2. Pakistan has taken what appears to be active steps to find and kill terrorists in its borders, so no invasion necessary. If a government is willing to do its job, then great... Its only when they DONT (or in fact support terrorists) that I have a problem. Iraq was not actively pursuing ansar al islam. Germany, UK and USA states that harboured plotters are all co-operating, and helping to track down the guilty. Again, it is only those that refuse to help that are the problem.
It is true that we have been bogged down in Iraq... Its fairly obvious from the initial troop deployments in Iraq that we greatly under-estimated the occupational costs.
But it is well known that Syria and Iran are supporting the rebellion in Iraq, in effect we are fighting a proxy war with Syria and Iran. Many extremist groups have sent members to Iraq to join the Mujahadeen and fight us. I personally would rather fight them there than here.
Yes, many of who the nightly news calls terrorists are simply iraqi's who are angry about having been invaded. But not all, and with todays "Anti American" attitude, a proxy war with the terrorists is perhaps all we will ever get to have.
Terrorists, al qaida or not, have been killing Americans for decades. They all have declared us dogs, and a large % of them have declared open war, calling for all muslims to kill Americans wherever they can. We ignored it for far too long.
Barracks bombings, hostages, everyone blown up on airplanes for 20 years, all of the US embassys that were hit, the USS Cole... and I have just scratched the surface and am purposely leaving out sept 11...
We are at war against an ideology. Should allied soldiers have interviewed every Nazi they found, to discover their true feelings about the jews before they decided what to do with them? No. We dont have to do that now either. It is not hard to tell who needs to be destroyed. Any member of a group that has initiated the use of force against innocents deserves total war.
Yes, Osama was no fan of saddams. Of course. One is a religious zealot and the other was much more westernized...
Iraq:
1) harbored terrorists, and in a world where terrorists are striking on the scale of 9/11, ALL TERRORISTS DESERVE NO MERCY. A lot of countrys in the middle east meet this criteria.
2) is right next to Iran, the true seat of fundamentalist terrorist politics.
Bush probably percieved Iraq as an easier target to get political support behind, and probably hoped that large US bases surrounding Iraq on 2 sides would discourage Iranian support of extremists.
Yes, you are probably right, and they would likely meet a worse fate here than in France...
If Iran were to announce that they had bin laden, and planned on executing him for his crimes, I would be very satisfied... I dont need the US to capture him... I just need him to pay for what he has done...
First of all, if their was suddenly no way to communicate over the Internet to China, for example, their would almost immediatley appear a network (probably hosted by a major telecom) that would provide a portal through which you could connect to the chinese internet... or wherever...
The real issue here is that because of US foreign policy, you dislike us, and so you dislike nearly everything we do. OK.
The tragic mistake of the Bush administration was the use of WMD's as a justification for war in Iraq, not the war itself. Iraq needed to be invaded because the government in power their did nothing to interfere with the operation of a terror group that had declared open war on the US (Ansar Al Islam)... And yes, any country that refuses to arrest and prosecute terrorists within its borders deserves to be ended, for they are just as guilty as the terrorists themselves...
If a group of right wing gun nuts from Alabama blew up the eiffel tower and killed nearly 3000 people, AND the US refused to either find and hand over the gun nuts (or at least make an effort, or allow the french to make the effort) then they are effectively protecting terrorists and are just as guilty as those terrorists... This was precisely the situation in Iraq (with Ansar Al Islam)... And in Iran, and in Syria... We know this because we can watch ther terrorists train at their camps from our Sattelites... (I personally saw sattelite photos of Ansar Al Islam training camps in Iraq before the war, their presence is not contested by anyone)...
The opinions expressed by the majority of the readership of slashdot itself are often very anti science.
Opposition to science occurs on both ends of the political spectrum. On the right it manifests as "Intelligent Design"... On the left it manifests in a much more insidious (and in my opinion, dangerous) way.
The problem is they conducted the experiment in SF... Here in Fresno during the month of July, things just occasionally burst into flames on their own... no death ray required....:)
I have a webserver and I could EASILY fit the whole drive on one of these.... Talk about an EASY backup... I could have a cron job "dd" the drive every night at 2am off to a USB drive...
(and of course, ssh transfered to a remote server not on the same power grid)...
Actually, I have read the GPL a number of times...
