Ah, so the right to privacy is an ay-rab thing only solicited by terrorist cultures? (im just provoking, its an unfair argument on my part).
Really, you are right at least according to wikipedia BUT, there I also found that many US supreme court rulings establish SOME rights to privacy while others LIMIT those rights.
In general, your argument is perfectly right. I guess i didnt take ENOUGH expressos this morning.
Yes, I withdraw that part of my argument. You and several others are right on that account. But consider the legal state americans and others are at when practically anyone in law enforcement can accuse you of terrorism and there is nothing you can do.
Imagine you inadvertedly clicked on a phishing link that took you to a couple of r00ted pr0n servers and then to a haxed arab news server. THat leaves cookies hanging around.
How in HELL are you going to deffend yourself when accused of terrorism just based on those cookies. I mean, it can be just a simple one day delay or it can really mean a one way trip to the northern part of Cuba.
Yes, I buy this argument. I think my position is a bit on the radical side. The thing is that if US or UK customs and/or law enforcement were but a bit more rational (i mean, thousends of cammeras in london?), perhaps a normal law abiding person should have nothing to fear.
The thing is that right now anyone can acuse you of terrorism with just about nil evidence (how about a cookie pointing to some Saudi site?), and an american hasnt got a leg to stand on... what can a FOREIGNER do?
Well... just imagine them finding a couple of gigs worth of legal music and then they confiscating YOU and your laptop until you can bring in all the cd's you ripped them from.
How about them finding a copy of the coran there and using that as evidence of terrorism?
I mean, the way things are going, do you really give them that much credit?
I got it in my biweekly dose of Cryptogram and found it disheartening. The GOD of security says: all you can do is make sure they wont find anything that will mess you up.
The sad thing is that citizens think this idiotic idea of checking laptops at airports serve any kind of law enforcement objective other than generalized panic and further diminishment of democratic values such as the right to privacy.
This is your government fucking people up (and "people" can be foreigners or locals entering the country), attempting to find in informations traces of delincuent activity that, if youre a two bit moron you know you can save it anyhow, in a mostly anonymous fashion on google's, yahoo's or microsoft's servers for free, and any number of services that are available today.
True criminals simply have huge botnets and hidden servers behind the huge pr0n/spam nets and they DO NOT carry incriminating evidence with them and EVEN IF THEY DID, how in hell is a custom's agent going to find them?
I mean, i have a better solution than that of bruce: change your initab so initdefault is 3, make sure that that level does NOT turn on the wifi card or any networking at all, change your shell to ASH (hopefully temporarilly) and let them have the root password, who cares.... good luck, mister customs agent.
Im not an american, but I admire a whole lot of the American Culture (and despise another whole lot of it, and I think most Americans agree with me on that stance). In particular, I remember a legal episode where some conservative punk got to ban some Beatnik books (Naked Lunch, for example), and that got to court, and Norman Mailer attended, and in the end the judge set the precedent that if any book in the U.S. has any kind of interesting information for a sizeable number of people related to the topics treated in that book, then it cannot be banned. Which is why Burroughs's books where then edited in the states, instead of france, where the first editions where made.
If an unbreakable server breaks, and everyone has their hands over their heads chanting the oracle "unbreakable" mantra whilst picking each other asses with their toes, did it actually break?
I thought Charlie and... etc. was a perfect update of the original (except for jonny depp's choices: instead of the whimsical original, ununderstandable charlie, he went for a charlie you could connect to. I disagree with him, if you accept his choice, he did a great job.). New textures, new techs, new ways to dazzle, respect to the original script, new richness in the characters. I thought it great.
And its always dificult to improve on a perfect movie. I mean, who would be okay to direct a remake of Citizen Cane? Well damn, nobody at all.
It would be like a remake of Van Gogh's flowers (sorry for my lack of a wide english vocabulary, i try my best). Having said that, Picasso "remade" "Las Meninas", so did Dali, hell, so did any painter wanting to understand what modern painting is about.
The Hobbit has no remarkable example of an existing good movie. They all suck so far.
Burton or Del Toro make are the best possible options for a dark, scary movie (and the book IS dark and scary) aiming to entretain children.
This new hobbit is gonna be the best hobbit movie ever.
One can only simpathize with your position given that particular fight (studios vs people-who-actually-make-movies --or am i completely out of touch here?).
But come on. Guillermo's work speaks for itself. Him or Tim Burton, those two, would be the ONLY directors I can think of to make a Hobbit film.
