1st. slavery is not absolute evil. In fact when the slaves were freed here in Brasil, the slaves were in a worst position that they were before, since now they had to work for their food and the land owners didn't feel that they had to pay the "free slaves" enougth to them to have a house or to buy food. (PS. I am not in favor of slavery.)
2nd. If the society determined something to be evil, then this is absolute to that society. In fact, if you pay attention you will see that both sides of this, so called, war are arguing the same thing. Each side is calling the other evil and that's it. This in fact is a proof that evil/good are relative.
the stegnograh\phy detect scheme that was here in slashdot a few time ago (I am not shure it is that stegdetect) was based in statistic measures. since statistic to work must act in a large quantity of information. So if you lower the bit rate of information per bit sent you make it more undetectable. If you encript just a few bits per image in a stream it would be very hard to detect.
I couldn't said better. I was talking with one of the developers of the lua language (www.tecgraph.puc-rio.br/lua). Lua is a script language, developed from the start to be embeded into C programs. I was realy pissed of in that day because the port to the palm-os of the language (plua, I don't have the URL now) was a shareware.
So I asked why they didn't had it GPL. The answer was that they prefer to have lucas art using it than GPL it. If it were GPL lucas, and other game companies would have never adopted it.
I don't folow this reasoning. I don't care that company x or y will not use it. I don't want my code to be used if it's not going to be shared. Shure I don't care about LGPL so the companies could link it to their apps, but if they improve the product the least I caqn expect is to have acess to the improvement.
If they are realy public, why shouldn't they be on the internet? In fact the site above is indeed an invasion of privacy, but because it is disclosuring the address of people, not because it is disclosiring wheter people are registred voters or not. If the site response were :
Doe, John is a registred voter.
instead of
Doe, john 123 main street republican.
It would disclosure the information that is public and would not be that intrusive.
But there are worst cases, the directory of phone of Rio de Janeiro disclosures not only the address but also the map on how to get there.:-)
you can try : HTTP://www.telelista.com.br/, just lick in the "residancial" and search for josé (a fairly common name in Brasil. Click on the little ball on the left of name and voila you have a map to that person's home.:-/
If the Brazilian government were really interested in the health of their people, why aren't they willing to fund their own R&D and develop their own drugs?
Brasil did exactly that, the goverment pays for the research. The institute that sucessfuly made the drug (fiocruz if I am not mistaken) is funded by the goverment. The best universities of Brasil are funded by the goverment and are free.
And this is not a election public trick, since there are many more efective ways of getting votes here that would not make uncle sun and the corporate world mad at the goverment. People in Brazil forget very fast, and the election are only in the next year. This news will be forgotten here by all except for those that benefit from the drugs by the next month or so. Apart from the fact that this news didn't get into the first page of any paper today.
The Brasilian goverment has to reduce it's deficity by large amounts to make the demands of the IMF. It already have the police to treat AIDS pacients, so this is not a new trend. It pays millions of dolars to pay the royalty, and the international public already aplauded Brasil in a similar incident before. Just add 1+1.
I see a lot of people complaing that this is not "fair" and that the poor drug company is not going to do more research. These people are forgetting that the same drug companies send their scientists to the amazon to study "popular" medicine of the brasilian indians and then they go back and patent a drug that have been used for maybe thousands of years by the amazon indians. If this is not enougth they come back here (I happen to live in brasil) and expect us to pay a very expensive price on the same thing that our people were already using.
A drug dealer is a criminal because he sells drugs that kill people right? Why a drug company isn't criminal when it refuses to sell drugs that saves lives, for a resonable price? This may not be illegal, but it is certanly unetical.
Also the goverment of Brasil have asked the company to reduce the price. They refused to do so. The goverment then gave the "go ahead" on the production of this drug.
It happens that we, or life as we see on earth, could not have formed much earlier in time. Since we are made of heavier elements like carbon and others.
