Look, someone confessing to war crimes is substantially different than the mere allegations to which I was alluding, and which the media gleefully repeats.
I submit that we may be talking past each other.
Ummm...because the adversary is likely to manipulate every one of those sources? Again, this is not to say that the allegations lack basis, just to say that allegations are made for more than strictly factual reasons.
there's plenty of reports of atrocities being carried out by US troops in Iraq
Not to put the US military on a pedastel--plenty of actual evidence exists to the contrary--but what do you think precludes the media from itself being used as an information warfare channel by the adversary? Or, why should I trust any of the TLA networks?
all the UN is capable of doing these days is wagging their finger like a disapproving parent
The UN is only slightly better than no UN at all.
It's really just a forum for trolling and information exchange, much like/., while business-as-usual continues to drive the world's political processes.
Now, if a bunch of/.ers got together and started an ISP (grafting on the significant marketing, legal, HR, and executive chops you'd need), who here really thinks the final company, Applied Slashdot Superiority, would offer a significantly less evil/more reliable offering to the public?
I don't mind paying a nominal fee for email for projects I care about. Perhaps there is a project-to-be/service of Sourceforge that does some back-end aggregation of email into a single, fat, (navigable?) digest for various arbitrary mailing lists.
Either such a thing could be signed to pass as good traffic, or the cost/value could be made such that all but the biggest Scrooges wouldn't mind a nominal fee.
Note that I did not use the letters X, M, and L in describing the deliverable.
Possible Summer of Code project for the energetic whipper-snapper.
The BSDs have their audience, as does Linux.
The FOSS realm is better for this diversity.
If you really require a one-size-fits-all world, send your resume to Hanrahan
Many wonder why they should go through the hassle of building a Linux system from scratch when they could just download an existing Linux distribution. However, there are several benefits of building LFS. Consider the following:
LFS teaches people how a Linux system works internally
Building LFS teaches you about all that makes Linux tick, how things work together and depend on each other. And most importantly, how to customize it to your own tastes and needs.
Building LFS produces a very compact Linux system
When you install a regular distribution, you often end up installing a lot of programs that you would probably never use. They're just sitting there taking up (precious) disk space. It's not hard to get an LFS system installed under 100 MB. Does that still sound like a lot? A few of us have been working on creating a very small embedded LFS system. We installed a system that was just enough to run the Apache web server; total disk space usage was approximately 8 MB. With further stripping, that can be brought down to 5 MB or less. Try that with a regular distribution.
LFS is extremely flexible
Building LFS could be compared to a finished house. LFS will give you the skeleton of a house, but it's up to you to install plumbing, electrical outlets, kitchen, bath, wallpaper, etc. You have the ability to turn it into whatever type of system you need it to be, customized completely for you.
LFS offers you added security
You will compile the entire system from source, thus allowing you to audit everything, if you wish to do so, and apply all the security patches you want or need to apply. You don't have to wait for someone else to provide a new binary package that (hopefully) fixes a security hole. Often, you never truly know whether a security hole is fixed or not unless you do it yourself.
I'll add that it will give you some excellent OJT on the various tools, as well as an appreciation both for why GUI and a pre-compiled OS is both a luxury and a prison compared to a CLI and source code.
Package management is a chore, though. Once you're in the door, you may go eventually near the ol' online distro of justice...
Sorry, bogus thinking is implemented as an application-level protocol.
Much as some wish to blame their peccadilloes on the hardware, Paris Hilton had to work at being vacuous.
Or it could encourage a character accent arms race, as people throw in all manner of whackiness just to force an upgrade.
Or maybe Amazon's patent shall have grown to consume any physical contact that triggers an exchange of information, so we'll all be safe in the bosom of Bezos.
The people are sheep until you treat them as such. After so much sheep treatment, there will be rebellion. Which is why North Korea, to drop a name, is in such a precarious condition.
Also, a broader look at history shows that, while you can have a dictatorial regime for a while, and it might even work really well, the transition of power to the next thug is always a mess. Barring foreign invasion, the difficult transfer of power is what tends to bring down authoritarian regimes.
Oh, there will be a business model and an arms race, supplying tunnels and proxies to work around matters.
And the states that are censoring will have the truth used upon them in the suppository fashion.
Well, if it's the same hardware you had six years ago, you might want to hold what you got.
However, in addition to tons of new functionality, the hackers seemed to have found time to make the old lady a bit more zippy. Go on: have a wee peek.
Slashdot Mirror
HELL, Burt Reynolds!
Plastic skin...
No big win.
