In Canada (Alberta and Quebec, afaik), these cell banks are nationalized.
In Quebec, a few hospitals cooprate with the national blood donor bank (Hema-Quebec) to donate the cells to them. It's free and can help kids with leukemia. It's also useful for science (alot of people donate).
Also, so far the only treatment (in Quebec) is for leukemia on kids less than 50kg, otherwise it requires too many blood cells (they use cells from 3-4 donors, one is not enough).
On the other hand, I remember reading about stem cells transplants in Korea for bone marrow that had been successful a few years ago, and they were done using public stem cells banks, not private. i.e. using stem cells from other people.
Although the compatibility for stem cells is apparently rather small. On the other hand, they keep finding out new ways to generate stem cells from adults..
With private cell banks, there are very few odds it will be useful: the cells may die during transport, there will probably not be enough cells for a cure, no guarantees on the freezing, etc. and just plain looks like a scam.
Before my daughter was born two years ago some members of our family pressured us into doing this, saying that it may even cure another family member. We did quite alot of research on it. Even the hospital staff were skeptical about it.
As others have mentioned, better to invest that money into a savings account and use it for education, other health services if necessary, etc.
"Most insightful however is the observation that not one industrial country has so far implemented a similar program for its children"
I'm not the biggest fan of this "one laptop per child" idea (why not telecentres, public libraries, etc?), but a few years back, the government of Quebec (Canada) had a program which aimed to help families with children to buy a desktop computer for home and to connect it to the Internet. Students in universities also have access to special programs, not to mention that most universities, colleges and high schools have efficient computer labs. In other words, it's a form of government help.
I agree, of course, but France is also under the corporate dictatorship of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO, fork of the World Trade Organisation?). WIPO is largely responsible for the radical laws proposed every few months in so many countries. It allows large corporations to impose their agenda on a large set of member countries, much more easily than if they had to lobby each country individually. Most countries have pretty much given away their sovereignty to legislate on so-called "intellectual property" issues.
(I'm obviously not an expert on the topic, but for those who have never heard about this, and wonder why we have such tendancies, it is a very interesting topic.)
Um, no. The.uk, for example, have "*.police.uk", such as cityoflondon.police.uk (unfortunately, not that intuitive, since london.police.uk does not even exist). They also have gov.uk, org.uk, ac.uk, etc.
Domains with.co.uk are very useful for Google searches. Such as "fookeyword -site:co.uk". Or search all academic institutions: "foo site:ac.uk".
Also, by having different subdomains, you can charge different prices for them. org.TLD should be cheaper than co.TLD. Afaik, it's like that with the.yu TLD, as long as you provide proof that you are a not-for-profit organisation (something which is reasonable to do for a CC TLD, since many of them ask for trademark and various registration documents anyway).
> "My data back-ups are routinely over 4GB is size. No way am I tranporting that up my stinking little DSL connection."
Same here, but I use duplicity. It encrypts using GnuPG and transfers using rsync. It makes a full backup in chunks of 5MB files, then makes incremental backups. Great for dumping data on non-trusted servers.
I don't know Chinese, but I know other languages using a non-latin alphabet. For most languages, writing them using some sort of transliteration is a real annoyance. Most of the time, you just end up using English words in order to avoid confusion or to write things which look completely silly. Very often, the grammar rules make no sense without the specific alphabet..
Another annoyance, related to non-us-ascii.com type of domain names (which are supported by ICANN), is that you have to constantly switch your keyboard layout. Also, in some alphabets, for example cyrillic, ".com" can be written both with cyrillic and latin letters. I would prefer to type ".kom" (with cyrillic characters).
If the Chinese do this well, their system can be completely inter-operable. I think this as a good thing, let's just hope they do it right. It should be possible to have internationalised TLDs using the same algorithm as for non-us-ascii domain names.
By the way, nothing stops a website owner to register both a.CN in chinese characters, as well as another domain.CN in us-ascii characters. It's not as if they announced that using chinese characters will be mandatory..?
- Whether it's 10,000 or 30 people, I hope that your training sessions don't exceed 15-30 people. The difficulties by number of people trained is linear, or you're not managing things well (often users help each other, so your troubles curb should be logarithmic, not exponential).
- A user switching from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 to Windows XP will have pretty much the same level of difficulties as from Windows 2000/XP to Gnome. Many users have told me this (and very non-tech users!).
- If users know only "do this, click that" after being trained, then the trainer didn't do his/her job correctly.