As you know all elements are created from hidrogen by fusion inside stars, two hidrogen create a helium, and the havier the element the harder it is to produce them. This means that an older and massive star must have lived all its life cycle, before life could have apeared anywhere in the universe. This limits the time that life appeared.
Off course, since I am not an astronomer or fisic, I don't know by heart what kind of star is needed to create carbon, but I do know that the haviest elements were created by stars going super-nova.
It is partialy microsoft fault that their user base is the way it is. They have a history of hiding options and complexity of their products to make them "user-friendly".
Make a program that even an idiot will use it, then only a idiot will use it.
If an artist get's only a few cents by CD and the same artist would get about $10,00 for a CD bypassing the recording company he would get more money even if they sold 50 times less. This means that even tought 1 in 50 people would buy the CD that pays the artist and not the record company he would still get more money.
Just fo curiosity what MS will do? Send them a jumping and talking paper-clip?
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I hate this conspiracy theories but I think that maybe MS knows that if they help ximian would help denigrate the name of this company in the eyes of the open source advocates.
Would MS use their bad name in the open source community to crush another open source company? As we seen with eazel, the company that made evolution just to die after it is ready. Make a company that only deals with open-source it's not very easy. And maybe rumors and flames could help ximian go bankrupt.
I think that if thiI think that if this is really true, ximian should place a very thought press release just calm every one out. before all the/. flaming posts begin to roll.
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Actualy they aren't affected by gravity, gravity distorts the space-time. In a distordet space the photon then go strait ahead but since the space is curved the direction of "strait ahead" is a curve. Do you follow? I'm not shure if I am being clear enouth.
Imagine a strait line on the surface of the earth, say going from new york to Rio de Janeiro. This line is a curve, but at the same time is a strit line when you are locked to surface of a sphere (in this case earth). Masses in the universes create the same effect but in more dimentions.
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Have you ever heard of distributions? Redhat, turbolinux, mandrake, debian. I belive that all of those dist are all very easy to install. requiring just about what you mentioned.
What the author was talking about is the kernel compilation, witch is something that Joe AOL does not need to do, and quiute frankly he should not do. Kernel compilation is for high end users. It is done to fine tune the system to your needs throwing every thing you don't need out.
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This program is fantastic. it will spy the system calls the your applacation will execute when it is installing. This way it knows exactly what files were "touched" and what werent even thougth the instalation did made any changes to a file (in this case MD5 would not detect).
Simple do FM][ search on checkinstall and you will find it.
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Or maybe they would say "humm, $900 for a stereo, it must be top of the line. Look it even have a `JDDKFJW system (tm)' and a `Super Zoom Multimedia Bass' it's a bargain" and buy it happily.:-)
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Who cares if the head of some corporation don't do as it says what you have to do? Usualy the rules for "heads" are diferent then those for common people. Rulers usualy work under the "Do as I say, don't do as I do" rule.
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Actualy, acording to the making page, the photos were takens with the same lenses in diferent times. He quickly took three pictures each with a diferent filter. He then used a three lenses projector to compose the images in color.
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The only problem with this is the custumer that payed more money to have a fast machine and when he need the speed the processor get's 50% slower. I think this is a great feature, but something like this should be known to all, not hidden in some obscure tech documentation. --
"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
I must reply to this. You talk as if no one would ever want to be sexual or sexy. Many people do like to show themself, and please tell me what is wrong with that?
What you are sujesting is something like sayng that the south american indians (for those who never saw a picture of them, they used to walk arround naked) are perverts. They simply have a diferent culture, that does not see nothing wrong in walking naked.
Well, but people who do pornography is from the same sulture, wright? I don't think so, if someone is a jew isn't this person from a diferent tradition? Well many people simply don't belive as hard in jesus or any other religion to think that what they are doing is fundamently wrong as you are saying, some people don't follow any religion at all. I don't belive that there's nothing wrong with pornography. Shure I am against rape and abuse, but that's compleatly diferent from porn.
