You're right Cygwin rocks hardcore. I wish there was more development for it out there.
As far as an SSH client goes, why not try the SSH server? Easy to configure and install under Cygwin/XP (even Home) and allows for tunneled connections to your desktop. Secure VNC? Done! Secure file transfers? SCP to the rescue! SSHD running on Windows just rocks - I wouldn't ever leave my home if it wasn't installed on my desktop computer.
When you add on Cygwin, Cygwin-X and the rest of the GNU tools to Windows you start to forget which box you are using. I love it, if only it could just take over the entire User Land! Just let the Windows kernel run underneath with all the things that come with it like the HAL and etc and give me a GNU desktop. RMS might scream, but I'd be happy.
I had learned the magic phrase, "Could you take me off the call list?", which I diligently said to every telemarketer. By law, they have to take you off, so that had already almost completely solved the problem. The national do-not-call list eliminated the last bits.
I have worked as a rep, in behind the scenes rolls and as a supervisor. When I worked as the supervisor I had to take "DNC" calls and resolve a lot of those issues. The law then (five years ago) said that if you said "take me off your list" we actually didn't have to do much more than do just that. Problem is that we run many lists and you could be on all of them. You had to mention the do not call list specifically (you still do). To sue us you had to do two things: request a supervisor and then say anything about not being called again and prove that we intentionally called you. The second qualifier basically meant that if we had a good excuse (someone manually dialed the wrong number, we called a second line that you wouldn't or didn't tell us about, distinctive ring numbers, and so forth) you would get a summary judgement and your time in court would be about 15 actual minutes.
Now the national DNC list has thankfully eliminated almost all of the requests to be placed on our own do not call list. Our rules are still the same. If you just yell at me and hang up there is no requirement to place you on the DNC list. You've got to say that you want to put on the do not call list. In fact, we put too many people on the DNC list. We have been yelled at daily by the boss because we put people on there who just complain about the product. The pool is small enough, so spoiling a phone number forever can't happen.
It's hard to hear, but the rules aren't really in your favor - unless you're patient. For your protection you must always use the phrase "do not call list". It's not up for debate, no matter how much you flame me. If you want to ensure that someone is never, ever going to call you again stop them before their speech and calmly ask for the supervisor and calmly ask to be placed on the list. I know that it sucks, but being impatient can just make you get called more (with many automated calling systems). We run the DNC list across the calling database - this means that not getting on the actual DNC list will call you again even if we don't want to.
We are glad to get rid of the spoilers. The sales reps want to get rid of anyone who isn't interested - we welcome the national list. However, this is important to remember: if you've had a six month relationship with a company they are exempt from following the national do not call list. This means that you must attack your credit card companies, newspapers (and The New York Times will call you no matter where you live!), and charities one at a time. What I sell is used by most of the calling area already so there is a good chance I'll still call you if you used the product for six months.
No, see I disagree with the entire KBR/Halliburton rebuilding deal. The Iraq contracts should show you why, it doesn't even have much to do with Cheney.
However I thought you were attacking the idea that tax money should flow towards these areas. That isn't true - but they should go to smaller contractors.
Want to stimulate the economy? Invite people from around the country to participate in bids for building projects. The housing boom is just over and we have talent and people waiting for work.
Now's the time to tack it onto a Katrina spending bill. Republican and Democrat alike will be _forced_ to vote for it "for the children," blah, blah.
What a horrible, badly timed troll! Especially in light of all the money we are sending out the back door to the president's pet project: Iraq.
Besides, your view isn't realistic. Senators, Republican senators mostly, have already said they won't spend money to rebuild New Orleans. Senators as far away as Alaska have been fighting the idea that we even feed any of these people. You think the Katrina spending bill will get rammed through, but it won't go through as fast as defense spending bills have been pushed through in the past few years.
But they are charging $12/month for what is essentially additional ads and an EPG.
Really, this hurts their chances in the second hand market. I would like to try Tivo on a series one model and eBay is a good place to get one. I can't spend $300 out of my pocket and refuse to sign a contract (that I might not be able to see to it's end because changing finances), so now I'll never really see Tivo in my home.
They could have had a nice second revenue stream from people activating older units but now if I'm forced to sign a contract (even though the unit is already paid for) I'll look elsewhere. Good thing I just ordered a WinTV PVR 500MCE.
It's not about getting yahoo to change, it's about initiating change in China itself. What you and I do are irrelevant in the end, because it will be the Chinese people who will have to demand freedom from their government... It's a call that can not be made by anyone else.
