Maybe Nike could create a huge version of this that had a 10-foot long crank. It could then have third-world children lashed to the crank. The children would pull the crank (like dogs on a dog-sled -- but cheaper), to keep the Nike webserver running.
Nike might even be able to do web hosting for www.kathieleegifford.com so that Kathie Lee could showcase her clothing line on the web.
How could this movie POSSIBLY be good! It's another video game movie marketed at 13-17 year old males who like tits!
Were you expecting another Doctor Zhivago or Lawrence of Arabia? I just wish that they had chosen an actress that didn't need padding! Then it would have been a perfect movie to watch with the sound muted.
Unemployment checks not covering your $1,800 per month rent? Then either move where the jobs are or move where the cost of living isn't outrageous! If your Acura hasn't been reposessed, load your shit into it and drive.
The U.S. is not reliant on dot-coms for the entire IT job base. You might get a job doing network administration for an insurance company or serving as a webmaster for a car dealership. I'm sorry if that's not as exciting as working at a cutting edge dot-com with other twenty-somethings that skateboard in the halls, wear baggy shorts, drink free sodas, play Space Invaders on the restored machine in the break room, and spout acronyms and buzzwords that they don't really understand -- but it will pay your bills while teaching you real job skills.
And next time save some money while you are getting a paycheck! The old rule of thumb was to figure on one month of job hunting per $10k of salary. Making $100K? That's about 10 months of job hunting. While I know that there are more exceptions than examples to this rule, it still is a valid concept. I am constantly amazed by single people in this industry -- with incomes that dwarf the national averages for entire families -- who can't go a few months without a paycheck. Next time, don't buy or lease a car that is worth more than your entire life's savings. Don't rent the $2,500/month apartment with the view of the bay. Get one for a lot less money in a less picturesque location. Skip the gourmet coffee at Starbucks and just drink the stuff they give you for free at the office.
Alternatively, you can ignore that advice, spend all of your money, have to take a job as a waiter or sales clerk, and taint your resume for the next decade.
The free copycat versions of relatively simple commercial software will ensure the demise of most of the software industry.
As a professional software engineer, I am looking forward to a career in auto repair or lawn care. How can I help out to destroy the industry that supports me and millions of others? Retail computer stores can be driven out of business. Programmers can be unemployed. Whole software companies can go out of business, leading to everyone from the janitors to the accountants being laid off. If successful, this effort might even help fuel economic slumps worldwide. What a brilliant idea!
When I read shit like this, it actually makes me root for Microsoft!
competition is competition. Who cares where it comes from.
The company that is trying to pay people's salaries. You just don't get it. How can a company that has overhead, salaries, benefits, taxes, and other expenses "compete" with a bunch of geeks who donate their time?
The short answer is that they cannot. Which is why so many companies either abandon or never enter the Linux application market. If you like the status quo, then keep driving companies out by producing free equivalents to their software.
Besides if a bunch of volunteers can code something in 6 months that took 5 man years to do it must mean the company was pretty damn incompetent in the first place.
5 man-years is 10 programmers for six months. A good-sized GPL project attracts far more than 10 volunteers. A man-year is not the same as a calendar year. 12 people working one month is one man-year. Why am I having to explain concepts this simple?
You are an abusive f****** idiot, aren't you? You can't point to any errors in my logic or argument, so you resort to personal attacks.
My post did not "attack" Linux. It pointed out the problems that Linux currently faces.
Does that mean some company won't copy features from a free software program to a commercial one also? Remember that this is the free market... there is supposed to be competition.
The "competition" is supposed to be other for-profit companies. The "competition" does not mean a bunch of volunteer zealots giving something away in an attempt to drive a commercial venture out of business.
If they don't want that then maybe they should move to cuba or something.
There is a much simpler solution: Stop producing products for the Linux market. And that's what Zero Knowledge just did.