Just because you would feel raped if you made porn yourself, does not mean anyone else would feel the same. If you feel abused by porn does not mean that everyone would feel the same way. There is no such thing as one morality for all! Every person should set's their stanrds and live by them, as long you don't cross other person line you're not doing anything wrong.
In my opinion if you managed to ban porn for good you wuold being abusive to many people. In fact you be as abusive as a tiran gorvernor that bans books that do not agree with his polices. The only diference is that you're banning based in "morality" instead of politics.
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Well I realy don't know for the others but I do it. Because if more people stoped using this piece of s*** software maybe we would have access to more hardware drivers or video players. I realy don't care if we don't have MS word or excel, but I would realy like to be able to play quick time and some other file formats that people put on the web. I would realy love to be able to use my F**** scaner without rebooting.
Everyone seems to use windows, besides the fact the most of the people know that it dosen't work. And because of this fact alone I can't use my linux for some tasks, and this p*** me off. --
"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
This is not compleatly off track, in my humble
opinion. The "you are subminting information" dialog should contain more information, so you could make a informed decision when you submit credit card number and stuff.
I would put something like :
"You're about to submit data to http://www.xxxx.com [ details >> ]
http://www.xxxx.com is served by a xxxxx version yy.zz"
This would help you decide and would be fair to all user, be them unix lovers or ms lovers.:-)
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The code is GPL but the data that is running in the play (levels, monsters, graphics, etc...) are not. You cannot copy them, or reproduce them in a new server. I belive that it will be even hard to copy them from the server without the proper access level. --
"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
Why not create a mail filter in the smtp server so that it will strip-out any script from the HTML mail it self. This filter could even strip-out "get" headers from images (yes I know that this isn't enought, but it shures helps).
So what I am sujesting is that a html mail that looks like this:
I have to agree with you, many people like HTML messages because they can format their messages (some what like a rich-text or irgh.doc, but better because it's an open standad, for now at least). This need dosen't require fetching images and/or executing scripts, those should be off by default.
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2 points.
1st. slavery is not absolute evil. In fact when the slaves were freed here in Brasil, the slaves were in a worst position that they were before, since now they had to work for their food and the land owners didn't feel that they had to pay the "free slaves" enougth to them to have a house or to buy food. (PS. I am not in favor of slavery.)
2nd. If the society determined something to be evil, then this is absolute to that society. In fact, if you pay attention you will see that both sides of this, so called, war are arguing the same thing. Each side is calling the other evil and that's it. This in fact is a proof that evil/good are relative.
the stegnograh\phy detect scheme that was here in slashdot a few time ago (I am not shure it is that stegdetect) was based in statistic measures. since statistic to work must act in a large quantity of information. So if you lower the bit rate of information per bit sent you make it more undetectable. If you encript just a few bits per image in a stream it would be very hard to detect.
I couldn't said better. I was talking with one of the developers of the lua language (www.tecgraph.puc-rio.br/lua). Lua is a script language, developed from the start to be embeded into C programs. I was realy pissed of in that day because the port to the palm-os of the language (plua, I don't have the URL now) was a shareware.
So I asked why they didn't had it GPL. The answer was that they prefer to have lucas art using it than GPL it. If it were GPL lucas, and other game companies would have never adopted it.
I don't folow this reasoning. I don't care that company x or y will not use it. I don't want my code to be used if it's not going to be shared. Shure I don't care about LGPL so the companies could link it to their apps, but if they improve the product the least I caqn expect is to have acess to the improvement.
If they are realy public, why shouldn't they be on the internet? In fact the site above is indeed an invasion of privacy, but because it is disclosuring the address of people, not because it is disclosiring wheter people are registred voters or not. If the site response were :
:-)
:-/
Doe, John is a registred voter.
instead of
Doe, john 123 main street republican.
It would disclosure the information that is public and would not be that intrusive.
But there are worst cases, the directory of phone of Rio de Janeiro disclosures not only the address but also the map on how to get there.
you can try : HTTP://www.telelista.com.br/, just lick in the "residancial" and search for josé (a fairly common name in Brasil. Click on the little ball on the left of name and voila you have a map to that person's home.
