Really if the government would dissapear tomorrow I think that Russia and China would be in a nice little battle to see who got to take over the country. Without government anarchy reigns and as I mention in an earlier post anarchy is a defunct idea. Take a look at how the Facist parties came to power in Italy and Germany. How the Weimer republic was so weak and how that eventually the faciasts became so powerful in germany that they made Hitler chancelor after the death of Hindenburg.
They had a 70% no-show rate at their recent election. It is really sad that the only reason to go to the pools is to PREVENT some gorilla from hurting us.
Where do you get these figures? Are you french? It wouldn't suprise me since the French have had a history of crappy governments and social problems that their governments couldn't handle.
But if you vote, you're just giving assent and acceptance to the cage of control which you're in... just giving the government the key to your door.
What a load of crap. So basically your saying that you shouldn't vote because you are giving the government "the key to your door" and then you site the fact that the government does stupid shitty things that hurt people who didn't even bother to vote in the first place.
Government sucks. Devotion to governance only begets more government. We'd be a lot better off if Congress would take a long, long vacation and stop passing laws.
But government is elected by the people. Maybe it's the people who suck and don't vote that make sure that the government hurts the people who didn't vote.
Laws represent various interests that are in American society. You cannot have representation of all groups without some laws to appease them all. Some of those laws are going to be in conflict against the basic tenets of the binding social contract of the society (the US constitution) and are struck down in the US suppreme courts and various Federal courts around the country.
Really you have to have money all the time to spend your days lobbying in Washington for political causes and paying for various staffers, etc. It's not a cheap life.
Any "government" that slashdot were to set up would be instantly eliminated by another larger government. Have thousands of people start to post and never actually stop posting. Just post roughly every 7 minutes and you have an effective way to prevent going over your daily cap. Take a bunch of other IPs from the other group who wants to kill the slashdot "government" and do the same thing. Maybe submit millions of stories along with it.
I really don't understand why anyone would fancy slashdot a government or an anarchy. It's just a bunch of strangers doing random things not a cohesive group of people in any sense. They have no power so I guess it's similar to the (lack of) power in an anarchy.
Here's a way to get rid of your little "anarchy" business.
1. Become a public speaker and find friends/associates who share your dream of power.
2. Show people of their suffering at the hand of various roving bandits/thieves/axe murderers/rapists/etc.
3. Then promise to get rid of 2.
4. Get followers and arms to bring your goal to fruition.
5. Make alliances with others and then gradually start to assimiliate the larger factions. What you cannot assimiliate your conquerer.
6. In the process of 5 make sure that you have some very public examples of your wrath and illustrate that you are also compationate as well with acts of generosity.
Back in the early days that made him fameous as a crusader for right was when he basically displayed the corruption of GM in their auto manufacture and safety practices. Although over time he has come to love money and the ability that money brings. I don't think it's inherently bad to have moeny to help out one's cause.
Geeks should be smarter. We should be able to hack the political system. We should be the ones in control.
The $group should be smarter. We should be able to hack the political system We should be the ones in control.
$group=Italian Faciasts, German National Faciast Party, Ustasha, Iron Guard, etc.
Not one group is solely fit to govern that's why we have a representative democracy that represents the interests of the many and the few at the same time.
I agree with Katz, to some extent, the system holds nothing good or helpful for us but it can be harmful.
The system is fine it's the people who have become lazy, slothful, apathetic, and uninformed. Hell I bet dollars to doughnuts that I personally am in the upper quartile of slashdot's informed in the area of politics/history.
People who make an extremely nihilistic statement like "the political process holds nothing for me" are fools, and madmen. Kind of like the unabomber.
If you don't like the process change the process by voting for people who will vote the way you like or better yet run yourself your can loose nothing but gain almost everything if you win.
Imagine fair use totally gone, reverse engineering gone, the ability to use hardware on your favorite platform gone
and no way to create something new since all good ideas infringe on someones overly broad patent.
Guess what why does each and every person miss a critical detail; namely that it's impossible to actually prevent the release and development of code if you are determined. In principle most people get caught because they scrawl their name on the code and never bother to think that they might get caught for it. Sheesh it's kind of like a bank robber going into the bank and leaving his life story on the desk and posing for the security camera and then stealing the loot.
It's a little dry but some of those technical articles about new chip X or bad legal case Y are much longer. I believe that one of the Napster related legal briefs was about ~100 pages of pdf text.
John, I have to disagree with you on your assessment on the ability of politicians and the political process. Political activity goes in cycles depending on the ability of the populace to believe in something. What you are describing strongly correlates to political activity in the 1970's and in Post WWI France. Political power is the most powerful thing there is. That is why it is so important. At the end of the day it dosn't matter the stock options of Sony of what Microsoft is doing ultimately the US government could just declare martial law and sieze all the corporations assets and there would be no way to disagree.
The fundamental "staleness" of the political process is basically because of our relative stability as a nation and the good ecconomic conditions that we have. The issues are far and above more complex than you gave in your essay. While I agree that many of the ecconomic policies are in fact pretty much the same ones that have been going on since the 1880's I feel that the general apathy is not a good thing in the American voter.
