoing have arragenments with which they are happy and that the company just needs to provide a net for those days when things go wrong.
It does not make sense but this is the way that "people" like the IDSA work. They own it and you can't touch it damnit. The companies pay IDSA to do this this is what they do. Their thought is that that they own the software if they wanted you to have it they would sell it to you since they don't sell it to you they don't want you to have it. They see it as a zero sum game not as something where everybody wins in other words they are idiots but we knew this.
This is *very* true. I am a sysadmin type trying to get into programming. I know Perl ok and am just getting started with C/C++. With that background I can set down with the Linux kernel and read a bit and understand many parts. This is because it was designed to be understood and used by more than one person. I'm far from average at this point (a rank novice)and yet I can understand the kernel for a very complex and powerfull OS a true testament to those who have written and maintained it. So based on what I've done and seen I have to agree that a good or great programmer will write code that is obvious to even a novice, once it is written. Just like with you human language you can always read more than you could have written. Think of all the really great inventions all of them are brian dead obvious, once you see the solution. The ones that don't make sense don't get used. I think Greenspun likes the "hacker" myth just a little too much.
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Yup total nonsense. Move along people nothing to see here. It does not make any sense at all. I mean one of the plus things to a console is that they *all* have the same hardware. Either this will be the same price as a dc and you will need a new drive for it or it would suck either way they are not going to do this it would be stupid.
That is right a CPU is what you plug the network cable into and then when you call the help desk they tell you to turn the computer off and you do and then you turn it back on and everything is the same so they explain that they wanted you to turn the CPU off so you turn off the CPU and of course to install software you put the CD in the CPU. That is how you are supposed to use the term.:)
#linuxhelp on undernet is *very* good also. As is #debian on irc.debian.org. The interesting thing about #linuxhelp is it was started because #linux was so bad so many of us do make an effort.
Wish I had moderation points to give to this. true true.
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Don't have time to find the link right now but there was the person at The University of New Mexico who was using the Doom engine as an interface to do sysadmin type stuff. Very cool last time I looked at it. Someone post the link please.
Ok lets go over this really slow for those of you who don't quite get it. He was not accused of any of the bad "other offenses" These where listed as other things that someone could be suspened for. The point of this list was to point out that in the mind of the people who are going after this kid that refusing the Homecoming King title == gun possession, drug use, theft or destruction of school property, and violence. This is why this stupid the kid is being pounded on because he does not fit their image of a "normal" kid. And they wonder why we grow up and hate everybody.
"I believe that strong encryption products enhance consumer privacy." To him we are consumers the only reason we would want encryption is as consumers to help business. BS we are people we want encryption to keep secrets from people whom we think would cause our freedom to decrease. It is about the right to say and think what you want without intervention from the government. It is *not* about 'consumer privacy'. It is about making sure that unpopular thoughts and ideas do not go away and that people can have and share them. To Bush it is about being able to buy stuff. This is sad that this man might win. Also on the religion question it was funny you can be whatever flavor of Judeo/Christian/Islam you want. Oh yea I forgot the rest of the world outside of the mideast and Europe does not matter.:(
Or could it be that people who are employed (and I think you are right on there) have no reason to commit crime? Could it be that it is true that poverty kills? Could it be that education, employment, and social justice will have more of an effect on crime violent and otherwise than rating things "for the children"? Could it be that most people have a pretty solid grip on the fact that just because you see someone on a screen shoot someone you should not go out and do it also? Could it be that we are not just mindless sheep out of 'Lord of the Flies' one step away from killing everything? Could it be that most people are really quite OK and commit crimes because they feel (wrongly) that they have no other choices? Yup I think so.
It is not/. when this happened and even now as Bush's "dark hearts" comment showed *many* people are still buying the lie that these kids were picked on geeks. We know that they where not but many in the media still show this as being true and there are many geeks who are still being abused because of being different and because of the way the media spreads this lie. This counters it showing that geeks are not like this.