If the Brazilian government were really interested in the health of their people, why aren't they willing to fund their own R&D and develop their own drugs?
Brasil did exactly that, the goverment pays for the research. The institute that sucessfuly made the drug (fiocruz if I am not mistaken) is funded by the goverment. The best universities of Brasil are funded by the goverment and are free.
And this is not a election public trick, since there are many more efective ways of getting votes here that would not make uncle sun and the corporate world mad at the goverment. People in Brazil forget very fast, and the election are only in the next year. This news will be forgotten here by all except for those that benefit from the drugs by the next month or so. Apart from the fact that this news didn't get into the first page of any paper today.
The Brasilian goverment has to reduce it's deficity by large amounts to make the demands of the IMF. It already have the police to treat AIDS pacients, so this is not a new trend. It pays millions of dolars to pay the royalty, and the international public already aplauded Brasil in a similar incident before. Just add 1+1.
I see a lot of people complaing that this is not "fair" and that the poor drug company is not going to do more research. These people are forgetting that the same drug companies send their scientists to the amazon to study "popular" medicine of the brasilian indians and then they go back and patent a drug that have been used for maybe thousands of years by the amazon indians. If this is not enougth they come back here (I happen to live in brasil) and expect us to pay a very expensive price on the same thing that our people were already using.
A drug dealer is a criminal because he sells drugs that kill people right? Why a drug company isn't criminal when it refuses to sell drugs that saves lives, for a resonable price? This may not be illegal, but it is certanly unetical.
Also the goverment of Brasil have asked the company to reduce the price. They refused to do so. The goverment then gave the "go ahead" on the production of this drug.
It happens that we, or life as we see on earth, could not have formed much earlier in time. Since we are made of heavier elements like carbon and others.
As you know all elements are created from hidrogen by fusion inside stars, two hidrogen create a helium, and the havier the element the harder it is to produce them. This means that an older and massive star must have lived all its life cycle, before life could have apeared anywhere in the universe. This limits the time that life appeared.
Off course, since I am not an astronomer or fisic, I don't know by heart what kind of star is needed to create carbon, but I do know that the haviest elements were created by stars going super-nova.
It is partialy microsoft fault that their user base is the way it is. They have a history of hiding options and complexity of their products to make them "user-friendly".
Make a program that even an idiot will use it, then only a idiot will use it.
If an artist get's only a few cents by CD and the same artist would get about $10,00 for a CD bypassing the recording company he would get more money even if they sold 50 times less. This means that even tought 1 in 50 people would buy the CD that pays the artist and not the record company he would still get more money.
Just fo curiosity what MS will do? Send them a jumping and talking paper-clip?
--
"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
I hate this conspiracy theories but I think that maybe MS knows that if they help ximian would help denigrate the name of this company in the eyes of the open source advocates.
/. flaming posts begin to roll.
Would MS use their bad name in the open source community to crush another open source company? As we seen with eazel, the company that made evolution just to die after it is ready. Make a company that only deals with open-source it's not very easy. And maybe rumors and flames could help ximian go bankrupt.
I think that if thiI think that if this is really true, ximian should place a very thought press release just calm every one out. before all the
--
"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
Actualy they aren't affected by gravity, gravity distorts the space-time. In a distordet space the photon then go strait ahead but since the space is curved the direction of "strait ahead" is a curve. Do you follow? I'm not shure if I am being clear enouth.
Imagine a strait line on the surface of the earth, say going from new york to Rio de Janeiro. This line is a curve, but at the same time is a strit line when you are locked to surface of a sphere (in this case earth). Masses in the universes create the same effect but in more dimentions.
--
"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
What the author was talking about is the kernel compilation, witch is something that Joe AOL does not need to do, and quiute frankly he should not do. Kernel compilation is for high end users. It is done to fine tune the system to your needs throwing every thing you don't need out.
