"How dependent is the internet on the US" is an important question, but another one is "how important is one author to/."
Because Cliff apparently left open an italics HTML tag, and it manifested itself all the way down slashdot's main page.Just a little kidding for 4:00 A.M. in the morning.
Quite frankly, you show a very naive understanding of the problem. Third world people do not starve because of a lack of food, they starve because a) their government is corrupt, and/or b) they do not have sufficient capitalism.
We're going OT here, but this isn't a full picture at all. A lot of the shortages are because of (c) crop failure and (d) people being driven from their homes.
The latter is caused when war breaks out when rebels try to overthrow their corrupt governments. Another cause is infantile border disputes, such as the one currently going on in Eritrea and Ethiopia. What ends up happening either way is people become refugees for long periods of time while their fields and homes are destroyed. They have to rely on UN handouts because they are poor and there are shortages. Also the incredible amount of wealth spent on armaments and soldiers is lost, spent on war when it is needed for infrastructure.
The former cause is from whacked out weather. Things have been strange since El Nino and the entire world's weather patterns have been affected. Whether or not pollution is the cause is not known. Hopefully this is a short term phenomenon but no one knows for sure.
You are absolutely right that world hunger (especially in Africa) has mostly political and economic causes, but "to help the people overthrow their government" is crazy. The anarchist in me likes it, by the realist doesn't.
We see the recent elections in Zimbabwe. The people are poor and hungry and the economy is going from bad to worse, but the ruling Xanu PF held their freeist and fairest election in the nation's short history a month ago. Other countries are in similar conditions, with emerging democracy and strong opposition parties. These certainly should not be overthrown.
Certainly some other places might end up better if their dictators were deposed or overthrown by rebels. But in doing so you open up a huge can of chaos! Right now the Congo is being ripped apart by five or so different nations all fighting its "civil war." What's going on there is like Africa's version of the Thirty Years War (1518-1548). The reality there is utterly depressing.
What Africa needs is a growing middle class and an African Union. Union could start cooperation and bring peace among African nations, and the middle class could bring the economic leadership needed.
My point was that organizations like the AP, UPI, Knight-Ridder do the real low-level reporting; what we see on the networks is nothing but repackaging. The repackaging process removes alot of content, leaving the public with a shell of what you would find in a good newspaper article.
Even if corporate giants disappeared, there is already more than enough media out there to go around. Newsweek and US News would take over Time's share. The newspaper and internet news market isn't really an issue. The radio news market could go to Bloomberg, which is already a good radio news source. Television news wouldn't really exist, but that's okay because the quality sucks and market share is dropping anyway (except for local news market share).
There wouldn't be any huge parent companies anymore (at least temporarily). We would all get our news from smaller, independent outlets.
We would all get our news from smaller, independent outlets. We would, of course, have to decide for ourselves on the credibility of said news outlets. That in and of itself is a scary thought, we would have to make an important decision with information that we would have to go out and gather ourselves.
This is the most uninformed utter crap I've heard in a long time, because the workhorses of today's news industry are companies independent of the corporate giants. However I could see how you might come to this position if you listen to only ABC radio, watch CBS's morning show, watch NBC for news in the evening and go to sleep with Fox's cable news channel.
Skipping the rest of the good newspapers and the plethora of great magazines around the country (as well as the really bad ones) we get to Corporate Media. Time isn't really bad per se, but knowing what we know about Time Warner (I am an employee of the company) I personally stay away.
I stay away from all U.S. television news sources for reliable information, except for the excellent Newshour with Jim Lehrer and C-SPAN, both independent media. The former rocks, and I live in the neighborhood where Lehrer grew up; the latter isn't really news but has very informative content on current issues.
Okay! I hope I have convinced everyone that you don't have to worry about your news source if you know where to go. Even if Time Warner bought up half of these news souces somehow, it could never get them all. Also remember that if good journalists realize they are working for a company with a deteriorating reputation, they jump ship.
I realize that this card hasn't anything like the ability to run an OS, but the development of cards that do really needs to be looked into, for the advantages it offers.
There used to be Macs that could run MacOS 7 and Windows 95 at the same time with processors dedicated to each, but it didn't catch on back then. Mainly because price/performance blew, at least in the Apple incarnation.
But perhaps now, where Celerons are cheap, fast, and plentiful, the idea can be resurrected.
now if only we could do something more wild, like boot Linux beneath Windows [or vice-versa] using only the hardware on the expansion card for Linux. You get the functionality of two systems for the cost of one + the card.
Or, your main system OS could be Linux, and you could use a similar expansion card with built-in ethernet. Boot up OpenBSD on that and you get the security and functional benifits of keeping a seperate machine for the network firewall without the cost, heat, or noise an extra box adds.
Cool, sort of like that underwater modem we heard about a while back. Except neutrinos should, in the long run, [assuming points 1-3 above are taken care of] be a hell of a lot more useful than sound waves.
Imagine... could we send a wave of neutrinos underground from Warsaw to Madrid, [To pick two random points], assuming points 1-3 above are dealt with?
