The flaw in your argument is that MS thinks it's at war with linux and it makes no difference whether they told you or not: they are trying very hard to kill it.
in the light of recent events, your inflation of a trend within the IT sector to the status of a war are laughable and tasteless.
What I find tasteless is that something that happens frequently (5000+ people killed in a mass-murder) only matters to people like you when it happens in your country. If it happens anywhere else the only reason you hear or care about it is if Bruce Willis makes a movie about it, at which point it becomes entertainment.
"And it's high time that computer users insisted that the security community live up to its obligation to protect them."
The role of the security community is to protect users from false claims of security by companies which produce shitty software; it is the software producers' obligation to provide the security claimed for their products.
Very aware, since you ask. The immediate problem of who commited the murders in NYC needs to be addressed but in the long term America and Americans must do something about WHY so many people hate them and face the fact that they aren't all just being irrational.
But are you in any form aware of what these people are actually are angry about?
Which people, the terrorists, some of whom who are angry about the whole US/Israel thing, or the Americans who are angry about the WTC murders? Or the Taliban who are just angry about the thought that people might want to be free?
I'm not ignorant of the other things Obi-Wan-Bin-Lauden has done (Kenya etc.) nor am I ingorant of the multitude of evil acts carried out by the Taliban. In both cases there is ample and just reason to prevent them from doing further harm to others. Given the situation, the only realistic way is probably death.
None of which changes the fact that the governments involved have shown little evidence of OBL's actual involvement in the WTC massacre. The fact that some of the hijackers knew him is of no significance, how many dedicated "Islamic" terrorists don't have some link with him?
So, I am happy to see these people get what they deserve for their other crimes, but I wonder if the person behind the WTC is sitting somewhere now, watching TV and having a good laugh.
Or that British Prime Minister Tony Blair would publish the evidence against Osama Bin-Laden on a government Web site?
I've not seen any evidence that Osama Bin-Laden was involved in the attacks (lots of evidence that Sadaam was, though); does anyone know what web site Katz is referring to?
For the record, I don't really care if he was or not, so long as the Taliban (and OBL for that matter) are wiped out. If I knew someone who had been killed, though, I might be a bit more interested in knowing if we've really got the right guy.
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Before he invented the Erector Set,
Err, before he copied the Erector Set (and added motors)...
Yes, but my point was: who decides which topics can actually be done. We can all vote our titties off for someone to overturn the DMCA or whatever, but someone then has to decide HOW to get the money to the people that will do it.
In other words: what happens if there's no project manager for a particular cause?
The only thing I can think of at the moment is that there is another "nominations" page. However, one practical difficulty is that no matter how many of us want to donate to XY, or even Z, there may be practical issues in doing so, such as geographical location, currency exchanges, even hard-crypto communications requirements for causes in oppressed countries. These need a "real" person to organise and that makes it difficult to just say "fund anything we think deserves it" if no one can/will spare the time to organise it.
In other words: there's no point letting every cause be added to the list if there is no way of actually applying the help.
That suggests at least a level of "vetting" of nominations for practicality and then we're onto the question of who does the vetting.
Open a fund, we give in money as and if we feel like it. The fund page has a (serious)/. poll on it of thing that people have nominated for funding and a "none of the above" option. Funding is paid out on a monthly basis in proportion to the votes at that point.
Only people with karma over 10 or who have paid money into the fund can vote (once per month) on allocation in order to stop skiddies and others manipulating the distribution too much.
The karma thing is basically saying "Anyone who is probably not a troll". Karma whores could be put off by charging 1 or more karma for voting.
Just a thought, off the top of me 'ead, pull it up the flag pole and see if the budgie bite.
I have my own views on 'Nam. The US involvement was justified,
Perhaps the most bizarre statement I've seen on/. in three years of reading it.
if you can show it wasn't you, we will acknowledge this,
Ah, so much for innocent until proven guilty.