Many of the non mainstream political parties are in fact not fit to govern the country but have active followings in many liberal states in the union. Would you have wanted Ross Perot to run the USA? He had new ideas but they were not exactly accepted or practical.
The way many, many, many technological workers think is not exactly the way I want my country to be run in any sense of the matter. People who want instant change and who believe that everything has a quick fix or even an easy one is a fool.
I remember when you could play a 3d game without the need for an external 3d graphics card on a 486 and get by (I have the game in question on CD). I am wondering with the use of consoles based on linux are we ever going to see the really, really efficient games.
Also I have interest in the quality of the games in question. Most of the open source games have very little plot and in fact seem to be knock offs of really old (and quite frankly not that fun) games from the 80's and earlier. What would be nice is to see something with a Final Fantasy level of story and in depth plot to work with.
Eventually you can break down the problem into easier and easier steps and explain then in some form of cracking howto or whatnot and it just becomes follow the instructions.
Personally the shutting down of a few cheesy sites that just exploit consumers isn't a big loss for me in the least. What real practical end would this try to shoot for.
arriving at a certain rate? For example suppose I have 10,000 packets a second from say 182.111.12.10 or something like that. Now it's not that logical that something could be naturally pumping out that kind of data so you simply force the number of possible requests that you even bother to deal with down to a predetermined level.
Unfortunately you can't stop it. Technically jaywalking is against the law in the US however just try and enforce it. You just cannot. As long as music is able to be converted into sonic pulses it can be copied and distributed in any fashion that the person wishes.
Freedoms and rights are the defacto condition of all men. The social contract hasn't been ammended to allow for the criminalizing of freely using music.
When windows costs $89 just for the upgrade (98) and CDs cost $20 for some worthless one hit song with the rest a bunch of sleepy thrid rate shit I see no reason no bother. There are very few "artists" left who are actually hurt by piracy in any appreciable. And if that means that Matallica can't make their Porche payment or get that solid gold house I won't be crying in the rain (it is raining).
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Antibodies? The average life and quality of a tribesman is abysmally low.
Well then why hasn't someone bothered to say decompile the windows executables and then take a look at the raw assembler make some raw C or C++ code from that and then modify it and then recompile it to give them what they need?
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Really if the government would dissapear tomorrow I think that Russia and China would be in a nice little battle to see who got to take over the country. Without government anarchy reigns and as I mention in an earlier post anarchy is a defunct idea. Take a look at how the Facist parties came to power in Italy and Germany. How the Weimer republic was so weak and how that eventually the faciasts became so powerful in germany that they made Hitler chancelor after the death of Hindenburg.
They had a 70% no-show rate at their recent election. It is really sad that the only reason to go to the pools is to PREVENT some gorilla from hurting us.
Where do you get these figures? Are you french? It wouldn't suprise me since the French have had a history of crappy governments and social problems that their governments couldn't handle.
But if you vote, you're just giving assent and acceptance to the cage of control which you're in... just giving the government the key to your door.
What a load of crap. So basically your saying that you shouldn't vote because you are giving the government "the key to your door" and then you site the fact that the government does stupid shitty things that hurt people who didn't even bother to vote in the first place.
Government sucks. Devotion to governance only begets more government. We'd be a lot better off if Congress would take a long, long vacation and stop passing laws.
But government is elected by the people. Maybe it's the people who suck and don't vote that make sure that the government hurts the people who didn't vote.
Laws represent various interests that are in American society. You cannot have representation of all groups without some laws to appease them all. Some of those laws are going to be in conflict against the basic tenets of the binding social contract of the society (the US constitution) and are struck down in the US suppreme courts and various Federal courts around the country.
Really you have to have money all the time to spend your days lobbying in Washington for political causes and paying for various staffers, etc. It's not a cheap life.
Any "government" that slashdot were to set up would be instantly eliminated by another larger government. Have thousands of people start to post and never actually stop posting. Just post roughly every 7 minutes and you have an effective way to prevent going over your daily cap. Take a bunch of other IPs from the other group who wants to kill the slashdot "government" and do the same thing. Maybe submit millions of stories along with it.
I really don't understand why anyone would fancy slashdot a government or an anarchy. It's just a bunch of strangers doing random things not a cohesive group of people in any sense. They have no power so I guess it's similar to the (lack of) power in an anarchy.
Here's a way to get rid of your little "anarchy" business.
1. Become a public speaker and find friends/associates who share your dream of power.
2. Show people of their suffering at the hand of various roving bandits/thieves/axe murderers/rapists/etc.
3. Then promise to get rid of 2.
4. Get followers and arms to bring your goal to fruition.
5. Make alliances with others and then gradually start to assimiliate the larger factions. What you cannot assimiliate your conquerer.
6. In the process of 5 make sure that you have some very public examples of your wrath and illustrate that you are also compationate as well with acts of generosity.
7. Eventually power will be yours after a while.
Back in the early days that made him fameous as a crusader for right was when he basically displayed the corruption of GM in their auto manufacture and safety practices. Although over time he has come to love money and the ability that money brings. I don't think it's inherently bad to have moeny to help out one's cause.
