Is normally a cheerful hope used at Pesach, in this particular instance, and in this story, it adds meaning that next year the tragedy will be in Jerusalem. I, for one, hope not.
Why palestinians think it's okay to take others' lives, civilian or not:
They are told that it is a holy mission, from the time they are children. They are taught that they will go to heaven, and that there will be 71 virigins waiting for them.
When this question has come up from Trolls in the past, I've responded by asking, how do you deal with a terrorist threat within your own borders, where even children are being used as pawns?
What matters here is who they tell, and who they sell it to.
I can't stop them from tracking (yet.) I do turn off all activeX, ask on cookies, no scripting, etc... but if they can get around my disabled browsing habits, then what matters is who they tell.
Sorry I insulted you. Can't you set those apps to run be run by a lesser user?
Or, can't you set them to start as root? What are these apps that you have to be root for?
What machine are you running on that doesn't like the installation assistant?
I tell it I have DHCP for my IP address, and I don't give it any more information than that. I unplug my cable modem (moto surfboard, if it matters) and let it sit for a minute to clear any IP leases it has from Roadrunner. (unplug-replug won't do it, it grabs the same IP and doesn't reassign to the computer.)
I plug in the cable modem, let it do it's flashing light dance, reboot Mac OS X to rehup networking (not an niutil guru yet.)
And it all works.
When I was in 3rd and 4th grades, way back, we had Apple ][ and IBM PC Machines, and we were taught BASIC, and LOGO, both turtle and mathematic instructions. We had district-wide competitions. Computing was for more than teaching productivity software and reader rabbit-crap.
This is something that has been lost from the curriculum, and should be regained.
Joe's son is 17, and while still developing, I'd venture that any associations he's made with violence and good were made long before he reached this age. Give the kid and parent some credit, the kid is an adolescent and hasn't rejected hanging out with his Dad- they must be doing something right!
1) Why use Mac OS X as root? It sets you up as Administrator (less than root) and allows you to create lesser user accounts.
2) My Mac OS X box talks to my cable modem just fine, and did so at installation time when I told it I would like to connect to the internet.
So either you're a super-troll and I've just fed you, or you're smart enough to get root on OS X (no easy task) but dumb enough to not get the cable modem up and running with one click.
My friend, who has loads of cash,
designed his own, and contracted the guy who custom did cabinets for his kitchen to build it.
The towers are on platforms that slide on aircraft-grade drawer tracks, so that the towers under the desks can be pulled out easily for access. the monitors sit at 45 degrees in recesses in the top of the desk (yes, he uses 19" screens. I encouraged him to get 17" LCDs and have then on articulated arms from the wall, but noooo!)
His scanner is on a shelf that slides forward and down. There's a full complement of cubbies in the hutch above the desktop.
Now, remember, the kitchen cabinet guy did all this, so the desk is a slick black granite formica, and everything else- best quality you can get. It's pretty damn sharp.
No, the DIVX player required a phone line and had a modem that dialed in to grant permission to play the discs.
You could pay per view as often as you liked.
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Oh heck.
Everything is a deadly weapon, quite likely including the food you choose to eat. The difference is only within the speed it kills you.
We ought not to have speed laws, we ought not to have licenses, we simply ought to enforce personal responsibility.
If you are dumb enough to walk in traffic and get hurt, too bad, don't blame someone else for "speeding" where speeding is anything fast enough to hurt someone.
If you are a poor enough driver but insist on driving anyway, and hurt someone, you should be held responsible for your actions, too.
All of these gadgets and 'innovations' that babysit and 'Big Brother' us are unnecessary if people would take responsibility for their actions.
Driving is a privelige not a right. We gave it up as a right when we allowed ourselves to be licensed to drive.
My grandfather learned to drive, and was driving for several years before licenses were around. Then, it was equivalent to owning a horse. If you owned a car, it was your right to drive it anywhere you pleased, and it was in your best interest to not drive like a lunatic, so that you wouldn't kill yourself, others, and damage a really expensive car.
