I am simply stating that the US (in particular) ideas of world peace and democracy for eevryone are a) a bit hypocritical, and b) not necessarily in the best interests of other cultures or our own...
Peace good, war bad. War is never leaving us, but it is fundamentally wrong, no matter how necessary it is at times. Western ideas about world peace and democracy for all are a) not hypocritical, and b) in the best interests of all humanity.
Can you actually claim that because some cultures haven't "developed" like ours that their wars are warranted? Can you actually claim that some cultures cannot make democracy, in time, work? That smacks of the relativistic view of human rights that plagues parts of the world. Shame on you.
Kudos to Philip Zimmerman for having the fortitude to stand by his convictions in the face of popular American political (and editorial) stupidity. Cryptography doesn't kill people; people kill people.
There isn't anything beyond.com. Look around you- the Post Office is usps.com (I know.gov works too, but they have.com painted on the sides of their trucks). The Army is a.com too, as is the National Guard. The Post Office is ahead of them- neither one of them has it wired to a.mil. I really like one of the police departments in my area.
If the.govs and.mils feel like they need to be.coms, why the hell does anyone think actual companies would want anything else? Does anyone here know of any.edus that use.com? I think the.orgs seem to stick to.org pretty well. Come on- if I want info on something, I'll find their site and look for info there, not do a separate.info search.
He's bright enough to be sent in with no training. It'll raise the country's IQ a notch. I was right on when I called his willingness rhetorical.
What is getting ramrodded through? Let's see... People are actually anxious to spend Social Security money on defense. Congress just passed a resolution that makes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution look restrictive. We're going to skip the flip-flop to putting 100k teachers in the schools with this budget and stick with putting 100k cops on the streets for quite some time. Look at what Ashcroft wants to do with wiretap laws, and look at what is happening to our email. I shudder to think of what the budget is going to look like this year- and don't think that W isn't going to have some big military op going on next september- he's going to need leverage with next year's budget.
Remember; it is now unpatriotic to question the simpleton-in-chief. Our freedoms are what make the country so strong. Giving them up is worse than defeat by these terrorists- it sets us up for defeat not just in this instance, but in every crisis we face in the future. A country that refuses to think ends up making collossally stupid mistakes.
Long waits and ticket prices are one thing; they directly affect security. Privacy? We already have too little of it. Privacy, freedom of speech and freedom of thought are all parts of the most important thing we have: liberty.
On your point 4- I'm waiting for the callup. Is your willingness simply rhetorical, like most peoples' desire for revenge, or practical?
They'll never do that- we'd actually own the DVDs we've bought. Not even a global war can undermine their commitment to the DMCA. Even congresscritters need campaign funds.
Now what we need is for the Bush administration to order the Justice Department not to enforce the DMCA. The're already dropping useful judgements, maybe now they can do something useful themselves.
How much money would Microsoft make as an Open Source-based company? Almost none.
Huh? Nobody's asking them to GPL their crap. Piracy wouldn't get more widespread- it would still only take one disgruntled employee to call in the MS auditors. If it were Open Source, it would fucking work! Security patches would be out at least as fast as patches for Linux. Outlook wouldn't spread viruses. That would all be fixed, and they would get these improvements for free.
I'm sorry, but going Open would be the smartest thing that MS could do. They wouldn't lose any more money than they already are, and we would lose our biggest arguments against them. They could license it so that outside coders would lose rights to their patches to MS, and soon they would be selling an OS and an office suite that were actually worth the money.
Because it is valuable public property, it gets auctioned off- if it's being used for commercial (private profits) interests, the people deserve to be paid fairly for it.
It's nice to see this happeining with someone that Sony can't bury with lawyers. MIT isn't doing this for the money- they want a judgement. They aren't a lone inventor without the deep pockets needed to make Sony behave politely. This will be fun to watch.
Just what is a government handout? That's my money in D.C, too, you know. We pool our money down there because while you and I don't have $60 million to donate, together we can. Unfortunately, we send our money and it gets used to blackmail us. Seatbelt laws, BACs down to silly amounts, no research that the Christian Coalition doesn't like and no funding for anyone who can spell abortion.
We don't know what this research will result in. We can predict, but we don't know. Until we research, we don't know if any of it will work. When we know what stem cell research can give us, then we can decide if we as a society want it. Don't shy away from knowledge, though. Even Kansas is now allowing schools to teach "Things changing slowly over time." If those morons can try to cope with evolution, can't the rest of us find out what science has before we ban it?
Re:Homogeny isn't a bad thing.
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If linux took over the world tomorrow, there would not be the level of homogenity that we have today. There would be a better one- Different distros doing things differently, but all (gasp!) playing together nicely. That's cooperation, not control. Computers working together well is what we want, and that is something MS has never wanted.
