How do you know they like their government the way it is? Did you take a vote, er, poll, er, walk around and ask a bunch of them? Did they all quite honestly and plainly say "yes"? Did they look nervous about answering the question at all? And if a bunch of them all said, "no, we hate this government" would you go back to ignoring their plight the way the West constantly ignores the plight of those living under hostile governments or would you work with them to implement democracy?
And for the record, yes, I support a World Government that is rooted in a basic human rights charter and allows citizens to vote directly for representatives and other officials-- similar to the way the American system of government operates. If "Revelations" says that's a problem, then tough. I don't believe that fairy tale anyway.
No. It wouldn't make many waves at all. Look no further than your public libraries who are pretty much all installing filters these days because the federal government is telling them to. Just yesterday we had a story here on Slashdot about actual information being removed from public libraries because it was deemed too sensitive.
And here's the kicker, librarians working in libraries where the management don't install filters have been known (at least in the city where I live) to sue the libraries for discrimination because the occasional bit of pr0n they see is the type of stuff the MacKinnon/Dworkinites have brainwashed everyone into thinking is harmful just to look at. So either way, freedom of speech comes under fire.
And they may as well. Most of the provisions in this treaty have already been legislated or are slated to be legislated or have been legislated, found unconstitutional, and will be relegislated again anyway.
I think this is the first time I've ever seen moral relativism used to defend obvious totalitarian regimes. Of course the Chinese all love their lives, and their country rocks! So tell me, how many people leave the "free" world to move to China, compared to how many people leave China to live in Europe or the US?
And yes, I agree with the other poster, we need a basic human rights charter and democratically elected governments in every nation on earth. In fact, I'd like to see a constitutional style global government evolve out of the UN-- again, where we get direct votes on our representatives and executive branch leaders.
Communism is more of an economic scheme than a political organization (and no more pure in China than the US has a true free market). You could easily have elected leaders operate state-owned, nationalized "businesses". In fact, that's not so different from the way capitalism works, what with its shareholders and stuff. It's just that under democratic communism, being born gives you a full share in the national business and a full vote, whereas under democratic capitalism, you get a full vote, but some people inherit a whole lot of shares from their parents.
Yes, but dead symlinks are easy to see (on my system they make an annoying blinking action) and scripts can be written that recurse down the directory tree looking for invalid links. Another positive argument in favor of this approach is that many packages include several binaries, only one or two of which are ever going to be called directly from the command line in a situation where using a full path is not convenient. This also makes version control a lot more obvious (and having simultaneous multiple versions a lot easier, too).
I don't think I'd be all that impressed-- this isn't exactly rocket science (or even sweet cryptography). The basics of virus technology are getting easier by the day. In the old days you had to modify an executable and get the thing to travel without the internet. Now a "virus" is nothing more than a script for an overpowered email client. Frankly, if you're smart enough to encrypt your data, I think you're also smart enough to think of some good ways to prevent electronic intrusions. So what? The FBI will just go back to good, old-fashioned raids, video cameeras, and wirtetaps.
Now getting random strangers to send me potentially embarrassing documents off their hard drive? Now that's impressive. I just wish SirCam had focused on sending me pictures rather than.docs-- of course, it's hard to infect a JPEG with malicious macro code. *sigh*
Something tells me you've never actually been surrounded by Microsoft users. They frequently go running for help-- and they get it because either they or their boss is paying for it (either calls to help lines or trips to the local sysadmin's cube-- hell, I'm not remotely a tech support person and I get a lot of general use questions from people at work, stuff where I'm thinking "Why don't you press F1 and find out for yourself" or "How is it you make all this money, but can't operate Word at a basic level?"). And no, the average user isn't going to complain about the OS, they're just going to chalk any problems they have up to "computers are stupid".
Schools are the market Microsoft has had a terrible time getting a solid foothold on. They've finally been winning college's, while secondary and primary were holding out. They're doing better in secondary than before. And now, as part of their "settlement" they're being forced to give away enough hardware to fully cement their place in the entire educational computing market. Hello McFly?
