I am currently a 20 year old college sophmore and looking back at my high school years I remember feeling much the same has everyone has discribed. I was probley one of three kids who knew what a bbs was and physical and emotional abuse was a regular part of my day.
So now comes along a couple of kids that were just like me who decide that they can't take anymore and they have the means to take their revange.
So who does society blame? First it was guns. A simple mechanical object whos purpose is to put holes in people. (personal i believe guns are a problem but not the central one)
Next we decided to blame TV, internet, etc. Next we will jump to the parents. Then to the school, then to some unknown auther of a book, then back to guns.
This is a cicle of blame and all it is is looking for an excape goat. We have to stop and look into the mirror. We must come together has a community and look in the mirror.
We are the lucky ones. The ones that at least know there is a problem. I saw it when i was in school i see it now. But we are now on the defense we are under attack and are getting labeled has "trouble kids who are going to kill others" What a joke. Every one wants to give into their rage from time to time. But we must be stronger then that. We need to chalege society and open our eyes. We need to look past the names of geek, jock, prep, nerd and look at what is true. That is that we all are people. We all want to be happy, to love and be free. We can't build these wall that separat us from others. We need to destroy them before the cement hardens.
So my point. Be happy and proud of who you are. Stand up for yourself. But don't play the game, don't hate some one or look down on them becuase they aren't like you. Turn the other cheek. Rise above this school heirarchy bullshit. Don't buy into.
I certainly didnt have it as bad as many kids, but I don't look back on my high school years fondly. I hope this is an issue that gets heard in the mainstream media. Forward the page link to Tom Brokaw!
Have you considered counter sueing for entrapment. It was their action/lack thereof that is responsible. Fight stupidity with stupidity, sometimes it's the only language these legal types undertand.
Most speech control apps work best when they're integrated into the UI, or are at least able to interact with it in some way. Anyone know what plans Motif/GTK/QT and/or the X Consortium have to provide hooks for speech recognition integration into X?
The Gun Issue is Complicated
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Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>What we can still see is that in countries where guns are banned, crime is lower.
Except for the crime of government sanctioned (or performed) murder.
LK
The Gun Issue is Complicated
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Why Kids Kill
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Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>I think a bit more thoughful consideration of the issues by both camps would not be out-of-order. By the same token, I rather suspect that more gun control is unlikely to have much effect.
If the pro-gun people could trust the anti-gun people I'd agree with you. 6 years ago we were told that "All we want is a 5 day cooling off period." The next year it was "Ha ha ha, the NRA is impotent. I hear their death knell. We're now going to ban all scarry looking firearms.(we're just going to keep quiet that the guns we ban are used in less than 1/10 of 1% of all crime)" And at the same time Brady II was introduced. Which would have europeanized our firearms laws.
>>In my opinion: more consistent, and more stringent enforcement of the laws already on the books, with *serious*, no-nonsense penalties for firearms abuse would be more effective.
I too agree that the answer is enforcement of existing laws. We've got enough laws on the books to keep most of the dangerous people off of the streets. All we need to do is enforce them.
Hmm, I'm not sure whether or not this is a troll or whether you need the clue stick liberally applied to your skull, Jeff. Do remember that using HTTP in areas like wireless networks, medical equipment and process control nets is not the most advisable approach.
When I first got my cable modem installed last June by RCN/Erols, the technician asked me what town I was in, I told him the town. He proceeded to have the number that the cable modem calls to be a toll number. (My cable modem is co-ax download, modem upload.. kinda sucks..)
Anyway, one month later, I get a phone bill for like, $300. I call them up to get the number changed and that I would like to be reimbursed for it. They changed the number to 1-732-xxx-xxxx, but since the 1-732 was on it, it went through AT&T and that local exchange just became a long distance call!!
Again I call them and ask them to drop the "1-732" from the number which they do. In the meantime, I had FAXed a copy of two phone bills to them down to some woman in Virginia (the Erols tech support). 8 months later, after phone calls and 6 e-mails, I finally get a cheque back with my reimbursement.
Cable companies have to be the most poorly run places in the world.
NJV ... who is switching to ADSL the day it becomes available!