Someone please answer me that. This whole discussion is so damn interesting; too bad I don't have the backround [yet] to understand much of it.
The freaky part is the long term goal: mimicing environments down to floorboard vibrations to allow musicians to perform together from around the world.
The concept is very damn cool.
I'm the band Defenestration of Vish*, and we just lost Nathan, a great guitarist who is passionate about music and is an all-around cool guy. He is now in China (the Communist part) and the band is struggling on without him. It has been a traumatic experience for all.
Hopefully, in the future, technology can prevent people from going through such a separation.
Right on. We all remember when the SCO CEO declared Linux irrelevent, then came back with a Linux strategy for his own company only a few months later.
The 64 bit processor is the thorn in Intel's side... It is Intel's ball and chain... It is Intel's Microsoft... the list of metaphors goes on...
Maybe Intel's persistent failures with Itanium will allow a new chip maker to take Intel's crown, like IBM, AMD, or MOT (maybe even DEC*, prolly not Transmeta tho:) anyway, the fresh air new leaders in this sector would bring would be Nice.
*I know its Compaq now, I just didn't want to break with the three letter trend going there.
Okay folks, check out this image on Apple's website.
Clearly stated in the title line on the window is the string "Mickey 320 QTVR".
There you have it, unquestionable proof of the Apple-Disney-Pixar merger. They wouldn't dare put this up and to call their mouse a "Mickey" unless the merger deal was in its final stages, thus removing the lawsuit threat...
The limitations are against any Programmable electronic device, and even then, it's up to the probation officer about what is or is not allowable. Kevin can use an HP calculator, a microwave, an even (i'm pretty sure) an ATM machine.
If he was a real hacker, he would have no problem getting some HP graphing-calculator link-cable telnet going:]
It is obligatory to say that this, like everything else, works better from a TI calc.
Do Orin Hatch and Jello Biafra actually agree on something?
For those of you not in the know, Jello Biafra is a punk rocker who headed the Dead Kennedys (until they broke up). This year, he ran for the Green Party presidential nomination.
To say he "leans to the left" would be quite an understatement:]
If CmdrTaco and Hemos would quit publishing such interesting stories, I could actually spend my summer vacation doing something worthwile, rather than reading, posting, and listening to BBC Radio One on the net all day.
But seriously, this trend is only going to get worse, and I'm not happy about it.
Because Ian is marketing Debian to companies, and also because he was involved in the creating of Debian's long release cycle philosophy, he is a great person to ask these questions to.
He should know the best answers to these issues, as he has to explain them to suits every day.
My post had some misinformation which I must clear up.
What's going on is some Debian people are working on a port to the Hurd. There isn't actually a commitment to ultimately throw out GNU/Linux for GNU/Hurd as the basis for Debian; rather, these are two Debian OS projects progressing at the same time, with the GNU/Hurd part moving slower right now [because there are few workers and they are primarily adapting to changes in the GNU/Linux Debian].
These aren't mutually exclusive projects in any way. What I was thinking of when I posted was the long term intention of the GNU to move all its attention over to the Hurd as its primary platform.
For those of you who easily anger over the Government's involvement in anything, a story like this should remind you that Government really is on the side of the people.
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They might decide it is in the interest of liberty to sue, and they might give your Class the lawyers.
Its worth a shot. Get out a pen and pad and send a note.
No time to read other's comments, must use 100% of 56K modem's BW for MP3 archive. Be fore it all disappears.
Oh wait, I forgot about Gnutella. Nevermind.
Because Cliff apparently left open an italics HTML tag, and it manifested itself all the way down slashdot's main page.Just a little kidding for 4:00 A.M. in the morning.
The latter is caused when war breaks out when rebels try to overthrow their corrupt governments. Another cause is infantile border disputes, such as the one currently going on in Eritrea and Ethiopia. What ends up happening either way is people become refugees for long periods of time while their fields and homes are destroyed. They have to rely on UN handouts because they are poor and there are shortages. Also the incredible amount of wealth spent on armaments and soldiers is lost, spent on war when it is needed for infrastructure.
The former cause is from whacked out weather. Things have been strange since El Nino and the entire world's weather patterns have been affected. Whether or not pollution is the cause is not known. Hopefully this is a short term phenomenon but no one knows for sure.
You are absolutely right that world hunger (especially in Africa) has mostly political and economic causes, but "to help the people overthrow their government" is crazy. The anarchist in me likes it, by the realist doesn't.
We see the recent elections in Zimbabwe. The people are poor and hungry and the economy is going from bad to worse, but the ruling Xanu PF held their freeist and fairest election in the nation's short history a month ago. Other countries are in similar conditions, with emerging democracy and strong opposition parties. These certainly should not be overthrown.
Certainly some other places might end up better if their dictators were deposed or overthrown by rebels. But in doing so you open up a huge can of chaos! Right now the Congo is being ripped apart by five or so different nations all fighting its "civil war." What's going on there is like Africa's version of the Thirty Years War (1518-1548). The reality there is utterly depressing.
