I was in Germany during the end of the Gulf War with friends of the family. At one point the mother got really agitated (this was very common for her) because she read a US news report that conflicted with a German news report. This reinforced her opinions that the US media had the American people completely fooled and that we should wise up and not trust them. A days ago we start getting reports that NATO bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrad. They go on to say that the Chinese media has been covering up our apologies to China. So basically we are to believe our media when they tell us that the Chinese media is untrustworty. I think we should all wise up and not blindly trust any of them. Hell, I've been reading/. since before I graduated, but I'll be damned if I'm going to take Rob's word without checking his sources. I mean it's not like he ever misquotes anyone or makes any mistakes...
I was using words in the broad sense. A label for an atomic fact which represents an idea based on it's relation to other words. This includes spoken language, written words, symbols (such as the skull and crossbones sign), and even numbers. The problem is that you can't really practice using any language as a tool for communication. There is no way of infallibly verifying weather or not there was an error in transmission (ie did the recipient interpret my words in the manner in which I intended them to be interpreted?)
Retirement in sight for gcc The free GNU C/C++ compiler has a successor. The development of the replacement has been dragging along for quite some time now. The head of the GNU project Richard Stallman has now decided that, in the future, egcs shall be the official copiler of the GNU project. The developers are trying to reintegrate the different improvements on gcc. Among these are the Fortran Frontend g77 and pgcc, which is optimized for the Pentium instruction set. More information at http://egcs.cygnus.com/
I will bet on the internet opening up communication channels and changing the world for the better but it's not a complete solution. All of the communicae of the internet are based on words. Words are an awful medium for communication because they depend on a guess. When I write this reply I'm guessing that whoever reads it will retrieve ideas from it that are similar to the ideas in my head which spawned the writing. But I have no way of ever finding out. Kinda reminds you of the Invading Armies problem doesn't it?
I will be on the internet opening up communication channels and changing the world for the better but it's not a complete solution. All of the communicae of the internet are based on words. Words are an awful medium for communication because they depend on a guess. When I write this reply I'm guessing that whoever reads it will retrieve ideas from it that are similar to the ideas in my head which spawned the writing. But I have no way of ever finding out. Kinda reminds you of the Invading Armies problem doesn't it?
I thought the microsoft stance was that while linux is very good at doing difficult tasks we were lacking a gui and desktop apps? Now we've got the desktop apps and 5 window managers and the FUD is claiming what exactly?
Probably not in and of itself but I'm sure it helped. Martial arts teaches alot of discipline which is also fundamental to hacking. Ever notice how a disproportionate segment of the computing population can neutralize an armed asailant with their bare hands?
What the fsck does this mean? If I don't pay my domain name renwal fee can I still keep the domain name. Am I just renting it (Internic still owns all domain names?) How is it possible for someone to criminally acquire my domain name in the first place. "This is a stickup your domain name or your life!"
They're a big insurance company for bank customers. If a bank makes too many bad loans (ie. too many of their loan customers default) the FDIC will give each of the savings customers (the people who's money was actually being lent out) up to $100,000 of their savings back. Pretty cool actually but as I understand it the KYC plan is a bit out of their jurisdiction.
It's great that they're supporting two desktops. In fact they should support several different desktops. Part of what makes OSS so cool is that you have tons of choices. I think RH is putting for some fairly serious effort towards giving back to the community which made them possible.
I don't think the article ?animos? to religion. As you pointed out "Many who call themselves hackers are not. Many who call themselves 'Christians' are not." I gathered that this article had a fair amount of animosity towards those who call themselves 'Christians' but are not. Though it wasn't mentioned in the article I would assume that the author would hold the same animosity for Budhists who are not, or Jews, or Janists, or anyone else who talks about some religion without following it. I think he was realy trying to say that religion can be found in many forms. He objects to people trying to force their view of relgion on other people, and to those who denegrate other religions because they're not their own religion. I can't tell you what religion I am because I'm too imperfect an example of it.
Visoblast isn't saying that we should swithc to a psuedo-communist economy (neither of he affor mentioned nations are actually communist) simply that we understand them. At the very least it lets us recognize (and hopefully learn from) our mistakes. Imagine if people stopped learning about slavery, or the holocost just because we don't practice them at the moment...
Have you ever noticed how many of Shakspears plays defended the Natural Order (you know the one that goes from God to the King down to the rest of us)? Do you know how many great musicians got screwed because they rubbed the Monarch the wrong way? How about this guy Elvis who made it big being a white guy who sang black music? Very few people are able to recognize great art. The rest of us will listen to whatever crap we get fed, and the guy with the $$ does the feeding.
