The cable companies are not your friend PERIOD. As a matter of fact, most large companies despite the fact that they dump millions and millions into trying to convince you otherwise, dont give a flying fsck about you or anyone.
Just another reason to dump that attbi broadband internet.
Warning to the Zealots manipulated by Steve and Marketing department lie factory. Morpheus is now asking you to make a choice, the red pill or the blue pill.
Must not have, or maybe its just another case of the epidemic sweeping the country these days:
xenophobia
Yeah thats right.
Know what? I have been over there too. It sure is a shock to see the way the world is, and yeah its painful as well watching the poverty, pain and suffering that envelopes *most* of the globe.
For me it was an eyeopener, for you it was an excuse to get a cheap fuck (you cheap fuck, fuck you, you stupid ignorant imperialist fuck), and to come home and fuckin complain.
Fuck you. Oh and fuck you. Oh and, when are you idiots gonna realize its only a teeny bit of the population that gets to live in a SUV driving, Elimidate watching, non-corrupt (cough cough) paradise that is the "West".
I suggest you goto fuckin college and do a little studying before you make yer next trip. And by the way, hope you fall in a pit of shit while you wipe your ass with your hand.
A landmark legislation is being railroaded through after the past elections where the repubs took control over the gov.
You Are a Suspect By WILLIAM SAFIRE
ASHINGTON -- If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you:
Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend -- all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database."
To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you -- passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance -- and you have the supersnoop's dream: a "Total Information Awareness" about every U.S. citizen.
This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen to your personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter gets the unprecedented power he seeks.
Remember Poindexter? Brilliant man, first in his class at the Naval Academy, later earned a doctorate in physics, rose to national security adviser under President Ronald Reagan. He had this brilliant idea of secretly selling missiles to Iran to pay ransom for hostages, and with the illicit proceeds to illegally support contras in Nicaragua.
A jury convicted Poindexter in 1990 on five felony counts of misleading Congress and making false statements, but an appeals court overturned the verdict because Congress had given him immunity for his testimony. He famously asserted, "The buck stops here," arguing that the White House staff, and not the president, was responsible for fateful decisions that might prove embarrassing.
This ring-knocking master of deceit is back again with a plan even more scandalous than Iran-contra. He heads the "Information Awareness Office" in the otherwise excellent Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which spawned the Internet and stealth aircraft technology. Poindexter is now realizing his 20-year dream: getting the "data-mining" power to snoop on every public and private act of every American.
Even the hastily passed U.S.A. Patriot Act, which widened the scope of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and weakened 15 privacy laws, raised requirements for the government to report secret eavesdropping to Congress and the courts. But Poindexter's assault on individual privacy rides roughshod over such oversight.
He is determined to break down the wall between commercial snooping and secret government intrusion. The disgraced admiral dismisses such necessary differentiation as bureaucratic "stovepiping." And he has been given a $200 million budget to create computer dossiers on 300 million Americans.
When George W. Bush was running for president, he stood foursquare in defense of each person's medical, financial and communications privacy. But Poindexter, whose contempt for the restraints of oversight drew the Reagan administration into its most serious blunder, is still operating on the presumption that on such a sweeping theft of privacy rights, the buck ends with him and not with the president.
This time, however, he has been seizing power in the open. In the past week John Markoff of The Times, followed by Robert O'Harrow of The Washington Post, have revealed the extent of Poindexter's operation, but editorialists have not grasped its undermining of the Freedom of Information Act.
Political awareness can overcome "Total Information Awareness," the combined force of commercial and government snooping. In a similar overreach, Attorney General Ashcroft tried his Terrorism Information and Prevention System (TIPS), but public outrage at the use of gossips and postal workers as snoops caused the House to shoot it down. The Senate should now do the same to this other exploitation of fear.
The Latin motto over Poindexter"s new Pentagon office reads "Scientia Est Potentia" -- "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you. "We're just as concerned as the next person with protecting privacy," this brilliant mind blandly assured The Post. A jury found he spoke falsely before.
