First, let's agree that since we're speaking English the plural of virus should be viruses - easy for everyone to remember, definitely not wrong and avoids any accusations of obscurity, pedantry etc.
As far as the Latin plural LionMan is correct that the form viri would be the plural of vir=man.
Secondly, if virus were third declension then the plural would be something like virutes (along the lines of virtus, virtutes).
Thirdly, if virus were 4th declension then the plural would be virus (along the lines of consensus, consensus).
I believe there is some dispute about which declension virus is since it is not used in the plural commonly in Latin. There is one thing it would definitely not be : virii, since that would be the plural of the non-existent word virius. So, perhaps it is easier to stick with the obvious, not-incorrect, English plural viruses?
I see that I've been moderated as "flamebait" for the above. Well I don't think it was. However, here's what I was trying to say: If you allow the excuse that 'someone' posted information and that in order to find that person you must know about 'everyone' to be coupled with a suspiciously lame story about the President's itinerary being stolen then before you know it the FBI are posting low-level security documents to *any* and *every* forum. Nice easy way to find out whose using them, eh? Sort of like being able to plant evidence in a house *before* you bust down the door. The "text" was supposed to look like a lame, ignorant policeman's viewpoint of what an "anarchist" might write. Now, I ask you, is THAT flamebait?
Good morning citizen,
this is FBI Agent S.Upress. I'm responding to the following information from the website "Slashdot".
Hey everyone, I just done stolen sum docyuments from a poleez cruzer. They is very important detailz bout the prezidument's secret skedule. Signed - A dangerous anarchist rioter
In the light of this information I'd like to have complete access to anything YOU ever said or did, especially information about you're political opinions. Naturally as you have nothing to hide you'll co-operate.
I'm assuming that your post is sincere and not a troll, so:
Anarchy, while appealing to many anti-establishment open-source
types is not very practical for a community as large as the Internet has become
What exactly is it that you mean by anarchy? Do you mean the populist politically slanted meaning of complete disorder and chaos or do you mean the more historically accurate and precise meaning of a voluntary association of individuals agreeing to work together by rules that maximize their personal freedom?
Why would you assume that there is need for the FBI to have access to the identity of individuals engaged in political discussion in order to protect you from being hax0red?
we need to have some sort of legal barrier to protect 'us' from 'them',
Agreed, except that I think that you and I disagree about the identities of "us" and "them". To me "them" is the FBI/police/CIA/politicians/businesses and "us" is the people.
As regards the net "degenerating" into a cesspool of pr0n, I think that's subjective. My main worry is that it degenarates into a cesspool of business-oriented, low-brow, consumerist boredom in which interesting information is hidden in a layer of spam-dross
Moderate me down only because I've overstepped the moderation guidelines, not because you
personally happen to disagree with my--admittedly unpopular--viewpoint.
Unfortunately your holding of this opinion doesn't make you part of a minority. Censorship can be achieved through the crude, obvious methods of banning publication of particular material, or it can be achieved through harrassing those that express opinions that are deemed undesirable. I don't believe that the FBI thought that they were going to be succesful. They're just trying to intimidate. You are playing along with them. Same as all the other complacent folk that don't know what democracy looks like.
Often when I read an angry tirade against Christians in an online forum, I will substitute the word "Christian" with the word "Jew" and read it again. It does wonders to make the true nature of their ideology a lot more obvious.
Fine. Do that with my post. I think the logic holds up fine with that substitution and I would agree with the result of the substitution. I consider Jews (who also believe in a supernatural being) to be crazy too. I hope, indeed, that my "true ideology" is clear to you and that you are not making the error of confusing me with an anti-Semite. Just for the record I also apply my diagnosis of schizophrenia to Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Quakers (although I like them more than the others) and any other people that think they have some sort of contact with "a Being". I think they're all sick.
Your colorful views on the thrust of what I was saying is interesting, but I respectfully disagree with several of your points.
