He should have stolen one... How dumb can you get?
No he shouldn't. First basic psycology. Obveously spoofing phone calls and making fake bomb threats dosen't bother him but if petty theft dose he could panic and accadentally alert everyone something is wrong.
I doupt he knows how to pick pockets. It's easy for someone who knows how. Just as installing Linux is easy if you know how. But I'm not going to expect the avrage kid to know how to pull off eather.
What what I've read we seam to be dealing with an unmanned data center.
What should be done is add nothing more complex than automated net camras. Program them to automaticly feed all motion into a server in a manned (and guarded) data center.
Put a minnor firewall between the two (just one that says it can only send data to ONE box and NOBODY talks to it..)
Then someone walks into the data center and SMILE!!!
Make sure the camra is dual mode.. night vision and color. Or if you can only get em in color (in fact maybe this is a better idea) add motion detection flood lamps. Now it's SMILE while your blind and have no choice but to stand there and let the camra upload your picture to the data center.
The receaving server verifys the repair/service scedual and if nobody should be there a random on staff security guy is given the pritty picture. From there they can send down police or security staff.
Security staff.. Becouse I know in a few weeks after this is installed SOMEBODY is going to do a service call with out checking in or someone is going to forget to enter someones repair scedual.
I'm also sure service staff are going to stock up on sunglasses and learn to open doors with eyes closed.
However SGI machines aren't PCs and may not provide any means of disabling the removable media.
Config BIOS: Douptful you'll find this ability on a machine that is nither a PC nore inspired by PC design.
Unplug floppy: Hardware fault drive not responding. Typical design includes a full hardware dignostic before trying to boot anything. Don't want to boot on a computer experencing malfuctions. (Even more so when the costummer has to come to you for repacement parts)
Floppy insert lock: To obveous. Some times you'll never convence a burrocrat that a $15 solution will work better than a $100 solution.
This would go dubble for any lab that wouldn't even THINK of trying to figure out what's crashing the SGIs (Or Alphas) in the first place.
I'm as anti-advertising as the next guy I'm worse... I'm very anti ads.
But I agree those ads are very nice. I read em and when I'm done I toss em. As a kid I'd snag the radio shack insert and tell my mother what I wanted for my birthday. As an adult I look and see who's selling Coke for 99 cents per 2 liter. (as I type this I have a 99 cent Shasta 3 liter in front of me) My grandmother reads them as well and I'm always stuck behind the idiot who has a 6 month old insert with an ad for a ONE DAY sale clamming it's just arrived today... and today being a saturday.
People read em. Smart people like you and me.. and dumb people like time warp man.
True enough. However someone will believe they can get away with it and once done they'll try it and when cought they'll actually think the judge will rule in favor of the virus.
Then while in jail complaining how the judge "dosen't get it" Buba will tell his story about how killing the store clerk over a pack of ciggerets was ok but the judge didn't get that eather.
On one side Bill Gates has over the years demonstrated contempt twords anything or anyone who dosen't do things his way. On the other hand this is a minnor mistake and IMAO the SEC is being overly strict.
So basicly it's a tyrent (Bill Gates) getting a tast of his own medicen (SEC).
I don't like it when anyone tells me how to live my life. Be it my government or my products.
The diffrence is I can't uninstall US government and boot Utopia instead.
IANAL but I believe there is a segment in the law saying you can not sue a person into poverty. (This is not counting legal fees)
I would guess that in the case of "loser pays" there would also be a celling on that so if Microsoft or IBM were defendant with a small legal firm as a defence team the small company wouldn't be expected to reinburse that.
I've known about platform loyalty for as long as I've known the REAL reason.
As much as humans anthropremorphise everything that dosen't actually make humans like one platform more than annother. It's not our tendency to imagin our tools as being like us but our tendency to addapt and function at the tools level.
The computer platform a person first learns to use will directly impact how that person interacts with ALL computers as the nurological pathways are set. The human brain builds on what is already known even if the new system is compleatly diffrent.
It's been long known that experence can actually create problems when dealing with a whole new technology but I am unaware of any studys researching why and I'd like to suggest the reason is that humans can not let go of existing knowladge even when it's already known the existing knowladge dose not help.
For example (please excuse the MS bashing) as Windows is the first operating system most people experence operating systems that function diffrently (such as Linux) are complex and confusing to most.
However people who learnned computers on command line based systems (CP/M) will more quickly addapt to Unix and Linux than to GUIs due purely to experence and nothing else.
On the aside: Before anyone asks why users experenced in command line interfaces more quickly addapt to GUIs than GUI users addapt to command lines the answer is pritty obveous. Actually being user friendly dose make it easier to addapt. It is also not lost on new users who will find Y3K telepathic interfaces much easier to learn than 1960's punch cards. However the only thing that dose prevent a new user from understanding computers is an unwillingness to understand and users who find punch cards impossable will find telepathic interfaces impossable. (This of course presumming we eventually create a technology that let's us interact with computers by means of brain scans. This may prove impossable but as we don't know any better I evoke the "breathable air on the moon" logic for now. Historians take note.. I'm a dork)
In short we favor one system over annother becouse it's comfortable. Becouse we already carved out how we interact with our computers and don't wish to change that behavure to accomidate a diffrent operating system. I'm sure the same reasoning exists in why some people prefere stick or automatic transmissions in cars.