Whenever I heard about "global warming" I had this sneaking suspicion that somehow, some way, Osama Bin Laden and Al Queda were behind it all.
Now my fears were addressed. No longer should I subscribe to the lefty rhetoric that claims that the arrogant use of the SUV has anything to do with "global warming" and its ill (but useful) effects.
First Dinosaur farts then this!! Yet another reason for getting rid of nature. It just screws with everything!
Everyone is talking about it. Check google groups for discussions among DV and print people.
I spend more time here at work waiting for typing to catch up to those words being rendered on my screen, patches of my web browser window being blank, only to show up again when my cursor goes over the area. When I right click a file to choose "open with" I wait a a good 15-25 seconds for the highlighted area to get past the "Open" dialogue. It just sticks there. If I try and do something smart like hit a key, I go into "Spinning Beach Ball" mode. Not a very fun place to be.
So all in all, while I like some aspects of OS X, I spend the day at work *craving* getting home to use my redhat machine.
I know I am gonna hear: get more ram. which is true, but still, 512mb is fine on all my intel/amd based machines. I know the Apple demographic is all white, rich and owns 2.5 SUV's (that match their two wonderful white children!!), but dog slow with 512mb is just simply insane.
First of all, crime is biggest in the USA. As far as i have experienced abroad whilst travelling in 3rd world countries, "poor" people dont commit the crimes you expect them too. If at all. In fact, despite the poverty, they have richness of other things: community, family, honor all sorts of things that keep this crime from being commited.
That said, yes, in these same countries I am speaking of, crime rates are rising. As far as I have experienced, its coming on the coatails of "free-trade" IE, the glut of Western products that have the same effect that they do here. Making people feel inadequte for what they dont have. Its a powerful force, getting more and more powerful each day. Yesterday's election results were a huge shot in the arm the ability of business to wrestle its way into every corner of the globe, and for the Military to neutralize anyone who does not want to go along with the 'program'.
So with all that, I have spent a good amount of time in Nepal, a country which is considered one of the poorest in the world. Its a pretty confusing place. People dont have the "Hierarchy of Needs" to sustain even the basic health of its people. Yet young people, fueled by all sorts of Western images of prosperity, dont give a flying fuck that the water has human shit floating in it. They want a walkman, some Britney Spears CD's, cool sunglasses, a leather jacket, and a place to play pool. There is *no* stopping it. The older more tradional people cant believe what is happening, but the young people, while still staying very loyal to family, are embracing these things due to our prompting (and of course other Western countries, and China).
I am actually working on a business plan based on bringing Open Source software labs and training to Tibetan settlments in the High Himalaya. There are far better things I can do for sure, but I also see the value in catching some of these young people, empowering them by giving them some "western" stuff, but with Open Source, they have the ability to make something of their own, hence retaining some pride in their own culture, instead of alinging to a Western company.
Believe it or not, Microsoft has already been investing heavily in projects over in that region attempting to get people trained in Microsoft products. We all know what the end of that will be. More cheap labor making those PHP shopping carts for stupid companies in the US.
Point is, even tho what you are saying is valid, as I write this business plan, I struggle with those ideas every single day. But the fact is, there is a juggernaut of force behind this, and Tibetan kids walk around rejecting the Dalai Lama in favor of bad ass sunglasses, and Titanic T-Shirts.
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U sure that wasnt the DOJ? Were there internationals in FL too?
I know Ashcroft sent a bunch of his guys to make sure there was no, err.. HANKY PANKY..
I am still waiting for your glorious explanation of processor design. Can I have it now please? Or are you simply going to weasel your way out of it like you have just done.
Most of what Apple produces is proprietary,just like most manufacturers of goods (unless you're making things like 'Equate'-brand clones for Wal-Mart).
Yep Yep.
