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I think you're a pretty okay guy too... even though you're most likely one of those froggies. Tell you what, there are always exceptions and exceptions made so you're now listed in my book of cool frogs. You're not on page one though, it's got a couple of entries already.
First off, I'm not sure about D-Links half-hearted go at NTP so I think sending those boxes seriously malformed packets could take them down... fast. I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't an exploit or two out there that take advantage of the D-Link NTP client.
However apart from quality, you know what the most striking difference are between D-Link and Cisco?
1. Cisco is definitely a pro and would never fuck up like that in the first place. 2. Just assuming it had been Cisco instead of D-Link they would be so much more likely to go
the easiest way of resolving the problem which is to fork over the $60,000 or so for bandwidth
and apologize. A letter. Five or six checks. About $60,000 loss. It'll boil down to all in all
from considering all expenses such as people's salaries who spend time on the problem and cut the
checks to the postage stamps needed for them to get to Denmark - all that will probably boil
down to a markup on equipment and services of 2 cents and nobody will ever be the wiser.
You were going to drop this before and so was I but regarding the Statue of Liberty, that doesn't register emotionally with me even though I know of its french origins. I think Archtech, you're confusing past grandeur and exploits with the ingrained pettiness of the average french(wo)man I am talking about. Here's an anecdote to give you to think about.
I don't speak french. Un petit peux mais but that is all. Back when I was twenty me and a friend of mine would put on a backpack get on a train and go places. We were on our way to England and if you're travelling to England by rail you, the easiest way to go is the connection Calais - Dover. So we arrived at Paris Gare du Nord (something or rather) and had maybe twenty minutes left before our train left for Calais. Now the thing about this railway station is once you get off the subway you do have to find your way to the trains. Usually in Germany they have pictograms all over the place so you don't need to know a single word of German to find your way to basic facilities but oh no, not the french and back then I didn't know for certain what train meant in their language. So we tried to ask people. I would go "Excuse me, do you speak English?" and they would all respond with "Non! Non! Non!, I would then ask "Sprechen Sie Deutsch?" and they would again go "Non! Non! Non!". Not knowing the word for train but remembering something like "Chemin der Fer" which sounded plausible to me I asked them in french, "Ou sont les chemin de fer?" and they would look stupidly at me and say something like "La bas! La bas!" (over there! over there!). I repeated this at least 15 times every time with almost exactly the same result and this was in a hot summer and I was sweating like an animal wearing a heavy backpack and we did not make that train that day. However the real kicker is, arriving at the street level I asked a woman again the same questions.. "Do you speak English", she: "NON!". I then asked her if she spoke German and she went "NON!" again, this time even louder. With a sigh I asked her one more time in french for the "Chemin de Fer" and then all of the sudden this woman DID SPEAK GERMAN. Even though she had an accent she needed to work on she was fluent in German! She told me that "Chemin de Fer means Railway Company but I need to ask for the Grand Lignes to get to the trains".
I'm not alone with this. It appears the french are universally hated. Don't ask me how I got there or on what business but a couple of years ago me and a colleague of mine stopped at a gas station on I80 somewhere in Illinois. We went into the "restaurant" and we were talking to each other in German. All of the sudden I see this rapid movement to my left and this huge trucker jumps out of his chair dropping that chair to the floor and approaches us with his fists clenched. He wasn't pretending most obviously he wasn't joking. "Don't tell me you're french!" he roared, "Don't tell me you're french!". I just looked at him and thought of the irony that now I was going to get the shit beat out of me for the french. Then I got a little angry myself over that and told him, "We're GERMAN! DEUTSCHE! GERMANS! Wir sind Deutsche, verstanden! GERMANS! GERMANS!". After that they made us sit at their table and I had the worst Spaghetti Bolognese you could imagine. While I was shoving that Dreck down into my system the truckers told me they had to go through the Quebec to get to Ontario which is why they really don't appreciate to see any froggies south of the border.
I could go on and on and maybe even tell you about M. Voisin, the man I had to work with in Montreal who didn't have his intestines under control and would fart in front of me and make jokes about "Les Boches!" (derogatory for German) the nekulturny paysan thinking I couldn't understand what he was saying but I guess I have made my point. I get around a LOT in the world I have to say and NOWHERE have I ever been more insulted and abused than in La France and Quebec. Really for the most part people reciprocate friendliness and are
Hahaha to think I didn't catch this... hey thanks!
