...and in the meantime become more security conscious and learn the ways of more secure technologies, and perhaps more secure and fedorated social networking platforms such as Diaspora*, Friendica etc... Duckduckgo for search (although who REALLY knows if these guys are honest). Any more tips for the SaaS (Spying as a Service) refugee?
Today is the day I start slowly cutting my ties with Facebook, learning the ways of secure chat, email etc... Unfortunately Slashdot is most probably part of the problem. Perhaps current governments honestly do think they're serving the greater good, but that's an an awful big carrot sitting there waiting for the next Napoleon, Hitler, lesser psychopath etc... I can make it less enticing in my small and probably largely ineffectual way, but we can only do what we can. I actually already have a Diaspora* account, though Friendica looks interesting. It's way past time I learned about these technologies anyway.
Surely it follows that as the most heavily armed society America would have some of the lowest violent crime rates in the western world... definitely not the case. This is the number the gun lobby always trotted out because the USA only measures aggrivated assault where just about everyone else measures ALL assault, but even using this metric the USA has been worse in recent years.
You have no other use for your RAM than surfing the net, media consumption and perhaps some bloated HP printer drivers? And on a tech site too. One can NEVER have too much headroom, and even though I have a PC on the higher end I run into limitations often enough, and this is despite running LXDE and a generally lean system. This is not strange amongst tech savy people I know.
Carrying a concealed firearm has ALWAYS been banned in Australia. The ban in question was ONLY for semi-automatic longarms. Any forcible rape connection is utter nonsense unless you think Australian women were packing assault rifles in their handbags up until the ban.
The "terrible computer-generated graphics" were actually quite realistic even considering their age. They made an effort to model the effects of light in a vacuum (eg. sharp uncomplicated shadows etc...), not to mention realistic inertia etc...
Have you seen the work that came out of that? The GUI frontend to it all is called GOsa (although there's a fork called FusionDirectory which I prefer). The whole infrastructure is managed via LDAP plus RPC, and allows deployment of Linux and Windows (via FAI and OPSI respectively). There are also a multitude of plugins for managing a multitude of network services and LDAP stored info. I use it for managing DNS, DHCP, groupware (SOGo), web proxy + filtering (Squid), Samba, windows OS + software deployment (OPSI), Linux + software deployment (FAI), Debian/Ubuntu repo management, centralised logging (rSyslog)... and I'm currently looking into connecting it to Asterisk. There are TONS more plugins.
Eh? For imaging use PXE with Partimage, or FAI (if you want a non-imaging solution better suited to non-standardised hardware). With Linux on the server side you can manage Windows AND Linux deployments, plus lots of other stuff (groupware, dns, dhcp, phone, netfiltering, filesharing, kerberos along with HEAPS of other stuff not as relevant to an educational context). If you want a GUI integrating all that just use GOsa or FusionDirectory or any number of other LDAP + service management front-ends. It's not like Germany and europe in general is short of that expertise - I know GOsa and FD are projects based in Germany and Belgium respectively.
Being heavily armed seems to have worked very well for the Mexican and US police, not. If you cheapen life by escalation to lethal force your life becomes less secure as a consequence. History has borne this out time and time and time and time again. It's interesting to compare US and British TV - on British TV an arrest is not an anticlimax exactly, but rarely involves lethal force because that's how it is on the street.
If observations show a mathmatical model to be wrong, then it is so. However, if a mathmatical model can make interesting predictions ahead of our ability to observe then that's where we should strive to move our observations eg. LHC, space telescopes etc... Theory is largely ahead of observation in modern physics.
Eh? My brother only does work which he finds interesting... which is the difficult/expensive stuff involving several trades and reasonable money ie. bathrooms, kitchens and extensions. It's hardly uncommon either, especially at the moment where people are more likely to invest in their current home rather than trading up. Regarding software - there's a small engineering firm two doors down from where I live which employs a guy who hacks on open source for part of his time, and he's certainly not the only other person I know open-source-coding in the context of small/medium business. There's a HUGE potential labour market. It's a pity more of these traditionally disenfranchised end users had the power to change the software niggles which have been frustrating them for years. It IS immoral to inhibit people from helping themselves.
