You and I may consider our code art, but our *job* is to solve specific problems using specific tools. I am paid to produce code that will perform a given function, not code that will be printed and distributed to other people for entertainment value, be exerpted and quoted in ads, etc. Your analogy is quite lame.
Errr, that should be just "Broadway", with no "Ave", for all occurences of this address. BTW, interesting how so many of them are in the same building, eh?
You sound like those Linux users who struggle with crappy browsers [mozilla.org], and suffer with latex (because there's no good office suite), just so they can "stick it to the man in Redmond."
I doubt there are actually people who think like this. I use Konqueror because it's lighter and faster than IE, and actually handles things like JavaScript, cookies, popups, and other garbage in an intelligent manner. I use LaTeX because no Microsoft (or anyone else's for that matter) product even comes close, don't even try to suggest those lame WYSIWYG "glorified typewriter" programs like WinWord.
I use the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card. It has 5.1-channel output, which goes into my stereo's DVD input. Works great for listening to MP3s, and watching DVDs, since I use my PC for that too.
I don't have a TV, so I use my trinitron monitor for everything. DVD movies play right on the computer. I plug cable TV into my Voodoo3500 card, same with the dreamcast.
I don't feel like I have compromised anything, except I get to listen to all my mp3s with great quality, and keep the space I save by not having a TV.
there must be an easier way for record companies etc to protect their copyrights, within reason, but to allow filesharing like this within reason as well
Where are your priorities? I humbly suggest most important, there must be a way to stop overpowerful conglomerates from purchasing ridiculous laws in their favor. Whether or not they make any money, that's their own problem. We need to worry about our freedom. Since they've been rather aggressively and successfully crushing it lately, I see no reason why they shouldn't go bankrupt, like, tomorrow.
Why the Bible in particular, and not the Koran? What makes the Bible true and the Koran false?
Religious fanatics have got to go, on both sides. This includes the radical Islamists as well as the radical Jew Zionists. Both are bunches of fucking morons, killing each other over a mound of sand.
Do you not remember the Hatch-Feinstein "methaphetamine anti-proliferation" bills?
The ones that stated in plain english that it would be a crime to "teach, demonstrate, [la la la] OR OTHERWISE DISSEMINATE INFORMATION PERTAINING pertaining to" controlled substances?
Before Israel was just plopped down on that chunk of land, people were living there. Now those people are being told to get the fuck out. The ones that can stay are 1/5 citizens.
You seem to be missing something as well. In your scenario, you've banned the encrypted phones. They're no longer on the shelves at radio shack. So Al Qaeda (they've got [mb]illions) hires someone to make their own. Or maybe they don't. In either case, John Q. Public (that's you and me) have lost the ability to buy an encrypted phone at radio shack.
However, it goes against his pattern in one particular way - AFAIK, he has always struck at the military or government
He is heavily implicated in the 1993 attempt to destroy the World Trade Center. The men tried and convicted as principal architects of that act are some of his closest associates. They (was it him personally? I don't remembe) said essentially "Not yet. Next time, we'll have more money and we'll bring the Twin Towers down."
I've been toying with the idea that some of bin Laden's followers have broken out and started to operate on their own.
Certainly possible, but seeing as this is an attack that Osama bin Laden explicitly supports, why not stay within the network and reap the benefits? What would they have to gain by breaking off?
It could also be Right-wing extremists with shoeshine in their face, or it could be Israel, Egypt, Libya, Palestinians or just a brand new Moslem organization. It could be a bunch of people.
True. That's what makes this an act of cowardice rather than one of war. You can suggest as many possibilities as possible and be unable to rule any of them out. An insiduous example: would you put this past our own people? The military/intelligence cabal stands to gain much in the upcoming weeks, months maybe even years. Now is the perfect time since they have their man Bush in power (and even the legitimacy of that has been called into question recently). If one had the goal of starting an Orwellian state in the U.S., this is certainly a great way of going about it.
As you can see there are limitless so-called "possibilities". It's a matter of rationality on one side, trust on the other.
Anyhow - I've been worried for a few days that the feds are blindly following the wrong path. I hope I'm wrong.