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Right. First you call your neighbor and tell him that you're coming over to smash his car, kill his dog, rape his wife and children and then rob him of anything you see fit taking and then finally to burn down his house and kill him and his family with a huge knife. Then you go into the garage and spend two hours looking for that bush knife you want to use on him... but to your surprise of the sudden there is this click noise and you drop everything you're holding in your hands because your neighbor is standing behind you with a shotgun in his hands and a grim look in his face.
Actually the last thing we need is an independent functional adult. We'd like them to be very dependent adults and as functional as we need them to be, but no more than that.
Actually the last thing we need is an independent functional adult. We'd like them to be very dependent adults
and as functional as we need them to be, no more.
Re:It's true. The french name is really irritating
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Tell you what I agree wholeheartedly with what you're saying but I guess that's mainly because I'm not anglo at all, nor really much of a patriot for that matter. Now let's take a look at what you got here:
Yeah, right. Those arrogant French, thinking they are God's chosen people! Don't they know that *Americans* are God's chosen people?
Actually as we all know it's the jews who think they're "God's chosen people". As far as the French are concerned, it is mainly because they still believe they're in the same league with anglo culture. However, with the exception of maybe Africa and an island or two in the southern pacific, english and spanish will see you through most of the world and we're that is not spoken your safest bet is russian.
And they a real bunch of chicken-livered... Here let me condense this to: Karl Martell, La Resistance, Joan of Arc, Napolean and the foreign legion. An odd mix of french valor and scum you have here. With the exception of Martell (who for all purposes counts as a German) we have people here history would have done well without. Without Joan of Arc we wouldn't have this discussion here as you would most likely speak English and La Resistance is really mostly a bunch of tales invented post-war to take off the minds of people of the unsavory fact that most French eagerly collaborated with the Germans. Napoleon marched war all over Europe and the Foreign Legion are a bunch of criminals doing France's dirty work in exchange for protection from prosecution (They say otherwise, I know). As far as bravery is concerned, in a war bravery has little to do with language. There were just as many brave SS-Troopers as there were brave allied troops.
In 1777, Lafayette purchased a ship, and with a crew of adventurers set sail for America to fight in the revolution against the British.
In the same conflict, thousands of more or less able-bodied Hessians were forced into uniform and sold to the british as Kanonenfutter - cannon fodder. Most of these people however stayed in the new world and thus "Hess" is a very common name in Pennsylvania. Nowadays the descendants of these people all speak english and think nothing of it. I don't think the same thing could be said of Lafayette's people had they chosen to stay.
As for the "surrender" part,... About as brave as a farmer going out with a combine harvester to cut a field of wheat.
You're right. They're a bunch of wieners.
It's true. The french name is really irritating
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I'm not going to hold back on a secret here... I hate everything french for all the basic reasons most people
hate the french which are all more or less deeply rooted in their insurmountable arrogance. I've been both to
the heartland of frenchianity where I spent a couple of weeks in Paris and I have seen and forever turned my
back on Quebec. La monde francophone, "The Frenchspeaking World" which the "Grande Nation" is so terribly proud
of is shrinking while I am typing this. It's not that they're not painfully aware of this rapidly decreasing
"mind share" and the "mind share threat" posed by les Anglais, we all know what kind of vile laws they have both
in La France and Quebec to preserve their oh so precious culture. Let's not help them out by referencing their
culture more than is absolutely necessary minimum.
As far as the programming language is concerned. One would think that a clearly superior product could be called
anything at all and it would succeed no matter what. This I strongly believe is not true because I think deep down
most people feel as I do. What I've heard about Eiffel is very interesting which is why I am getting involved with it.
However I do have a hard time fighting down the loathing I have for the french and it really hits me extra hard
when I look at the box they have on the commercial Eiffelstudio page which clearly looks like "La Tour Eiffel", the
Eiffel Tower.
I have karma to burn, but if you're really thinking instead of giving in to the kneejerk reaction of perceived
"hate speech" then by all means mod the parent up.
How boring, Bill! Let's hear the interesting stuff
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Instead of hearing about all the wonderful "Microsoft Technologies" he uses like a desktop that spans three screens I guess the really interesting thing to hear from him is how he gets himself focused and disciplined, what's his mental trick here. I know how to work an email client like the next guy but I'm still a miserable, disorganized, unfocussed son of a bitch. That "part" of your workday is what is really interesting, Bill.
Taking back 300 pledges of allegiance over this
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Dude, that sucks. No really, I always thought the RIAA crowd was just covering their bases by attempting to phase out players that can play independent's music (if you want to publish music in the US then only if we let you and on our terms). But since there's a way for them to claim ownership to anything an independent has ever come up... and then making them sign their copyright to the tune away by making them _buy_ into their scheme or facing hundreds of thousands in lawyer fees, you know it figures. Really. It does. Alone over this I am taking another 300 pledges of allegiance they made me do in school back, though I'm not sure whether I still have that many left. Call me unamerican all you want.
