W says with this program he's "listening to al queda operatives in the United States make plans". My question is, if W knows al queda's phone number, why doesn't he go and bust them?
In all these years one can count the number of terrorist convictions racked up by the DOJ on one hand. Experts are saying there is no vast al queda presence in the United States (see PBS Frontline "enemy within" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/enemywithi n/view/)
What if an OSS project comes up with a technique or technology first? What if an OSS project comes up with an idea, but never pursues a patent; then a company comes along later and attempts to patents the same idea not knowing the OSS project got there first?
When the company attempts to assert patent rights over the OSS project, can the OSS project invalidate the patent by proving they came up with the idea first?
Apparently my fellow citizens can't get enough of war because the United States has been at war with one thing or another since I was born. I refer to North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, "The commies", drugs, drug "lords", Grenada, Iraq, Serbia, "Terrorism", and now "internet pirates?".
you know... I could live without my ipod. But PLEASE don't tell me my Dual G5 Power Mac and Cinema Display are made in a sweatshop too. I don't think I could part with them.
Opinion polls have no bearing on the discussion of illegal wiretapping. If the NSA as directed to violate the law by the President, and the NSA violated the law... it *shouldn't* matter if people thought it was OK. The law is the law, right? Opinion, either correctly or falsely interpreted, shouldn't trump law.
The discussion should be about what happened, was it legal, who is responsible, what damage was done and how we can prevent it from happening again.
The GOP doesn't need to blow themselves up. The citizens of the United States give the government hundreds of billions of dollars every year to buy the finest Military force in the world for the purpose of self-protection.
The president of the United States is commander in chief of this military.
The current GOP President (and his father before him) has shamelessly and pointlessly killed uncounted tens of thousands of Arabs, civilians included (oops), and taken credit for it at a public relations stunt on the deck of an aircraft carrier.
Hamas doesn't have a multitrillion dollar military at it's disposal. All they can do to score a hit is blow themselves up.
The Arabs will not be free until we consume all the oil under their feet. We don't just want it, we NEED IT. Our lust for oil is more powerful and destructive than the conquistadors quest for gold. Like a drug addict disrupts life in the household, our addiction to oil threatens the future of humanity.
When all the oil is gone, the middle east will be as important to us as central Africa. In Africa, millions can be hacked to death with machetes and we don't send 1 Marine.
I'm sure the United States at it's worst is a thousand times better than Vietnam ever has been. This man has low expectations and a naive trust in the United Sates government born of appreciation.
He's not a person to move freedom forward. He's just happy with something to eat.
He's not standing on the shoulder of giants, he's trying to pick himself up out of the mud.
The real problem with the "War on Terror" is... there is no end. When all the Muslims are dead, something else will be classified as terrorism. Unions, "file-sharers", hackers, cable television thieves...
The government of the United States should be concerned with INCREASING my liberty and privacy; not the opposite. If they want to pass a law regarding oversight of law enforcement activities... why don't they pass one INCREASING oversight?
Only one thing will save us and the world from our out-of-contol political system and wannabe emperors... eventually, we will be so far in debt that tyranny will bankrupt itself.
Bush is the most transparently corrupt and immoral president in modern United States history. He does not value our democratic traditions. The only thing more putrefied than Bush and his administration; is the heart of every citizen in the United States who voted for him. We get what we deserve.
I guess we have different experiences... I, kind of, see the value in "compile once, run anywhere". If java can live up to this, perhaps it does have a place. I shall ponder this more.
But I still dread mastering another language. I'd like to have a personal life at some point.
I was not trolling... why is java enormous in the enterprise and middleware setting..? Problems in this space can be solved in C++. Good C++ compilers are free. And the resultant product is invariably faster.
Why use another language if one already exists which can solve the problem..?
If C++ can get you in srinkwrap, on the shelf AND solve your problems in the middleware space AND in firmware AND... AND..., why turn to Java...?
In my opinion, there is no reason to turn to Java... I can solve any problem I am presented with in C++... or PERL (JCL in VM)... or the shell. These three tools work everywhere and can do anything. One of these three tools, or a combination of these three tools is the answer to any problem.
My time is valuable, I don't need another language...
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here here... ever see a shrink wrapped Java application which sells...? Ever see one on the shelves of Best Buy or Comp USA...? Ever see one that wasn't slower than molasses...?
Want to dedicate your valuable life learning a language totally controlled by Sun Microsystems...?
Java is a solution waiting for a problem... and not a very good solution at that!
No country has democracy... it's never really been honestly attempted.
The United States Constitution describes a form of government not much different from ancient Rome. And, in practice, United States government is even more like Rome.
But Rome still dazzles us today... and it lasted a long time... didn't it folks...! party on senators, citizens and centurions...!
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W says with this program he's "listening to al queda operatives in the United States make plans". My question is, if W knows al queda's phone number, why doesn't he go and bust them?
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In all these years one can count the number of terrorist convictions racked up by the DOJ on one hand. Experts are saying there is no vast al queda presence in the United States (see PBS Frontline "enemy within" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/enemywith
Who the heck are they listening to...?
What if an OSS project comes up with a technique or technology first? What if an OSS project comes up with an idea, but never pursues a patent; then a company comes along later and attempts to patents the same idea not knowing the OSS project got there first?
When the company attempts to assert patent rights over the OSS project, can the OSS project invalidate the patent by proving they came up with the idea first?
