For all the percieved evils of the Soviets they (to the best of their "internationalist" doctrine) tried to help bring African countries up from the misery.
CIA (and MI5 and whatever the fsck French call their spy shop) killed Patrice Lumumba and many other leaders in countries like Angola and Mozambique for daring to cuddle up to the Commies instead the "benevolent" colonial masters. But Soviet enthusiasm ran out in 1980's and Soviet Union itself ran out in 1990's.
Just last night I called Russia on the phone, and ordinary people over there know nothing about Dmitry Skliarov - nothing on TV or in newspapers. I cannot fathom why...
Essentially, the music industry is pissing off their customer base.
Bzzzt! Your answer is wrong!
The customer base is busy deciding the optimum combination in the decision matrix
Britney --- Jennifer
N'Sync --- Backdoor^H^H^H^Hstreet Boys
That's whopping 4 possible combinations!
The "niche" customer base is the one that replaces N'Sync with Limp Bizkit in the above matrix.
Face it - RIAA has much better marketing info than all of us together, and they wouldn't dare to pull this shit unless they were convinced of the customers' indifference to whopping some "marginals."
Nobody seems to understand it because you make no sense. Consitution (US or non-US) applies on the territory of the country, and applies to all people on it.
Also, I presume, Invicta arrange for the proper work visas for these guys, so they came to the US very much lawfully.
Unenforceable laws are the most dangerous kind, because they invite selective enforcement.
Say, you're in the US and piss off somebody in the US. You also use PGP. So, the evil powers make a phone call to, say, French (where encryption is illegal) to cook up a warrant for your "alleged" use of it on the French territory (Oops, Your Honor, it just got routed that way!). The next thing you know, feds are not only rummaging through your dirty laundry, they're also threatening to extradite you to France.
4) For any further exploration to occur, we must study the very long-term affects of near-zero gravity on humans. That means having something intended to remain in space longer than a shuttle.
Uh-oh, a shuttle!
FYI, Soviets/Russians used their Mir and Saliut space stations since 1980s for long-term space habitation and have quite a few men who spent 200-300-400 days in orbit.
...especially the part of "getting paid for one's work."
By the same token, I'd pay, say, $2 for a libranet download without the rights to a technical support. We all have to have our options, right?
Personally, I paid in full for my copy of SuSE 6.4 - which is totally different situation from Libranet, because it's an independent distribution, as opposed to a tweaked Debian.
If I was a small business, I would gladly pay only $10/mo. for secure server capabilities.
Don't forget that something like 80-90% of world's population lives on less that 1 USD/day - that's 30 USD/mo.
I don't think the story author wants to be an Amazon of the Philippines - postal vs. brick-and-mortar expenses probably don't make it feasible over there.
He probably wants to have something like an almost-free SSL-secured voice mail/fax receiving service a'la onebox.com. Anyway, back when I used to frequent rec.autos.* newsgroups their FAQ contained one valuable reminder:
When someone asks how to fix up his old Yugo, don't tell him to junk it and buy a Porsche.
For one thing, I don't see why, say, Philippines police or tax authority couldn't become a local CA authority - you show them your passport - they generate you a number. I bet getting a Philippine passport costs much less than 125 USD/year.
Some time ago, people on SuSE mailing list seem to have agreed that "running SuSE" means having functioning YAST (SuSE configuration and update tool).
If I do a minimal Debian install and compile the rest of what I need from the source tarballs, am I still running Debian and eligible for your kindness? Apt and debconf would still work on the set of packages that were installed initially. AFAIK, Progeny uses apt and nothing precludes a user from replacing all Progeny.deb sources with "genuine" Debian ones.
As it's time for me to upgrade SuSE 6.4, all I want to know about Progeny if their "optional" 2.4 kernel would allow me to do a reiserfs install...
The real problem is that this "gross mistake" will never make it to the mainstream media. We can laugh all we want, but unless the general public appreciates the complexity of the problem - RIAA will have the last laugh.
By the way, if this ever gets to a court, copyright.net will have a hot potato on their hands - having to choose between a frivolous lawsuit and not performing the "due diligence" work.
They manage to describe PGP's "trust maze" on pages 64-66 without ever mentioning PGP by name.
