A) they want to track you IF you should be doing something elicit.
B) People who are doing something wrong, tend to get nervous when confronted with authority. it's a good tip to the sky marshal (yes there are sky marshals now). And he can run your info in a second on his cell phone and be 90% certain it's you and you didn't just swap tickets with someone before the flight.
Planes are dangerous impliments in the wrong hands. And they are particularly suspicious because they have so many people on them at any given time, and there is no way to stop them other than killing ALL the people onboard.
Informaiton is power. I have no issue surrendering this minor bit of power/information to those who are charged with protecting the plane. Anonimity in this case is rarely a higher priority (as opposed to face tracking cameras all over a city).
BTW: I don't think the gov't has the right to track your every move in the name of national security. And I am well aware of the frog in the pan analogy. But this really is a minor issue. There are other ways to track you city to city. 1984 this is not. (2004;)
"You make PEACE with the world, which is the only TRUE way to eliminate (the majority of) enemies."
Your a moron.
To prove my point, were it physicaly possible, I would punch you in the face.
You can't make peace with someone who doesn't want it. And untill the human race evolves (it's gonna be a while, maybe you should go out for some coffee), someone will always NOT want it.
It only takes one side to have a war. It takes two for peace.
Go try server based computing based on Jetro The Jetro CockpIT Universal Connector can make your life much easier providing you with 100% remote managed services with zero client side maintenance.
The nice part is that you can select ANY client device you want.
Go check: http://www.jp-inc.com
[note: I am employed by this company, but it is one of the greatest products I've ever worked on]
It is why Apple now holds less market share than Linux.
Allow 3rd party integration. Publish the freaking SDK! Let thousands of companies, and millions of hobbiests scratch that itch, and make your product that much better.
In a world where USB and WiFi are ubiquitous, making upgrades and add-ons should be consumer friendly. Now we just have to make it corporate friendly (so they will make the silly products!)
Yeah great! You know what would be better engineers running this country!
Of course then NOTHING would ever work again, but we'd all have fun trying to figure it out!
Sheesh can you imagine the tax forms, their complicated now, can you imagine what would happen if we putt Mechanical Engineers in charge?
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9 out of 10 scientists say...
Who are these scientists? And what are their degrees? Are the Christian Scientists? Maybe their Scientologists? Maybe they just have a bad sciatica?
Groucho go home! Well I nevah!
In all seriousness I get a little tired of hearing about "my best friend is a scientist and..." yeah yeah yeah. Let me tell you something. There are no shortage of "scientists" (and I mean that as Hard Sciences, physics/biology/chemistry/etc..) that are devout religious believers either.
Some more devout than you would expect! (yes I know a few personally, but then I'd be a hypocrite for basing my argument on that).
Believing in G_d is not a sign of mental damage. Though I do tend to think (this is only a personal opinion) that precluding the notion of a god all together is a sign of mental damage (at least psychologically). Since all the evidence isn't in yet.
Many great minds believed in G_d (in one form or another), and many of those minds are the ones you claim to be your intellectual forbearer's (Einstein, Newton, Hawking, Galileo). Don't get fooled by elitism. We don't have all the answers, and we are quite frankly overwhelmed by the sheer volume questions that arise(that arise on their own, not through inquisitiveness).
Finally there is more to life than whether a quark is cute or strange. There is an ethical dimension to our lives. And if some one, of grander or lesser intellect than ourselves (isn't that just so arrogant?) should choose a system of belief centered upon an ethical imperative (whether we agree or not) who are we to say they are wrong? After all, we don't have all the answers.
(disclaimer: If someone's religious beliefs include punching you in the face, there rights stop at your face)
When told the same basic thing Rabbi Menachem Mendel Shnerson(z'tzl) was quoted as saying "The same god you don't believe in I don't believe in either."
There are religions other than Christianity. And other christians than the christians you've met.
And now a word from Willy Wonka:
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Don't be a nitwit.
I absolutely hate it when people assume that they must be right, and therefore anyone of separate opinion must be an idiot. (the only reason I assume that about you is your statement can only be interpreted as an exclusive opinion)
Every discovery science has won us, has brought with it more questions. It's just a simple fact.
The divisiveness between those such as your self, and those of the religious persuasion, is that you dismiss that which you do not understand (evident that you seem to think that our world is 'explained' so well already!), while a religious person stands in utter amazement at the number of questions. (or rather their exponential growth in relation to answers. It's counter intuitive.)