And while we're on the subject this doesn't really belong in the "Science" section anymore but into politics. I wonder if Anderson Publishing / VA Software or whoever is behind slashdot gets paid extra whenever they carry one of these articles.
Depending on what you're trying to "protect" opens
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ource or not, any DRM scheme requires secure hardware and outside control of that hardware by the "Premium Content Provider", "Rights Owner" or whatever you want to call them. Even though the scheme used may be open source, it still doesn't necessarily mean I can disable it on a device that only allows me to listen to "premium content" so I can play the cool, independent stuff.
This btw is also why I am violently opposed to TCPA. What use is it to me when I can't take full ownership of it by changing its root key?
Senor Hernandez 1020 El Camino Real Tijuana, Mexico
Dear Senor Hernandez,
I respectfully would like to ask you to consider this unique proposal for business which you should you elect to pursue it you shall find to be immensably profitable to yourself. My role in this is only negligible but your participation is vital and in comparison very, very gainful to yourself as you will now see. You may have heard about the Nigerian 419 law which is successfully used in scamming westerners for amounts up to 20,000 USD and even more per mark. In my village there are many people now who can at least write in english well thanks to a special project and now we would like to enter into this highly lucrative business of 419 email writing. In order to become successful we need investors like you, investors that share first in the expense but then also in the huge profits reaped from naive westerners. One thing is for sure: 419 has continued to grow for nearly as long as the internet has been available in Nigera and even though the train is still moving slow here with Bubabawanga Village writing paper letters to esteemed future business partners, all the more reason to jump aboard now because once we get the computers we will become Nigerias premier 419 operation.
I wonder why Diebold built a box in the first place that is so easy to tinker with. Well I don't really but still I wonder why they didn't think of an excuse for it... Anyways here's my solution to the problem. Let's use XBOX360s! They're secure (for now) at least a lot securer than the crap Diebold is peddling!
I don't own one but as far as I know - mind you as far as I know - there's only one hack modifying the drive firmware that allows people to run backups of official game cdroms. Up to now there is no way to get your own code to execute on the box all thanks to code signing and a chain of trust that begins with a key buried in the silicone of one of the microprocessor in the box.
Well I guess one thing to say about this is that Microsoft intends to sell millions of these boxes and each box is calculated to generate a certain revenue on software titles and services sold but hey... I think voting machines deserve at least the same level of security as the oh so special premium content of the hallowed content providers and even though they may sell only a few ten thousand of these voting machines... hell I guess a machines that cost $40,000 to get someone to look them over, I guess something like that probably costs at least $150,000 a piece and so looking at 150,000 x 10000 = $1,500,000,000, 1.5 billion dollars of revenue I guess we can expect security here that makes the engineers who worked for Microsoft on the X360 project weep (as they will soon but that's a another story).
I'd certainly be concerned if I sent a machine out into the wild, a 3rd party took a look at it, and now it may not be functioning properly.
If I were that election commissioner, my concern would be that all the Diebold "engineer" they send is going to install is the latest back door to the machine.
However if I were one of the Bush people my concern would be to send over someone to talk to that election commissioner, maybe bring his youngest daugther home from kindergarden or someting.
The Reichsministry for Information Technology has conducted a study which shows
that the adaption of open source software is held back by what is believed to be
ungerman behavior of the authors. It is well known that open source programmers
are perceived to not display less swastikas in public or even return the German
salute either sloppy or hesitate to return it all.
You know the really interesting thing about this story is how the govt is trying
trying to get us to grok that a website deserves as much solid protection as
for instance in this case city hall itself, if not even more so.
Because... when you deface a website the FBI gets called in and you can be put
into prison for many years... while when you spray paint and deface city hall or
some other "official" building you will do considerable less time (even though
the damage you did costs more to remove / replace).
That's what the really interesting part of it.
They hate us exactly because of our "freedoms"...
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A muslim will hate us for two reasons, and some will even hate us for all two:
Reason 1: This reason is personal and even as far as I'm concerned highly understandable: They lost someone
close during a bombing raid. No matter how kooky they are I feel bad _even_ for the Taliban who has his wife and children buried dead under rubble.
Reason 2: The hate us for the freedoms we had, still have and even might still keep even with scum like Clinton and Bush. They hate us that we drink liquor, our women can run around half naked (as far as they're concerned), we don't bow before their (Moon-)god, and most of all we don't respect them because most obviously their's is a culture held back by centuries of medieval custom and we just can't respect people that cut their fellow man's hands off or gouge their eyes out.They hate us the most for not being like them for not acting like them and for not being zapped by highboltage lightning bolts coming off an enraged Allah.