When the towers fell, I said to my girlfriend "The Americans will pin this on Bin Laden whether he did it or not". So far there's been a lot of talk and no evidence as to why it wasn't, for example, Sadaam.
Just like Lockerbie the decision is made as to who's guilty and then the evidence is made to fit.
I'll be glad to see the Taliban wiped out, and I'd dance on their graves too. They've been running Afganistan like Nazi's let loose in a synagogue for years, but of course no one ever did anything about 'cause, hey, those are just a bunch of dirty foreigners they're butchering, right? Now it looks like they might have been involved in killing ENGLISH-SPEAKERS and all hell breaks loose.
I'll be glad to see them go but it'll take a lot more for me cheer for "Western Values".
True, and Kennedy was the one who won through plain fraud.
I may be wrong, and I'm pretty sure Illinois' votes have changed since Kennedy, but didn't he actually win by about 80 electoral votes? Illinois only has 22 at the moment. The fraud would have to be big-time to make up that difference.
I mean, much bigger than just getting you brother-in-law's computer firm to "accidentally" mark a few thousand black people as ineligible to vote.
He's not the first president who won without carrying the popular vote.
There is a difference between not winning the popular vote and just plain fraud. Bush isn't President in any legal sense. He is in charge but he does not have the ability to run the country. Yesterday's stupid remark about "dead or alive" proved how little grasp of reality he has. He might as well have said "we'll give him a fair trial and then we'll hang him".
Oh, yeah, that'll make it easier for Muslim countries to support action against Ben Laden.
The world would be safer with a real chimp in the white house instead of this poor imitation.
When the US should get involved is a good question, but the answer is _not_ never.
I agree. Unfortunately, the current answer seems to be "at the whiff of money". There is such a thing as getting involved to often, as well as too infrequently.
You obviously have no idea how many more Palestinians have been killed by the Israelis this year that the other way 'round. I think the current ratio is about 10:1 (even after the suicide bombers). Of course, I suppose you think the various Palestinian office workers aren't as important as New York office workers?
Perhaps the US, instead of initiating another useless "investigation" (ie frame-up) like the Lockerbie trial, it should just stop interfering in other people's countries?
I come from Northern Ireland and I can assure everyone here that the type of people that did this are the same sort of people that Americans have supported with fund-raising events for decades.
This is a horror of a crime, but it was bound to happen. If you throw your weight around everywhere you have to accept that some day someone, good or evil, will object and in the latter case, they won't care too much about who gets in the way.
Hate to tell you this, but much of Europe has out-grown Christianity and the tooth fairy. If you want to start a religious war don't drag us into it. Religion is the cause of this crime, not the solution.
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in the light of recent events, your inflation of a trend within the IT sector to the status of a war are laughable and tasteless.
What I find tasteless is that something that happens frequently (5000+ people killed in a mass-murder) only matters to people like you when it happens in your country. If it happens anywhere else the only reason you hear or care about it is if Bruce Willis makes a movie about it, at which point it becomes entertainment.
TWW
The role of the security community is to protect users from false claims of security by companies which produce shitty software; it is the software producers' obligation to provide the security claimed for their products.
TWW
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Which people, the terrorists, some of whom who are angry about the whole US/Israel thing, or the Americans who are angry about the WTC murders? Or the Taliban who are just angry about the thought that people might want to be free?
TWW
I'm not ignorant of the other things Obi-Wan-Bin-Lauden has done (Kenya etc.) nor am I ingorant of the multitude of evil acts carried out by the Taliban. In both cases there is ample and just reason to prevent them from doing further harm to others. Given the situation, the only realistic way is probably death.
None of which changes the fact that the governments involved have shown little evidence of OBL's actual involvement in the WTC massacre. The fact that some of the hijackers knew him is of no significance, how many dedicated "Islamic" terrorists don't have some link with him?