This isn't exactly true. If we show that we accept their actions then we can't get any official pressure put on China. If we don't show interest then we can't get the government actively involved in trying to support said dissidents. It is their call, but we can be doing things to pressure the Chinese government officially while we also introduce the propaganda to get people to become dissidents. Corporations aren't exactly the ones we should rely on to bring about the change so to me this is a non-issue in that point. However I fully support expressing your opinion to your representatives (this applies worldwide). Covert radio broadcasts, internet attacks on Chinese publishing sites (planting material) and funding covert networks are all good ideas that I only want the government involved in (CIA, NSA, etc) - I don't want Yahoo! being the defender of freedom. At the same time however, I wonder how many people don't actually mind the "oppression". For the system to work as well as it has until today a lot of people must be working in the system very well.
I sure hate oppression and violence but I don't know the truth about China. I can't really decide how I feel about this or any other issue of human rights abuse. Really, I wonder about others that we just as actively trade with.
Moreso, we cannot really fault companies who give in to China's demands. Companies operating within China's shores, or otherwise targetting the Chinese people will have to submit to Chinese law. If Yahoo or MSN did otherwise, then it is their company that would be in violation of the law.
Exactly right. To do business in China you must abide by their rules. Pretty much the same thing here in America. I assume that Yahoo holds a corporate charter (or some such statement that says they can do business within the nation of P.R.C.) and said charter binds them to operate within the laws of the land and says that they are more of a "peoples" company than anything else. Really, American corporate charters phrase the legal paperwork as the corporation doing a service for the people of their state (and beyond) and grants them the right to incorporate.
It's a small barrier to entry but it does exist. Obtaining and keeping a corporate charter was once a hard task in America. For American companies in China today - they are doing the same thing they did just 70 years ago to get into business. I suspect however that Yahoo! (et.al.) existing in China is a GoodThing. American companies are a great cover for covert operations and it is possible to "brain drain" China and maybe steal a few intellectual property secrets like they've been doing to us all these years. Eventually, no matter how covert we get, we will have exported something that people use daily and that helps influence the culture.
Let China bring in all the American companies they want. At some point someone like KFC will not stand for the law that is a thorn in their side and revolt. One brick at a time they will eat that Great Wall down from the inside.
You mentioned: "the war on free speech, expression and personal liberties". That is exactly the thing that this "Global War On Islamic-Fundamentalist-Extremists; using Terror as a Tactic and Other Terror Tactic using Groups, Excluding Christian-Fundamentalist-Extremist Groups in America and Abroad, and the People Who Harbor Said Fundamentalist-Extremeists using Terror Tactics" (G.W.O.I.F.E.T.T.O.T.T.G.E.C.F.E.G.A.A.P.W.H.S.F.E .) was started over. It's just a sham to take away more rights.
Nothing, of course. Just like no one did anything when U.S. corporations set up shop in the newly formed Soviet Union. You don't challenge corporations - it doesn't work.
Do we really want our debt financed by China? What type of barganing power does this give them over us while our economy is so fragile?
Our debt financed by China? It's worse than that. Did you know that during that housing boom we just had that the Chinese central banks sunk a lot of the national treasury into the American mortgage market? They sure don't believe in property rights in China, but over here it's another story.
Not only has China played a role in holding down short-term interest rates, but the People's Bank of China has also supported America's mortgage market by buying vast amounts of mortgage-backed securities.
What does the breaking of the yuan's peg to the dollar mean for bond yields? American Treasury yields rose by 12 basis points after Beijing made its announcement last week. Having played a hand in inflating America's housing bubble, could China now prick it by pushing up mortgage rates, which are closely tied to long-term bond yields?
If abandoning its dollar peg causes China to reduce its purchases of T-bonds, then yields will rise. But this depends on several uncertainties. For instance, will last week's revaluation reduce inflows of speculative capital into China, and hence its need to intervene in the foreign-exchange market by buying dollars? A large chunk of China's foreign-exchange intervention over the past year has been to offset not its current-account surplus but inflows of hot money. Some economists believe that, in the short term, the small revaluation will intensify speculation of further revaluations and so attract even more capital inflows, forcing the People's Bank of China to buy more Treasury bonds to stabilise its currency. If so, bond yields will remain low.