But I wouldn't call them a monopoly.
I am actually quoting Neil Stephenson, from his insightful essay: "In the beginning was the commandline". Been re-reading it. It is quite good. He is an ex-Apple zealot. As am I.
Don't get me wrong, OS X is cool. What I am trying to point out is, Apple is *not* the goodguy everyone blindly believes. They do all sorts of stuff to protect their monopoly. Some of it good, some of it bad.
If somebody is looking for something completly "open", there's plenty of generic boxes out there. A plain box with the word "computer" on it. If Apple did that, they would no longer be Apple and it's moot.
Yes very true. And this is the niche they occupy. I like that niche, its very cool. But frankly, I am sick of Apple zealots disregarding free*nixes on account of the fact that they think Apple is the only revolutionary kid on the block. It just isnt true.
I am sorry, but a globally located, community oriented software creation project is far more radical then a "Think Different" ad campaign. (I say as my Jaguar based G4 stalls while rendering the very text I write)
I deal with Macintosh folks all day long at work and in my personal life. They are a cool bunch, but the idea if it is not Apple branded hardware its the devil incarnate is just plain ludacris.
I'm just glad they're around. There's lots of choices out there. I've tried almost everything over the years. I've done my best work on a Mac. For me, nothing comes close to working as well. (Even if I can't change GUI background textures).,
I am too. Like I said, one more Macintosh users is one less Windows user. Thats a good thing. I work pretty well too in a Mac, when my glowy beachball aint spinning trying to figure out how come I clicked the mouse button a few too many times.
Apple is a Monopoly. It is a very closed system of both hardware and software despite the "Come in We're Open" sign on the Darwin page.
Apple will do anything to protect that monopoly. Even convince their entire user base that they are somehow rebels, artists, free thinkers etc.
Apple does all of this through a *very* expensive marketing campaign that basically equates the the truth with a roll of toilet paper.
Apple is over priced, arrogant, and completely full of shit: READ: "Oh well, another day, another revolution" (ad copy when announcing some new 500mhz 'super computer')
Folks: 1.2mhz != 2.8ghz *EVER*
It doesnt "Just Work". I use a G4 at my job and I could list a thing as long as the first page of slashdot that don't work.
This all said. OS X is pretty cool. Its nice to have a Unix based system that does all the cool stuff OS X does. And! It runs photoshop!!
Apple hardware is very slick looking.
And every person who "switches" is one less person using the WinTel system of government survaliance. That is, if those same switchers stop using all the Microsoft crap that runs on the OS.
It always kills me how many people who use Apple cos they hate MS, then turn around and browse using IE for the Mac, as if somehow, someway because it is running on the Machine that the Dalai Lama appeared in an ad for, makes it OK and not satans very browser.
Slashdot Mirror
The cable companies are not your friend PERIOD. As a matter of fact, most large companies despite the fact that they dump millions and millions into trying to convince you otherwise, dont give a flying fsck about you or anyone.
Just another reason to dump that attbi broadband internet.
Warning to the Zealots manipulated by Steve and Marketing department lie factory. Morpheus is now asking you to make a choice, the red pill or the blue pill.
Please decide which one this is.
Well said, thanks a bunch. Disney sucks ass, but people spending money in one direction will allow the ass suckers know what we want.
Of course, Disney will always attempt to make White versions of what we want. But thats another thread altogether,
I remember and I feel very old. I loved "Strategy and Tactics"!
Wow, the good old days!
Be quite concerned about Ken Thompsons idea. now shouldnt they?
And one day jet fuel will run out.
Where did you get your Seattle info?
Do cities need public transit or should we all drive everywhere (like in Seattle).?
Come up to Seattle before you decide what *we* need. OK? Thanks.
COINTELNPRO
Must not have, or maybe its just another case of the epidemic sweeping the country these days:
xenophobia
Yeah thats right.