Life was better then in a lot of ways from the perspective of rights that we have since signed away.
We have the FBI, who I don't trust.
We have the Arabic news sources, who I also don't trust.
The FBI is denying any kind of bias whatsoever, and that the investigation is totally unrelated to terrorist concerns, anti-palestinian, anti-muslim, or anti anything else.
Still, until we have any better information (which I'm looking forward to) this amounts to a very short period of Government sponsored hacktivism (okay, it's arguable how much hacktivism is involved when the G-men come in and take you offline, but it's the same result as geeks taking down opressors and terrorists sites on the other side of the world.)
"Who would you listen to, the richest man in the world, or just another Mexican?"
Gosh, I think I'd listen to the Mexican. When the richest Man in the world comes talking sweet and selling something, you can be sure it isn't in your best interest, it's in his.
I simply hate to see people who are otherwise intelligent speak ignorantly outside their area of expertise.
Does anyone else remember when Shockley, one of the three inventors of the transistor, spoke against affirmative action?
As I recall, his argument was something to the effect that whites were genetically superior.
Foolish! Foolish! Stick with transistors and physics!
I'm a Linux, Winblahs, MacOS 9.x and X.x user (former Be user) - and a fan of Productive.
Obviously the a fair amount of the discussion here at Slashdot is about file filters.
Can Productive aim to become the babelfish for documents from anywhere to anywhere?
For example, if my Mac using buddies send me ClarisWorks, AppleWorks 6, and Nisus docs, and my uncle in Ohio sends me.DOC or an old.wpd, it'd be a real treat to open it all in Productive, and have it come out fine.
Now, it'd also be cool if productive worked on Mac OS X- I'd buy productive for Win32, and Mac OS X... I might buy it for Linux instead of Win32, and spawn an X display from the linux box... but more and more, I find I'm not using linux for anything more than file serving and cd-burning.
I don't have a lot of influence over my Unk's OS choice, but I can get him to switch office suites without too much arm-twisting. I got him to use WordPerfect for about 4 years before he felt the urge to go back to MS...
And lastly, thanks, Tom, for having hung in there so long with Be.
Mac OS X got certified by the open group, so it is UNIX.
oddly, I can't seem to find the PR on this, or I'd link to it, but I do remember reading it.
Apple's current web-pages refer to a UNIX-based operating system... and yet, I clearly remember reading the annoucement that they were certified to use the UNIX mark.
The only failure with HAL was that Dr. Chandra forget to teach that murder is far worse than lying.
HAL understood that they were both bad, but had no values associated with either. Once HAL had lied, it was equally okay to commit murder.
Presumably, Dr. Goren will take this under consideration.
Also, I hope they realise that in ten years, they won't have an adult. They'll have a well-spoken, knowledgable ten year old. At this point it's worth examining the differences between a ten year old and an adult.
Knowledge, experience, maturity, sense of responsibility. Can anyone come up with any others?
I just found out about this now. EFF says the deadline is the 20th, and tomorrow is, what the 21st?
How am I to get a letter on this important issue to DC in the time required?
/., this is stuff that matters, get it to us in a timely fashion so we can act on it!
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Remember OS/2? OS/2 is currently making the most money it ever has for IBM, simply because it's in maintenance cycle now... IBM simply does no new development, and continues to make money on support, while encouraging folks to consider other OS options.
IBM never completely drops support, and would never leave profitable AIX shops out in the cold.
1. Don't need PCMCIA cards on the iBook. It has USB, firewire (IEEE1394), 56k, and 10/100 ethernet.
What PCMCIA would you commonly need besides this. (you say token-ring and I kill you.:-D )
2. Incorrect. The iBook does drive external monitors at 1024x768. It does this in a video mirroring method where the same display on the LCD is echoed on the monitor. If you could turn off the mirroring function, the external display could get 1600x1200 at millions of colors.
