...Christian rightists in the Bush government, whose aim otherwise is to destroy individual freedom in this country in the name of "Jesus Christ": among other things, banning abortion, forcing their version of Christian prayer into public schools, and trying to outlaw the burning of the American flag as a form of protest(truly, idolatry if there ever was).
This is complete rubbish. I'll address the items one at a time.
aim otherwise is to destroy individual freedom
The 'freedoms' of this country allow for these "Nazi Christians" (as you imply) the freedom of speech to be pro-Israel, and try to do these things, just as they allow for any other sort of speech. Or so the theory goes.
forcing their version of Christian prayer into public schools
No, you've got that backwards. Rightist Christians have been trying to get the right to have their children be allowed to pray in school - again. It was never a requirement, but now it's not allowed. Those of us who have recently been in school (the last 4 years or so) and have had interaction with these "Nazi Christians" are fully aware of the outright freedom violantions that are perpetrated against them in the name of "religious freedom" and pushing their beliefs on others: they are suspended for praying at lunch (quietly and unthreateningly, with their heads down), amongst many other outlandish punishments.
trying to outlaw the burning of the American flag as a form of protest
The only flag burning I've heard of being protested, and the only attempted legislation I've read about, is that in relation to white power supremists. Apparently some people want to outlaw the burning of the flag to try and get some of these racist bastards behind bars - good idea, but wrong approach. Maybe you could point out to me whatever article refers to these Christian Nazis wanting to outlaw it as a form of protest?
As far as it being 'idolatry', there's a difference between worship of an image (such as the flag), and respect for an image (such as the flag) that stands for the ideals and mores of your country. I don't idolate my parents, but I certainly respect them and revere them above such abuse.
I see that you also forgot to mention that these "Nazi Christians" are often strong supporters of the right to have firearms. Intersting, since it was the Nazi party that licensed and eventually revoked all firearms from Germany under Hitler's rule. My experience has been that those 'damned liberals' are quite often the ones revoking freedoms, not the Nazi Republican Christian Bigots.
Anyway... you're pretty good at spouting the party line - for a troll. Keep up studying Mein Kempf, reading up on civil rights cases, and such, and you might just make a good liberal someday.
Yeah, I don't think there are any OIS member 'wonders' either - but I must've at 3am on the 7th.:P Still trying to figure out what the hell I was trying to say.
I'm not sure whether this is just as damaging to Open Source as the SCO thing had the potential of being, or not. On one hand, it might deter use of linux at all, and on the other it'll just be a general 'bad business practice to use linux in our commericial products' type stigma.
This makes me wonder - who can be a wonder of OIS? Just anyone? Only people with pertinent projects? Only companies? What about groups like the Debian maintainers or the core kernel devel team? My impression from the article was that it was company or corporate institution-exclusive.
the fujitsu lifebook p2000 is the best item I could think of. it has a touchscreen for a display, is small and compact while still typeable, incredible battery life (9 -12 hours, w/ extra battery) and is very sturdy.
taking notes in class = incredibly easier, provided it's not a mathmatics class. those humanities courses that tend to be more difficult arne't quite so, when you're able to quickly and easily take notes, and then ctrl-f through the notes before the exam to find the pertinent things that you don't remember. that is key, in my mind. plus, with this,you can write all the math stuff on the screen as word document snippets, or what have you. staying organized (as far as knowing where you're going) isn't that critical, since you have a fairly set schedule, but being able to database and chronicle your course notes easily is definately important.
that, and yo udon't have the shackles of a computer, meaning you can go out and socialize more. surf in a friend's dorm during a game, whatever - provided your campus has 802.11b. very convenient.
I would probably have this laptop, plus a small lan in my room with a desktop. if you're not a computer student, though, the laptop should be more than enough. having had it in the 2 colleges i've attended would have greatly increased my gpa, I'm sure.
But most of the people that -do- access their banks online tend to be fairly tech savvy. The people I know that do are usually mac users, linux users, or at least technically adept and dislike IE.
I've always called razor-type scooters (and their non-motor kin) "scooters".
Motorcycles are things like Hondas, Indians, and (ecpt) Harley Ds.
Mopeds are (as someone else menitoned) have pedals. You escalate your speed by pedaling, and you're supplimented by a motor. I don't know how fast they can go, but I've only seen one of these before.