Nope according to the frontpage they are more than happy to ship to the US. The key is range. The microwave could kill Grandma also. As low power as this bad boy is it would be fine with the FCC. This is the same thing as those mike/radio things that Homer got for Bart that one time.:)
what I've wanted for along time since I rent running CAT5 is not an option but now I can listen to MP3s in another room without having to run cables or buy new hardware. This is very cool. As soon as they are done being/.ed I'm going to order one for sure. This is just perfect for those of us who rent.:)
I don't think so if you look at it IBM is doing the same thing. I think there are at least a couple of reasons. 1. And I think most important is mindshare. They understand that there are alot of very bright people who prefer to work with stuff that is open. They therefore can gain mindshare and goodwill among alot of people for basically nothing. Think about how many people a couple of years ago hated IBM and how many now think they are kind of cool again. 2. They get work for free we get better tools. This is IMHO a good thing for everybody
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I know of plenty of porn sites that take advantage of space travel and solvents. Oh wait you mean those picutures were faked. Oh well sorry.
"they're all wrong on something important." True but of course that is going to be true no matter who is running. Anyone who is not you is going to disagree with you on at least one issue that you think is important. Ok maybe you and a couple of other people in the world. The point of the matter is not who is right or wrong on any one issue. The point is does the persons overall view of the world and the role of governemnt fit with yours in such a way that you can see them doing a pretty good job. This is why I support Browne. Simply put he *is* wrong on some issues. But overall his viewpoint is that government should be very small do for me those few things that I, my family and my friends can not do for ourselves and get out of the rest of my life. This is a overall viewpoint I can agree with. Now some might say he is "wrong" on the spam question. But given the freedom to do so I can take care of a spam problem and there is ,IMHO, no good way to write a antispam law without having other freedoms be limited. Therefore because I can agree with most points and because I can really get behind the overall worldview I will be voting Browne.
I agree with you that it is a rotten thing and that they should *not* have the right to do this. I just have not been able to find anything to convince myself that that is the case. If you know of any links and/or solid info on this please let me know.
No no they did not and yes they do have a right to force them into oblivion. Should they have a right to do so? NO. Do they have a right to do so? Yes under the current law they do. The only bargain they made with the public was to provide a whatever they said was in the box when they sold the box to someone. Is there some kind of social contract going on here. Not at all. Should they act as though there were. Yes I think so. My whole point was and is that they have their heads up their asses and that they do treat software as though it needs to bo controlled and limited. As for me I will not give such people my money. Of course since Id seems to pretty much be on the cluetrain I don't have alot to worry about.
the phrase "the Internet crashed" just makes no sense I very much doubt that a network designed to withstand nuclear war went down because too many people were on it. Most likely they mean that a large number of servers on which sites reporting news about the election were ,in effect, /.ed. But of course in 1996 it did not take alot to bring a site down with too many people a bit harder these days in particular for a big news site. Also most ISPs are much better today then they were at that point. Kind of silly but it does bring up the fact that most people out there do not understand at all what is going on in the tech world. Stories like this on /. make me sad come on people at least use the right terms and don't spread the ignorance of those who think that "the Internet crashed".
this could be very good. You are right in that most of the techies for whom this would be a good thing have been around for awhile and that these are the people who don't need it for the money but more for the taking care of the kids so they can get their job done sort of thing. I think that setting up a onsite deal would be overkill too much money and not enough people using it. But arranging for a last minute drop off at a place that is close to work and with whom the company has a good realationship would be a good thing. This would give them a good way to take care an emergency. I'm thinking that most of the techs who need something ongoing have arragenments with which they are happy and that the company just needs to provide a net for those days when things go wrong.
It does not make sense but this is the way that "people" like the IDSA work. They own it and you can't touch it damnit. The companies pay IDSA to do this this is what they do. Their thought is that that they own the software if they wanted you to have it they would sell it to you since they don't sell it to you they don't want you to have it. They see it as a zero sum game not as something where everybody wins in other words they are idiots but we knew this.
This is *very* true. I am a sysadmin type trying to get into programming. I know Perl ok and am just getting started with C/C++. With that background I can set down with the Linux kernel and read a bit and understand many parts. This is because it was designed to be understood and used by more than one person. I'm far from average at this point (a rank novice)and yet I can understand the kernel for a very complex and powerfull OS a true testament to those who have written and maintained it. So based on what I've done and seen I have to agree that a good or great programmer will write code that is obvious to even a novice, once it is written. Just like with you human language you can always read more than you could have written. Think of all the really great inventions all of them are brian dead obvious, once you see the solution. The ones that don't make sense don't get used. I think Greenspun likes the "hacker" myth just a little too much.