Know what? I have been over there too. It sure is a shock to see the way the world is, and yeah its painful as well watching the poverty, pain and suffering that envelopes *most* of the globe.
For me it was an eyeopener, for you it was an excuse to get a cheap fuck (you cheap fuck, fuck you, you stupid ignorant imperialist fuck), and to come home and fuckin complain.
Fuck you. Oh and fuck you. Oh and, when are you idiots gonna realize its only a teeny bit of the population that gets to live in a SUV driving, Elimidate watching, non-corrupt (cough cough) paradise that is the "West".
I suggest you goto fuckin college and do a little studying before you make yer next trip. And by the way, hope you fall in a pit of shit while you wipe your ass with your hand.
Asshole.
A landmark legislation is being railroaded through after the past elections where the repubs took control over the gov.
You Are a Suspect
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
ASHINGTON -- If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you:
Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend -- all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database."
To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you -- passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance -- and you have the supersnoop's dream: a "Total Information Awareness" about every U.S. citizen.
This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen to your personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter gets the unprecedented power he seeks.
Remember Poindexter? Brilliant man, first in his class at the Naval Academy, later earned a doctorate in physics, rose to national security adviser under President Ronald Reagan. He had this brilliant idea of secretly selling missiles to Iran to pay ransom for hostages, and with the illicit proceeds to illegally support contras in Nicaragua.
A jury convicted Poindexter in 1990 on five felony counts of misleading Congress and making false statements, but an appeals court overturned the verdict because Congress had given him immunity for his testimony. He famously asserted, "The buck stops here," arguing that the White House staff, and not the president, was responsible for fateful decisions that might prove embarrassing.
This ring-knocking master of deceit is back again with a plan even more scandalous than Iran-contra. He heads the "Information Awareness Office" in the otherwise excellent Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which spawned the Internet and stealth aircraft technology. Poindexter is now realizing his 20-year dream: getting the "data-mining" power to snoop on every public and private act of every American.
Even the hastily passed U.S.A. Patriot Act, which widened the scope of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and weakened 15 privacy laws, raised requirements for the government to report secret eavesdropping to Congress and the courts. But Poindexter's assault on individual privacy rides roughshod over such oversight.
He is determined to break down the wall between commercial snooping and secret government intrusion. The disgraced admiral dismisses such necessary differentiation as bureaucratic "stovepiping." And he has been given a $200 million budget to create computer dossiers on 300 million Americans.
When George W. Bush was running for president, he stood foursquare in defense of each person's medical, financial and communications privacy. But Poindexter, whose contempt for the restraints of oversight drew the Reagan administration into its most serious blunder, is still operating on the presumption that on such a sweeping theft of privacy rights, the buck ends with him and not with the president.
This time, however, he has been seizing power in the open. In the past week John Markoff of The Times, followed by Robert O'Harrow of The Washington Post, have revealed the extent of Poindexter's operation, but editorialists have not grasped its undermining of the Freedom of Information Act.
Political awareness can overcome "Total Information Awareness," the combined force of commercial and government snooping. In a similar overreach, Attorney General Ashcroft tried his Terrorism Information and Prevention System (TIPS), but public outrage at the use of gossips and postal workers as snoops caused the House to shoot it down. The Senate should now do the same to this other exploitation of fear.
The Latin motto over Poindexter"s new Pentagon office reads "Scientia Est Potentia" -- "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you. "We're just as concerned as the next person with protecting privacy," this brilliant mind blandly assured The Post. A jury found he spoke falsely before.
Whenever I heard about "global warming" I had this sneaking suspicion that somehow, some way, Osama Bin Laden and Al Queda were behind it all.
Now my fears were addressed. No longer should I subscribe to the lefty rhetoric that claims that the arrogant use of the SUV has anything to do with "global warming" and its ill (but useful) effects.
First Dinosaur farts then this!! Yet another reason for getting rid of nature. It just screws with everything!
