I guess that "support for peace in Israel" has to do with vetoing UN resolutions to obey World Law and walking out in global talks, right?
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Do Japanise people hate us for bringing our capitalistic values to their society? NO.
Do the Muslims hate the Japanese for installing the Saudi's? Do they hate Japanese for having their troops there for the last few decades? Do they hate Japan for their foriegn policy? Nope. Something to think about!
We give Muslims trillions of dollars in money for oil.
Nope! Bzzt! Wrong! We give trillions to A FEW PRINCES!!! We don't give oil money to farmers or even oil workers! We give it to the opressive, almost feudual gov't.
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But this is a *war* and there are bound to be civilian casualties. I'm sure not all Germans were Nazis, but we had to attack that country for the better of the rest of the world (and for the security of our own nation). Civilians die during war--it's not a good thing, but a fact of war. What percentage of our casualties have been civilian so far, 99.9%?
Duh! 5000+ civilians already died in America, right? If this is "just war" and "civilians die during war", then we have nothing to complain about, right? We were just attacked in a war that we didn't notice was taking place because we'd rather watch baseball.
If we actually need a 'National ID system' to solve a specific problem (many Americans are unconvinced) then it should be designed and implemented in such a way as to solve the problem at hand, with inherent safeguards to prevent abuse, now or in the future.
Okay, now think about this. If it ident'ed your fingerprint, wouldn't it be more secure to send _YOUR_ fingerprint to a central server and auth you there, right? If it didn't, you'd be able to steal a card and get a copy of the fingerprint as well. No good.
So What if I was messing with my case mods the night before my trip to [where ever] and I burn part of my thumbs using a iron (or even that hot glue gun!). So now I don't authenticate. What happens to me then? I can't get on the plane? Even if my picture and eye color match up? Who draws the lines?
Here's the part that counts: (I had to download WMP 7.1 and try to install it to copy this text. There was no "print" button)
* Digital Rights Management (Security).? You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and software protected by digital rights management ("Secure Content"), Microsoft may provide security related updates to the OS Components that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer.? These security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other software on your computer.? If we provide such a security update, we will use reasonable efforts to post notices on a web site explaining the update.
This show has been taken off the air because it upset too many people. Does someone have a mirror of this show, or a transcript or something? I'd really like to know what was said.
They say in the release notes that they did this to keep compatablity with all the other 7.0 releases.
I for one would not like to have to wait for Ximian to release yet another format (even though they picked up Redhat 7.0 pretty quick), let alone everyone else. I mean, look how slow the new RPM format picked up.
Well, I worked for a major book store when this whole thing happened. Also note that Mother T died right before Lady Di, and we had tons of Mother T stuff out, but all they wanted was "Royals, Royals, and More Di Pictures".
Of course, when the Kitty Kelly book came out (at almost $30 hardback) we sold out IN A DAY! Now, I'll tell you, Oprah books don't even sell out in a day. People were crazy over it.
Granted, I believe most people want to make up their own minds on most subjects, but sometimes they just want to be told what to believe.
So what's a good method?
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Okay.. I don't really care for MAPS or ORBS and I don't want to use them for the company I work for. What's another way to stop spam from flogging us?
You know that it's true, too! If you don't believe me, hang out with the homeless people on Sprawl Plaza in Berkeley, CA next time there is a full moon on a weekend.
It'll work even better if it's just after the SSI checks have been dispatched! Try it! It's Science you can do!
And tell the Hateman I told him to fuck himself. He'll love that (but hate me for saying that he'll love it)
There _is_ another system, called "Approval Voting" that is basicly a "yes/no" for EACH person on the ballot. This, IMHO, is a far better way to vote! That way, you could say "YES" to Gore AND Nader and "No" to Bush and still have your complete point getting across without someone saying that so-and-so is "stealing" votes from someone else.
Think about it. If there are 6 people running (like there was in most states) than you could say "Yes" to each and every person you thought could handle running this country. Doesn't that sound more democratic? Doesn't that curtail (at least a little bit) the "two party dualopoly" that Nader talked about so much?
I'm not a Nader fan myself, but I would have liked to cast a vote for "Other". Personally, living in Humboldt County, CA I kind of wanted to vote for Frank Zappa. Sure he's dead, but why not? Couldn't do worse than Bush!