Even though Bush has gone a long way to prevent teenage pregnancy "by abstinence" (harhar, how patently stupid!) he has yet to come up with laws that female thighs may not be exposed more than one inch over the knee or prohibit halterless tops. As far as the islamist kooks are concerned, even though we're losing our freedoms to their viewpoint it would be like prohibiting prostitution in front of the temple and telling the whores to service the priests under the altar instead.
Right on! Actually some of the most successful parasites ever, your Mitochondria have made themselves so indispensable like you wouldn't believe. Changing ordinary sugars into ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) which is the standardized chemical fuel all your body's cell run on from muscle cells to those in your brain - without Mitochondria and the ATP they produce you would shutdown in seconds. Nowadays considered cellular organelles (functional subsystem of a cell) they have their own very own DNA (which is always inherited from the mother).
"Copyright Holders", "RIAA/MPAA" and other evolutionary dead alleys will find themselves lacking symbiotic value and instead of having a vast and complex system built around them like Mitochondria they will find themselves despised by both of their hosts: the artists who create content as well as the consumers of the that content.
I might want one of these. I just sent an SMS with my new SIEMENS S65 Uberphone... and the firmware of PIECE OF SHIT JUST CRASHED ON ME AGAIN... I'm sorry but I just don't want to worry about buying a cable so I can "upgrade" to the latest firmware patches just so I can use the phone.
BTW Now I can even get it to crash trying to delete a certain SMS in the INBOX. What a WORTHLESS PIEC EOF SHIT.
What we do as individuals or as a whole, BOTH is none of the business of the feds. What's more: fuck them and their dumb internet laws. All they want this information for is see what they can take away from us next. Stop defending scum like that.
Actually I think it is the other way around and most people when it comes to browsers
and thus to privacy on the net, most are very apprehensive of anything that comes from
Microsoft. Even though Firefox and Opera for example are technologically (vastly) superior,
I think the real reason why they are successful is mainly because people trust browsers
like Firefox or Opera while the only thing Microsoft has "going for it" is a a solid track
record of consequently disappointing trust placed into their vague promises of privacy.
You've never been to Australia have you? Judging from your attitude, I don't think it's a place for you. I'd love to hear you whip this comment out in an Australian pub though:)?
Two elderly German gentlemen remininsce about the holidays they've been on in their lives. Says Sturmer, "Jawohl, I remember Poland, we had a really good time in polish pubs!" "Ja? Tell me about that!" replied Steiner, "what was it like in Poland?" Herr Sturmer nodded curtly and started "We used to go to this polish pub in Warsaw... and we had plenty fun, we had free beer, free schnaps and once in a while when I felt like it I fucked the bartenders wife on his bar with him watching and he would even thank me for it". After describing the pleasures of Poland to Steiner the gentlemen parted soon after. A couple of weeks later the two German gentlemen met again. Steiner however didn't look well. Leaning on a crutch with his right arm in a sling he glared at Sturmer. "Say, Sturmer, I just went to Poland two weeks ago and I went to one of the pubs in Warsaw. How come the proprietor got upset because I said I wouldn't pay for the beer and above all how come he kicked the shit out of me just because I wanted to fuck his wife?". Sturmer looked at his Kamerad and said "Oh well, I didn't think the customs over there would change that fast..." "Was? What do you mean with that?", Steiner asked. "Oh well..." Sturmer replied, "you know last time I was in Poland, hell that was 1943 and I was a Obersturmbannfuehrer in the Totenkopf-SS"
Watch who you call asshole. Here let me laugh at you for living in a second class country,
hell for being the citizen of one, where the TV networks are always at least two seasons behind and
you have to buy local brands instead of the real US stuff in the supermarket. Hell, even the way you
talk is at least fourty seasons behind standard American english if you catch my drift. You know
Australia is so mediocre, even the mammals don't have real wombs but give premature birth into pouches.
Science calls such a miscegenated species euphemistically marsupial, but we both know the truth,
don't we. Really, what do you expect? Australia used to be a penal colony and you are most likely either the
descendant of a felon, a prison guard or a combination of both.
Now really, you tell me with abnormal
animals jumping up and down a mostly worthless continent, one that God himself saw fit to place out
of sight and Britain populated it with people that were the scum of the British Empire... Do you really
think that YOU DESERVE TO SEE AMERICAN TV-SHOWS YEARS AFTER THEY AIRED WITHOUT SPOILERS ON THE NET?? Oh and
talking about the net... whose net do you think it is. Right. So don't point your second rate australian
internet connection (oh and which is censored btw, hahaha) at our American servers.
