If you can prove that you were fired (or not hired in the first place) because of genetic tests I'll be happy to pay the legal fees if I get a cut of the settlement!
I guarantee, 100% illegial! It's been proven in court many times, if you aren't highered because of your race, religion, affiliations, or afflictions you are a victim of discrimination and will get a hefty settlement.
As nice as it is to see that people will stand up against things like this, you worry too much. If, say, Seagate makes hard drives with this 'feature' then they would loose all sales and other manufacturer's drives would sell without this monkey on their back.
The technology is not bad (despite what the MPAA and DVDCCA may think) it is the legislation that comes REQUIRING such copy control that must be stopped.
Please remain calm, I do not intend to start a flamewar. Why do soooo many people-as well as the press, companies, and so on-flock to Linux and not another Open Source OS?
OpenBSD is the most secure OS on the planet, FreeBSD outperforms linux and has a more stable filesystem, and NetBSD is portable beyond belief. So the question is, why does linux get the spotlight? I really would appreciate a sane and logical answer from anyone who thinks they know.
time now and I've got the time-stamped messageboards to prove it. That's not to mention the dozens of people so inspiried by my message that they emailed me saying I was a freaking idiot... But the fact remains, no object following the laws of physics can do the things a black hole is credited with. I know I'm being light on real facts here but my theory is quite legenthy and most likely lost on this crowd. If you would really like to know more, feel free to email me... If you can't figure out how to email me, you proably don't need to.
mozilla that need to be rectified. LDAP and Roaming access were great in 4.5+. Not to mention the ability to insert vCards in outgoing email and newsgroup postings... Java *works* but it's quite unfortunate that you need to download the entire 20 MB JRE just for a few fun ctions. (So much for their "Small Download" boasts eh? I agree that SSL suppor
t is very important as well, but you can't say it's the ONLY think lacking
"Ask Slashdot" questions... Good God man! 10 seconds on linhardware.com could answer this question for you. And people wonder why the Linux community is so unwilling to help out unmotivated idiots like these.
In College I always heard my instructors say 'It's more important that you know where to find the answers than it is that you have the answers memorized... Well I hate to tell you, but asking someone else was never 'how to find' the information.
I had a teacher that, when he found out I broke into the network, he gave me an A and put me to work securing the network. I think I did a good job-anytime a student tried to access anything they weren't supposed to the PC speaker would go through a test (several frequencys all very loud echoing through the room)
On the other hand... another teacher (a couple years later) watched as I proved the network was insecure... I did this out in the open mind you. After almost getting expelled, I threatened a lawsuit and the entire punishment was dropped.
Generally speaking, there is a compromize between speed and size - large usually is faster (optimized for speed), smaller usually is slower (optimized for size).
I'll write a program in assembly, you write it in visual basic and yourse will be bigger and slower!:-)
But seriously, smaller programs *almost* always run faster than a larger counterpart.
So let me get this straight... A little known dot com does what Sun has been spending millions of dollars and years of development time trying to do. (i.e. Get Java on embedded devices)
I hope this IS a hoax, if not, I'd think everyone SHOULD lose an faith in Sun.
Well you know, I could claim that I tried to purchase Passport.com when Microsoft forgot to pay during that unforgetable 3 day period and sue for millions and millions of dollars in damages. Hows that for geting one back!
The point stands. I did not say you should have a satelite on your car, real simply, the signal is there, all that needs to be made is a reciever to pickup that signal.
BSD's been around longer, gotten a less restrictive license, gotten the attention of many more programmers and much more press time.
Wouldn't you be pissed if some idiot sysadmin was praised while you-knowing much more and being more experienced-were mosty written off?
I can't blame him. People are idiots. Why use linux instead of BSD? There is not one solitary logical reason that you can give as to why to use Linux rather than BSD.
Well lots of companies say lots of stuff and they're wrong lots of the time! Every kind of predicting done is based on past patterns and there is no reason to think that moores law will not hold true this time as well. I.E. 18 months from now the CPU speed will be double.
When you look at Window$ it's not hard to see that features dominate and security is an after-though. With OpenBSD, features are not the highest priority. May not seem like a big deal to most but not having to constantly check cert (to make sure your system doesn't have a gaping security hole) is in itself the single best feature I could ever ask for.
My thoughts exactly... one thing you left out though is that AOL's "not forcing you to surf with IE" Is like Microsoft's not forcing you to surf with IE.
I admit they can't force you to use their browser but they do everything short of holding a gun to your head and telling you to use it...
