C'mon! What's with all the pessimism? If windows writes its software with pearl, it will be that much easier for us to port windows apps to *nix! A major complaint of business' that there aren't enough apps for *nix! We win. I say it's time to fear the peguin instead of the DAC (Digital Anti-Christ, BG). Someone needs to make a peguin icon wearing guerilla clothes! Wahooo!
History lesson for y'all. Skinheads were punks in the early 80's, started in London by disenfrancised ('scuse the spelling) youth who couldn't get jobs. I believe (although I'm not sure) it's these same punks that started the Doc Martin shoe company, and why they were so popular with punks in the mid 80's. Well here in America the older members of white supremicist groups like the KKK took these punks under their wings. Most of these punks were from broken or bad homes, and quickly began to emulate the only adults who would show them respect, and also took on their value system. Because they were young and immune to many laws they began to put on public demonstrations of their new values, which of course was publicised by the media. Thus, today a skinhead is not a punk, but a racist.
Point being, one person who thinks he's a hacker commits a crime that is newsworthy and causes fear in a populace that feels their privacy can be invaded (Mitnick - you moron), and all hackers are now... evil. Skinhead= racist, Hacker= what we call cracker. Too late to do anything now but come up with a new name for hacker. I purpose... um... code-tinker.. guy.:}
So really, you don't think it's OK for "the government" who shall remain painfully faceless (I refer to the obvious blind accusation of an organization rather than individuals, for further expansion on this read on) to browse through your files, but it's OK for individuals to crack your server and browse through your files because you don't fear them. Government- no snoop, hacker- ok to snoop. What jr. high school crap.
If your going to accuse an organization of having no integrity, at least have the common sense to name those you are accusing. "The government" has more inept computer users than the general populace. Most of those I know in government can't install an application with a M$ wizard to guide them, and the ones who are computer literate are contracted through head hunters or temp agencies. "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" is more true now than ever before. Quit blaming shadows for your fear and start facing those you would be afraid of. You will be pleasently supprised.
"IBM's DB2 relies heavily on Java"... IBM announce monday morning that they will be shipping linux on their high end DB's. I submited the story, look for it here on Slashdot (as I now can't remember where I read it... I think on silicon valley news. ?) So... Your disappointment in Linux DB support is now (or soon will be) moot. Fear the penguin! ctimes2
You probably didn't know this but part of the Texas charter for statehood has reserved the right to succeed from the US at any time for any reason. Meaning that if Texas didn't want to be a part of the USA they could simply say so and the US wouldn't have a legal tank to stand on... :)
Their positions and reporting are biased - and they admit it freely. To refrence them as a source is like proving the bombing is right by quoting Clinton. And that's with a "C" not a "K" moron. I'm not a fan of Clinton either, I just can't stomach the blind following of propaganda from either side - of which you are clearly a victim. And by the way, my guess is France, but everybody hates the french so what are you saying?
Some of you apparently didn't watch G.I. Joe as kids. For those of you who don't get it > Their internet access isn't being cut off to keep you in the dark, it's being cut to keep Slobo-cop in the dark. You just happen to want to use the same web he does for the same information. It's being done for the same reason we are not told of what goes on in top secret labs. Sure, we are americans and are entitled to know where our money goes, but if we made it available to the general public our enemies would have easy access to it and be able to develop counter measures. Cutting off Slobo's access to information, ANY information (TV, radio, internet) is integral to winning any sort of battle there. If you don't agree with the war over there - fine. But don't criticize the tactics because those are sound. For an historical perspective, rent "The Falcon and The Snowman". For 20 years one naval officer gave the KGB what he thought was meaningless data (he was blackmailed and did it for less than $500 total). A KGB defector in 1987 said that if America had gone to war with the USSR during the last 15 years they could have sunk our Navy within one hour of the declaration of war. From the information he provided they cracked codes, blackmailed other officers, and gathered more intel. From that information they knew where our ships were exactly, and which direction they would turn if attacked, communications that would be transmitted, and what counter measures we would take in any situation. Don't doubt for a second that the intelligence community doesn't know what their doing.