What Africa needs is a growing middle class and an African Union. Union could start cooperation and bring peace among African nations, and the middle class could bring the economic leadership needed.
My point was that organizations like the AP, UPI, Knight-Ridder do the real low-level reporting; what we see on the networks is nothing but repackaging. The repackaging process removes alot of content, leaving the public with a shell of what you would find in a good newspaper article.
Even if corporate giants disappeared, there is already more than enough media out there to go around. Newsweek and US News would take over Time's share. The newspaper and internet news market isn't really an issue. The radio news market could go to Bloomberg, which is already a good radio news source. Television news wouldn't really exist, but that's okay because the quality sucks and market share is dropping anyway (except for local news market share).
The foundation of today's news media is organizations like United Press International, BBC News, National Public Radio News, the Associated Press, the New York Times. These are all outstanding news organizations.
The Washington Post (a pretty good paper) owns Newsweek, an alright magazine, though its website is now hosted by MSNBC.
US News and World Report is also pretty good.
Skipping the rest of the good newspapers and the plethora of great magazines around the country (as well as the really bad ones) we get to Corporate Media. Time isn't really bad per se, but knowing what we know about Time Warner (I am an employee of the company) I personally stay away.
I stay away from all U.S. television news sources for reliable information, except for the excellent Newshour with Jim Lehrer and C-SPAN, both independent media. The former rocks, and I live in the neighborhood where Lehrer grew up; the latter isn't really news but has very informative content on current issues.
Okay! I hope I have convinced everyone that you don't have to worry about your news source if you know where to go. Even if Time Warner bought up half of these news souces somehow, it could never get them all. Also remember that if good journalists realize they are working for a company with a deteriorating reputation, they jump ship.
There used to be Macs that could run MacOS 7 and Windows 95 at the same time with processors dedicated to each, but it didn't catch on back then. Mainly because price/performance blew, at least in the Apple incarnation.
But perhaps now, where Celerons are cheap, fast, and plentiful, the idea can be resurrected.
Or, your main system OS could be Linux, and you could use a similar expansion card with built-in ethernet. Boot up OpenBSD on that and you get the security and functional benifits of keeping a seperate machine for the network firewall without the cost, heat, or noise an extra box adds.
Personally, I blame the speed reading course I took awhile back :]
Actually, IIRC, an IRIX port brought Maya to UNIX, before Mac OS X was even announced.
Imagine... could we send a wave of neutrinos underground from Warsaw to Madrid, [To pick two random points], assuming points 1-3 above are dealt with?
Someone please answer me that. This whole discussion is so damn interesting; too bad I don't have the backround [yet] to understand much of it.
The concept is very damn cool.
I'm the band Defenestration of Vish*, and we just lost Nathan, a great guitarist who is passionate about music and is an all-around cool guy. He is now in China (the Communist part) and the band is struggling on without him. It has been a traumatic experience for all.
Hopefully, in the future, technology can prevent people from going through such a separation.
*You haven't heard of us [yet :]
He's such a moron :]
...and MOSR neglected to tell me this!!
The 64 bit processor is the thorn in Intel's side... It is Intel's ball and chain... It is Intel's Microsoft... the list of metaphors goes on...
Maybe Intel's persistent failures with Itanium will allow a new chip maker to take Intel's crown, like IBM, AMD, or MOT (maybe even DEC*, prolly not Transmeta tho :) anyway, the fresh air new leaders in this sector would bring would be Nice.
*I know its Compaq now, I just didn't want to break with the three letter trend going there.
Clearly stated in the title line on the window is the string "Mickey 320 QTVR".
There you have it, unquestionable proof of the Apple-Disney-Pixar merger. They wouldn't dare put this up and to call their mouse a "Mickey" unless the merger deal was in its final stages, thus removing the lawsuit threat...
Who needs to sell encryption technology when we have OpenBSD?
I thought "there is one reply to this post what is the chance he thought of this also"
It is obligatory to say that this, like everything else, works better from a TI calc.
Just so everyone knows, The Onion found Sen. Hatch hanging nearly naked from a chandelier in a mistresses' house several months ago...
To say he "leans to the left" would be quite an understatement :]
If CmdrTaco and Hemos would quit publishing such interesting stories, I could actually spend my summer vacation doing something worthwile, rather than reading, posting, and listening to BBC Radio One on the net all day.
But seriously, this trend is only going to get worse, and I'm not happy about it.
He should know the best answers to these issues, as he has to explain them to suits every day.
What's going on is some Debian people are working on a port to the Hurd. There isn't actually a commitment to ultimately throw out GNU/Linux for GNU/Hurd as the basis for Debian; rather, these are two Debian OS projects progressing at the same time, with the GNU/Hurd part moving slower right now [because there are few workers and they are primarily adapting to changes in the GNU/Linux Debian].
These aren't mutually exclusive projects in any way. What I was thinking of when I posted was the long term intention of the GNU to move all its attention over to the Hurd as its primary platform.
Sorry folks.
At least, in theory :]