Has anyone here ever seen a mini satelite dish? It's broadcasting hundreds of audio channels commercial fromm and it comes with your 20$ per month subscription. Sound cheap enough? Add the commercials and You'll certainly make 20$ per person per month. The only problem is getting someone to intially build it and have faith that the listeners will come.
Sure it may sound like a good idea now, but what happens when yahoo decides it can use this free open network and eats up all the badwidth. Party lines have never been a good idea when a large number of people are involved (just look at cable-modems!).
Let's see, do you mean multimedia protocol as in high-bandwidth like MPEG and GIF, or do you mean low bandwidth multimedia protocols like shockwave flash, XML, and HTML?
HTML is extremely versatile in the fact that it can go from just pure ascii to a presentation format. That said, XML is far more versatile and will last forever once it has finally been implemented.
There is no advantage to Gopher! If you want plain text pages, then use stinking plain ASCII as a page on an HTTP server.
I think this post interface proves the point, you can use HTML, Code, Extrans, or if you prefer, you can still use plain old text... on an html server even! Bet you'd never thought of that!
I long for the pre-commercial days as much as anyone, but the protocol doesn't have to change for that, just the content does.
It's quite simple actually. Instead of sending a query through your connected hosts, then through all of it's connected hosts, is to directly query all hosts in the database... Each client would create a database of it's connected hosts, and from each host it would download their databases, and combine them. Using the IP as the primary key will prevent any duplicates automatically.
When you search for the word "linux" your host will ping the first host in the host list, if the host is unpingable, it is removed from the database and the next is pinged. If it does reply to the ping, then you send the query to the host... It returns all the "linux" files it has and then says goodbye. Your client queries the next machine in the list and so on. This way you only need about the same ammount of bandwidth it takes to search a normal search engine like yahoo.com.
Queries will still take time for those on modems but at least it will work no matter how dense the network gets or how slow your connection is!
Feel free to email me with any insight/comments/questions about this.
There was an experiement done about a year ago I believe. Using two monkeys they successfully transplanted the heads of the two onto each other's bodies. While we obvious can't test the minds of the monkeys as well as we can humans, it appeared they functioned fine and still remembered things such as how solve a certain puzzle. Amazing if you ask me, but it's just one step closer to humans living for several hundreds of years.
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If you can prove that you were fired (or not hired in the first place) because of genetic tests I'll be happy to pay the legal fees if I get a cut of the settlement!
I guarantee, 100% illegial! It's been proven in court many times, if you aren't highered because of your race, religion, affiliations, or afflictions you are a victim of discrimination and will get a hefty settlement.
I'm amazed. It's interesting stuff, but I'm sure completely illegal under current laws.
As nice as it is to see that people will stand up against things like this, you worry too much. If, say, Seagate makes hard drives with this 'feature' then they would loose all sales and other manufacturer's drives would sell without this monkey on their back.
The technology is not bad (despite what the MPAA and DVDCCA may think) it is the legislation that comes REQUIRING such copy control that must be stopped.
Please remain calm, I do not intend to start a flamewar. Why do soooo many people-as well as the press, companies, and so on-flock to Linux and not another Open Source OS?
OpenBSD is the most secure OS on the planet, FreeBSD outperforms linux and has a more stable filesystem, and NetBSD is portable beyond belief. So the question is, why does linux get the spotlight? I really would appreciate a sane and logical answer from anyone who thinks they know.
time now and I've got the time-stamped messageboards to prove it. That's not to mention the dozens of people so inspiried by my message that they emailed me saying I was a freaking idiot... But the fact remains, no object following the laws of physics can do the things a black hole is credited with. I know I'm being light on real facts here but my theory is quite legenthy and most likely lost on this crowd. If you would really like to know more, feel free to email me... If you can't figure out how to email me, you proably don't need to.
mozilla that need to be rectified. LDAP and Roaming access were great in 4.5+. Not to mention the ability to insert vCards in outgoing email and newsgroup postings... Java *works* but it's quite unfortunate that you need to download the entire 20 MB JRE just for a few fun ctions. (So much for their "Small Download" boasts eh? I agree that SSL suppor t is very important as well, but you can't say it's the ONLY think lacking
"Ask Slashdot" questions... Good God man! 10 seconds on linhardware.com could answer this question for you. And people wonder why the Linux community is so unwilling to help out unmotivated idiots like these.
In College I always heard my instructors say 'It's more important that you know where to find the answers than it is that you have the answers memorized... Well I hate to tell you, but asking someone else was never 'how to find' the information.
Have you ever had one of those days when nothing goes right for you?
I know how you feel...