Its right on the nose: GUillermo and Burton make movies with a childish setting, movies for a youngish audience, that use violence as a bittersweet dressing.
That, right there, is also my interpretation of tolkien and, from all his books, the one where that show the best, is The Hobbit
Novell is quick becoming the legitimizing company for microsoft in the "open source" arena.
The quotes become necessary, when the community allowed Novell, without strongly punishing it for it, to split the FOSS camp between "Microsoft backed FOSS" and just plain foss.
Novell's sales strategy, their willingness to leverage of microsoft to move into what has, until now, been a Red Hat (a red hat that contributes to free software, that doesn not play into microsoft's hands, that only shipped GPL compatible java) dominated market; proves that theyll go wherever they have to go to enter the FOSS market... even lying to the whole Industry about microsoft claims of ownership of IP within FOSS projects.
They are essentially saying that they are the "Microsoft-Compatible" Linux, the one that plays nice with windows, without also saying the truth: they cant do ANYTHING with ANY part of their OS that they dont have to SHARE with the rest of the distro's. They are using the microsoft deal to differentiate their brand. Its a lowly tactic that goes straight into the heart of all of our ideals, even if youre strictly an "Open Source" kind of guy.
I told you. We needed Linus to retire the right for novell to sell anything with the Linux brand on it.
Windows Server, which im atempting to install right now into a vmware machine so i can finally work in my damned laptop instead of connecting through a ridiculously inefficient scheme such as terminal services, is a PIECE OF SHIT.
ASP.NET is ANOTHER PIECE OF SHIT in which one can BARELY do a browsable table with filters, let alone some decent ajax.
You now tout it as a platform for running the "great" php language (which, BTW, is ANOTHER PIECE OF SHIT as far as programming languages go) because it now (after 10 damned years) supports fastCGI? JEESUS CHRIST!!
Do you think its ROCKET SCIENCE to get THAT to work?
I mean. You KNOW microsoft is in trouble when they come out with their "great" "new" feature: we now decently run languages that actually get the job done, not VB for the web only.
Japan sets the bar when it comes to cellphones. Secondarily, Nokia's Europe, but primarily, next-gen mobility can be seen in japan (and they have mobile broadband fast like hell and have had it for enough years for it to be mainstream and CHEAP).
The US protects their phone companies like if they were the baby jesus or even (GASP) an airline and you (and myself, a third class non-us citizen), just sit down and enjoy our lunch, paying absurd comunications tarifs arbitrarily set by government sanctioned monoplies or oligopolies.
And there you have it. We will call you when phone companies cease to be oligopolic assholes, okay?
Now, i have NO idea why japan's Docomo, a really tough uber monopoly, can offer the absolute tip of network technology to all of japan, while mantaining their monopoly. No idea whatsoever.
"Too bad there isn't a cool open linux-based handset combined with a cheap radio running on a linux-powered box that could be used as a cell 'hotspot'...then you could start deploying them all over the place in a mesh and charge a flat monthly fee for unlimited in-network calls and a small per-minute fee for off-network calls which can be routed through some VoIP provider to POTS numbers..."
Enter google android. And we are going to make this cellphone company punks run like HELL for their money. The net has won, all we have to do now is defend it from this jerks.
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Ah, so the right to privacy is an ay-rab thing only solicited by terrorist cultures? (im just provoking, its an unfair argument on my part).
Really, you are right at least according to wikipedia BUT, there I also found that many US supreme court rulings establish SOME rights to privacy while others LIMIT those rights.
In general, your argument is perfectly right. I guess i didnt take ENOUGH expressos this morning.
Yes, I withdraw that part of my argument. You and several others are right on that account. But consider the legal state americans and others are at when practically anyone in law enforcement can accuse you of terrorism and there is nothing you can do.
Imagine you inadvertedly clicked on a phishing link that took you to a couple of r00ted pr0n servers and then to a haxed arab news server. THat leaves cookies hanging around.
How in HELL are you going to deffend yourself when accused of terrorism just based on those cookies. I mean, it can be just a simple one day delay or it can really mean a one way trip to the northern part of Cuba.
Yes, I buy this argument. I think my position is a bit on the radical side. The thing is that if US or UK customs and/or law enforcement were but a bit more rational (i mean, thousends of cammeras in london?), perhaps a normal law abiding person should have nothing to fear.
The thing is that right now anyone can acuse you of terrorism with just about nil evidence (how about a cookie pointing to some Saudi site?), and an american hasnt got a leg to stand on... what can a FOREIGNER do?
