i would have expected the party breakdown to be 180degrees opoistite this...
can someone explain?
Sure. In a nutshell, you've been lied to. I would never assert that the Republican party has always vote pro-Freedom (yeah, we wrote the Patriot Act. Sorry about that.), but censorship has often been a Democratic pastime. Remember, the DMCA was signed by a Democrat president, and the PMRC was a pet project of Tipper Gore.
And yet, to hear liberal groups tell it, it's always the Evil Republicans (tm) who want to silence everyone. The truth is far more complex, but how often do you hear of both parties' sins?
P.S. I don't know which party Jack Thompson affiliates with. I won't blame either party for that nut.
It appears the article poster favours websites/blogs which are covert mouthpieces of a particular interest group spouting dubious facts and leaving out highly relevant facts.
Like moveon.org and michaelmoore.com, right?
This was a bill to protect everyone's Free Speech. It appears as though your argument (and the Democrats') is that this is a Bad Thing because it would defend the rights of conservatives as well.
<aol>me too</aol> I thought that the built-in lyrics search and Wikipedia display was stupid until I started using them, and now I refuse to give them up. It's the slickest music player I've ever used on any platform.
maybe you should consider that Texaco, Unocal, Chevron, etc, don't exactly want to see cheap and safe nuclear power crushing their sale of natural gas/coal.
That argument still doesn't stack up. You just listed several energy companies that happened to be profiting from the energy stored in oil at present. They would be every bit as happy to sell you solar, tidal, or nuclear wattage when those become common.
I'm not sure why everyone seems hung up on "Big Oil" when we're really talking about "Big Energy".
If a program has no dependencies or externals, I can just extract and run the binary (in fact, a lot more programs under Windows work this way than one would think).
Name one single program that has no dependencies. No, really. We're waiting.
See, the problem is that every program but the most minimal depends on something, even if only libc or the platform's equivalent. The only way around this is to ship all of those dependencies with each program (ala Windows), or compile every application statically (ala no OS I'm aware of). So, every shareware image viewer ships with it's own LIBC.DLL (or whatever you'd call that under Windows).
Great, right? Because hard drives are cheap, right? Sure, until a critical vulnerability in LIBC.DLL version 1.432.5435 is found, in which case you have to upgrade every single application on your box to a version that ships with an acceptably new LIBC.DLL. Be ready to repeat next month with LIBFOO.DLL, and six months later with LIBBAR.DLL.
That's the problem: we don't wan't "everything in one box!" applications. The concept just doesn't scale well. Find a solution to that problem and we'll beat a path to your door, but until then we'll be enjoying apt, yum, emerge, and portupgrade with our shared libraries and highly granular external dependencies. We didn't settle on this system because it's so awful; we chose this way because it does exactly what we want it to.
What if there's a security hole in a basic library on which multiple apps depend (probably not the case here, but...). Do you recompile the whole system on your production server while everything is down?
Assuming you're not in the 0.001% of the population that compiles everything statically for some very specific reason, you'd compile that one library, and possibly reboot so that every single service dynamically linked against it gets the updated version.
I don't think Apache on GNU/Linux is really less secure than on OpenBSD
It is. OpenBSD maintains their own patch branch of Apache, and while they make their patches readily available, I don't think they're widely used elsewhere.
Sorry, but you don't get a free pass on that one. We're rolling out FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 (release candidate) servers this week. Dying OSes tend not to be under active development and wide deployment.
Or another example is with printing: you can't very well interleave the print data streams from two OS's to the printer without hosing the print jobs.
A common FreeBSD setup is to run a print server in the host OS and configure jails (FreeBSD's virtualization systems, which are completely unlike Xen) to speak to that server. In short, you treat the jail environments like standalone machines on a network. I'd suspect you'd do something similar under Linux.
No. If you really want to fight clearly illegal activities like this, then sue Sony in small claims court and name the store you bought the CD from as a co-defendant.
Sony probably won't care if they lose a customer or two. They will definitely care if they lose a few retailers because of the fear of exposure to litigation.
