I guess I was being somewhat Sardonic. I can't see how it can be avoided that the terrorists achieve their objective. They have suceeded in raising an issue. One that should have been obvious and dealt with long, long ago. You cannot have freedom by taking it from others. The slaveholder is no more free than the slaves.
America can go two ways, become more politically isolationist (economic isolation is impossible) or less so.
If it becomes more politically isolationist, then this will one day seem like a small issue compared to what will come. The economic power of America cannot be ignored. Power without control is anarchy, and America's unguided, uncontrolled, economic power is almost imposing an anarchy everywhere outside America (mitigated somewhat by various agreements and the degree of power a country has itself). While the whole world is in shock over this and expressing (genuine) sympathy, it should not be forgotten that there are reasons why so many people dislike America. [No, I'm not making threats, just trying to forsee]
What must needs happen is that America *accept* it's power and use it wisely and fairly for the benefit of all (and I don't mean corporations, I mean people).
The 'sleeping giant' needs to wake again, but this time to remember the ideals that formed it.
>Then step up and take credit (blame?). The US took responsibility for the Sudan bombing. Who did this attack today? Cowards.
It didn't take the rap for manipulating the overturn of government of my country (an ally) in 1975. THe USA is emphaticaly not in a position to stand on any moral high horse.
> I strongly beleive that the NSA should have whatever funding is necessary to listen in on any communications outside the borders of the United States.
Well Australia is part of Echelon so there isn't much I can do about it anyway, but why should they read my email and not yours? Is it that not being an American makes me less than human?
Do you even know if anyone was cheering? Yes, the media showd some people (one kid with Palestinian flag) waving and cheering. What does that mean?
It means that sometime, somewhere some people cheered and waved a Palestinian flag. That is all it means. Ever heard of "stock footage"?
Even if it was not stock footage, how the hell do you know what they were cheering at? I doubt they had the same news access you did. You normally believe everything the media shows you, right?
One amusing thing is that I thought that this would happen in 1983 and actually formed a working group to design and impliment a game that would do this. We had only planned on modem connected machines (and arcades). We got a lot of principles worked out, but then factions broke the group up.
There will likely come a time when some imaginary world currencies exceed the value of real world currencies, and a time when people's on line identities become more important to them than their real world identities. (Not actually, but emotionally).
>But didn't God turn control of the Earth over to the devil after the fall of Adam and Eve... all their descendents to be born into the kingdom of the devil? Maybe the devil was the one who planted false evidence?
There is ZERO chance that creationism is true. Not the slightest chance.
Indeed God is all knowing and all powerful (and also benevolent). That implies the knows what is best, and has the ability to do the best. Nothing that God does is "not the best". Hence when he created the world he made it perfect and there is no need for miracles. There can be no observable evidence that God exists - or his creation would be imperfect.
Given that God is benevolent, then he will not be so decieptful as to plant false evidence. A God who treats us as a game is not a God but a devil.
Any creationist either has not thought it through or they are certifiably insane. Scientology makes more sense...
Well, Since I own the company I work for it would be just my own loss.
Also, I still have not mastered Perl yet (lathough I am quite good with it). Which puts meat a disadvantage when trying to compare. I doubtless will learn Python. But at first glance - there is no hurry. Using formatting as a language construct is still a bad idea. I remember when almost all languages required such formatting. Believe me, format dependant code is something from prehistory. To be avoided.
There is (for me!) a big problem qith Python. I don't feel that code formatting should be part of a language. When statements are conjoined by indentation - then that's a worry.
The difference is this, Hormel don't give up their trademark if they dont pursue because SPAM and spam cannot be confused.
If Rollerblade or Xerox allow their trademarks to become generic words for in-line skating or photocopying, they loose the right to the trademark.
Ever heard of a "biro"? For quite a while nobody used the term "ball point pen" and the trademark is useless.
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> 1) While this could theoretically be used for what you might call "censorship", the intention is actually a good one. It is quite sensible to give higher priority to realtime data such as audio and video than it is for, say, SMTP traffic, and all users would benefit from this.