I DARE anyone to prove (inside or outside of court) that I have any recollection of any password whatsoever. All those confusing letters, numbers, and weird characters.
Maybe I was unclear in my post. I'm not arguing weather guns or encryption should be illegal. I'm taking a guess at the future. My first point was that we are guaranteed the right to keep and bear arms. Second, the government has already set a president for information to be classified as a weapon. If we conceed that a weapon does not need to cause physical harm but is anything which potentially give you power over your fellow men, then alot of technology could be considered weapons, including counteroffensive technology. Througout history those who controlled the weapons, the warrior class, had the power to do alot of damage to the populace. But in just about any culture I can think of such power was tempered by a code of conduct, which usually included the idea that you can blast away at other soldiers but leave the civillians alone. Maybe it's time for such a code to develope for todays warrior class?
The Constitutions guarantees us (well some of us) the right to keep and bear arms. This particular clause has come under fire recently under the argument that it was created during a time when such rights were necessary because law inforcement was inadequate if not responsible for many crimes. Since this same government has has classified cryptography as munitions does not each citizen have the right to outfit their system with the most advanced security and counteroffensive technology they can afford. And if we are given the right to maintain such arsenals are we not justified in using them when law inforcement is inadequate or responsible? But if everyone is bandying around such firepower the internet could get pretty spicey in the next few years.
The Hacker Jargon File defines both hacker and cracker and there is no indication that they are mutualy exclusive. Many/.ers will say that they are hackers and not crackers. The implication is that they know alot about computers but they don't use their knoledge for destructive ends. Noone will ever admit to being a cracker without being a hacker tho', although such people exist they are met with derision from all sides (warez puppies, code kiddies, etc). Thus most crackers who want to talk about themselves in public call themselves hackers. Everyone knows their also crackers but they want to convey the idea that they are hackers who use their skill for the betterment of mankind despite the fact that their world improvement tactics are sometimes illegal. No slight intended against hackers, crackers, warez puppies, or code kiddies.
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I was in Germany during the end of the Gulf War with friends of the family. At one point the mother got really agitated (this was very common for her) because she read a US news report that conflicted with a German news report. This reinforced her opinions that the US media had the American people completely fooled and that we should wise up and not trust them. /. since before I graduated, but I'll be damned if I'm going to take Rob's word without checking his sources. I mean it's not like he ever misquotes anyone or makes any mistakes...
A days ago we start getting reports that NATO bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrad. They go on to say that the Chinese media has been covering up our apologies to China.
So basically we are to believe our media when they tell us that the Chinese media is untrustworty.
I think we should all wise up and not blindly trust any of them.
Hell, I've been reading
I was using words in the broad sense. A label for an atomic fact which represents an idea based on it's relation to other words. This includes spoken language, written words, symbols (such as the skull and crossbones sign), and even numbers. The problem is that you can't really practice using any language as a tool for communication. There is no way of infallibly verifying weather or not there was an error in transmission (ie did the recipient interpret my words in the manner in which I intended them to be interpreted?)
Retirement in sight for gcc
The free GNU C/C++ compiler has a successor. The development of the replacement has been dragging along for quite some time now. The head of the GNU project Richard Stallman has now decided that, in the future, egcs shall be the official copiler of the GNU project.
The developers are trying to reintegrate the different improvements on gcc. Among these are the Fortran Frontend g77 and pgcc, which is optimized for the Pentium instruction set. More information at http://egcs.cygnus.com/
I will bet on the internet opening up communication channels and changing the world for the better but it's not a complete solution.
All of the communicae of the internet are based on words. Words are an awful medium for communication because they depend on a guess.
When I write this reply I'm guessing that whoever reads it will retrieve ideas from it that are similar to the ideas in my head which spawned the writing. But I have no way of ever finding out.
Kinda reminds you of the Invading Armies problem doesn't it?
I will be on the internet opening up communication channels and changing the world for the better but it's not a complete solution.
All of the communicae of the internet are based on words. Words are an awful medium for communication because they depend on a guess.
When I write this reply I'm guessing that whoever reads it will retrieve ideas from it that are similar to the ideas in my head which spawned the writing. But I have no way of ever finding out.
Kinda reminds you of the Invading Armies problem doesn't it?
I thought the microsoft stance was that while linux is very good at doing difficult tasks we were lacking a gui and desktop apps?
Now we've got the desktop apps and 5 window managers and the FUD is claiming what exactly?
Probably not in and of itself but I'm sure it helped.
