A Terrorist uses Terror to try and achieve his aims. You could call him a Documentarist or Propagandist if you want, but the AC who called him a Terrorist has been at the bad crack again.
James Callaghan sent the troops into NI in to protect them from Protestant intimidation. Once they were there, their officers noticed they had a lot more in common with the Protestants than with Catholics who would have preferred to belong to another country anyway.
The Provos split from the original IRA at around this point, Bloody Sunday then poured petrol onto the flames.
What finally cleared the atmosphere was an incoming government recognising that the Catholics had serious greviances and actually adressing them at a time when most people were sick and tired of the killing. Those are the lessons from Ireland. The parallels here are with the Palestinians and the Israelis before Rabin's murder.
My point was that Al Qaida bear no resemblance to the IRA or the PLO. It would *not* break my heart if the Saudi Royal House were to be replaced by a decent government, but Al Q want a lot more than that and I see no reason in even pretending to go along with this. What would make sense is trying to isolate them, although that would be extremely difficult in Pakistan.
Sorry - I had not been thinking of the 1993 WTC attack, basically because it was essentially a flop.
Looking at the Oslo accords, they were a compromise. They created a semi-state dependent on Israel's good will and left a large number of the illegal settlements in existence. I had the impression at the time that the Israeli government was hoping the accords would lead to an improvement in the political climate which they could then respond to by abandoning more settlements. Then Rabin was murdered by a Settler who was afraid of just that.
All that is pretty irrelevant here, the only interest Osama bin Laden has in the Israel/Palestine situation is how he can utilise it for his aims. Those aims are primarily directed at the Saudis, and secondarily at the US who also drove him out of Sudan in 1994 (or 1996, conflicting claims!).
You do not negotitate with terrorists. You kill them.
There is that saying: One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Who defines who is a terrorist? It is relatively easy in this case, but what do you do with cases like Israel where 3 recent/current leaders have terrorist backgrounds? Begin, Shamir and Sharon - all were/are US allies.
What do you do about the ANC who fought for years to overthrow a racist minority government and have now taken over the country and have US support? Back then, the S African government were sponsoring terrorists in two countries (Angola and Mozambique) to undermine the support the governments of those countries gave to the ANC. The US backed the S African government up in this.
How did you feel about the Contras around Nicaragua - this was at the same time.
The real reasons behind terrorism are rarely discussed because they are complex. Terrorists are hardly ever crazed madmen, despite what Bush might insist upon. They are people with a grievance, but they choose to stand their ground in a way that many people find to be morally wrong. Suicide bombers don't want to kill themselves, rather they feel they have no alternative.
The big problem with questioning the reasons behind terrorism is that it might show that we are doing something wrong - that we are bringing terrorism upon ourselves. Those that do genuinely and honestly question the reasons behind terrorism already know that this is the case.
My understanding is that Osama bin Laden was originally fighting the Saudi royal house over their perceived decadence and their alliance with non-believers. This position intensified when the Saudis allowed US troops into the country (defiling sacred ground) in the run up to the first US / Iraq Gulf War.
Their first major attacks against the US were those bombings in E Africa, killing around 270 of whom around 10% (?) were Americans.
What were the other 90%? Primitive black savages who did not count in the larger scheme of things?
Al Qaeda are basically a load of racist religous fanatics. Sorry, I see no common ground there, no reason to compromise and no particular reason to take their views into account. Al Qaeda were pretty much isolated both before and then even more after 9/11. There are claims that Mullah Omar was offering them on a plate to the US if the price was right, and Iran - one of the few Islamic governments in the region with some claim to popular legitimacy - was offering the US their sympathy and support.
Do you really think that the 9/11 pilots and support crews felt they had no alternative? Bollox.
One of the 2.6.x set (I think it was 2.6.4) would not boot for me. I think it was a problem with the IDE drivers.
Most of the time I wait for Slashdot to announce the kernel and check for comments announcing bugs. This time I did not bother waiting, but got lucky in that 2.6.8.1 was already available by the time I came to download.
Now I can't find the help page (it's on their site somewhere) but the gist of it was: RealPlayer can do a lot more than Helix, but you can both modify and freely distribute Helix i.e. as part of a package.
Xine tends to lose sync when I use it for RA, especially if I am doing something else on the PC at the same time (placing the PC under load). The Real player can handle that.