Things such as this, as well as vespas and other small motorized items, I've always called "motoscooters". It seems like an apt name.
I didn't read the article - this is slashdot, after all - but I'm pretty sure the exchange rate doesn't equal 5.6 euros -> 87k USD. Even if that's supposed to be a coma instead of a period, I don't believe the excachange rate is 1/15.5 in favor of the euro.
So what are you saying, exactly, by this signature? Are you truely intending to say that macs are stylish and trendy, but don't hold a match to their competition in terms of performance, quality, and innovation? Surely you must be kidding.
Macs are generally everything that they claim to be, and (can practically) outperform PCs of similar costs, now that you can get an iMac for what, 800$? Most PCs are a haphazardly thrown together pile of last-generation hardware for the most minimal cost. Macs, on the other hand, usually have some mettle. You have to build your own PC to get the kind of hardware that entry level Macs come with by default.
And no, I'm not a mac fanatic. I don't even own a Mac (unless you count the pile of lc630s, G3 233MHz, and various 'integrated' monitor and system units I've got sitting around in storage, but they're not getting used). I can't afford macs. (heck, I can barely afford a PC)
"Several years ago"? Dude, I remember these things (or at least items that could follow those descriptions, made by Nintendo) for the original NES, when I was in kindergarten, and they'd been out a while already then. I am now 21. A wee bit more than "several" methinks.
... but the part about it being redesigned to be more similar to Win9x is completely false.
You're making it sound like I'm saying this is a negative thing. It's not - win2k got the proper (well, decent) graphical support from the win9x support, making it a viable alternative for games and other graphical applications. I'm not saying it was designed to incorporate win9x bugs, heck - it's got less bugs than winNT. It's more stable than WinNT. They took the nice things about win9x and winNT and produced win2k. Were it simply another product in the line, it would have introduced just as many bugs (as did winxp), but it didn't. Signifiantly fewer bugs, from a desktop perspective.
Really, your points themselves are flawed. I don't see the point in continuing our relationship.
Just like the NT core that has existed since 1992 is pretty much the same in WindowsNT3.1, 4.0, Win2k, and WinXP.
No, Win2k was a drastic leap up from WinNT. It was a functional redesign, and just as similar to Win9x as it was to WinNT.
My arguement is that the kernel is functionally the same. The driver interface is relatively insignificant, since it causes little, if any, performance difference in a running system.
I'm not saying that the whole OS is the same, certainly not the GUI and tiddly things of that sort. Sure, the programming procedures are finally beginning to resemble those of quality products, but all that aside, Win2k's kernel and WinXP's perform quite similarly when running benchmarks on the same hardware platform (and sometimes slower on the WinXP side).
I've seen more problems with WinXP's "new and improved" driver architechture, network support, and GUI alone to give win2k precidence in the 'quality product' department, as have most of the techs that I know or work with.
Going to microsoft.com and 'educating' myself about the differences between Win2k and WinXP is identical to having them outline how any windows product is better than any linux distro. In both cases, they'll give (often technically innacurate) information bolstering their latest, "greatest" product. It's similar to consulting the devil for the validity of murder - asking for a thesis on a subject from someone that could very well be considered the antithesis of validity.
I've heard that SARS is suspected to have come from a meteor that originated from Mars, or have passed through Mars's atmosphere.
"War of the Worlds" now has new meaning. Martians might very well kill off humanity - except the only martians are microbes.
I kinda suspect that there are a lot of people that don't believe in God will use this, and similarly related items, as "direct evidence" for evolution (to the degree of saying that there was no creation). (The simple principle of cause and effect kind of nullifies this, but people tend to dream up potential clauses that are about as likely as a jolt of electricity jumping from my computer and electrifying my coffee, creating a new super-virus. Potentially interesting science fiction, though.)
All said, I don't doubt that there is life on Mars, especially after so many positives. Whether the life there is original to Mars, or has floated through space from our outter atmosphere to Mars, (and then mutated) sometime during the history of time will be interesting to see.
Does someone really need to point out to you that winxp code is functionally very similar, if not mostly identical, to win2k code, except for several added trinkets? Thus, win2k3 isn't that much different than win2k.
