INCLUDING all of the people killed by the US action on your precious iraqbodycount.net, there has actually been a NET PRESERVATION of Iraqi lives, WHEN COMPARED WITH the lives lost each year under sanctions.
What proof do you have that lifes lost because of sanctions are saved now? I'd imagine sanctions caused food problems, as well as medical supply problems. If these were the causes for sanctions-caused deaths, I don't believe conditions have improved in any way. The US have replaced a dictator with anarchy. Nothing suggests living conditions are now better.
The Atari 800XL was an 8086? You learn everyday. The 800XL was my first computer, brought in by my father after a trip to the US. I think it's still somewhere in the basement. Software for it was really hard to find, and that was one of the reasons that led me to play with the built in Basic interpreter, following the intro found in the manual. That computer should be going over the 20 year mark one of these days...
Here's my biggest Kudos to the Windowmaker dev team:-) Wmaker has been by window manager of choice for the last four years. While I recognize the advances of the Gnome/KDE projects, I've tried both multiple times and always come back to Wmaker. It just feels right.
My main gripe with other window managers is the inability to set the "Initial Workspace" (virtual desktop) per application. When wmaker starts, all my apps load and pop up in their respective workspaces. If they fire up windows, these get contained in the app's virtual desktop, and do not interrupt my work. Really cool, and unmatched by other WMs (to my knowledge).
I'm quite happy to be a complex machine, but many people aren't, and I don't know why:(
Simple answer. It seems to take away the chance of eternal life. If you're a complex machine, when you die, you're gone. Kaput. No heaven, no hell, no after-life of any kind. The few years you have on Earth are all there is to it.
I have no idea if we're a complex machine or not, although Occam's razor suggests we are just a complex machine. If there is a soul, then it's sensible to assume it outlives the body, and eternal life as promised by almost every religion is true. However, if, in fact, there is no soul, I know only one other comforting alternative: Given the infinity of time, and assuming that the probability of my personal identity (whatever that is) reocurring is non-zero, then there's a 100% certainty that my identity will reapear. We don't get eternal life, but reincarnation. We are then left with the issue of defining an individual's identity: i.e. must I relive this exact same life or, on the other extreme, can I reincarnate as a rat, and be cut in pieces so I can fly 747s?:-)
I think it all depends on the definition of crash. A top-level thrown Exception is a good crash. A GPF is the kind of crash that might evolve onto a buffer overflow.
(Besides which, as a user, I find it infuriating that Mozilla/Firefox are so stuck up on perfectly standard HTML that they just don't work with some web sites that are perfectly usable in IE anyway.)
Have you been giving them feedback(1) lately? The Mozilla team will either add stuff to quirks mode, or pass the site reference to evangelists.
(1) You'll have to copy+paste the URL, as bugzilla doesn't like slashdottings.
Making the boot media read-only is only part of what distinguishes Knoppix. Knoppix also boots with no open network ports, closing most attack vectors. Windows has a lot of ports not only open, but unclosable if you want proper functioning of the system (even if it's not meant to provide services over the network).
You can triangulate automatically, based on signal strength of the various bases you're connected to. Vodafone here does that as a GPRS service of vehicle fleets. The accuracy is at least enough to identify the street you're in, so its definitely better than 5km.
Yahoo.com: Unknown (Given what leaks from the technologies used, I'd bet its Unix)
MSN: Windows and FreeBSD
www.sina.com.cn: FreeBSD
google.com: Linux
sohu.com: Unix variant
163.com: FreeBSD
baidu.com: Linux
3721.com: FreeBSD
yahoo.co.jp: FreeBSD
passport.net: Windows
You recognize yourself that Linux/*BSD take the bottom part of the market. This clearly demonstrates Linux/*BSD taking also the top part of the market. I won't deny there are many company websites on IIS, but they are much much less than what you seem to think. And every Code Red Worm-alike eat away at that marketshare.
You are making the all too common confusion between packet filtering at your LAN border, and NATing private IPs behind a public one. I'll try another approach to get you thinking. If the concept of private IP did not exist, would we be less secure? Apart from the fact that a NAT box automagically introduces a default denial of access policy, I don't think we would be any less secure. Having a public IP won't introduce any kind of limitations on which traffic you want to accept.
