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The ponies are life on Titan, 10,000:1 Gravitational waves, 500:1 The Higgs boson, 6:1 Cosmic ray origins, 4:1 Nuclear fusion, 100:1
The New Scientist getting a good Slashdotting: priceless
ideally more choice==more competition==lower prices and most drives tend to read/write all the standards
Yes, ideally. That old canard of capitalism...
That theory is usually true, but more often than not it doesn't hold water see: in Europe they never had much choice in cell phone technology and now *gasp* you can use your phone in most countries without any problem. Whereas in the good ole US of A where there's the sacro-saint consumer choice, there's a kajillion incompatible cell phone standards.
most people spout off "I can say anything here in the U.S.! That's freedom!" But, you can't
My understanding is that you can say anything in the US so long as (1) you're not calling other people to do illegal things (read shouting "let's go kill some jews!" in public) and (2) it doesn't contravene the law (like you say, lying in court). Also, those rules are the same for everybody.
In France, saying "I think Jews own the press" can land you in court. That's wrong. Also, saying "I think Catholics own the press" won't. That too is wrong, because the rule is biased towards one group of people, usually a minority.
France admits that. They say jews have suffered during the war and deserve to be especially protected. They since have extended their "special protection" to people of north african descent, and pretty much most ethnic minorities. The problem is, it's counterproductive because people who are not in one of the specially protected minority resent that, and also people are attracted to forbidden things. Which explains all the antisemitic acts going on in France right now.
there are frequent occurrences of anti-semitic vandalism in france. it's on the rise
Many people think that's the result of the anti-nazi laws and jewish protection laws. The act of criminalizing nazi *ideas* makes them attractive to a whole slew of mentally unstable people, and youth who are drawn to forbidden things.
Just look at the US: we're let hate groups say whatever they wanted, and now the hate speech they spew out is banalized, and people look at them as the redneck morons they are. In France, the criminalization of hate speech and hate-related objects makes them dangerously attractive.
That, combined with communist control of many of the French journalist's unions, means that many stories [...] never get adequately reported in the French press.
I'm so glad CNN and Fox News aren't in the hands of those dirty commies, so we always get FAIR AND BALANCED reporting from the US press.
Yahoo intends to defend its First Amendment rights should a French court try to enforce French anti-hate laws.
Well good luck on that one. Yahoo's lawyer should know better than that. There is no right of free speech in France. Matter of fact, there isn't any such concept pretty much anywhere else but in the US. As a side note, the first amendment is one of the US' greatest gems, that Americans should be proud of around the globe, and it makes me sad to see the current administration tread on it without anybody doing anything about it, but I digress...
In France, there is *SO* no concept of free speech that there are laws to prevent people from saying anything remotely bad about jews. For example, if your opinion is that jews control the banking system and you voice it, you can be prosecuted and sent to jail. Whether or not whatever you say is true, the act of saying it puts you in jeopardy in France.
Remember the Faurisson case? Pr. Faurisson was a revisionist. He thought gas chambers didn't exist and said so. Well, he was prosecuted for some "hate speech" crime or something. If my memory serves me right, I seem to recall Noam Chomsky giving a speech in France about how he thought Faurisson was a crackpot but he should be allowed to expose his nutcase theories freely, and he himself was threatened by a French judge to be careful not to cross the line if he wanted to avoid trouble himself.
So, Yahoo really should know better than provoke the French judicial system. They're positively and admitedly anti free-speech, and wanting to assert "firste amendement" rights in France is as pointless as trying to squelch the KKK in the America.
Re:Oh no! more memory wastage...
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Enlightenment Lives
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Don't like EFL / Enlightenment? Don't use it.
Don't be silly. If some program uses the EFL, even if I don't use Enlightenment, I'll have to use the EFL libs to use said program.
For example, I don't give a rat's ass about Gnome. I think Gnome, as an environment, is as ugly as it gets. But I need to use GIMP and Gnomeeting. There's no Qt/kde equivalent: what do I do? do without them? of course not, and you know it full well.
Your bitching about inefficient memory usage when you probably haven't written a single line of code in your life
Heh, funny people who make assumptions without knowing. FYI, I do real-time programming and I port the Linux kernel on embedded processors. You've probably already seen my name out there on the net, but of course this is/. and I'm not going to tell you who I am.
you will be able to afford another 64MB stick and all your memory problems will be a thing of the past.