Well, you didn't really say anything in the post that I responded to other than that your friend had been detained for bringing contraband literature into someone else's country in contravention of their laws and mores. I was just trying to provoke and irritate you because I see Xtians as irritating and dangerously blinkered people. In fact, to be totally honest, I consider that holding the belief that there is a Supreme Being who talks to men and tells them what to do is a schizophrenic delusion. I consider you and your ilk mentally ill. Imagine a world in which religion/the supernatural have not yet been thought of (or communicated to us if you prefer that). Now, imagine a patient sent to a psychiatrist with troubling behaviours (he doesn't behave anything like a good US consumer: He has a strong moral code that impells him to generously give sustenance to His fellow man, He forgives his enemies, He consorts with the crack-smoking, AIDS-ridden, gangsta-rappin, whoring scum of society washing their bodies with His hands and loving them, He carries out civil-disobedience and direct action against the money traders who have set themselves up as the center of moral decisions in our society. Now, imagine that man. I'm not saying that you, or any other Xtians nowadays are like him, so don't be insulted. Anyway, this man's behaviour has caused his family to be upset and the police have arrested him and the courts have ordered a psychiatric evaluation. What will the psychiatrist think? He doesn't know about God, so he asks some questions to determine the mental state of the patient. I present you with the transcript of this initial consultation:
Why did you do this?
I was told to.
By whom?
By God
Who is this God?
He's the supreme Being, He created everything, He created me and he created you brother
And how does he communicate with you?
Sometimes he shows me signs, but mostly He speaks to me in my head when I pray to Him. Sometimes He does not answer and then I am alone
Can I speak to him?
Yes, if you try sincerely. Clasp your hands together and pray
Some moments later the psychiatrist speaks again after a fruitless attempt to hear the voice in his head
I'm afraid I can't hear anything
You must not be trying sincerely then
The interview continues to its dreary end, conclusion: complete separation of afferent and efferent, aural hallucinations/delusion, Schizophrenic
As for the rest of your post, Sweden is not communist, its a captitalist economy with some socialist redistribution tacked on top of it in an ineffective manner, which is nevertheless much more appealing than the gross system in place in the US.
Your arguments from micro-economics do nothing to explain why it is that there is a net movement of raw resources from the Third World to the U.S.
I agree that people create prosperity and that our world has more than enough resources to make us all well-fed and healthy and happy, but I don't believe that a system that allows accumulation of wealth (and hence power) will result in anything other than those that are lucky enough to obtain that power using it to maintain their position at the top of the heap.
Your assertion that a zero-sum game is the same thing as a pyramid is untrue. The micro-interactions that are played as n-player games could result in many different patterns of economy.
The concept of government necessarily dictates removal of freedoms
Amen to that. I couldn't agree more, and further I believe in the right to self-determination and thus if the Quebecois want to seperate they should be allowed to and further if the Cree want to seperate from them they should also.
I liked Shatner's singing,.. Hey Mr. Tambourine Man... brilliant
On the other hand, you were in on Iraq, Vietnam and Korea,
Agreed, Canada has a pretty dirty history too and has usually played patsy to the U.S. on any important issues, merely daring to diverge slightly (on economic embargoes of Cuba for example).
and your country is home to more fringe foreign terrorists than any other in the Americas.. Canada, launchpad for Jihad 2000!
I wonder if this is actually true? I don't know, but I wouldn't mind suspecting that the U.S. actually has more "fringe" terrorists (total up the Militias, the Contras, the Cuban emigres). This of course leaves out the non-fringe terrorists like the CIA, and the armed forces that do things like launch missiles at medicine factories. I acutally don't know. But I find your creation of the term "fringe terrorist" interesting. Does that mean that you accept that states carry out terrorist actions and that the usual rhetoric of condemning violent acts as being "terrorist" is hypocritical when one's own country is sending missiles, bombs and armed forces into another nation's sovereign territory?
He he, check out one of Canada's now sadly deceased comedy shows The Great Eastern. Just after the introduction there's an hilarious archive news item that might interest you. If your interested you can listen to it as streaming realaudio at: http://spring.det.mun.ca/great/episodes/ge_s2_05.r am or download an mp3 at:http://spring.det.mun.ca/great/episodes/ge_s2_0 5.mp3 or download realaudio at:http://spring.det.mun.ca/great/episodes/ge_s2_0 5.rm Unfortunately Canada's behaviour is (slightly) better than the US's only because there is a smaller military. I'm no gung-ho nationalist for Canada either.
I had a friend in college a few years ago that joined a missionary group that was smuggling Bibles into the country. Her return was delayed by four months, during which time we were unable to contact her, or even confirm that she was alive or ever coming back.
It's a pity that they didn't eat her. Oh! wait! that was different savages in need of western Christianizing civilization. Still they do kill babies don't they? Girl ones too, so that makes them anti-feminist. It disgusts me.