6. Never put a machine on public-addressable IP space unless it's a public server. Use a DSL/cable switch and put your systems on a VPN on the other side of a hardware firewall that filters out all non-essential traffic.
Bollocks. Packet filtering *is* essential. Hiding the machine on a private IP behind a NAT isn't. NATing has nothing to do with the security matter, other than when you're on a private IP space, you're *forced* to filter packets.
It's a well known fact that MS 'hides' bugs from public view until they're fixed. These submarine bugs surface really close to the fix date and skew stats. OSS has the extreme opposite effect, since it relies on public announcement of bugs for fixing them.
I know the guns are a very visible thing to blame, but the obsessive focus on eliminating guns doesn't actually help much with the problems of crime or violence. Other aspects of a culture have a much larger impact on crime rates than gun ownership (hint: the US drug war and the criminal population that can develop with such a huge black market to fund it).
Except violent death rates on low crime areas with widespread guns rises. Rifles are allowed here for hunting purposes. In rural areas, where they are pretty common, violent deaths are more frequent than in urban areas, where there are almost no guns.
Anyway, it's your own country, with your own culture. Vigilantism seems to me a pretty bad principle, much as 'preventive war'. Let's see where you're heading. For now, I'm glad we've reached the quality of life we have now here.
cause I really really like the '97 port vintages
Grab yourself a dozen '94 bottles. Don't open them, it's still recommended to hold them. I can't imagine how good that wine must be in 10-15 years time ('94 was rated the best wine year of the century).
Oh, cool. Then, I'd advise a German Sepherd. They are big, quite menacing, have a lot of sense of territory, but are not natively aggressive (i.e. won't attack without reason). Plus, they're very smart. You can get one to do just about anything.
That's a fucking mith. The US were prompted to enter the fray both in the 1st World War and in the 2nd, and sat on their asses, until they were too afraid Soviet states would dominate Europe. Both wars were won by the Soviets (or the Russian winter, if you prefer).
I did not compare criminally related vs non-criminally related. I used a much simpler statistic. Europe and the US have similar cultures and similar stages of development. The large relevant difference between Europe and the US is the widespread use of firearms in the US. I'd think attributing it the responsability for the north-american much higher gunfire injury rate is a pretty obvious conclusion.
Again, the worst kind of blind, is the one who does not want to see.
I see a man break into my property. He is coming towards my house where my children are. Oh, I guess I'll use TELEPATHY, and divine that he only wants to steal some apples from me, and not that he has a 9mm tucked into the small of his back.
Oh, gosh! Why does the defence of firearms always have to involve defending children from big bad man, with guns stashed in every part of their body? How many times did that happen to your or someone you directly know?
The action IS proportional to the threat. If you're on my property, YOU ARE THREATENING ME. I have the right to respond with the force that the law allows. You have the right to stay off my land. It's very simple.
No, it is not proportional to the threat. It is proportional to your perceived threat, and I, for one, am not guilty that you are paranoid. Paranoid and overall crazy people are *the* reason firearms should not be widespread.
If you break the law, you are assumed to have ill intent. This is first-semester law course stuff. Why else would you be breaking the law?
What if my evil intent was robbing apples from a tree? Is it punishable by death? Nope. Ever wondered why? Defence actions should be proportional to the threat.
Anybody have any recommendations in regards to breeds of dogs that are insanely protective of the family and *won't* attack Junior if the dog's ears are being pulled?
Don't rely on/. oppinion. Go seek professional help on choosing and training a dog. Getting moderately aggressive races not to attack family members is relatively easy but, without the proper training, will soften the dog too much for defence.
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The Atari 800XL was an 8086? You learn everyday. The 800XL was my first computer, brought in by my father after a trip to the US. I think it's still somewhere in the basement. Software for it was really hard to find, and that was one of the reasons that led me to play with the built in Basic interpreter, following the intro found in the manual. That computer should be going over the 20 year mark one of these days...