- Motivate users, give them a reason to switch and don't take them for robots.
Sure, YMMV.. but my biggest problem with training users is that they afterwards ask me whether their relatives can install it at home.. and yeah, switching to Linux at home is more difficult when there is not an office tech to assist.
"We already have kphone (a QT-based phone, but no KDE integration, so no aRts), iaxcomm (IAX protocol only) and linphone (GTK)."
While they are good projects, and I hope that they continue their developments, they are not exactly mainstream:
- kphone/linphone: Setting up SIP accounts is hell for people not familiar with SIP (and behind firewalls/natted).
- iaxcomm: Wonderful, easy to use/setup even behind NAT, but you must first setup your own Asterisk server.
I've seen PR from companies such as Wengo, which offers a GPL QT-based client, but the GNU/Linux client is unstable and the project has poor documentation, too much PR on their website.. They also plan to offer a Firefox extention towards mid-February. Their service offers an easy to setup SIP-proxy (free) and POTS-proxy ($).
Anyway, I'm happy to see that OpenZoep is using XMPP and it looks like a very nice complementary alternative.
I use Firefox for most of my work, which also includes web development stuff. I run it on a laptop which I put to sleep at night. I currently have an uptime of 38 days (does that include sleep time?), and for the past 38 days, I have not restarted Firefox.
I know that I am probably also not the average Web user (who is?), and surely Firefox has space for improvement, but I find it amusing that you make such a strong statement based only on your experience.:-)
In general, though, I have been installing Firefox on the computers of my friends and colleagues, and the vast majority of them have been very happy about it. I even know a few typical secretaries who cannot stop promoting it to their friends, which, from my geeky point of view, is a wonderful phenomenon to witness.
I haven't been following the debate much, but this problem with the alphabet is rather annoying for any non-English language. Most latin languages use accents, therefore it's not even a question of "latin" alphabet, but a "us-ascii" limitation.
Another note, is that from personal experience, I really get annoyed from transliterating words of languages using the Cyrillic alphabet (ex: Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian,...). It just sounds stupid, those languages make no sense in the us-ascii alphabet, and often people transliterate in ways which only they understand (well, anyway, from my perspective as a foreigner).
Another issue, is that I have seen some domains advertised using Cyrillic letters, but ".com" at the end. Now that's even more confusing, especially for non-technical people (and the fact that you have to continuously switch your keyboard layout). Imho, the TLD for those countries should also be available in Cyrillic.
Just my 0.02$ -- sure, there will always be spam problems, but this is about connecting people and making sure the Internet is accessible no matter where they are.:-)
Fink is nice, but I simply find Debian more practical for my needs.
For example, I like how Debian has mirrors all over the world. Source Forge has mirrors here and there, but most countries have strict limits on the speed of international connections, even with a neighboring country. (Where I currently live, my home Internet connection is 16k/sec for international, 96k/sec for national, 200k/sec for movies stored at my ISP's tera-byte drives^W^W^W^W^W.)
And finally, well, I'm lazy and I find Linux more simple. It answers my needs and I like how the community works, which is open and decentralised.:-)
The procedure looks rather similar to installing Linux on an ibook/powerbook: nothing difficult, nice hardware, but not everything is supported (a problem with most laptops anyway, but I wish hardware makers would be more cooperative).
I've been using Debian GNU/Linux on my ibook for two years and I love it (except for the buggy motherboards, but Apple finally fixed that). OSX is perhaps Unix, but it doesn't give me the freedom that Debian GNU/Linux does, nor does it have apt-get:-)
If you take culture as a base for nationality, then you increase the chances of further excluding minorities, which are often also ethnical minorities.
As a person who passed through this citizenship process for a European country, they had rather fair criterions imho. For example, you can request a citizenship if you are no more than the 3rd generation after the one who immigrated. They check your documents as mad, even if at that time in Quebec, some churches were the main bureaucratic systems and they were quite bad at it. This criterion proves your point in a different way: after 3 generations, there are little chances that you've kept much of your home culture.
Another issue on culture, is that nations with common cultures usually find other ways to work togeter. Quebec and France is a good example: citizens are allowed to live and work in the other country for 6 months without visa. Taxes can be transfered and studying abroad is very easy. Yet, Quebec and French culture are almost as far apart as the French culture in the North and South of France (sorry, I like to annoy French people who criticize Quebec alot).