It's nice to see though that GAO acknowledges that:
It is flexible, facilitating ad
hoc associations and trust relationships, and reflects the bilateral trust of transacting parties. It allows the direct cross-certification of certification authorities whose users communicate frequently, which reduces the
amount of processing time necessary to generate the certification path.
... as well as that this P2P model can sustain CA compromise better than any hierarchical structure.
But some name recognition for what is admittedly successful (even if unofficial) PKI should have been given...
For a very unorthodox take on the modern capitalism, I suggest "Speculative Capital (vol.1) - The Invisible Hand of Modern Finance" by Nasser Saber. You can read parts of the book
here.
Briefly, the author explains the evolution of different forms of Capital: merchant, industrial and, finally, speculative. It is the "Speculative Capital" which scouts the planet for instanteneous profits and has the potential to destroy the whole system as it puts on larger and larger bets.
Ever increasing volatility of Nasdaq, well-publicized devaluation of British pound commonly attributed to George Soros, meltdown in Southeast Asia, and, most recently, Turkish devaluation are the symptoms of Speculative Capital.
Check out Saber's website for better explanation of the subject.
Ok, go to your local record store and raise a stink!
Pick up a CD from a shelf and ask for a sound clip. Granted, although major places like B&N, Borders, Tower let you listen to "album-du-jour" at the special stations, there're thousands of CD's they don't have for sampling.
Be obnoxious, ask for a manager, and tell them that friends recommended you this particular CD, but you want to sample it first!
... This will do nothing to the studios, because they have zillions of brain-dead zombies who buy whatever MTV plays as the "next greatest thing" - but it maybe worth your while!
To be honest, I was never fond of SAT because they emphasize high-speed solving of many simple problems over solving a few difficult problems.
The alternative is entrance exams held by every school to determine the qualifications of the applicants in-house and according to their own faculty's criteria.
This, however, will break the U.S. university system where students are not asked to declare their major on application. As you can imagine, Harvard U. physics and history departments will have very different requirements for math entrance exam.
Unless the whole company consists of a bunch of computer-illiterate monkeys, there's no way StarOffice is going to replace MSOffice anytime soon.
We have a bunch of VB code buried in production spreadsheets - a lot of work went into them. Also, StarOffice still cannot (version 5.2) handle merged cells in Excel spreadsheets. MSWord? - forget it!
He'd be commuting from Philadelphia - and that's $482/month on Amtrak. I did this for 18 months (to Newark) and it's very tiresome, especially since the trains run about once an hour. If you leave home 5 minutes late, you have to wait at the station. The morning rush stress alone is not worth it.
Also, $60k/year in NYC is sort of borderline poverty.:)
What we have on the web since it became hip to "do the email thing" is the same thing that happened in the traditional media.
The power of editorial control or (as in this case) the power of gatekeeper to somebody else's content is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Now watch AOL/TimeWarner being bought by Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp - there you'll feel the full flavor of corporate diversity tagged to the lowest common denominator!
I don't buy all this bull about AOL/TimeWarner "protecting their corporate ass." If they cannot afford a little lawsuit over some links (hey - even 2600.com can!), then why don't they just shut down their (yuck! shudder!) "investigative journalism programs" and stop crapping into the brains of the gullible public!
The IT departments in most of non-tech corporations are so outsourced, it's not even funny. So they've got a contract saying that they support only certain OS(es).
Some time ago I actually wrote a business case to let me install Linux or a commodity PC. But our IT department scratched their collective ass and gave me a Sun workstation that probably cost at least 3 times as much. I had to install gcc on it anyway...
I am sick and tired of all the stories about "horrible" GWB and "lesser evil" Gore - because I remember Slashdotters crying about all those horrible laws that Clinton/Gore ushered in.
This is the biggest problem with the American public: 2 minute attention span and 5 minute memory. Anybody remembers CDA, son-of-CDA, DMCA, wiretapping extensions, war on drugs?!
There's a problem with voting for the "lesser evil" - Gore doesn't have to actually do anything positive, because he can always point to something that GWB or (God forbid!) Buchanan *might* have done.
In my opinion, this whole Republican/Democrat dichotomy is about Yale-Harvard Texas-South Texaco-Occidental Petroleum - it's not about any real issues.
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For all the percieved evils of the Soviets they (to the best of their "internationalist" doctrine) tried to help bring African countries up from the misery.
