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If you blindly cling to some ideal, you are acting foolishly. If your ideals and reality conflict, you should consider aligning your ideals with reality.
Kazaa is not an app to be used to distribute pirated porn, movies and music.
Most users of Kazaa distribute music from local bands looking for exposure and to distribute open-source apps. Everybody these days is getting the latest kernel releases from Kazaa!
Thanks for the explanation, that really clarifies everything for me.
For someone like me who doesn't really use BSD and sees everything going on with it as a spectator, sometimes the political and other issues surrounding it obfuscate the technical detail.
According to Theo, the OpenBSD team is continuously auditing OpenBSD code. Is Theo re-writing grep because he has an issue with whomever wrote it thirty years ago?
Unchecked string problems have been known since the standard C libraries came out. I first heard about them around 1995.
All I'm trying to say is that OpenBSD would be a much more secure system if Theo spent more time working on it rather than grandstanding.
The area-denial and panic that would ensue from the use of an Al-Queda style "dirty bomb" is nothing but hype.
Nobody would use pluotonium or uranium in a dirty bomb -- these materials are difficult to obtain and used more productively used in traditional nuclear weapons. A dirty bomb would contain radioactive cesium and other easy to obtain isotopes used in medicine and industry.
The 24-hour news coverage of a dirty bomb incident would be the most damaging aspect of it.
The "dirty bomb" is an overhyped "weapon" designed to take advantage of america's nuclear hysteria.
All a dirty bomb is an explosive device filled with easy to obtain nuclear materials (like nuclear medicine waste and such) that you blow up in some public place.
If you encased such material in a traditional nuclear device, the materials would be incinerated in the blast.
The NATO invasion of Kosovo revealed a key problem with laser-guided munitions.
Lasers are beams of light. They are degraded by things like weather, smoke, trees and hills as a plane travels overhead.
GPS bombs are aimed at a specific geographic location. They home on that location regardless of other factors.
The only weather-independent precision munition available for the Kosovo operation were Tomahawk missiles with TERCOM (terrain comparision) technology. These missile use millimeter radar to compare terrain to a map in memory. Only problem is, you need a 24 hour lead time to get the maps uploaded and there isn't a huge number of Tercom tomahawks available.
Voting irregularity is a function of local political organizations, not technology.
The classic example of widespread voter fraud is New York City's Tammany Hall Democratic machine. The Tammany people would hide votes, pay voters, cut off non-voters from political patronage, etc.
Vote machine manipulation is by far the least common means of voter fraud. It's far easier to manipulate people than machines -- and you can't audit people anyway.
You are an obvious exception. Most of today's "peace protestors" are liberal issue-of-the-day types who protest whatever is popular. When you were writing about Yugoslavia, they were screaming "Free Mumia!" or screaming about t-shirt factories in Thailand.
I think you need to step back and read about where political power comes from and how it perpetuates itself. Read one of Robert Caro's biographies of LBJ or Robert Moses.
There's a reason why strict moralists and highly ethical people are not generally found in high political office. Power is a difficult asset to acquire, and often times you must do "bad" to accomplish "good".
The fact remains that you are either an idiot or a troll.
Equating lead pipes with foreign policy makes absolutely no sense.
There is a case to be made that the US is on the decline. The export of all non-food industry, the piss-poor quality of education are examples of alarming issues that nobody is addressing.
If you want to write about that, go ahead. But don't hide your agenda in a misleading article about plumbing.
Ok, so I want to easedrop on you and i have alot of resources. I'm going to put up some renegade cell phone tower that will overpower the legit tower and provide service to thousands of people... and I'll do this all over an area or city?
It would be easier to follow you with a parabolic microphone.
My recommendation to you is to tighten your tinfoil hat.
It costs about $25 to register to use a ficticious name. I think this is a great solution, because it protects you from domain hijackers while shielding you from casual snoops.
I work with Enterprise Management Software in a huge and diverse environment and have seen from experience that in the end it is easier for everyone to consolidate environments and services whenever possible.
Also, since you indicated that applications require you to use the OU model, you should use it.
Talk to the AD admins and get them to grant you administrative authority over everything within your OU. You might even be able to offload some of the more menial roles that you perform to the larger IT group.
If I can just run everything from Perl 5 in Perl 6, why would I want to write code in Perl 6? (that won't work on the millions of currently deployed machines with perl 5 already installed)
The cool thing about Perl 6 is that you get a commmon runtime engine that can run multiple language on multiple platforms. That's neato.
But why a new language with new syntax, bugs and oddities?
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If you blindly cling to some ideal, you are acting foolishly. If your ideals and reality conflict, you should consider aligning your ideals with reality.
Kazaa is not an app to be used to distribute pirated porn, movies and music.
Most users of Kazaa distribute music from local bands looking for exposure and to distribute open-source apps. Everybody these days is getting the latest kernel releases from Kazaa!
Thanks for the explanation, that really clarifies everything for me.
For someone like me who doesn't really use BSD and sees everything going on with it as a spectator, sometimes the political and other issues surrounding it obfuscate the technical detail.
According to Theo, the OpenBSD team is continuously auditing OpenBSD code. Is Theo re-writing grep because he has an issue with whomever wrote it thirty years ago?
Unchecked string problems have been known since the standard C libraries came out. I first heard about them around 1995.