Ick.. an ideal anolog... Automatic is easier but stick dose gove better results.
However, whenever confronted about these issues, the top executives always skirt around the questions. Ohhh really? And where were you on the 31st of Febuary hmm? Well? Skirting the issue? Or maybe it's a stupid question. (BTW there is no 31st of Febuary..) Here is the deal. Top executives have more important things to do than address the favoret pet conspericy theroy of the week. There are some questions that shouldn't be dignified with a responce.
Reminds me of.. Boy Pretending To Be Girl: Wana see my pussy? Felinoid: No BPTBG: Come on.. Felinoid: No BPTBG: Here it comes {DCC request rejected) Felinoid: I said NO!!!
In case your wondering BPTBG was a known and we'd just had a heated debate. This was going to be a grose picture or a hack attempt.
You'll certainly feel less stress working on a production line That is IF you never show for work and get fired. Phisical labor sucks. It can be stressful. Stress and responsability come with any job.
The worst are when you interact with the public. Retail: Rude costummers who insist a $50 item is actually.50 cents. Fast Food: The parent and child who want next weeks toy.
Even the buss driver get's his fair share of garbage. It depends on the job. No job worth doing is stress free.
As a rule however high skilled labor has less stress than unskilled labor. However right now there is so much BS in the tech industry and there are so many job applicants that tech workers can be treated like gum... Chew em up spit em out and when your done grab annother.
Well it's a good thing the United States isn't actually a democracy but a democraticly elected republic.
Re-Evolution: Squeeky wheel. The vast majority appear to believe in evolution it's a minnority of loud mouthed reliogous fanatics (the american christian version of the taliban of you will) that insist it is not. The public school system exists outside the normal political loop. While officals are elected they get some sort of clean slate. People don't run for school board prommising to clean things up instead they all run on (and win on) the status que. We are to believe they are doing a good job?
<b>A semi-educated population can't support a democracy. There are 2 democracies in the Middle East: one is an ethnic-religious state and the other a theocracy</b>
Wow you must have gone to the american public schools. A theocracy IS a religious state.. so you have 2 theocracys. A theocracy is not a true democracy but then the united states dosen't have a true democracy eather so it equates. Hay no biggy you've got political science down pat your just hazy on the terminology:)
Bad people get into power by hidding what kind or person they really are. The people are fooled, the system is fooled, the employer is fooled. It's not an improvment when you have an expert selection system. People BS into employment all the time.. Then they are fired. It's much harder to fire the leader of a nation.
Re saving lives: I'm reminded of a time when a tank operator tracked a target many miles away. The tank said it was most likely not going to hit the target so he fired even thow the target wasn't a hostile. He got in major trubble for the loss of lives.
If the tank ran Linux: The estemate program would be more up to date.
If the tank ran Windows: When targetting a hostile the last thing you need is for something bad to happen with a sensor driver sending the shot many miles off target to land in an innocent village possably in annother nation sparking a whole new war. Congradulations you just killed a village by accadent prepair for world war 3.. Oh wait never mind the hostile you were tracking didn't miss like you did so your dead.
On blamming tools: I have a long philups screw driver. I've had it sense I was a teenager. It's been used for a number of things. Once as a hammer (as a joke.. remeber how people tend to use real hammers as screwdrivers..)
If you intend to protest tools send your military grade tools to me. Of course you pay shipping and handling. I don't accept heavy equipment just screwdrivers, hammers, wrench sets, well toilet seats would be nice... I'll sell the extras on e-bay.
No sereously folks I'm pro-war but I've had plenty of debates to know the anti-war side has some pritty good reasoning going for it. BUT I expect the people I'm debating with would cry knowing this sort of reasoning is what makes the news instead of the more intelegent arguments that I have seen.
IANAL anyway other people (who apparently forgot to say IANAL.. and maybe some ARE) got to the whole legal relationship anyway.
I just wanted to say SCO was clamming the GPL was unenforcable. With the GPL being enforced it appears SCOs clame is farting in the wind. Clearly the GPL is enforcable. The reality is it has never needed enforcing before.
There are a few decades of details being ignored. I can't honnestly clame the issue is cut and dry. Iraq wants Kuwaits oil, The US wants Iraqs oil, Sadam objects to "Western cultral influence", The United States objects to human rights violations. And then there is the UN sitting on the fence condemming Iraq and at the same time condeming even the IDEA of taking action.
And this is the tip of the iceberg. There are quite a few good reasons why someone should invaid Iraq and quite a few good reasons why that someone should NOT be the United States. But when push comes to shove The U.N. hasn't the balls to do anything about eather.
In short, No virus scanner detects/stops it. Microsoft won't remove the offending feature. Virus experts clame the only solution is to install and run the software they sell.
Looks like the only advice worth anything is comming from those Linux and MacOs zelots who will one day face a pleage of viruses... Umm kinda like the one we already have curtacy of Microsoft and virus experts.