Crepe, this is a good one. Why should I have to put up with all those wanking bandwidth hogs streaming stuff to my detriment. If they set the highest volume to the lowest priority, then it might have some benefit. Streaming stuff can be buffered. It should be.
> 2) Unlike IPv6, this doesn't require widespread deployment before it can be used (the chicken-and-egg problem that is delaying IBv6 deployment). Even if you are the only ISP on the planet using it, there will still be some benefit to your users.
Horsefeathers... It won't get used to my benefit. Just for more moronic flash and streaming.
Those are called dilberries... From the old English "dil" = "asshole".
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Trouble is, everyone will wind up with hairy Palms.
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Genetic Defect? I have the same problem. But I am not aware of any genetic issue.
When I was a kid,it gave me an embarassing reputation for being incredibly clumbsy, but as I got older, some of the other 22 (+?) methods for depth perception developed and I wound up with better than average depth perception, just no binocular vision.
But genetic defect? What it is the genetic 'defect'? and why is it a 'defect'? I wound up with better vision because of it.
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>It's not a mistake that UNIX was invented in Bell Labs, they needed it.
Correction, UNIX was invented because a sysadmin would not let "SpaceWar" be run on the Honeywell mainframe because it consumed too much resource. There was a PDP-8 lying idle without an operating system (which couldn't be bought because "SpaceWar" didn't officially exist) so what's a hacker to do? Write an operating system for the purpose of playing one game for a single player. That's what. It started as a DRIVER for a game that was being written because AT&T withdrew from the MULTICS project and left a talented man idle.
Need UNIX? They didn't know what to do with it when thry had it. No official project plan or marketing prepared. Hence it got loose in the world's Universities and grew from there. In a funny way, you could say it was the first open source because the source license cost less than the binary license (since there was no support plan or mechanism in place either).
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Actually, I think most people have missed Mundies main point. Not surprising, it was badly expressed. Suppose I develop some closed source software that has something in common with open sourced software. I am now in a position where I might be challenged in court and required to *prove* I had never seen the open source program or code. If I can't, then my own (genuine) development (IP) has been GPL'd by a court.
That is what threatens software companies and where the "uncertainty" lies.
Mundie is correct that this is a significant risk.
There is a reason for that. I'm going back a long time here, but as I remember it the story goes that more than one manufacturer did not understand the specification and released cards with common or unserialised MACs. Because of this error, it went from ROM to EPROM to "flashable".
Just as well it happened really or there would be little true anonymiity and PPP would be harder to implement (unless modems had MACs).
Most of my on line gaming was playing MajorMUD in the BBS days (I said I was an old fart). People started scripting and some people cried "cheats". When it all settled down, you had two separated leagues, the scripters and non-scripters and that made the game better for both.
Coding is a skill. Writing a better assistant to help you play seems legitimate to me. Passing those assistants around, gets a little dubious though.
What about the physically impaired, or decrepit with age? Why shouldn't they use brain and experience to counter youth and reflexes? Would you take away the paraphanalia that Stephen Hawking uses to commincate as an unfair advantage?
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America can go two ways, become more politically isolationist (economic isolation is impossible) or less so.
If it becomes more politically isolationist, then this will one day seem like a small issue compared to what will come. The economic power of America cannot be ignored. Power without control is anarchy, and America's unguided, uncontrolled, economic power is almost imposing an anarchy everywhere outside America (mitigated somewhat by various agreements and the degree of power a country has itself). While the whole world is in shock over this and expressing (genuine) sympathy, it should not be forgotten that there are reasons why so many people dislike America. [No, I'm not making threats, just trying to forsee]
What must needs happen is that America *accept* it's power and use it wisely and fairly for the benefit of all (and I don't mean corporations, I mean people).
The 'sleeping giant' needs to wake again, but this time to remember the ideals that formed it.
It didn't take the rap for manipulating the overturn of government of my country (an ally) in 1975. THe USA is emphaticaly not in a position to stand on any moral high horse.
1. Get attention
2. Damage the fistworld economy.
3. Use America's response to gain more supporters.
4. Economy damage implies less financial support for the third world, meaning more poverty and famine, better recruiting grounds for fundamentalists.
Plenty of "objectives".