Besides, what better ad placement could they possibly hope for but a new generation of kids who've never even seen a computer run something other than Windows. And no, this isn't *any* good for schools. Now my tax money can go to pay educators to worry about Outlook viruses and IIS worms? No thanks!
If you catch a rapist, you don't "fine" him by making him pay a hooker for sex do you? NO! You lock him up or rehabilitate him or both! This is not a punishment for MS.
Ugh. Played a GBA at Best Buy this weekend. That thing is made for kids. Even my small hands were getting cramps on those controls shortly after picking it up.
Well, are the machines being used with Linux? Will they be used more with Win2k? If installing a different OS means not having to buy new hardware it makes sense. But assuming the machines are already at normal capacity, yes, this decision makes no sense... unless they're planning to save money some other way.
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Your PC friends are buying some screwy hardware if they think your G4 is that much better than, say, a Compaq Deskpro for ease of swapping out parts. Sure it's cool looking and has a hinged door, but really. If you are opening your system up that much, buy a similar ATX case and drop your parts in there. Personally, I think rackmount cases look like the fun case of the future for the serious hardware, then we need to develop thin clients to scatter around the house/office (or get laptops with wireless networking).
Whatever. I think you know that's an oversimplification at best. But if you need to get in your digs at the Slashdot mainstream [sic], then go ahead. Is your ego soothed now?
Just for the sake of completeness I would probably check those. They are a small portion of the total possible number. My main point was to correct my math error. The limit on IP addresses is 256**4, which is approx 4.3 billion.
If you think removing information that was considered a vital part of our democratic discourse just a few months ago from the public domain is going to prevent any of the things you mentioned from happening, you are severely deluded. If the bad guys are sophisticated enough to engineer smallpox or actually poison a large city water supply, they don't need to go to the library.
Even so, if it were truly that easy, why were they just fucking around with those hijacked airplanes? I think even Osama bin Laden is not so stupid to start off with what amounts to a nose-tweak compared to the carnage that a half million dead would comprise. I mean, they are fighting to win, aren't they?
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No way. Real geeks would never take the easy way out on caffeine-- they'd rather use AOL. Besides, who drinks coffee? That's like drinking Jolt or Mt. Dew, but where you have to add the sugar by hand!
If you are an American you can barely leave your house without being watched. There are cameras *everywhere* these days, many that you can't see, too.
And internet traffic? That's even easier to monitor, especially at corporations with proxy servers-- sure, most traffic is legitimate, but it's simple to route all traffic to mail.yahoo.com (or any other URL, or a URL containing specific strings, or even upon retrieving a web page to check it for certain keywords) to a standard 403 page-- or better yet, write that event out to a text file. Then when the employee gets a certain number of writes to that file, you look at what they've been up to and talk to their manager.
The real questions are more difficult. At what level do you allow workers the freedom to use the internet for personal stuff? What does it say about your workers if they intentionally bypass your legitimate security protocols (i.e. using SafeWeb, etc)? And are you better off firing such malcontents, or simply scaring them into submission in the first place?
With only 2.3 billion possible IP addresses it is trivial to loop over them, hashing each as you go, and comparing it to the target. Nearly as trivial would be to build a database table that contained every possible IP address and its respective hash. Then you could just put your list of target hashes into a table and do a join to get matches.
This approach assumes you know that the hash represents a valid, unaltered IP address. You could also show that the hash does *not* derive from a valid IP address as well, since the hash would not be in your list of 2.3 billion possible hashes.
I can't see any reason to store IP addresses this way, though. Maybe someone from the Slash development team could elaborate on this.
Was there any reason for you posting information two hours late that is clearly redundant, or did you just want to get in that slight against certain Americans? I mean really... fuck you. At least come at the US for all the serious problems it has. Picking fights over culinary decisions that, for many Irish-Americans, are a point of pride in having an Irish heritage is the most pointless, immature shit I've seen all day. Why don't you go point out some spelling errors that have already been pointed out a few times while you're at it?