If you think drugs are OK for anyone you haven't done your homework... If you think drugs, pot, or the counter culture doesn't affect you, get some fresh air. OK - I'm refering to my first post. Maybe you don't hurt people when you smoke pot, but other people do. If you want to decriminalize it, then do so. So far, the majority of this country doesn't want to legalize pot. They want people who use pot to be punished. They don't want people to drive over the speed limit either, a law I don't understand nor agree with but one I abide by most of the time. When I do speed it is usually not intentional, and if I get caught I'm punished. Such is the way of our country, if a large enough majority wanted to blow up LA, it would happen. You have to live with all the other people in this country, and just because you don't agree with their view point doesn't mean you can ignor the law of our land. Don't like it? Move to Canada. Don't want to move? Change the law. Until one of those two things happen, look at this subject with some perspective, get all the facts, and quit trying to claim that it shouldn't be illegal because it is. Drugs and the counter culture cost public money, lives, and endanger the public. Those are facts. "but those peoples activities cause people to do harmful things to hide their illegal activity!" THEN WHY DO THE ACTIVITY IF IT WILL CAUSE YOU TO DO ILLEGAL OR HARMFUL THINGS DIPSHIT? Sorry about the shouting, but the ends do not justify your "right" to a good time.
It is completely ridiculous to argue that because people do harmful things in order to hide their illegal activities from the law, those activities should be illegal. ** Irrational. What's ridiculous is doing things that you know are against the law and then acting indignant when you are prosecuted for it. Look - I'm all for the freedom to be as stupid as you want to be. Just don't try to blame your crimes (I'm speaking of the harm drug growers, dealers, users cause in one form or another - and don't get all upset becuase I'm generalizing, realize that the drug culture has earned it's bad reputation) on an injust system.
Drugs are linked to criminal behavior because it is criminalised. Duh again. Pedofiles are linked to criminal behavior because pedofilia is criminalised. Murder, tax evasion, theft, vandalism, peeping, indecent exposer, public drunkeness, insert any crime in place of drugs and that statement is true. That's like arguing the sky is blue because it's the color blue. Some laws have a good reason for being in place, some don't. You never had the right to pick which ones you think are important, but you do have the right to try to change them. Using the pot culture Philosophy of "It doesn't hurt anyone" "why does it matter to you" or "all the evil caused by drugs is a result of unjust law" is bullshit pure and simple. It fits nicely into your world that is quiet, and doesn't seem to harm anyone, but when you look at the social, economic, cultural, and political problems associated with drugs you might find yourself wide eyed with an unreal sense of 'what the hell am I doing'. I was a pot head for years. I went to rallies, smoke outs, even grew my own once. It wasn't until I saw where most of the pot comes from that I realised it is a problem. And the more you learn about cartel's, gangs, and governments, the more you understand about how big a problem drugs are. The only reason alcohol is accepted is that it has been a staple in most every culture for thousands of years. We know the evils of it but won't stop it because of tradition. Other drugs do not have that luxurie, and never will.
No permanent damage... Where do pot heads get their information? Pot when smoked inhibits short term memory (so much for creative enhancement effect). In order to get information into long term memory you have to go through short term memory. New England Journal of Science years ago proved that continuous exposer to the effects of pot smoking permanently affects short term memory. If you need more information than that find the websites that deal with memory, retention, how we learn and the electro-chemical balance that improves memory and (if your not stoned or refuse to believe in silly things like research) you will begin to comprehend the pure lunacy of the statement "pot doesn't do permanent damage".
What? Why would we ban plastics cars etc? If your argument is damage to the environment - then you convieniently disregarded the first half of my post. Try not to be selective of the information you choose to argue.
And as far as if it were legal... it's not so what's your point?
If you think drugs are OK for anyone you haven't done your homework. Or you were too stoned to remember how to do your homework. I participated in DEA mission (voluntarily, to get away from my girlfriend:) some years back where I was to help find marajuana in the national forest. Farmers grow it in the national forests so if they get caught they won't lose their homes or other property. They booby-trap the area surrounding their fields, usually with just niose makers (shotgun shells pointed up) to scare people off, somtimes with more malicious means (breeding rats and keeping them trapped in barrels, starving so they will attack when released). My examples are by no means an exhaustive list of techniques used to protect 'farms' on public lands. These are obviously a danger to hikers, campers, nature lovers including the unknowing granola who stumbles onto these traps. The danger doesn't end there. The man we suspected of running this farm drove a new ram truck, paid for in cash. He lived in a 1mil. cabin, paid for in cash. He grossed an estimated 4mil a year on his pot he grew on public lands. He operated no less than two meth labs somewhere in the forest, dumping the chemicals he used for those labs where ever, poisoning the soil, contaminating the groundwater, killing local wild life, and the red phospherous was know to cause several forrest fires. He was also on wellfare. If you think drugs, pot, or the counter culture doesn't affect you, get some fresh air.
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C'mon! What's with all the pessimism? If windows writes its software with pearl, it will be that much easier for us to port windows apps to *nix! A major complaint of business' that there aren't enough apps for *nix! We win.