>it doesnot matter whatever you choose. kde or other programs run in gnome, and vice versa
Yes it does matter! Quit being such a geek-with-blinders. Tech support people have to talk secretaries, office managers, and people who have very little computer experience through using their software. If the user interface is inconsistent, they can't do that. They can't print manuals with screen shots. Get a clue! Not everyone who uses a computer can recompile a Linux kernel or write a device driver.
> This is called competition.
Call it what you want, but it's driving away commercial vendors from Linux. Would you invest hundreds of thousands of dollars developing a commercial Linux software package if you thought there would be a GPL equivalent six months after you released it? Think about thise before you answer. People's abilities to support themselves and their families would ride on your decision.
I'll leave you with this thought: Suppose a Japanese steel company convinced its workers to volunteer 1 hour of time per day to make steel for export to the U.S. where it was to be given away. How long would it take before that "competition" was labelled "dumping" and the U.S. government put an end to it?
P.S. Your example of I.E. vs. Netscape was a poor one. Microsoft used it's OS monopoly to crush Netscape. Their actions were so heinous that the feds took action against them.
Well, i dont think you are a member of this community
I run Mandrake 8.0 and have run various other distros including TurboLinux, Redhat, and Caldera. I have also run FreeBSD and Sun Solaris. Maybe that makes me a member. Maybe it does not.
What makes you think half of GNU/Linux community is bitching about lack of quality commercial software
This whole Slashdot story is a perfect example. People are calling for e-mail campaigns to convince the company to keep producing a Linux product. The company is being criticized for dropping their Linux offering throughout the body and comments of this story. Every time that some random company stops/aborts making a Linux version of their product, many Slashdot Linux users go ballistic. Half of the Linux community? I don't know. I just used "half" as a convenient way to describe each of two large factions.
Make your program GUI-independant. Write the guts as a command-line tool, and if you find you really need a flashy GUI, you can always wrap one around the core program.
Commercial software is supplied with manuals. Those manuals normally have screen shots. A company can't release a manual showing screen shots if they don't know what the GUI will look like. Tech support can't walk people through troubleshooting if they aren't familiar with the GUI on the person's machine.
Imagine the average tech support session:
support: "Click on the Start button"
user: "The what?"
support: "It should be a button in the corner of your screen."
user: "In the lower left?"
support: "Yes."
user: "Mine has a picture of a penguin in that corner."
support: "Try pressing that."
user: "Now the bar at the bottom of the screen went away"
support: "What GUI are you running?"
user: "I'm not running Gooey. I'm running Linux."
support: "The GUI is what controls the windows on your screen."
user: "I'm not running Windows..."
support: "What version of Linux are you running?"
user: "I don't know. My boss installed it and he's at a meeting."
I had been replying point-by-point until I saw this:
No, programs that ran on Win95 do not always run in Win2k. So that's bull.
Why waste my time composing a thoughtful reply when you can't even read? What I said was: "There's a very good chance that it runs on Windows NT and Windows 2000, too." Since when does "very good chance" mean "100% certainty"?
How often do you need to record 30 hours on a TiVO.
When I go on business trips or vacations.
That's a SPECIALTY task.
I don't know what your employer has been telling you, but vacations are something most people expect to take at least once a year. Business trips are common for many people.
It's already slightly fuzzy coming from the cable company.
Degrading it further is not a good idea and I use DirecTV, which has a stellar picture compared to cable TV.
we should be working to either make the products from those vendors irrelevant (as this product already seems to be, for the most part) or to duplicate the functionality in an open or free product.
Half of the Linux community is bitching about the lack of quality commercial software while the other half is trying to screw any vendor that makes a commercial Linux product. Microsoft doesn't need to do anything to destroy Linux. There is a whole Linux community destroying Linux themselves.
Flooding this firm with e-mails is a waste of time. They made a business decision based on actual sales, support costs, and so forth.
Face it: Linux is harder to support than Windows. Moderate this down if you want, but it won't change that fact. How many times have you seen a product released for one distribution of Linux that won't run on some other? Your support staff has to be familiar with Gnome, KDE, IceWM, and every other GUI that's been pasted on Linux.