CIA (and MI5 and whatever the fsck French call their spy shop) killed Patrice Lumumba and many other leaders in countries like Angola and Mozambique for daring to cuddle up to the Commies instead the "benevolent" colonial masters. But Soviet enthusiasm ran out in 1980's and Soviet Union itself ran out in 1990's.
Just one suggestion - the very first part of your letter should be a so-called "Executive Summary."
Paragraph 1:
In 1 (one!) sentence state your position on the subject.
In 1 (one!) sentence state what is it exactly you want from the recipient(s) of your letter.
Paragraph 2:
In 3-4 sentences that can be used as a "sound bite" recap your core arguments.
After you're done with this "Executive Summary" you can proceed to explain your position in a long-winded, logical and tedious fashion.
IF you were not an AC, I would've called you a piece of shit and many other names. But... you're already an AC!
Just last night I called Russia on the phone, and ordinary people over there know nothing about Dmitry Skliarov - nothing on TV or in newspapers. I cannot fathom why...
Bzzzt! Your answer is wrong!
The customer base is busy deciding the optimum combination in the decision matrix
Britney --- Jennifer
N'Sync --- Backdoor^H^H^H^Hstreet Boys
That's whopping 4 possible combinations!
The "niche" customer base is the one that replaces N'Sync with Limp Bizkit in the above matrix.
Face it - RIAA has much better marketing info than all of us together, and they wouldn't dare to pull this shit unless they were convinced of the customers' indifference to whopping some "marginals."
Nobody seems to understand it because you make no sense. Consitution (US or non-US) applies on the territory of the country, and applies to all people on it. Also, I presume, Invicta arrange for the proper work visas for these guys, so they came to the US very much lawfully.
Unenforceable laws are the most dangerous kind, because they invite selective enforcement.
Say, you're in the US and piss off somebody in the US. You also use PGP. So, the evil powers make a phone call to, say, French (where encryption is illegal) to cook up a warrant for your "alleged" use of it on the French territory (Oops, Your Honor, it just got routed that way!). The next thing you know, feds are not only rummaging through your dirty laundry, they're also threatening to extradite you to France.
Uh-oh, a shuttle!
FYI, Soviets/Russians used their Mir and Saliut space stations since 1980s for long-term space habitation and have quite a few men who spent 200-300-400 days in orbit.
...especially the part of "getting paid for one's work."
By the same token, I'd pay, say, $2 for a libranet download without the rights to a technical support. We all have to have our options, right?
Personally, I paid in full for my copy of SuSE 6.4 - which is totally different situation from Libranet, because it's an independent distribution, as opposed to a tweaked Debian.
SuSE 7.1 - their latest distribution - is available as 3(?) Gb ftp directory, but there's no ISO image (what they used to call "evaluation" version).
SuSE developers stated that at this moment they have no plans to produce a downloadable CD.
Don't forget that something like 80-90% of world's population lives on less that 1 USD/day - that's 30 USD/mo.
I don't think the story author wants to be an Amazon of the Philippines - postal vs. brick-and-mortar expenses probably don't make it feasible over there.
He probably wants to have something like an almost-free SSL-secured voice mail/fax receiving service a'la onebox.com. Anyway, back when I used to frequent rec.autos.* newsgroups their FAQ contained one valuable reminder:
For one thing, I don't see why, say, Philippines police or tax authority couldn't become a local CA authority - you show them your passport - they generate you a number. I bet getting a Philippine passport costs much less than 125 USD/year.What IS Debian?
.deb sources with "genuine" Debian ones.
Some time ago, people on SuSE mailing list seem to have agreed that "running SuSE" means having functioning YAST (SuSE configuration and update tool).
If I do a minimal Debian install and compile the rest of what I need from the source tarballs, am I still running Debian and eligible for your kindness? Apt and debconf would still work on the set of packages that were installed initially. AFAIK, Progeny uses apt and nothing precludes a user from replacing all Progeny
As it's time for me to upgrade SuSE 6.4, all I want to know about Progeny if their "optional" 2.4 kernel would allow me to do a reiserfs install...
The real problem is that this "gross mistake" will never make it to the mainstream media. We can laugh all we want, but unless the general public appreciates the complexity of the problem - RIAA will have the last laugh.
