The other piece of good news is that an amendment sponsored by Congressmen Ron Paul of Texas, a libertarian conservative Republican and Rep.
Tom Campbell, a liberal Republican from California, passed the House Banking Committee with Rep. Bob Barr's amendment. This amendment kills the Know Your Customer program as currently proposed. It was opposed by, surprise, surprise, Rep. Maxine Waters, the California Democrat, known for her maniacal support of Bill Clinton.
Originally, the Paul-Campbell amendment was drawn broadly enough that it would have repealed existing efforts which banks make in co-operation with law enforcement agencies to report on suspicious transactions. That amendment failed to pass, however, an additional amendment was offered by Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia, a former federal prosecutor, who has opposed the Know Your Customer regulation, but who still plays ball with law enforcement groups, and the Barr Amendment did pass. What passed the committee does stop the current Know Your Customer proposed regulation, and similar legislation did pass unanimously in the Senate today as well.
Hrm, I'm really not sure all this matters one whit. From what I understand the Senate voted Unanimously to block the FDIC from pursuing this action. So the FDIC couldn't have done this even if they wanted to.
Hey, yeah, there's a good idea! Then you wouldn't have to worry about seeing any conflicting viewpoints!
No, I don't agree with everything I see here. And some of it really gets me steamed. But if I never see things that challenge my position, I'll never know how right (or wrong) I am.
One thing that I found that is kindof nifty, on my system at least, is to run individual gnome components under windowmaker. I have my windowmaker autolaunch panel and gmc on launch, [snip]
panel was something I was impressed with. What all did you have to have installed gnome-wise to get Gnome's panel working?
A complete upgrade guide, with a list of required versions/packages and where you can get them. http://www-stu.calvin.edu/~clug/users/jnieho38/g oto22.html
A mail message from Vladimir V. Ivanov on the linux-kernel list. This one has a link to a page/ftp site with everything you need to upgrade rh5.2 to 2.2.0 http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_ 9901_04/msg00969.html
So don't use XConfigurator. Just because redhat provides you with a particular tool doesn't mean you have to use it. I personally avoid XConfigurator like the plaque. I have never been able to use it. It doesn't give you enough flexibility and whenever I try to change the resolution / color depth settings with it it segfaults. So don't use it. Linux is about choice. If one thing doesn't work try something else. In this case, use xf86Config. You'll have a better chance of getting things working.
What I find most disturbing is that *Rob* called them Hackers in the article here. Someone who should know better blindly furthering this problem. Tsk Tsk Rob.;-) (You really should fix it.)
I think its about time we just gave up on this subject. Let's just face it and move on with our lives: there are two meanings of the word hacker now. ---
I find this mind-boggling. Since when is something not worth pressing because it's hard, or because people refuse to listen? The biggest offenders of this are the same people who spread FUD about linux, mostly because they are uneducated, and choose to stay that way. Should we suddenly give up correcting them just because they don't seem to get it?
Yuck. Hacker != Computer Programmer. I know lots of computer programmers who don't rise anywhere close to the level of Hackers. If you want to limit yourself to that fine (it's still better than being a cracker/warez kiddie/etc) but for me, I'd rather aspire to greatness.
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I double checked, just in case:
The other piece of good news is that an amendment sponsored by Congressmen Ron Paul of Texas, a libertarian conservative Republican and Rep.
Tom Campbell, a liberal Republican from California, passed the House Banking Committee with Rep. Bob Barr's amendment. This amendment kills the Know Your Customer program as currently proposed. It was opposed by, surprise, surprise, Rep. Maxine Waters, the California Democrat, known for her maniacal support of Bill Clinton.
Originally, the Paul-Campbell amendment was drawn broadly enough that it would have repealed existing efforts which banks make in co-operation with law enforcement agencies to report on suspicious transactions. That amendment failed to pass, however, an additional amendment was offered by Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia, a former federal prosecutor, who has opposed the Know Your Customer regulation, but who still plays ball with law enforcement groups, and the Barr Amendment did pass. What passed the committee does stop the current Know Your Customer proposed regulation, and similar legislation did pass unanimously in the Senate today as well.
Hrm, I'm really not sure all this matters one whit. From what I understand the Senate voted Unanimously to block the FDIC from pursuing this action. So the FDIC couldn't have done this even if they wanted to.
Hey, yeah, there's a good idea! Then you wouldn't have to worry about seeing any conflicting viewpoints!
No, I don't agree with everything I see here. And some of it really gets me steamed. But if I never see things that challenge my position, I'll never know how right (or wrong) I am.
One thing that I found that is kindof nifty, on my system at least, is to run individual gnome components under windowmaker. I have my windowmaker autolaunch panel and gmc on launch,
[snip]
panel was something I was impressed with. What all did you have to have installed gnome-wise to get Gnome's panel working?
Use the resources you have available to you.
g oto22.html
_ 9901_04/msg00969.html
Specifically these two links from there:
A complete upgrade guide, with a list of required versions/packages and where you can get them.
http://www-stu.calvin.edu/~clug/users/jnieho38/
A mail message from Vladimir V. Ivanov on the linux-kernel list. This one has a link to a page/ftp site with everything you need to upgrade rh5.2 to 2.2.0
http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk
So don't use XConfigurator. Just because redhat provides you with a particular tool doesn't mean you have to use it. I personally avoid XConfigurator like the plaque. I have never been able to use it. It doesn't give you enough flexibility and whenever I try to change the resolution / color depth settings with it it segfaults. So don't use it. Linux is about choice. If one thing doesn't work try something else. In this case, use xf86Config. You'll have a better chance of getting things working.
What I find most disturbing is that *Rob* called them Hackers in the article here. Someone who should know better blindly furthering this problem. Tsk Tsk Rob. ;-) (You really should fix it.)
I think its about time we just gave up on this subject. Let's just face it and move on with our lives: there are two meanings of the word hacker now.
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I find this mind-boggling. Since when is something not worth pressing because it's hard, or because people refuse to listen? The biggest offenders of this are the same people who spread FUD about linux, mostly because they are uneducated, and choose to stay that way. Should we suddenly give up correcting them just because they don't seem to get it?
Yuck. Hacker != Computer Programmer. I know lots of computer programmers who don't rise anywhere close to the level of Hackers. If you want to limit yourself to that fine (it's still better than being a cracker/warez kiddie/etc) but for me, I'd rather aspire to greatness.