Tell me, is computing all a matter of how much it costs to you? or "just get xxx more of yyy and you're set"? how about engineering elegance? how about not wasting when you don't need to?
When *you* leave school and become a professional, which I hope you do, hopefully you will learn to appreciate that. I know it's a concept of the past, but it is one that I think is still important.
Having trouble getting work done? Reading Slashdot too much?
Are you in need for Slashdot when you're forced offline? Download this first and you'll always have your fix.
Then again, you could just not use Lockout...
Re:Oh no! more memory wastage...
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Enlightenment Lives
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Add to this the fact that most people don't typically have a myriad of apps open at any given time;
You just need one, say GIMP in KDE, and there you have megabytes of additional, functionally identical code loaded in memory for nothing.
And you know what? even with 512M, when I edit really big images with GIMP, I need all the memory I can get. Memory isn't there for applications and libraries to waste as they please, it's supposed to be used for the data you create/manipulate.
Many years ago, it used to be that memory taken by applications and the OS was minimal compared to your data, simply because it was vital. Now it's the other way round, because developers have gotten comfy with Moore's law. The problem is, code grows faster than Moore's law...
Oh no! more memory wastage...
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Enlightenment Lives
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Enlightenment Foundation Libraries
Sheesh, just great, a third set of graphical toolkits to load in memory for nothing... Like we didn't have enough waste of memory with Qt/kdelibs and GTK/Gnomelibs having to be both loaded in memory most of the time (who restricts his choice to either Qt programs or GTK programs, but not both?)
Really, there are some times where the OpenSource approach to things isn't the right one. Sure choice of graphical toolkits is great, but do we look like stupids forcing users to have more memory to load several huge sets of similar libraries *just because* or what? I wish F/OSS folks decided to rally behind one and I'd happily follow, even if it wasn't my primary choice, for the sake of reducing the bloat...
The real question is: are these virtual girl/boy-friends okay with a same sex owner? Is there a Mac version too? come to think of it, that might be the same question...
how a small colouring mistake forced Microsoft to recall 200,000 copies of Windows 95.
I seem to recall getting a lot of blue from Win95, and yet nobody at Microsoft returned by calls when I told them I wanted a refund for their faulty OS...
VOIP cos are essentially brokers between the POTS and the internet.
I'd like to claim the first no-shit-sherlock post in this thread.
But eventually, most calls will be peer-to-peer across the internet just like most other IP protocols and there will be no need for VOIP cos.
*sigh*
Again, US != rest of the world. While this may be true in a more or less near future in the US, the rest of the world isn't the US and there are place in the world that don't have computers, or even the internet. Yes, really!
In any case, wiring the entire world with a phone system took 100 years. I'd say it should take at least 30 to turn it all into a VoIP world, if only to allow the internet's infrastructure to be upgraded to withstand the assault. VoIP companies can make a fat lot of money in 30 years...
doesn't wiretapping a VoIP conversation going through a microtelco not much more difficult than doing a tcpdump and sending the stream off to the authorities? And with ad-hoc VoIP connections, those that happen from machine to machine without going through a centralized server, surely it's possible to do the same thing at one of the two parties' ISP, with a regular subpoena.
So what's the big cost here? if nothing else, it would seem less costly than a regular phone tap...
Re:Here is the only guide you need
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Linux Desktop Guide
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· Score: 5, Funny
Been using Windows XP Home for 3 years, and never looked back.
Not enough time to look back between security updates, and A/V, anti-spyware and personal firewall software installations I guess...
Slashdot Mirror
Great, thanks!
:-)
Then my punch line should have been "Taco looking like an 5 year old editing html for the first time: priceless"
SCO showing copyrighted code in Linux: 50,000:1
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The ponies are life on Titan, 10,000:1
Gravitational waves, 500:1
The Higgs boson, 6:1
Cosmic ray origins, 4:1
Nuclear fusion, 100:1
The New Scientist getting a good Slashdotting: priceless
am i the only person that finds ever changing interfaces an annoyance??
Apparently not.
