I dunno, we aren't generally shy (though there are of course those that are) alike, but if doesn't the whole "no sex in silicon valley" thing from a few weeks ago point pretty far in the direction of low self esteem.
Its easy to but on a shell of confidence in a social situation, much harder in a romantic one.
(I really hate these discussions btw, everyone talks about themselves, yet writes "they". Not even "we"...)
Daveo, don't apply logic to political systems or you will become a anarchist in about 2 seconds.
In order to understand the other side you have use such terms compassion, arrogance (people can't handle living if I'm not telling them what to do), comfort, and hypocrisy.
This is a somewhat useful point. Although science doesn't "disprove" religion, it does challenge or disconfirm many traditional organized religions.
They do not necessarily contradict, but the ways of thinking do. The most central aspect to any religion is that the religion is holy and unquestionable. You can't believe in a religion (whether it seems reasonable and rational or not) if you don't believe that it is the holy truth.
The whole idea of excepting ANYTHING as a holy truth contradicts with science where every theory is just waiting to be replaced by a better one.
Add to that that current religions have pretty much no reason what so ever...
My question was missquoted here, they only cut in the last part. The part that was cut was:
I would like to know if they, while up there rubbing elbows with the powerful and incompetent, have gotten some sort of feeling for where the rabid Crypto-phobia of Washington is stemming from?
Certainly, most free thinkers of the world recognize the importance of free and strong crypto in the information society, yet in Washington, which as I understand and hope is still a collection of moderately intelligent and educated people, it seems no one supports the issue. Even our friends (SAFE etc) are just less destructive enemies.
I do not believe that the NSA runs the entire show in Washington, but the fact that NO ONE there seems to step out in support of something so blatantly important for freedom as Strong Crypto is extremely suspisious to me.
To me this leaves only the two options in the question as quoted. Either the poletitians in Washington are afraid of Freedom or they are the puppets of others who are.
I see no Helecopters, I have no congressman, and if I speak up it is in a language you do not understand. But who am I turn to when I see the American government trying to force its preposterous laws on us as well? And do I not have the right to at least try to understand what is going on in Washington?
In a move that will not be noticed by, and that is unlikely to cause a stir among the placated office workers who used to be geeks of the late 90s, Microsoft closed community site Slashdot.org today in preparation for the opening of its new side Backslash-tilde-one.com.
Microsoft took over the Linux community site (which pioneered the weblog styled news site) in 2000, after winning a court case against the Free Software Foundation regarding its proprietary Linux distribution (Winux NT) and GNU Public License.
The former owners of Slashdot.org were not available for comments, and have not been spotted publicly since attending a Mircrosoft re-education program at Redmond campus shortly after the takeover.
This is an example of theoretising to death, at the expense of good and sound PRACTICAL options. We have no OS today that is so clean and logical in its design and so well abstracted in its interface that there is no dirty work, so any discussion of Linux on the desktops is about comparing it to what Joe-Shmoe is using today: Windows.
I would kill to be in a situation where everyone who calls me when there computers "break" would have systems that I could log into remotely...
I noticed no difference in the light at all in Stockholm, although I was having Lunch outdoors throughout the entire thing. I guess its not that surprising, 70% is not reffering to the strength of the light.
I wasn't looking at the Sun itself (I'm committed to destroying my eyes by stairing at small text on a monitor, nothing else), but people who did did see something of a moonshadow.
So you think the court would be alright if he sat down and started writing "security" software then? With the prevalent level of paranoia in cases like, this, I don't think so.
I find the whole thing a little ridiculous, after all, Mitnick was 90% con man, 10% hacker...
I would like to know if they, while up there rubbing elbows with the powerful and incompetent, have gotten some sort of feeling for where the rabid Crypto-phobia of Washington is stemming from?
Certainly, most free thinkers of the world recognize the importance of free and strong crypto in the information society, yet in Washington, which as I understand and hope is still a collection of moderately intelligent and educated people, it seems no one supports the issue. Even our friends (SAFE etc) are just less destructive enemies.
Is it, as many like to believe, the NSA and the rest of the Intelligence community still running the show like puppet masters with absolutely no resistance, or is there in Washington a deep, pessimistic belief that freedom must truly be fought with all means possible because we the lesser people of the earth cannot handle it?
Have some vision dude - see the future before it hits you straight in the face.
Money is quickly moving out of the physical realm and into the virtual, where no mugger can take it from you. The value of the real life commodities around you is steadily decreasing relation to the wealth of the world.
The net effect : cybercrime is becoming more efficient, violent crime less.
I'm not saying that violent crime will disappear within the foreseeable future (yes - there are always idiots with big clubs) but as the relative value of the crime decreases, so will the crime in itself.
After all, the reason I am not murdered and robbed when I walk my dog in the woods at night is not that I am under the watchful eye of the state, but because it is simply not worth it for the Ten dollars in my pocket.
With the scales shifting, the day WILL come when todays oppressionist physical governments will no longer be necessary to offer protection, but some other scheme will do. That is the day that I am speaking of.