The effect is: whatever I am listening to comes out completely garbled. I have to terminate and restart Xine.
Why would you need to track a flight? You know where it is coming from and you know where it wants to go so what is the point of spending resources tracking it? Leave that to Air Traffic Control, they have to do it anyway.
After I submitted the grandfather post, I saw something I'd missed first time around:
The operating system that drives the airline's flight plans went down. It might even be a Windows problem. A 'Flight Planning' application is a low volume application where you work out the optimum route for a plane based on the weather. That bit about the weather involves serious number crunching and the PC world has more of that kind of power to spare than the mainframe world. I helped write one of these apps 20-18 years ago and the central part has since been converted to run on PCs.
This is partially a question of cost, redundancy costs money and those airlines are rather short of the readies (although this crash will cost serious money).
For any *normal* 'extreme situation', a reboot should help.
Having just read that The operating system that drives the airline's flight plans went down, it might even be a Windows problem. A 'Flight Planning' application is a low volume application where you work out the optimum route for a plane based on the weather. That bit about the weather involves serious number crunching and the PC world has more of that kind of power to spare than the mainframe world. I helped write one of these apps 20-18 years ago and the central part has since been converted to run on PCs.
Typical Airline applications are Reservations, Check-In, Weight-and-Balance, Flight Planning (which route to take and how much fuel to carry) and Ticketing. Once you have left the terminal and are heading for the runway, software crashes cease to be relevant.
Once you head for the runway, you care about Air Traffic Control's software. The only exception I can think of is for flights to the US where the authorities want passenger lists.
I work for an airline and we host for other airlines. I feel sorry for whoever carries the can for this mess. As to the OS, those who said it will be MVS are almost certainly correct. AA and US Airways are/were IBM customers.
The VIA chips are lacking some serious components, so they run REALLY slow compared to Intel and AMD running at similar clock speeds. I think they're missing float-point arithmetic, or something else that makes anything somewhat complex take FOREVER to perform.
You exaggerate. They certainly have a Floating Point Unit. They are a bit slower than Intel/AMD machines running at the same frequency.
Where I notice problems is when looking at large PDFs, or running.mpeg or.mp3 files whilst doing something else. PDFs are painfully slow to load and the other two need the machine to themselves. As I said in another posting, this is on a Via 866.
Via processors top out at around 1.2Ghz, which is normally fast enough for me - this PC I am using is a Via 866.
What they do not have and AMD (+Intel?) do have is a mechanism which slows the processor down in milliseconds if there is nothing for it to do. That is how they save power. I got the chance to speak to an AMD VP about 20 months ago and he indicated that they were very aware of the need to reduce power consumption.
Ok, I'll bite. Sorry - It was redundant verging on flamebait.
If there are stories on Europe (think: Software Patents) then anyone 'daring to point out' that Europe is 'in fact, not the centre of the Universe' would be: a) incorrect b) flamebait This story is about Canada and point b) applies there as well.:-)
Quite apart from that, I thought I read that only Canada and some of the more northerly US states would be covered by this - not the 'whole of N America'.
Assuming you are in the US and close enough to the Canadian border to receive the signal, will the company even be offering this service south of the border? Obviously it would be cool for you if they did, but . . .
Sam Parker (?) looked after that for him - allegedly robbing Elvis blind - and he died a few years ago as well.
There is something special about copyrights in France, I seem to remember that Stravinsky left a lot of his stuff to one Robert Craft who then managed to extend the copyright protection there. Stravinsky died in 1971 and I don't know what the protection was extended to. At a guess, it was 30 years after death before the change.
What annoys the hell out of me is that for the last 25% of that time, I can do anything with it except phone. Given that the beast is supposed to be a mobile phone, this can be considered a deficiency.
My old 6150 still works as well (although it sometimes goes autistic during longer conversations so I have to turn it off and on again) and I would be happy to use it instead sometimes, but it is extremely difficult to open the 7650 up to get the SIM card out. Sheesh!
There you have one of the root causes of the problem.
They added all of these 'features' and turned them on. They added a firewall and LEFT IT OFF.
The other stupidity is to make normal accounts default to have Admin rights. One of the main things that makes the NT-2K-XP line more secure than the 9x-ME line is the difference between Admins and Users and Microsoft TURN THIS OFF AGAIN.
