Can someone please mod the parent to "Funny" instead of "Informative" as some of the replies to this obviously don't understand that The Inquirer is a humour/parody site.
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I whole heartedly agree to your suggestions.People like that (eg. my mom) drive me up the wall with their computer illiteracy, and I don't think I'm alone with such experiences. Do what I did and go tell a computer illiterate-for-life that they are too stupid to use a computer and there should be court injunctions against letting them even walk near one. (Use different wording of course cause you don't wanna be like me and almost get kicked out of the house by your mom.)
did i insult islam? no, i insulted the ignorance that makes people commit acts in its name
By insulting the Jihad, you ARE insulting Islam. This is what you said originally:
The Jihad (holy war) is just like the Crusades or inquisition, repugnant practices performed by ignorant people under the auspice of religion.
In your reply to my comment, you did make amends, and I agree with just about everything you said subsequently except this:
I concede that i misused the word jihad, but the Koran DOES say that the word of the prophet may be spread with the sword.
Which ass did you pull this one out of? Jihad is not about spreading the word of Islam, it's about protecting your culture against those who physically attack it. Show me the line from the Quran which proves what you said and I'll withdraw my argument.
Be careful to even call this a jihad! Jihad is holy war, faught between the willing. Innocent civilians including the defenceless, the clergy of any religion, women and children, among others are not to be harmed in anyway, and those who have done so have violated this. The crusades were a holy war, atleast for the muslims, where they were defending against opression for being muslim. This, on the other hand, is violence against a group percieved to be the enemy of by a group of disillusioned fanatics hiding under the guise of a religion. Don't insult Islam when you really want to insult just those who commit such dastardly acts.
I'm sure he's banned from far more...he just hasn't been attempting to go to countries other than Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Judging from the response from the aforementioned countries' statements, and whether or not it is proven Bin Laden had any connection, their policies are sure to change.
Do you mean to say that many people have surely died, but none are confirmed, or should I redefine my definition of "casualty" to be injuries, not just deaths?
I wouldn't say that's entirely true. Semitic people have been living in that land for thousands of years, but the key point to remember is that Jews are not the only Semites - Arabs, Babylonians and other groups are also semitic. The "Palestinians" are not just another group that invaded the land but are a combination of among others, Pagans, Christians and Jews that converted to Islam after it took force in the 7th century. They lived somewhat "peacefully" for a while except during the crusades when they got killed together with Jews and Christians by european christians.
The reason Palestinians are pissed off these days is because for some reason Britian gained control of the present day Israeli land a while ago, and after the Holocaust, gave that land to the survivors to create "Zion", their Jewish state. It was a just cause, but not quite fair to the muslim population who all of a sudden got displaced. And even after the Camp David Accord, things still weren't peachy for everyone. The palestinian-run Gaza Strip continuasly gets invaded with new kibutzes and settlements that inch by inch, mile by mile, take up the little land palestinians have.
Arabs struck first, arabs are aggressors, arabs are whatever, but remember who "struck" whom first and in what way. Violence isn't the only way to destroy a people -- take away their homes, their right for representation and their freedom of speech and you can cause damage far worse than a holocaust.
Yeah baby! No need for that stinkin winme partition anymore! Not to mention how sick sick I was of that built in game with that built-in game where it gives you this funky "an error has occurred" dialog and you gotta see how many of those you an click in sequesnce before you get the big blue screen and restart your computer.
Actually, that's not quite true. It actually mixes up partition types and filesystem formats. The only filesystems it'll actually let you install mandrake on are reiserfs, ext2/3, etc. but diskdrake will let you create any type of _partition_ you want.
That article was bullshit too. NOTHING they said contradicts any of the facts Steve Gibson has said.
Yes, aftermarket patches/drivers are available to get raw sockets but most newbie h4X0r wanna-be's will probably never get them. And yes, they were available with win2k but it is marketed as a workstation OS, not a desktop os, meaning it is not the best place to play diablo2 and what-not and thus the target wanna-be demographics is eliminated as potential win2k users. On the other hand, one version of WinXP, home edition, is targeted for home users.
Remember the oversized packet exploit from way back that spurned many "hacker tools" such as WinNuke and its clones? It took 1 braincell to download it, 1 to find a buddy's ip through icq and 1 to press the "Nuke d4 fux0r!" button. These are the types of exploits that will be more and more common when WinXP Home Edition comes out because of its abilities to take advantage of more exploits out of the box.
I'd agree Steve is a bit of a sensationalist, but what he is saying is not wrong, and definitely not FUD! It will not be the end of the net, and WinXP should not be scrapped, but to say his rants are worthless is going too far.