I bought ViaVoice back in June of LAst year when it came out. It was Great back then. The text to speech reading was a bit weak (reminded me of my old Apple II+) and it did not support swear words out of the box. But otherwise it was nice. I used it to fill out and submit Lotus Notes documents, and I think you can do it with the web as well. Overall a great product for the money, as long as the novelty does not wear off.
Server doesn't like the Squid anonymizer function
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Open Source Survey
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Posted by Rodent of Unusual Size:
This turns out to be a Squid problem, in that this particular usage of Squid doesn't send a User-Agent field. Since that's also a characteristic of several RES-ignoring site crawlers, I block such requests. The HTTP/1.1 spec says clients SHOULD provide this field, anyway.
Hopefully Squid will be modified. I'm not going to open up my server to rude robots, particularly not right after being slashdotted.:-) Been there, done that, performance was the pits. Slashdot traffic I welcome, since it serves real people, but gate-crashing clients can show some ID or continue getting the bum's rush.
indeed; unix community really wastes time to be MS compatible (samba, wine, dosemu..) but consider also some calculus: 400.000.000 PC with MS software; 33% running every working day; 10% of those rebooting for any MS reason; 30 seconds bootup procedure minimum :
that makes, believe it or not 60 working years at (220 days/year, 8hours/day)
world economy could win ~ 1-2 million dollars (16000-32000$/year) per day, but they prefer to pay MS the same amount per hour in order to create above losses
i made the images brighter!!! take a look =)
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Sorry, but I'm going to have to correct you here, as it appears you don't know what you're talking about. For all the newbie's information: Linux is not UNIX, and depending on the UNIX flavor may be somewhat to totally incompatible with it. Furthermore, any legacy UNIX application for which the source code is not availible (read: most of them) cannot even be recompiled, and thus could never be run on Linux. Thanks for playing,
-W.W.
Slashdot policy on KDE suscks so bad!
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Quickies a go-go
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Posted by Moritz Moeller - Herrmann:
I must say I am really annoyed with Slashdot! While the site is very useful overall, some Editors seem to drive their personal agendas against KDE. Yes that's you CmdrTaco.
I personally submitted a story about the new theming KDE 2.0 / QT screenshots under this link. The themes are marvellous, linuxtoday and other impartial sites reported about them and Slashdot runs a quickie about a similarity between the unnamed KDE mascot and some Sony Playstation character? I guess when Gnome finally releases it's first mail reader that can decode HTML mails it will become a Slashdot feature! Please try to be more impartial and check out those screenshots. They are amazing and will convince every person of the technical merits of the great work of the KDE developers. I can't wait for the first Beta of KDE 2.0. Thank you for reading this.
Both are very slow and often inefficient processes. But neither lead to a dead end like M$'s development model (if you're a little slow the "dead end" is 50E6 lines of code). Just another non-technical no-it-all reporter.
I've never really cared myself about "world domination" As long as enough people use linux to force vendors to open their specs, etc. I will be happy- I only want a stable system for myself.
ok. open up the windows source. if it is at all possible to improve, people will. of course this will never happen in a billion years. even if the source were opened, it would be 100's of megs large, and impossible to work with. think mozilla * 1e6.
nVidia must give the detonator sources or good specifications about riva chipset for that driver (for Mesa) can be made. But it's not going to happen in a hurry!
Slashdot Mirror
Posted by gerstenberger:
I am currently a 20 year old college sophmore and looking back at my high school years I remember feeling much the same has everyone has discribed.
I was probley one of three kids who knew what a bbs was and physical and emotional abuse was a regular part of my day.
So now comes along a couple of kids that were just like me who decide that they can't take anymore and they have the means to take their revange.
So who does society blame? First it was guns. A simple mechanical object whos purpose is to put holes in people. (personal i believe guns are a problem but not the central one)
Next we decided to blame TV, internet, etc.
Next we will jump to the parents.
Then to the school, then to some unknown auther of a book, then back to guns.
This is a cicle of blame and all it is is looking for an excape goat. We have to stop and look into the mirror. We must come together has a community
and look in the mirror.