I'm a north american living in neighboring Bulgaria and I had the chance to hitchhike a bit in Macedonia. I think the travel.state.gov is exagerating a bit about Macedonia (the canadian travelers advice website is also quite entertaining). Altough Macedonia has its share of internal political problems, unless you're a drunk KFOR soldier, Macedonia is a fine and friendly country.
On the other hand, maybe such countries would be making less fraud if there weren't so many barriers against them, making the people poor and forcing them to find "alternative" ways of making money.
Ego crisis. Alice hurts Bob's feelings. Bob gets pissed, takes his gun and shoots at servers Alice is using.
Apparently there was IRCop abuse, and some paquet kiddie got pissed. 49gbps DDoS. Some people don't seem to understand that real servers are behind this and real people with real spare time that's not worth investing in a war between users.
Montreal has also talked about seceding from Quebec if Quebec secedes from Canada.
No, the West-Island of Montreal said that, not it's government. Saying that Montreal doesn't reflect the whole nation is obvious, as you mentionned in your post.
You're doing the equivalent of an American saying "yes, I know all about Canada. I stayed a couple of days in Toronto." Head up to Beauharnois or Riviere-De-Loup.
Your twisting my words or maybe I didn't express myself clearly enough. I said that Montreal loves multi-ethnicity, and the Quebec gov encourages other cities to do the same. For it to become a reality takes time, but I guess that's obvious.
Wow. How many parents did you have?
pow(2,n);/* where n is the number of generations from mine. ex: 4 grand-parents */
Then you're not pure laine.
I don't recall saying I was.. Anyways, human genetical diversity is good.
According to Parizeau it's your fault for ruining the separatist election.
I havent yet explained my political views, only described my thoughts on multi-ethnicity in Quebec. No need to impress me with your high level of comprehension in politics.:-)
Keep in mind those folks like to be as ethnically pure as possible. While collecting tax money from those they so despise.
I think you're forgetting that the city of Montreal keeps talking about how proud they are about their multi-ethnic status, and how the government keeps applying pressure to send immigrants to smaller cities (Sherbrooke, Quebec City, etc.) to encourage diversity and at the same time encourage cultural integration to the french language.
I have always lived in Montreal, but now study in Sherbrooke. I was told that the people here are dumb and close-minded, but a massive amount of Arabs, Africans, and French (btw, the French bitch a lot against the closed minded a-la-americain stupidity of Quebec) also studying here have a big influence on the city as they integrate it. Also, Quebec doesn't have a strong and invasive culture as the United-States, so merging cultures is much easier. I would give a ton of examples, if it were not that this message will be marked -1 for flamebait since it diverges from average slashdot opinion:)
p.s. I have a lebanese name/origin, I am also from italian, irish and quebecois origin. I'm what you could call a "pure-Montrealer", since one of my parents is francophone, and the other anglophone; both are from different religions. Beat that;)
What about how hackers are portrayed as the Evil Ones in Jurassic Park1 and James Bond::Goldeneye (barely mentionned)?
<rant>
In JP1, the fat fast-food-eating porno-addicted jerk runs away and gets killed. The hero is of course an innocent intelligent kid that knows Unix. Ok, sure, she knew Unix, maybe a future hacker (it's not because you know unix that you're a hacker), but to the eyes of the public, she's the smart kid that saved the day, while the evil-hacker ran away.
In James Bond, there again: sex-craving anti-social evil genious always trying to hide. Of course, he dies while his ego expresses itself. Blah, Tomorrow Never Dies does a much better job at showing that technology and the media are the Evil. Tomorrow Never Dies really gave me the impression that we must impose stronger regulation on technology because technology helps evil people.
What Hollywood is saying, is that technology enslaves us, and that evil people can use this to their advantage.
Then again, I'm just a computer geek. My two cents.
Hmm.. it would be so nice to see.govs running OpenBSD. Sure, they also need well trained staff, but OpenBSD makes the use of crypto much easier. (and no, this isn't an anti-Linux post, I also use Linux every day and it's a great system, but it also lacks "secure non-US distributions" where you could have all the Good Stuff already included)
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In many Eastern countries with an Orthodox background, they call a low-level priest a "pope".
The patriarchs are a level higher (national level?), iirc.
In Canada (Alberta and Quebec, afaik), these cell banks are nationalized.
In Quebec, a few hospitals cooprate with the national blood donor bank (Hema-Quebec) to donate the cells to them. It's free and can help kids with leukemia. It's also useful for science (alot of people donate).