We all remember the kid standing in front of the tank, throwing rocks... but when you look at the way they handled the annexation of Hong Kong (by changing almost nothing), there's room for hope.
Yeah, it's great. The oppressive state capitalists of China reaching detente with the oppressive pseudo-democratic oligarchy of the U.S. Warms the cockles of my heart. Maybe the whole world will be like the U.S. soon and we'll all drive gas-guzzling S.U.V.s and eat cheap food from around the world. But wait....can it happen that _everyone_ can be rich you ask? No! don't be silly - it's a pyramid stupid! A food pyramid, there's a small number of fat carnivores at the top and they suck up the produce of a much larger number of people in the lower layers. So naturally not every country can reach the U.S.'s wonderful standard of living (in terms of consumer goods). But don't worry, there'll be elites in those countries that manage the discontent and will send the food wrung from the bleeding lips of the poor to our Christian tables.
Hi, I'm planning on writing from a free country (Canada) to a correspondent in one of the worst Rogue Nations in the world. I am afraid that my friend's political opinions will get him into trouble in his home nation (he's a communist and they've been persecuted there in the past from the illegal blacklisting of them from their jobs to their electrocution on trumped up spying charges). This country will stick at nothing and carries out acts of terrorism all over the world with no repercussions ( a short list of countries that they've bombed and invaded illegally includes Nicaragua, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq, Sudan, Libya and Cuba and they provide training and arms to ruthless, sadistic terrorists in Nicaragua, Columbia, El Salvador, Indonesia, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran and many other nations). So, how should I communicate with my U.S. friend in a manner that will make sure that he will not be persecuted by this government which has been condemned by the democratically constituted United Nations? thanks, Crush
I don't buy a new graphics card every 3 months, but at least I have something more modern than an S3 (virge, etc) card.
I'm sure that you're aware that the Savage4 and Savage2000 chipsets are produced by S3/Diamond and that they have OpenGL capability that isn't supported by XF86. This is a shame, they're relatively common and cheap. Why should we have to spend several hundred dollars on a more expensive card just because there's no software support for a cheaper card? (Actually a big part of the answer to this is that S3 have been recalcitrant about releasing specs to developers. There was a thread on the Utah-GLX lists about this in March, S3 had been contacted and nothing came of it).
Slashback is a great idea : responsible journalism which makes corrections and caveats easily accessible.
The permanent banning of accounts for being modded down _6_ times strikes me as an appalling idea. All a poster has to do is to express an unpopular opinion. Have you followed the complaints on the meta-moderation and moderation threads? On/. there has always been a lot of un-informed, knee-jerk moderation.
I suppose I should just get 6 of my buddies together and we'll have a mod-fest against someone. A much better idea would be implementing user defined kill-lists. That way _I_ get to decide what I can read, not you, not some half-wit that doesn't know what the distinction between Interesting and Troll is. Thanks, keep up the good work
My sympathies Otter. Unfortunately the rapid decline of/. has passed the point of no return. It's a victim of its own success - most of the moderators are probably not even Linux (or god forbid FreeBSD) users on any given day.
Because your post wasn't party line it got scorched.
While not disputing your point about the law forcing IDG to act in this way don't you find it interesting that they refer in their emails to their registered trademark as "FOR DUMMIES" and "For Dummies" while asking the sites to desist from having titles like "XXX for Dummies".
As far as I can make out the aillilu puilliliu is just a rhyming-folky thing. The closes to puilliliu that I know of is a nasty Hibernicization of the english "pool". Ta = present tense of the verb "to be". an = the thus, "the goat is mad" if the previous translation is to be believed. I can't verify that buille is mad. However "ar" = on literally. So "poc ar buille" must be an idomatic expression.
societal censure means they are turned in by the community recieve no help hiding etc.. Without these factors the police have a very difficult time catching perpratrators for example the IRA. Shielded by like minded people a dissident is very hard to catch.
So how about the E.German police state where it seems that everyone was informing on everyone else - even husband/wife to the Stasi? Petra Kelly and the Greens etc? Seems like they had a good few dossiers on just about anyone who did anything. Do you think that everyone there was secretly in agreement with the govt?
You only need a police state when you haven't succeeded in brainwashing the vast majority of the public. Luckily the majority of people living in the U.S. think that they're living in "The Land of The Free" and that it's a democracy here. Overt police states in the U.K. will only encourage the misperception that everything's OK.