Program skins with "browser tags" and "embedded xml"? sheesh, what next, word processor documents that have executable code inside?
Come on.. who has a friggin PENTABYTE??
I don't know how much that is, but I bet that's a whole lot of Libraries of Congress...
ideally more choice==more competition==lower prices and most drives tend to read/write all the standards
Yes, ideally. That old canard of capitalism...
That theory is usually true, but more often than not it doesn't hold water see: in Europe they never had much choice in cell phone technology and now *gasp* you can use your phone in most countries without any problem. Whereas in the good ole US of A where there's the sacro-saint consumer choice, there's a kajillion incompatible cell phone standards.
how can any consumer intelligently know which one to buy into?
Easy: stick to what's proven. For me it's CDRs. I won't even touch DVD-Rs until I stop reading a million different labels at the store.
most people spout off "I can say anything here in the U.S.! That's freedom!" But, you can't
My understanding is that you can say anything in the US so long as (1) you're not calling other people to do illegal things (read shouting "let's go kill some jews!" in public) and (2) it doesn't contravene the law (like you say, lying in court). Also, those rules are the same for everybody.
In France, saying "I think Jews own the press" can land you in court. That's wrong. Also, saying "I think Catholics own the press" won't. That too is wrong, because the rule is biased towards one group of people, usually a minority.
France admits that. They say jews have suffered during the war and deserve to be especially protected. They since have extended their "special protection" to people of north african descent, and pretty much most ethnic minorities. The problem is, it's counterproductive because people who are not in one of the specially protected minority resent that, and also people are attracted to forbidden things. Which explains all the antisemitic acts going on in France right now.
there are frequent occurrences of anti-semitic vandalism in france. it's on the rise
Many people think that's the result of the anti-nazi laws and jewish protection laws. The act of criminalizing nazi *ideas* makes them attractive to a whole slew of mentally unstable people, and youth who are drawn to forbidden things.
Just look at the US: we're let hate groups say whatever they wanted, and now the hate speech they spew out is banalized, and people look at them as the redneck morons they are. In France, the criminalization of hate speech and hate-related objects makes them dangerously attractive.
That, combined with communist control of many of the French journalist's unions, means that many stories [...] never get adequately reported in the French press.
I'm so glad CNN and Fox News aren't in the hands of those dirty commies, so we always get FAIR AND BALANCED reporting from the US press.
Yahoo intends to defend its First Amendment rights should a French court try to enforce French anti-hate laws.
Well good luck on that one. Yahoo's lawyer should know better than that. There is no right of free speech in France. Matter of fact, there isn't any such concept pretty much anywhere else but in the US. As a side note, the first amendment is one of the US' greatest gems, that Americans should be proud of around the globe, and it makes me sad to see the current administration tread on it without anybody doing anything about it, but I digress...
In France, there is *SO* no concept of free speech that there are laws to prevent people from saying anything remotely bad about jews. For example, if your opinion is that jews control the banking system and you voice it, you can be prosecuted and sent to jail. Whether or not whatever you say is true, the act of saying it puts you in jeopardy in France.
Remember the Faurisson case? Pr. Faurisson was a revisionist. He thought gas chambers didn't exist and said so. Well, he was prosecuted for some "hate speech" crime or something. If my memory serves me right, I seem to recall Noam Chomsky giving a speech in France about how he thought Faurisson was a crackpot but he should be allowed to expose his nutcase theories freely, and he himself was threatened by a French judge to be careful not to cross the line if he wanted to avoid trouble himself.
So, Yahoo really should know better than provoke the French judicial system. They're positively and admitedly anti free-speech, and wanting to assert "firste amendement" rights in France is as pointless as trying to squelch the KKK in the America.
Don't like EFL / Enlightenment? Don't use it.
/. and I'm not going to tell you who I am.
Don't be silly. If some program uses the EFL, even if I don't use Enlightenment, I'll have to use the EFL libs to use said program.
For example, I don't give a rat's ass about Gnome. I think Gnome, as an environment, is as ugly as it gets. But I need to use GIMP and Gnomeeting. There's no Qt/kde equivalent: what do I do? do without them? of course not, and you know it full well.