Truth be told:
Anytime a Macintosh user uses the phrase:
" Both platforms have the occasional hiccup..."
it is a sign one must approach anything that persons says with extreme caution, and the obligatory grain of sea salt.
Its the same as having a sign on the back that says:
"Caution: Insane, Irrational, Macintosh Zealot on board!!"
Humans have hiccups, not computers.
Thats very true. And yeah, thats the response I use, force quit. And yeah, it sure is nice it doesnt take down the whole box like good ol classic.
Trouble is, this happens all too often.
I have a client who got a TiBook, fresh from Apple. Brand new, middle grade, 768mb ram, Jag, yada yada.
He calls me up like a week later and says:
"So how come I am spending all this time watching this beach ball spin?"
"Well what are you doing?"
"I have Office open, IE and and Enoutrage, just trying to work, I mean I have tons of memory right?"
"Yeah you do.."
Point is, this box was fresh from Apple. I taught him how to force quit. Point being, why should you have to do it all the time?
I thought it "just works"?
Must be the same Apple lies like the one in the switch campaign that says you cant do digital audio or video on a PC.
yeah OK..
Thing 3: 512 MB RAM costs $50 bucks, affordable even to white, three child, 68 volkswagon-driving people.
The box belongs to a non-profit school who cant afford to pay their employees. 50 bucks is a lot of money.
asshole.
ps: you are racist smart guy.
Granted it only has 512mb of ram,, but this thing (Running 10.2, G4 400, blah blah) is afflicted with the dreaded "Spinning Beach Ball of Death".
Lets check google..
Ahh, here is one:
Sour Apples
Everyone is talking about it. Check google groups for discussions among DV and print people.
I spend more time here at work waiting for typing to catch up to those words being rendered on my screen, patches of my web browser window being blank, only to show up again when my cursor goes over the area. When I right click a file to choose "open with" I wait a a good 15-25 seconds for the highlighted area to get past the "Open" dialogue. It just sticks there. If I try and do something smart like hit a key, I go into "Spinning Beach Ball" mode. Not a very fun place to be.
So all in all, while I like some aspects of OS X, I spend the day at work *craving* getting home to use my redhat machine.
I know I am gonna hear: get more ram. which is true, but still, 512mb is fine on all my intel/amd based machines. I know the Apple demographic is all white, rich and owns 2.5 SUV's (that match their two wonderful white children!!), but dog slow with 512mb is just simply insane.
If you go into a grocery store, you can't buy 3 cans out of a sixpack.
I dont know where you live, but everywhere I have lived you could do this. People buy single beers outta six packs all the time.
First of all, crime is biggest in the USA. As far as i have experienced abroad whilst travelling in 3rd world countries, "poor" people dont commit the crimes you expect them too. If at all. In fact, despite the poverty, they have richness of other things: community, family, honor all sorts of things that keep this crime from being commited.
That said, yes, in these same countries I am speaking of, crime rates are rising. As far as I have experienced, its coming on the coatails of "free-trade" IE, the glut of Western products that have the same effect that they do here. Making people feel inadequte for what they dont have. Its a powerful force, getting more and more powerful each day. Yesterday's election results were a huge shot in the arm the ability of business to wrestle its way into every corner of the globe, and for the Military to neutralize anyone who does not want to go along with the 'program'.
So with all that, I have spent a good amount of time in Nepal, a country which is considered one of the poorest in the world. Its a pretty confusing place. People dont have the "Hierarchy of Needs" to sustain even the basic health of its people. Yet young people, fueled by all sorts of Western images of prosperity, dont give a flying fuck that the water has human shit floating in it. They want a walkman, some Britney Spears CD's, cool sunglasses, a leather jacket, and a place to play pool. There is *no* stopping it. The older more tradional people cant believe what is happening, but the young people, while still staying very loyal to family, are embracing these things due to our prompting (and of course other Western countries, and China).