Really though it's all one large system which needs the constituent parts - poor 3rd world police states(Asia,U.K.E.Europe), militarily advanced 1st world states (U.S., Japan, Germany) with a large technically adept brainwashed middle-class. And profiting from the whole thing at the top - a few tens of thousands of the genuinely wealthy
The system RealNetworks created for Global Media will use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser if it is installed on a person's computer and will download the Mozilla-based browser otherwise.
So, this is Real using OSS to smooth out the installation pains of a hypothetical dumb user. What benefits does this have for OSS? Whoo-hoo! real companies like to take free code?
RealNetworks has come under pressure to open its own software, but Rotholtz said the company has no intention to do that beyond continuing to offer application programming interfaces--programming shortcuts that let developers build on top of applications such as the RealSystem.
So that would be sort of like Microsoft then? Release the API's but not the source. Blagh. Are we supposed to feel happy that there is another closed-source competitor taking on MS in the browser market? Personally I really couldn't care.
Rotholtz did offer a ringing endorsement of Mozilla's open-source effort, however. "It's a great cause," he said. "Thanks to Mozilla, people have been able to go out and build new solutions and extend the world of what people are able to do on the Web. One company alone does not move the Internet along as the next mass medium."
I bet he did. They're just trying to leverage against Microsoft. I'm afraid that I _do_ have RealPlayerG2 installed but it's a damned finicky piece of software and will probably continue to be so as long as they keep it closed.
But it should be SQUEEZE the trigger. Also, when using a full automatic be aware that the recoil will usually be diagonal and upward and ya better be ready to hold it down. Personally for children intent on causing maximum damage to their classmates I would recommend shotguns loaded with relatively large shot - much more effective in a room-to-room scenario
this is the one of the few sane posts that I've seen in this thread. I can only conclude that a large percentage of/. readers consists of people that are perfectly happy with being presented with something that they choose to buy or not to buy. They have no realization that the reason Linux works is because there is Freedom
Quite frankly, you miss the point. Proprietary software companies charge for their software to be
used in a restrictive manner, and either you decide you like the tool or you don't.
Slashdot Mirror
As far as the Latin plural LionMan is correct that the form viri would be the plural of vir=man.
Secondly, if virus were third declension then the plural would be something like virutes (along the lines of virtus, virtutes).
Thirdly, if virus were 4th declension then the plural would be virus (along the lines of consensus, consensus).
I believe there is some dispute about which declension virus is since it is not used in the plural commonly in Latin. There is one thing it would definitely not be : virii, since that would be the plural of the non-existent word virius. So, perhaps it is easier to stick with the obvious, not-incorrect, English plural viruses?
we could get onto Enkephalonetics,
Which is......?
I see that I've been moderated as "flamebait" for the above. Well I don't think it was. However, here's what I was trying to say:
If you allow the excuse that 'someone' posted information and that in order to find that person you must know about 'everyone' to be coupled with a suspiciously lame story about the President's itinerary being stolen then before you know it the FBI are posting low-level security documents to *any* and *every* forum. Nice easy way to find out whose using them, eh? Sort of like being able to plant evidence in a house *before* you bust down the door. The "text" was supposed to look like a lame, ignorant policeman's viewpoint of what an "anarchist" might write. Now, I ask you, is THAT flamebait?
Hey everyone, I just done stolen sum docyuments from a poleez cruzer. They is very important detailz bout the prezidument's secret skedule.
Signed - A dangerous anarchist rioter
In the light of this information I'd like to have complete access to anything YOU ever said or did, especially information about you're political opinions. Naturally as you have nothing to hide you'll co-operate.
I'm assuming that your post is sincere and not a troll, so :
Anarchy, while appealing to many anti-establishment open-source types is not very practical for a community as large as the Internet has become
What exactly is it that you mean by anarchy? Do you mean the populist politically slanted meaning of complete disorder and chaos or do you mean the more historically accurate and precise meaning of a voluntary association of individuals agreeing to work together by rules that maximize their personal freedom?
Why would you assume that there is need for the FBI to have access to the identity of individuals engaged in political discussion in order to protect you from being hax0red?
we need to have some sort of legal barrier to protect 'us' from 'them',
Agreed, except that I think that you and I disagree about the identities of "us" and "them". To me "them" is the FBI/police/CIA/politicians/businesses and "us" is the people.