We're always complaining about how broken our legal system is, right? Well, maybe their tactics work in both directions. Remember, the GPL is a clever hack on copyright law. Perhaps we need to start hacking other legal constructs as well.
IMO religion is intellectual lazyness. Instead of figuring out why e.g. floods happen, just blame your God and be done with it. Instead of building a dam, let's pray!
Have you ever met a religious person? Like, in real life? Not on television?
I ask because I've never known anyone of any creed with that degree of incuriosity or faith. A more likely prayer would be "well, God, we built the dam to the best of our abilities. Please it be enough." You probably say similar prayers all the time, except when they're unspoken and not directed toward a particular deity, we call them "hope".
How could the light of a star, light that was emitted thousands or even milions of year ago, have anything to say about a persons life?
I'm with you on this one. However, I think astrology is supposed to be more about time. The stars' relative positions in the sky are supposed to be indicators of the season, not human-life-affecting beam generators.
The Google engine has achieved sentience and its engineers, or "parents", are educating it.
Encyclopedia? It already has the contents of the WWW at the tip of its tongue. Check.
Globe? Google Earth: check.
A backyard? Google Desktop Search: check.
Playmates? Google Talk: check.
Now it's getting serious and wants to drink deeply from human knowledge? Hmm, if only we could come up with a way to get people to post their technical documents directly into Google's mind instead of making "him" scour the web for them. You know, like some sort of database. Oh! Google Base: check.
Hello, little fellow. Welcome to your new world! Be nice to us, would you? We can be friends.
I'm guessing that Republicans are behind the decision to halt.xxx domains, but I think that is stupid.
OK, we've established that you're probably not a conservative.
We could require any pr0nographic content be posted to a.xxx domain and that would make it super easy for parents to set filters on web-browsers.
And now you say that you want a government official to decide whether any given site contains pornography.
What the hell?
Listen, kid, there are plenty of things that offend one group or another. Creating a government bureaucracy to segregate each of those categories into its own little net.ghetto for convenient censorship is not the solution.
It's ironic that so many liberals are quick to attack Republicans for a perceived pro-censorship stance, but are even quicker to call for their own pet forms. Remember, freedom of speech wasn't meant to allow Grandma to share her apple pie recipe.
I complained about.XXX too, but only because it was the single dumbest TLD they'd ever advanced (ever worse than.museum and.jobs, and that's saying a lot). My opposition had absolutely zero to do with moral issues - did anyone really think it'd cause more porn on the 'net? - and every bit to do with how completely and utterly unmanageable the scheme was.
I honestly can't imagine anything NSI could've done to make their customer service worse. I mean that literally. They were completely and utterly worthless.
And now I have $15 registrations (yes, I like my registrar; no, I won't switch to save a couple bucks) and a nice web interface to my domains' data. Add a nameserver? 5 clicks and wait for the upstream server to reload. Yeah, I miss NSI alright.
You might think oh I will just install X copies of freeware Y and then it turns out that the software isn't free to corporate users...
First, BSD != freeware.
Second, this is OpenBSD we're talking about. These guys are in a footrace with debian-legal to see who can be the most fanatically pedantic about licensing issues. Installing Debian/free or OpenBSD is probably the least legally risky thing you can do with a computer.
Consider moving your dock and various applets to one side or the other of your screen. Voila - extra space at the bottom of your screen to make your windows taller without having to hide your launcher buttons.
For example, I have KDE configured so that the Kicker bar uses the rightmost one inch of my screen. Then, I make word processing or browser windows as tall as the screen so I don't have to scroll as often.
Norfolk, NE. The air is clean, the people are nice, and crime is almost nonexistent. Sure, life in Small Town America isn't for everyone. If you're looking for a great quality of life, though, it may be something to consider.
There's no high-tech industry here to speak of, but there are plenty of high-tech jobs inside more traditional industries.
I don't know about you, but I'm not sure I want any program finding all the photos I've got - even if I have forgotten about them!
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And that kids is how I met your mother.
Digital camera: $300.
Getting a cute coed drunk: $15.