Domination by Linux won't happen, because it's too decentralized. That's why a lot of folks hold it up as an ideal. There is no evil corporation with restrictive licenses pushing bug-ridden crap out the door to make a buck and stomp on any competition. If Linux took over, who would run things? Not Bill, but the programmers. Sure, the reporters would all look to Red Hat's CEO for interviews, but he wouldn't run the show any more than he does now.
"If it were our OS that "won" the great battle for the desktop," versions would be released when they were ready. Patches would come out quickly. Software would include things that work, not paperclips. The money that we spend on computers would go towards running them, not into Gates' pocket. Linux isn't going to take over, but it's precisely because of the reasons that it won't that it wouldn't be a bad thing like what we have now.
All these threads turn quickly into bashing because we deserve it. I'd like to see that poll, too, but it would show that 34% of us voted for Cowboy Neal.
We get all this bashing, from ourselves, too, because the government is, thank God, very active in pursuing our interests everywhere. Unfortunately, as Hart said, the requirements of strategy are directly opposed to those of morality. So we don't like it. Hate it, in fact. And don't do anything about it- because while most of us vehemently hate an aspect or two about what the government does for us, we know that we need the wole package.
Conflict is a part of the human condition. We can't avoid it, but we can work hard to adjust it. As long as there is going to be fighting in the streets somewhere, I would rather it be somewhere else. I'm sorry, but I'll stick to that. It's a lot cheaper to maintain the most capable military machine we can than it would be to rebuild just one of our cities.
I love it when non-NYT articles get linked to here, because I don't feel like registering to read my news. I like it even more when they are linked to in the actual story (nudge, nudge, folks).
"MRTG under Linux has been very stable. It's worked the way it was supposed to," without outages, said Paul Watkins, Rubbermaid's network analyst.
Rubbermaid previously outsourced the same function and paid $6,000 per month. Watkins said he spent about 200 hours getting the Linux system up and
running, but that it's now "pretty much self-sustaining." Rubbermaid purchased mainframe Linux for $180 from SuSE.
Rubbermaid's Watkins, a Microsoft-certified systems engineer, said Microsoft officials could talk about their own problems, rather than those of open source code. "Microsoft's NT was a good platform, but it had its share of problems," he said.
Talk about a feel-good article. KAL isn't really using it for much (What? Daily revenue isn't much?), but to see an airline using it is a really good moral boost. Reading about the other companies meant more to me, though. It's nice to read about actual successes- I read about the technical successes all the time. Hell of a way to start the day.
Re:Who DIDN'T see Q4 coming?
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Well, we didn't have a presidential election the last time we were supposed to. We did have Quake 3.
We need to link this into something that attracts funding. Use those 15 minute webcam shots as guidance for the missile defense system. Just as useful as GPS transmissions (more so, because in times of war, evil countries can't use GPS telemetry to help us track their missiles), but much more expensive- although we're getting a bargain because it's already made; we're using off the shelf parts.
It's worth the money just to have a window to click on next time you want to say "Cambot, get me rocket number 9."
It does depress me that to avoid lowering the self esteem of million's of illiterate's, we need to condone their mistake's. These are prople that can't even find their (there?) country on a map two out of three time's. I'm all for language evolving, but I refuse to follow the lead of the hillbilly's. I suppose that after a few more generation's of homeschooling these folk's will be writing Webster's for us. I think I'll just move to Canada and speak French. They might have stupid idea's about language, but they're better than your's.
I never registered the damn thing- all my demographics are belong to me. Staples didn't open up the box when I bought it to get the serial #. All Palm could know from that number is when they shipped it. I gave them the number and my address and they mailed me a new one. I've had that happen with Gateway, but they know who I am. Palm had never heard of me until I told them mine had broken. That's pretty good customer service in my book.
When my palm went bad (1/2 the screen stopped accepting input), Palm just wanted to know the serial #. I've never registered it or anything, so all it told them was that I was actually holding a Palm. They mailed me a new one, and I mailed the dead one back.
I called them with a stupid problem and they mailed me a new one. I'm guessing that the first Palm heard of this mess was when the reporter asked them about the suit. If they got an off the wall complaint like that, they would probably have gievn the customer a new box so they could tear apart the old one and see if it had actually happened. From a curiosity standpoint, it'd be worth the money. "I wonder if our product can do that?" Trying to duplicate the results wouldn't work. Getting your hands on a box that (allegedly) it's already happened to is much better.
Sounds like a couple of morons and a law firm willing to spend a couple of associates' time on a crap shoot. Business as usual.
g) restrict, inhibit or otherwise interfere with the ability of any other person to use or enjoy the AT&T Equipment or the Service, including, without limitation, posting or transmitting any information or software which contains a virus or other harmful feature; or generating levels of traffic sufficient to impede others' ability to send or retrieve information;
It looks like your customers with that low level of intelligence are the ones violating the policy. Not the ones actually bothering to use the puny bit of upload capacity you give them. I'm glad it all makes sense to you, though. That's more important than your customers.