We are the lucky ones. The ones that at least know there is a problem. I saw it when i was in school i see it now. But we are now on the defense we are under attack and are getting labeled has "trouble kids who are going to kill others" What a joke. Every one wants to give into their rage from time to time. But we must be stronger then that. We need to chalege society and open our eyes. We need to look past the names of geek, jock, prep, nerd and look at what is true. That is that we all are people. We all want to be happy, to love and be free. We can't build these wall that separat us from others. We need to destroy them before the cement hardens.
So my point. Be happy and proud of who you are. Stand up for yourself. But don't play the game, don't hate some one or look down on them becuase they aren't like you. Turn the other cheek. Rise above this school heirarchy bullshit. Don't buy into.
Posted by Amar Kinseth:
The Trenchcoat Mafia is about racism and I hope some jock beats the crap out of any kids who can relate to them.
I hated high school and am a standfast geek (and proud of it) but I bear no association to these vile children from Colorado.
Posted by narrowfellow:
I certainly didnt have it as bad as many kids, but I don't look back on my high school years fondly. I hope this is an issue that gets heard in the mainstream media. Forward the page link to Tom Brokaw!
Posted by Akira410:
:o)
:o)
Rofl, that was slightly harsh
Quote from the guy that tries to administrate the NT box here:
"Wow, it had 200 file request this weekend... man! Its been up for a week and a half.. better reboot"
heh.. as you can see we havent put the NT box into play... I doubt we will... Linux is doing just great. That box is a toy
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
http://www.redhat.com/mirrors.html
Has all the mirrors that are officially known to redhat.
LK
Posted by LOTHAR, of the Hill People:
Have you considered counter sueing for entrapment. It was their action/lack thereof that is responsible. Fight stupidity with stupidity, sometimes it's the only language these legal types undertand.
Posted by Arborius:
Most speech control apps work best when they're integrated into the UI, or are at least able to interact with it in some way. Anyone know what plans Motif/GTK/QT and/or the X Consortium have to provide hooks for speech recognition
integration into X?
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>What we can still see is that in countries where guns are banned, crime is lower.
Except for the crime of government sanctioned (or performed) murder.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>I think a bit more thoughful consideration of the issues by both camps would not be out-of-order. By the same token, I rather suspect that more gun control is unlikely to have much effect.
If the pro-gun people could trust the anti-gun people I'd agree with you. 6 years ago we were told that "All we want is a 5 day cooling off period." The next year it was "Ha ha ha, the NRA is impotent. I hear their death knell. We're now going to ban all scarry looking firearms.(we're just going to keep quiet that the guns we ban are used in less than 1/10 of 1% of all crime)" And at the same time Brady II was introduced. Which would have europeanized our firearms laws.
>>In my opinion: more consistent, and more stringent enforcement of the laws already on the books, with *serious*, no-nonsense penalties for firearms abuse would be more effective.
I too agree that the answer is enforcement of existing laws. We've got enough laws on the books to keep most of the dangerous people off of the streets. All we need to do is enforce them.
LK
Posted by Art Pepper:
Definately one my favorite books. I read it while taking a couple of logic courses (philosophy, not digital), and that made it even more interesting.
The 12/10 rating is conservative.
Posted by woz-e:
:)
Hmm, I'm not sure whether or not this is a
troll or whether you need the clue stick
liberally applied to your skull, Jeff. Do
remember that using HTTP in areas like
wireless networks, medical equipment and
process control nets is not the most advisable
approach.
I think I'll go for the clue stick
*twack* *twack* *twack*
Posted by NJViking:
When I first got my cable modem installed last June by RCN/Erols, the technician asked me what town I was in, I told him the town. He proceeded to have the number that the cable modem calls to be a toll number. (My cable modem is co-ax download, modem upload.. kinda sucks..)
Anyway, one month later, I get a phone bill for like, $300. I call them up to get the number changed and that I would like to be reimbursed for it. They changed the number to 1-732-xxx-xxxx, but since the 1-732 was on it, it went through AT&T and that local exchange just became a long distance call!!
Again I call them and ask them to drop the "1-732" from the number which they do. In the meantime, I had FAXed a copy of two phone bills to them down to some woman in Virginia (the Erols tech support). 8 months later, after phone calls and 6 e-mails, I finally get a cheque back with my reimbursement.