Someone who is open minded, does not dismiss a POV out of hand. Many people in this world are capable of managing eloquent and logical thoughts, and quite a few of them disagree with your POV. Take the time to inquire why.
nihilism. Yes, Martial arts has a good press agent. No doubt about it. But that doesn't detract from it's basic qualities. Particuarly those stemming from the way it is taught. Boxing may teach respect and disapline, if so good. But I'm no Jingoist, I don't need the system to be American to be effective.
I grew up a small kid, youngest in the class. I got in plenty of fights. Those stoped AFTER I took karate. I wasn't worried about acting tough, or establishing myself. I didn't have to any more.
Reality is that people fight. And if it does happen it may not be your sons choice. The bully will decide to start the fight for him. The bully will pick on the easiest target. Don't be that target. Confidence is like bully repelent.
This would be the windows catastrophie of the week huh?
Can someone please, please, please write a decent Unix worm so we can get some interesting headlines?
And don't tell me it's just because MS is a bigger target. Linux runs between 35%-40% of the worlds servers (and more than that if your only counting the DMZd webservers). It's the code stupid.
I would have thought a hopper. Since the whole point would be to move 1 or 2 men a large distance quickly.
A one man Segway style device, but instead of wheels it POPs compressed gass (disolved from regolith) for a lift off. Suspension of course would be a nice touch, since you'll come down as hard as you went up. It would be simpler, and with fewer moving parts. And you could get quotes from the astronauts like "Boingy Boingy Boingy!"
Because it's little things like this that make Gnome a viable desktop.
Printing lables IS one of the things people do with their computers. And in windows most people do it using Word. And while Word is good at a great many things (none of which OO can't do better), it's a truely $h!ty label printer. Why? Because it does things the Windows way. Masive, feature bloated, and overly complicated programs.
gLables is a simple. It has one function. A function people need. And it does it very well. That's Unix and that's why this is a signifigant thing to the Unix desktop.
More people should learn from the example. We may need to replicate the functionality of Windows, but for G_d's sake we don't have to imitate how they deliver it! This is an excelent model of how the Unix CLI mantra can be translated to the GUI Desktop.
stupid Audio pronunciation of "stupid" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (stpd, sty-) adj. stupider, stupidest
1. Slow to learn or understand; obtuse.
2. Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes.
3. Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless: a stupid mistake.
4. Dazed, stunned, or stupefied.
5. Pointless; worthless: a stupid job.
You don't have the earth to protect from all those evil sunspots, misc radiation sources, and micrometorites. A mobile base would have to manufacture it's sheilding on earth and ship it (at extrodinary cost) to the moon.
A static base can just pile up moon dirt on it's self. (or just give the astronots a shovel!)
I always loved the reason that Joss Weadon gave in fire fly for why the future looked more like a western. It's the frontier stoopid. Resources are rare, machines break down, and simple works just fine. If you ship 2 motor bikes to a remote planet you will only have 2 motor bikes, but if you ship two horses... Of course this is the moon, not the wild wild planet, however the basic idea aplies. KISS
One or two, your absolutely right. Lord knows I'm not happy to be on the same side of the isle as Buchanan and David Duke. (and oddly enough it was MSNBC that gave Buchanan a talk show, not Fox) But their just two bad apples. For the most part I find I agree with the mixed bunch that back the right.
Skin heads, ANSWER, and the PLO (yes it still exists under that name) are marching with the Left! This is not a few loonies. This is a veritable swarm! Right wing speakers are being ATACKED at North American venues! You have major money advertising campaigns comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler (seriously, that's like comparing Jeac Sherak to Stalin because their both socialists).
Yes, there is statistical background noise. Then there is what is actually happening now.
BTW: Login you anonymous twit. If your can't take the karma stay out of the flames.
Berkly Anti-Israel Zellots march side by side with REAL neo-nazis, and skin heads, but their not raceists! No, No, No. Only right wingers can be racists.
Get with it people. Extreamists on either side are dangerous. And if you ever want to know where you stand, take a look who's standing next to you.
A movie that at it's best is political documentery!! WTF is it doing on slashdot!? Is it shot in 100% cgi? Did they using Linux boxen to make Michale More look less repulsive? Are they keeping cam corders out of theaters with night vision radar?
This is to F-ing much!
Why does someone try to convert me to their religion every where I go?!!
One Last Questions: Taco, when the h@ll are you going to applogize for this?!