With insurance companies charging more to insure companies that run MS servers and every new virus/worm headline, why do people stay there? MS doesn't cost me any money directly, but I wonder what prices out there would be lower if companies didn't need to give Bill more money that he already doesn't need.
How much better would software in general be without the anticompetitive practices, "standards" and "enhancements?" How much smoother would the net run if admins could plug all their security holes as they became known, not just when MS deigns to acknowledge that they exist and provides a band-aid? What prices out there would be lower if companies didn't have those extra costs? What profits (other than Bill's) would be higher? I'm sorry, but it just pises me off.
Just kidding. I wear pants with roomy pockets and shirts that are just this side of baggy. If I have to tuck in my shirt, there's still enough overhang to keep the leatherman (which I don't wear all the time) from being too obvious- and that's only geeky if you're already pegged as a geek.
If you need to have everything at your fingertips like you're James Bond or something, you need therapy. Get a bag- it doesn't really matter what kind, although darker ones are less obtrusive. I seem to remember that some men who need to carry things with them for work but don't want to look like geeks carry briefcases. They don't have to worry about their things getting broken, either.
One guy mentioned not wanting to weigh down his pants too much because of his shape. If you can't make height/weight and aren't, well, athletic, stop worrying. Unless your waist is at least a little narrower than your shoulders, you aren't going to conceal anything more than another Whopper. Give up and carry a bag, or give up and be Batman.
Fear? Not fear, but hatred. Just from having a Linux bumper sticker on my car, I have people walk up to me and ask me to tell them about it. They've heard the name, they know it's an alternative to MS, and they are disappointed by, annoyed with, or just plain hate Microsoft and want to know about something different.
I'm not a coder, so free speech is really just a nice idea to me. MS let me do what I wanted with much annoyance and I got to pay for the priveledge. Linux made me learn a lot, but it lets me do more, more easily- and the things that I've bought were because I wanted to (and were much more reasonably priced). MS has a lot of enemies, and it seems that they are going out of their way to make more, as well as push the ones they already have over the edge and into the open source world.
If Microsoft is going to do our evangelical work for us, why should we complain?
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Peace good, war bad. War is never leaving us, but it is fundamentally wrong, no matter how necessary it is at times. Western ideas about world peace and democracy for all are a) not hypocritical, and b) in the best interests of all humanity.
Can you actually claim that because some cultures haven't "developed" like ours that their wars are warranted? Can you actually claim that some cultures cannot make democracy, in time, work? That smacks of the relativistic view of human rights that plagues parts of the world. Shame on you.
Kudos to Philip Zimmerman for having the fortitude to stand by his convictions in the face of popular American political (and editorial) stupidity. Cryptography doesn't kill people; people kill people.
If the .govs and .mils feel like they need to be .coms, why the hell does anyone think actual companies would want anything else? Does anyone here know of any .edus that use .com? I think the .orgs seem to stick to .org pretty well. Come on- if I want info on something, I'll find their site and look for info there, not do a separate .info search.
What is getting ramrodded through? Let's see... People are actually anxious to spend Social Security money on defense. Congress just passed a resolution that makes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution look restrictive. We're going to skip the flip-flop to putting 100k teachers in the schools with this budget and stick with putting 100k cops on the streets for quite some time. Look at what Ashcroft wants to do with wiretap laws, and look at what is happening to our email. I shudder to think of what the budget is going to look like this year- and don't think that W isn't going to have some big military op going on next september- he's going to need leverage with next year's budget.
Remember; it is now unpatriotic to question the simpleton-in-chief. Our freedoms are what make the country so strong. Giving them up is worse than defeat by these terrorists- it sets us up for defeat not just in this instance, but in every crisis we face in the future. A country that refuses to think ends up making collossally stupid mistakes.
On your point 4- I'm waiting for the callup. Is your willingness simply rhetorical, like most peoples' desire for revenge, or practical?
Huh? Nobody's asking them to GPL their crap. Piracy wouldn't get more widespread- it would still only take one disgruntled employee to call in the MS auditors. If it were Open Source, it would fucking work! Security patches would be out at least as fast as patches for Linux. Outlook wouldn't spread viruses. That would all be fixed, and they would get these improvements for free.
I'm sorry, but going Open would be the smartest thing that MS could do. They wouldn't lose any more money than they already are, and we would lose our biggest arguments against them. They could license it so that outside coders would lose rights to their patches to MS, and soon they would be selling an OS and an office suite that were actually worth the money.
We don't know what this research will result in. We can predict, but we don't know. Until we research, we don't know if any of it will work. When we know what stem cell research can give us, then we can decide if we as a society want it. Don't shy away from knowledge, though. Even Kansas is now allowing schools to teach "Things changing slowly over time." If those morons can try to cope with evolution, can't the rest of us find out what science has before we ban it?