Martial arts teaches alot of discipline which is also fundamental to hacking.
Ever notice how a disproportionate segment of the computing population can neutralize an armed asailant with their bare hands?
What the fsck does this mean? If I don't pay my domain name renwal fee can I still keep the domain name. Am I just renting it (Internic still owns all domain names?)
How is it possible for someone to criminally acquire my domain name in the first place.
"This is a stickup your domain name or your life!"
They're a big insurance company for bank customers. If a bank makes too many bad loans (ie. too many of their loan customers default) the FDIC will give each of the savings customers (the people who's money was actually being lent out) up to $100,000 of their savings back. Pretty cool actually but as I understand it the KYC plan is a bit out of their jurisdiction.
This translation seems to be accurate. It fixes many of the grammatical errors in the earlier the earlier version.
It's great that they're supporting two desktops. In fact they should support several different desktops. Part of what makes OSS so cool is that you have tons of choices. I think RH is putting for some fairly serious effort towards giving back to the community which made them possible.
I don't think the article ?animos? to religion. As you pointed out "Many who call themselves hackers are not. Many who call themselves 'Christians' are not." I gathered that this article had a fair amount of animosity towards those who call themselves 'Christians' but are not. Though it wasn't mentioned in the article I would assume that the author would hold the same animosity for Budhists who are not, or Jews, or Janists, or anyone else who talks about some religion without following it. I think he was realy trying to say that religion can be found in many forms. He objects to people trying to force their view of relgion on other people, and to those who denegrate other religions because they're not their own religion.
I can't tell you what religion I am because I'm too imperfect an example of it.
Visoblast isn't saying that we should swithc to a psuedo-communist economy (neither of he affor mentioned nations are actually communist) simply that we understand them.
At the very least it lets us recognize (and hopefully learn from) our mistakes.
Imagine if people stopped learning about slavery, or the holocost just because we don't practice them at the moment...
Have you ever noticed how many of Shakspears plays defended the Natural Order (you know the one that goes from God to the King down to the rest of us)?
Do you know how many great musicians got screwed because they rubbed the Monarch the wrong way?
How about this guy Elvis who made it big being a white guy who sang black music?
Very few people are able to recognize great art. The rest of us will listen to whatever crap we get fed, and the guy with the $$ does the feeding.
until quantum computers come around and blow up everything except for OTPs.
That was also back when Rob was considering upgrading to an ISDN. There weren't enough /.ers for too much hostility.
I DARE anyone to prove (inside or outside of court) that I have any recollection of any password whatsoever. All those confusing letters, numbers, and weird characters.
Maybe I was unclear in my post. I'm not arguing weather guns or encryption should be illegal. I'm taking a guess at the future.
My first point was that we are guaranteed the right to keep and bear arms.
Second, the government has already set a president for information to be classified as a weapon. If we conceed that a weapon does not need to cause physical harm but is anything which potentially give you power over your fellow men, then alot of technology could be considered weapons, including counteroffensive technology.
Througout history those who controlled the weapons, the warrior class, had the power to do alot of damage to the populace. But in just about any culture I can think of such power was tempered by a code of conduct, which usually included the idea that you can blast away at other soldiers but leave the civillians alone. Maybe it's time for such a code to develope for todays warrior class?
The Constitutions guarantees us (well some of us) the right to keep and bear arms. This particular clause has come under fire recently under the argument that it was created during a time when such rights were necessary because law inforcement was inadequate if not responsible for many crimes.
Since this same government has has classified cryptography as munitions does not each citizen have the right to outfit their system with the most advanced security and counteroffensive technology they can afford. And if we are given the right to maintain such arsenals are we not justified in using them when law inforcement is inadequate or responsible? But if everyone is bandying around such firepower the internet could get pretty spicey in the next few years.
The Hacker Jargon File defines both hacker and cracker and there is no indication that they are mutualy exclusive. /.ers will say that they are hackers and not crackers. The implication is that they know alot about computers but they don't use their knoledge for destructive ends.
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Noone will ever admit to being a cracker without being a hacker tho', although such people exist they are met with derision from all sides (warez puppies, code kiddies, etc).
Thus most crackers who want to talk about themselves in public call themselves hackers. Everyone knows their also crackers but they want to convey the idea that they are hackers who use their skill for the betterment of mankind despite the fact that their world improvement tactics are sometimes illegal.
No slight intended against hackers, crackers, warez puppies, or code kiddies.
I have this image in my head of a thundering herd of furbies who's combined powers can calculate all the digits of Pi in 3.14 seconds.