It's the same reason people can't waive their right to a contract cooling-off period (at least in my juristiction), or a myriad of other laws and conventions. A community can have rules, but these rules should be binding or they're more-or-less meaningless. If you feel like starting your own GPG (General Public Guidelines) feel free.
:) My brother is a builder whos work is mostly rennovation. I'm a sometimes-developer who has made changes to software for home users... though much more often for small businesses I'll grant. Both of us would lose work in a world where manufacturers were the sole gatekeepers to product modification. Just because in the software realm it's easier to enforce a modification-monopoly doesn't make it any more moral.
:) Given the comments here I must live in the same alternate universe as you. Years ago when I worked in local government I rescued a very important document - as a last ditched effort I tried an import into Star Office and I was shocked when it actually worked. Since then I've worked in many places where documents are either heavily edited, or archived and accessed years later with new software (government, education, health), and MS Office falls down quite a bit in this scenario. Perhaps this is why pressure to move to open source often comes from governments? I guess others here haven't required this functionality and haven't seen this shortcoming.
No strategy? Zhukov devastated the Japanese so badly at the start of WWII that they signed a humiliating non-aggression pact with Russia which is the whole reason America had to fight a Pacific War - the Japanese had nowhere else to go. This freed Russian forces for the more attritional European theatre. The German army heading into Russia had exactly the same attitude you're displaying (you might want to ponder that), but eventually despite Nazi doctrine they were writing in their diaries with grudging respect. Yes, the Russians were poorly led in the beginning after Stalins purges, but they developed an officer class again soon enough. Regarding air power, the allies were surprised to find that German production had actually INCREASED during most of the bombing campaign. I'm certainly not saying air power didn't have an effect though. None of the allies can claim they were responsible for the victory, but the Russians put in the most flesh and blood by far. The American gamble in joining the European war late was wagered against that Russian flesh and blood holding up.
Eh? Snuck in? The whole reason the Japanese went into the Pacific was they were so devastatingly defeated by the Russians near the start of WWII. Japan was forced to sign a humiliating non-aggression pact with the Russians and therefore had to attack south instead. This freed up Russian forces for the much greater threat in the European theatre, indeed Zhukov was the general who originally won the conflict with the Japanese before becoming the greatest general in the war against the Germans. After the German defeat Stalin threw his forces at the Japanese again, and the Americans wanted the war over ASAP before the Russians gobbled up territory at the beginning of what was shaping up to be the Cold War.
The Iran Iraq war was encouraged by the USA when Saddam was "our man". The Iranians had just rebelled against the US supported Shah. The Shah had violently overthrown a democracy with clandesdine US help (in Operation Ajax). As is usual, this was all about oil - the US was responding to cries from the oil industry after they'd been kicked out, the Iranian oilfields having been nationalised.
Before the Iran Iraq war the USA supplied Saddam with arms, intelligence and satellite images and basically said "Iran is yours for the taking. Go for it.". When it didn't go so well the US was happy to supply arms to both sides. Regarding the Kurds, you DID know they sided with Iran didn't you? That certainly doesn't excuse or condone any of Saddams crimes, though regarding the poison gas, both the USA and West Germany supplied the chemicals. You've heard the joke - how does the USA know Iraq has weapons of mass destruction? They have the receipts. Do you also know that the USA gave a "diagonal nod" to the invasion of Kuwait? Saddam let the USA know his intentions, and it was implied in the language that was used that he was OK to proceed - it's even in the public record with US diplomats discussion the wording. Regarding the repression etc... the USA supports one hundred and one vicious tin-pot dictators in hellholes all over the world, and even in the region eg. Saudi Arabia, and until recently Egypt etc... Saddam was no different. They supported him right up til it was more profitable not to.
Were you running Etch or Lenny? Even if it was Lenny the Debian release cycle is famous for a reason. It would have been frozen for quite a while. Perhaps he was using a different distro.
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...and in the meantime become more security conscious and learn the ways of more secure technologies, and perhaps more secure and fedorated social networking platforms such as Diaspora*, Friendica etc... Duckduckgo for search (although who REALLY knows if these guys are honest). Any more tips for the SaaS (Spying as a Service) refugee?