...When Soccer Mom Jane and Joe Six-Pack have web enabled pads (running Linux) on the back of the mini-van's bucket seats (for the kids, of course) no one is going to care one way or the other what the source code's clickthrough says.
Come to think about it, what about the code in the car you drive? Aren't you 'upset' that it too isn't open source?
I know it sounds drastic, but the FBI's internet team just LOVE this sort of thing.
I had been cracked by a former employee who treatened to email sensitive data to one of our former clients. Even then the local cops didn't know what to do, but the DA suggested talking to the local FBI. Now _they_ knew what to do.
They had us make a dd copy of all our servers, photocopied our network layout, and listened to our leads. We pinpointed who it was within a day and the FBI handled the rest.
They really knew what to do and how to handle everyone. Our CIO was agas about how the FBI "talks" to the local cops. It's like the cops were dogs to be given orders to (and boy did they listen!) and we had our problem "solved" within a week.
Also, they had some great suggestions for locking things down as well as some interesting thoughts on log files (i.e. Keeping logfiles on internet connected production servers is "useless" unless they are mirrored offsite or piped to a line printer. Hell, we even had an old line printer sitting right next to the hacked box too!;-(
Sheesh. You know, some times places like MSNBC think only assholes and ID10Ts hack computers, I guess. There is that quote saying that "hacking computers doesn't pay". Sheesh!
Did any hacker out there ever do a cost/benefit before rooting someone's box?! I mean, hackers that target e-com servers with millions of card numbers on them seem to think it's worth it!
I know it will sound strange to a lot of you, but if you really want to expand your life, live outdoors and be homeless!! Believe me, you'll be a better person for it!
I am like a lot of you slashdotters. I am very smart, was in honors classes and the "gifted" program in high school, National Honor Society, but I got mostly C's (thanks to all the teachers who didn't want to fail me, knowing that I'd Ace all the tests the 2nd time around, just like the first, but still wouldn't turn in homework!) But by the time I was a senior, I was fed up! I guess I also discovered LSD and read lots of Robert Anton Wilson and just wanted to get out and live some life!
So I traveled the USA for two years with just the stuff on my back. It was the best thing I ever did for myself. I only had $1,200 (which only lasted me about 5 months!). And I learned more then than college ever will teach me.
Since then, I've been to 114 units of college (CIS major at Humboldt State Univ in California) and then dropped out! I'm Network Admin for a ".com" making good money. And guess what! I started out answering tech calls, just like everyone and because I was smart (and showed it) I got better and better jobs.
The thing that college really teaches you is self-reliance. Can you make bills meet? Can you turn things in on time? Will you get too drunk before the test? School is social learning school and not much else, really. Granted, I learned more about art history in school than I would have at home, but the local JC has great teachers all for 11 bucks a unit!
And yes, I put "Extensive travel and outdoor living" on my resume. They always ask about it!
I admin both *NIX and NT boxen, and I'll tell you what! The Linux and BSD boxes are _so_ much easier to take care of then the NT boxes. Some examples:
- Dumb Linux user: "I erased all my.files and now my backspace goes ^H" - an easy fix.
- Dumb NT user: "I installed Diablo II, which doesn't run correctly, and now Lotus Notes doesn't run" - huh? Must I reinstall your workstation again?!?
- Linux Server: "Can you do that backup only if xyz and abc happen?" "Sure! No problem! A ten minute script (including testing)"
- NT Server: "Why didn't the backup happen?" "MSSQLExec crashes every once and awhile for no reason, leaving no log, but will restart and run for an unknown amount of time again, and of course, Task Manager had no clue so it over wrote the tape with yesterdays files."
Plus, when I get paged, if it's a Linux "problem", I don't even have to close the porn windows. I just open up an Eterm and have at it. With NT, I almost always have to drive in and hit the power button.
Ugh! I quit caring what others think! I just know my next job won't have "NT" in the title.
IANAG, but what's the deal with genetic "junk"? I've read quite a few stories about unused junk in our genes. Doesn't anyone find this hard to believe?