On that note.. maybe Microsoft would be more willing to remove the offending feature if an entire industry wasn't telling them it won't solve anything.
For a flamebate you DO make a good point. Do not jump to conclusions about the person in the video.
But that is kinda the whole point. Most everyone will make the same conclusions based on how the person died. "He got his head chopped off defending his nation" - In klingon terms "A warrors death". "He blew his head off over a girl" - In Trendy terms "Loser".
Then you watch the death and it dosen't matter anymore. I just need to see the view to come to the reality that he is a real person who is worthy of respect.
Of course that hardly changes the fact that the video should have never been on the net to start with.
I wouldn't watch the video of the soldier getting beheaded becouse that is a man of honnor being attacked.
I did want to see the guy shooting himself. Morbid curreosity. I also made sure I ate nothing first.
I don't think it would desensitive me (unless I saw it a lot). First it's "Hah suiside. One less loser" Next it's morbid curreosity. Then it's "wow look how cold he is like he's lost his soul or something" a bit of understanding. Getting in a persons head is something I do. Imperfictly of course my thoughts come first so by bisses cancle out...
Then... BLAM... For a split second you might even feel something cold running down your neck. It's just your mind playing tricks on you and other tricks as well. Being in a persons head kinda makes you unready for tragic things like that.
Then your not laughing anymore.
However the people who are part of that website making the commenst they do are already desensitised and they've never seen this before.
Byond the typical laundry list starting with "opt in," and ending it "don't sell illegal items" I'd like to suggest "clean house".
I've opted in to some spam and had to opt back out again.
Let me make myself perfictly clear. UCE* is what we are bitching about. With the huge volume of UCE the few items of SCE* are lost in the wake. I have to set up filters for each type of S?E* and a few UPE*.
The fact of the matter is UCE is hurting SCE by flooding it out of existence.
Back in the start Spamford made a play at cleaning the situation up. By play at I mean he actually e-mail bombed anyone who complained and only PRETENDED to handle complaints. (I should have sued his butt for that)
If your lagit add a code.. Ohh brain drain.. I forget how it works but I use such codes to help me partition e-mail lists I'm on into proper compartments.
I'd like to add a nifty additional suggestion.... As a form of tripple check, Most Spam is sent in HTML with images downloaded over the web. That means when your target reads the e-mail his computer contacts you.
This is good advice even for the e-mail vetters, harvesters and violaters of the Can Spam act.. If your target dose not conact you in 24 hours (dosen't download the image by reading the e-mail) he isn't reading your message. Your being dumpped into a filter bin. Just erase that e-mail from your list automagicly or slip into your filter system. It may also be the person isn't reading e-mail as often as you send it and getting 20 e-mails from the same guy (for any reason) is just dam annoying and instantly earns you a place in the perment filters.
*Translations: UCE: Unsolicited Commertal E-Mail. (V!agra) UPE: Unsolicited Personal E-Mail. (I love your website, Wana swap links? I like your artwork. Baka Kitty? Couldn't you be more original or is that all the Japanise you know?) SCE: Solicited Commertal E-Mail. (Yes please tell me when the new Yugi cards come out. Horray I won an eBay auction. Oh joy someone bought some more "Voodoo computer" pin dolls from me.. Time to ship) SPE: Solicited Personal E-Mail. (It's your mother. Your computer is making noises. Are you experementing again?) S?E: All solicted e-mail U?E: All unsolicted e-mail.
Old Employee "Hello I'm the guy currently doing the job you will be doing." New Employee "Ok" Old "See this big 'Do not press' button? Push it once and hour on the hour" New "Whats it do?" Old (under breath) "Turns off every server in the building" New "What? I can't hear you" Old "Oh it just keeps everything working." (under breath) "When you don't push it" New "I see" (inspects button) Old "Any questions" New "Yes.. Can I get a job recomenation?" Old (stunned) "Ummm why would you need that?" New "Becouse I really don't believe I'll be working here long." Old "And what makes you think that?" New guy pushes red button leaves old guy to take blame New yelling back "Ohh nothing"
How many viruses run under Windows? Answer: How many are in the wild? How many viruses run under Linux? Answer: Zero
This isn't to say that there are no Linux viruses. Oh hells bells there probably are many (in a lab some place) and one released.
BUT with a quick bug fix the Linux virus went away. Bye bye. It is fairly likely the lab viruses make use of one time defects that have long ago been fixed.
It is reasonably easy to update open source software. So if the latest libary has problems with your favoret apps you download the updates of the apps as well.
With Windows those same updates cost money. Fixing a hole in Windows security may cost you quite a bit in rebuying the applications you rely on.
There is also a pure addatude problem. In Linux each person takes his share of responsability for being hacked. The programmers appologise and release a bug fix ASAP. The destros who didn't catch the bug and released the defective code release the bug fix with applogys. The admin who get hacked are redfaced for not catching the bug and appologise. The users smash head into wall for not armoring against attack. Not making back ups. Not taking nominal precautions.