Today is the day I start slowly cutting my ties with Facebook, learning the ways of secure chat, email etc... Unfortunately Slashdot is most probably part of the problem. Perhaps current governments honestly do think they're serving the greater good, but that's an an awful big carrot sitting there waiting for the next Napoleon, Hitler, lesser psychopath etc... I can make it less enticing in my small and probably largely ineffectual way, but we can only do what we can. I actually already have a Diaspora* account, though Friendica looks interesting. It's way past time I learned about these technologies anyway.
Surely it follows that as the most heavily armed society America would have some of the lowest violent crime rates in the western world... definitely not the case. This is the number the gun lobby always trotted out because the USA only measures aggrivated assault where just about everyone else measures ALL assault, but even using this metric the USA has been worse in recent years.
You have no other use for your RAM than surfing the net, media consumption and perhaps some bloated HP printer drivers? And on a tech site too. One can NEVER have too much headroom, and even though I have a PC on the higher end I run into limitations often enough, and this is despite running LXDE and a generally lean system. This is not strange amongst tech savy people I know.
Yes... which is why I use Libre Office.
Things are being done wrong... and doing the wrong thing with more more effort and money won't do much to change the outcome. Ken Robinson says it best, and with the entertaining delivery of a comedian. : http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_how_to_escape_education_s_death_valley.html
Carrying a concealed firearm has ALWAYS been banned in Australia. The ban in question was ONLY for semi-automatic longarms. Any forcible rape connection is utter nonsense unless you think Australian women were packing assault rifles in their handbags up until the ban.
The "terrible computer-generated graphics" were actually quite realistic even considering their age. They made an effort to model the effects of light in a vacuum (eg. sharp uncomplicated shadows etc...), not to mention realistic inertia etc...
Have you seen the work that came out of that? The GUI frontend to it all is called GOsa (although there's a fork called FusionDirectory which I prefer). The whole infrastructure is managed via LDAP plus RPC, and allows deployment of Linux and Windows (via FAI and OPSI respectively). There are also a multitude of plugins for managing a multitude of network services and LDAP stored info. I use it for managing DNS, DHCP, groupware (SOGo), web proxy + filtering (Squid), Samba, windows OS + software deployment (OPSI), Linux + software deployment (FAI), Debian/Ubuntu repo management, centralised logging (rSyslog)... and I'm currently looking into connecting it to Asterisk. There are TONS more plugins.
OPSI for windows deployments... forgot to mention that. It's also LDAP-integrated, though its own webUI is nice too.
Eh? For imaging use PXE with Partimage, or FAI (if you want a non-imaging solution better suited to non-standardised hardware). With Linux on the server side you can manage Windows AND Linux deployments, plus lots of other stuff (groupware, dns, dhcp, phone, netfiltering, filesharing, kerberos along with HEAPS of other stuff not as relevant to an educational context). If you want a GUI integrating all that just use GOsa or FusionDirectory or any number of other LDAP + service management front-ends. It's not like Germany and europe in general is short of that expertise - I know GOsa and FD are projects based in Germany and Belgium respectively.
Being heavily armed seems to have worked very well for the Mexican and US police, not. If you cheapen life by escalation to lethal force your life becomes less secure as a consequence. History has borne this out time and time and time and time again. It's interesting to compare US and British TV - on British TV an arrest is not an anticlimax exactly, but rarely involves lethal force because that's how it is on the street.
If observations show a mathmatical model to be wrong, then it is so. However, if a mathmatical model can make interesting predictions ahead of our ability to observe then that's where we should strive to move our observations eg. LHC, space telescopes etc... Theory is largely ahead of observation in modern physics.
Eh? My brother only does work which he finds interesting... which is the difficult/expensive stuff involving several trades and reasonable money ie. bathrooms, kitchens and extensions. It's hardly uncommon either, especially at the moment where people are more likely to invest in their current home rather than trading up. Regarding software - there's a small engineering firm two doors down from where I live which employs a guy who hacks on open source for part of his time, and he's certainly not the only other person I know open-source-coding in the context of small/medium business. There's a HUGE potential labour market. It's a pity more of these traditionally disenfranchised end users had the power to change the software niggles which have been frustrating them for years. It IS immoral to inhibit people from helping themselves.