--
"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
This program is fantastic. it will spy the system calls the your applacation will execute when it is installing. This way it knows exactly what files were "touched" and what werent even thougth the instalation did made any changes to a file (in this case MD5 would not detect).
Simple do FM][ search on checkinstall and you will find it.
--
"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
Or maybe they would say "humm, $900 for a stereo, it must be top of the line. Look it even have a `JDDKFJW system (tm)' and a `Super Zoom Multimedia Bass' it's a bargain" and buy it happily. :-)
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
Who cares if the head of some corporation don't do as it says what you have to do? Usualy the rules for "heads" are diferent then those for common people. Rulers usualy work under the "Do as I say, don't do as I do" rule.
--
"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
Actualy, acording to the making page, the photos were takens with the same lenses in diferent times. He quickly took three pictures each with a diferent filter. He then used a three lenses projector to compose the images in color.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
the mouseconfig program creates a /etc/sysconfig/mouse file that the Xconfigurator program thinks it is a bad file.
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The only problem with this is the custumer that payed more money to have a fast machine and when he need the speed the processor get's 50% slower. I think this is a great feature, but something like this should be known to all, not hidden in some obscure tech documentation.
--
"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
I must reply to this. You talk as if no one would ever want to be sexual or sexy. Many people do like to show themself, and please tell me what is wrong with that?
What you are sujesting is something like sayng that the south american indians (for those who never saw a picture of them, they used to walk arround naked) are perverts. They simply have a diferent culture, that does not see nothing wrong in walking naked.
Well, but people who do pornography is from the same sulture, wright? I don't think so, if someone is a jew isn't this person from a diferent tradition? Well many people simply don't belive as hard in jesus or any other religion to think that what they are doing is fundamently wrong as you are saying, some people don't follow any religion at all. I don't belive that there's nothing wrong with pornography. Shure I am against rape and abuse, but that's compleatly diferent from porn.
Just because you would feel raped if you made porn yourself, does not mean anyone else would feel the same. If you feel abused by porn does not mean that everyone would feel the same way. There is no such thing as one morality for all! Every person should set's their stanrds and live by them, as long you don't cross other person line you're not doing anything wrong.
In my opinion if you managed to ban porn for good you wuold being abusive to many people. In fact you be as abusive as a tiran gorvernor that bans books that do not agree with his polices. The only diference is that you're banning based in "morality" instead of politics.
--
"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
Everyone seems to use windows, besides the fact the most of the people know that it dosen't work. And because of this fact alone I can't use my linux for some tasks, and this p*** me off.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
This is not compleatly off track, in my humble
:-)
opinion. The "you are subminting information" dialog should contain more information, so you could make a informed decision when you submit credit card number and stuff.
I would put something like :
"You're about to submit data to http://www.xxxx.com [ details >> ]
http://www.xxxx.com is served by a xxxxx version yy.zz"
This would help you decide and would be fair to all user, be them unix lovers or ms lovers.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
The code is GPL but the data that is running in the play (levels, monsters, graphics, etc...) are not. You cannot copy them, or reproduce them in a new server. I belive that it will be even hard to copy them from the server without the proper access level.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
Why not create a mail filter in the smtp server so that it will strip-out any script from the HTML mail it self. This filter could even strip-out "get" headers from images (yes I know that this isn't enought, but it shures helps).
a il=john@doe.com">
t ;
So what I am sujesting is that a html mail that looks like this:
<html>
<body>
<script> nasty stuff </script>
<img onload="do nasty stuff" src="http://nasty.stuff.com/beatiful_image.jpg?em
</body>
</htlm>
could turn into this :
<html>
<body>
<img src="http://nasty.stuff.com/beatiful_image.jpg"&g
</body>
</htlm>
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
I have to agree with you, many people like HTML messages because they can format their messages (some what like a rich-text or irgh .doc, but better because it's an open standad, for now at least). This need dosen't require fetching images and/or executing scripts, those should be off by default.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"