The look on your kids' face when they realize that the pictures Picasa unearthed were of Mommy: priceless.
Best text+sig combination I expect to read this week.
This isn't directly on-topic, but I'll ask anyway.
How do you know what your job title should be? I work in a small company where everyone who programs or admins anything is "in IT", but we don't really have specific titles. I dug around a bit on the ACM's site but didn't find anything. Pointers, anyone?
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can someone explain?
Sure. In a nutshell, you've been lied to. I would never assert that the Republican party has always vote pro-Freedom (yeah, we wrote the Patriot Act. Sorry about that.), but censorship has often been a Democratic pastime. Remember, the DMCA was signed by a Democrat president, and the PMRC was a pet project of Tipper Gore.
And yet, to hear liberal groups tell it, it's always the Evil Republicans (tm) who want to silence everyone. The truth is far more complex, but how often do you hear of both parties' sins?
P.S. I don't know which party Jack Thompson affiliates with. I won't blame either party for that nut.
Like moveon.org and michaelmoore.com, right?
This was a bill to protect everyone's Free Speech. It appears as though your argument (and the Democrats') is that this is a Bad Thing because it would defend the rights of conservatives as well.
<aol>me too</aol> I thought that the built-in lyrics search and Wikipedia display was stupid until I started using them, and now I refuse to give them up. It's the slickest music player I've ever used on any platform.
That argument still doesn't stack up. You just listed several energy companies that happened to be profiting from the energy stored in oil at present. They would be every bit as happy to sell you solar, tidal, or nuclear wattage when those become common.
I'm not sure why everyone seems hung up on "Big Oil" when we're really talking about "Big Energy".
You misspelled "the Apple ][".
Name one single program that has no dependencies. No, really. We're waiting.
See, the problem is that every program but the most minimal depends on something, even if only libc or the platform's equivalent. The only way around this is to ship all of those dependencies with each program (ala Windows), or compile every application statically (ala no OS I'm aware of). So, every shareware image viewer ships with it's own LIBC.DLL (or whatever you'd call that under Windows).
Great, right? Because hard drives are cheap, right? Sure, until a critical vulnerability in LIBC.DLL version 1.432.5435 is found, in which case you have to upgrade every single application on your box to a version that ships with an acceptably new LIBC.DLL. Be ready to repeat next month with LIBFOO.DLL, and six months later with LIBBAR.DLL.
That's the problem: we don't wan't "everything in one box!" applications. The concept just doesn't scale well. Find a solution to that problem and we'll beat a path to your door, but until then we'll be enjoying apt, yum, emerge, and portupgrade with our shared libraries and highly granular external dependencies. We didn't settle on this system because it's so awful; we chose this way because it does exactly what we want it to.
Assuming you're not in the 0.001% of the population that compiles everything statically for some very specific reason, you'd compile that one library, and possibly reboot so that every single service dynamically linked against it gets the updated version.
I don't think Apache on GNU/Linux is really less secure than on OpenBSD
It is. OpenBSD maintains their own patch branch of Apache, and while they make their patches readily available, I don't think they're widely used elsewhere.
Sorry, but you don't get a free pass on that one. We're rolling out FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 (release candidate) servers this week. Dying OSes tend not to be under active development and wide deployment.
A common FreeBSD setup is to run a print server in the host OS and configure jails (FreeBSD's virtualization systems, which are completely unlike Xen) to speak to that server. In short, you treat the jail environments like standalone machines on a network. I'd suspect you'd do something similar under Linux.
No. If you really want to fight clearly illegal activities like this, then sue Sony in small claims court and name the store you bought the CD from as a co-defendant.
Sony probably won't care if they lose a customer or two. They will definitely care if they lose a few retailers because of the fear of exposure to litigation.
We're always complaining about how broken our legal system is, right? Well, maybe their tactics work in both directions. Remember, the GPL is a clever hack on copyright law. Perhaps we need to start hacking other legal constructs as well.
You mean that there are more classified documents during wartime than during peace? Whodathunkit!