I mean, does it seem odd that there would be so much "filler". How much is really understood about exactly what processes take place inside living cells? Could this just be subtle? Something that we don't yet understand, maybe? I mean, I wouldn't want to throw away some of my parents genes just because I don't understand it yet, and then add... what? Something to add more human-produced chemicals into my body?
Maybe I'm just a little to stoned to figure this out. If someone could shoot me a few links to more information on the inner workings of DNA, I think that would be very "informative" (in slashdotese)
I've been trying to get Xinerama to work for the past two weeks with no luck. I can get text on both monitors using a framebuffer, but X doesn't want to see my AGP ATI All in Wonder (which, until recently, was my only card). I see that the changefile has "Xinerama updates". Has anyone gotten it to work with an AGP ATI and a TNT2 PCI?
Or, more to the point, is there a bouncepoint for Xinerama that is worth reading? The xfree86 site doesn't have much.
There may be, but that might not be an issue for two long. Think of it this way: You got ethernet on the wire which carries TCP/IP wrapping some HTTP going to a port in your OS. There are routers that understand both TCP/IP and HTTP now, so it won't take long for BXXP to make it onto the silicon. And even before then, if it's not to bulky it won't be too bad.
As for your 2nd question, it might as well, but that also has to do with the exact specs of the protocol, which I don't know.
You know, I got NetworkWorld mag at work today and I thought the artical on the Oxygen Project was much cooler and made me think a lot more about Our Networked Future(tm).(or visit Scientific American
This week, Matthew Vanecek complained that although plenty of folks were talking about how 'kswapd' was broken, he couldn't find any patches to fix it. He asked if a fix was available, and Rik van Riel replied, "People on the linux-mm mailing list are fixing things as we speak... http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/" Elsewhere, under the Subject: PATCH: Possible solution to VM problems, Juan J. Quintela posted a few iterations of a patch to improve the poor performance of recent development kernels, in particular the problem with 'kswapd' using up 100% of the CPU.
I think there is a patch out now for this "X is sluggish / Disk Activity" thing going around.
Your old program: Webstatprog v1.3 Your new program: Otherstat v 1.0
Just change the name of the New "Otherstat" program to your old name with a higher version number. Boom! The program you have been using all along is GPL (and _was_ GPL) and so is the new changes.
This will most likely change over time. Programs just have get updated to compile with the new libs. I'm sure that most everything in the gnome-cvs will only take a few weeks to get upgraded, at most. Sorry like when glibc and libc walked away from each other. It'll just take time.
What I would like is a beta i386 bin of evolution. I know that the mailer isn't up to snuff yet, but I'd like to give it a whirl and see if it's worth not getting another mailer (besides pine) in the mean time.
I guess that will be soon enough. April GNOME isn't _too_ far away.:-)
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I guess that "support for peace in Israel" has to do with vetoing UN resolutions to obey World Law and walking out in global talks, right?
Do the Muslims hate the Japanese for installing the Saudi's? Do they hate Japanese for having their troops there for the last few decades? Do they hate Japan for their foriegn policy? Nope. Something to think about!
We give Muslims trillions of dollars in money for oil.
Nope! Bzzt! Wrong! We give trillions to A FEW PRINCES!!! We don't give oil money to farmers or even oil workers! We give it to the opressive, almost feudual gov't.
But this is a *war* and there are bound to be civilian casualties. I'm sure not all Germans were Nazis, but we had to attack that country for the better of the rest of the world (and for the security of our own nation). Civilians die during war--it's not a good thing, but a fact of war. What percentage of our casualties have been civilian so far, 99.9%?
Duh! 5000+ civilians already died in America, right? If this is "just war" and "civilians die during war", then we have nothing to complain about, right? We were just attacked in a war that we didn't notice was taking place because we'd rather watch baseball.
Okay, now think about this. If it ident'ed your fingerprint, wouldn't it be more secure to send _YOUR_ fingerprint to a central server and auth you there, right? If it didn't, you'd be able to steal a card and get a copy of the fingerprint as well. No good.
So What if I was messing with my case mods the night before my trip to [where ever] and I burn part of my thumbs using a iron (or even that hot glue gun!). So now I don't authenticate. What happens to me then? I can't get on the plane? Even if my picture and eye color match up? Who draws the lines?