Apparently my fellow citizens can't get enough of war because the United States has been at war with one thing or another since I was born. I refer to North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, "The commies", drugs, drug "lords", Grenada, Iraq, Serbia, "Terrorism", and now "internet pirates?".
you know... I could live without my ipod. But PLEASE don't tell me my Dual G5 Power Mac and Cinema Display are made in a sweatshop too. I don't think I could part with them.
Opinion polls have no bearing on the discussion of illegal wiretapping. If the NSA as directed to violate the law by the President, and the NSA violated the law... it *shouldn't* matter if people thought it was OK. The law is the law, right? Opinion, either correctly or falsely interpreted, shouldn't trump law.
The discussion should be about what happened, was it legal, who is responsible, what damage was done and how we can prevent it from happening again.
George Bush broadband(tm) is 5mbps down and 5bps up.
To prevent the spread of porography and pirated music.
They cannot outlaw the act of two people transferring digital information between each other.
I'm sure they will try... and in trying they will cause us all much pain and waste much time and money. However, it is not possible to outlaw this.
Our economy depends on people having the ability to transfer information between each other.
The GOP doesn't need to blow themselves up. The citizens of the United States give the government hundreds of billions of dollars every year to buy the finest Military force in the world for the purpose of self-protection.
The president of the United States is commander in chief of this military.
The current GOP President (and his father before him) has shamelessly and pointlessly killed uncounted tens of thousands of Arabs, civilians included (oops), and taken credit for it at a public relations stunt on the deck of an aircraft carrier.
Hamas doesn't have a multitrillion dollar military at it's disposal. All they can do to score a hit is blow themselves up.
The Arabs will not be free until we consume all the oil under their feet. We don't just want it, we NEED IT. Our lust for oil is more powerful and destructive than the conquistadors quest for gold. Like a drug addict disrupts life in the household, our addiction to oil threatens the future of humanity.
When all the oil is gone, the middle east will be as important to us as central Africa. In Africa, millions can be hacked to death with machetes and we don't send 1 Marine.
I'm sure the United States at it's worst is a thousand times better than Vietnam ever has been. This man has low expectations and a naive trust in the United Sates government born of appreciation.
He's not a person to move freedom forward. He's just happy with something to eat.
He's not standing on the shoulder of giants, he's trying to pick himself up out of the mud.
The real problem with the "War on Terror" is... there is no end. When all the Muslims are dead, something else will be classified as terrorism. Unions, "file-sharers", hackers, cable television thieves...
The government of the United States should be concerned with INCREASING my liberty and privacy; not the opposite. If they want to pass a law regarding oversight of law enforcement activities... why don't they pass one INCREASING oversight?
Only one thing will save us and the world from our out-of-contol political system and wannabe emperors... eventually, we will be so far in debt that tyranny will bankrupt itself.
Bush is the most transparently corrupt and immoral president in modern United States history. He does not value our democratic traditions. The only thing more putrefied than Bush and his administration; is the heart of every citizen in the United States who voted for him. We get what we deserve.
"Good and bad are simply temporal apparitions"
"The virtues of the past can become the vices of the present, the vices of the past can become the virtues of the present."
-Joseph Campbell
I guess we have different experiences... I, kind of, see the value in "compile once, run anywhere". If java can live up to this, perhaps it does have a place. I shall ponder this more.
But I still dread mastering another language. I'd like to have a personal life at some point.
I was not trolling... why is java enormous in the enterprise and middleware setting..? Problems in this space can be solved in C++. Good C++ compilers are free. And the resultant product is invariably faster.
Why use another language if one already exists which can solve the problem..?
If C++ can get you in srinkwrap, on the shelf AND solve your problems in the middleware space AND in firmware AND... AND..., why turn to Java...?
In my opinion, there is no reason to turn to Java... I can solve any problem I am presented with in C++... or PERL (JCL in VM)... or the shell. These three tools work everywhere and can do anything. One of these three tools, or a combination of these three tools is the answer to any problem.
My time is valuable, I don't need another language...
here here... ever see a shrink wrapped Java application which sells...? Ever see one on the shelves of Best Buy or Comp USA...? Ever see one that wasn't slower than molasses...?
Want to dedicate your valuable life learning a language totally controlled by Sun Microsystems...?
Java is a solution waiting for a problem... and not a very good solution at that!
Not a flame... just the truth.
No country has democracy... it's never really been honestly attempted.
The United States Constitution describes a form of government not much different from ancient Rome. And, in practice, United States government is even more like Rome.
But Rome still dazzles us today... and it lasted a long time... didn't it folks...! party on senators, citizens and centurions...!
electric current "travels" faster than light... If you can call it traveling... It's more like "flowing".
The web form to purchase the product does not appear to be an ssl secured form...
http://www.veridis.com/openpgp/en/buy2.asp
Those are some GOOD radiation detectors...
I'm sure you'll figure it out soon after Comcast owns all cable modem networks...
If Microsoft went out of business tomorrow, Slashdot would go out of business the next day. Let's see... Slashdot's most wanted list:
1) Microsoft
2) RIAA
3) Anyone who wants to make money (except Slashdot, of course)
4) National Security Agency
5) FBI
I work at a place that uses thousands of NetVistas... no problems like that here...
Like... how to create nuclear bombs and such...? Remeber, if we outlaw "pernicious information" only outlaws will have "pernicious information"...
I'd like to see a USB VT100 terminal. with LCD screen... all powered by the bus.
assembly... printed on a page of rice paper as small as a postage stamp.
yeah... Not only is OOP unable to solve engineering problems... it cannot even quickly and efficiently solve computer programming problems.
Just learn C and Perl... then call it good.