People who've never lived in America think all Americans are like that, but it isn't so. It's just the right-wingers, and only when they're trying to support a right-wing president. These are people who endlessly criticized Clinton's foreign policy, but as soon as Bush was inaugurated started chanting the mantra "foreign policy is for the White House alone". That's right, when there's a Republican in the White House they try to say that democracy stops at the borders, but when there's not they suddenly believe in democracy and accountability.
I guarantee you, if Kerry is elected, all that "with us our against us" stuff they're spouting will disappear overnight, because suddenly it's in support of the wrong party.
Hypocrites? Yes. But they get themselves into power.
I agree in principle. It's just that there are some prosecutors who bring case after case that gets thrown out, and it just gets old. They obviously don't have real cases; they just want to stay in the papers and they're willing to drag people through the mud to do it.
Someone with a @salon.com address submits a story to slashdot linking to a Salon article. That article costs money to read. Slashdot posts the story anyway.
Well, blackice should probably default to logging, but not alerting about the most common scans and such
The problem with someone that claims to protect you from something is that they will make a lot of noise about all the things they're supposedly protecting you from, so that you think they're making you safe. Those crappy Windows firewalls do that, as well as AV software. For a non-software example, look at how US prosecutors love to bring cases for "terrorism" and make lots of noise about it, even if those cases all get thrown out of court.
Try running a linux system without ncurses, it's not so easy. Sure, the user will see no benefit from installing it, but they're going to need it eventually.
Who sits there in dselect (or for other distros, in their usable installation programs) and says "I need ncurses"? No one. Rather, you install it when it's a dependency of some other package you want.
Interesting... I would have thought the US would pressure France not to engage in joint exercises with China. (Not trying to blame the US here; France is clearly at fault for cooperating with the Chinese in intimidating Taiwan.)
There were other things that happened between the attacks and the elections. Namely, the government and the government-run media lied about the attacks to make it appear as if ETA was responsible. The spin placed on the attacks by the PP prompted protests and led to their electoral defeat.
If the attackers did indeed intend to bring down Aznar's government, they succeeded. Then again, the 9/11 hijackers wanted (among other things) for America to withdraw its forces from Saudi Arabia. When Bush did just that, was it a victory for terrorists? No. He just happened to do something the terrorists wanted. You can't say that we should do exactly the opposite of what the terrorists want all the time--otherwise they could dictate our policy by negation.
Put another way, Hitler liked dogs. Does that mean we shouldn't?
It's also instructive to compare the wide support we had internationally when we were assaulting a country that didn't have an oil-for-food bankroll, err, U.N. program in place with the few true friends in a "coalition" we had when we invaded a place that did.
I do not dispute that one of the main motivations for France's opposition to the war was the interest of French business in Iraq, in particular the French petroleum industry. France and Russia were very much the exception in this regard; few other countries had enough of an economic interest in Iraq to explain their opposition to the war in this way. In any case, the fact that some opponents of the war had less-than-stellar reasons for opposing it doesn't mean the war was justified, any more than the war was unjustified because it was supported by a bunch of dissembling adventurers like Chalabi.
Considering the fact that France is now engaging in "joint operations" with the Chinese in the Yellow Sea in an effort to intimidate Taiwan elections
Could you provide a link? I haven't heard about this. In any case, it's worth pointing out that Bush criticized Taiwan's upcoming referendum after meeting with Jiang, so it's not like he's a great champion of Taiwanese democracy himself.
Yes, you are a troll. This is an optional package that people can choose to install. It's open source, and the use of the data is also completely in the open. It's not an invasion of privacy when someone wants to give you data and explicitly gives it to you.
Debian users might not be representative of Linux users. Certainly not newbies.
The most popular packages are the ones you don't really have a choice about. (For example, tar.)
For a newbie, the vast majority of packages are ones that even if you install, you'll never use directly in the way you think of using a program on Windows. (For example, ncurses.)
Where choices do exist, many people will use an older package out of familiarity and habit. (For example, some people swear that their lives have improved dramatically since they stopped using vixie-cron, but I still use it over the alternatives.)
I encourage you to install Linux, and Debian is a fine distribution for you if you're interested in learning. But don't look at package popularity. If you need help choosing between different packages that do the same thing, there are better places to look.
Not only that, but if it happens between now and November 2, you can bet the Bush supporters will try to tell us that electing anyone else would be an appeasement to terrorism. They're already setting it up by accusing the Spanish voters of that--an accusation entirely inconsistent with the facts of that election, but they've never thought twice about lying in the past. You watch, that's what they'll try to say. (And if there's no attack, they'll say we should re-elect Bush because he's kept us safe.)
However, in the case of such an incident, it'd be tremendous if we didn't run around like chickens with their heads detached. There were some lessons learned in 9/11 that are worth recalling.
Actually, after 9/11 it took remarkably little time for us to finger al Qaeda. We even coughed up actual proof, and quite a lot of it, before beginning the war in Afghanistan. It's instructive to compare the wide support we had internationally for the Afghanistan effort with the fiasco of a "coalition" we had when we invaded Iraq.
It's more insidious than that. They use "balanced" coverage to cover up a political bias. People of the favored political philosophy quickly learn that they can lie as outlandishly as they want to when talking to that media outlet, because in the name of "balance" they'll be given a free soapbox. It's time we reintroduced "objective" media who are not afraid to call a lie a lie.
This just says to me that Phoenix is in trouble financially. They make what is essentially a commodity item that is becoming increasingly obsolete. There's no great innovation in the BIOS market because no one really uses the BIOS like they used to. So they're trying to cram new features into it.