Some leads seem unlikely to have been accidental -- some of the hijackers' actual links to Osama and the al-Quaeda network, for example. That said, I was extremely skeptical when they said they found an "Arabic flight manual"...that really seemed like it had to have been planted but in light of the recent, more provable evidence, who would plant that? Unless, of course, the feds are the ones doing the planting, deceiving, lying. In that case we are all so seriously doomed that it's not even worth a discussion.
SMPng is great. Porting FreeBSD to dozens of architecture may not be -- I thought NetBSD was the one group that was supposed to focus on portability? Stick with Intel CPUs, guys! =)
No. NetBSD's goal is to be as portable as possible, at which it succeeds greatly (the current count is 45 or 46 architectures and it's probably running on that DSL or Cable router.
FreeBSD is not even approaching that level. FreeBSD is a server OS, however, and as such it is a worthwhile goal to have it run on the best and most commonly used server hardware. SUN4U fits into this category.
I don't know why VooDooDaddy got the response he got. My experience with FreeBSD development has always been good; when I wanted to learn there was always a developer willing to help, on either a mailing list, a newsgroup, or #BSDCode on EFnet. *shrug*
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You and I may consider our code art, but our *job* is to solve specific problems using specific tools. I am paid to produce code that will perform a given function, not code that will be printed and distributed to other people for entertainment value, be exerpted and quoted in ads, etc. Your analogy is quite lame.
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Errr, that should be just "Broadway", with no "Ave", for all occurences of this address. BTW, interesting how so many of them are in the same building, eh?
You sound like those Linux users who struggle with crappy browsers [mozilla.org], and suffer with latex (because there's no good office suite), just so they can "stick it to the man in Redmond."
I doubt there are actually people who think like this. I use Konqueror because it's lighter and faster than IE, and actually handles things like JavaScript, cookies, popups, and other garbage in an intelligent manner. I use LaTeX because no Microsoft (or anyone else's for that matter) product even comes close, don't even try to suggest those lame WYSIWYG "glorified typewriter" programs like WinWord.
OK, back to your regularly scheduled trolling...
Yeah, but the boy can dance like no pasty overweight man before or since! ... "Give me an E!"
Hmm. Maybe that's it? Someone over at Redmond ought to ask Mr. Ballmer to pee in a cup...
This is fucked up! This used to be such a great station...
I use the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card. It has 5.1-channel output, which goes into my stereo's DVD input. Works great for listening to MP3s, and watching DVDs, since I use my PC for that too.
I don't have a TV, so I use my trinitron monitor for everything. DVD movies play right on the computer. I plug cable TV into my Voodoo3500 card, same with the dreamcast.
I don't feel like I have compromised anything, except I get to listen to all my mp3s with great quality, and keep the space I save by not having a TV.
Uh, sorry, what? Is anyone out there still *not* using PNG?
there must be an easier way for record companies etc to protect their copyrights, within reason, but to allow filesharing like this within reason as well
Where are your priorities? I humbly suggest most important, there must be a way to stop overpowerful conglomerates from purchasing ridiculous laws in their favor. Whether or not they make any money, that's their own problem. We need to worry about our freedom. Since they've been rather aggressively and successfully crushing it lately, I see no reason why they shouldn't go bankrupt, like, tomorrow.
Why the Bible in particular, and not the Koran? What makes the Bible true and the Koran false?
Religious fanatics have got to go, on both sides. This includes the radical Islamists as well as the radical Jew Zionists. Both are bunches of fucking morons, killing each other over a mound of sand.
Uhhh.
Do you not remember the Hatch-Feinstein "methaphetamine anti-proliferation" bills?
The ones that stated in plain english that it would be a crime to "teach, demonstrate, [la la la] OR OTHERWISE DISSEMINATE INFORMATION PERTAINING pertaining to" controlled substances?
What?! All modern routers support IPsec already ... is everyone here expericing head-in-sand syndrome? JUST USE IT!
So if e-mail encryption is outlawed, but HTTP encryption is OK, why can't the terrorists just communicate over HTTPS?
Idiot.
Why does Israel have a right to be there?