I had a teacher that, when he found out I broke into the network, he gave me an A and put me to work securing the network. I think I did a good job-anytime a student tried to access anything they weren't supposed to the PC speaker would go through a test (several frequencys all very loud echoing through the room)
On the other hand... another teacher (a couple years later) watched as I proved the network was insecure... I did this out in the open mind you. After almost getting expelled, I threatened a lawsuit and the entire punishment was dropped.
I'll write a program in assembly, you write it in visual basic and yourse will be bigger and slower! :-)
But seriously, smaller programs *almost* always run faster than a larger counterpart.
So let me get this straight... A little known dot com does what Sun has been spending millions of dollars and years of development time trying to do. (i.e. Get Java on embedded devices)
I hope this IS a hoax, if not, I'd think everyone SHOULD lose an faith in Sun.
Do you think "secure-windows-server.com" is available?
Well you know, I could claim that I tried to purchase Passport.com when Microsoft forgot to pay during that unforgetable 3 day period and sue for millions and millions of dollars in damages. Hows that for geting one back!
The point stands. I did not say you should have a satelite on your car, real simply, the signal is there, all that needs to be made is a reciever to pickup that signal.
Oh, such a horrible guy is he? OpenBSD is only the single most secure operating system on the planet OpenSource or otherwise.
It's a great OS. It's got great software to go along with it, and again, through your rant you haven't given any reason what-so-ever
BSD's been around longer, gotten a less restrictive license, gotten the attention of many more programmers and much more press time.
Wouldn't you be pissed if some idiot sysadmin was praised while you-knowing much more and being more experienced-were mosty written off?
I can't blame him. People are idiots. Why use linux instead of BSD? There is not one solitary logical reason that you can give as to why to use Linux rather than BSD.
Well lots of companies say lots of stuff and they're wrong lots of the time! Every kind of predicting done is based on past patterns and there is no reason to think that moores law will not hold true this time as well. I.E. 18 months from now the CPU speed will be double.
When you look at Window$ it's not hard to see that features dominate and security is an after-though. With OpenBSD, features are not the highest priority. May not seem like a big deal to most but not having to constantly check cert (to make sure your system doesn't have a gaping security hole) is in itself the single best feature I could ever ask for.
My thoughts exactly... one thing you left out though is that AOL's "not forcing you to surf with IE" Is like Microsoft's not forcing you to surf with IE.
I admit they can't force you to use their browser but they do everything short of holding a gun to your head and telling you to use it...
Make that "Commercial Free"
Has anyone here ever seen a mini satelite dish? It's broadcasting hundreds of audio channels commercial fromm and it comes with your 20$ per month subscription. Sound cheap enough? Add the commercials and You'll certainly make 20$ per person per month. The only problem is getting someone to intially build it and have faith that the listeners will come.
Sure it may sound like a good idea now, but what happens when yahoo decides it can use this free open network and eats up all the badwidth. Party lines have never been a good idea when a large number of people are involved (just look at cable-modems!).
Let's see, do you mean multimedia protocol as in high-bandwidth like MPEG and GIF, or do you mean low bandwidth multimedia protocols like shockwave flash, XML, and HTML?
HTML is extremely versatile in the fact that it can go from just pure ascii to a presentation format. That said, XML is far more versatile and will last forever once it has finally been implemented.
There is no advantage to Gopher! If you want plain text pages, then use stinking plain ASCII as a page on an HTTP server.
I think this post interface proves the point, you can use HTML, Code, Extrans, or if you prefer, you can still use plain old text... on an html server even! Bet you'd never thought of that!
I long for the pre-commercial days as much as anyone, but the protocol doesn't have to change for that, just the content does.
It's quite simple actually. Instead of sending a query through your connected hosts, then through all of it's connected hosts, is to directly query all hosts in the database... Each client would create a database of it's connected hosts, and from each host it would download their databases, and combine them. Using the IP as the primary key will prevent any duplicates automatically.
When you search for the word "linux" your host will ping the first host in the host list, if the host is unpingable, it is removed from the database and the next is pinged. If it does reply to the ping, then you send the query to the host... It returns all the "linux" files it has and then says goodbye. Your client queries the next machine in the list and so on. This way you only need about the same ammount of bandwidth it takes to search a normal search engine like yahoo.com.
Queries will still take time for those on modems but at least it will work no matter how dense the network gets or how slow your connection is!
Feel free to email me with any insight/comments/questions about this.
There was an experiement done about a year ago I believe. Using two monkeys they successfully transplanted the heads of the two onto each other's bodies. While we obvious can't test the minds of the monkeys as well as we can humans, it appeared they functioned fine and still remembered things such as how solve a certain puzzle. Amazing if you ask me, but it's just one step closer to humans living for several hundreds of years.