My main gripe with other window managers is the inability to set the "Initial Workspace" (virtual desktop) per application. When wmaker starts, all my apps load and pop up in their respective workspaces. If they fire up windows, these get contained in the app's virtual desktop, and do not interrupt my work. Really cool, and unmatched by other WMs (to my knowledge).
I have no idea if we're a complex machine or not, although Occam's razor suggests we are just a complex machine. If there is a soul, then it's sensible to assume it outlives the body, and eternal life as promised by almost every religion is true. However, if, in fact, there is no soul, I know only one other comforting alternative: Given the infinity of time, and assuming that the probability of my personal identity (whatever that is) reocurring is non-zero, then there's a 100% certainty that my identity will reapear. We don't get eternal life, but reincarnation. We are then left with the issue of defining an individual's identity: i.e. must I relive this exact same life or, on the other extreme, can I reincarnate as a rat, and be cut in pieces so I can fly 747s? :-)
I think it all depends on the definition of crash. A top-level thrown Exception is a good crash. A GPF is the kind of crash that might evolve onto a buffer overflow.
(1) You'll have to copy+paste the URL, as bugzilla doesn't like slashdottings.
This is all shiny and great, but ignores the fact that present IE incarnations were developed before the Secure Windows Initiative.
Making the boot media read-only is only part of what distinguishes Knoppix. Knoppix also boots with no open network ports, closing most attack vectors. Windows has a lot of ports not only open, but unclosable if you want proper functioning of the system (even if it's not meant to provide services over the network).
You can triangulate automatically, based on signal strength of the various bases you're connected to. Vodafone here does that as a GPRS service of vehicle fleets. The accuracy is at least enough to identify the street you're in, so its definitely better than 5km.
On Nokias, if you hold the alphanumeric key, it'll print a number after a while. Sure beats tapping the key four times...
- Yahoo.com: Unknown (Given what leaks from the technologies used, I'd bet its Unix)
- MSN: Windows and FreeBSD
- www.sina.com.cn: FreeBSD
- google.com: Linux
- sohu.com: Unix variant
- 163.com: FreeBSD
- baidu.com: Linux
- 3721.com: FreeBSD
- yahoo.co.jp: FreeBSD
- passport.net: Windows
You recognize yourself that Linux/*BSD take the bottom part of the market. This clearly demonstrates Linux/*BSD taking also the top part of the market. I won't deny there are many company websites on IIS, but they are much much less than what you seem to think. And every Code Red Worm-alike eat away at that marketshare.IIS is an also-ran.
You are making the all too common confusion between packet filtering at your LAN border, and NATing private IPs behind a public one. I'll try another approach to get you thinking. If the concept of private IP did not exist, would we be less secure? Apart from the fact that a NAT box automagically introduces a default denial of access policy, I don't think we would be any less secure. Having a public IP won't introduce any kind of limitations on which traffic you want to accept.
Insightful instead of funny? Moderators on crack, again..
It's a well known fact that MS 'hides' bugs from public view until they're fixed. These submarine bugs surface really close to the fix date and skew stats. OSS has the extreme opposite effect, since it relies on public announcement of bugs for fixing them.
Anyway, it's your own country, with your own culture. Vigilantism seems to me a pretty bad principle, much as 'preventive war'. Let's see where you're heading. For now, I'm glad we've reached the quality of life we have now here.
Grab yourself a dozen '94 bottles. Don't open them, it's still recommended to hold them. I can't imagine how good that wine must be in 10-15 years time ('94 was rated the best wine year of the century).Oh, cool. Then, I'd advise a German Sepherd. They are big, quite menacing, have a lot of sense of territory, but are not natively aggressive (i.e. won't attack without reason). Plus, they're very smart. You can get one to do just about anything.
That's a fucking mith. The US were prompted to enter the fray both in the 1st World War and in the 2nd, and sat on their asses, until they were too afraid Soviet states would dominate Europe. Both wars were won by the Soviets (or the Russian winter, if you prefer).
Again, the worst kind of blind, is the one who does not want to see.
Actually, I live in Portugal, one of the safest places on Earth.
The worst kind of blindness is the self-inflicted one.