It's the same reason people can't waive their right to a contract cooling-off period (at least in my juristiction), or a myriad of other laws and conventions. A community can have rules, but these rules should be binding or they're more-or-less meaningless. If you feel like starting your own GPG (General Public Guidelines) feel free.
:) My brother is a builder whos work is mostly rennovation. I'm a sometimes-developer who has made changes to software for home users... though much more often for small businesses I'll grant. Both of us would lose work in a world where manufacturers were the sole gatekeepers to product modification. Just because in the software realm it's easier to enforce a modification-monopoly doesn't make it any more moral.
Obligatory : (The Bottle - old atomfilms comedic cartoon along these lines) http://www.podcast.tv/video-episodes/the-bottle-episode-1-7850528.html )
NOTE: This list is in no way purposed to protect Australia from DDOS's etc... It's a censorship blacklist.
:) Given the comments here I must live in the same alternate universe as you. Years ago when I worked in local government I rescued a very important document - as a last ditched effort I tried an import into Star Office and I was shocked when it actually worked. Since then I've worked in many places where documents are either heavily edited, or archived and accessed years later with new software (government, education, health), and MS Office falls down quite a bit in this scenario. Perhaps this is why pressure to move to open source often comes from governments? I guess others here haven't required this functionality and haven't seen this shortcoming.
Perhaps the Crimean war... but the British, French and Turks didn't win much out of that in the end.
No strategy? Zhukov devastated the Japanese so badly at the start of WWII that they signed a humiliating non-aggression pact with Russia which is the whole reason America had to fight a Pacific War - the Japanese had nowhere else to go. This freed Russian forces for the more attritional European theatre. The German army heading into Russia had exactly the same attitude you're displaying (you might want to ponder that), but eventually despite Nazi doctrine they were writing in their diaries with grudging respect. Yes, the Russians were poorly led in the beginning after Stalins purges, but they developed an officer class again soon enough. Regarding air power, the allies were surprised to find that German production had actually INCREASED during most of the bombing campaign. I'm certainly not saying air power didn't have an effect though. None of the allies can claim they were responsible for the victory, but the Russians put in the most flesh and blood by far. The American gamble in joining the European war late was wagered against that Russian flesh and blood holding up.
Eh? Snuck in? The whole reason the Japanese went into the Pacific was they were so devastatingly defeated by the Russians near the start of WWII. Japan was forced to sign a humiliating non-aggression pact with the Russians and therefore had to attack south instead. This freed up Russian forces for the much greater threat in the European theatre, indeed Zhukov was the general who originally won the conflict with the Japanese before becoming the greatest general in the war against the Germans. After the German defeat Stalin threw his forces at the Japanese again, and the Americans wanted the war over ASAP before the Russians gobbled up territory at the beginning of what was shaping up to be the Cold War.
The Iran Iraq war was encouraged by the USA when Saddam was "our man". The Iranians had just rebelled against the US supported Shah. The Shah had violently overthrown a democracy with clandesdine US help (in Operation Ajax). As is usual, this was all about oil - the US was responding to cries from the oil industry after they'd been kicked out, the Iranian oilfields having been nationalised.
Before the Iran Iraq war the USA supplied Saddam with arms, intelligence and satellite images and basically said "Iran is yours for the taking. Go for it.". When it didn't go so well the US was happy to supply arms to both sides. Regarding the Kurds, you DID know they sided with Iran didn't you? That certainly doesn't excuse or condone any of Saddams crimes, though regarding the poison gas, both the USA and West Germany supplied the chemicals. You've heard the joke - how does the USA know Iraq has weapons of mass destruction? They have the receipts. Do you also know that the USA gave a "diagonal nod" to the invasion of Kuwait? Saddam let the USA know his intentions, and it was implied in the language that was used that he was OK to proceed - it's even in the public record with US diplomats discussion the wording. Regarding the repression etc... the USA supports one hundred and one vicious tin-pot dictators in hellholes all over the world, and even in the region eg. Saudi Arabia, and until recently Egypt etc... Saddam was no different. They supported him right up til it was more profitable not to.
Legally it's your brain. If you become brain dead you cease to be a person and can be allowed to die.
Were you running Etch or Lenny? Even if it was Lenny the Debian release cycle is famous for a reason. It would have been frozen for quite a while. Perhaps he was using a different distro.