Here's the part that counts: (I had to download WMP 7.1 and try to install it to copy this text. There was no "print" button)
* Digital Rights Management (Security).? You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and software protected by digital rights management ("Secure Content"), Microsoft may provide security related updates to the OS Components that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer.? These security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other software on your computer.? If we provide such a security update, we will use reasonable efforts to post notices on a web site explaining the update.
This show has been taken off the air because it upset too many people. Does someone have a mirror of this show, or a transcript or something? I'd really like to know what was said.
I for one would not like to have to wait for Ximian to release yet another format (even though they picked up Redhat 7.0 pretty quick), let alone everyone else. I mean, look how slow the new RPM format picked up.
Of course, when the Kitty Kelly book came out (at almost $30 hardback) we sold out IN A DAY! Now, I'll tell you, Oprah books don't even sell out in a day. People were crazy over it.
Granted, I believe most people want to make up their own minds on most subjects, but sometimes they just want to be told what to believe.
Okay.. I don't really care for MAPS or ORBS and I don't want to use them for the company I work for. What's another way to stop spam from flogging us?
Now if he can only get Apple to release Quicktime for the opensource OS's, I'd be happy :-)
It'll work even better if it's just after the SSI checks have been dispatched! Try it! It's Science you can do!
And tell the Hateman I told him to fuck himself. He'll love that (but hate me for saying that he'll love it)
Think about it. If there are 6 people running (like there was in most states) than you could say "Yes" to each and every person you thought could handle running this country. Doesn't that sound more democratic? Doesn't that curtail (at least a little bit) the "two party dualopoly" that Nader talked about so much?
I'm not a Nader fan myself, but I would have liked to cast a vote for "Other". Personally, living in Humboldt County, CA I kind of wanted to vote for Frank Zappa. Sure he's dead, but why not? Couldn't do worse than Bush!
...When Soccer Mom Jane and Joe Six-Pack have web enabled pads (running Linux) on the back of the mini-van's bucket seats (for the kids, of course) no one is going to care one way or the other what the source code's clickthrough says.
Come to think about it, what about the code in the car you drive? Aren't you 'upset' that it too isn't open source?
I know it sounds drastic, but the FBI's internet team just LOVE this sort of thing.
;-(
I had been cracked by a former employee who treatened to email sensitive data to one of our former clients. Even then the local cops didn't know what to do, but the DA suggested talking to the local FBI. Now _they_ knew what to do.
They had us make a dd copy of all our servers, photocopied our network layout, and listened to our leads. We pinpointed who it was within a day and the FBI handled the rest.
They really knew what to do and how to handle everyone. Our CIO was agas about how the FBI "talks" to the local cops. It's like the cops were dogs to be given orders to (and boy did they listen!) and we had our problem "solved" within a week.
Also, they had some great suggestions for locking things down as well as some interesting thoughts on log files (i.e. Keeping logfiles on internet connected production servers is "useless" unless they are mirrored offsite or piped to a line printer. Hell, we even had an old line printer sitting right next to the hacked box too!
Sheesh. You know, some times places like MSNBC think only assholes and ID10Ts hack computers, I guess. There is that quote saying that "hacking computers doesn't pay". Sheesh!
Did any hacker out there ever do a cost/benefit before rooting someone's box?! I mean, hackers that target e-com servers with millions of card numbers on them seem to think it's worth it!
I am like a lot of you slashdotters. I am very smart, was in honors classes and the "gifted" program in high school, National Honor Society, but I got mostly C's (thanks to all the teachers who didn't want to fail me, knowing that I'd Ace all the tests the 2nd time around, just like the first, but still wouldn't turn in homework!) But by the time I was a senior, I was fed up! I guess I also discovered LSD and read lots of Robert Anton Wilson and just wanted to get out and live some life!
So I traveled the USA for two years with just the stuff on my back. It was the best thing I ever did for myself. I only had $1,200 (which only lasted me about 5 months!). And I learned more then than college ever will teach me.
Since then, I've been to 114 units of college (CIS major at Humboldt State Univ in California) and then dropped out! I'm Network Admin for a ".com" making good money. And guess what! I started out answering tech calls, just like everyone and because I was smart (and showed it) I got better and better jobs.
