I completely agree. I have two words that should give people here hope: Larry Flynt.
However you feel about what Flynt does, he fought like hell to get us many of the First Ammendment rights that we take for granted today. The majority of the population hated him. He kept losing battles in court. He served time in jail...
Banks are a little different. I hope they don't go to open source any time soon either.
About huge majority of the companies in America can completely hose their systems tomorrow and it's unlikely to have a big impact on me. If, however, the bank hoses my account, that could end up costing me a lot of money..
I think this holds true for a lot of people. (Aside from Dot commers, of course. They don't have a lot of money to lose anymore.)
If you purchased a new car, and the steering wheel came wrapped in a "license agreement" that stated that by removing the shrinkwrap license, you agreed to destroy your old car rather than resell it, would you be bound to do so?
Purchasing a new car is a poor arguement for your point. By purchasing a new car, you are purchasing an new "full version," and as such you have every right to sell the previous version.
A better analogy would be you purchase a new engine for your car at a lower price, under the condition that the mechanic take your old engine to the scrap yard so you can't use it again later. You are not then allowed to break into the scrap yard, steal the engine, and try to sell it off.
I know, not a perfect analogy, but better then his.:)
The irony is that in order to create Social Security numbers in the first place, they had to make it illegal for use as an indentifing number for anything other than tax purposes. That's why at my school, we are identified by "student numbers" that are actually the SSN with a 1 in front of it.
Right by OSU campus. The guy there is really cool too. I made one mistake. It was $50/5gig after the first 12, not $50/6gig. When I asked him why he said it was because they sold the first 12 at just above cost, and only a few servers ever go over it.
Maybe so, but you initiated the connection to the mail server to download the spam. Aside from time, spam really doesn't cost me any money right now. If your way was implemented, it would cost me, and that would really make me upset.
If people had to pay for bandwidth, they would demand that websites become much less "flashy". This would be no good, because when they did, the user would no longer need broadband because the scaled down pages now load fine on a 56k. In this case, the broadband provider loses, the website loses, the advertiser loses, and the user is back on a crappy modem.
Then there is Nimda and Code Red attacks. Those attacks are going towards you and costing you some bandwidth (even if it is just to send a deny message in return). Currently there are laws to keep telemarketers from calling cell phones because the end user has to pay for the call. On the net, people are too hard to trace back.
I believe Xconfigurator in RedHat 5.2 was closed and you were not allowed to distribute it at the time. Or at least that's what it told me when I installed it a few years back.
Yeah, I have found RoadRunner's Linux support to be lacking. I am, quite happily, running Linux on it now. However, whenever the network goes down, I have to lie and say I'm running Windows before they'll do a line check.
If I say I'm running Linux, "We don't support Linux... have a nice day." If I say I'm running Windows, "Lemme see here... yep there's a router down in your area, it should be back up in an hour or so." Uggg...
True, the coder can test for many of the basic errors. However, the original programmer is likely to completely suck at testing for logic mistakes and incorect assumptions. Why? Because that programmer is very likely to make the same false assumptions in the testing round that he/she did in the coding phase.
The motto at a company I used to work for was simply that the coder should code and the tester should test, and never shall the two meet. It worked quite well because the tester was forced to meet with the customers and test in real-life situations. While the coder often tried to live in his/her own virtual world and would never have caught as many problems.
It is illegal to use Social Security as a national ID. That is why Ohio (and possibly other states as well) gives you the option to have it removed from your drivers license.
Originally, when Social Security ID's were being created, Congress had to make a law against using it as a national ID system. Otherwise it would have never passed at the time. Not that anyone listens to that part of the law anymore though.
This doesn't make much sense. Say, for example, our sun suddenly collapsed into a black hole. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but it would still have the same gravitational pull. Just because you make things smaller does not mean their mass increases.
So, even if we took the entire mass in New York and compressed it into a black hole, it still should not have any bigger of a gravitational effect on Ohio than it did before. Or am I missing something?