There. Now with that out of the way and you back into your second place where you all belong I got
something else I want to ask you, you being a native to that dust bowl.
Me and my wife we're going to Australia in a couple of months. I heard the second class
accomodations they have in Australia are so damm expensive, and now that I'm actually talking to one of
the natives here I was wondering... can we stay at your place? If that's okay then just reply to this post
and we'll tell you when our plane lands in your city of Sydney so you can pick us up. I just hope we don't
get stuck with some second rate australian airline.
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I think you're a pretty okay guy too... even though you're most likely one of those froggies. Tell you what, there are always exceptions and exceptions made so you're now listed in my book of cool frogs. You're not on page one though, it's got a couple of entries already.
First off, I'm not sure about D-Links half-hearted go at NTP so I think sending those boxes seriously malformed packets could take them down... fast. I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't an exploit or two out there that take advantage of the D-Link NTP client.
However apart from quality, you know what the most striking difference are between D-Link and Cisco?
1. Cisco is definitely a pro and would never fuck up like that in the first place.
2. Just assuming it had been Cisco instead of D-Link they would be so much more likely to go
the easiest way of resolving the problem which is to fork over the $60,000 or so for bandwidth
and apologize. A letter. Five or six checks. About $60,000 loss. It'll boil down to all in all
from considering all expenses such as people's salaries who spend time on the problem and cut the
checks to the postage stamps needed for them to get to Denmark - all that will probably boil
down to a markup on equipment and services of 2 cents and nobody will ever be the wiser.
You were going to drop this before and so was I but regarding the Statue of Liberty, that doesn't register emotionally with me even though I know of its french origins. I think Archtech, you're confusing past grandeur and exploits with the ingrained pettiness of the average french(wo)man I am talking about. Here's an anecdote to give you to think about.
I don't speak french. Un petit peux mais but that is all. Back when I was twenty me and a friend of mine would put on a backpack get on a train and go places. We were on our way to England and if you're travelling to England by rail you, the easiest way to go is the connection Calais - Dover. So we arrived at Paris Gare du Nord (something or rather) and had maybe twenty minutes left before our train left for Calais. Now the thing about this railway station is once you get off the subway you do have to find your way to the trains. Usually in Germany they have pictograms all over the place so you don't need to know a single word of German to find your way to basic facilities but oh no, not the french and back then I didn't know for certain what train meant in their language.
So we tried to ask people. I would go "Excuse me, do you speak English?" and they would all respond with "Non! Non! Non!, I would then ask "Sprechen Sie Deutsch?" and they would again go "Non! Non! Non!". Not knowing the word for train but remembering something like "Chemin der Fer" which sounded plausible to me I asked them in french, "Ou sont les chemin de fer?" and they would look stupidly at me and say something like "La bas! La bas!" (over there! over there!). I repeated this at least 15 times every time with almost exactly the same result and this was in a hot summer and I was sweating like an animal wearing a heavy backpack and we did not make that train that day. However the real kicker is, arriving at the street level I asked a woman again the same questions.. "Do you speak English", she: "NON!". I then asked her if she spoke German and she went "NON!" again, this time even louder. With a sigh I asked her one more time in french for the "Chemin de Fer" and then all of the sudden this woman DID SPEAK GERMAN. Even though she had an accent she needed to work on she was fluent in German! She told me that "Chemin de Fer means Railway Company but I need to ask for the Grand Lignes to get to the trains".
I'm not alone with this. It appears the french are universally hated. Don't ask me how I got there or on what business but a couple of years ago me and a colleague of mine stopped at a gas station on I80 somewhere in Illinois. We went into the "restaurant" and we were talking to each other in German. All of the sudden I see this rapid movement to my left and this huge trucker jumps out of his chair dropping that chair to the floor and approaches us with his fists clenched. He wasn't pretending most obviously he wasn't joking. "Don't tell me you're french!" he roared, "Don't tell me you're french!". I just looked at him and thought of the irony that now I was going to get the shit beat out of me for the french. Then I got a little angry myself over that and told him, "We're GERMAN! DEUTSCHE! GERMANS! Wir sind Deutsche, verstanden! GERMANS! GERMANS!". After that they made us sit at their table and I had the worst Spaghetti Bolognese you could imagine. While I was shoving that Dreck down into my system the truckers told me they had to go through the Quebec to get to Ontario which is why they really don't appreciate to see any froggies south of the border.