More relevantly, how does the spike compare to corresponding levels before/during/after Gulf War I? Vietnam? Korea?
I guess we won't be seeing Firefox commercials starring Lance Armstrong any time soon.
Have you ever met a religious person? Like, in real life? Not on television?
I ask because I've never known anyone of any creed with that degree of incuriosity or faith. A more likely prayer would be "well, God, we built the dam to the best of our abilities. Please it be enough." You probably say similar prayers all the time, except when they're unspoken and not directed toward a particular deity, we call them "hope".
How could the light of a star, light that was emitted thousands or even milions of year ago, have anything to say about a persons life?
I'm with you on this one. However, I think astrology is supposed to be more about time. The stars' relative positions in the sky are supposed to be indicators of the season, not human-life-affecting beam generators.
The Google engine has achieved sentience and its engineers, or "parents", are educating it.
Encyclopedia? It already has the contents of the WWW at the tip of its tongue. Check.
Globe? Google Earth: check.
A backyard? Google Desktop Search: check.
Playmates? Google Talk: check.
Now it's getting serious and wants to drink deeply from human knowledge? Hmm, if only we could come up with a way to get people to post their technical documents directly into Google's mind instead of making "him" scour the web for them. You know, like some sort of database. Oh! Google Base: check.
Hello, little fellow. Welcome to your new world! Be nice to us, would you? We can be friends.
OK, we've established that you're probably not a conservative.
We could require any pr0nographic content be posted to a .xxx domain and that would make it super easy for parents to set filters on web-browsers.
And now you say that you want a government official to decide whether any given site contains pornography.
What the hell?
Listen, kid, there are plenty of things that offend one group or another. Creating a government bureaucracy to segregate each of those categories into its own little net.ghetto for convenient censorship is not the solution.
It's ironic that so many liberals are quick to attack Republicans for a perceived pro-censorship stance, but are even quicker to call for their own pet forms. Remember, freedom of speech wasn't meant to allow Grandma to share her apple pie recipe.
I complained about .XXX too, but only because it was the single dumbest TLD they'd ever advanced (ever worse than .museum and .jobs, and that's saying a lot). My opposition had absolutely zero to do with moral issues - did anyone really think it'd cause more porn on the 'net? - and every bit to do with how completely and utterly unmanageable the scheme was.
So, don't leave us hanging: where are you moving to?
And now I have $15 registrations (yes, I like my registrar; no, I won't switch to save a couple bucks) and a nice web interface to my domains' data. Add a nameserver? 5 clicks and wait for the upstream server to reload. Yeah, I miss NSI alright.
First, BSD != freeware.
Second, this is OpenBSD we're talking about. These guys are in a footrace with debian-legal to see who can be the most fanatically pedantic about licensing issues. Installing Debian/free or OpenBSD is probably the least legally risky thing you can do with a computer.
If that happens, run "KAppFinder". It looks for all the applications on your system that aren't in your KDE menu and provides an easy way to add them.
For example, I have KDE configured so that the Kicker bar uses the rightmost one inch of my screen. Then, I make word processing or browser windows as tall as the screen so I don't have to scroll as often.
The question should be: can for-pay encyclopedias use it at the top of articles, implying that the content of those articles is officially approved?
Answer: no, they can't.
I state no opinion of whether The Onion should be allowed to use the seal, but would rather not argue by (flawed) analogy in any case.
Norfolk, NE. The air is clean, the people are nice, and crime is almost nonexistent. Sure, life in Small Town America isn't for everyone. If you're looking for a great quality of life, though, it may be something to consider.
There's no high-tech industry here to speak of, but there are plenty of high-tech jobs inside more traditional industries.
--
And that kids is how I met your mother.
Digital camera: $300.
Getting a cute coed drunk: $15.
The look on your kids' face when they realize that the pictures Picasa unearthed were of Mommy: priceless.
Best text+sig combination I expect to read this week.
How do you know what your job title should be? I work in a small company where everyone who programs or admins anything is "in IT", but we don't really have specific titles. I dug around a bit on the ACM's site but didn't find anything. Pointers, anyone?