I am actually working on a business plan based on bringing Open Source software labs and training to Tibetan settlments in the High Himalaya. There are far better things I can do for sure, but I also see the value in catching some of these young people, empowering them by giving them some "western" stuff, but with Open Source, they have the ability to make something of their own, hence retaining some pride in their own culture, instead of alinging to a Western company.
Believe it or not, Microsoft has already been investing heavily in projects over in that region attempting to get people trained in Microsoft products. We all know what the end of that will be. More cheap labor making those PHP shopping carts for stupid companies in the US.
Point is, even tho what you are saying is valid, as I write this business plan, I struggle with those ideas every single day. But the fact is, there is a juggernaut of force behind this, and Tibetan kids walk around rejecting the Dalai Lama in favor of bad ass sunglasses, and Titanic T-Shirts.
U sure that wasnt the DOJ? Were there internationals in FL too?
I know Ashcroft sent a bunch of his guys to make sure there was no, err.. HANKY PANKY..
cough cough..
Jeb Bush won.
"Now if only the EU could do this with Microsoft, Levi Strauss and the MPAA members..."
Yeah but why would they? Those companies are not Asian, they are the "good guys" not the "bad" guys.
how bout this?
blah blah blah blah blah... yer an idiot..
thanks for playing..
You response is so typical.
I am still waiting for your glorious explanation of processor design. Can I have it now please? Or are you simply going to weasel your way out of it like you have just done.
Thanks..
Ok, maybe I need a detailed explanation.
I'll be over here reading while you write:
P4 and G4
Macintoshian Achaia
Thanks...
Yep Yep.
I am actually quoting Neil Stephenson, from his insightful essay: "In the beginning was the commandline". Been re-reading it. It is quite good. He is an ex-Apple zealot. As am I.
Don't get me wrong, OS X is cool. What I am trying to point out is, Apple is *not* the goodguy everyone blindly believes. They do all sorts of stuff to protect their monopoly. Some of it good, some of it bad.
Yes very true. And this is the niche they occupy. I like that niche, its very cool. But frankly, I am sick of Apple zealots disregarding free*nixes on account of the fact that they think Apple is the only revolutionary kid on the block. It just isnt true.
I am sorry, but a globally located, community oriented software creation project is far more radical then a "Think Different" ad campaign. (I say as my Jaguar based G4 stalls while rendering the very text I write)
I deal with Macintosh folks all day long at work and in my personal life. They are a cool bunch, but the idea if it is not Apple branded hardware its the devil incarnate is just plain ludacris.
I am too. Like I said, one more Macintosh users is one less Windows user. Thats a good thing. I work pretty well too in a Mac, when my glowy beachball aint spinning trying to figure out how come I clicked the mouse button a few too many times.
Repeat after me:
Apple is a Monopoly. It is a very closed system of both hardware and software despite the "Come in We're Open" sign on the Darwin page.
Apple will do anything to protect that monopoly. Even convince their entire user base that they are somehow rebels, artists, free thinkers etc.
Apple does all of this through a *very* expensive marketing campaign that basically equates the the truth with a roll of toilet paper.
Apple is over priced, arrogant, and completely full of shit: READ: "Oh well, another day, another revolution" (ad copy when announcing some new 500mhz 'super computer')
Folks: 1.2mhz != 2.8ghz *EVER*
It doesnt "Just Work". I use a G4 at my job and I could list a thing as long as the first page of slashdot that don't work.
This all said. OS X is pretty cool. Its nice to have a Unix based system that does all the cool stuff OS X does. And! It runs photoshop!!
Apple hardware is very slick looking.
And every person who "switches" is one less person using the WinTel system of government survaliance. That is, if those same switchers stop using all the Microsoft crap that runs on the OS.
It always kills me how many people who use Apple cos they hate MS, then turn around and browse using IE for the Mac, as if somehow, someway because it is running on the Machine that the Dalai Lama appeared in an ad for, makes it OK and not satans very browser.