There is a Linux contingent that gleefully proclaims that the various distributions and the flexibility of Linux makes it superior to the one-size-fits-all installations of Windows. Well, those choices and the flexibility are what makes it so expensive and difficult for companies to support.
You want companies to support Linux? Then there has to be standardization:
1. Pick KDE, Gnome, or some other GUI and cease development and inclusion of the others.
2. Standardize where files go, a minimum file set in any standard install, and so forth.
3. Stop releasing distros that break things. If company X produced a product for Windows 95, six years later, it probably runs on Windows Me and probably ran on every version in-between (Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition). There's a very good chance that it runs on Windows NT and Windows 2000, too. Compare that to the dismal compatability between different versions and distributions of Linux.
4. Stop competing with every company that releases a commercial linux product. If a company invests 5 man-years creating an innovative commercial product for Linux, within six months of its release, there will be a GPL copycat program to perform the same function for free.
When you consider the limited market share that Linux has combined with the aforementioned problems and "herding cats" lack of standardization and it's no wonder that it does not enjoy a wealth of commercial titles.
SVHS sucks, too. Just somewhat less. While there are 400+ lines of luminance resolution, the chrominance resolution is a fraction of that (like a kid that can't keep within the lines of a coloring book).
The tape transport is more failure-prone. Skipping forward/backward takes longer. There is no intelligence. With Tivo, I can tell it to record every new and/or rerun episode of a show and it finds and records them. If I am on vacation, I can come back to find 30 hours of stuff recorded. Ever try to record 30 hours on a single SVHS tape?
Be tired of them. I'm a Christian and I'm pretty damn sick of those folks myself. Don't tar everyone with the same brush, though -- there are plenty of Christians who consider theirs a personal belief system, and who realize that trying to force it on others is only asking for resentment.
You are right and I owe you (and others) and apology for painting with too wide a brush. Your reply was intelligent, informative, and thought-provoking. Please accept my apologies.
The Democrats' blocking of Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork in the mid-80's started the era of political gamesmanship with respect to judicial nominees.
The Democrats blocked the Bork nomination because Bork was the Solicitor General under Nixon that fired the Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson, refused to dismiss Cox and resigned in protest. His deputy, William Ruckelshaus, also refused and was fired. Nixon's solicitor general, Robert H. Bork, who was next in command, then fired Cox.
When Bork is willing to fire a special prosecutor in order to help Nixon cover up a crime, it's pretty clear that he's not Supreme Court Justice material.
As ususal Christian bashing on SlashCrap will get you moderated up.
I don't care if it does or not. I'm sick and tired of Christians feeling that their religious views should become the law of the land. We have Catholics who want to prevent teaching birth control and condom use -- screw (no pun intended) the kids that get AIDS, herpes, genital warts, and pregnant. We have born-agains trying to get a "moment of silence" (code for "prayer") in our schools along with teaching of "creationism" in science classes.
It undermines everything about critical thinking and the scientific method. We wonder why kids do poorly in science and then their parents tell them to believe in an all-powerful, invisible being, heaven, and hell based on nothing more than writings in an ancient book. They are told to attribute everything to this "God" and to believe in creationism. It is no wonder that they grow up and fall for every scam from lottery tickets to pyramid schemes.
It's too bad the Democrats are already planning to "fight dirty" to prevent another legal mind like Scalia's from sitting on the court.
It was the Republicans that blocked a Clinton-appointed judge solely because he was black, so please don't get on your high horse about "fighting dirty." I wish the Democrats all the luck in the world in preventing us from getting some anti-abortion, born-again Christian, anti-consumer, pro-business-monopoly conservative on the supreme court. You didn't listen to anything Jeffords or McCain said, did you?
Al Gore had consistenly indicated his intent to declare war on Christ and on the true vote of the country by refusing to accept what repeated recounts were making all too clear.... "Strict constructionism" does not mean that the SCOTUS should sit idly back and allow lower courts to completely wreck the country by installing as President a man who lost the election and whose policies would have been disastrous.