Here's a reportedly traditional Irish dish that sounds like it would be close, excepting that the meat is a pork rather than a beef brisket. http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~owls/irish.htm#bbac
I stand duly corrected! Having never been to Ireland, I was relying on my experiences eating this fine dish in the home of Americans of Irish descent. Let's try haggis, or some other British Isles treat instead. You won't find that in Greece, will you?
Um, in some geek circles Star Trek is the epitome of science fiction. And some people like handmade quilts over fleece throws. And some people really think the new VW Beetle is worth $5k more than comparable cars from Toyota. Some people prefer Western novels, some prefer pulp romance. Some people swear Mapplethorpe is an artistic genious, others see only dirty smut. We're talking aesthetics and subjectivity here, all we can have then are opinions, not facts.
European food is pretty homogenous? Even northern and southern Italian are pretty different. Also, Scandinavian food is very different from Continental. German food is quite distinct from Spanish food. And above all, I challenge you to find a good Irish corned beef and cabbage dish anywhere in Greece, even on Easter.:)
Oh come on. We both know you were trying to do something fancy. Let's not pretend that you are in any way an "average user" in the traditional sense of the word.:)
Frankly, if the next KDE incorporates the little helpful smiley app I've seen as part of the distribution, there are those average users who will consider that a major plus. Average users cannot bend far enough forward for Microsoft as it puts these "features" into their, um, OS.
But I sympathize. I didn't have any problems with GRUB, but I am annoyed that RH decided to put in/opt and/misc directories that contain absolutely no files. We need less clutter on the root/, not more. But again, I'm not the average user who will navigate around the filesystem using the desktop in KDE or GNOME (or Konqueror or Nautilus(?)). I'm ticked because now/misc interferes with my ability to type/m{tab} and get straight into/mnt.
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How do you know they like their government the way it is? Did you take a vote, er, poll, er, walk around and ask a bunch of them? Did they all quite honestly and plainly say "yes"? Did they look nervous about answering the question at all? And if a bunch of them all said, "no, we hate this government" would you go back to ignoring their plight the way the West constantly ignores the plight of those living under hostile governments or would you work with them to implement democracy?
And for the record, yes, I support a World Government that is rooted in a basic human rights charter and allows citizens to vote directly for representatives and other officials-- similar to the way the American system of government operates. If "Revelations" says that's a problem, then tough. I don't believe that fairy tale anyway.
No. It wouldn't make many waves at all. Look no further than your public libraries who are pretty much all installing filters these days because the federal government is telling them to. Just yesterday we had a story here on Slashdot about actual information being removed from public libraries because it was deemed too sensitive.
And here's the kicker, librarians working in libraries where the management don't install filters have been known (at least in the city where I live) to sue the libraries for discrimination because the occasional bit of pr0n they see is the type of stuff the MacKinnon/Dworkinites have brainwashed everyone into thinking is harmful just to look at. So either way, freedom of speech comes under fire.
And they may as well. Most of the provisions in this treaty have already been legislated or are slated to be legislated or have been legislated, found unconstitutional, and will be relegislated again anyway.
I think this is the first time I've ever seen moral relativism used to defend obvious totalitarian regimes. Of course the Chinese all love their lives, and their country rocks! So tell me, how many people leave the "free" world to move to China, compared to how many people leave China to live in Europe or the US?
And yes, I agree with the other poster, we need a basic human rights charter and democratically elected governments in every nation on earth. In fact, I'd like to see a constitutional style global government evolve out of the UN-- again, where we get direct votes on our representatives and executive branch leaders.
Communism is more of an economic scheme than a political organization (and no more pure in China than the US has a true free market). You could easily have elected leaders operate state-owned, nationalized "businesses". In fact, that's not so different from the way capitalism works, what with its shareholders and stuff. It's just that under democratic communism, being born gives you a full share in the national business and a full vote, whereas under democratic capitalism, you get a full vote, but some people inherit a whole lot of shares from their parents.