The Ti wasn't meant to compete with bland ole Dells, it was meant to show up the sleek VAIOs. Comparing Apple to Dell is like comparing apples and lemons. (yes, I meant lemons. Dells have consistently gone bad on me, in laptop, desktop, and server form. Lousy hardware that a Dell tech has to come running to replace while I sit in downtime.)
You stated that MS owns part of Apple. This is incorrect.
MS bought some non-voting stock and promised to continue developing MS Office for Mac if Apple made OE and Exploder the default internet tools for Macintosh.
This settled the MS-Apple lawsuit and gave Apple some much need cash at the time. They aren't owned in any real sense by MS.
If I (Where 'I' am a monopoly association of all car manufactures and retailers) sold you a car and said: here's your car, but you can only drive it in the US; if you want to drive in Canada or Mexico, you must buy another car, would you ACTUALLY buy another car; or would you hand over the money, laugh, and drive YOUR car wherever YOU want to go in it?
One phrase: California Air Resources Board.
I may be able to drive my out-of-state car there. I may be able to register my 1962 chevy there, and get an exemption for the exhaust emissions. But if I move there and try and register my other-49-state 1994 mitsubishi, I'm going to have to sell it, because it won't meet California emissions standards.
Yes, this is a badly written, badly enforced State run gang of thugs, but otherwise, the comparisons stand up.
PPC == PPC .... Rs/6000 and AS/400
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This is silly.
Apple uses the PPC architecture.
IBM uses the PPC architecture in their RS/6000 and AS/400 boxen.
IBM even provides some of the PPC chips to Apple for their boxen.
If you've ever considered serving with AIX, OS/400, or Linux running as a virtual server under OS/400, then there ought to be nothing wrong with buying a commodity box from Apple and serving with Darwin / OS X.
Yes, the photoshop benchmark gets dragged out against windows, because it's a real world use.
I wonder what you -one-mouse-button haters would say to an AS/400-RS/6000-G4-dual athlon bake off.
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(next year in Jerusalem)
Is normally a cheerful hope used at Pesach, in this particular instance, and in this story, it adds meaning that next year the tragedy will be in Jerusalem. I, for one, hope not.
Why palestinians think it's okay to take others' lives, civilian or not:
They are told that it is a holy mission, from the time they are children. They are taught that they will go to heaven, and that there will be 71 virigins waiting for them.
When this question has come up from Trolls in the past, I've responded by asking, how do you deal with a terrorist threat within your own borders, where even children are being used as pawns?
What matters here is who they tell, and who they sell it to.
I can't stop them from tracking (yet.) I do turn off all activeX, ask on cookies, no scripting, etc... but if they can get around my disabled browsing habits, then what matters is who they tell.
Time to go back to safeweb, as well.
Let me backpedal a bit.
Sorry I insulted you. Can't you set those apps to run be run by a lesser user?
Or, can't you set them to start as root? What are these apps that you have to be root for?
What machine are you running on that doesn't like the installation assistant?
I tell it I have DHCP for my IP address, and I don't give it any more information than that. I unplug my cable modem (moto surfboard, if it matters) and let it sit for a minute to clear any IP leases it has from Roadrunner. (unplug-replug won't do it, it grabs the same IP and doesn't reassign to the computer.)
I plug in the cable modem, let it do it's flashing light dance, reboot Mac OS X to rehup networking (not an niutil guru yet.)
And it all works.
lvmarks@mac.com
"Beware foreign entanglements."
G. Washington
When I was in 3rd and 4th grades, way back, we had Apple ][ and IBM PC Machines, and we were taught BASIC, and LOGO, both turtle and mathematic instructions. We had district-wide competitions. Computing was for more than teaching productivity software and reader rabbit-crap.
This is something that has been lost from the curriculum, and should be regained.
Joe's son is 17, and while still developing, I'd venture that any associations he's made with violence and good were made long before he reached this age. Give the kid and parent some credit, the kid is an adolescent and hasn't rejected hanging out with his Dad- they must be doing something right!