Microsoft: Most of the antimicrosoft slams Linux and Mac zellots repeate often come from Windows users who blame everyone but themselfs. Windows admin have a pack of excuses so thick it makes you sick. Application develupers "Well it happends you gotta expect it. Not our problem. Should have protected yourself. For $5,000 we'll audit your systems so this won't happen again"
And Microsoft pays for reports on how OTHER operating systems are just as bad (or worse) instead of preventing the mistakes.
In short: Linux: My fault sorry I'll fix it. Won't happen again (at every level) Microsoft: Not my fault. Your fault. You fix it. I can't be held responsable for YOUR stupidity. (at every level)
This isn't even an open vs closed issue however maybe the open and closed source communitys do inspire thies addatudes.
This dates back to the original GNU and Microsoft addatudes way back in the 1980s.
GNU: Everyone is responsable. Microsoft: Your so stupid it's all your fault.
If I hear again how smart Microsofts programming team is again I'll throw up. That is the single most arrogent peace of bull I've heard.
If Microsofts programmers are so smart then I'm Enstine. Microsofts coders make the kind of mistakes every day "I" knew to avoid when I writing my own "Hello world" on a Commodore Vic 20 in 1979.
A while back there was a link to a website on a PIC processor.
While the iPIC is quite a bit more advanced the Slashdot croud actually contacted the iPIC. The connection to the 64 will only permit one connect and after that the server sends out a busy signal.
All things considered I think the iPIC got hit worse than the 64 ever will.
Now for the truely retro... Connect use the iPIC for the server to an S-100 running an RCP/M BBS. (Forget Commodore...)
And use a Hays 1200 for the modem... Or USR robotics 28.8k baud if you REALLY need speed. (Yes I know Hays makes faster than 1200 but Hays 2400 and better isn't retro enough)
Yeah.. First BBS I logged into was a DYM BBS.. I was too young to log in and I lied. It didn't work out.
Then I logged into the Forth BBS in SanFransisco. Your command prompt was actually in forth. The way forth works is you can add commands so the BBS fuctions were just new commands. I think they locked off the programming features (makes sense but I never tried to edit the BBS so I don't know). I remeber the ongoing story of Murphy Law of folly forth. I just folowed the story as it progressed. "Folow the yellow diod"... (Being an impressionable kid I actually refered to going to the bathroom as "dumping my buffers" for a while. As in "I gotta go dump my buffers" while dancing the "gotta go to da bathroom" dance)
Later I had access to some RCP/M and RBBS bbses. The downloads section was just dropping you to a secured prompt.. (think restricted Unix shell where you can't do much) run xmodem filename.ext and then download the files you wanted.
I always thought of Commodore BBSes as limited but secure. Oh boy I had everyone and there brother trying to prove that wasn't the case. Nobody ever hacked into my BBS but I knew it had nothing to do with Commodore. It was that I wrote the program and every time someone TRIED to hack in I changed the code. (Staying one step ahead is the ONLY way).
There were three reasons people tried to hack my BBS. 1. I once called it uncrashable. I never did that again once it went into a crash recrash loop. 2. I was sereous about the no cuss words policy (that went away when I hit 18. Mommy might not approve) 3. I ran my BBS on a Commodore 128. Actually worse than that MY software tried to addapt to the user and often failed. So I had people hacking my BBS who thought I had an Apple II, a TRS 80, a PC and any number of platforms people didn't like. I also had one guy yell at me becouse his 300 baud modem connected to my 1200 baud as a 300 baud. (Some 300 baud modems let you go faster but the other side has to have the same kind of modem and support the hack. I didn't) And then there was the guy who accused me of stealing his BBS look. (His was a brand new BBS and I know my BBS changed it's apperence at least twice while he was online just to accomidate his poking and proding)
But that was the worst of it.
However when I want to remember the good old days I log into my Linux box and go into the command line. Then I smile.
Then I type the old forth BBS commands and they don't work.
Having writen BBS programs for the Vic20. C64 and C128 (Actually same program evolved as I switched systems.. Also ported to Dos and would have gone to Linux but the BBS died on Dos as the phone company ripped out the wires to my phone line and offered to charge me to fix there own mistake. Intrestingly enough I wasn't supprised to discovere I had no callers. I was only supprised as to WHY)
If the trick is handled all on the PC side (and I expect it is) then it dosen't matter.
If they are doing it the way I think (Commodore userport to RS232 to null modem to PC sereal (rs232) then PC forwards to telnet etc...) this should also work on the Vic20.
For that matter it should also work for CP/M, Apple II, TSR-80. Pritty much any old BBS.
Dos BBSes can be done on the same Linux or Windows box that provides the Internet access making it much easier.
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He should have stolen one ... How dumb can you get?
No he shouldn't.
First basic psycology. Obveously spoofing phone calls and making fake bomb threats dosen't bother him but if petty theft dose he could panic and accadentally alert everyone something is wrong.
I doupt he knows how to pick pockets. It's easy for someone who knows how. Just as installing Linux is easy if you know how. But I'm not going to expect the avrage kid to know how to pull off eather.
What what I've read we seam to be dealing with an unmanned data center.