Cable companies have to be the most poorly run places in the world.
NJV
... who is switching to ADSL the day it becomes available!
Posted by hrearden:
I bought ViaVoice back in June of LAst year when it came out. It was Great back then. The text to speech reading was a bit weak (reminded me of my old Apple II+) and it did not support swear words out of the box. But otherwise it was nice. I used it to fill out and submit Lotus Notes documents, and I think you can do it with the web as well. Overall a great product for the money, as long as the novelty does not wear off.
This turns out to be a Squid problem, in that this particular usage of Squid doesn't send a User-Agent field. Since that's also a characteristic of several RES-ignoring site crawlers, I block such requests. The HTTP/1.1 spec says clients SHOULD provide this field, anyway.
Hopefully Squid will be modified. I'm not going to open up my server to rude robots, particularly not right after being slashdotted. :-) Been there, done that, performance was the pits. Slashdot traffic I welcome, since it serves real people, but gate-crashing clients can show some ID or continue getting the bum's rush.
#kenP-)}
Ken Coar
Posted by revgrg:
..)
indeed; unix community really wastes time to be
MS compatible (samba, wine, dosemu
but consider also some calculus:
400.000.000 PC with MS software;
33% running every working day;
10% of those rebooting for any MS reason;
30 seconds bootup procedure minimum :
that makes, believe it or not
60 working years at (220 days/year, 8hours/day)
world economy could win ~ 1-2 million dollars
(16000-32000$/year) per day, but they prefer
to pay MS the same amount per hour in order
to create above losses
Posted by root576:
they are here:
dragon1new.jpg
dragon2new.jpg
dragon3new.jpg
dragon4new.jpg
tell me what you think.
email : breatheslinux@hotmail.com
icq: 7209870
-Omar
Posted by OGL:
Sorry, but I'm going to have to correct you here, as it appears you don't know what you're talking about. For all the newbie's information: Linux is not UNIX, and depending on the UNIX flavor may be somewhat to totally incompatible with it. Furthermore, any legacy UNIX application for which the source code is not availible (read: most of them) cannot even be recompiled, and thus could never be run on Linux. Thanks for playing,
-W.W.
Posted by Moritz Moeller - Herrmann:
I must say I am really annoyed with Slashdot!
While the site is very useful overall, some Editors seem to drive their personal agendas against KDE. Yes that's you CmdrTaco.
I personally submitted a story about the new theming KDE 2.0 / QT screenshots under this link. The themes are marvellous, linuxtoday and other impartial sites reported about them and Slashdot runs a quickie about a similarity between the unnamed KDE mascot and some Sony Playstation character?
I guess when Gnome finally releases it's first mail reader that can decode HTML mails it will become a Slashdot feature!
Please try to be more impartial and check out those screenshots. They are amazing and will convince every person of the technical merits of the great work of the KDE developers. I can't wait for the first Beta of KDE 2.0.
Thank you for reading this.
..for a reason!
Ready for the analogy?
Development of n OS : Evolution of n species
Both are very slow and often inefficient processes. But neither lead to a dead end like M$'s development model (if you're a little slow the "dead end" is 50E6 lines of code). Just another non-technical no-it-all reporter.
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
I've never really cared myself about "world domination" As long as enough people use linux to force vendors to open their specs, etc. I will be happy- I only want a stable system for myself.
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
ok. open up the windows source. if it is at all possible to improve, people will. of course this will never happen in a billion years. even if the source were opened, it would be 100's of megs large, and impossible to work with. think mozilla * 1e6.
clueless reporter
Posted by unpHEAR:
The only time wasted I see here. His to spend time reading this article.
Posted by Aridin:
Mac, Linux whatever just keep the screenshots comming.
Posted by Moritz Moeller - Herrmann:
Puff has a very nice meaning in German. Next time you are around here ask everyone to teky you to the "Puff" (pronounced Poof). Bring some money.
I heard in the USA it's legal only in Nevada?
I like Konqui or Kate. Katie is kust too sweet. One syllable is better than two.
Posted by cosman:
nVidia must give the detonator sources or good specifications about riva chipset for that driver (for Mesa) can be made. But it's not going to happen in a hurry!