Also, so far the only treatment (in Quebec) is for leukemia on kids less than 50kg, otherwise it requires too many blood cells (they use cells from 3-4 donors, one is not enough).
On the other hand, I remember reading about stem cells transplants in Korea for bone marrow that had been successful a few years ago, and they were done using public stem cells banks, not private. i.e. using stem cells from other people.
Although the compatibility for stem cells is apparently rather small. On the other hand, they keep finding out new ways to generate stem cells from adults..
With private cell banks, there are very few odds it will be useful: the cells may die during transport, there will probably not be enough cells for a cure, no guarantees on the freezing, etc. and just plain looks like a scam.
Before my daughter was born two years ago some members of our family pressured us into doing this, saying that it may even cure another family member. We did quite alot of research on it. Even the hospital staff were skeptical about it.
As others have mentioned, better to invest that money into a savings account and use it for education, other health services if necessary, etc.
I'm not the biggest fan of this "one laptop per child" idea (why not telecentres, public libraries, etc?), but a few years back, the government of Quebec (Canada) had a program which aimed to help families with children to buy a desktop computer for home and to connect it to the Internet. Students in universities also have access to special programs, not to mention that most universities, colleges and high schools have efficient computer labs. In other words, it's a form of government help.
I agree, of course, but France is also under the corporate dictatorship of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO, fork of the World Trade Organisation?). WIPO is largely responsible for the radical laws proposed every few months in so many countries. It allows large corporations to impose their agenda on a large set of member countries, much more easily than if they had to lobby each country individually. Most countries have pretty much given away their sovereignty to legislate on so-called "intellectual property" issues.
(I'm obviously not an expert on the topic, but for those who have never heard about this, and wonder why we have such tendancies, it is a very interesting topic.)
Um, no. The .uk, for example, have "*.police.uk", such as cityoflondon.police.uk (unfortunately, not that intuitive, since london.police.uk does not even exist). They also have gov.uk, org.uk, ac.uk, etc.
.co.uk are very useful for Google searches. Such as "fookeyword -site:co.uk". Or search all academic institutions: "foo site:ac.uk".
.yu TLD, as long as you provide proof that you are a not-for-profit organisation (something which is reasonable to do for a CC TLD, since many of them ask for trademark and various registration documents anyway).
Domains with
Also, by having different subdomains, you can charge different prices for them. org.TLD should be cheaper than co.TLD. Afaik, it's like that with the
> "My data back-ups are routinely over 4GB is size. No way am I tranporting that up my stinking little DSL connection."
Same here, but I use duplicity. It encrypts using GnuPG and transfers using rsync. It makes a full backup in chunks of 5MB files, then makes incremental backups. Great for dumping data on non-trusted servers.
I don't know Chinese, but I know other languages using a non-latin alphabet. For most languages, writing them using some sort of transliteration is a real annoyance. Most of the time, you just end up using English words in order to avoid confusion or to write things which look completely silly. Very often, the grammar rules make no sense without the specific alphabet..
.CN in chinese characters, as well as another domain .CN in us-ascii characters. It's not as if they announced that using chinese characters will be mandatory..?
Another annoyance, related to non-us-ascii.com type of domain names (which are supported by ICANN), is that you have to constantly switch your keyboard layout. Also, in some alphabets, for example cyrillic, ".com" can be written both with cyrillic and latin letters. I would prefer to type ".kom" (with cyrillic characters).
If the Chinese do this well, their system can be completely inter-operable. I think this as a good thing, let's just hope they do it right. It should be possible to have internationalised TLDs using the same algorithm as for non-us-ascii domain names.
By the way, nothing stops a website owner to register both a
- Whether it's 10,000 or 30 people, I hope that your training sessions don't exceed 15-30 people. The difficulties by number of people trained is linear, or you're not managing things well (often users help each other, so your troubles curb should be logarithmic, not exponential).
- A user switching from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 to Windows XP will have pretty much the same level of difficulties as from Windows 2000/XP to Gnome. Many users have told me this (and very non-tech users!).
- If users know only "do this, click that" after being trained, then the trainer didn't do his/her job correctly.
- Motivate users, give them a reason to switch and don't take them for robots.
Sure, YMMV.. but my biggest problem with training users is that they afterwards ask me whether their relatives can install it at home.. and yeah, switching to Linux at home is more difficult when there is not an office tech to assist.