First, it's not the Supreme court's place to decide whether the policies of a would-be President would help or hinder the country.
Second, the election was close enough to require a recount under Florida law. When George W. Bush's lead soon slipped to 327 votes, Republican field leader James A. Baker III repeatedly urged an end to the stalemate, asserting that "the vote in Florida has been counted and the vote in Florida has been recounted." In fact, 18 of the state's 67 counties never recounted the ballots at all. They simply checked their original results. To this day, more than 1.58 million votes have not been counted a second time.
I have not heard that Gore, who considers himself to be a born-again Christian, had "consistently indicated his intent to declare war on Christ." Since Christ, if he existed, is long dead, I assume that you mean Christianity. If that was Gore's intent, I wish him the best of luck. We are long past the point in human history when people should blindly believe in all-powerful, invisible beings that supposedly watch over us. If you want to eschew science in favor of this childish (ala the Tooth Fairy) belief system, go for it, but don't attack those of us who have grown up.
Now my kids will be exposed to all of the filth the Internet has to offer.
As a parent of a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old, I am very upset with this ruling.
I didn't father your children. I didn't encourage you to have them. So why should my library's Internet access be crippled? Don't want your kids seeing porn on the net? Then supervise them.
The Internet is not TV. If you children are seeing porn, it's almost certainly because they chose to see it. If you can't trust your little smut-hounds to stay away from the porn sites, don't let them on the net.
Or, better yet, grow up. There is no evidence whatsoever that seeing nudity will damage children. All over Europe, children see nudity on television, on billboards, and even at some beaches. They aren't truamatized by it. They don't need years of counseling. Your brand of puritanical censorship is probably much more harmful by making sex into something forbidden and "dirty."
He says: I am not too worried about emi emissions. If need be, i will work on it.
That's like saying "I removed my car's catalytic converter but I'm not too worried about the pollution." What a self-centered jerk!
When the FCC gets enough complaints about computer RF emissions, they will clamp down. And if Gateway/Dell/Compaq/IBM/etc. lobbyists have their way, the only legal way to buy a computer will be preassembled. Upgrades will only be sold to FCC-licensed shops that install them for you (want to wait a week, and pay $30, for the service department to install your next 256K of RAM?).
If you think I'm paranoid, look at hotrodding of cars today. Back in the '60s and '70s, you could put any engine that fit into any car. Now engine swaps are a regulatory nightmare for any cars built in the last decade or two.
You've been posting this same illogical, cut & paste troll for the last year and *BSD is still alive and kicking. Did it ever occur to you that the number of posts on Usenet might not directly correlate to OS popularity? Get a life.
People are sick and tired of your cut & paste troll about BSD. Why do your panties get in a twist every time an article mentions BSD? Did you lose your janitorial job at Walnut Creek or BSDi? Was your wife screwing a FreeBSD developper? Let's be realistic here: You either use *BSD or you don't. If you don't use it, why do you care that much about it?
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Nike might even be able to do web hosting for www.kathieleegifford.com so that Kathie Lee could showcase her clothing line on the web.
Were you expecting another Doctor Zhivago or Lawrence of Arabia? I just wish that they had chosen an actress that didn't need padding! Then it would have been a perfect movie to watch with the sound muted.
The U.S. is not reliant on dot-coms for the entire IT job base. You might get a job doing network administration for an insurance company or serving as a webmaster for a car dealership. I'm sorry if that's not as exciting as working at a cutting edge dot-com with other twenty-somethings that skateboard in the halls, wear baggy shorts, drink free sodas, play Space Invaders on the restored machine in the break room, and spout acronyms and buzzwords that they don't really understand -- but it will pay your bills while teaching you real job skills.