As regards the net "degenerating" into a cesspool of pr0n, I think that's subjective. My main worry is that it degenarates into a cesspool of business-oriented, low-brow, consumerist boredom in which interesting information is hidden in a layer of spam-dross
Moderate me down only because I've overstepped the moderation guidelines, not because you personally happen to disagree with my--admittedly unpopular--viewpoint.
Unfortunately your holding of this opinion doesn't make you part of a minority. Censorship can be achieved through the crude, obvious methods of banning publication of particular material, or it can be achieved through harrassing those that express opinions that are deemed undesirable. I don't believe that the FBI thought that they were going to be succesful. They're just trying to intimidate. You are playing along with them. Same as all the other complacent folk that don't know what democracy looks like.
Often when I read an angry tirade against Christians in an online forum, I will substitute the word "Christian" with the word "Jew" and read it again. It does wonders to make the true nature of their ideology a lot more obvious.
Fine. Do that with my post. I think the logic holds up fine with that substitution and I would agree with the result of the substitution. I consider Jews (who also believe in a supernatural being) to be crazy too. I hope, indeed, that my "true ideology" is clear to you and that you are not making the error of confusing me with an anti-Semite. Just for the record I also apply my diagnosis of schizophrenia to Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Quakers (although I like them more than the others) and any other people that think they have some sort of contact with "a Being". I think they're all sick.
Your colorful views on the thrust of what I was saying is interesting, but I respectfully disagree with several of your points.
Well, you didn't really say anything in the post that I responded to other than that your friend had been detained for bringing contraband literature into someone else's country in contravention of their laws and mores. I was just trying to provoke and irritate you because I see Xtians as irritating and dangerously blinkered people. In fact, to be totally honest, I consider that holding the belief that there is a Supreme Being who talks to men and tells them what to do is a schizophrenic delusion. I consider you and your ilk mentally ill. Imagine a world in which religion/the supernatural have not yet been thought of (or communicated to us if you prefer that). Now, imagine a patient sent to a psychiatrist with troubling behaviours (he doesn't behave anything like a good US consumer: He has a strong moral code that impells him to generously give sustenance to His fellow man, He forgives his enemies, He consorts with the crack-smoking, AIDS-ridden, gangsta-rappin, whoring scum of society washing their bodies with His hands and loving them, He carries out civil-disobedience and direct action against the money traders who have set themselves up as the center of moral decisions in our society. Now, imagine that man. I'm not saying that you, or any other Xtians nowadays are like him, so don't be insulted. Anyway, this man's behaviour has caused his family to be upset and the police have arrested him and the courts have ordered a psychiatric evaluation. What will the psychiatrist think? He doesn't know about God, so he asks some questions to determine the mental state of the patient. I present you with the transcript of this initial consultation:Why did you do this?
I was told to.
By whom?
By God
Who is this God?
He's the supreme Being, He created everything, He created me and he created you brother
And how does he communicate with you?
Sometimes he shows me signs, but mostly He speaks to me in my head when I pray to Him. Sometimes He does not answer and then I am alone
Can I speak to him?
Yes, if you try sincerely. Clasp your hands together and pray
Some moments later the psychiatrist speaks again after a fruitless attempt to hear the voice in his headI'm afraid I can't hear anything
You must not be trying sincerely then
The interview continues to its dreary end, conclusion: complete separation of afferent and efferent, aural hallucinations/delusion, Schizophrenic
As for the rest of your post, Sweden is not communist, its a captitalist economy with some socialist redistribution tacked on top of it in an ineffective manner, which is nevertheless much more appealing than the gross system in place in the US.
Your arguments from micro-economics do nothing to explain why it is that there is a net movement of raw resources from the Third World to the U.S.
I agree that people create prosperity and that our world has more than enough resources to make us all well-fed and healthy and happy, but I don't believe that a system that allows accumulation of wealth (and hence power) will result in anything other than those that are lucky enough to obtain that power using it to maintain their position at the top of the heap.
Your assertion that a zero-sum game is the same thing as a pyramid is untrue. The micro-interactions that are played as n-player games could result in many different patterns of economy.
The concept of government necessarily dictates removal of freedoms
Amen to that. I couldn't agree more, and further I believe in the right to self-determination and thus if the Quebecois want to seperate they should be allowed to and further if the Cree want to seperate from them they should also.