What should be done is add nothing more complex than automated net camras.
Program them to automaticly feed all motion into a server in a manned (and guarded) data center.
Put a minnor firewall between the two (just one that says it can only send data to ONE box and NOBODY talks to it..)
Then someone walks into the data center and SMILE!!!
Make sure the camra is dual mode.. night vision and color.
Or if you can only get em in color (in fact maybe this is a better idea) add motion detection flood lamps.
Now it's SMILE while your blind and have no choice but to stand there and let the camra upload your picture to the data center.
The receaving server verifys the repair/service scedual and if nobody should be there a random on staff security guy is given the pritty picture.
From there they can send down police or security staff.
Security staff.. Becouse I know in a few weeks after this is installed SOMEBODY is going to do a service call with out checking in or someone is going to forget to enter someones repair scedual.
I'm also sure service staff are going to stock up on sunglasses and learn to open doors with eyes closed.
However SGI machines aren't PCs and may not provide any means of disabling the removable media.
Config BIOS: Douptful you'll find this ability on a machine that is nither a PC nore inspired by PC design.
Unplug floppy: Hardware fault drive not responding.
Typical design includes a full hardware dignostic before trying to boot anything.
Don't want to boot on a computer experencing malfuctions.
(Even more so when the costummer has to come to you for repacement parts)
Floppy insert lock: To obveous.
Some times you'll never convence a burrocrat that a $15 solution will work better than a $100 solution.
This would go dubble for any lab that wouldn't even THINK of trying to figure out what's crashing the SGIs (Or Alphas) in the first place.
I'm as anti-advertising as the next guy
I'm worse... I'm very anti ads.
But I agree those ads are very nice.
I read em and when I'm done I toss em.
As a kid I'd snag the radio shack insert and tell my mother what I wanted for my birthday.
As an adult I look and see who's selling Coke for 99 cents per 2 liter.
(as I type this I have a 99 cent Shasta 3 liter in front of me)
My grandmother reads them as well and I'm always stuck behind the idiot who has a 6 month old insert with an ad for a ONE DAY sale clamming it's just arrived today... and today being a saturday.
People read em. Smart people like you and me.. and dumb people like time warp man.
True enough.
However someone will believe they can get away with it and once done they'll try it and when cought they'll actually think the judge will rule in favor of the virus.
Then while in jail complaining how the judge "dosen't get it" Buba will tell his story about how killing the store clerk over a pack of ciggerets was ok but the judge didn't get that eather.
On one side Bill Gates has over the years demonstrated contempt twords anything or anyone who dosen't do things his way.
On the other hand this is a minnor mistake and IMAO the SEC is being overly strict.
So basicly it's a tyrent (Bill Gates) getting a tast of his own medicen (SEC).
I don't like it when anyone tells me how to live my life. Be it my government or my products.
The diffrence is I can't uninstall US government and boot Utopia instead.
IANAL but I believe there is a segment in the law saying you can not sue a person into poverty.
(This is not counting legal fees)
I would guess that in the case of "loser pays" there would also be a celling on that so if Microsoft or IBM were defendant with a small legal firm as a defence team the small company wouldn't be expected to reinburse that.
Those people have also never done professional graphics for ... or even the web.
Where do I even begin with this?
Have you seen what is passed off as profesional graphics on the web? If that was Adobe there'd be the first reason to use The Gimp.
The first and most important tool is skill. Piriod.
You can produce "profesional" web graphics on Mac Paint, Geo Draw.. Most anything short of graphics software on the Commodore 64.
You can also produce crap on Adobe titles.
Same argument of the System admins on Unix vs Windows.
But that argument like yours ends with this...
You start with skill and end with good tools.
As for me I don't like paying for software. I just won't do it. The alterntive of stealing software dosen't look very good to me.
I've known about platform loyalty for as long as I've known the REAL reason.
As much as humans anthropremorphise everything that dosen't actually make humans like one platform more than annother.
It's not our tendency to imagin our tools as being like us but our tendency to addapt and function at the tools level.
The computer platform a person first learns to use will directly impact how that person interacts with ALL computers as the nurological pathways are set.
The human brain builds on what is already known even if the new system is compleatly diffrent.
It's been long known that experence can actually create problems when dealing with a whole new technology but I am unaware of any studys researching why and I'd like to suggest the reason is that humans can not let go of existing knowladge even when it's already known the existing knowladge dose not help.
For example (please excuse the MS bashing) as Windows is the first operating system most people experence operating systems that function diffrently (such as Linux) are complex and confusing to most.
However people who learnned computers on command line based systems (CP/M) will more quickly addapt to Unix and Linux than to GUIs due purely to experence and nothing else.
On the aside: Before anyone asks why users experenced in command line interfaces more quickly addapt to GUIs than GUI users addapt to command lines the answer is pritty obveous. Actually being user friendly dose make it easier to addapt.
It is also not lost on new users who will find Y3K telepathic interfaces much easier to learn than 1960's punch cards.
However the only thing that dose prevent a new user from understanding computers is an unwillingness to understand and users who find punch cards impossable will find telepathic interfaces impossable.