Having said that, my PC at work runs NT and has to have Admin rights because one of the (essential) packages running there needs it. I have actually found a package to replace the essential one, but I inherited the PC and I can't write to many existing files (which were created using Admin rights) unless I have the rights as well.:-( Being a PC at work, I can't even have two logons because the whole thing is remotely administered so my one logon either has the rights or not.
I normally have bluetooth turned off (as a security hazard) and hardly ever use the camera. The problem probably has more to do with the size of the display, it is large.
My Nokia 7650 is 18 months old. It has a camera and Bluetooth. I am in Europe so I am not sure if there was a version which ran in the US. The model is obsolete now anyway.
Now to what is wrong with it: It runs out of power after 5 days. For the last 36 hours or so of those 5 days, if you actually want to telephone with it then it powers down. You can power it back up again and send messages, take photos, whatever, just phoning takes too much power. This thing is supposed to be a telephone. What use is a shrinking violet phone which hides whenever someone calls it?
When I originally got it, it was set up so one of the two main buttons went into camera mode and the other one went into some Internet function. Hey guys, this is supposed to be a telephone. Calling (or messaging someone) needed 5 or 6 separate inputs and some positioning with a trackball. It was only when I found out how to reconfigure the beast that it actually became useable. Apparently a lot of phones do not allow reconfiguring.
Having said that, my next phone will probably be a Nokia as well, friends have Siemens phones - I will never go there - another friend has a Sony. The menus in both cases are simply too cryptic. Whatever it is, it won't be a 7610. The keyboard layout is simply insane.
The advantage of a Nokia used to be that they were good phones which were really easy to use. Some of the more recent models are poorly designed toys, overloaded with too many useless functions which just added unnecessary complexity.
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A Terrorist uses Terror to try and achieve his aims. You could call him a Documentarist or Propagandist if you want, but the AC who called him a Terrorist has been at the bad crack again.
James Callaghan sent the troops into NI in to protect them from Protestant intimidation. Once they were there, their officers noticed they had a lot more in common with the Protestants than with Catholics who would have preferred to belong to another country anyway.
The Provos split from the original IRA at around this point, Bloody Sunday then poured petrol onto the flames.
What finally cleared the atmosphere was an incoming government recognising that the Catholics had serious greviances and actually adressing them at a time when most people were sick and tired of the killing. Those are the lessons from Ireland. The parallels here are with the Palestinians and the Israelis before Rabin's murder.
My point was that Al Qaida bear no resemblance to the IRA or the PLO. It would *not* break my heart if the Saudi Royal House were to be replaced by a decent government, but Al Q want a lot more than that and I see no reason in even pretending to go along with this. What would make sense is trying to isolate them, although that would be extremely difficult in Pakistan.
Sorry - I had not been thinking of the 1993 WTC attack, basically because it was essentially a flop.
Looking at the Oslo accords, they were a compromise.
They created a semi-state dependent on Israel's good will and left a large number of the illegal settlements in existence. I had the impression at the time that the Israeli government was hoping the accords would lead to an improvement in the political climate which they could then respond to by abandoning more settlements.
Then Rabin was murdered by a Settler who was afraid of just that.
All that is pretty irrelevant here, the only interest Osama bin Laden has in the Israel/Palestine situation is how he can utilise it for his aims. Those aims are primarily directed at the Saudis, and secondarily at the US who also drove him out of Sudan in 1994 (or 1996, conflicting claims!).
Basically, he's Saudi Arabia's Michael Moore.
Idiot.
Michael Moore was behind *which* terrorist attacks?
I can think of another rich kid who made decisions which led to a large number of deaths, but accusing Moore of that is just plain stupid.
You do not negotitate with terrorists. You kill them.
There is that saying: One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Who defines who is a terrorist? It is relatively easy in this case, but what do you do with cases like Israel where 3 recent/current leaders have terrorist backgrounds? Begin, Shamir and Sharon - all were/are US allies.
What do you do about the ANC who fought for years to overthrow a racist minority government and have now taken over the country and have US support?
Back then, the S African government were sponsoring terrorists in two countries (Angola and Mozambique) to undermine the support the governments of those countries gave to the ANC. The US backed the S African government up in this.
How did you feel about the Contras around Nicaragua - this was at the same time.
