You make a point that is dangerously close to the truth... Look at (although you may not see the connection, you will...) the number of abandonware ROM sites getting killed (I understand killing N64 and PSX sites, they're still making money off these, but NES and SNES? Really...), the whole DeCSS seizure, it shows paranoia and invasiveness spreading like a virus...
I sincerely hope you're trolling here, or you're seriously missing the point... No kids that I know of have been arrested for talking about bombs, but I know more than a few who were suspended, or even expelled. Hell, I got busted just for mentioning the Anarchist's Cookbook... Of course, that's not a government issue, but the point is the pervasiveness of paranoia. It's sickening, is what it is.
I give not a phat phlying fsck if I come off sounding like a rebarbative oligophreniac, but you sir (or ma'am), are a schmegegge... I joined this country's Navy to defend the freedom of myself and my countrymen, at the expense of my own life if need be, and I will be goddamned if I will see the military organization transmogrified into a group of glorified jackbooted thugs. I doubt there is a Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine in the country who would disagree with me. ITSN Eric W. Sprague AKA Kronoman
The thought of high-profile neighborhood busts scares the piss out of me. Where would it stop? What would they have to see you doing to get in their crosshairs? How hard would it be to get a warrant to search my drive, cause they'd damn well better have one to search my drive. Kinda makes me wonder about that bit I saw a while ago about encrypted ext2:-)
The NT kernel is SUPPOSED to be several orders of magnitude better than Linux/BSD, but is it, really? I can't count the number of times the NT kernel has puked on me. And I do mean a kernel fault, not some piddleyuke app crash that made the GUI ralph. Of course, unlike unix, if the GUI ralphs, so does everything else, but that's beside the point. (OK, OK, so if X goes down REALLY hard everything else dies, but that's pretty rare...) Microkernels are like communism: an idea which kicks unbelievable amounts of arse on paper, but which gets smeared all over the place in practice. In practice, macrokernels (ie Linux and BSD) have been shown to be more stable (the only highly stable microkernel-based OS I can think of is NeXTSTEP. Even MKLinux is less stable than regular Linux, in my experience), and generally somewhat faster, at the expense of using more RAM (but with 256MB in many new workstations, 2MB for a kernel is a drop in the bucket), and being a little less flexible. Although, Linux's modules are even more flexible, IMHO, than WinXX's drivers (namely, you don't have to reboot...) And yes, I did say faster... Most newer benchmarks suggest that Linux and BSD are as fast, if not faster than NT (ever since that butt-ugly context-switching kludge got streamlined). My own (admittedly limited) tests suggest that Linux beats NT for most tasks, except (usually) 3d graphics, and that's due to the lack of DRI drivers for anything except 3dfx (hint, hint, ATI, Matrox, step on the gas. NVidia, get a clue...), and I can't say that I've ever had Linux (the kernel itself) go down without either a bum (that is, incorrect, not buggy) driver or dodgy hardware. NT has barfed for no reason that I could see (maybe it was dodgy hardware, but I couldn't prove that...)
well, GGI offers a way to do that... I've seen screenshots with a 3d cube, an X server on the sides and a terminal top and bottom... pretty keen, but with the damnable transparent backgrounds, and nothing -in- the cube, pretty distracting... now, with solid backgrounds, or 3d graphics in the cube, imagine the possibilities;-)
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It's regardless, not irreguardless, squid-for-brains... Sorry. This argument has me ranting and raving...
You make a point that is dangerously close to the truth... Look at (although you may not see the connection, you will...) the number of abandonware ROM sites getting killed (I understand killing N64 and PSX sites, they're still making money off these, but NES and SNES? Really...), the whole DeCSS seizure, it shows paranoia and invasiveness spreading like a virus...
I sincerely hope you're trolling here, or you're seriously missing the point... No kids that I know of have been arrested for talking about bombs, but I know more than a few who were suspended, or even expelled. Hell, I got busted just for mentioning the Anarchist's Cookbook... Of course, that's not a government issue, but the point is the pervasiveness of paranoia. It's sickening, is what it is.
I give not a phat phlying fsck if I come off sounding like a rebarbative oligophreniac, but you sir (or ma'am), are a schmegegge... I joined this country's Navy to defend the freedom of myself and my countrymen, at the expense of my own life if need be, and I will be goddamned if I will see the military organization transmogrified into a group of glorified jackbooted thugs. I doubt there is a Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine in the country who would disagree with me. ITSN Eric W. Sprague AKA Kronoman
The thought of high-profile neighborhood busts scares the piss out of me. Where would it stop? What would they have to see you doing to get in their crosshairs? How hard would it be to get a warrant to search my drive, cause they'd damn well better have one to search my drive. Kinda makes me wonder about that bit I saw a while ago about encrypted ext2 :-)
The NT kernel is SUPPOSED to be several orders of magnitude better than Linux/BSD, but is it, really? I can't count the number of times the NT kernel has puked on me. And I do mean a kernel fault, not some piddleyuke app crash that made the GUI ralph. Of course, unlike unix, if the GUI ralphs, so does everything else, but that's beside the point. (OK, OK, so if X goes down REALLY hard everything else dies, but that's pretty rare...) Microkernels are like communism: an idea which kicks unbelievable amounts of arse on paper, but which gets smeared all over the place in practice. In practice, macrokernels (ie Linux and BSD) have been shown to be more stable (the only highly stable microkernel-based OS I can think of is NeXTSTEP. Even MKLinux is less stable than regular Linux, in my experience), and generally somewhat faster, at the expense of using more RAM (but with 256MB in many new workstations, 2MB for a kernel is a drop in the bucket), and being a little less flexible. Although, Linux's modules are even more flexible, IMHO, than WinXX's drivers (namely, you don't have to reboot...) And yes, I did say faster... Most newer benchmarks suggest that Linux and BSD are as fast, if not faster than NT (ever since that butt-ugly context-switching kludge got streamlined). My own (admittedly limited) tests suggest that Linux beats NT for most tasks, except (usually) 3d graphics, and that's due to the lack of DRI drivers for anything except 3dfx (hint, hint, ATI, Matrox, step on the gas. NVidia, get a clue...), and I can't say that I've ever had Linux (the kernel itself) go down without either a bum (that is, incorrect, not buggy) driver or dodgy hardware. NT has barfed for no reason that I could see (maybe it was dodgy hardware, but I couldn't prove that...)
well, GGI offers a way to do that... I've seen screenshots with a 3d cube, an X server on the sides and a terminal top and bottom... pretty keen, but with the damnable transparent backgrounds, and nothing -in- the cube, pretty distracting... now, with solid backgrounds, or 3d graphics in the cube, imagine the possibilities ;-)