Waitaminute-
1) Why use Mac OS X as root? It sets you up as Administrator (less than root) and allows you to create lesser user accounts.
2) My Mac OS X box talks to my cable modem just fine, and did so at installation time when I told it I would like to connect to the internet.
So either you're a super-troll and I've just fed you, or you're smart enough to get root on OS X (no easy task) but dumb enough to not get the cable modem up and running with one click.
My friend, who has loads of cash,
designed his own, and contracted the guy who custom did cabinets for his kitchen to build it.
The towers are on platforms that slide on aircraft-grade drawer tracks, so that the towers under the desks can be pulled out easily for access. the monitors sit at 45 degrees in recesses in the top of the desk (yes, he uses 19" screens. I encouraged him to get 17" LCDs and have then on articulated arms from the wall, but noooo!)
His scanner is on a shelf that slides forward and down. There's a full complement of cubbies in the hutch above the desktop.
Now, remember, the kitchen cabinet guy did all this, so the desk is a slick black granite formica, and everything else- best quality you can get. It's pretty damn sharp.
No, the DIVX player required a phone line and had a modem that dialed in to grant permission to play the discs.
You could pay per view as often as you liked.
Oh heck.
Everything is a deadly weapon, quite likely including the food you choose to eat. The difference is only within the speed it kills you.
We ought not to have speed laws, we ought not to have licenses, we simply ought to enforce personal responsibility.
If you are dumb enough to walk in traffic and get hurt, too bad, don't blame someone else for "speeding" where speeding is anything fast enough to hurt someone.
If you are a poor enough driver but insist on driving anyway, and hurt someone, you should be held responsible for your actions, too.
All of these gadgets and 'innovations' that babysit and 'Big Brother' us are unnecessary if people would take responsibility for their actions.
You have no right to drive.
Driving is a privelige not a right. We gave it up as a right when we allowed ourselves to be licensed to drive.
My grandfather learned to drive, and was driving for several years before licenses were around. Then, it was equivalent to owning a horse. If you owned a car, it was your right to drive it anywhere you pleased, and it was in your best interest to not drive like a lunatic, so that you wouldn't kill yourself, others, and damage a really expensive car.
Life was better then in a lot of ways from the perspective of rights that we have since signed away.
Well, this is an interesting situation:
We have the FBI, who I don't trust.
We have the Arabic news sources, who I also don't trust.
The FBI is denying any kind of bias whatsoever, and that the investigation is totally unrelated to terrorist concerns, anti-palestinian, anti-muslim, or anti anything else.
Still, until we have any better information (which I'm looking forward to) this amounts to a very short period of Government sponsored hacktivism (okay, it's arguable how much hacktivism is involved when the G-men come in and take you offline, but it's the same result as geeks taking down opressors and terrorists sites on the other side of the world.)
"Who would you listen to, the richest man in the world, or just another Mexican?"
Gosh, I think I'd listen to the Mexican. When the richest Man in the world comes talking sweet and selling something, you can be sure it isn't in your best interest, it's in his.
I simply hate to see people who are otherwise intelligent speak ignorantly outside their area of expertise.
Does anyone else remember when Shockley, one of the three inventors of the transistor, spoke against affirmative action?
As I recall, his argument was something to the effect that whites were genetically superior.
Foolish! Foolish! Stick with transistors and physics!
Tom,
.DOC or an old .wpd, it'd be a real treat to open it all in Productive, and have it come out fine.
I'm a Linux, Winblahs, MacOS 9.x and X.x user (former Be user) - and a fan of Productive.
Obviously the a fair amount of the discussion here at Slashdot is about file filters.
Can Productive aim to become the babelfish for documents from anywhere to anywhere?
For example, if my Mac using buddies send me ClarisWorks, AppleWorks 6, and Nisus docs, and my uncle in Ohio sends me
Now, it'd also be cool if productive worked on Mac OS X- I'd buy productive for Win32, and Mac OS X... I might buy it for Linux instead of Win32, and spawn an X display from the linux box... but more and more, I find I'm not using linux for anything more than file serving and cd-burning.