"Smart Machines" that were placed in charge of buisness decissions at MS earlier this year have begun slautering inocent programmers in the streats. Leading to mass unemployment, and a boom in Linux development. This has let the machines to begin slaughtering every humman they see, as they can not tell the difference beetween cool jocks, and nerd hackers. Droid replicas of the Californian Govenor (though looking slightly younger) have entered the capital and begun demanding an expansion of the DMCA or else 'They would be back'.
On a side note this reporter would like to gladly welcome our new machine overlords.
The web is only a reflection of the world in witch it exists. No that's not phylasophical. Not mostly.
Propriatary solutions don't work because the world was not designed to be propriatary. Look at biological spread, the more the "good stuff" get's out and around the more successfull the speacies. With symbiots, not parasitics being the most successfull.
Look at religion. While there are mass exceptions, relegions that foster decentrilization and "Individual Priesthood" survive the enevitable cataclysims that befall them (Catholics bing the big exception)
Comunism was MORE efficient within specific markets than capatilism! But because it resulted in a narrow range of diversity, and limited flexibility it's net efficiency was dismal compared to capitalsim.
Propriatary will allways loose out in the long term (in the short term legislation may make it succeed), only because buisnesses will continue to require more and more diverse services that eventually a narrow market, that propriatary solutions will enevitably be unable to provide.
I'm not talking about diversity alone. But cross polination between diverse populations. The diverse array of options provided by F/OSS, and the freedom to integrate from the full range without (major) consequence will win the day. At least I think so.
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A) they want to track you IF you should be doing something elicit.
B) People who are doing something wrong, tend to get nervous when confronted with authority. it's a good tip to the sky marshal (yes there are sky marshals now). And he can run your info in a second on his cell phone and be 90% certain it's you and you didn't just swap tickets with someone before the flight.
Planes are dangerous impliments in the wrong hands. And they are particularly suspicious because they have so many people on them at any given time, and there is no way to stop them other than killing ALL the people onboard.
Informaiton is power. I have no issue surrendering this minor bit of power/information to those who are charged with protecting the plane. Anonimity in this case is rarely a higher priority (as opposed to face tracking cameras all over a city).
BTW: I don't think the gov't has the right to track your every move in the name of national security. And I am well aware of the frog in the pan analogy. But this really is a minor issue. There are other ways to track you city to city. 1984 this is not. (2004;)
"You make PEACE with the world, which is the only TRUE way to eliminate (the majority of) enemies."
Your a moron.
To prove my point, were it physicaly possible, I would punch you in the face.
You can't make peace with someone who doesn't want it. And untill the human race evolves (it's gonna be a while, maybe you should go out for some coffee), someone will always NOT want it.
It only takes one side to have a war. It takes two for peace.
You have to show ID to check out a library book. Just carry your drivers licence and relax!
The FAA has always be a bit on the over cautios side. But the result is the safest form of travel (if not the most cramped) in the world.
I don't know if having to flash ID is quite comprable to having to file with Moscow to travel between cities.
Go try server based computing based on Jetro
The Jetro CockpIT Universal Connector can make your life much easier providing you with 100% remote managed services with zero client side maintenance.
The nice part is that you can select ANY client device you want.
Go check: http://www.jp-inc.com
[note: I am employed by this company, but it is one of the greatest products I've ever worked on]
It was the same done with PCs.
It is why Apple now holds less market share than Linux.
Allow 3rd party integration. Publish the freaking SDK! Let thousands of companies, and millions of hobbiests scratch that itch, and make your product that much better.
In a world where USB and WiFi are ubiquitous, making upgrades and add-ons should be consumer friendly. Now we just have to make it corporate friendly (so they will make the silly products!)
To not, is just a failure of imagination.
Yeah great! You know what would be better engineers running this country!
Of course then NOTHING would ever work again, but we'd all have fun trying to figure it out!
Sheesh can you imagine the tax forms, their complicated now, can you imagine what would happen if we putt Mechanical Engineers in charge?
9 out of 10 scientists say ...
..." yeah yeah yeah. Let me tell you something. There are no shortage of "scientists" (and I mean that as Hard Sciences, physics/biology/chemistry/etc..) that are devout religious believers either.
Who are these scientists? And what are their degrees? Are the Christian Scientists? Maybe their Scientologists? Maybe they just have a bad sciatica?
Groucho go home! Well I nevah!