By the way, if this ever gets to a court, copyright.net will have a hot potato on their hands - having to choose between a frivolous lawsuit and not performing the "due diligence" work.
But some name recognition for what is admittedly successful (even if unofficial) PKI should have been given...
Briefly, the author explains the evolution of different forms of Capital: merchant, industrial and, finally, speculative. It is the "Speculative Capital" which scouts the planet for instanteneous profits and has the potential to destroy the whole system as it puts on larger and larger bets.
Ever increasing volatility of Nasdaq, well-publicized devaluation of British pound commonly attributed to George Soros, meltdown in Southeast Asia, and, most recently, Turkish devaluation are the symptoms of Speculative Capital.
Check out Saber's website for better explanation of the subject.
Isn't that ironic that somebody wanting to switch between KOffice and Gnumeric has to use Excel format?
Ok, go to your local record store and raise a stink!
Pick up a CD from a shelf and ask for a sound clip. Granted, although major places like B&N, Borders, Tower let you listen to "album-du-jour" at the special stations, there're thousands of CD's they don't have for sampling.
Be obnoxious, ask for a manager, and tell them that friends recommended you this particular CD, but you want to sample it first!
... This will do nothing to the studios, because they have zillions of brain-dead zombies who buy whatever MTV plays as the "next greatest thing" - but it maybe worth your while!
To be honest, I was never fond of SAT because they emphasize high-speed solving of many simple problems over solving a few difficult problems.
The alternative is entrance exams held by every school to determine the qualifications of the applicants in-house and according to their own faculty's criteria.
This, however, will break the U.S. university system where students are not asked to declare their major on application. As you can imagine, Harvard U. physics and history departments will have very different requirements for math entrance exam.
Unless the whole company consists of a bunch of computer-illiterate monkeys, there's no way StarOffice is going to replace MSOffice anytime soon.
We have a bunch of VB code buried in production spreadsheets - a lot of work went into them. Also, StarOffice still cannot (version 5.2) handle merged cells in Excel spreadsheets. MSWord? - forget it!
He'd be commuting from Philadelphia - and that's $482/month on Amtrak. I did this for 18 months (to Newark) and it's very tiresome, especially since the trains run about once an hour. If you leave home 5 minutes late, you have to wait at the station. The morning rush stress alone is not worth it.
:)
Also, $60k/year in NYC is sort of borderline poverty.
Gov't used to plant narcotics or weapons onto people - now all they need is a printout of some win32UselessFunc.c!
What we have on the web since it became hip to "do the email thing" is the same thing that happened in the traditional media.
The power of editorial control or (as in this case) the power of gatekeeper to somebody else's content is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Now watch AOL/TimeWarner being bought by Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp - there you'll feel the full flavor of corporate diversity tagged to the lowest common denominator!
I don't buy all this bull about AOL/TimeWarner "protecting their corporate ass." If they cannot afford a little lawsuit over some links (hey - even 2600.com can!), then why don't they just shut down their (yuck! shudder!) "investigative journalism programs" and stop crapping into the brains of the gullible public!
The IT departments in most of non-tech corporations are so outsourced, it's not even funny. So they've got a contract saying that they support only certain OS(es).
Some time ago I actually wrote a business case to let me install Linux or a commodity PC. But our IT department scratched their collective ass and gave me a Sun workstation that probably cost at least 3 times as much. I had to install gcc on it anyway...
I am sick and tired of all the stories about "horrible" GWB and "lesser evil" Gore - because I remember Slashdotters crying about all those horrible laws that Clinton/Gore ushered in.
This is the biggest problem with the American public: 2 minute attention span and 5 minute memory. Anybody remembers CDA, son-of-CDA, DMCA, wiretapping extensions, war on drugs?!
There's a problem with voting for the "lesser evil" - Gore doesn't have to actually do anything positive, because he can always point to something that GWB or (God forbid!) Buchanan *might* have done.
In my opinion, this whole Republican/Democrat dichotomy is about Yale-Harvard Texas-South Texaco-Occidental Petroleum - it's not about any real issues.
Oh, by the way, here's a great site: Billionaires for Bush/Gore
I believe there's a certain subliminal message within Dilbert.
No matter how much Dilbert or Wally or Ashok are abused, they don't blow up or quit! They just keep on plowing that same infertile field.
Wouldn't it be nice and different if Dilbert brought a shotgun to work?!