Have you?
Furthermore, were you born yesterday? The relationship between Linus and Stallman has been strained for years (ever hear of the Linux / GNU-LINUX debacle)... Ever notice that the GPL included with the kernel sources includes a blurb from Linus that "Qualify's" the entire document?
Please don't use "Libertarian" anywhere near the terms "Commie" and "Anarchist". Various dead libertarians are currently spinning in their graves...
ovit
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You guys are shameful... Haven't you ever known anyone who was saved by modern medicine? I hope that when you need it, those "murderous" doctors aren't around to help you.
I read somewhere that a significant biologic reason for sleep was simply that animals who laid down in a dark place for half the time had an evolutionary advantage over thos who didn't (it's about 50% harder to be eaten by a predator if 50% of your time your asleep)...
Rather than do the usual slashdot "Science is EViL" thing, why not really think about the potential here...
Yes, they will probably discover that over use of this has some serious side effect, but all that means is that it shouldn't be over used... It does not mean that we all need to run an hide...
For being a site full of geeks this place is remarkably anti science sometimes...
"Code Commenting - This refers to writing descriptive variable names that are self explanatory. This is a minimalist form of commenting, and looks like this:
function addUserToDatabase(userName, userAge)
Without any additional information, you can tell that the function will add a user's name and age to a database. A common implementation of this is called Hungarian Notation."
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.
How about a bittorrent based movie rental service on my TiVo, implemented with the new developers API...:) That would rock... Maybe I should get to work?
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1. I have my facts. I know what happened.
2. Pakistan has taken what appears to be active steps to find and kill terrorists in its borders, so no invasion necessary. If a government is willing to do its job, then great... Its only when they DONT (or in fact support terrorists) that I have a problem. Iraq was not actively pursuing ansar al islam. Germany, UK and USA states that harboured plotters are all co-operating, and helping to track down the guilty. Again, it is only those that refuse to help that are the problem.
Oh yeah? Is that why it was recently learned that al qaeda prisoners walk the streets free men in Iran? (it was just in the news a few days ago).
Personally, I think Osama is either:
1) In a cave between pakistan & afganistan (hopefully a collapsed one, after the earthquake).
2) In Iran, at a safehouse of some kind.
It is true that we have been bogged down in Iraq... Its fairly obvious from the initial troop deployments in Iraq that we greatly under-estimated the occupational costs.
But it is well known that Syria and Iran are supporting the rebellion in Iraq, in effect we are fighting a proxy war with Syria and Iran. Many extremist groups have sent members to Iraq to join the Mujahadeen and fight us. I personally would rather fight them there than here.
Yes, many of who the nightly news calls terrorists are simply iraqi's who are angry about having been invaded. But not all, and with todays "Anti American" attitude, a proxy war with the terrorists is perhaps all we will ever get to have.
Terrorists, al qaida or not, have been killing Americans for decades. They all have declared us dogs, and a large % of them have declared open war, calling for all muslims to kill Americans wherever they can. We ignored it for far too long.
Barracks bombings, hostages, everyone blown up on airplanes for 20 years, all of the US embassys that were hit, the USS Cole... and I have just scratched the surface and am purposely leaving out sept 11...
We are at war against an ideology. Should allied soldiers have interviewed every Nazi they found, to discover their true feelings about the jews before they decided what to do with them? No. We dont have to do that now either. It is not hard to tell who needs to be destroyed. Any member of a group that has initiated the use of force against innocents deserves total war.
Yes, Osama was no fan of saddams. Of course. One is a religious zealot and the other was much more westernized...
Iraq:
1) harbored terrorists, and in a world where terrorists are striking on the scale of 9/11, ALL TERRORISTS DESERVE NO MERCY. A lot of countrys in the middle east meet this criteria.
2) is right next to Iran, the true seat of fundamentalist terrorist politics.
Bush probably percieved Iraq as an easier target to get political support behind, and probably hoped that large US bases surrounding Iraq on 2 sides would discourage Iranian support of extremists.
td
Yes, you are probably right, and they would likely meet a worse fate here than in France...
If Iran were to announce that they had bin laden, and planned on executing him for his crimes, I would be very satisfied... I dont need the US to capture him... I just need him to pay for what he has done...
Are you 6 years old?