A chiseled chin,
Flashy as Flynn:
Burma Shave
Look, someone confessing to war crimes is substantially different than the mere allegations to which I was alluding, and which the media gleefully repeats.
I submit that we may be talking past each other.
Ummm...because the adversary is likely to manipulate every one of those sources? Again, this is not to say that the allegations lack basis, just to say that allegations are made for more than strictly factual reasons.
Prosecution rests.
It's really just a forum for trolling and information exchange, much like
Now, if a bunch of /.ers got together and started an ISP (grafting on the significant marketing, legal, HR, and executive chops you'd need), who here really thinks the final company, Applied Slashdot Superiority, would offer a significantly less evil/more reliable offering to the public?
Sure that wasn't Joe Walsh, "looking for clues at the scene of the crime"?
I don't mind paying a nominal fee for email for projects I care about. Perhaps there is a project-to-be/service of Sourceforge that does some back-end aggregation of email into a single, fat, (navigable?) digest for various arbitrary mailing lists.
Either such a thing could be signed to pass as good traffic, or the cost/value could be made such that all but the biggest Scrooges wouldn't mind a nominal fee.
Note that I did not use the letters X, M, and L in describing the deliverable.
Possible Summer of Code project for the energetic whipper-snapper.
The BSDs have their audience, as does Linux.
The FOSS realm is better for this diversity.
If you really require a one-size-fits-all world, send your resume to Hanrahan
Nah, it's not really about building a distro, in terms of something you're actively engineering for others.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/:
Why would I want an LFS system?
Many wonder why they should go through the hassle of building a Linux system from scratch when they could just download an existing Linux distribution. However, there are several benefits of building LFS. Consider the following:
LFS teaches people how a Linux system works internally
Building LFS teaches you about all that makes Linux tick, how things work together and depend on each other. And most importantly, how to customize it to your own tastes and needs.
Building LFS produces a very compact Linux system
When you install a regular distribution, you often end up installing a lot of programs that you would probably never use. They're just sitting there taking up (precious) disk space. It's not hard to get an LFS system installed under 100 MB. Does that still sound like a lot? A few of us have been working on creating a very small embedded LFS system. We installed a system that was just enough to run the Apache web server; total disk space usage was approximately 8 MB. With further stripping, that can be brought down to 5 MB or less. Try that with a regular distribution.
LFS is extremely flexible
Building LFS could be compared to a finished house. LFS will give you the skeleton of a house, but it's up to you to install plumbing, electrical outlets, kitchen, bath, wallpaper, etc. You have the ability to turn it into whatever type of system you need it to be, customized completely for you.
LFS offers you added security
You will compile the entire system from source, thus allowing you to audit everything, if you wish to do so, and apply all the security patches you want or need to apply. You don't have to wait for someone else to provide a new binary package that (hopefully) fixes a security hole. Often, you never truly know whether a security hole is fixed or not unless you do it yourself.
I'll add that it will give you some excellent OJT on the various tools, as well as an appreciation both for why GUI and a pre-compiled OS is both a luxury and a prison compared to a CLI and source code.
Package management is a chore, though. Once you're in the door, you may go eventually near the ol' online distro of justice...
The proper credo is: "If it ain't broke, fix it until it is."
Sorry, bogus thinking is implemented as an application-level protocol.
Much as some wish to blame their peccadilloes on the hardware, Paris Hilton had to work at being vacuous.
I will patent government inefficiency!
Gates, I will make you look poor.
Or it could encourage a character accent arms race, as people throw in all manner of whackiness just to force an upgrade.
Or maybe Amazon's patent shall have grown to consume any physical contact that triggers an exchange of information, so we'll all be safe in the bosom of Bezos.
Also, a broader look at history shows that, while you can have a dictatorial regime for a while, and it might even work really well, the transition of power to the next thug is always a mess. Barring foreign invasion, the difficult transfer of power is what tends to bring down authoritarian regimes.
Oh, there will be a business model and an arms race, supplying tunnels and proxies to work around matters.
And the states that are censoring will have the truth used upon them in the suppository fashion.
with a mandatory UserFriendly appearance: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020428
Dude, he was using The Village People, not Monty Python.
Nice Rod Stewart.
They told me 0 is the new 1!
Oh, nonsense. Hit http://www.emacswiki.com/, find a topic of interest, and get crazy with the cheeze-whiz.
Well, if it's the same hardware you had six years ago, you might want to hold what you got.
However, in addition to tons of new functionality, the hackers seemed to have found time to make the old lady a bit more zippy. Go on: have a wee peek.