On the other hand, the switch from a dollar peg to a currency basket may cause China to diversify its reserves away from dollars. It is unlikely to dump its dollars, but it could well reduce its new purchases of Treasury bonds in favour of other currencies. And, if China really has broken the yuan's link with the dollar, then this could be the trigger for another general slide in the greenback against the euro, the yen and other currencies, prompting investors to demand higher yields. The fate of American house prices could thus be determined by unelected bureaucrats in Beijing rather than the unelected central bankers of the West.
I would be worried if China even acted like a "free country", but they don't. They are pretty open with the idea that they are restricting speech on the Internet, they aren't hiding it.
Now, OTOH, my country claims to be free - and it isn't. Your examples show this fact. So, let's stop talking about China and start talking about something we might be able to change: America
We should be laughed at for doing all the work for the yeast. They give us a few things like bread and beer and the next thing you know we are spreading their DNA for millennia.
I guess the same goes for cows, corn and cannabis - but yeast is the real hero.
Put on a Star Trek uniform and walk around the local renaissance festival. When people look at you funny or ask you what the heck you are doing tell them that you are in the holodeck and that none of them are real...
Not when Time Warner won't sell me the cable connection without taking up cable service!
At least my phone bill hasn't gone up 40% in the past two years. I'm not making the typical antiCable complaint here, I'm just saying that for the record my phone bill hasn't gone up since 2000. They've added features and even thrown in free long distance (30 minutes per month) but they haven't raised the price.
Vonage isn't even old enough to tell what they will do. Besides, we get a lot of bad storms here - I'd like to talk on the phone when the power goes out without using a UPS or gas generator.
This entire article is about these "Mozilla browsers." But let's be real, the different "Mozilla browsers" that are out there are all patched on their own and modified and distributed on their own.
Is it really fair to charge the problems of these different browsers to one application framework? Not that many aren't core problems - I'm sure most are. But we are comparing a group of products with one. The many products being developed by people, for free, around the world - the other product is developed by a major multinational corporation with millions at their disposal.
That corporation has been trying to stop "Mozilla" for a long time too. It's just sad that we/can't/don't/ever will/ just assume that IE is the best and most secure. Shouldn't it be? If Microsofties are right then it should be the best piece of software available today. It's been worked on forever and has the support of the great Microsoft. Shouldn't it have one security flaw discovered a year?
I mean, jeez, people aren't even able to look at the source.
Well, really one "curse" and one song with a few curse words. My favorite "curse", which always comes from my grandfather's mouth (when doing things like hitting his thumb with a hammer, etc):
Crud, Crap and Corruption!
And my favorite song filled with curse words: Uncle Fucker. Try playing that one loud out the car - you get looks!
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Picking items out based on your personal taste is already patented by Amazon.
I read the title as "Airbus A380 On Fire"
...and I wasted mod points on that one folks
You're right Cygwin rocks hardcore. I wish there was more development for it out there.
As far as an SSH client goes, why not try the SSH server? Easy to configure and install under Cygwin/XP (even Home) and allows for tunneled connections to your desktop. Secure VNC? Done! Secure file transfers? SCP to the rescue! SSHD running on Windows just rocks - I wouldn't ever leave my home if it wasn't installed on my desktop computer.
When you add on Cygwin, Cygwin-X and the rest of the GNU tools to Windows you start to forget which box you are using. I love it, if only it could just take over the entire User Land! Just let the Windows kernel run underneath with all the things that come with it like the HAL and etc and give me a GNU desktop. RMS might scream, but I'd be happy.
RTFM N00B!
The Department of Defense an "enterprise"?
Not in America! Never!
Four hundred and one billion dollar budget, I'd say they are an enterprise. Soon, a new American corporation.
If John Kerry was elected president then Christopher Reeve would be up and walking now.
I had learned the magic phrase, "Could you take me off the call list?", which I diligently said to every telemarketer. By law, they have to take you off, so that had already almost completely solved the problem. The national do-not-call list eliminated the last bits.
I have worked as a rep, in behind the scenes rolls and as a supervisor. When I worked as the supervisor I had to take "DNC" calls and resolve a lot of those issues. The law then (five years ago) said that if you said "take me off your list" we actually didn't have to do much more than do just that. Problem is that we run many lists and you could be on all of them. You had to mention the do not call list specifically (you still do). To sue us you had to do two things: request a supervisor and then say anything about not being called again and prove that we intentionally called you. The second qualifier basically meant that if we had a good excuse (someone manually dialed the wrong number, we called a second line that you wouldn't or didn't tell us about, distinctive ring numbers, and so forth) you would get a summary judgement and your time in court would be about 15 actual minutes.