In all seriousness I get a little tired of hearing about "my best friend is a scientist and
Some more devout than you would expect!
(yes I know a few personally, but then I'd be a hypocrite for basing my argument on that).
Believing in G_d is not a sign of mental damage. Though I do tend to think (this is only a personal opinion) that precluding the notion of a god all together is a sign of mental damage (at least psychologically). Since all the evidence isn't in yet.
Many great minds believed in G_d (in one form or another), and many of those minds are the ones you claim to be your intellectual forbearer's (Einstein, Newton, Hawking, Galileo). Don't get fooled by elitism. We don't have all the answers, and we are quite frankly overwhelmed by the sheer volume questions that arise(that arise on their own, not through inquisitiveness).
Finally there is more to life than whether a quark is cute or strange. There is an ethical dimension to our lives. And if some one, of grander or lesser intellect than ourselves (isn't that just so arrogant?) should choose a system of belief centered upon an ethical imperative (whether we agree or not) who are we to say they are wrong? After all, we don't have all the answers.
(disclaimer: If someone's religious beliefs include punching you in the face, there rights stop at your face)
When told the same basic thing Rabbi Menachem Mendel Shnerson(z'tzl) was quoted as saying "The same god you don't believe in I don't believe in either."
There are religions other than Christianity. And other christians than the christians you've met.
And now a word from Willy Wonka:
Don't be a nitwit.
I absolutely hate it when people assume that they must be right, and therefore anyone of separate opinion must be an idiot. (the only reason I assume that about you is your statement can only be interpreted as an exclusive opinion)
Every discovery science has won us, has brought with it more questions. It's just a simple fact.
The divisiveness between those such as your self, and those of the religious persuasion, is that you dismiss that which you do not understand (evident that you seem to think that our world is 'explained' so well already!), while a religious person stands in utter amazement at the number of questions. (or rather their exponential growth in relation to answers. It's counter intuitive.)
Someone who is open minded, does not dismiss a POV out of hand. Many people in this world are capable of managing eloquent and logical thoughts, and quite a few of them disagree with your POV. Take the time to inquire why.
nihilism. Yes, Martial arts has a good press agent. No doubt about it. But that doesn't detract from it's basic qualities. Particuarly those stemming from the way it is taught. Boxing may teach respect and disapline, if so good. But I'm no Jingoist, I don't need the system to be American to be effective. I grew up a small kid, youngest in the class. I got in plenty of fights. Those stoped AFTER I took karate. I wasn't worried about acting tough, or establishing myself. I didn't have to any more. Reality is that people fight. And if it does happen it may not be your sons choice. The bully will decide to start the fight for him. The bully will pick on the easiest target. Don't be that target. Confidence is like bully repelent.
You won't have kids. Untill you get an atitude correction. Probably from the guy washing your car who's fed up with your arrogance.
A) You making more money that a Peace Corp worker, doesn't make you better. Nor does it make you better than the guy washing your car.
B) Teaching your children things other than being liberal does not make them stupid. One has nothing to do with the other.
C) Learning Martial arts is about self disaplin not violence. Something children, and most adults these days could do with a fair dose of.
This would be the windows catastrophie of the week huh?
Can someone please, please, please write a decent Unix worm so we can get some interesting headlines?
And don't tell me it's just because MS is a bigger target. Linux runs between 35%-40% of the worlds servers (and more than that if your only counting the DMZd webservers). It's the code stupid.
I would have thought a hopper. Since the whole point would be to move 1 or 2 men a large distance quickly.
A one man Segway style device, but instead of wheels it POPs compressed gass (disolved from regolith) for a lift off. Suspension of course would be a nice touch, since you'll come down as hard as you went up. It would be simpler, and with fewer moving parts. And you could get quotes from the astronauts like "Boingy Boingy Boingy!"
as dumb as my spelling is, the idiot who moded me correcting myself as a Trool truely takes the cake.
People won't read the comments before modding them, and you wan them to RTFA?
Because it's little things like this that make Gnome a viable desktop.
Printing lables IS one of the things people do with their computers. And in windows most people do it using Word. And while Word is good at a great many things (none of which OO can't do better), it's a truely $h!ty label printer. Why? Because it does things the Windows way. Masive, feature bloated, and overly complicated programs.
gLables is a simple. It has one function. A function people need. And it does it very well. That's Unix and that's why this is a signifigant thing to the Unix desktop.