(This of course presumming we eventually create a technology that let's us interact with computers by means of brain scans. This may prove impossable but as we don't know any better I evoke the "breathable air on the moon" logic for now. Historians take note.. I'm a dork)
In short we favor one system over annother becouse it's comfortable. Becouse we already carved out how we interact with our computers and don't wish to change that behavure to accomidate a diffrent operating system.
I'm sure the same reasoning exists in why some people prefere stick or automatic transmissions in cars.
Ick.. an ideal anolog... Automatic is easier but stick dose gove better results.
However, whenever confronted about these issues, the top executives always skirt around the questions.
Ohhh really? And where were you on the 31st of Febuary hmm? Well? Skirting the issue?
Or maybe it's a stupid question. (BTW there is no 31st of Febuary..)
Here is the deal. Top executives have more important things to do than address the favoret pet conspericy theroy of the week.
There are some questions that shouldn't be dignified with a responce.
Reminds me of..
Boy Pretending To Be Girl: Wana see my pussy?
Felinoid: No
BPTBG: Come on..
Felinoid: No
BPTBG: Here it comes
{DCC request rejected)
Felinoid: I said NO!!!
In case your wondering BPTBG was a known and we'd just had a heated debate. This was going to be a grose picture or a hack attempt.
You'll certainly feel less stress working on a production line
.50 cents.
That is IF you never show for work and get fired.
Phisical labor sucks. It can be stressful.
Stress and responsability come with any job.
The worst are when you interact with the public.
Retail: Rude costummers who insist a $50 item is actually
Fast Food: The parent and child who want next weeks toy.
Even the buss driver get's his fair share of garbage.
It depends on the job. No job worth doing is stress free.
As a rule however high skilled labor has less stress than unskilled labor. However right now there is so much BS in the tech industry and there are so many job applicants that tech workers can be treated like gum... Chew em up spit em out and when your done grab annother.
Well it's a good thing the United States isn't actually a democracy but a democraticly elected republic.
:)
Re-Evolution: Squeeky wheel. The vast majority appear to believe in evolution it's a minnority of loud mouthed reliogous fanatics (the american christian version of the taliban of you will) that insist it is not.
The public school system exists outside the normal political loop. While officals are elected they get some sort of clean slate. People don't run for school board prommising to clean things up instead they all run on (and win on) the status que. We are to believe they are doing a good job?
<b>A semi-educated population can't support a democracy. There are 2 democracies in the Middle East: one is an ethnic-religious state and the other a theocracy</b>
Wow you must have gone to the american public schools. A theocracy IS a religious state.. so you have 2 theocracys. A theocracy is not a true democracy but then the united states dosen't have a true democracy eather so it equates.
Hay no biggy you've got political science down pat your just hazy on the terminology
Bad people get into power by hidding what kind or person they really are. The people are fooled, the system is fooled, the employer is fooled. It's not an improvment when you have an expert selection system. People BS into employment all the time.. Then they are fired. It's much harder to fire the leader of a nation.
Re saving lives:
I'm reminded of a time when a tank operator tracked a target many miles away. The tank said it was most likely not going to hit the target so he fired even thow the target wasn't a hostile.
He got in major trubble for the loss of lives.
If the tank ran Linux: The estemate program would be more up to date.
If the tank ran Windows: When targetting a hostile the last thing you need is for something bad to happen with a sensor driver sending the shot many miles off target to land in an innocent village possably in annother nation sparking a whole new war. Congradulations you just killed a village by accadent prepair for world war 3.. Oh wait never mind the hostile you were tracking didn't miss like you did so your dead.
On blamming tools: I have a long philups screw driver. I've had it sense I was a teenager. It's been used for a number of things. Once as a hammer (as a joke.. remeber how people tend to use real hammers as screwdrivers..)
If you intend to protest tools send your military grade tools to me. Of course you pay shipping and handling. I don't accept heavy equipment just screwdrivers, hammers, wrench sets, well toilet seats would be nice...
I'll sell the extras on e-bay.
No sereously folks I'm pro-war but I've had plenty of debates to know the anti-war side has some pritty good reasoning going for it.
BUT I expect the people I'm debating with would cry knowing this sort of reasoning is what makes the news instead of the more intelegent arguments that I have seen.
IANAL anyway other people (who apparently forgot to say IANAL.. and maybe some ARE) got to the whole legal relationship anyway.
I just wanted to say SCO was clamming the GPL was unenforcable. With the GPL being enforced it appears SCOs clame is farting in the wind.
Clearly the GPL is enforcable. The reality is it has never needed enforcing before.
There are a few decades of details being ignored.
I can't honnestly clame the issue is cut and dry.
Iraq wants Kuwaits oil, The US wants Iraqs oil, Sadam objects to "Western cultral influence", The United States objects to human rights violations.
And then there is the UN sitting on the fence condemming Iraq and at the same time condeming even the IDEA of taking action.
And this is the tip of the iceberg.
There are quite a few good reasons why someone should invaid Iraq and quite a few good reasons why that someone should NOT be the United States.
But when push comes to shove The U.N. hasn't the balls to do anything about eather.