Clearly banning written English would be prior restraint of free speach. I fail to see how banning another form of writing is not. Just because that other form is a little harder to understand to third parties?
If we can truly convice their people that the attack on the US was wrong and that it was only against sinless people, that will greatly reduce the effect of the martyrs.
Attacking the country the terrorists came from will only create more terrorists. No, what we need to do is attack them with information, not bombs. We need to show that the people who died this week were brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, and grandparents of the world. Not soldiers, but rather people who had nothing to do with the "war".
Information like that would have the impact of several bombs, but without the hatred and destruction. Why do you think the Taliban has banned the internet? Because they think you may find some naked chicks and that you can find how to make bombs on the net? No, the Taliban is afraid of find the truth.
The truth that the US is not out to kill every man, woman, and child in their country. The truth that the attack was un-provoked. Yes, they may disagree with our policy. Yes, they may have every right to do so. But sending planes full of innocent people into buildings full of innocent people is not the way to bring about their complaints.
The only way to stop terrorists is through education. Bombing them simply enrages them further. Explaining to them that human beings are still human beings will take a lot longer, but is also likely to have the most positive effect.
As big as the towers were, do you really think it is that easy maneuvering an enormous flying brick into the center of the building, while going a few hundred miles an hour, and manage to not hit anything else by accident? The towers are big, but not that big. The planes had to hit in the center, or they would not have been nearly as effective.
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... or really any higher form of life than a cockroach.
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Wait, I thought you said you didn't condone killing the P or VP.
I completely agree. I have two words that should give people here hope: Larry Flynt.
... he won.
However you feel about what Flynt does, he fought like hell to get us many of the First Ammendment rights that we take for granted today. The majority of the population hated him. He kept losing battles in court. He served time in jail...
Banks are a little different. I hope they don't go to open source any time soon either.
About huge majority of the companies in America can completely hose their systems tomorrow and it's unlikely to have a big impact on me. If, however, the bank hoses my account, that could end up costing me a lot of money..
I think this holds true for a lot of people. (Aside from Dot commers, of course. They don't have a lot of money to lose anymore.)
If you purchased a new car, and the steering wheel came wrapped in a "license agreement" that stated that by removing the shrinkwrap license, you agreed to destroy your old car rather than resell it, would you be bound to do so?
:)
Purchasing a new car is a poor arguement for your point. By purchasing a new car, you are purchasing an new "full version," and as such you have every right to sell the previous version.
A better analogy would be you purchase a new engine for your car at a lower price, under the condition that the mechanic take your old engine to the scrap yard so you can't use it again later. You are not then allowed to break into the scrap yard, steal the engine, and try to sell it off.
I know, not a perfect analogy, but better then his.
The irony is that in order to create Social Security numbers in the first place, they had to make it illegal for use as an indentifing number for anything other than tax purposes. That's why at my school, we are identified by "student numbers" that are actually the SSN with a 1 in front of it.
Shady to be sure, but legal as far as I know.
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Right by OSU campus. The guy there is really cool too. I made one mistake. It was $50/5gig after the first 12, not $50/6gig. When I asked him why he said it was because they sold the first 12 at just above cost, and only a few servers ever go over it.
Maybe so, but you initiated the connection to the mail server to download the spam. Aside from time, spam really doesn't cost me any money right now. If your way was implemented, it would cost me, and that would really make me upset.
I ran a co-located server in Ohio that was 12gig/month at $50, and then $50 for every 6 gig after that. You are getting raped.
If people had to pay for bandwidth, they would demand that websites become much less "flashy". This would be no good, because when they did, the user would no longer need broadband because the scaled down pages now load fine on a 56k. In this case, the broadband provider loses, the website loses, the advertiser loses, and the user is back on a crappy modem.
Then there is Nimda and Code Red attacks. Those attacks are going towards you and costing you some bandwidth (even if it is just to send a deny message in return). Currently there are laws to keep telemarketers from calling cell phones because the end user has to pay for the call. On the net, people are too hard to trace back.
And don't even get me started on spam...