So, I am happy to see these people get what they deserve for their other crimes, but I wonder if the person behind the WTC is sitting somewhere now, watching TV and having a good laugh.
TWW
I've not seen any evidence that Osama Bin-Laden was involved in the attacks (lots of evidence that Sadaam was, though); does anyone know what web site Katz is referring to?
For the record, I don't really care if he was or not, so long as the Taliban (and OBL for that matter) are wiped out. If I knew someone who had been killed, though, I might be a bit more interested in knowing if we've really got the right guy.
TWW
Err, before he copied the Erector Set (and added motors)...
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In other words: what happens if there's no project manager for a particular cause?
In other words: there's no point letting every cause be added to the list if there is no way of actually applying the help.
That suggests at least a level of "vetting" of nominations for practicality and then we're onto the question of who does the vetting.
Only people with karma over 10 or who have paid money into the fund can vote (once per month) on allocation in order to stop skiddies and others manipulating the distribution too much.
The karma thing is basically saying "Anyone who is probably not a troll". Karma whores could be put off by charging 1 or more karma for voting.
Just a thought, off the top of me 'ead, pull it up the flag pole and see if the budgie bite.
TWW
Says who? The unreal nagora?
He is an imposter of someone else.
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I'm on 2.4.9 and the swap situation seems a bit better but not much. I assume this is part of the VM merges they keep talking about.
I seem to remember a serious bug appearing within the that two weeks. I don't use it so I don't really care at the moment.
Perhaps the most bizarre statement I've seen on /. in three years of reading it.
if you can show it wasn't you, we will acknowledge this,
Ah, so much for innocent until proven guilty.
When the towers fell, I said to my girlfriend "The Americans will pin this on Bin Laden whether he did it or not". So far there's been a lot of talk and no evidence as to why it wasn't, for example, Sadaam. Just like Lockerbie the decision is made as to who's guilty and then the evidence is made to fit.
I'll be glad to see the Taliban wiped out, and I'd dance on their graves too. They've been running Afganistan like Nazi's let loose in a synagogue for years, but of course no one ever did anything about 'cause, hey, those are just a bunch of dirty foreigners they're butchering, right? Now it looks like they might have been involved in killing ENGLISH-SPEAKERS and all hell breaks loose.
I'll be glad to see them go but it'll take a lot more for me cheer for "Western Values".
Note that the license is INSIDE the box, genius.
...what have you done with the real CmdrTaco, you bastards?
I may be wrong, and I'm pretty sure Illinois' votes have changed since Kennedy, but didn't he actually win by about 80 electoral votes? Illinois only has 22 at the moment. The fraud would have to be big-time to make up that difference. I mean, much bigger than just getting you brother-in-law's computer firm to "accidentally" mark a few thousand black people as ineligible to vote.
TWW
There is a difference between not winning the popular vote and just plain fraud. Bush isn't President in any legal sense. He is in charge but he does not have the ability to run the country. Yesterday's stupid remark about "dead or alive" proved how little grasp of reality he has. He might as well have said "we'll give him a fair trial and then we'll hang him". Oh, yeah, that'll make it easier for Muslim countries to support action against Ben Laden.
The world would be safer with a real chimp in the white house instead of this poor imitation.
Well, fuck, if only you had thought of doing that BEFORE the planes hit.
What a waste of time.
I agree. Unfortunately, the current answer seems to be "at the whiff of money". There is such a thing as getting involved to often, as well as too infrequently.
A new perspective indeed.
I come from Northern Ireland and I can assure everyone here that the type of people that did this are the same sort of people that Americans have supported with fund-raising events for decades.
This is a horror of a crime, but it was bound to happen. If you throw your weight around everywhere you have to accept that some day someone, good or evil, will object and in the latter case, they won't care too much about who gets in the way.
Hate to tell you this, but much of Europe has out-grown Christianity and the tooth fairy. If you want to start a religious war don't drag us into it. Religion is the cause of this crime, not the solution.