I say it's time to fear the peguin instead of the DAC (Digital Anti-Christ, BG). Someone needs to make a peguin icon wearing guerilla clothes! Wahooo!
History lesson for y'all. Skinheads were punks in the early 80's, started in London by disenfrancised ('scuse the spelling) youth who couldn't get jobs. I believe (although I'm not sure) it's these same punks that started the Doc Martin shoe company, and why they were so popular with punks in the mid 80's. Well here in America the older members of white supremicist groups like the KKK took these punks under their wings. Most of these punks were from broken or bad homes, and quickly began to emulate the only adults who would show them respect, and also took on their value system. Because they were young and immune to many laws they began to put on public demonstrations of their new values, which of course was publicised by the media. Thus, today a skinhead is not a punk, but a racist.
... um... code-tinker.. guy. :}
Point being, one person who thinks he's a hacker commits a crime that is newsworthy and causes fear in a populace that feels their privacy can be invaded (Mitnick - you moron), and all hackers are now... evil.
Skinhead= racist, Hacker= what we call cracker. Too late to do anything now but come up with a new name for hacker. I purpose
So really, you don't think it's OK for "the government" who shall remain painfully faceless (I refer to the obvious blind accusation of an organization rather than individuals, for further expansion on this read on) to browse through your files, but it's OK for individuals to crack your server and browse through your files because you don't fear them. Government- no snoop, hacker- ok to snoop. What jr. high school crap.
If your going to accuse an organization of having no integrity, at least have the common sense to name those you are accusing. "The government" has more inept computer users than the general populace. Most of those I know in government can't install an application with a M$ wizard to guide them, and the ones who are computer literate are contracted through head hunters or temp agencies. "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" is more true now than ever before. Quit blaming shadows for your fear and start facing those you would be afraid of. You will be pleasently supprised.
I heard it's spiked with a mind control drug, and it's really the basis for that old movie "THEY LIVE" by John Carpenter!
Fear the penguin...
;)
nope.
blue screen, reboot and then the universe fixes the registry.
"IBM's DB2 relies heavily on Java"...
IBM announce monday morning that they will be shipping linux on their high end DB's. I submited the story, look for it here on Slashdot (as I now can't remember where I read it... I think on silicon valley news. ?) So... Your disappointment in Linux DB support is now (or soon will be) moot.
Fear the penguin!
ctimes2
You probably didn't know this but part of the Texas charter for statehood has reserved the right to succeed from the US at any time for any reason. Meaning that if Texas didn't want to be a part of the USA they could simply say so and the US wouldn't have a legal tank to stand on...
:)
Their positions and reporting are biased - and they admit it freely. To refrence them as a source is like proving the bombing is right by quoting Clinton. And that's with a "C" not a "K" moron. I'm not a fan of Clinton either, I just can't stomach the blind following of propaganda from either side - of which you are clearly a victim. And by the way, my guess is France, but everybody hates the french so what are you saying?
Some of you apparently didn't watch G.I. Joe as kids. For those of you who don't get it > Their internet access isn't being cut off to keep you in the dark, it's being cut to keep Slobo-cop in the dark. You just happen to want to use the same web he does for the same information. It's being done for the same reason we are not told of what goes on in top secret labs. Sure, we are americans and are entitled to know where our money goes, but if we made it available to the general public our enemies would have easy access to it and be able to develop counter measures. Cutting off Slobo's access to information, ANY information (TV, radio, internet) is integral to winning any sort of battle there. If you don't agree with the war over there - fine. But don't criticize the tactics because those are sound.
For an historical perspective, rent "The Falcon and The Snowman". For 20 years one naval officer gave the KGB what he thought was meaningless data (he was blackmailed and did it for less than $500 total). A KGB defector in 1987 said that if America had gone to war with the USSR during the last 15 years they could have sunk our Navy within one hour of the declaration of war. From the information he provided they cracked codes, blackmailed other officers, and gathered more intel. From that information they knew where our ships were exactly, and which direction they would turn if attacked, communications that would be transmitted, and what counter measures we would take in any situation.
Don't doubt for a second that the intelligence community doesn't know what their doing.
remember braveheart?! Don't go in the barn linus!
Just two notes;
guns cause crime like flies cause garbage, and
a well armed society is a polite society;)
Blame is a cowards way of shurking responsibility.
If you think drugs are OK for anyone you haven't done your homework ... If you think drugs, pot, or the counter culture doesn't affect you, get some fresh air.