I've not quite started the process myself,though I've done some fairly indepth reading on the topic. My understanding is acidifying is optional, based on desired outcome. If you don't have acidity in a high-sweetness batch, then it ends up being cloying, etc. (Something like that, I don't have my notes readily available)
Besides, the norse made mead with fruit, spices, and the like as well. That can often be enough to satisfy your acidity.
Right now I'm in a bit of a moving process, so I've not had the chance to start, unfortunately. Once I settle down, though, I'll be getting started. My current concern is to find an in-state meadery or distributor that I can purchase a couple bottles from for my wedding:P I'm having the ceremony at an authentic recreation of the famous 850-year-old Borgund Stave Church in Norway, and I wouldn't mind the authentic drink for toasting to accompany it.:)
Sounds to me like you made up a 'generic template' off of your own personal limitted skill and expience base, since, hey! you can do these things with this experience, why couldn't soemone else?
Here, let me try. In order to be a computer security expert (or whatever term you prefer), you need:
5 years administering mixed operating systems and archatectures in a business environment, including cisco (routers), linux (routers, servers), and windows (clients and servers).
a decent hack with programming, able to comprehend data structures and follow the flow of written source and write basic programs in various languages (perl, c++, c, bash*)
an intimate understanding of the security tools they're using
a comprehension of how networks work, how various operating systems handle security, security circumvention methods, and ways to prevent those circumventions through various methods of hardening.
I've never met someone over 35 who could reasonably keep up with late-breaking security issues, let alone the technologies involved, due to lifestyle requirements (family, friends, house, etc.)
This could simply be for the fact that Spafford was a better programmer. However, you're likely correct that the decompilation helped him substantially.
You're right -distilling can't be done, but mead is perfectly fine, since it's considered honey wine (and is, based on procedure). Not sure if you knew that or not.
iirc, it's possible to modify a glock to be full automatic. I'm pretty sure that the guns used by morpheus and trinity in Reloaded were full-auto glocks w/ 20 (or so) round clips. very badass.:)
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...Christian rightists in the Bush government, whose aim otherwise is to destroy individual freedom in this country in the name of "Jesus Christ": among other things, banning abortion, forcing their version of Christian prayer into public schools, and trying to outlaw the burning of the American flag as a form of protest(truly, idolatry if there ever was).
This is complete rubbish. I'll address the items one at a time.
aim otherwise is to destroy individual freedom
The 'freedoms' of this country allow for these "Nazi Christians" (as you imply) the freedom of speech to be pro-Israel, and try to do these things, just as they allow for any other sort of speech. Or so the theory goes.
forcing their version of Christian prayer into public schools
No, you've got that backwards. Rightist Christians have been trying to get the right to have their children be allowed to pray in school - again. It was never a requirement, but now it's not allowed. Those of us who have recently been in school (the last 4 years or so) and have had interaction with these "Nazi Christians" are fully aware of the outright freedom violantions that are perpetrated against them in the name of "religious freedom" and pushing their beliefs on others: they are suspended for praying at lunch (quietly and unthreateningly, with their heads down), amongst many other outlandish punishments.
trying to outlaw the burning of the American flag as a form of protest
The only flag burning I've heard of being protested, and the only attempted legislation I've read about, is that in relation to white power supremists. Apparently some people want to outlaw the burning of the flag to try and get some of these racist bastards behind bars - good idea, but wrong approach. Maybe you could point out to me whatever article refers to these Christian Nazis wanting to outlaw it as a form of protest?
As far as it being 'idolatry', there's a difference between worship of an image (such as the flag), and respect for an image (such as the flag) that stands for the ideals and mores of your country. I don't idolate my parents, but I certainly respect them and revere them above such abuse.
I see that you also forgot to mention that these "Nazi Christians" are often strong supporters of the right to have firearms. Intersting, since it was the Nazi party that licensed and eventually revoked all firearms from Germany under Hitler's rule. My experience has been that those 'damned liberals' are quite often the ones revoking freedoms, not the Nazi Republican Christian Bigots.
Anyway... you're pretty good at spouting the party line - for a troll. Keep up studying Mein Kempf, reading up on civil rights cases, and such, and you might just make a good liberal someday.
Yeah, I don't think there are any OIS member 'wonders' either - but I must've at 3am on the 7th. :P Still trying to figure out what the hell I was trying to say.