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Before Israel was just plopped down on that chunk of land, people were living there. Now those people are being told to get the fuck out. The ones that can stay are 1/5 citizens.
Something to think about
Proliferate IPsec. Everyone will be using encryption; no one will have to know.
You seem to be missing something as well. In your scenario, you've banned the encrypted phones. They're no longer on the shelves at radio shack. So Al Qaeda (they've got [mb]illions) hires someone to make their own. Or maybe they don't. In either case, John Q. Public (that's you and me) have lost the ability to buy an encrypted phone at radio shack.
And just what have we gained?
However, it goes against his pattern in one particular way - AFAIK, he has always struck at the military or government
He is heavily implicated in the 1993 attempt to destroy the World Trade Center. The men tried and convicted as principal architects of that act are some of his closest associates. They (was it him personally? I don't remembe) said essentially "Not yet. Next time, we'll have more money and we'll bring the Twin Towers down."
I've been toying with the idea that some of bin Laden's followers have broken out and started to operate on their own.
Certainly possible, but seeing as this is an attack that Osama bin Laden explicitly supports, why not stay within the network and reap the benefits? What would they have to gain by breaking off?
It could also be Right-wing extremists with shoeshine in their face, or it could be Israel, Egypt, Libya, Palestinians or just a brand new Moslem organization. It could be a bunch of people.
True. That's what makes this an act of cowardice rather than one of war. You can suggest as many possibilities as possible and be unable to rule any of them out. An insiduous example: would you put this past our own people? The military/intelligence cabal stands to gain much in the upcoming weeks, months maybe even years. Now is the perfect time since they have their man Bush in power (and even the legitimacy of that has been called into question recently). If one had the goal of starting an Orwellian state in the U.S., this is certainly a great way of going about it.
As you can see there are limitless so-called "possibilities". It's a matter of rationality on one side, trust on the other.
Anyhow - I've been worried for a few days that the feds are blindly following the wrong path. I hope I'm wrong.
Some leads seem unlikely to have been accidental -- some of the hijackers' actual links to Osama and the al-Quaeda network, for example. That said, I was extremely skeptical when they said they found an "Arabic flight manual"...that really seemed like it had to have been planted but in light of the recent, more provable evidence, who would plant that? Unless, of course, the feds are the ones doing the planting, deceiving, lying. In that case we are all so seriously doomed that it's not even worth a discussion.
The CNN story does not mention Bush at all...
Can someone explain to me what possible advantages this silly, centralized, Microsoft-as-Big-Brother scheme has over keeping the information locally?
I mean, keep it in some nice standardized XML in encrypted form and require a passphrase for each decryption/use of the information.
Why would anyone in their right mind use this?
SMPng is great. Porting FreeBSD to dozens of architecture may not be -- I thought NetBSD was the one group that was supposed to focus on portability? Stick with Intel CPUs, guys! =)
No. NetBSD's goal is to be as portable as possible, at which it succeeds greatly (the current count is 45 or 46 architectures and it's probably running on that DSL or Cable router.
FreeBSD is not even approaching that level. FreeBSD is a server OS, however, and as such it is a worthwhile goal to have it run on the best and most commonly used server hardware. SUN4U fits into this category.
I don't know why VooDooDaddy got the response he got. My experience with FreeBSD development has always been good; when I wanted to learn there was always a developer willing to help, on either a mailing list, a newsgroup, or #BSDCode on EFnet. *shrug*
:)
Maybe we're not hearing the whole story.
What's up green?
Bullshit. I used to use a 24/7 56k dialup line and even run a server on it, but in no way is the speed of my current SDSL replacement "unimportant."
The fact that he uses PCP makes him undeserving of any rights?
I hope the next time you smoke a joint, you happen to be in some state like Montana and end up hanging out in county for 30, 60 or 90 days.
After all, there are 65535 ways (ports) to talk to any given IP address.
:)
That's 65535 TCP ports, and 65535 UDP ports.
Aren't tours referred to by their promoters as "in support of" some album or other?
This is totally bogus. You wouldn't be helping at all by doing something like this. No, it is definitely a bad idea to let them go alive.