"We already have kphone (a QT-based phone, but no KDE integration, so no aRts), iaxcomm (IAX protocol only) and linphone (GTK)."
While they are good projects, and I hope that they continue their developments, they are not exactly mainstream:
- kphone/linphone: Setting up SIP accounts is hell for people not familiar with SIP (and behind firewalls/natted).
- iaxcomm: Wonderful, easy to use/setup even behind NAT, but you must first setup your own Asterisk server.
I've seen PR from companies such as Wengo, which offers a GPL QT-based client, but the GNU/Linux client is unstable and the project has poor documentation, too much PR on their website.. They also plan to offer a Firefox extention towards mid-February. Their service offers an easy to setup SIP-proxy (free) and POTS-proxy ($).
Anyway, I'm happy to see that OpenZoep is using XMPP and it looks like a very nice complementary alternative.
I use Firefox for most of my work, which also includes web development stuff. I run it on a laptop which I put to sleep at night. I currently have an uptime of 38 days (does that include sleep time?), and for the past 38 days, I have not restarted Firefox.
:-)
I know that I am probably also not the average Web user (who is?), and surely Firefox has space for improvement, but I find it amusing that you make such a strong statement based only on your experience.
In general, though, I have been installing Firefox on the computers of my friends and colleagues, and the vast majority of them have been very happy about it. I even know a few typical secretaries who cannot stop promoting it to their friends, which, from my geeky point of view, is a wonderful phenomenon to witness.
I haven't been following the debate much, but this problem with the alphabet is rather annoying for any non-English language. Most latin languages use accents, therefore it's not even a question of "latin" alphabet, but a "us-ascii" limitation.
...). It just sounds stupid, those languages make no sense in the us-ascii alphabet, and often people transliterate in ways which only they understand (well, anyway, from my perspective as a foreigner).
:-)
Another note, is that from personal experience, I really get annoyed from transliterating words of languages using the Cyrillic alphabet (ex: Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian,
Another issue, is that I have seen some domains advertised using Cyrillic letters, but ".com" at the end. Now that's even more confusing, especially for non-technical people (and the fact that you have to continuously switch your keyboard layout). Imho, the TLD for those countries should also be available in Cyrillic.
Just my 0.02$ -- sure, there will always be spam problems, but this is about connecting people and making sure the Internet is accessible no matter where they are.
March 5, 1995
:-)
Random date from old documentation.
Sure, all software has bugs. Only that using this method, an intruder would have to find two 0-day exploits instead of one.
(In theory, of course, because who knows how many firewalls or port knocking systems are correctly configured -- c.f. Microsoft-based systems.)
Fink is nice, but I simply find Debian more practical for my needs.
:-)
For example, I like how Debian has mirrors all over the world. Source Forge has mirrors here and there, but most countries have strict limits on the speed of international connections, even with a neighboring country. (Where I currently live, my home Internet connection is 16k/sec for international, 96k/sec for national, 200k/sec for movies stored at my ISP's tera-byte drives^W^W^W^W^W.)
And finally, well, I'm lazy and I find Linux more simple. It answers my needs and I like how the community works, which is open and decentralised.
The procedure looks rather similar to installing Linux on an ibook/powerbook: nothing difficult, nice hardware, but not everything is supported (a problem with most laptops anyway, but I wish hardware makers would be more cooperative).
:-)
I've been using Debian GNU/Linux on my ibook for two years and I love it (except for the buggy motherboards, but Apple finally fixed that). OSX is perhaps Unix, but it doesn't give me the freedom that Debian GNU/Linux does, nor does it have apt-get
If you take culture as a base for nationality, then you increase the chances of further excluding minorities, which are often also ethnical minorities.
:-)
As a person who passed through this citizenship process for a European country, they had rather fair criterions imho. For example, you can request a citizenship if you are no more than the 3rd generation after the one who immigrated. They check your documents as mad, even if at that time in Quebec, some churches were the main bureaucratic systems and they were quite bad at it. This criterion proves your point in a different way: after 3 generations, there are little chances that you've kept much of your home culture.
Another issue on culture, is that nations with common cultures usually find other ways to work togeter. Quebec and France is a good example: citizens are allowed to live and work in the other country for 6 months without visa. Taxes can be transfered and studying abroad is very easy. Yet, Quebec and French culture are almost as far apart as the French culture in the North and South of France (sorry, I like to annoy French people who criticize Quebec alot).
I know, I know, I'm off topic again..