What would the American (or local) government think of people in 3rd world countries acquiring internet access and "working" earning items in Everquest and selling them online for valuable American dollars? Suddenly working for pennies in a Nike factory isn't such an appealing option.
Well for one thing, wouldn't they have to subscribe to Everquest in "valuable" American dollars, or atleast the amount in local equivalents? Their profits would not be all that much more than their american counterparts doing the same, and this method is definitely no different from buying/selling any other goods and services.
I always thought the whole idea with the sub-decimal points was that you could have an infinite number of minor updates as opposed to just 10. So logically, the next kernel version will be 2.4.10, and this could go on forever if need be.
Not quite...winxp/2k/nt has seperate folders for internet cache. But premise is still the same...my brother sits at my comp with his games cd, i find out, he gets to sit permanently on that cd instead...
You obviously haven't even read the damned article! It compares absolutely none of the actual interfaces...just the MS installer vs. the Mandrake installer. Yes it is a stupid and pointless review that doesnt say much more than "i scored with my wife cause i was able to change her user icon from", but still, why post such an off base message based purely on the title/summary (which we all know are worded to generate the most interest/controversy/hits)?
Moron...that's exactly what this user's pointing out! The message before this talks some BS about GPL apps being blocked out, etc. The reason the article mentions apps like zonealarm is because they install certain device drivers in order to get low level access for their particular purposes (packet filtering in this case).
Actually, its more like the suppliers of the buns, ketchup, etc. demanding that their logos be displayed on the Big Mac wrappers. The whole icon changing issue is about oem versions, which are meant for release, not the retail versions, which are not. Same goes for buns and ketchup which McDonalds is allowed to resell, but not Big Macs which is not for resale.
In which case it would not matter to you at all whether it was called KIllustrator or KShitMaker, and so the whole lawsuit over trademark infringement would be moot.
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To correct your sp10 thing... Windows XP is officially Windows NT 5.1.
Can someone please mod the parent to "Funny" instead of "Informative" as some of the replies to this obviously don't understand that The Inquirer is a humour/parody site.
I whole heartedly agree to your suggestions.People like that (eg. my mom) drive me up the wall with their computer illiteracy, and I don't think I'm alone with such experiences. Do what I did and go tell a computer illiterate-for-life that they are too stupid to use a computer and there should be court injunctions against letting them even walk near one. (Use different wording of course cause you don't wanna be like me and almost get kicked out of the house by your mom.)
You even need to ask?
Bah, that's BS too. For the rest of us that don't live in Newfoundland, we do use the metric system.
For example, the mighty CN Tower is 553m tall (for you americans, that's 365 feet taller than the Sears Tower).
The only time I can think of where we use Imperial is sometimes with physical measurements -- height (5'7), mass (195lb) and penis length (8").
I wonder how this baby's stucture would survive through a 'quake measuring 8.5 on the richter scale.
did i insult islam? no, i insulted the ignorance that makes people commit acts in its name
By insulting the Jihad, you ARE insulting Islam. This is what you said originally:
The Jihad (holy war) is just like the Crusades or inquisition, repugnant practices performed by ignorant people under the auspice of religion.
In your reply to my comment, you did make amends, and I agree with just about everything you said subsequently except this:
I concede that i misused the word jihad, but the Koran DOES say that the word of the prophet may be spread with the sword.
Which ass did you pull this one out of? Jihad is not about spreading the word of Islam, it's about protecting your culture against those who physically attack it. Show me the line from the Quran which proves what you said and I'll withdraw my argument.
Be careful to even call this a jihad! Jihad is holy war, faught between the willing. Innocent civilians including the defenceless, the clergy of any religion, women and children, among others are not to be harmed in anyway, and those who have done so have violated this. The crusades were a holy war, atleast for the muslims, where they were defending against opression for being muslim. This, on the other hand, is violence against a group percieved to be the enemy of by a group of disillusioned fanatics hiding under the guise of a religion. Don't insult Islam when you really want to insult just those who commit such dastardly acts.
I'm sure he's banned from far more...he just hasn't been attempting to go to countries other than Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Judging from the response from the aforementioned countries' statements, and whether or not it is proven Bin Laden had any connection, their policies are sure to change.
Many casualties, but no deaths confirmed yet.
Do you mean to say that many people have surely died, but none are confirmed, or should I redefine my definition of "casualty" to be injuries, not just deaths?