In short, No virus scanner detects/stops it.
Microsoft won't remove the offending feature.
Virus experts clame the only solution is to install and run the software they sell.
Looks like the only advice worth anything is comming from those Linux and MacOs zelots who will one day face a pleage of viruses...
Umm kinda like the one we already have curtacy of Microsoft and virus experts.
On that note.. maybe Microsoft would be more willing to remove the offending feature if an entire industry wasn't telling them it won't solve anything.
For a flamebate you DO make a good point.
Do not jump to conclusions about the person in the video.
But that is kinda the whole point. Most everyone will make the same conclusions based on how the person died.
"He got his head chopped off defending his nation" - In klingon terms "A warrors death".
"He blew his head off over a girl" - In Trendy terms "Loser".
Then you watch the death and it dosen't matter anymore.
I just need to see the view to come to the reality that he is a real person who is worthy of respect.
Of course that hardly changes the fact that the video should have never been on the net to start with.
I wouldn't watch the video of the soldier getting beheaded becouse that is a man of honnor being attacked.
I did want to see the guy shooting himself. Morbid curreosity.
I also made sure I ate nothing first.
I don't think it would desensitive me (unless I saw it a lot).
First it's "Hah suiside. One less loser"
Next it's morbid curreosity.
Then it's "wow look how cold he is like he's lost his soul or something" a bit of understanding. Getting in a persons head is something I do. Imperfictly of course my thoughts come first so by bisses cancle out...
Then... BLAM...
For a split second you might even feel something cold running down your neck. It's just your mind playing tricks on you and other tricks as well.
Being in a persons head kinda makes you unready for tragic things like that.
Then your not laughing anymore.
However the people who are part of that website making the commenst they do are already desensitised and they've never seen this before.
Byond the typical laundry list starting with "opt in," and ending it "don't sell illegal items" I'd like to suggest "clean house".
I've opted in to some spam and had to opt back out again.
Let me make myself perfictly clear. UCE* is what we are bitching about. With the huge volume of UCE the few items of SCE* are lost in the wake.
I have to set up filters for each type of S?E* and a few UPE*.
The fact of the matter is UCE is hurting SCE by flooding it out of existence.
Back in the start Spamford made a play at cleaning the situation up. By play at I mean he actually e-mail bombed anyone who complained and only PRETENDED to handle complaints.
(I should have sued his butt for that)
If your lagit add a code.. Ohh brain drain.. I forget how it works but I use such codes to help me partition e-mail lists I'm on into proper compartments.
I'd like to add a nifty additional suggestion....
As a form of tripple check,
Most Spam is sent in HTML with images downloaded over the web. That means when your target reads the e-mail his computer contacts you.
This is good advice even for the e-mail vetters, harvesters and violaters of the Can Spam act..
If your target dose not conact you in 24 hours (dosen't download the image by reading the e-mail) he isn't reading your message. Your being dumpped into a filter bin.
Just erase that e-mail from your list automagicly or slip into your filter system.
It may also be the person isn't reading e-mail as often as you send it and getting 20 e-mails from the same guy (for any reason) is just dam annoying and instantly earns you a place in the perment filters.
*Translations:
UCE: Unsolicited Commertal E-Mail. (V!agra)
UPE: Unsolicited Personal E-Mail. (I love your website, Wana swap links? I like your artwork. Baka Kitty? Couldn't you be more original or is that all the Japanise you know?)
SCE: Solicited Commertal E-Mail. (Yes please tell me when the new Yugi cards come out. Horray I won an eBay auction. Oh joy someone bought some more "Voodoo computer" pin dolls from me.. Time to ship)
SPE: Solicited Personal E-Mail. (It's your mother. Your computer is making noises. Are you experementing again?)
S?E: All solicted e-mail
U?E: All unsolicted e-mail.
Old Employee "Hello I'm the guy currently doing the job you will be doing."
New Employee "Ok"
Old "See this big 'Do not press' button? Push it once and hour on the hour"
New "Whats it do?"
Old (under breath) "Turns off every server in the building"
New "What? I can't hear you"
Old "Oh it just keeps everything working."
(under breath) "When you don't push it"
New "I see" (inspects button)
Old "Any questions"
New "Yes.. Can I get a job recomenation?"
Old (stunned) "Ummm why would you need that?"
New "Becouse I really don't believe I'll be working here long."
Old "And what makes you think that?"
New guy pushes red button leaves old guy to take blame
New yelling back "Ohh nothing"
How many viruses run under Windows? Answer: How many are in the wild?
How many viruses run under Linux? Answer: Zero
This isn't to say that there are no Linux viruses. Oh hells bells there probably are many (in a lab some place) and one released.
BUT with a quick bug fix the Linux virus went away. Bye bye. It is fairly likely the lab viruses make use of one time defects that have long ago been fixed.
It is reasonably easy to update open source software. So if the latest libary has problems with your favoret apps you download the updates of the apps as well.
With Windows those same updates cost money. Fixing a hole in Windows security may cost you quite a bit in rebuying the applications you rely on.
There is also a pure addatude problem.