OK - I'm refering to my first post. Maybe you don't hurt people when you smoke pot, but other people do. If you want to decriminalize it, then do so. So far, the majority of this country doesn't want to legalize pot. They want people who use pot to be punished. They don't want people to drive over the speed limit either, a law I don't understand nor agree with but one I abide by most of the time. When I do speed it is usually not intentional, and if I get caught I'm punished. Such is the way of our country, if a large enough majority wanted to blow up LA, it would happen. You have to live with all the other people in this country, and just because you don't agree with their view point doesn't mean you can ignor the law of our land. Don't like it? Move to Canada. Don't want to move? Change the law. Until one of those two things happen, look at this subject with some perspective, get all the facts, and quit trying to claim that it shouldn't be illegal because it is. Drugs and the counter culture cost public money, lives, and endanger the public. Those are facts. "but those peoples activities cause people to do harmful things to hide their illegal activity!" THEN WHY DO THE ACTIVITY IF IT WILL CAUSE YOU TO DO ILLEGAL OR HARMFUL THINGS DIPSHIT? Sorry about the shouting, but the ends do not justify your "right" to a good time.
It is completely ridiculous to argue that because people do harmful things in order to hide their illegal activities from the law, those activities should be illegal. ** Irrational. What's ridiculous is doing things that you know are against the law and then acting indignant when you are prosecuted for it. Look - I'm all for the freedom to be as stupid as you want to be. Just don't try to blame your crimes (I'm speaking of the harm drug growers, dealers, users cause in one form or another - and don't get all upset becuase I'm generalizing, realize that the drug culture has earned it's bad reputation) on an injust system.
Drugs are linked to criminal behavior because it is criminalised. Duh again. Pedofiles are linked to criminal behavior because pedofilia is criminalised. Murder, tax evasion, theft, vandalism, peeping, indecent exposer, public drunkeness, insert any crime in place of drugs and that statement is true. That's like arguing the sky is blue because it's the color blue. Some laws have a good reason for being in place, some don't. You never had the right to pick which ones you think are important, but you do have the right to try to change them.
Using the pot culture Philosophy of "It doesn't hurt anyone" "why does it matter to you" or "all the evil caused by drugs is a result of unjust law" is bullshit pure and simple. It fits nicely into your world that is quiet, and doesn't seem to harm anyone, but when you look at the social, economic, cultural, and political problems associated with drugs you might find yourself wide eyed with an unreal sense of 'what the hell am I doing'. I was a pot head for years. I went to rallies, smoke outs, even grew my own once. It wasn't until I saw where most of the pot comes from that I realised it is a problem. And the more you learn about cartel's, gangs, and governments, the more you understand about how big a problem drugs are. The only reason alcohol is accepted is that it has been a staple in most every culture for thousands of years. We know the evils of it but won't stop it because of tradition. Other drugs do not have that luxurie, and never will.
No permanent damage... Where do pot heads get their information? Pot when smoked inhibits short term memory (so much for creative enhancement effect). In order to get information into long term memory you have to go through short term memory. New England Journal of Science years ago proved that continuous exposer to the effects of pot smoking permanently affects short term memory. If you need more information than that find the websites that deal with memory, retention, how we learn and the electro-chemical balance that improves memory and (if your not stoned or refuse to believe in silly things like research) you will begin to comprehend the pure lunacy of the statement "pot doesn't do permanent damage".
Nothing is fool proof to a determined fool.
What? Why would we ban plastics cars etc? If your argument is damage to the environment - then you convieniently disregarded the first half of my post. Try not to be selective of the information you choose to argue.
And as far as if it were legal... it's not so what's your point?
If you think drugs are OK for anyone you haven't done your homework. Or you were too stoned to remember how to do your homework. I participated in DEA mission (voluntarily, to get away from my girlfriend:) some years back where I was to help find marajuana in the national forest. Farmers grow it in the national forests so if they get caught they won't lose their homes or other property. They booby-trap the area surrounding their fields, usually with just niose makers (shotgun shells pointed up) to scare people off, somtimes with more malicious means (breeding rats and keeping them trapped in barrels, starving so they will attack when released). My examples are by no means an exhaustive list of techniques used to protect 'farms' on public lands. These are obviously a danger to hikers, campers, nature lovers including the unknowing granola who stumbles onto these traps. The danger doesn't end there. The man we suspected of running this farm drove a new ram truck, paid for in cash. He lived in a 1mil. cabin, paid for in cash. He grossed an estimated 4mil a year on his pot he grew on public lands. He operated no less than two meth labs somewhere in the forest, dumping the chemicals he used for those labs where ever, poisoning the soil, contaminating the groundwater, killing local wild life, and the red phospherous was know to cause several forrest fires. He was also on wellfare. If you think drugs, pot, or the counter culture doesn't affect you, get some fresh air.