And next time save some money while you are getting a paycheck! The old rule of thumb was to figure on one month of job hunting per $10k of salary. Making $100K? That's about 10 months of job hunting. While I know that there are more exceptions than examples to this rule, it still is a valid concept. I am constantly amazed by single people in this industry -- with incomes that dwarf the national averages for entire families -- who can't go a few months without a paycheck. Next time, don't buy or lease a car that is worth more than your entire life's savings. Don't rent the $2,500/month apartment with the view of the bay. Get one for a lot less money in a less picturesque location. Skip the gourmet coffee at Starbucks and just drink the stuff they give you for free at the office.
Alternatively, you can ignore that advice, spend all of your money, have to take a job as a waiter or sales clerk, and taint your resume for the next decade.
As a professional software engineer, I am looking forward to a career in auto repair or lawn care. How can I help out to destroy the industry that supports me and millions of others? Retail computer stores can be driven out of business. Programmers can be unemployed. Whole software companies can go out of business, leading to everyone from the janitors to the accountants being laid off. If successful, this effort might even help fuel economic slumps worldwide. What a brilliant idea!
When I read shit like this, it actually makes me root for Microsoft!
The company that is trying to pay people's salaries. You just don't get it. How can a company that has overhead, salaries, benefits, taxes, and other expenses "compete" with a bunch of geeks who donate their time?
The short answer is that they cannot. Which is why so many companies either abandon or never enter the Linux application market. If you like the status quo, then keep driving companies out by producing free equivalents to their software.
Besides if a bunch of volunteers can code something in 6 months that took 5 man years to do it must mean the company was pretty damn incompetent in the first place.
5 man-years is 10 programmers for six months. A good-sized GPL project attracts far more than 10 volunteers. A man-year is not the same as a calendar year. 12 people working one month is one man-year. Why am I having to explain concepts this simple?
You are an abusive f****** idiot, aren't you? You can't point to any errors in my logic or argument, so you resort to personal attacks. My post did not "attack" Linux. It pointed out the problems that Linux currently faces.
The "competition" is supposed to be other for-profit companies. The "competition" does not mean a bunch of volunteer zealots giving something away in an attempt to drive a commercial venture out of business.
If they don't want that then maybe they should move to cuba or something.
There is a much simpler solution: Stop producing products for the Linux market. And that's what Zero Knowledge just did.
Yes it does matter! Quit being such a geek-with-blinders. Tech support people have to talk secretaries, office managers, and people who have very little computer experience through using their software. If the user interface is inconsistent, they can't do that. They can't print manuals with screen shots. Get a clue! Not everyone who uses a computer can recompile a Linux kernel or write a device driver.
> This is called competition.
Call it what you want, but it's driving away commercial vendors from Linux. Would you invest hundreds of thousands of dollars developing a commercial Linux software package if you thought there would be a GPL equivalent six months after you released it? Think about thise before you answer. People's abilities to support themselves and their families would ride on your decision.
I'll leave you with this thought: Suppose a Japanese steel company convinced its workers to volunteer 1 hour of time per day to make steel for export to the U.S. where it was to be given away. How long would it take before that "competition" was labelled "dumping" and the U.S. government put an end to it?
P.S. Your example of I.E. vs. Netscape was a poor one. Microsoft used it's OS monopoly to crush Netscape. Their actions were so heinous that the feds took action against them.
I run Mandrake 8.0 and have run various other distros including TurboLinux, Redhat, and Caldera. I have also run FreeBSD and Sun Solaris. Maybe that makes me a member. Maybe it does not.
What makes you think half of GNU/Linux community is bitching about lack of quality commercial software
This whole Slashdot story is a perfect example. People are calling for e-mail campaigns to convince the company to keep producing a Linux product. The company is being criticized for dropping their Linux offering throughout the body and comments of this story. Every time that some random company stops/aborts making a Linux version of their product, many Slashdot Linux users go ballistic. Half of the Linux community? I don't know. I just used "half" as a convenient way to describe each of two large factions.