I could go on and on and maybe even tell you about M. Voisin, the man I had to work with in Montreal who didn't have his intestines under control and would fart in front of me and make jokes about "Les Boches!" (derogatory for German) the nekulturny paysan thinking I couldn't understand what he was saying but I guess I have made my point. I get around a LOT in the world I have to say and NOWHERE have I ever been more insulted and abused than in La France and Quebec. Really for the most part people reciprocate friendliness and are
Right. First you call your neighbor and tell him that you're coming over to smash his car, kill his dog, rape his wife and children and then rob him of anything you see fit taking and then finally to burn down his house and kill him and his family with a huge knife. Then you go into the garage and spend two hours looking for that bush knife you want to use on him... but to your surprise of the sudden there is this click noise and you drop everything you're holding in your hands because your neighbor is standing behind you with a shotgun in his hands and a grim look in his face.
Actually the last thing we need is an independent functional adult. We'd like them to be very dependent adults
and as functional as we need them to be, but no more than that.
Actually the last thing we need is an independent functional adult. We'd like them to be very dependent adults and as functional as we need them to be, no more.
Tell you what I agree wholeheartedly with what you're saying but I guess that's mainly because I'm not anglo at all, nor really much of a patriot for that matter. Now let's take a look at what you got here: Yeah, right. Those arrogant French, thinking they are God's chosen people! Don't they know that *Americans* are God's chosen people? Actually as we all know it's the jews who think they're "God's chosen people". As far as the French are concerned, it is mainly because they still believe they're in the same league with anglo culture. However, with the exception of maybe Africa and an island or two in the southern pacific, english and spanish will see you through most of the world and we're that is not spoken your safest bet is russian.
... About as brave as a farmer going out with a combine harvester to cut a field of wheat.
You're right. They're a bunch of wieners.
And they a real bunch of chicken-livered... Here let me condense this to: Karl Martell, La Resistance, Joan of Arc, Napolean and the foreign legion. An odd mix of french valor and scum you have here. With the exception of Martell (who for all purposes counts as a German) we have people here history would have done well without. Without Joan of Arc we wouldn't have this discussion here as you would most likely speak English and La Resistance is really mostly a bunch of tales invented post-war to take off the minds of people of the unsavory fact that most French eagerly collaborated with the Germans. Napoleon marched war all over Europe and the Foreign Legion are a bunch of criminals doing France's dirty work in exchange for protection from prosecution (They say otherwise, I know). As far as bravery is concerned, in a war bravery has little to do with language. There were just as many brave SS-Troopers as there were brave allied troops.
In 1777, Lafayette purchased a ship, and with a crew of adventurers set sail for America to fight in the revolution against the British. In the same conflict, thousands of more or less able-bodied Hessians were forced into uniform and sold to the british as Kanonenfutter - cannon fodder. Most of these people however stayed in the new world and thus "Hess" is a very common name in Pennsylvania. Nowadays the descendants of these people all speak english and think nothing of it. I don't think the same thing could be said of Lafayette's people had they chosen to stay.
As for the "surrender" part,
I'm not going to hold back on a secret here... I hate everything french for all the basic reasons most people hate the french which are all more or less deeply rooted in their insurmountable arrogance. I've been both to the heartland of frenchianity where I spent a couple of weeks in Paris and I have seen and forever turned my back on Quebec. La monde francophone, "The Frenchspeaking World" which the "Grande Nation" is so terribly proud of is shrinking while I am typing this. It's not that they're not painfully aware of this rapidly decreasing "mind share" and the "mind share threat" posed by les Anglais, we all know what kind of vile laws they have both in La France and Quebec to preserve their oh so precious culture. Let's not help them out by referencing their culture more than is absolutely necessary minimum. As far as the programming language is concerned. One would think that a clearly superior product could be called anything at all and it would succeed no matter what. This I strongly believe is not true because I think deep down most people feel as I do. What I've heard about Eiffel is very interesting which is why I am getting involved with it. However I do have a hard time fighting down the loathing I have for the french and it really hits me extra hard when I look at the box they have on the commercial Eiffelstudio page which clearly looks like "La Tour Eiffel", the Eiffel Tower. I have karma to burn, but if you're really thinking instead of giving in to the kneejerk reaction of perceived "hate speech" then by all means mod the parent up.
Instead of hearing about all the wonderful "Microsoft Technologies" he uses like a desktop that spans three
screens I guess the really interesting thing to hear from him is how he gets himself focused and disciplined, what's
his mental trick here. I know how to work an email client like the next guy but I'm still a miserable, disorganized,
unfocussed son of a bitch. That "part" of your workday is what is really interesting, Bill.