All I'm trying to say is that OpenBSD would be a much more secure system if Theo spent more time working on it rather than grandstanding.
I probaly should have clarified my statement a little better. The fallout from nuclear testing in Nevada travelled as far as Western Europe.
One would expect fallout to cause cancer hotspots in the midwest and midatlantic states -- except it didn't.
These guys have been claimng to be super-secure and constantly performing security audits on the OpenBSD code for years.
Yet they've launched a major effort to cleanup 2,000 unsafe string functions in the last two months...
What has Theo been doing all this time other than being an obnoxious prima donna and re-writing packet filters because of some minor squabble?
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The area-denial and panic that would ensue from the use of an Al-Queda style "dirty bomb" is nothing but hype.
Nobody would use pluotonium or uranium in a dirty bomb -- these materials are difficult to obtain and used more productively used in traditional nuclear weapons. A dirty bomb would contain radioactive cesium and other easy to obtain isotopes used in medicine and industry.
The 24-hour news coverage of a dirty bomb incident would be the most damaging aspect of it.
How do you explain the lack of cancer hotspots hundreds of miles downwind from the nuclear testing sites in Nevada?
Also, what does it take to increase global radiation by one roengten?
You are completely misinformed.
The "dirty bomb" is an overhyped "weapon" designed to take advantage of america's nuclear hysteria.
All a dirty bomb is an explosive device filled with easy to obtain nuclear materials (like nuclear medicine waste and such) that you blow up in some public place.
If you encased such material in a traditional nuclear device, the materials would be incinerated in the blast.
Do some reasearch. The DRPK has nuclear reactors and has sold key nuclear weapons components to Pakistan.
North Korea is a cross between Stalin's Soviet Union and Sparta. It is truly a hellish and insane place.
The NATO invasion of Kosovo revealed a key problem with laser-guided munitions.
Lasers are beams of light. They are degraded by things like weather, smoke, trees and hills as a plane travels overhead.
GPS bombs are aimed at a specific geographic location. They home on that location regardless of other factors.
The only weather-independent precision munition available for the Kosovo operation were Tomahawk missiles with TERCOM (terrain comparision) technology. These missile use millimeter radar to compare terrain to a map in memory. Only problem is, you need a 24 hour lead time to get the maps uploaded and there isn't a huge number of Tercom tomahawks available.
Voting irregularity is a function of local political organizations, not technology.
The classic example of widespread voter fraud is New York City's Tammany Hall Democratic machine. The Tammany people would hide votes, pay voters, cut off non-voters from political patronage, etc.
Vote machine manipulation is by far the least common means of voter fraud. It's far easier to manipulate people than machines -- and you can't audit people anyway.
There is a reason it's cheap.
Expensive name brand stuff is usually perfect. No-name computer show memory often as all sorts of flaws that redundancy in the chip takes care of.
They are still doing research, just not with traditional aircraft.
Within 20 years there will no longer be a manned air force. The future is pilotless stealth drones.
You are an obvious exception. Most of today's "peace protestors" are liberal issue-of-the-day types who protest whatever is popular. When you were writing about Yugoslavia, they were screaming "Free Mumia!" or screaming about t-shirt factories in Thailand.
I think you need to step back and read about where political power comes from and how it perpetuates itself. Read one of Robert Caro's biographies of LBJ or Robert Moses.
There's a reason why strict moralists and highly ethical people are not generally found in high political office. Power is a difficult asset to acquire, and often times you must do "bad" to accomplish "good".
The fact remains that you are either an idiot or a troll.
Equating lead pipes with foreign policy makes absolutely no sense.
There is a case to be made that the US is on the decline. The export of all non-food industry, the piss-poor quality of education are examples of alarming issues that nobody is addressing.
If you want to write about that, go ahead. But don't hide your agenda in a misleading article about plumbing.
In one or five years, you'll have the opportunity to vote some liberal wank into the white house.
Funny that the peace protestors stayed home when we rolled over Serbia and installed a new government in Haiti.
Ok, so I want to easedrop on you and i have alot of resources. I'm going to put up some renegade cell phone tower that will overpower the legit tower and provide service to thousands of people... and I'll do this all over an area or city?
It would be easier to follow you with a parabolic microphone.
My recommendation to you is to tighten your tinfoil hat.
That is a an API problem, not a limit of the OS.
Why don't you get a clue before posting?
Do you have any idea what jabber is?
It costs about $25 to register to use a ficticious name. I think this is a great solution, because it protects you from domain hijackers while shielding you from casual snoops.
I work with Enterprise Management Software in a huge and diverse environment and have seen from experience that in the end it is easier for everyone to consolidate environments and services whenever possible.
Also, since you indicated that applications require you to use the OU model, you should use it.
Talk to the AD admins and get them to grant you administrative authority over everything within your OU. You might even be able to offload some of the more menial roles that you perform to the larger IT group.
Only one problem.... even without bulk licensing, you can get midrange wintel office desktops for $1000 with software.
Fully equipped Apples would be nearly double the cost.
I don't think that I was clear enough.
If I can just run everything from Perl 5 in Perl 6, why would I want to write code in Perl 6? (that won't work on the millions of currently deployed machines with perl 5 already installed)
The cool thing about Perl 6 is that you get a commmon runtime engine that can run multiple language on multiple platforms. That's neato.
But why a new language with new syntax, bugs and oddities?