Commercial software is supplied with manuals. Those manuals normally have screen shots. A company can't release a manual showing screen shots if they don't know what the GUI will look like. Tech support can't walk people through troubleshooting if they aren't familiar with the GUI on the person's machine.
Imagine the average tech support session:
support: "Click on the Start button"
user: "The what?"
support: "It should be a button in the corner of your screen."
user: "In the lower left?"
support: "Yes."
user: "Mine has a picture of a penguin in that corner."
support: "Try pressing that."
user: "Now the bar at the bottom of the screen went away"
support: "What GUI are you running?"
user: "I'm not running Gooey. I'm running Linux."
support: "The GUI is what controls the windows on your screen."
user: "I'm not running Windows..."
support: "What version of Linux are you running?"
user: "I don't know. My boss installed it and he's at a meeting."
Welcome to the real world.
No, programs that ran on Win95 do not always run in Win2k. So that's bull.
Why waste my time composing a thoughtful reply when you can't even read? What I said was: "There's a very good chance that it runs on Windows NT and Windows 2000, too." Since when does "very good chance" mean "100% certainty"?
When I go on business trips or vacations.
That's a SPECIALTY task.
I don't know what your employer has been telling you, but vacations are something most people expect to take at least once a year. Business trips are common for many people.
It's already slightly fuzzy coming from the cable company.
Degrading it further is not a good idea and I use DirecTV, which has a stellar picture compared to cable TV.
Half of the Linux community is bitching about the lack of quality commercial software while the other half is trying to screw any vendor that makes a commercial Linux product. Microsoft doesn't need to do anything to destroy Linux. There is a whole Linux community destroying Linux themselves.
Face it: Linux is harder to support than Windows. Moderate this down if you want, but it won't change that fact. How many times have you seen a product released for one distribution of Linux that won't run on some other? Your support staff has to be familiar with Gnome, KDE, IceWM, and every other GUI that's been pasted on Linux.
There is a Linux contingent that gleefully proclaims that the various distributions and the flexibility of Linux makes it superior to the one-size-fits-all installations of Windows. Well, those choices and the flexibility are what makes it so expensive and difficult for companies to support.
You want companies to support Linux? Then there has to be standardization:
1. Pick KDE, Gnome, or some other GUI and cease development and inclusion of the others.
2. Standardize where files go, a minimum file set in any standard install, and so forth.
3. Stop releasing distros that break things. If company X produced a product for Windows 95, six years later, it probably runs on Windows Me and probably ran on every version in-between (Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition). There's a very good chance that it runs on Windows NT and Windows 2000, too. Compare that to the dismal compatability between different versions and distributions of Linux.
4. Stop competing with every company that releases a commercial linux product. If a company invests 5 man-years creating an innovative commercial product for Linux, within six months of its release, there will be a GPL copycat program to perform the same function for free.
When you consider the limited market share that Linux has combined with the aforementioned problems and "herding cats" lack of standardization and it's no wonder that it does not enjoy a wealth of commercial titles.
The tape transport is more failure-prone. Skipping forward/backward takes longer. There is no intelligence. With Tivo, I can tell it to record every new and/or rerun episode of a show and it finds and records them. If I am on vacation, I can come back to find 30 hours of stuff recorded. Ever try to record 30 hours on a single SVHS tape?
Where is there any proof of this assertion? I don't think I've heard this one before...
There isn't any proof. The Republicans who opposed Judge Roger Gregory never said "we oppose him because he is black." Funny that.
Nonetheless, I, and many others, believe that race was the deciding issue.
You are right and I owe you (and others) and apology for painting with too wide a brush. Your reply was intelligent, informative, and thought-provoking. Please accept my apologies.
The Democrats blocked the Bork nomination because Bork was the Solicitor General under Nixon that fired the Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson, refused to dismiss Cox and resigned in protest. His deputy, William Ruckelshaus, also refused and was fired. Nixon's solicitor general, Robert H. Bork, who was next in command, then fired Cox.