I wouldn't say that's entirely true. Semitic people have been living in that land for thousands of years, but the key point to remember is that Jews are not the only Semites - Arabs, Babylonians and other groups are also semitic. The "Palestinians" are not just another group that invaded the land but are a combination of among others, Pagans, Christians and Jews that converted to Islam after it took force in the 7th century. They lived somewhat "peacefully" for a while except during the crusades when they got killed together with Jews and Christians by european christians.
The reason Palestinians are pissed off these days is because for some reason Britian gained control of the present day Israeli land a while ago, and after the Holocaust, gave that land to the survivors to create "Zion", their Jewish state. It was a just cause, but not quite fair to the muslim population who all of a sudden got displaced. And even after the Camp David Accord, things still weren't peachy for everyone. The palestinian-run Gaza Strip continuasly gets invaded with new kibutzes and settlements that inch by inch, mile by mile, take up the little land palestinians have.
Arabs struck first, arabs are aggressors, arabs are whatever, but remember who "struck" whom first and in what way. Violence isn't the only way to destroy a people -- take away their homes, their right for representation and their freedom of speech and you can cause damage far worse than a holocaust.
Well for one thing, when you start a gui app from the command line, you can't just wait for it to exit automatically after it's done its job.
Yeah baby! No need for that stinkin winme partition anymore! Not to mention how sick sick I was of that built in game with that built-in game where it gives you this funky "an error has occurred" dialog and you gotta see how many of those you an click in sequesnce before you get the big blue screen and restart your computer.
Actually, that's not quite true. It actually mixes up partition types and filesystem formats. The only filesystems it'll actually let you install mandrake on are reiserfs, ext2/3, etc. but diskdrake will let you create any type of _partition_ you want.
That article was bullshit too. NOTHING they said contradicts any of the facts Steve Gibson has said.
Yes, aftermarket patches/drivers are available to get raw sockets but most newbie h4X0r wanna-be's will probably never get them. And yes, they were available with win2k but it is marketed as a workstation OS, not a desktop os, meaning it is not the best place to play diablo2 and what-not and thus the target wanna-be demographics is eliminated as potential win2k users. On the other hand, one version of WinXP, home edition, is targeted for home users.
Remember the oversized packet exploit from way back that spurned many "hacker tools" such as WinNuke and its clones? It took 1 braincell to download it, 1 to find a buddy's ip through icq and 1 to press the "Nuke d4 fux0r!" button. These are the types of exploits that will be more and more common when WinXP Home Edition comes out because of its abilities to take advantage of more exploits out of the box.
I'd agree Steve is a bit of a sensationalist, but what he is saying is not wrong, and definitely not FUD! It will not be the end of the net, and WinXP should not be scrapped, but to say his rants are worthless is going too far.
What would the American (or local) government think of people in 3rd world countries acquiring internet access and "working" earning items in Everquest and selling them online for valuable American dollars? Suddenly working for pennies in a Nike factory isn't such an appealing option.
Well for one thing, wouldn't they have to subscribe to Everquest in "valuable" American dollars, or atleast the amount in local equivalents? Their profits would not be all that much more than their american counterparts doing the same, and this method is definitely no different from buying/selling any other goods and services.
I always thought the whole idea with the sub-decimal points was that you could have an infinite number of minor updates as opposed to just 10. So logically, the next kernel version will be 2.4.10, and this could go on forever if need be.
i was positive Andromeda was gonna sweep this one for a record 17 billion'th time!
Not quite...winxp/2k/nt has seperate folders for internet cache. But premise is still the same...my brother sits at my comp with his games cd, i find out, he gets to sit permanently on that cd instead...
You obviously haven't even read the damned article! It compares absolutely none of the actual interfaces...just the MS installer vs. the Mandrake installer. Yes it is a stupid and pointless review that doesnt say much more than "i scored with my wife cause i was able to change her user icon from", but still, why post such an off base message based purely on the title/summary (which we all know are worded to generate the most interest/controversy/hits)?
Moron...that's exactly what this user's pointing out! The message before this talks some BS about GPL apps being blocked out, etc. The reason the article mentions apps like zonealarm is because they install certain device drivers in order to get low level access for their particular purposes (packet filtering in this case).
Actually, its more like the suppliers of the buns, ketchup, etc. demanding that their logos be displayed on the Big Mac wrappers. The whole icon changing issue is about oem versions, which are meant for release, not the retail versions, which are not. Same goes for buns and ketchup which McDonalds is allowed to resell, but not Big Macs which is not for resale.
In which case it would not matter to you at all whether it was called KIllustrator or KShitMaker, and so the whole lawsuit over trademark infringement would be moot.
Sounds like Jeff K.
I get out of my seat and go take a shit all my life! Still haven't gotten laid. Hell, forget shit, most girls I know don't even like fart jokes!