You can't expect slashdot to do your homework for you. Don't expect to just ask a question like that instead of doing the work yourself. That's not what Ask Slashdot is about.
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People who've never lived in America think all Americans are like that, but it isn't so. It's just the right-wingers, and only when they're trying to support a right-wing president. These are people who endlessly criticized Clinton's foreign policy, but as soon as Bush was inaugurated started chanting the mantra "foreign policy is for the White House alone". That's right, when there's a Republican in the White House they try to say that democracy stops at the borders, but when there's not they suddenly believe in democracy and accountability.
I guarantee you, if Kerry is elected, all that "with us our against us" stuff they're spouting will disappear overnight, because suddenly it's in support of the wrong party.
Hypocrites? Yes. But they get themselves into power.
And this should serve as a warning to anyone else who thinks about getting stoned and posting here.
It's true. I requested the full text and I didn't even read it.
We'll have to wait to see if AMD jumps to match this...
I agree in principle. It's just that there are some prosecutors who bring case after case that gets thrown out, and it just gets old. They obviously don't have real cases; they just want to stay in the papers and they're willing to drag people through the mud to do it.
Someone with a @salon.com address submits a story to slashdot linking to a Salon article. That article costs money to read. Slashdot posts the story anyway.
Could an AC please post the full text?
The problem with someone that claims to protect you from something is that they will make a lot of noise about all the things they're supposedly protecting you from, so that you think they're making you safe. Those crappy Windows firewalls do that, as well as AV software. For a non-software example, look at how US prosecutors love to bring cases for "terrorism" and make lots of noise about it, even if those cases all get thrown out of court.
Yeah, I was going to submit a story about that bicyclist-powered web server, but I thought better of it.
The kind that would also capitalize the letter after that, and the letter after, and...
Who sits there in dselect (or for other distros, in their usable installation programs) and says "I need ncurses"? No one. Rather, you install it when it's a dependency of some other package you want.
Interesting... I would have thought the US would pressure France not to engage in joint exercises with China. (Not trying to blame the US here; France is clearly at fault for cooperating with the Chinese in intimidating Taiwan.)
There were other things that happened between the attacks and the elections. Namely, the government and the government-run media lied about the attacks to make it appear as if ETA was responsible. The spin placed on the attacks by the PP prompted protests and led to their electoral defeat.
If the attackers did indeed intend to bring down Aznar's government, they succeeded. Then again, the 9/11 hijackers wanted (among other things) for America to withdraw its forces from Saudi Arabia. When Bush did just that, was it a victory for terrorists? No. He just happened to do something the terrorists wanted. You can't say that we should do exactly the opposite of what the terrorists want all the time--otherwise they could dictate our policy by negation.
Put another way, Hitler liked dogs. Does that mean we shouldn't?
I do not dispute that one of the main motivations for France's opposition to the war was the interest of French business in Iraq, in particular the French petroleum industry. France and Russia were very much the exception in this regard; few other countries had enough of an economic interest in Iraq to explain their opposition to the war in this way. In any case, the fact that some opponents of the war had less-than-stellar reasons for opposing it doesn't mean the war was justified, any more than the war was unjustified because it was supported by a bunch of dissembling adventurers like Chalabi.
Could you provide a link? I haven't heard about this. In any case, it's worth pointing out that Bush criticized Taiwan's upcoming referendum after meeting with Jiang, so it's not like he's a great champion of Taiwanese democracy himself.
Yes, you are a troll. This is an optional package that people can choose to install. It's open source, and the use of the data is also completely in the open. It's not an invasion of privacy when someone wants to give you data and explicitly gives it to you.
Bad idea. Reasons:
I encourage you to install Linux, and Debian is a fine distribution for you if you're interested in learning. But don't look at package popularity. If you need help choosing between different packages that do the same thing, there are better places to look.
Not only that, but if it happens between now and November 2, you can bet the Bush supporters will try to tell us that electing anyone else would be an appeasement to terrorism. They're already setting it up by accusing the Spanish voters of that--an accusation entirely inconsistent with the facts of that election, but they've never thought twice about lying in the past. You watch, that's what they'll try to say. (And if there's no attack, they'll say we should re-elect Bush because he's kept us safe.)
Actually, after 9/11 it took remarkably little time for us to finger al Qaeda. We even coughed up actual proof, and quite a lot of it, before beginning the war in Afghanistan. It's instructive to compare the wide support we had internationally for the Afghanistan effort with the fiasco of a "coalition" we had when we invaded Iraq.
I run Mozilla on Linux so I'm safe from all that flash and shockwave stuff, right?
It's more insidious than that. They use "balanced" coverage to cover up a political bias. People of the favored political philosophy quickly learn that they can lie as outlandishly as they want to when talking to that media outlet, because in the name of "balance" they'll be given a free soapbox. It's time we reintroduced "objective" media who are not afraid to call a lie a lie.
Don't worry, it will soon be part of the official curriculum in California schools.
This just says to me that Phoenix is in trouble financially. They make what is essentially a commodity item that is becoming increasingly obsolete. There's no great innovation in the BIOS market because no one really uses the BIOS like they used to. So they're trying to cram new features into it.
You can't expect slashdot to do your homework for you. Don't expect to just ask a question like that instead of doing the work yourself. That's not what Ask Slashdot is about.
Oh, wait...
It's just Dick Cheney heading home.
Yeah, and what's really unusual is that the current stuff will be cheaper if you wait.
Linux has done this for a while now. It's just a separate no-execute bit in the AMD64 extensions.