Well... just imagine them finding a couple of gigs worth of legal music and then they confiscating YOU and your laptop until you can bring in all the cd's you ripped them from.
How about them finding a copy of the coran there and using that as evidence of terrorism?
I mean, the way things are going, do you really give them that much credit?
Honor is deserved, my AC friend. You are right on ALL accounts.
I got it in my biweekly dose of Cryptogram and found it disheartening. The GOD of security says: all you can do is make sure they wont find anything that will mess you up.
The sad thing is that citizens think this idiotic idea of checking laptops at airports serve any kind of law enforcement objective other than generalized panic and further diminishment of democratic values such as the right to privacy.
This is your government fucking people up (and "people" can be foreigners or locals entering the country), attempting to find in informations traces of delincuent activity that, if youre a two bit moron you know you can save it anyhow, in a mostly anonymous fashion on google's, yahoo's or microsoft's servers for free, and any number of services that are available today.
True criminals simply have huge botnets and hidden servers behind the huge pr0n/spam nets and they DO NOT carry incriminating evidence with them and EVEN IF THEY DID, how in hell is a custom's agent going to find them?
I mean, i have a better solution than that of bruce: change your initab so initdefault is 3, make sure that that level does NOT turn on the wifi card or any networking at all, change your shell to ASH (hopefully temporarilly) and let them have the root password, who cares.... good luck, mister customs agent.
Im not an american, but I admire a whole lot of the American Culture (and despise another whole lot of it, and I think most Americans agree with me on that stance). In particular, I remember a legal episode where some conservative punk got to ban some Beatnik books (Naked Lunch, for example), and that got to court, and Norman Mailer attended, and in the end the judge set the precedent that if any book in the U.S. has any kind of interesting information for a sizeable number of people related to the topics treated in that book, then it cannot be banned. Which is why Burroughs's books where then edited in the states, instead of france, where the first editions where made.
So i dont buy this stuff youre feeding.
"Mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz", was your names.
I shall incite a mob to hang ye, destroyers of beauty.
A) Post @ Blog
B) Post @ slashdot
C) Get a girlfriend... offline
If A+B+C is actually an axiom here, we will have to concede that you do not exist.
If an unbreakable server breaks, and everyone has their hands over their heads chanting the oracle "unbreakable" mantra whilst picking each other asses with their toes, did it actually break?
I thought Charlie and... etc. was a perfect update of the original (except for jonny depp's choices: instead of the whimsical original, ununderstandable charlie, he went for a charlie you could connect to. I disagree with him, if you accept his choice, he did a great job.). New textures, new techs, new ways to dazzle, respect to the original script, new richness in the characters. I thought it great.
And its always dificult to improve on a perfect movie. I mean, who would be okay to direct a remake of Citizen Cane? Well damn, nobody at all.
It would be like a remake of Van Gogh's flowers (sorry for my lack of a wide english vocabulary, i try my best). Having said that, Picasso "remade" "Las Meninas", so did Dali, hell, so did any painter wanting to understand what modern painting is about.
The Hobbit has no remarkable example of an existing good movie. They all suck so far.
Burton or Del Toro make are the best possible options for a dark, scary movie (and the book IS dark and scary) aiming to entretain children.
This new hobbit is gonna be the best hobbit movie ever.
One can only simpathize with your position given that particular fight (studios vs people-who-actually-make-movies --or am i completely out of touch here?).
But come on. Guillermo's work speaks for itself. Him or Tim Burton, those two, would be the ONLY directors I can think of to make a Hobbit film.
Its right on the nose: GUillermo and Burton make movies with a childish setting, movies for a youngish audience, that use violence as a bittersweet dressing.
That, right there, is also my interpretation of tolkien and, from all his books, the one where that show the best, is The Hobbit
TO THE PIRES!
I hereby propose to burn this infidel.
Well... wake up and smell the cofee.
If you DONT want the GPL version, you can pay them to get whichever terms you wish. Its right there in the page.
What? You wanted it free as in BSD? Well go ahead and code your own.
Novell is quick becoming the legitimizing company for microsoft in the "open source" arena.
The quotes become necessary, when the community allowed Novell, without strongly punishing it for it, to split the FOSS camp between "Microsoft backed FOSS" and just plain foss.
Novell's sales strategy, their willingness to leverage of microsoft to move into what has, until now, been a Red Hat (a red hat that contributes to free software, that doesn not play into microsoft's hands, that only shipped GPL compatible java) dominated market; proves that theyll go wherever they have to go to enter the FOSS market... even lying to the whole Industry about microsoft claims of ownership of IP within FOSS projects.