More people should learn from the example. We may need to replicate the functionality of Windows, but for G_d's sake we don't have to imitate how they deliver it! This is an excelent model of how the Unix CLI mantra can be translated to the GUI Desktop.
stoopid:
stupid Audio pronunciation of "stupid" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (stpd, sty-)
adj. stupider, stupidest
1. Slow to learn or understand; obtuse.
2. Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes.
3. Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless: a stupid mistake.
4. Dazed, stunned, or stupefied.
5. Pointless; worthless: a stupid job.
Or someone who forgets to run spell check FIRST!
Dough!!
Sheilding!
You don't have the earth to protect from all those evil sunspots, misc radiation sources, and micrometorites. A mobile base would have to manufacture it's sheilding on earth and ship it (at extrodinary cost) to the moon.
A static base can just pile up moon dirt on it's self. (or just give the astronots a shovel!)
I always loved the reason that Joss Weadon gave in fire fly for why the future looked more like a western. It's the frontier stoopid. Resources are rare, machines break down, and simple works just fine. If you ship 2 motor bikes to a remote planet you will only have 2 motor bikes, but if you ship two horses... Of course this is the moon, not the wild wild planet, however the basic idea aplies. KISS
Something to make sure that every slashdoter world wide will continue to worship at the idol of K. Dunst.
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/0189-sta/du
Ahhh geek sheek, you can't resist a nerd chick!
Wow somebody didn't get their oxytocin this morning!
Stop folowing the news for pressidentail monkeys.
Watch more femail monkeys...
One or two, your absolutely right. Lord knows I'm not happy to be on the same side of the isle as Buchanan and David Duke. (and oddly enough it was MSNBC that gave Buchanan a talk show, not Fox) But their just two bad apples. For the most part I find I agree with the mixed bunch that back the right.
Skin heads, ANSWER, and the PLO (yes it still exists under that name) are marching with the Left! This is not a few loonies. This is a veritable swarm! Right wing speakers are being ATACKED at North American venues! You have major money advertising campaigns comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler (seriously, that's like comparing Jeac Sherak to Stalin because their both socialists).
Yes, there is statistical background noise. Then there is what is actually happening now.
BTW: Login you anonymous twit. If your can't take the karma stay out of the flames.
Berkly Anti-Israel Zellots march side by side with REAL neo-nazis, and skin heads, but their not raceists! No, No, No. Only right wingers can be racists.
Get with it people. Extreamists on either side are dangerous. And if you ever want to know where you stand, take a look who's standing next to you.
A movie that at it's best is political documentery!! WTF is it doing on slashdot!? Is it shot in 100% cgi? Did they using Linux boxen to make Michale More look less repulsive? Are they keeping cam corders out of theaters with night vision radar?
This is to F-ing much!
Why does someone try to convert me to their religion every where I go?!!
One Last Questions: Taco, when the h@ll are you going to applogize for this?!
This is worse than Matrix 3.
"Smart Machines" that were placed in charge of buisness decissions at MS earlier this year have begun slautering inocent programmers in the streats. Leading to mass unemployment, and a boom in Linux development. This has let the machines to begin slaughtering every humman they see, as they can not tell the difference beetween cool jocks, and nerd hackers. Droid replicas of the Californian Govenor (though looking slightly younger) have entered the capital and begun demanding an expansion of the DMCA or else 'They would be back'.
On a side note this reporter would like to gladly welcome our new machine overlords.
The web is only a reflection of the world in witch it exists. No that's not phylasophical. Not mostly.
Propriatary solutions don't work because the world was not designed to be propriatary. Look at biological spread, the more the "good stuff" get's out and around the more successfull the speacies. With symbiots, not parasitics being the most successfull.
Look at religion. While there are mass exceptions, relegions that foster decentrilization and "Individual Priesthood" survive the enevitable cataclysims that befall them (Catholics bing the big exception)
Comunism was MORE efficient within specific markets than capatilism! But because it resulted in a narrow range of diversity, and limited flexibility it's net efficiency was dismal compared to capitalsim.
Propriatary will allways loose out in the long term (in the short term legislation may make it succeed), only because buisnesses will continue to require more and more diverse services that eventually a narrow market, that propriatary solutions will enevitably be unable to provide.
I'm not talking about diversity alone. But cross polination between diverse populations. The diverse array of options provided by F/OSS, and the freedom to integrate from the full range without (major) consequence will win the day. At least I think so.