In Linux each person takes his share of responsability for being hacked.
The programmers appologise and release a bug fix ASAP.
The destros who didn't catch the bug and released the defective code release the bug fix with applogys.
The admin who get hacked are redfaced for not catching the bug and appologise.
The users smash head into wall for not armoring against attack. Not making back ups. Not taking nominal precautions.
Microsoft:
Most of the antimicrosoft slams Linux and Mac zellots repeate often come from Windows users who blame everyone but themselfs.
Windows admin have a pack of excuses so thick it makes you sick.
Application develupers "Well it happends you gotta expect it. Not our problem. Should have protected yourself.
For $5,000 we'll audit your systems so this won't happen again"
And Microsoft pays for reports on how OTHER operating systems are just as bad (or worse) instead of preventing the mistakes.
In short:
Linux: My fault sorry I'll fix it. Won't happen again (at every level)
Microsoft: Not my fault. Your fault. You fix it. I can't be held responsable for YOUR stupidity. (at every level)
This isn't even an open vs closed issue however maybe the open and closed source communitys do inspire thies addatudes.
This dates back to the original GNU and Microsoft addatudes way back in the 1980s.
GNU: Everyone is responsable.
Microsoft: Your so stupid it's all your fault.
If I hear again how smart Microsofts programming team is again I'll throw up.
That is the single most arrogent peace of bull I've heard.
If Microsofts programmers are so smart then I'm Enstine. Microsofts coders make the kind of mistakes every day "I" knew to avoid when I writing my own "Hello world" on a Commodore Vic 20 in 1979.
A while back there was a link to a website on a PIC processor.
While the iPIC is quite a bit more advanced the Slashdot croud actually contacted the iPIC.
The connection to the 64 will only permit one connect and after that the server sends out a busy signal.
All things considered I think the iPIC got hit worse than the 64 ever will.
Now for the truely retro...
Connect use the iPIC for the server to an S-100 running an RCP/M BBS.
(Forget Commodore...)
And use a Hays 1200 for the modem...
Or USR robotics 28.8k baud if you REALLY need speed.
(Yes I know Hays makes faster than 1200 but Hays 2400 and better isn't retro enough)
Yeah..
First BBS I logged into was a DYM BBS.. I was too young to log in and I lied.
It didn't work out.
Then I logged into the Forth BBS in SanFransisco. Your command prompt was actually in forth.
The way forth works is you can add commands so the BBS fuctions were just new commands. I think they locked off the programming features (makes sense but I never tried to edit the BBS so I don't know).
I remeber the ongoing story of Murphy Law of folly forth. I just folowed the story as it progressed. "Folow the yellow diod"...
(Being an impressionable kid I actually refered to going to the bathroom as "dumping my buffers" for a while. As in "I gotta go dump my buffers" while dancing the "gotta go to da bathroom" dance)
Later I had access to some RCP/M and RBBS bbses. The downloads section was just dropping you to a secured prompt.. (think restricted Unix shell where you can't do much) run xmodem filename.ext and then download the files you wanted.
I always thought of Commodore BBSes as limited but secure. Oh boy I had everyone and there brother trying to prove that wasn't the case. Nobody ever hacked into my BBS but I knew it had nothing to do with Commodore.
It was that I wrote the program and every time someone TRIED to hack in I changed the code.
(Staying one step ahead is the ONLY way).
There were three reasons people tried to hack my BBS.
1. I once called it uncrashable. I never did that again once it went into a crash recrash loop.
2. I was sereous about the no cuss words policy (that went away when I hit 18. Mommy might not approve)
3. I ran my BBS on a Commodore 128.
Actually worse than that MY software tried to addapt to the user and often failed.
So I had people hacking my BBS who thought I had an Apple II, a TRS 80, a PC and any number of platforms people didn't like.
I also had one guy yell at me becouse his 300 baud modem connected to my 1200 baud as a 300 baud.
(Some 300 baud modems let you go faster but the other side has to have the same kind of modem and support the hack. I didn't)
And then there was the guy who accused me of stealing his BBS look.
(His was a brand new BBS and I know my BBS changed it's apperence at least twice while he was online just to accomidate his poking and proding)
But that was the worst of it.
However when I want to remember the good old days I log into my Linux box and go into the command line.
Then I smile.
Then I type the old forth BBS commands and they don't work.
Having writen BBS programs for the Vic20. C64 and C128 (Actually same program evolved as I switched systems.. Also ported to Dos and would have gone to Linux but the BBS died on Dos as the phone company ripped out the wires to my phone line and offered to charge me to fix there own mistake.
Intrestingly enough I wasn't supprised to discovere I had no callers. I was only supprised as to WHY)
If the trick is handled all on the PC side (and I expect it is) then it dosen't matter.
If they are doing it the way I think
(Commodore userport to RS232 to null modem to PC sereal (rs232) then PC forwards to telnet etc...) this should also work on the Vic20.
For that matter it should also work for CP/M, Apple II, TSR-80. Pritty much any old BBS.
Dos BBSes can be done on the same Linux or Windows box that provides the Internet access making it much easier.