They are essentially saying that they are the "Microsoft-Compatible" Linux, the one that plays nice with windows, without also saying the truth: they cant do ANYTHING with ANY part of their OS that they dont have to SHARE with the rest of the distro's. They are using the microsoft deal to differentiate their brand. Its a lowly tactic that goes straight into the heart of all of our ideals, even if youre strictly an "Open Source" kind of guy.
I told you. We needed Linus to retire the right for novell to sell anything with the Linux brand on it.
They are not friends of us anymore.
Burroughs Called...
He wants his style back, is angry as hell, and is demanding from you a deathtime-long, ku-supported, high quality stash of etheral M.
You asked for it.
Hey.... many MS-Devs are slashdotters. I dont think we have anything against them, and certaintly nothing against you.
So chill and congrats on your great job at a very rich enterprise. Hope you do well.
Having said that.... well... ive already posted my own mind in my own comment, thank you very much.
You have to like getting fucked by a monopoly to BUY any kind of microsoft product.
You have to be incredebly stupid, and still a total masochist, to even think about RENTING it.
Jeesus, please save us from all this ignorance.
WHAT?
No no, my friend, you dont have it at all.
Understand this:
The act of taking an illegal drug is not a damagefull act to society.
The consecuences of taking them, for SOME individuals in CERTAIN situations CAN have adverse effects on another citizen.
Okay, lets look at this another way:
1) Take knife
2) Slice lime
3) Spice up your margarita
Is knife harmfull to society? Is the margarita harmful to society? Is the act of taking a spiced up margarita harmfull to society?
No?
Why NOT?
Margarita plus a car is harmful to society.
Knife in wife's neck is harmful to society.
Knife in neighbor's dog, whilst enjoying spiced up margarita, very harmful to society.
So the question becomes:
ÂDo you want margaritas and knifes to be illegal because they CAN be used, or CAN facilitate the comission of crimes?
I really hope you answer no. If you answer yes, then YOU GET THE HELL OUT OF SOCIETY.
Nothing harms society more than unreasonable thought and stupid dogma.
...I don't want to start a debate, though, so I'll make a technological analogy. HUH?I told you the world wasnt going to end, i told you it would be MUCH worse.
Here we face a HOT future with NO BEER!
I vote for the government to start giving away suicide packs (but not legalize mariguana).
Wow... fanboi galore.
Windows Server, which im atempting to install right now into a vmware machine so i can finally work in my damned laptop instead of connecting through a ridiculously inefficient scheme such as terminal services, is a PIECE OF SHIT.
ASP.NET is ANOTHER PIECE OF SHIT in which one can BARELY do a browsable table with filters, let alone some decent ajax.
You now tout it as a platform for running the "great" php language (which, BTW, is ANOTHER PIECE OF SHIT as far as programming languages go) because it now (after 10 damned years) supports fastCGI? JEESUS CHRIST!!
Do you think its ROCKET SCIENCE to get THAT to work?
I mean. You KNOW microsoft is in trouble when they come out with their "great" "new" feature: we now decently run languages that actually get the job done, not VB for the web only.
You can even be a GREAT F117 nuclear bomber pilot, and STILL be an asshole.
So there: GWB is an asshole.
Pffff....
Japan sets the bar when it comes to cellphones. Secondarily, Nokia's Europe, but primarily, next-gen mobility can be seen in japan (and they have mobile broadband fast like hell and have had it for enough years for it to be mainstream and CHEAP).
The US protects their phone companies like if they were the baby jesus or even (GASP) an airline and you (and myself, a third class non-us citizen), just sit down and enjoy our lunch, paying absurd comunications tarifs arbitrarily set by government sanctioned monoplies or oligopolies.
And there you have it. We will call you when phone companies cease to be oligopolic assholes, okay?
Now, i have NO idea why japan's Docomo, a really tough uber monopoly, can offer the absolute tip of network technology to all of japan, while mantaining their monopoly. No idea whatsoever.
"Too bad there isn't a cool open linux-based handset combined with a cheap radio running on a linux-powered box that could be used as a cell 'hotspot'...then you could start deploying them all over the place in a mesh and charge a flat monthly fee for unlimited in-network calls and a small per-minute fee for off-network calls which can be routed through some VoIP provider to POTS numbers..."
Enter google android. And we are going to make this cellphone company punks run like HELL for their money. The net has won, all we have to do now is defend it from this jerks.