Dude, that sucks. No really, I always thought the RIAA crowd was just covering their bases by attempting to phase out players that can play independent's music (if you want to publish music in the US then only if we let you and on our terms). But since there's a way for them to claim ownership to anything an independent has ever come up... and then making them sign their copyright to the tune away by making them _buy_ into their scheme or facing hundreds of thousands in lawyer fees, you know it figures. Really. It does. Alone over this I am taking another 300 pledges of allegiance they made me do in school back, though I'm not sure whether I still have that many left. Call me unamerican all you want.
And while we're on the subject this doesn't really belong in the "Science" section anymore but into politics. I wonder if Anderson Publishing / VA Software or whoever is behind slashdot gets paid extra whenever they carry one of these articles.
ource or not, any DRM scheme requires secure hardware and outside control of that hardware by the "Premium Content Provider", "Rights Owner" or whatever you want to call them. Even though the scheme used may be open source, it still doesn't necessarily mean I can disable it on a device that only allows me to listen to "premium content" so I can play the cool, independent stuff. This btw is also why I am violently opposed to TCPA. What use is it to me when I can't take full ownership of it by changing its root key?
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I wonder why Diebold built a box in the first place that is so easy to tinker with. Well I don't really but still I wonder why they didn't think of an excuse for it... Anyways here's my solution to the problem. Let's use XBOX360s! They're secure (for now) at least a lot securer than the crap Diebold is peddling!
I don't own one but as far as I know - mind you as far as I know - there's only one hack modifying the drive firmware that allows people to run backups of official game cdroms. Up to now there is no way to get your own code to execute on the box all thanks to code signing and a chain of trust that begins with a key buried in the silicone of one of the microprocessor in the box.
Well I guess one thing to say about this is that Microsoft intends to sell millions of these boxes and each box is calculated to generate a certain revenue on software titles and services sold but hey... I think voting machines deserve at least the same level of security as the oh so special premium content of the hallowed content providers and even though they may sell only a few ten thousand of these voting machines... hell I guess a machines that cost $40,000 to get someone to look them over, I guess something like that probably costs at least $150,000 a piece and so looking at 150,000 x 10000 = $1,500,000,000, 1.5 billion dollars of revenue I guess we can expect security here that makes the engineers who worked for Microsoft on the X360 project weep (as they will soon but that's a another story).
I'd certainly be concerned if I sent a machine out into the wild, a 3rd party took a look at it, and now it may not be functioning properly.
If I were that election commissioner, my concern would be that all the Diebold "engineer" they send is going to install is the latest back door to the machine.
However if I were one of the Bush people my concern would be to send over someone to talk to that election commissioner, maybe bring his youngest daugther home from kindergarden or someting.
The Reichsministry for Information Technology has conducted a study which shows that the adaption of open source software is held back by what is believed to be ungerman behavior of the authors. It is well known that open source programmers are perceived to not display less swastikas in public or even return the German salute either sloppy or hesitate to return it all.
You know the really interesting thing about this story is how the govt is trying trying to get us to grok that a website deserves as much solid protection as for instance in this case city hall itself, if not even more so. Because... when you deface a website the FBI gets called in and you can be put into prison for many years... while when you spray paint and deface city hall or some other "official" building you will do considerable less time (even though the damage you did costs more to remove / replace). That's what the really interesting part of it.
A muslim will hate us for two reasons, and some will even hate us for all two: Reason 1: This reason is personal and even as far as I'm concerned highly understandable: They lost someone close during a bombing raid. No matter how kooky they are I feel bad _even_ for the Taliban who has his wife and children buried dead under rubble. Reason 2: The hate us for the freedoms we had, still have and even might still keep even with scum like Clinton and Bush. They hate us that we drink liquor, our women can run around half naked (as far as they're concerned), we don't bow before their (Moon-)god, and most of all we don't respect them because most obviously their's is a culture held back by centuries of medieval custom and we just can't respect people that cut their fellow man's hands off or gouge their eyes out.They hate us the most for not being like them for not acting like them and for not being zapped by highboltage lightning bolts coming off an enraged Allah. Even though Bush has gone a long way to prevent teenage pregnancy "by abstinence" (harhar, how patently stupid!) he has yet to come up with laws that female thighs may not be exposed more than one inch over the knee or prohibit halterless tops. As far as the islamist kooks are concerned, even though we're losing our freedoms to their viewpoint it would be like prohibiting prostitution in front of the temple and telling the whores to service the priests under the altar instead.