I liked Shatner's singing, .. Hey Mr. Tambourine Man... brilliant
On the other hand, you were in on Iraq, Vietnam and Korea,
Agreed, Canada has a pretty dirty history too and has usually played patsy to the U.S. on any important issues, merely daring to diverge slightly (on economic embargoes of Cuba for example).
and your country is home to more fringe foreign terrorists than any other in the Americas.. Canada, launchpad for Jihad 2000!
I wonder if this is actually true? I don't know, but I wouldn't mind suspecting that the U.S. actually has more "fringe" terrorists (total up the Militias, the Contras, the Cuban emigres). This of course leaves out the non-fringe terrorists like the CIA, and the armed forces that do things like launch missiles at medicine factories. I acutally don't know. But I find your creation of the term "fringe terrorist" interesting. Does that mean that you accept that states carry out terrorist actions and that the usual rhetoric of condemning violent acts as being "terrorist" is hypocritical when one's own country is sending missiles, bombs and armed forces into another nation's sovereign territory?
He he, check out one of Canada's now sadly deceased comedy shows The Great Eastern. Just after the introduction there's an hilarious archive news item that might interest you. If your interested you can listen to it as streaming realaudio at: http://spring.det.mun.ca/great/episodes/ge_s2_05.r am or download an mp3 at:http://spring.det.mun.ca/great/episodes/ge_s2_0 5.mp3 or download realaudio at:http://spring.det.mun.ca/great/episodes/ge_s2_0 5.rm Unfortunately Canada's behaviour is (slightly) better than the US's only because there is a smaller military. I'm no gung-ho nationalist for Canada either.
I had a friend in college a few years ago that joined a missionary group that was smuggling Bibles into the country. Her return was delayed by four months, during which time we were unable to contact her, or even confirm that she was alive or ever coming back.
It's a pity that they didn't eat her. Oh! wait! that was different savages in need of western Christianizing civilization. Still they do kill babies don't they? Girl ones too, so that makes them anti-feminist. It disgusts me.
We all remember the kid standing in front of the tank, throwing rocks... but when you look at the way they handled the annexation of Hong Kong (by changing almost nothing), there's room for hope.
Yeah, it's great. The oppressive state capitalists of China reaching detente with the oppressive pseudo-democratic oligarchy of the U.S. Warms the cockles of my heart. Maybe the whole world will be like the U.S. soon and we'll all drive gas-guzzling S.U.V.s and eat cheap food from around the world. But wait....can it happen that _everyone_ can be rich you ask? No! don't be silly - it's a pyramid stupid! A food pyramid, there's a small number of fat carnivores at the top and they suck up the produce of a much larger number of people in the lower layers. So naturally not every country can reach the U.S.'s wonderful standard of living (in terms of consumer goods). But don't worry, there'll be elites in those countries that manage the discontent and will send the food wrung from the bleeding lips of the poor to our Christian tables.
This from a country that inflicted Celine Dion on an unsuspecting world populace?
Celine Dion is part of joint U.S./Quebecois plot to destroy democracy in the North of America
Hi, I'm planning on writing from a free country (Canada) to a correspondent in one of the worst Rogue Nations in the world. I am afraid that my friend's political opinions will get him into trouble in his home nation (he's a communist and they've been persecuted there in the past from the illegal blacklisting of them from their jobs to their electrocution on trumped up spying charges). This country will stick at nothing and carries out acts of terrorism all over the world with no repercussions ( a short list of countries that they've bombed and invaded illegally includes Nicaragua, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq, Sudan, Libya and Cuba and they provide training and arms to ruthless, sadistic terrorists in Nicaragua, Columbia, El Salvador, Indonesia, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran and many other nations).
So, how should I communicate with my U.S. friend in a manner that will make sure that he will not be persecuted by this government which has been condemned by the democratically constituted United Nations?
thanks,
Crush
I don't buy a new graphics card every 3 months, but at least I have something more modern than an S3 (virge, etc) card.
I'm sure that you're aware that the Savage4 and Savage2000 chipsets are produced by S3/Diamond and that they have OpenGL capability that isn't supported by XF86. This is a shame, they're relatively common and cheap. Why should we have to spend several hundred dollars on a more expensive card just because there's no software support for a cheaper card? (Actually a big part of the answer to this is that S3 have been recalcitrant about releasing specs to developers. There was a thread on the Utah-GLX lists about this in March, S3 had been contacted and nothing came of it).
Slashback is a great idea : responsible journalism which makes corrections and caveats easily accessible.