The real reasons behind terrorism are rarely discussed because they are complex. Terrorists are hardly ever crazed madmen, despite what Bush might insist upon. They are people with a grievance, but they choose to stand their ground in a way that many people find to be morally wrong. Suicide bombers don't want to kill themselves, rather they feel they have no alternative.
The big problem with questioning the reasons behind terrorism is that it might show that we are doing something wrong - that we are bringing terrorism upon ourselves. Those that do genuinely and honestly question the reasons behind terrorism already know that this is the case.
My understanding is that Osama bin Laden was originally fighting the Saudi royal house over their perceived decadence and their alliance with non-believers. This position intensified when the Saudis allowed US troops into the country (defiling sacred ground) in the run up to the first US / Iraq Gulf War.
Their first major attacks against the US were those bombings in E Africa, killing around 270 of whom around 10% (?) were Americans.
What were the other 90%? Primitive black savages who did not count in the larger scheme of things?
Al Qaeda are basically a load of racist religous fanatics. Sorry, I see no common ground there, no reason to compromise and no particular reason to take their views into account. Al Qaeda were pretty much isolated both before and then even more after 9/11. There are claims that Mullah Omar was offering them on a plate to the US if the price was right, and Iran - one of the few Islamic governments in the region with some claim to popular legitimacy - was offering the US their sympathy and support.
Do you really think that the 9/11 pilots and support crews felt they had no alternative? Bollox.
One of the 2.6.x set (I think it was 2.6.4) would not boot for me. I think it was a problem with the IDE drivers.
Most of the time I wait for Slashdot to announce the kernel and check for comments announcing bugs. This time I did not bother waiting, but got lucky in that 2.6.8.1 was already available by the time I came to download.
You mean people are going to be robbing banks with this stuff? Then the police will have to have it as well.
Happy days are coming.
Now I can't find the help page (it's on their site somewhere) but the gist of it was: RealPlayer can do a lot more than Helix, but you can both modify and freely distribute Helix i.e. as part of a package.
Xine tends to lose sync when I use it for RA, especially if I am doing something else on the PC at the same time (placing the PC under load). The Real player can handle that.
The effect is: whatever I am listening to comes out completely garbled. I have to terminate and restart Xine.
Why would you need to track a flight?
You know where it is coming from and you know where it wants to go so what is the point of spending resources tracking it?
Leave that to Air Traffic Control, they have to do it anyway.
Ho hum.
:-)
After I submitted the grandfather post, I saw something I'd missed first time around:
The operating system that drives the airline's flight plans went down. It might even be a Windows problem. A 'Flight Planning' application is a low volume application where you work out the optimum route for a plane based on the weather. That bit about the weather involves serious number crunching and the PC world has more of that kind of power to spare than the mainframe world. I helped write one of these apps 20-18 years ago and the central part has since been converted to run on PCs.
Sorry about that
This is partially a question of cost, redundancy costs money and those airlines are rather short of the readies (although this crash will cost serious money).
For any *normal* 'extreme situation', a reboot should help.
Having just read that The operating system that drives the airline's flight plans went down, it might even be a Windows problem. A 'Flight Planning' application is a low volume application where you work out the optimum route for a plane based on the weather. That bit about the weather involves serious number crunching and the PC world has more of that kind of power to spare than the mainframe world. I helped write one of these apps 20-18 years ago and the central part has since been converted to run on PCs.
Typical Airline applications are Reservations, Check-In, Weight-and-Balance, Flight Planning (which route to take and how much fuel to carry) and Ticketing. Once you have left the terminal and are heading for the runway, software crashes cease to be relevant.
Once you head for the runway, you care about Air Traffic Control's software. The only exception I can think of is for flights to the US where the authorities want passenger lists.
I work for an airline and we host for other airlines. I feel sorry for whoever carries the can for this mess. As to the OS, those who said it will be MVS are almost certainly correct. AA and US Airways are/were IBM customers.
The VIA chips are lacking some serious components, so they run REALLY slow compared to Intel and AMD running at similar clock speeds. I think they're missing float-point arithmetic, or something else that makes anything somewhat complex take FOREVER to perform.
.mpeg or .mp3 files whilst doing something else. PDFs are painfully slow to load and the other two need the machine to themselves. As I said in another posting, this is on a Via 866.
You exaggerate. They certainly have a Floating Point Unit. They are a bit slower than Intel/AMD machines running at the same frequency.