That would be it. Thanks.
Yup total nonsense. Move along people nothing to see here. It does not make any sense at all. I mean one of the plus things to a console is that they *all* have the same hardware. Either this will be the same price as a dc and you will need a new drive for it or it would suck either way they are not going to do this it would be stupid.
That was of course a joke. I was mocking people who say things like that.
That is right a CPU is what you plug the network cable into and then when you call the help desk they tell you to turn the computer off and you do and then you turn it back on and everything is the same so they explain that they wanted you to turn the CPU off so you turn off the CPU and of course to install software you put the CD in the CPU. That is how you are supposed to use the term. :)
#linuxhelp on undernet is *very* good also. As is #debian on irc.debian.org. The interesting thing about #linuxhelp is it was started because #linux was so bad so many of us do make an effort.
Wish I had moderation points to give to this. true true.
Don't have time to find the link right now but there was the person at The University of New Mexico who was using the Doom engine as an interface to do sysadmin type stuff. Very cool last time I looked at it. Someone post the link please.
Ok lets go over this really slow for those of you who don't quite get it. He was not accused of any of the bad "other offenses" These where listed as other things that someone could be suspened for. The point of this list was to point out that in the mind of the people who are going after this kid that refusing the Homecoming King title == gun possession, drug use, theft or destruction of school property, and violence. This is why this stupid the kid is being pounded on because he does not fit their image of a "normal" kid. And they wonder why we grow up and hate everybody.
"I believe that strong encryption products enhance consumer privacy." To him we are consumers the only reason we would want encryption is as consumers to help business. BS we are people we want encryption to keep secrets from people whom we think would cause our freedom to decrease. It is about the right to say and think what you want without intervention from the government. It is *not* about 'consumer privacy'. It is about making sure that unpopular thoughts and ideas do not go away and that people can have and share them. To Bush it is about being able to buy stuff. This is sad that this man might win. Also on the religion question it was funny you can be whatever flavor of Judeo/Christian/Islam you want. Oh yea I forgot the rest of the world outside of the mideast and Europe does not matter. :(
"Dear Hunter" is that some kind of dating game? Bass fishing games are what you really need to own the desktop market.
I've seen Red Hat, Mandrake, Corel, and a while ago one of the Debian box sets at Sam's Club. Don't go to Walmart alot but same parent company.
You are 100% correct in that.
Or could it be that people who are employed (and I think you are right on there) have no reason to commit crime? Could it be that it is true that poverty kills? Could it be that education, employment, and social justice will have more of an effect on crime violent and otherwise than rating things "for the children"? Could it be that most people have a pretty solid grip on the fact that just because you see someone on a screen shoot someone you should not go out and do it also? Could it be that we are not just mindless sheep out of 'Lord of the Flies' one step away from killing everything? Could it be that most people are really quite OK and commit crimes because they feel (wrongly) that they have no other choices? Yup I think so.
It is not /. when this happened and even now as Bush's "dark hearts" comment showed *many* people are still buying the lie that these kids were picked on geeks. We know that they where not but many in the media still show this as being true and there are many geeks who are still being abused because of being different and because of the way the media spreads this lie. This counters it showing that geeks are not like this.
Nope according to the frontpage they are more than happy to ship to the US. The key is range. The microwave could kill Grandma also. As low power as this bad boy is it would be fine with the FCC. This is the same thing as those mike/radio things that Homer got for Bart that one time. :)
what I've wanted for along time since I rent running CAT5 is not an option but now I can listen to MP3s in another room without having to run cables or buy new hardware. This is very cool. As soon as they are done being /.ed I'm going to order one for sure. This is just perfect for those of us who rent. :)
I don't think so if you look at it IBM is doing the same thing. I think there are at least a couple of reasons. 1. And I think most important is mindshare. They understand that there are alot of very bright people who prefer to work with stuff that is open. They therefore can gain mindshare and goodwill among alot of people for basically nothing. Think about how many people a couple of years ago hated IBM and how many now think they are kind of cool again. 2. They get work for free we get better tools. This is IMHO a good thing for everybody