Yes, but dead symlinks are easy to see (on my system they make an annoying blinking action) and scripts can be written that recurse down the directory tree looking for invalid links. Another positive argument in favor of this approach is that many packages include several binaries, only one or two of which are ever going to be called directly from the command line in a situation where using a full path is not convenient. This also makes version control a lot more obvious (and having simultaneous multiple versions a lot easier, too).
I don't think I'd be all that impressed-- this isn't exactly rocket science (or even sweet cryptography). The basics of virus technology are getting easier by the day. In the old days you had to modify an executable and get the thing to travel without the internet. Now a "virus" is nothing more than a script for an overpowered email client. Frankly, if you're smart enough to encrypt your data, I think you're also smart enough to think of some good ways to prevent electronic intrusions. So what? The FBI will just go back to good, old-fashioned raids, video cameeras, and wirtetaps.
.docs-- of course, it's hard to infect a JPEG with malicious macro code. *sigh*
Now getting random strangers to send me potentially embarrassing documents off their hard drive? Now that's impressive. I just wish SirCam had focused on sending me pictures rather than
Something tells me you've never actually been surrounded by Microsoft users. They frequently go running for help-- and they get it because either they or their boss is paying for it (either calls to help lines or trips to the local sysadmin's cube-- hell, I'm not remotely a tech support person and I get a lot of general use questions from people at work, stuff where I'm thinking "Why don't you press F1 and find out for yourself" or "How is it you make all this money, but can't operate Word at a basic level?"). And no, the average user isn't going to complain about the OS, they're just going to chalk any problems they have up to "computers are stupid".
Well, actually, it appears you will be forced to buy it now, so that your school-aged children can bring their schoolwork home.
I see it as a steaming pile of, you know.
Schools are the market Microsoft has had a terrible time getting a solid foothold on. They've finally been winning college's, while secondary and primary were holding out. They're doing better in secondary than before. And now, as part of their "settlement" they're being forced to give away enough hardware to fully cement their place in the entire educational computing market. Hello McFly?
Besides, what better ad placement could they possibly hope for but a new generation of kids who've never even seen a computer run something other than Windows. And no, this isn't *any* good for schools. Now my tax money can go to pay educators to worry about Outlook viruses and IIS worms? No thanks!
If you catch a rapist, you don't "fine" him by making him pay a hooker for sex do you? NO! You lock him up or rehabilitate him or both! This is not a punishment for MS.
Ugh. Played a GBA at Best Buy this weekend. That thing is made for kids. Even my small hands were getting cramps on those controls shortly after picking it up.
Thankfully they released Harry Potter on PS1!
Well, are the machines being used with Linux? Will they be used more with Win2k? If installing a different OS means not having to buy new hardware it makes sense. But assuming the machines are already at normal capacity, yes, this decision makes no sense... unless they're planning to save money some other way.
Your PC friends are buying some screwy hardware if they think your G4 is that much better than, say, a Compaq Deskpro for ease of swapping out parts. Sure it's cool looking and has a hinged door, but really. If you are opening your system up that much, buy a similar ATX case and drop your parts in there. Personally, I think rackmount cases look like the fun case of the future for the serious hardware, then we need to develop thin clients to scatter around the house/office (or get laptops with wireless networking).
Whatever. I think you know that's an oversimplification at best. But if you need to get in your digs at the Slashdot mainstream [sic], then go ahead. Is your ego soothed now?
Just for the sake of completeness I would probably check those. They are a small portion of the total possible number. My main point was to correct my math error. The limit on IP addresses is 256**4, which is approx 4.3 billion.
If you think removing information that was considered a vital part of our democratic discourse just a few months ago from the public domain is going to prevent any of the things you mentioned from happening, you are severely deluded. If the bad guys are sophisticated enough to engineer smallpox or actually poison a large city water supply, they don't need to go to the library.