There are more issues in support of my argument as well. Constant connectivity is going to make "getting away" with a crime all the more difficult, and the information society makes keeping secrets (and all crimes are by their nature secrets) so much more difficult. In fact, the same Privacy matters that are so dangerous to us under authoritarian governance are suddenly our friends in the border-less tomorrow.
Could there be any doubt as to where we are going?
Yeah, this what I keep trying to get the younger people around me to understand. People who are still in School keep complaining that the women around them are not good looking.
Well, they are usually not exactly good looking themselves.
Personally, I'm having a hard enough time finding women who are ugly ENOUGH to suit me:-))) .
While I have seen to many "democratic" Internet societies to get worked up about something like this it does give certain indication where the future is going.
The old idea that countries have physical boundaries, that only citizens are aloud to freely move in and out of those boundaries and that anyone born within them is a citizen are obviously getting old. Their is no reason why I should not be able to choose my own citizenship after preference, and independently of my physical (and so unimportant in the connected world) position.
Should this truly happen then governments would have to fight for our citizenship and tax money through good old capitalist competition: who has to most to offer for the best price.
I used to think that this was the right way for our society to move. Before I turned towards anarchism.
What I find most interesting is that these are really all first half of the Ninetees Usenet terms. After all, while there are quite a few trolls here, I haven't seen any complaining about Me Too!'s or AOLers for that matter. After all, we could have AOLers among us here and never even know (ok, we probably would know).
It's funny that one is still hearing the newsgroups pitched as an Internet feature Joe Unconnected, when in fact it is dead for all but very few uses...
Almost perfect, just a Linux reference and it would have been there.
I have a question though, are the mainstream really aware of all these terms? I never open my mouth about a "nerd" issue with non nerds, so I have sort of assumed not. This had to be written by "one of us"...
You checked with your own government here? Asked if they aren't actively blocking the Iridium frequencies? After all, the Chinese government is _almost_ as good at depriving you of your rights as the American...
Slashdot Mirror
And notepad has a 32 kb limit...
It also requires at least 400 mhz or so...
Terminal error: statement does not compute.
Core dumped.
I dunno, we aren't generally shy (though there are of course those that are) alike, but if doesn't the whole "no sex in silicon valley" thing from a few weeks ago point pretty far in the direction of low self esteem.
Its easy to but on a shell of confidence in a social situation, much harder in a romantic one.
(I really hate these discussions btw, everyone talks about themselves, yet writes "they". Not even "we"...)
Daveo, don't apply logic to political systems or you will become a anarchist in about 2 seconds.
In order to understand the other side you have use such terms compassion, arrogance (people can't handle living if I'm not telling them what to do), comfort, and hypocrisy.
This is a somewhat useful point. Although science doesn't "disprove" religion, it does challenge or disconfirm many traditional organized religions.
They do not necessarily contradict, but the ways of thinking do. The most central aspect to any religion is that the religion is holy and unquestionable. You can't believe in a religion (whether it seems reasonable and rational or not) if you don't believe that it is the holy truth.
The whole idea of excepting ANYTHING as a holy truth contradicts with science where every theory is just waiting to be replaced by a better one.
Add to that that current religions have pretty much no reason what so ever...
Wow man, major highschool math class frustrated teacher flashback there. Thanks
My question was missquoted here, they only cut in the last part. The part that was cut was:
I would like to know if they, while up there rubbing elbows with the powerful and incompetent, have gotten some sort of feeling for where the rabid Crypto-phobia of Washington is stemming from?
Certainly, most free thinkers of the world recognize the importance of free and strong crypto in the information society, yet in Washington, which as I understand and hope is still a collection of moderately intelligent and educated people, it seems no one supports the issue. Even our friends (SAFE etc) are just less destructive enemies.
I do not believe that the NSA runs the entire show in Washington, but the fact that NO ONE there seems to step out in support of something so blatantly important for freedom as Strong Crypto is extremely suspisious to me.
To me this leaves only the two options in the question as quoted. Either the poletitians in Washington are afraid of Freedom or they are the puppets of others who are.
I see no Helecopters, I have no congressman, and if I speak up it is in a language you do not understand. But who am I turn to when I see the American government trying to force its preposterous laws on us as well? And do I not have the right to at least try to understand what is going on in Washington?
Hey, they didn't answer my question either. But I think I know why: They spent to much time in Washington - The NSA got them too...
Their the Second Foundation... no mistake...
Wired News - 13 August 2001
In a move that will not be noticed by, and that is unlikely to cause a stir among the placated office workers who used to be geeks of the late 90s, Microsoft closed community site Slashdot.org today in preparation for the opening of its new side Backslash-tilde-one.com.
Microsoft took over the Linux community site (which pioneered the weblog styled news site) in 2000, after winning a court case against the Free Software Foundation regarding its proprietary Linux distribution (Winux NT) and GNU Public License.
The former owners of Slashdot.org were not available for comments, and have not been spotted publicly since attending a Mircrosoft re-education program at Redmond campus shortly after the takeover.
So either humans used to eat grass or I don't have an appendix?
Kinda brings a new angle to the whole back to nature thing.. MMMMM...