Geeks should be smarter. We should be able to hack the political system. We should be the ones in control.
The $group should be smarter. We should be able to hack the political system We should be the ones in control.
$group=Italian Faciasts, German National Faciast Party, Ustasha, Iron Guard, etc.
Not one group is solely fit to govern that's why we have a representative democracy that represents the interests of the many and the few at the same time.
I agree with Katz, to some extent, the system holds nothing good or helpful for us but it can be harmful.
The system is fine it's the people who have become lazy, slothful, apathetic, and uninformed. Hell I bet dollars to doughnuts that I personally am in the upper quartile of slashdot's informed in the area of politics/history.
People who make an extremely nihilistic statement like "the political process holds nothing for me" are fools, and madmen. Kind of like the unabomber.
If you don't like the process change the process by voting for people who will vote the way you like or better yet run yourself your can loose nothing but gain almost everything if you win.
Imagine fair use totally gone, reverse engineering gone, the ability to use hardware on your favorite platform gone
and no way to create something new since all good ideas infringe on someones overly broad patent.
Guess what why does each and every person miss a critical detail; namely that it's impossible to actually prevent the release and development of code if you are determined. In principle most people get caught because they scrawl their name on the code and never bother to think that they might get caught for it. Sheesh it's kind of like a bank robber going into the bank and leaving his life story on the desk and posing for the security camera and then stealing the loot.
It's a little dry but some of those technical articles about new chip X or bad legal case Y are much longer. I believe that one of the Napster related legal briefs was about ~100 pages of pdf text.
John, I have to disagree with you on your assessment on the ability of politicians and the political process. Political activity goes in cycles depending on the ability of the populace to believe in something. What you are describing strongly correlates to political activity in the 1970's and in Post WWI France. Political power is the most powerful thing there is. That is why it is so important. At the end of the day it dosn't matter the stock options of Sony of what Microsoft is doing ultimately the US government could just declare martial law and sieze all the corporations assets and there would be no way to disagree.
The fundamental "staleness" of the political process is basically because of our relative stability as a nation and the good ecconomic conditions that we have. The issues are far and above more complex than you gave in your essay. While I agree that many of the ecconomic policies are in fact pretty much the same ones that have been going on since the 1880's I feel that the general apathy is not a good thing in the American voter.
Many of the non mainstream political parties are in fact not fit to govern the country but have active followings in many liberal states in the union. Would you have wanted Ross Perot to run the USA? He had new ideas but they were not exactly accepted or practical.
The way many, many, many technological workers think is not exactly the way I want my country to be run in any sense of the matter. People who want instant change and who believe that everything has a quick fix or even an easy one is a fool.
Then I can tell you.
I remember when you could play a 3d game without the need for an external 3d graphics card on a 486 and get by (I have the game in question on CD). I am wondering with the use of consoles based on linux are we ever going to see the really, really efficient games.
Also I have interest in the quality of the games in question. Most of the open source games have very little plot and in fact seem to be knock offs of really old (and quite frankly not that fun) games from the 80's and earlier. What would be nice is to see something with a Final Fantasy level of story and in depth plot to work with.
Eventually you can break down the problem into easier and easier steps and explain then in some form of cracking howto or whatnot and it just becomes follow the instructions.
I don't get it what's the problem. Just ignore them somehow.
I would think that apache can force only so many requests to be processed in a given time frame. That would prevent your mentioned 14.0 load average.
My personal question that I havn't had answered yet is how does load average correlate to the actual load that machine is experiencing.
Personally the shutting down of a few cheesy sites that just exploit consumers isn't a big loss for me in the least. What real practical end would this try to shoot for.
If they can in fact say for a certainty that they have tested that many then they can by significant figures say that.
arriving at a certain rate? For example suppose I have 10,000 packets a second from say 182.111.12.10 or something like that. Now it's not that logical that something could be naturally pumping out that kind of data so you simply force the number of possible requests that you even bother to deal with down to a predetermined level.
I thought that if people widely adopted the use of ipv6 that most of these problems would go away.
Unfortunately you can't stop it. Technically jaywalking is against the law in the US however just try and enforce it. You just cannot. As long as music is able to be converted into sonic pulses it can be copied and distributed in any fashion that the person wishes.
Freedoms and rights are the defacto condition of all men. The social contract hasn't been ammended to allow for the criminalizing of freely using music.
When windows costs $89 just for the upgrade (98) and CDs cost $20 for some worthless one hit song with the rest a bunch of sleepy thrid rate shit I see no reason no bother. There are very few "artists" left who are actually hurt by piracy in any appreciable. And if that means that Matallica can't make their Porche payment or get that solid gold house I won't be crying in the rain (it is raining).
Antibodies? The average life and quality of a tribesman is abysmally low.
Well then why hasn't someone bothered to say decompile the windows executables and then take a look at the raw assembler make some raw C or C++ code from that and then modify it and then recompile it to give them what they need?
Is it one of the new LCD terminals that you shove slashdot on?
Yeah they sure do know nothing about hardware (sarcastic tone)
Hmm what makes it a superior platform if what you say is true? I don't get it.