The permanent banning of accounts for being modded down _6_ times strikes me as an appalling idea. All a poster has to do is to express an unpopular opinion. Have you followed the complaints on the meta-moderation and moderation threads? On /. there has always been a lot of un-informed, knee-jerk moderation.
I suppose I should just get 6 of my buddies together and we'll have a mod-fest against someone. A much better idea would be implementing user defined kill-lists. That way _I_ get to decide what I can read, not you, not some half-wit that doesn't know what the distinction between Interesting and Troll is. Thanks, keep up the good work
Crush
My sympathies Otter. Unfortunately the rapid decline of /. has passed the point of no return. It's a victim of its own success - most of the moderators are probably not even Linux (or god forbid FreeBSD) users on any given day.
Because your post wasn't party line it got scorched.
Bye bye /.
While not disputing your point about the law forcing IDG to act in this way don't you find it interesting that they refer in their emails to their registered trademark as "FOR DUMMIES" and "For Dummies" while asking the sites to desist from having titles like "XXX for Dummies".
As far as I can make out the aillilu puilliliu is just a rhyming-folky thing. The closes to puilliliu that I know of is a nasty Hibernicization of the english "pool". Ta = present tense of the verb "to be". an = the thus, "the goat is mad" if the previous translation is to be believed. I can't verify that buille is mad. However "ar" = on literally. So "poc ar buille" must be an idomatic expression.
societal censure means they are turned in by the community recieve no help hiding etc.. Without these factors the police have a very difficult time catching perpratrators for example the IRA. Shielded by like minded people a dissident is very hard to catch.
So how about the E.German police state where it seems that everyone was informing on everyone else - even husband/wife to the Stasi? Petra Kelly and the Greens etc? Seems like they had a good few dossiers on just about anyone who did anything. Do you think that everyone there was secretly in agreement with the govt?
You only need a police state when you haven't succeeded in brainwashing the vast majority of the public. Luckily the majority of people living in the U.S. think that they're living in "The Land of The Free" and that it's a democracy here. Overt police states in the U.K. will only encourage the misperception that everything's OK.
Really though it's all one large system which needs the constituent parts - poor 3rd world police states(Asia,U.K.E.Europe), militarily advanced 1st world states (U.S., Japan, Germany) with a large technically adept brainwashed middle-class. And profiting from the whole thing at the top - a few tens of thousands of the genuinely wealthy
The system RealNetworks created for Global Media will use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser if it is installed on a person's computer and will download the Mozilla-based browser otherwise.
So, this is Real using OSS to smooth out the installation pains of a hypothetical dumb user. What benefits does this have for OSS? Whoo-hoo! real companies like to take free code?
RealNetworks has come under pressure to open its own software, but Rotholtz said the company has no intention to do that beyond continuing to offer application programming interfaces--programming shortcuts that let developers build on top of applications such as the RealSystem.
So that would be sort of like Microsoft then? Release the API's but not the source. Blagh. Are we supposed to feel happy that there is another closed-source competitor taking on MS in the browser market? Personally I really couldn't care.
Rotholtz did offer a ringing endorsement of Mozilla's open-source effort, however. "It's a great cause," he said. "Thanks to Mozilla, people have been able to go out and build new solutions and extend the world of what people are able to do on the Web. One company alone does not move the Internet along as the next mass medium."
I bet he did. They're just trying to leverage against Microsoft. I'm afraid that I _do_ have RealPlayerG2 installed but it's a damned finicky piece of software and will probably continue to be so as long as they keep it closed.PRESS the trigger. Don't pull.
But it should be SQUEEZE the trigger. Also, when using a full automatic be aware that the recoil will usually be diagonal and upward and ya better be ready to hold it down. Personally for children intent on causing maximum damage to their classmates I would recommend shotguns loaded with relatively large shot - much more effective in a room-to-room scenario
this is the one of the few sane posts that I've seen in this thread. I can only conclude that a large percentage of /. readers consists of people that are perfectly happy with being presented with something that they choose to buy or not to buy. They have no realization that the reason Linux works is because there is Freedom
Quite frankly, you miss the point. Proprietary software companies charge for their software to be used in a restrictive manner, and either you decide you like the tool or you don't.
Ya know... my grandfather used to tell me stories about travelling Snake Oil salesmen. I never thought I'd see one though...
Aww c'mon! Apart from point 4:
4. Will handle all existing problems PLUS any future problems that may pop up.
the claims are plausible.