The thing that college really teaches you is self-reliance. Can you make bills meet? Can you turn things in on time? Will you get too drunk before the test? School is social learning school and not much else, really. Granted, I learned more about art history in school than I would have at home, but the local JC has great teachers all for 11 bucks a unit!
And yes, I put "Extensive travel and outdoor living" on my resume. They always ask about it!
Okay. Take a look at this: From that RFC
Request = Simple-Request | Full-Request
Simple-Request = "GET" SP Request-URI CRLF
Full-Request = Request-Line ; Section 5.1
*( General-Header ; Section 4.3
| Request-Header ; Section 5.2
| Entity-Header ) ; Section 7.1
CRLF
[ Entity-Body ] ; Section 7.2
--- with request-line being:
Request-Line = Method SP Request-URI SP HTTP-Version CRLF
Sure does look like a CRLF no matter what to me. Plus the one at the end. Silly rabbit!
- Dumb Linux user: "I erased all my .files and now my backspace goes ^H" - an easy fix.
- Dumb NT user: "I installed Diablo II, which doesn't run correctly, and now Lotus Notes doesn't run" - huh? Must I reinstall your workstation again?!?
- Linux Server: "Can you do that backup only if xyz and abc happen?" "Sure! No problem! A ten minute script (including testing)"
- NT Server: "Why didn't the backup happen?" "MSSQLExec crashes every once and awhile for no reason, leaving no log, but will restart and run for an unknown amount of time again, and of course, Task Manager had no clue so it over wrote the tape with yesterdays files."
Plus, when I get paged, if it's a Linux "problem", I don't even have to close the porn windows. I just open up an Eterm and have at it. With NT, I almost always have to drive in and hit the power button.
Ugh! I quit caring what others think! I just know my next job won't have "NT" in the title.
I mean, does it seem odd that there would be so much "filler". How much is really understood about exactly what processes take place inside living cells? Could this just be subtle? Something that we don't yet understand, maybe? I mean, I wouldn't want to throw away some of my parents genes just because I don't understand it yet, and then add... what? Something to add more human-produced chemicals into my body?
Maybe I'm just a little to stoned to figure this out. If someone could shoot me a few links to more information on the inner workings of DNA, I think that would be very "informative" (in slashdotese)
Seer Snively
"The Dude Abides"
I saved my config file, did the X4.0.1 upgrade, thru in my config files (and xinitrc, btw) and the dual monitors worked.
Now if I could only get that old IBM G61 monitor to do 1024x768 like it says it will....
Or, more to the point, is there a bouncepoint for Xinerama that is worth reading? The xfree86 site doesn't have much.
HELP! :-)
As for your 2nd question, it might as well, but that also has to do with the exact specs of the protocol, which I don't know.
You know, I got NetworkWorld mag at work today and I thought the artical on the Oxygen Project was much cooler and made me think a lot more about Our Networked Future(tm).(or visit Scientific American
Seer
According to the recent Kernel Traffic:
This week, Matthew Vanecek complained that although plenty of folks were talking about how 'kswapd' was broken, he couldn't find any patches to fix it. He asked if a fix was available, and Rik van Riel replied, "People on the linux-mm mailing list are fixing things as we speak... http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/"
Elsewhere, under the Subject: PATCH: Possible solution to VM problems, Juan J. Quintela posted a few iterations of a patch to improve the poor performance of recent development kernels, in particular the problem with 'kswapd' using up 100% of the CPU.
I think there is a patch out now for this "X is sluggish / Disk Activity" thing going around.
Your old program: Webstatprog v1.3
Your new program: Otherstat v 1.0
Just change the name of the New "Otherstat" program to your old name with a higher version number. Boom! The program you have been using all along is GPL (and _was_ GPL) and so is the new changes.
Ahhh, now wouldn't that make things simple?
This will most likely change over time. Programs just have get updated to compile with the new libs. I'm sure that most everything in the gnome-cvs will only take a few weeks to get upgraded, at most. Sorry like when glibc and libc walked away from each other. It'll just take time.
:-)
What I would like is a beta i386 bin of evolution. I know that the mailer isn't up to snuff yet, but I'd like to give it a whirl and see if it's worth not getting another mailer (besides pine) in the mean time.
I guess that will be soon enough. April GNOME isn't _too_ far away.