I'm not sure whether this is just as damaging to Open Source as the SCO thing had the potential of being, or not. On one hand, it might deter use of linux at all, and on the other it'll just be a general 'bad business practice to use linux in our commericial products' type stigma.
What about Peter North? Does he count?
(that's what I thought you said! time for bed, damn it!)
This makes me wonder - who can be a wonder of OIS? Just anyone? Only people with pertinent projects? Only companies? What about groups like the Debian maintainers or the core kernel devel team? My impression from the article was that it was company or corporate institution-exclusive.
:) wow!
the fujitsu lifebook p2000 is the best item I could think of. it has a touchscreen for a display, is small and compact while still typeable, incredible battery life (9 -12 hours, w/ extra battery) and is very sturdy.
,you can write all the math stuff on the screen as word document snippets, or what have you. staying organized (as far as knowing where you're going) isn't that critical, since you have a fairly set schedule, but being able to database and chronicle your course notes easily is definately important.
taking notes in class = incredibly easier, provided it's not a mathmatics class. those humanities courses that tend to be more difficult arne't quite so, when you're able to quickly and easily take notes, and then ctrl-f through the notes before the exam to find the pertinent things that you don't remember. that is key, in my mind. plus, with this
that, and yo udon't have the shackles of a computer, meaning you can go out and socialize more. surf in a friend's dorm during a game, whatever - provided your campus has 802.11b. very convenient.
I would probably have this laptop, plus a small lan in my room with a desktop. if you're not a computer student, though, the laptop should be more than enough. having had it in the 2 colleges i've attended would have greatly increased my gpa, I'm sure.
Hrm, there's an idea for money!
But most of the people that -do- access their banks online tend to be fairly tech savvy. The people I know that do are usually mac users, linux users, or at least technically adept and dislike IE.
I've always called razor-type scooters (and their non-motor kin) "scooters".
Motorcycles are things like Hondas, Indians, and (ecpt) Harley Ds.
Mopeds are (as someone else menitoned) have pedals. You escalate your speed by pedaling, and you're supplimented by a motor. I don't know how fast they can go, but I've only seen one of these before.
Things such as this, as well as vespas and other small motorized items, I've always called "motoscooters". It seems like an apt name.
I didn't read the article - this is slashdot, after all - but I'm pretty sure the exchange rate doesn't equal 5.6 euros -> 87k USD. Even if that's supposed to be a coma instead of a period, I don't believe the excachange rate is 1/15.5 in favor of the euro.
Mac is the Harley-Davidson of computers.
So what are you saying, exactly, by this signature? Are you truely intending to say that macs are stylish and trendy, but don't hold a match to their competition in terms of performance, quality, and innovation? Surely you must be kidding.
Macs are generally everything that they claim to be, and (can practically) outperform PCs of similar costs, now that you can get an iMac for what, 800$? Most PCs are a haphazardly thrown together pile of last-generation hardware for the most minimal cost. Macs, on the other hand, usually have some mettle. You have to build your own PC to get the kind of hardware that entry level Macs come with by default.
And no, I'm not a mac fanatic. I don't even own a Mac (unless you count the pile of lc630s, G3 233MHz, and various 'integrated' monitor and system units I've got sitting around in storage, but they're not getting used). I can't afford macs. (heck, I can barely afford a PC)
"Several years ago"? Dude, I remember these things (or at least items that could follow those descriptions, made by Nintendo) for the original NES, when I was in kindergarten, and they'd been out a while already then. I am now 21. A wee bit more than "several" methinks.
... but the part about it being redesigned to be more similar to Win9x is completely false.
You're making it sound like I'm saying this is a negative thing. It's not - win2k got the proper (well, decent) graphical support from the win9x support, making it a viable alternative for games and other graphical applications. I'm not saying it was designed to incorporate win9x bugs, heck - it's got less bugs than winNT. It's more stable than WinNT. They took the nice things about win9x and winNT and produced win2k. Were it simply another product in the line, it would have introduced just as many bugs (as did winxp), but it didn't. Signifiantly fewer bugs, from a desktop perspective.
Really, your points themselves are flawed. I don't see the point in continuing our relationship.
Just like the NT core that has existed since 1992 is pretty much the same in WindowsNT3.1, 4.0, Win2k, and WinXP.