Where I notice problems is when looking at large PDFs, or running
Via processors top out at around 1.2Ghz, which is normally fast enough for me - this PC I am using is a Via 866.
What they do not have and AMD (+Intel?) do have is a mechanism which slows the processor down in milliseconds if there is nothing for it to do. That is how they save power. I got the chance to speak to an AMD VP about 20 months ago and he indicated that they were very aware of the need to reduce power consumption.
I don't know how Transmeta compare.
Ok, I'll bite. Sorry - It was redundant verging on flamebait.
:-)
If there are stories on Europe (think: Software Patents) then anyone 'daring to point out' that Europe is 'in fact, not the centre of the Universe' would be:
a) incorrect
b) flamebait
This story is about Canada and point b) applies there as well.
Quite apart from that, I thought I read that only Canada and some of the more northerly US states would be covered by this - not the 'whole of N America'.
In other words: lousy for online games where reaction times count, but adequate for most other purposes and certainly far better than a modem.
It would still be fast enough to go for a Slashdot pirst fost if you are that way inclined.
Assuming you are in the US and close enough to the Canadian border to receive the signal, will the company even be offering this service south of the border? Obviously it would be cool for you if they did, but . . .
Sam Parker (?) looked after that for him - allegedly robbing Elvis blind - and he died a few years ago as well.
There is something special about copyrights in France, I seem to remember that Stravinsky left a lot of his stuff to one Robert Craft who then managed to extend the copyright protection there.
Stravinsky died in 1971 and I don't know what the protection was extended to. At a guess, it was 30 years after death before the change.
What annoys the hell out of me is that for the last 25% of that time, I can do anything with it except phone. Given that the beast is supposed to be a mobile phone, this can be considered a deficiency.
My old 6150 still works as well (although it sometimes goes autistic during longer conversations so I have to turn it off and on again) and I would be happy to use it instead sometimes, but it is extremely difficult to open the 7650 up to get the SIM card out. Sheesh!
- They added all of these 'features' and turned them on. They added a firewall and LEFT IT OFF.
- The other stupidity is to make normal accounts default to have Admin rights. One of the main things that makes the NT-2K-XP line more secure than the 9x-ME line is the difference between Admins and Users and Microsoft TURN THIS OFF AGAIN.
Having said that, my PC at work runs NT and has to have Admin rights because one of the (essential) packages running there needs it. I have actually found a package to replace the essential one, but I inherited the PC and I can't write to many existing files (which were created using Admin rights) unless I have the rights as well.Being a PC at work, I can't even have two logons because the whole thing is remotely administered so my one logon either has the rights or not.
I normally have bluetooth turned off (as a security hazard) and hardly ever use the camera. The problem probably has more to do with the size of the display, it is large.
My Nokia 7650 is 18 months old. It has a camera and Bluetooth. I am in Europe so I am not sure if there was a version which ran in the US. The model is obsolete now anyway.
Now to what is wrong with it: It runs out of power after 5 days. For the last 36 hours or so of those 5 days, if you actually want to telephone with it then it powers down. You can power it back up again and send messages, take photos, whatever, just phoning takes too much power. This thing is supposed to be a telephone. What use is a shrinking violet phone which hides whenever someone calls it?
When I originally got it, it was set up so one of the two main buttons went into camera mode and the other one went into some Internet function. Hey guys, this is supposed to be a telephone. Calling (or messaging someone) needed 5 or 6 separate inputs and some positioning with a trackball. It was only when I found out how to reconfigure the beast that it actually became useable. Apparently a lot of phones do not allow reconfiguring.
Having said that, my next phone will probably be a Nokia as well, friends have Siemens phones - I will never go there - another friend has a Sony. The menus in both cases are simply too cryptic.
Whatever it is, it won't be a 7610. The keyboard layout is simply insane.
The advantage of a Nokia used to be that they were good phones which were really easy to use. Some of the more recent models are poorly designed toys, overloaded with too many useless functions which just added unnecessary complexity.
While I have not RTFA here (hell, this *is* /.), I would also have tended to want to side with the Redmond lot on this one.
:-)
Registering a website with that name so he could send spam, he deserved all he got. What Microsoft do with the money is another matter.
This is an example of what I would consider fair use. Not sure that they have updated it in the last 10 years though