Your bitching about inefficient memory usage when you probably haven't written a single line of code in your life
Heh, funny people who make assumptions without knowing. FYI, I do real-time programming and I port the Linux kernel on embedded processors. You've probably already seen my name out there on the net, but of course this is
you will be able to afford another 64MB stick and all your memory problems will be a thing of the past.
Tell me, is computing all a matter of how much it costs to you? or "just get xxx more of yyy and you're set"? how about engineering elegance? how about not wasting when you don't need to?
When *you* leave school and become a professional, which I hope you do, hopefully you will learn to appreciate that. I know it's a concept of the past, but it is one that I think is still important.
Having trouble getting work done? Reading Slashdot too much?
Are you in need for Slashdot when you're forced offline? Download this first and you'll always have your fix.
Then again, you could just not use Lockout...
Add to this the fact that most people don't typically have a myriad of apps open at any given time;
You just need one, say GIMP in KDE, and there you have megabytes of additional, functionally identical code loaded in memory for nothing.
And you know what? even with 512M, when I edit really big images with GIMP, I need all the memory I can get. Memory isn't there for applications and libraries to waste as they please, it's supposed to be used for the data you create/manipulate.
Many years ago, it used to be that memory taken by applications and the OS was minimal compared to your data, simply because it was vital. Now it's the other way round, because developers have gotten comfy with Moore's law. The problem is, code grows faster than Moore's law...
Enlightenment Foundation Libraries
Sheesh, just great, a third set of graphical toolkits to load in memory for nothing... Like we didn't have enough waste of memory with Qt/kdelibs and GTK/Gnomelibs having to be both loaded in memory most of the time (who restricts his choice to either Qt programs or GTK programs, but not both?)
Really, there are some times where the OpenSource approach to things isn't the right one. Sure choice of graphical toolkits is great, but do we look like stupids forcing users to have more memory to load several huge sets of similar libraries *just because* or what? I wish F/OSS folks decided to rally behind one and I'd happily follow, even if it wasn't my primary choice, for the sake of reducing the bloat...
The real question is: are these virtual girl/boy-friends okay with a same sex owner? Is there a Mac version too? come to think of it, that might be the same question...
how a small colouring mistake forced Microsoft to recall 200,000 copies of Windows 95.
I seem to recall getting a lot of blue from Win95, and yet nobody at Microsoft returned by calls when I told them I wanted a refund for their faulty OS...
VOIP cos are essentially brokers between the POTS and the internet.
I'd like to claim the first no-shit-sherlock post in this thread.
But eventually, most calls will be peer-to-peer across the internet just like most other IP protocols and there will be no need for VOIP cos.
*sigh*
Again, US != rest of the world. While this may be true in a more or less near future in the US, the rest of the world isn't the US and there are place in the world that don't have computers, or even the internet. Yes, really!
In any case, wiring the entire world with a phone system took 100 years. I'd say it should take at least 30 to turn it all into a VoIP world, if only to allow the internet's infrastructure to be upgraded to withstand the assault. VoIP companies can make a fat lot of money in 30 years...
This is like shiting on someone's door
I never shat on someone's door. Gravity doesn't go sideways where I live.
doesn't wiretapping a VoIP conversation going through a microtelco not much more difficult than doing a tcpdump and sending the stream off to the authorities? And with ad-hoc VoIP connections, those that happen from machine to machine without going through a centralized server, surely it's possible to do the same thing at one of the two parties' ISP, with a regular subpoena.
So what's the big cost here? if nothing else, it would seem less costly than a regular phone tap...
Been using Windows XP Home for 3 years, and never looked back.
Not enough time to look back between security updates, and A/V, anti-spyware and personal firewall software installations I guess...
Hey, this is great, you've got your first Linux system. Whoops! Time's up. If you want security updates, it's time to wipe and reinstall!
It's on purpose, so people migrating from Windows get a familiar user experience and feel at home.
the entire thing is [...] available in .sxw (OpenOffice.org Writer) or PDF formats.
That's one way of ensuring the user has broadband and a large enough hard drive...
There aren't enough deep-fat fryers to keep up with demand for Bio-Diesel on any reasonable scale. Sorry, won't work.
If you want fat-powered vehicles to work on a large scale and sustainably in America, put Americans on bicycles.