Even so, if it were truly that easy, why were they just fucking around with those hijacked airplanes? I think even Osama bin Laden is not so stupid to start off with what amounts to a nose-tweak compared to the carnage that a half million dead would comprise. I mean, they are fighting to win, aren't they?
No way. Real geeks would never take the easy way out on caffeine-- they'd rather use AOL. Besides, who drinks coffee? That's like drinking Jolt or Mt. Dew, but where you have to add the sugar by hand!
You're kidding right? "No one is watching"?
If you are an American you can barely leave your house without being watched. There are cameras *everywhere* these days, many that you can't see, too.
And internet traffic? That's even easier to monitor, especially at corporations with proxy servers-- sure, most traffic is legitimate, but it's simple to route all traffic to mail.yahoo.com (or any other URL, or a URL containing specific strings, or even upon retrieving a web page to check it for certain keywords) to a standard 403 page-- or better yet, write that event out to a text file. Then when the employee gets a certain number of writes to that file, you look at what they've been up to and talk to their manager.
The real questions are more difficult. At what level do you allow workers the freedom to use the internet for personal stuff? What does it say about your workers if they intentionally bypass your legitimate security protocols (i.e. using SafeWeb, etc)? And are you better off firing such malcontents, or simply scaring them into submission in the first place?
Ack! Dyslexia (or something)!
4.29 billion!
With only 2.3 billion possible IP addresses it is trivial to loop over them, hashing each as you go, and comparing it to the target. Nearly as trivial would be to build a database table that contained every possible IP address and its respective hash. Then you could just put your list of target hashes into a table and do a join to get matches.
This approach assumes you know that the hash represents a valid, unaltered IP address. You could also show that the hash does *not* derive from a valid IP address as well, since the hash would not be in your list of 2.3 billion possible hashes.
I can't see any reason to store IP addresses this way, though. Maybe someone from the Slash development team could elaborate on this.
Was there any reason for you posting information two hours late that is clearly redundant, or did you just want to get in that slight against certain Americans? I mean really... fuck you. At least come at the US for all the serious problems it has. Picking fights over culinary decisions that, for many Irish-Americans, are a point of pride in having an Irish heritage is the most pointless, immature shit I've seen all day. Why don't you go point out some spelling errors that have already been pointed out a few times while you're at it?
Here's a reportedly traditional Irish dish that sounds like it would be close, excepting that the meat is a pork rather than a beef brisket. http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~owls/irish.htm#bbac
I stand duly corrected! Having never been to Ireland, I was relying on my experiences eating this fine dish in the home of Americans of Irish descent. Let's try haggis, or some other British Isles treat instead. You won't find that in Greece, will you?
Um, in some geek circles Star Trek is the epitome of science fiction. And some people like handmade quilts over fleece throws. And some people really think the new VW Beetle is worth $5k more than comparable cars from Toyota. Some people prefer Western novels, some prefer pulp romance. Some people swear Mapplethorpe is an artistic genious, others see only dirty smut. We're talking aesthetics and subjectivity here, all we can have then are opinions, not facts.
European food is pretty homogenous? Even northern and southern Italian are pretty different. Also, Scandinavian food is very different from Continental. German food is quite distinct from Spanish food. And above all, I challenge you to find a good Irish corned beef and cabbage dish anywhere in Greece, even on Easter. :)
Oh come on. We both know you were trying to do something fancy. Let's not pretend that you are in any way an "average user" in the traditional sense of the word. :)
/opt and /misc directories that contain absolutely no files. We need less clutter on the root /, not more. But again, I'm not the average user who will navigate around the filesystem using the desktop in KDE or GNOME (or Konqueror or Nautilus(?)). I'm ticked because now /misc interferes with my ability to type /m{tab} and get straight into /mnt.
Frankly, if the next KDE incorporates the little helpful smiley app I've seen as part of the distribution, there are those average users who will consider that a major plus. Average users cannot bend far enough forward for Microsoft as it puts these "features" into their, um, OS.
But I sympathize. I didn't have any problems with GRUB, but I am annoyed that RH decided to put in