First of all, if their was suddenly no way to communicate over the Internet to China, for example, their would almost immediatley appear a network (probably hosted by a major telecom) that would provide a portal through which you could connect to the chinese internet... or wherever...
The real issue here is that because of US foreign policy, you dislike us, and so you dislike nearly everything we do. OK.
The tragic mistake of the Bush administration was the use of WMD's as a justification for war in Iraq, not the war itself. Iraq needed to be invaded because the government in power their did nothing to interfere with the operation of a terror group that had declared open war on the US (Ansar Al Islam)... And yes, any country that refuses to arrest and prosecute terrorists within its borders deserves to be ended, for they are just as guilty as the terrorists themselves...
If a group of right wing gun nuts from Alabama blew up the eiffel tower and killed nearly 3000 people, AND the US refused to either find and hand over the gun nuts (or at least make an effort, or allow the french to make the effort) then they are effectively protecting terrorists and are just as guilty as those terrorists... This was precisely the situation in Iraq (with Ansar Al Islam)... And in Iran, and in Syria... We know this because we can watch ther terrorists train at their camps from our Sattelites... (I personally saw sattelite photos of Ansar Al Islam training camps in Iraq before the war, their presence is not contested by anyone)...
Please respond to this.
The opinions expressed by the majority of the readership of slashdot itself are often very anti science.
Opposition to science occurs on both ends of the political spectrum. On the right it manifests as "Intelligent Design"... On the left it manifests in a much more insidious (and in my opinion, dangerous) way.
ovit
The problem is they conducted the experiment in SF... Here in Fresno during the month of July, things just occasionally burst into flames on their own... no death ray required.... :)
td
Good fingerprint readers have heartbeat and heat sensors... So that doesn't work.
Isn't technology wonderfull?
(friggin anti-technology slashdot crowd.)
I have a webserver and I could EASILY fit the whole drive on one of these.... Talk about an EASY backup... I could have a cron job "dd" the drive every night at 2am off to a USB drive...
(and of course, ssh transfered to a remote server not on the same power grid)...
td
Actually, I have read the GPL a number of times...
Have you?
Furthermore, were you born yesterday? The relationship between Linus and Stallman has been strained for years (ever hear of the Linux / GNU-LINUX debacle)... Ever notice that the GPL included with the kernel sources includes a blurb from Linus that "Qualify's" the entire document?
Their are 1 room crap shacks in SF available for 200,000! Whoa...
ovit
How long till we hear from Linus that the kernel will no longer be GPL'd...
I bet it happens within 3 days of the official announcement of the terms of this license...
td
# CommieAnarchistLibertarian©
Please don't use "Libertarian" anywhere near the terms "Commie" and "Anarchist". Various dead libertarians are currently spinning in their graves...
ovit
You guys are shameful... Haven't you ever known anyone who was saved by modern medicine? I hope that when you need it, those "murderous" doctors aren't around to help you.
I read somewhere that a significant biologic reason for sleep was simply that animals who laid down in a dark place for half the time had an evolutionary advantage over thos who didn't (it's about 50% harder to be eaten by a predator if 50% of your time your asleep)...
Rather than do the usual slashdot "Science is EViL" thing, why not really think about the potential here...
Yes, they will probably discover that over use of this has some serious side effect, but all that means is that it shouldn't be over used... It does not mean that we all need to run an hide...
For being a site full of geeks this place is remarkably anti science sometimes...
All religion's create extremists...
You have greatly over simplified the true problem to make it fit into your worldview....
"Code Commenting - This refers to writing descriptive variable names that are self explanatory. This is a minimalist form of commenting, and looks like this:
function addUserToDatabase(userName, userAge)
Without any additional information, you can tell that the function will add a user's name and age to a database. A common implementation of this is called Hungarian Notation."
Hungarian my ass.
This is Hungarian:
lpszname
What he describes is simply good variable naming.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to rende
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All you need to do is read this 1 thread, and you can skip all future slashdot article discussions...
It's really remarkable, and sad how Afraid of science and technology slashdot.org has become.
Not necessarily. He might just be an idiot.
Bravo. I'm glad someone isn't afraid to tell it like it is.
How about a bittorrent based movie rental service on my TiVo, implemented with the new developers API... :) That would rock... Maybe I should get to work?