I believe Xconfigurator in RedHat 5.2 was closed and you were not allowed to distribute it at the time. Or at least that's what it told me when I installed it a few years back.
I'm a huge fan of AnyJ. Wonderful syntax highlighting, runs in several operating systems, and free for Linux use.
It's written in Java so it's a memory pig, but it's stable as hell. One thing though, it doesn't have the memory leaks that plague may other IDE's.
Only on Monday and Saturdays. Tuesday and Thursdays we are boycotting all movies. All other days is choose-your-own-boycott day.
Yeah, I have found RoadRunner's Linux support to be lacking. I am, quite happily, running Linux on it now. However, whenever the network goes down, I have to lie and say I'm running Windows before they'll do a line check.
If I say I'm running Linux, "We don't support Linux... have a nice day." If I say I'm running Windows, "Lemme see here... yep there's a router down in your area, it should be back up in an hour or so." Uggg...
True, the coder can test for many of the basic errors. However, the original programmer is likely to completely suck at testing for logic mistakes and incorect assumptions. Why? Because that programmer is very likely to make the same false assumptions in the testing round that he/she did in the coding phase.
The motto at a company I used to work for was simply that the coder should code and the tester should test, and never shall the two meet. It worked quite well because the tester was forced to meet with the customers and test in real-life situations. While the coder often tried to live in his/her own virtual world and would never have caught as many problems.
Not too many companies have successfully sued Microsoft when things go wrong either.
Lightweight... and damn fragile. You can break those palm keyboards by sneezing on them too hard.
I saw that message and remembered thinking, "how are admins going to trust windows update if they have been hacked?"
If Windows Update had been compromised by CR2 or Nimda, there is every possibility of back doors being installed in the patches.
It is illegal to use Social Security as a national ID. That is why Ohio (and possibly other states as well) gives you the option to have it removed from your drivers license.
Originally, when Social Security ID's were being created, Congress had to make a law against using it as a national ID system. Otherwise it would have never passed at the time. Not that anyone listens to that part of the law anymore though.
This doesn't make much sense. Say, for example, our sun suddenly collapsed into a black hole. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but it would still have the same gravitational pull. Just because you make things smaller does not mean their mass increases.
So, even if we took the entire mass in New York and compressed it into a black hole, it still should not have any bigger of a gravitational effect on Ohio than it did before. Or am I missing something?
Wintop will do it. It's on Microsoft's site (though you have to look *really* hard). It's part of their kernel toys.
Anyhow, you can open it up and it can kill IE in just a few mouse clicks.
Clearly banning written English would be prior restraint of free speach. I fail to see how banning another form of writing is not. Just because that other form is a little harder to understand to third parties?
If we can truly convice their people that the attack on the US was wrong and that it was only against sinless people, that will greatly reduce the effect of the martyrs.
Attacking the country the terrorists came from will only create more terrorists. No, what we need to do is attack them with information, not bombs. We need to show that the people who died this week were brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, and grandparents of the world. Not soldiers, but rather people who had nothing to do with the "war".
Information like that would have the impact of several bombs, but without the hatred and destruction. Why do you think the Taliban has banned the internet? Because they think you may find some naked chicks and that you can find how to make bombs on the net? No, the Taliban is afraid of find the truth.
The truth that the US is not out to kill every man, woman, and child in their country. The truth that the attack was un-provoked. Yes, they may disagree with our policy. Yes, they may have every right to do so. But sending planes full of innocent people into buildings full of innocent people is not the way to bring about their complaints.
The only way to stop terrorists is through education. Bombing them simply enrages them further. Explaining to them that human beings are still human beings will take a lot longer, but is also likely to have the most positive effect.
His plane went down first. I too had thought that it was the last to go, but the Camp David plane was actually the first to go.
As big as the towers were, do you really think it is that easy maneuvering an enormous flying brick into the center of the building, while going a few hundred miles an hour, and manage to not hit anything else by accident? The towers are big, but not that big. The planes had to hit in the center, or they would not have been nearly as effective.
One observation that I'm not sure how many people made...
Today is 9-11