This is an example of theoretising to death, at the expense of good and sound PRACTICAL options. We have no OS today that is so clean and logical in its design and so well abstracted in its interface that there is no dirty work, so any discussion of Linux on the desktops is about comparing it to what Joe-Shmoe is using today: Windows.
I would kill to be in a situation where everyone who calls me when there computers "break" would have systems that I could log into remotely...
I noticed no difference in the light at all in Stockholm, although I was having Lunch outdoors throughout the entire thing. I guess its not that surprising, 70% is not reffering to the strength of the light.
:-).
I wasn't looking at the Sun itself (I'm committed to destroying my eyes by stairing at small text on a monitor, nothing else), but people who did did see something of a moonshadow.
However, the weather here was perfect
"I like penguins" - 114
So you think the court would be alright if he sat down and started writing "security" software then? With the prevalent level of paranoia in cases like, this, I don't think so.
I find the whole thing a little ridiculous, after all, Mitnick was 90% con man, 10% hacker...
I would like to know if they, while up there rubbing elbows with the powerful and incompetent, have gotten some sort of feeling for where the rabid Crypto-phobia of Washington is stemming from?
Certainly, most free thinkers of the world recognize the importance of free and strong crypto in the information society, yet in Washington, which as I understand and hope is still a collection of moderately intelligent and educated people, it seems no one supports the issue. Even our friends (SAFE etc) are just less destructive enemies.
Is it, as many like to believe, the NSA and the rest of the Intelligence community still running the show like puppet masters with absolutely no resistance, or is there in Washington a deep, pessimistic belief that freedom must truly be fought with all means possible because we the lesser people of the earth cannot handle it?
Have some vision dude - see the future before it hits you straight in the face.
Money is quickly moving out of the physical realm and into the virtual, where no mugger can take it from you. The value of the real life commodities around you is steadily decreasing relation to the wealth of the world.
The net effect : cybercrime is becoming more efficient, violent crime less.
I'm not saying that violent crime will disappear within the foreseeable future (yes - there are always idiots with big clubs) but as the relative value of the crime decreases, so will the crime in itself.
After all, the reason I am not murdered and robbed when I walk my dog in the woods at night is not that I am under the watchful eye of the state, but because it is simply not worth it for the Ten dollars in my pocket.
With the scales shifting, the day WILL come when todays oppressionist physical governments will no longer be necessary to offer protection, but some other scheme will do. That is the day that I am speaking of.
There are more issues in support of my argument as well. Constant connectivity is going to make "getting away" with a crime all the more difficult, and the information society makes keeping secrets (and all crimes are by their nature secrets) so much more difficult. In fact, the same Privacy matters that are so dangerous to us under authoritarian governance are suddenly our friends in the border-less tomorrow.
Could there be any doubt as to where we are going?
Yeah, this what I keep trying to get the younger people around me to understand. People who are still in School keep complaining that the women around them are not good looking.
:-))) .
Well, they are usually not exactly good looking themselves.
Personally, I'm having a hard enough time finding women who are ugly ENOUGH to suit me
While I have seen to many "democratic" Internet societies to get worked up about something like this it does give certain indication where the future is going.
/. ? -
The old idea that countries have physical boundaries, that only citizens are aloud to freely move in and out of those boundaries and that anyone born within them is a citizen are obviously getting old. Their is no reason why I should not be able to choose my own citizenship after preference, and independently of my physical (and so unimportant in the connected world) position.
Should this truly happen then governments would have to fight for our citizenship and tax money through good old capitalist competition: who has to most to offer for the best price.
I used to think that this was the right way for our society to move. Before I turned towards anarchism.
- I got an error message from the site,
What I find most interesting is that these are really all first half of the Ninetees Usenet terms. After all, while there are quite a few trolls here, I haven't seen any complaining about Me Too!'s or AOLers for that matter. After all, we could have AOLers among us here and never even know (ok, we probably would know).
It's funny that one is still hearing the newsgroups pitched as an Internet feature Joe Unconnected, when in fact it is dead for all but very few uses...
Almost perfect, just a Linux reference and it would have been there.
I have a question though, are the mainstream really aware of all these terms? I never open my mouth about a "nerd" issue with non nerds, so I have sort of assumed not. This had to be written by "one of us"...
You checked with your own government here? Asked if they aren't actively blocking the Iridium frequencies? After all, the Chinese government is _almost_ as good at depriving you of your rights as the American...
[hobbex@toaster bread] mount -t white /dev/wonder /mnt/bread
/dev/bread
[hobbex@toaster bread] GNUToast --time 4 --heat 225
[hobbex@toaster bread] umount
Inadvertantly????? are you kidding, this is a huge conspiracy, and NASA is fighting an extra-terrestrial war without even telling us about it.
They have to cover the bombings up as something... expect more crafts to "crash" into the moon in search for "water" soon...
:-)
My ~50 father pointed out that this is no different from the Russians using Radio interference to stop Radio Free Europe during the cold war.
Here in Sweden, which was always neutral, they could often not listen to it because of the Russian interference machines...