Well Australia is part of Echelon so there isn't much I can do about it anyway, but why should they read my email and not yours? Is it that not being an American makes me less than human?
It means that sometime, somewhere some people cheered and waved a Palestinian flag. That is all it means. Ever heard of "stock footage"?
Even if it was not stock footage, how the hell do you know what they were cheering at? I doubt they had the same news access you did. You normally believe everything the media shows you, right?
You mean the terrorist objectives will be achieved?
There will likely come a time when some imaginary world currencies exceed the value of real world currencies, and a time when people's on line identities become more important to them than their real world identities. (Not actually, but emotionally).
Someplace in Australia, I guess...
Any God who would do that *IS* a devil....
Please present yourself to the federal police for arrest...
Indeed God is all knowing and all powerful (and also benevolent). That implies the knows what is best, and has the ability to do the best. Nothing that God does is "not the best". Hence when he created the world he made it perfect and there is no need for miracles. There can be no observable evidence that God exists - or his creation would be imperfect.
Given that God is benevolent, then he will not be so decieptful as to plant false evidence. A God who treats us as a game is not a God but a devil.
Any creationist either has not thought it through or they are certifiably insane. Scientology makes more sense...
Also, I still have not mastered Perl yet (lathough I am quite good with it). Which puts meat a disadvantage when trying to compare. I doubtless will learn Python. But at first glance - there is no hurry. Using formatting as a language construct is still a bad idea. I remember when almost all languages required such formatting. Believe me, format dependant code is something from prehistory. To be avoided.
Does everybody else use it nowadays?
Anyhow, that's why I don't use it.
If you are ito those sort of games, create a file with the name "free\bd". It will show as "fred" in an ls (wihout the display all chars option).
Even better is to just clear the screen. They think the monitor/teminal is broken.
If Rollerblade or Xerox allow their trademarks to become generic words for in-line skating or photocopying, they loose the right to the trademark.
Ever heard of a "biro"? For quite a while nobody used the term "ball point pen" and the trademark is useless.
Crepe, this is a good one. Why should I have to put up with all those wanking bandwidth hogs streaming stuff to my detriment. If they set the highest volume to the lowest priority, then it might have some benefit. Streaming stuff can be buffered. It should be.
> 2) Unlike IPv6, this doesn't require widespread deployment before it can be used (the chicken-and-egg problem that is delaying IBv6 deployment). Even if you are the only ISP on the planet using it, there will still be some benefit to your users.
Horsefeathers... It won't get used to my benefit. Just for more moronic flash and streaming.
Those are called dilberries... From the old English "dil" = "asshole".
Trouble is, everyone will wind up with hairy Palms.
When I was a kid,it gave me an embarassing reputation for being incredibly clumbsy, but as I got older, some of the other 22 (+?) methods for depth perception developed and I wound up with better than average depth perception, just no binocular vision.
But genetic defect? What it is the genetic 'defect'? and why is it a 'defect'? I wound up with better vision because of it.
Correction, UNIX was invented because a sysadmin would not let "SpaceWar" be run on the Honeywell mainframe because it consumed too much resource. There was a PDP-8 lying idle without an operating system (which couldn't be bought because "SpaceWar" didn't officially exist) so what's a hacker to do? Write an operating system for the purpose of playing one game for a single player. That's what. It started as a DRIVER for a game that was being written because AT&T withdrew from the MULTICS project and left a talented man idle.
Need UNIX? They didn't know what to do with it when thry had it. No official project plan or marketing prepared. Hence it got loose in the world's Universities and grew from there. In a funny way, you could say it was the first open source because the source license cost less than the binary license (since there was no support plan or mechanism in place either).
That is what threatens software companies and where the "uncertainty" lies.
Mundie is correct that this is a significant risk.
Just as well it happened really or there would be little true anonymiity and PPP would be harder to implement (unless modems had MACs).
Coding is a skill. Writing a better assistant to help you play seems legitimate to me. Passing those assistants around, gets a little dubious though.
What about the physically impaired, or decrepit with age? Why shouldn't they use brain and experience to counter youth and reflexes? Would you take away the paraphanalia that Stephen Hawking uses to commincate as an unfair advantage?