Right on! Actually some of the most successful parasites ever, your Mitochondria have made themselves so indispensable like you wouldn't believe. Changing ordinary sugars into ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) which is the standardized chemical fuel all your body's cell run on from muscle cells to those in your brain - without Mitochondria and the ATP they produce you would shutdown in seconds. Nowadays considered cellular organelles (functional subsystem of a cell) they have their own very own DNA (which is always inherited from the mother).
"Copyright Holders", "RIAA/MPAA" and other evolutionary dead alleys will find themselves lacking symbiotic value and instead of having a vast and complex system built around them like Mitochondria they will find themselves despised by both of their hosts: the artists who create content as well as the consumers of the that content.
I might want one of these. I just sent an SMS with my new SIEMENS S65 Uberphone ... and the firmware of PIECE OF SHIT JUST CRASHED ON ME AGAIN... I'm sorry but I just don't want to worry about buying a cable so I can "upgrade" to the latest firmware patches just so I can use the phone.
BTW Now I can even get it to crash trying to delete a certain SMS in the INBOX. What a WORTHLESS PIEC EOF SHIT.
What we do as individuals or as a whole, BOTH is none of the business of the feds. What's more: fuck them and their dumb internet laws. All they want this information for is see what they can take away from us next. Stop defending scum like that.
Actually I think it is the other way around and most people when it comes to browsers and thus to privacy on the net, most are very apprehensive of anything that comes from Microsoft. Even though Firefox and Opera for example are technologically (vastly) superior, I think the real reason why they are successful is mainly because people trust browsers like Firefox or Opera while the only thing Microsoft has "going for it" is a a solid track record of consequently disappointing trust placed into their vague promises of privacy.
"company execs insisted that there's a bright future for IE." just insist that gravity does not exist.
You've never been to Australia have you? Judging from your attitude, I don't think it's a place for you. I'd love to hear you whip this comment out in an Australian pub though :)?
Two elderly German gentlemen remininsce about the holidays they've been on in their lives.
Says Sturmer, "Jawohl, I remember Poland, we had a really good time in polish pubs!"
"Ja? Tell me about that!" replied Steiner, "what was it like in Poland?"
Herr Sturmer nodded curtly and started "We used to go to this polish pub in Warsaw... and
we had plenty fun, we had free beer, free schnaps and once in a while when I felt like it
I fucked the bartenders wife on his bar with him watching and he would even thank me for it".
After describing the pleasures of Poland to Steiner the gentlemen parted soon after.
A couple of weeks later the two German gentlemen met again. Steiner however didn't look
well. Leaning on a crutch with his right arm in a sling he glared at Sturmer. "Say, Sturmer,
I just went to Poland two weeks ago and I went to one of the pubs in Warsaw. How come the
proprietor got upset because I said I wouldn't pay for the beer and above all how come he
kicked the shit out of me just because I wanted to fuck his wife?". Sturmer looked at his
Kamerad and said "Oh well, I didn't think the customs over there would change that fast..."
"Was? What do you mean with that?", Steiner asked. "Oh well..." Sturmer replied, "you know
last time I was in Poland, hell that was 1943 and I was a Obersturmbannfuehrer in the
Totenkopf-SS"
Watch who you call asshole. Here let me laugh at you for living in a second class country, hell for being the citizen of one, where the TV networks are always at least two seasons behind and you have to buy local brands instead of the real US stuff in the supermarket. Hell, even the way you talk is at least fourty seasons behind standard American english if you catch my drift. You know Australia is so mediocre, even the mammals don't have real wombs but give premature birth into pouches. Science calls such a miscegenated species euphemistically marsupial, but we both know the truth, don't we. Really, what do you expect? Australia used to be a penal colony and you are most likely either the descendant of a felon, a prison guard or a combination of both.
... can we stay at your place? If that's okay then just reply to this post
and we'll tell you when our plane lands in your city of Sydney so you can pick us up. I just hope we don't
get stuck with some second rate australian airline.
Now really, you tell me with abnormal animals jumping up and down a mostly worthless continent, one that God himself saw fit to place out of sight and Britain populated it with people that were the scum of the British Empire... Do you really think that YOU DESERVE TO SEE AMERICAN TV-SHOWS YEARS AFTER THEY AIRED WITHOUT SPOILERS ON THE NET?? Oh and talking about the net... whose net do you think it is. Right. So don't point your second rate australian internet connection (oh and which is censored btw, hahaha) at our American servers.
There. Now with that out of the way and you back into your second place where you all belong I got something else I want to ask you, you being a native to that dust bowl. Me and my wife we're going to Australia in a couple of months. I heard the second class accomodations they have in Australia are so damm expensive, and now that I'm actually talking to one of the natives here I was wondering