Now the national DNC list has thankfully eliminated almost all of the requests to be placed on our own do not call list. Our rules are still the same. If you just yell at me and hang up there is no requirement to place you on the DNC list. You've got to say that you want to put on the do not call list. In fact, we put too many people on the DNC list. We have been yelled at daily by the boss because we put people on there who just complain about the product. The pool is small enough, so spoiling a phone number forever can't happen.
It's hard to hear, but the rules aren't really in your favor - unless you're patient. For your protection you must always use the phrase "do not call list". It's not up for debate, no matter how much you flame me. If you want to ensure that someone is never, ever going to call you again stop them before their speech and calmly ask for the supervisor and calmly ask to be placed on the list. I know that it sucks, but being impatient can just make you get called more (with many automated calling systems). We run the DNC list across the calling database - this means that not getting on the actual DNC list will call you again even if we don't want to.
We are glad to get rid of the spoilers. The sales reps want to get rid of anyone who isn't interested - we welcome the national list. However, this is important to remember: if you've had a six month relationship with a company they are exempt from following the national do not call list. This means that you must attack your credit card companies, newspapers (and The New York Times will call you no matter where you live!), and charities one at a time. What I sell is used by most of the calling area already so there is a good chance I'll still call you if you used the product for six months.
No, see I disagree with the entire KBR/Halliburton rebuilding deal. The Iraq contracts should show you why, it doesn't even have much to do with Cheney.
However I thought you were attacking the idea that tax money should flow towards these areas. That isn't true - but they should go to smaller contractors.
Want to stimulate the economy? Invite people from around the country to participate in bids for building projects. The housing boom is just over and we have talent and people waiting for work.
Now's the time to tack it onto a Katrina spending bill. Republican and Democrat alike will be _forced_ to vote for it "for the children," blah, blah.
What a horrible, badly timed troll! Especially in light of all the money we are sending out the back door to the president's pet project: Iraq.
Besides, your view isn't realistic. Senators, Republican senators mostly, have already said they won't spend money to rebuild New Orleans. Senators as far away as Alaska have been fighting the idea that we even feed any of these people. You think the Katrina spending bill will get rammed through, but it won't go through as fast as defense spending bills have been pushed through in the past few years.
We, as conscientious members of society, cannot apologize for corporate actions by just saying, "Well, profit is their only motive, so it's OK."
Not that I agree with it, but that is exactly what a corporation is legally bound to in the United States.
Corporations, to me, are just as threatening to my freedom as the Chinese government. In fact, a lot more threatening.
But they are charging $12/month for what is essentially additional ads and an EPG.
Really, this hurts their chances in the second hand market. I would like to try Tivo on a series one model and eBay is a good place to get one. I can't spend $300 out of my pocket and refuse to sign a contract (that I might not be able to see to it's end because changing finances), so now I'll never really see Tivo in my home.
They could have had a nice second revenue stream from people activating older units but now if I'm forced to sign a contract (even though the unit is already paid for) I'll look elsewhere. Good thing I just ordered a WinTV PVR 500MCE.
It's not about getting yahoo to change, it's about initiating change in China itself. What you and I do are irrelevant in the end, because it will be the Chinese people who will have to demand freedom from their government... It's a call that can not be made by anyone else.
This isn't exactly true. If we show that we accept their actions then we can't get any official pressure put on China. If we don't show interest then we can't get the government actively involved in trying to support said dissidents. It is their call, but we can be doing things to pressure the Chinese government officially while we also introduce the propaganda to get people to become dissidents. Corporations aren't exactly the ones we should rely on to bring about the change so to me this is a non-issue in that point. However I fully support expressing your opinion to your representatives (this applies worldwide). Covert radio broadcasts, internet attacks on Chinese publishing sites (planting material) and funding covert networks are all good ideas that I only want the government involved in (CIA, NSA, etc) - I don't want Yahoo! being the defender of freedom. At the same time however, I wonder how many people don't actually mind the "oppression". For the system to work as well as it has until today a lot of people must be working in the system very well.
I sure hate oppression and violence but I don't know the truth about China. I can't really decide how I feel about this or any other issue of human rights abuse. Really, I wonder about others that we just as actively trade with.
Moreso, we cannot really fault companies who give in to China's demands. Companies operating within China's shores, or otherwise targetting the Chinese people will have to submit to Chinese law. If Yahoo or MSN did otherwise, then it is their company that would be in violation of the law.