No, Win2k was a drastic leap up from WinNT. It was a functional redesign, and just as similar to Win9x as it was to WinNT.
My arguement is that the kernel is functionally the same. The driver interface is relatively insignificant, since it causes little, if any, performance difference in a running system.
I'm not saying that the whole OS is the same, certainly not the GUI and tiddly things of that sort. Sure, the programming procedures are finally beginning to resemble those of quality products, but all that aside, Win2k's kernel and WinXP's perform quite similarly when running benchmarks on the same hardware platform (and sometimes slower on the WinXP side).
I've seen more problems with WinXP's "new and improved" driver architechture, network support, and GUI alone to give win2k precidence in the 'quality product' department, as have most of the techs that I know or work with.
Going to microsoft.com and 'educating' myself about the differences between Win2k and WinXP is identical to having them outline how any windows product is better than any linux distro. In both cases, they'll give (often technically innacurate) information bolstering their latest, "greatest" product. It's similar to consulting the devil for the validity of murder - asking for a thesis on a subject from someone that could very well be considered the antithesis of validity.
Unfortunately, it's not legal here. A pox on the requisite gov't beaurocricies and their families.
I've heard that SARS is suspected to have come from a meteor that originated from Mars, or have passed through Mars's atmosphere.
"War of the Worlds" now has new meaning. Martians might very well kill off humanity - except the only martians are microbes.
I kinda suspect that there are a lot of people that don't believe in God will use this, and similarly related items, as "direct evidence" for evolution (to the degree of saying that there was no creation). (The simple principle of cause and effect kind of nullifies this, but people tend to dream up potential clauses that are about as likely as a jolt of electricity jumping from my computer and electrifying my coffee, creating a new super-virus. Potentially interesting science fiction, though.)
All said, I don't doubt that there is life on Mars, especially after so many positives. Whether the life there is original to Mars, or has floated through space from our outter atmosphere to Mars, (and then mutated) sometime during the history of time will be interesting to see.
Does someone really need to point out to you that winxp code is functionally very similar, if not mostly identical, to win2k code, except for several added trinkets? Thus, win2k3 isn't that much different than win2k.
I've not quite started the process myself,though I've done some fairly indepth reading on the topic. My understanding is acidifying is optional, based on desired outcome. If you don't have acidity in a high-sweetness batch, then it ends up being cloying, etc. (Something like that, I don't have my notes readily available)
:P I'm having the ceremony at an authentic recreation of the famous 850-year-old Borgund Stave Church in Norway, and I wouldn't mind the authentic drink for toasting to accompany it. :)
Besides, the norse made mead with fruit, spices, and the like as well. That can often be enough to satisfy your acidity.
Right now I'm in a bit of a moving process, so I've not had the chance to start, unfortunately. Once I settle down, though, I'll be getting started. My current concern is to find an in-state meadery or distributor that I can purchase a couple bottles from for my wedding
Here, let me try. In order to be a computer security expert (or whatever term you prefer), you need:
5 years administering mixed operating systems and archatectures in a business environment, including cisco (routers), linux (routers, servers), and windows (clients and servers).
a decent hack with programming, able to comprehend data structures and follow the flow of written source and write basic programs in various languages (perl, c++, c, bash*)
an intimate understanding of the security tools they're using
a comprehension of how networks work, how various operating systems handle security, security circumvention methods, and ways to prevent those circumventions through various methods of hardening.
I've never met someone over 35 who could reasonably keep up with late-breaking security issues, let alone the technologies involved, due to lifestyle requirements (family, friends, house, etc.)
This could simply be for the fact that Spafford was a better programmer. However, you're likely correct that the decompilation helped him substantially.
Usually when you hunt something, you kill it. At least I do. Might you mean "hunt to extinction"?
I can just see a bunch of liberal treehuggers gathered about hunting things and then letting them free...
You're right -distilling can't be done, but mead is perfectly fine, since it's considered honey wine (and is, based on procedure). Not sure if you knew that or not.
cool - I'm not much of an electrician/physicist/mathmatician, unfortunately
yeah, I meant semi, my bad :)
:)
iirc, it's possible to modify a glock to be full automatic. I'm pretty sure that the guns used by morpheus and trinity in Reloaded were full-auto glocks w/ 20 (or so) round clips. very badass.