Domination by Linux won't happen, because it's too decentralized. That's why a lot of folks hold it up as an ideal. There is no evil corporation with restrictive licenses pushing bug-ridden crap out the door to make a buck and stomp on any competition. If Linux took over, who would run things? Not Bill, but the programmers. Sure, the reporters would all look to Red Hat's CEO for interviews, but he wouldn't run the show any more than he does now.
"If it were our OS that "won" the great battle for the desktop," versions would be released when they were ready. Patches would come out quickly. Software would include things that work, not paperclips. The money that we spend on computers would go towards running them, not into Gates' pocket. Linux isn't going to take over, but it's precisely because of the reasons that it won't that it wouldn't be a bad thing like what we have now.
We get all this bashing, from ourselves, too, because the government is, thank God, very active in pursuing our interests everywhere. Unfortunately, as Hart said, the requirements of strategy are directly opposed to those of morality. So we don't like it. Hate it, in fact. And don't do anything about it- because while most of us vehemently hate an aspect or two about what the government does for us, we know that we need the wole package.
Conflict is a part of the human condition. We can't avoid it, but we can work hard to adjust it. As long as there is going to be fighting in the streets somewhere, I would rather it be somewhere else. I'm sorry, but I'll stick to that. It's a lot cheaper to maintain the most capable military machine we can than it would be to rebuild just one of our cities.
Rubbermaid previously outsourced the same function and paid $6,000 per month. Watkins said he spent about 200 hours getting the Linux system up and running, but that it's now "pretty much self-sustaining." Rubbermaid purchased mainframe Linux for $180 from SuSE.
Rubbermaid's Watkins, a Microsoft-certified systems engineer, said Microsoft officials could talk about their own problems, rather than those of open source code. "Microsoft's NT was a good platform, but it had its share of problems," he said.
Talk about a feel-good article. KAL isn't really using it for much (What? Daily revenue isn't much?), but to see an airline using it is a really good moral boost. Reading about the other companies meant more to me, though. It's nice to read about actual successes- I read about the technical successes all the time. Hell of a way to start the day.
It's worth the money just to have a window to click on next time you want to say "Cambot, get me rocket number 9."
Sorry- I meant billion's.
It does depress me that to avoid lowering the self esteem of million's of illiterate's, we need to condone their mistake's. These are prople that can't even find their (there?) country on a map two out of three time's. I'm all for language evolving, but I refuse to follow the lead of the hillbilly's. I suppose that after a few more generation's of homeschooling these folk's will be writing Webster's for us. I think I'll just move to Canada and speak French. They might have stupid idea's about language, but they're better than your's.
I called them with a stupid problem and they mailed me a new one. I'm guessing that the first Palm heard of this mess was when the reporter asked them about the suit. If they got an off the wall complaint like that, they would probably have gievn the customer a new box so they could tear apart the old one and see if it had actually happened. From a curiosity standpoint, it'd be worth the money. "I wonder if our product can do that?" Trying to duplicate the results wouldn't work. Getting your hands on a box that (allegedly) it's already happened to is much better.
Sounds like a couple of morons and a law firm willing to spend a couple of associates' time on a crap shoot. Business as usual.
It looks like your customers with that low level of intelligence are the ones violating the policy. Not the ones actually bothering to use the puny bit of upload capacity you give them. I'm glad it all makes sense to you, though. That's more important than your customers.
How much better would software in general be without the anticompetitive practices, "standards" and "enhancements?" How much smoother would the net run if admins could plug all their security holes as they became known, not just when MS deigns to acknowledge that they exist and provides a band-aid? What prices out there would be lower if companies didn't have those extra costs? What profits (other than Bill's) would be higher? I'm sorry, but it just pises me off.
If you need to have everything at your fingertips like you're James Bond or something, you need therapy. Get a bag- it doesn't really matter what kind, although darker ones are less obtrusive. I seem to remember that some men who need to carry things with them for work but don't want to look like geeks carry briefcases. They don't have to worry about their things getting broken, either.
One guy mentioned not wanting to weigh down his pants too much because of his shape. If you can't make height/weight and aren't, well, athletic, stop worrying. Unless your waist is at least a little narrower than your shoulders, you aren't going to conceal anything more than another Whopper. Give up and carry a bag, or give up and be Batman.
I'm not a coder, so free speech is really just a nice idea to me. MS let me do what I wanted with much annoyance and I got to pay for the priveledge. Linux made me learn a lot, but it lets me do more, more easily- and the things that I've bought were because I wanted to (and were much more reasonably priced). MS has a lot of enemies, and it seems that they are going out of their way to make more, as well as push the ones they already have over the edge and into the open source world.
If Microsoft is going to do our evangelical work for us, why should we complain?
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