Exactly right. To do business in China you must abide by their rules. Pretty much the same thing here in America. I assume that Yahoo holds a corporate charter (or some such statement that says they can do business within the nation of P.R.C.) and said charter binds them to operate within the laws of the land and says that they are more of a "peoples" company than anything else. Really, American corporate charters phrase the legal paperwork as the corporation doing a service for the people of their state (and beyond) and grants them the right to incorporate.
It's a small barrier to entry but it does exist. Obtaining and keeping a corporate charter was once a hard task in America. For American companies in China today - they are doing the same thing they did just 70 years ago to get into business. I suspect however that Yahoo! (et.al.) existing in China is a GoodThing. American companies are a great cover for covert operations and it is possible to "brain drain" China and maybe steal a few intellectual property secrets like they've been doing to us all these years. Eventually, no matter how covert we get, we will have exported something that people use daily and that helps influence the culture.
Let China bring in all the American companies they want. At some point someone like KFC will not stand for the law that is a thorn in their side and revolt. One brick at a time they will eat that Great Wall down from the inside.
You mentioned: "the war on free speech, expression and personal liberties". That is exactly the thing that this "Global War On Islamic-Fundamentalist-Extremists; using Terror as a Tactic and Other Terror Tactic using Groups, Excluding Christian-Fundamentalist-Extremist Groups in America and Abroad, and the People Who Harbor Said Fundamentalist-Extremeists using Terror Tactics" (G.W.O.I.F.E.T.T.O.T.T.G.E.C.F.E.G.A.A.P.W.H.S.F.E .) was started over. It's just a sham to take away more rights.
Then we welcome back the terrorism. It is the last resort of the enslaved and other men without liberty!
Nothing, of course. Just like no one did anything when U.S. corporations set up shop in the newly formed Soviet Union. You don't challenge corporations - it doesn't work.
Do we really want our debt financed by China? What type of barganing power does this give them over us while our economy is so fragile?
Our debt financed by China? It's worse than that. Did you know that during that housing boom we just had that the Chinese central banks sunk a lot of the national treasury into the American mortgage market? They sure don't believe in property rights in China, but over here it's another story.
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm
I would be worried if China even acted like a "free country", but they don't. They are pretty open with the idea that they are restricting speech on the Internet, they aren't hiding it.
Now, OTOH, my country claims to be free - and it isn't. Your examples show this fact. So, let's stop talking about China and start talking about something we might be able to change: America
We should be laughed at for doing all the work for the yeast. They give us a few things like bread and beer and the next thing you know we are spreading their DNA for millennia.
I guess the same goes for cows, corn and cannabis - but yeast is the real hero.
Jobs shoots first in my version.
Put on a Star Trek uniform and walk around the local renaissance festival. When people look at you funny or ask you what the heck you are doing tell them that you are in the holodeck and that none of them are real...
...computers were made so we could walk *less*
I can't even order it here (you must first have cable then cancel it or threaten to before that option becomes available to customers).
AC's are coming out of the woodwork to point out that you have to pay extra for Road Runner without cable TV services! Why should they penalize you for not wanting cable TV?
Well, I know why. I just don't like the answer.
Do you have a hardwired, line-powered handset?
Just bought one from eBay for 8 bucks... the best phone I've ever owned. It's an old ITT classic.
Not when Time Warner won't sell me the cable connection without taking up cable service!
At least my phone bill hasn't gone up 40% in the past two years. I'm not making the typical antiCable complaint here, I'm just saying that for the record my phone bill hasn't gone up since 2000. They've added features and even thrown in free long distance (30 minutes per month) but they haven't raised the price.
Vonage isn't even old enough to tell what they will do. Besides, we get a lot of bad storms here - I'd like to talk on the phone when the power goes out without using a UPS or gas generator.
This entire article is about these "Mozilla browsers." But let's be real, the different "Mozilla browsers" that are out there are all patched on their own and modified and distributed on their own.
Is it really fair to charge the problems of these different browsers to one application framework? Not that many aren't core problems - I'm sure most are. But we are comparing a group of products with one. The many products being developed by people, for free, around the world - the other product is developed by a major multinational corporation with millions at their disposal.
That corporation has been trying to stop "Mozilla" for a long time too. It's just sad that we
I mean, jeez, people aren't even able to look at the source.
The archive bits are all set!