When Bork is willing to fire a special prosecutor in order to help Nixon cover up a crime, it's pretty clear that he's not Supreme Court Justice material.
I don't care if it does or not. I'm sick and tired of Christians feeling that their religious views should become the law of the land. We have Catholics who want to prevent teaching birth control and condom use -- screw (no pun intended) the kids that get AIDS, herpes, genital warts, and pregnant. We have born-agains trying to get a "moment of silence" (code for "prayer") in our schools along with teaching of "creationism" in science classes.
It undermines everything about critical thinking and the scientific method. We wonder why kids do poorly in science and then their parents tell them to believe in an all-powerful, invisible being, heaven, and hell based on nothing more than writings in an ancient book. They are told to attribute everything to this "God" and to believe in creationism. It is no wonder that they grow up and fall for every scam from lottery tickets to pyramid schemes.
It was the Republicans that blocked a Clinton-appointed judge solely because he was black, so please don't get on your high horse about "fighting dirty." I wish the Democrats all the luck in the world in preventing us from getting some anti-abortion, born-again Christian, anti-consumer, pro-business-monopoly conservative on the supreme court. You didn't listen to anything Jeffords or McCain said, did you?
First, it's not the Supreme court's place to decide whether the policies of a would-be President would help or hinder the country.
Second, the election was close enough to require a recount under Florida law. When George W. Bush's lead soon slipped to 327 votes, Republican field leader James A. Baker III repeatedly urged an end to the stalemate, asserting that "the vote in Florida has been counted and the vote in Florida has been recounted." In fact, 18 of the state's 67 counties never recounted the ballots at all. They simply checked their original results. To this day, more than 1.58 million votes have not been counted a second time.
I have not heard that Gore, who considers himself to be a born-again Christian, had "consistently indicated his intent to declare war on Christ." Since Christ, if he existed, is long dead, I assume that you mean Christianity. If that was Gore's intent, I wish him the best of luck. We are long past the point in human history when people should blindly believe in all-powerful, invisible beings that supposedly watch over us. If you want to eschew science in favor of this childish (ala the Tooth Fairy) belief system, go for it, but don't attack those of us who have grown up.
As a parent of a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old, I am very upset with this ruling.
I didn't father your children. I didn't encourage you to have them. So why should my library's Internet access be crippled? Don't want your kids seeing porn on the net? Then supervise them.
The Internet is not TV. If you children are seeing porn, it's almost certainly because they chose to see it. If you can't trust your little smut-hounds to stay away from the porn sites, don't let them on the net.
Or, better yet, grow up. There is no evidence whatsoever that seeing nudity will damage children. All over Europe, children see nudity on television, on billboards, and even at some beaches. They aren't truamatized by it. They don't need years of counseling. Your brand of puritanical censorship is probably much more harmful by making sex into something forbidden and "dirty."
That's like saying "I removed my car's catalytic converter but I'm not too worried about the pollution." What a self-centered jerk!
When the FCC gets enough complaints about computer RF emissions, they will clamp down. And if Gateway/Dell/Compaq/IBM/etc. lobbyists have their way, the only legal way to buy a computer will be preassembled. Upgrades will only be sold to FCC-licensed shops that install them for you (want to wait a week, and pay $30, for the service department to install your next 256K of RAM?).
If you think I'm paranoid, look at hotrodding of cars today. Back in the '60s and '70s, you could put any engine that fit into any car. Now engine swaps are a regulatory nightmare for any cars built in the last decade or two.
You've been posting this same illogical, cut & paste troll for the last year and *BSD is still alive and kicking. Did it ever occur to you that the number of posts on Usenet might not directly correlate to OS popularity? Get a life.
People are sick and tired of your cut & paste troll about BSD. Why do your panties get in a twist every time an article mentions BSD? Did you lose your janitorial job at Walnut Creek or BSDi? Was your wife screwing a FreeBSD developper? Let's be realistic here: You either use *BSD or you don't. If you don't use it, why do you care that much about it?