I'm a north american living in neighboring Bulgaria and I had the chance to hitchhike a bit in Macedonia. I think the travel.state.gov is exagerating a bit about Macedonia (the canadian travelers advice website is also quite entertaining). Altough Macedonia has its share of internal political problems, unless you're a drunk KFOR soldier, Macedonia is a fine and friendly country.
On the other hand, maybe such countries would be making less fraud if there weren't so many barriers against them, making the people poor and forcing them to find "alternative" ways of making money.
bgm
Ego crisis. Alice hurts Bob's feelings. Bob gets pissed, takes his gun and shoots at servers Alice is using. Apparently there was IRCop abuse, and some paquet kiddie got pissed. 49gbps DDoS. Some people don't seem to understand that real servers are behind this and real people with real spare time that's not worth investing in a war between users.
Montreal has also talked about seceding from Quebec if Quebec secedes from Canada.
No, the West-Island of Montreal said that, not it's government. Saying that Montreal doesn't reflect the whole nation is obvious, as you mentionned in your post.
You're doing the equivalent of an American saying "yes, I know all about Canada. I stayed a couple of days in Toronto." Head up to Beauharnois or Riviere-De-Loup.
Your twisting my words or maybe I didn't express myself clearly enough. I said that Montreal loves multi-ethnicity, and the Quebec gov encourages other cities to do the same. For it to become a reality takes time, but I guess that's obvious.
Wow. How many parents did you have?
pow(2,n); /* where n is the number of generations from mine. ex: 4 grand-parents */
Then you're not pure laine.
I don't recall saying I was.. Anyways, human genetical diversity is good.
According to Parizeau it's your fault for ruining the separatist election.
I havent yet explained my political views, only described my thoughts on multi-ethnicity in Quebec. No need to impress me with your high level of comprehension in politics. :-)
Keep in mind those folks like to be as ethnically pure as possible. While collecting tax money from those they so despise.
I think you're forgetting that the city of Montreal keeps talking about how proud they are about their multi-ethnic status, and how the government keeps applying pressure to send immigrants to smaller cities (Sherbrooke, Quebec City, etc.) to encourage diversity and at the same time encourage cultural integration to the french language.
I have always lived in Montreal, but now study in Sherbrooke. I was told that the people here are dumb and close-minded, but a massive amount of Arabs, Africans, and French (btw, the French bitch a lot against the closed minded a-la-americain stupidity of Quebec) also studying here have a big influence on the city as they integrate it. Also, Quebec doesn't have a strong and invasive culture as the United-States, so merging cultures is much easier. I would give a ton of examples, if it were not that this message will be marked -1 for flamebait since it diverges from average slashdot opinion :)
p.s. I have a lebanese name/origin, I am also from italian, irish and quebecois origin. I'm what you could call a "pure-Montrealer", since one of my parents is francophone, and the other anglophone; both are from different religions. Beat that ;)
What about how hackers are portrayed as the Evil Ones in Jurassic Park1 and James Bond::Goldeneye (barely mentionned)?
<rant>In JP1, the fat fast-food-eating porno-addicted jerk runs away and gets killed. The hero is of course an innocent intelligent kid that knows Unix. Ok, sure, she knew Unix, maybe a future hacker (it's not because you know unix that you're a hacker), but to the eyes of the public, she's the smart kid that saved the day, while the evil-hacker ran away.
In James Bond, there again: sex-craving anti-social evil genious always trying to hide. Of course, he dies while his ego expresses itself. Blah, Tomorrow Never Dies does a much better job at showing that technology and the media are the Evil. Tomorrow Never Dies really gave me the impression that we must impose stronger regulation on technology because technology helps evil people.
What Hollywood is saying, is that technology enslaves us, and that evil people can use this to their advantage.
Then again, I'm just a computer geek. My two cents.
</rant>Hmm.. it would be so nice to see .govs running OpenBSD. Sure, they also need well trained staff, but OpenBSD makes the use of crypto much easier. (and no, this isn't an anti-Linux post, I also use Linux every day and it's a great system, but it also lacks "secure non-US distributions" where you could have all the Good Stuff already included)
Heh, can anyone mirror this on an Internet web site?
" We at Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages are intended for access only from within the United States."
Oh well..
Everybody knows that IE is in kernel space, right next to IIS ;)
Posted by timothy on Monday November 20, @02:39AMe dept.
from the with-extra-nerves-i'd-meet-girl-X-in-the-bookstor
Heh, I think a lot of people can relate to that..