I don't have a lot of influence over my Unk's OS choice, but I can get him to switch office suites without too much arm-twisting. I got him to use WordPerfect for about 4 years before he felt the urge to go back to MS...
And lastly, thanks, Tom, for having hung in there so long with Be.
- Victor
Close, but not quite:
IBM chips are used inside the iMac and iBook, and have been since at least the Summer of 2000.
Mac OS X got certified by the open group, so it is UNIX.
oddly, I can't seem to find the PR on this, or I'd link to it, but I do remember reading it.
Apple's current web-pages refer to a UNIX-based operating system... and yet, I clearly remember reading the annoucement that they were certified to use the UNIX mark.
The only failure with HAL was that Dr. Chandra forget to teach that murder is far worse than lying.
HAL understood that they were both bad, but had no values associated with either. Once HAL had lied, it was equally okay to commit murder.
Presumably, Dr. Goren will take this under consideration.
Also, I hope they realise that in ten years, they won't have an adult. They'll have a well-spoken, knowledgable ten year old. At this point it's worth examining the differences between a ten year old and an adult.
Knowledge, experience, maturity, sense of responsibility. Can anyone come up with any others?
I just found out about this now. EFF says the deadline is the 20th, and tomorrow is, what the 21st?
How am I to get a letter on this important issue to DC in the time required?
/., this is stuff that matters, get it to us in a timely fashion so we can act on it!
Remember OS/2? OS/2 is currently making the most money it ever has for IBM, simply because it's in maintenance cycle now... IBM simply does no new development, and continues to make money on support, while encouraging folks to consider other OS options.
IBM never completely drops support, and would never leave profitable AIX shops out in the cold.
I must respond to this:
:-D )
1. Don't need PCMCIA cards on the iBook. It has USB, firewire (IEEE1394), 56k, and 10/100 ethernet.
What PCMCIA would you commonly need besides this. (you say token-ring and I kill you.
2. Incorrect. The iBook does drive external monitors at 1024x768. It does this in a video mirroring method where the same display on the LCD is echoed on the monitor. If you could turn off the mirroring function, the external display could get 1600x1200 at millions of colors.
The Ti wasn't meant to compete with bland ole Dells, it was meant to show up the sleek VAIOs. Comparing Apple to Dell is like comparing apples and lemons. (yes, I meant lemons. Dells have consistently gone bad on me, in laptop, desktop, and server form. Lousy hardware that a Dell tech has to come running to replace while I sit in downtime.)
You stated that MS owns part of Apple. This is incorrect.
MS bought some non-voting stock and promised to continue developing MS Office for Mac if Apple made OE and Exploder the default internet tools for Macintosh.
This settled the MS-Apple lawsuit and gave Apple some much need cash at the time. They aren't owned in any real sense by MS.
Actually, i specifically accounted for that when I said that CARB is a state-run gang of thugs as opposed to a car manufacturer. Thanks, tho.
One phrase: California Air Resources Board.
I may be able to drive my out-of-state car there. I may be able to register my 1962 chevy there, and get an exemption for the exhaust emissions. But if I move there and try and register my other-49-state 1994 mitsubishi, I'm going to have to sell it, because it won't meet California emissions standards.
Yes, this is a badly written, badly enforced State run gang of thugs, but otherwise, the comparisons stand up.
This is silly.
Apple uses the PPC architecture.
IBM uses the PPC architecture in their RS/6000 and AS/400 boxen.
IBM even provides some of the PPC chips to Apple for their boxen.
If you've ever considered serving with AIX, OS/400, or Linux running as a virtual server under OS/400, then there ought to be nothing wrong with buying a commodity box from Apple and serving with Darwin / OS X.
Yes, the photoshop benchmark gets dragged out against windows, because it's a real world use.
I wonder what you -one-mouse-button haters would say to an AS/400-RS/6000-G4-dual athlon bake off.