Do you ever see KDE being workable for both new users and power users? Do you think KDE will eventually be the most popular *NIX desktop? how do you plan on achiving this?
Of course then you could also imagine that it is actually humans in the future going back to seed earth with genetic material, so humans will evolve. Quite a paradox i believe. but hey, thats time travel. =-}
Damn! i knew when segfault closed its comment board, we would have the idiots flock here. Wonderr if this is the jerk who flooded the segfault boards and got them closed down. Anyways. moving on to more important stuff.
Someone made a comment in a previous topic about reading Slashdot and feeling like They are reading Segfault. Personally, i see what they mean. The inherent "Dig-Your-Own-Grave" actions of this is just plain stupid, albiet painfully real.
Here's a Question for ya: If Microsoft is "more evil then satan" Then would Linux Be "Holier then Christ"?
honestly, i have to say, i personally have not done much looking into DVD encryption and copy protection, but just reading a lot of the posts here, and going over the source that was posted for this program, i am impressed with the sophistication of which DVD was developed. Unlike several other attempts at a 'secure' format, (AKA: mp3, unf*ck.exe, and other easially ripped audio formats), DVD seems to have been very well designed.
Oh lookie i'm elite cause i got first post goody goody now i can brag to all my friends and use back oraface to () \/\//\/ them!!
The Spiffiness is Overwhelming.
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You know, thisis an excellent way to demonstrate a large flaw in the bill. What would be even better, if they threw a lot of power behind it and cracked it, and it turned out to be something small, like littering or speeding, or something that would be of very little concequence. I would find this very humerous. =-}
First of all, Lose the bold. It makes you look like an idiot. ALMOST AS BAD AS TYPING IN ALL CAPS FOR THE ENTIRE POST. Thank you.
Second of all, the more important part.. the IP doesn't reveal your physical location, but it reveals the location of your computer on the network (AKA. the Internet). This can be just as bad, for example,, you join an online discussion, from the ip 207.46.131.13, and you post some really controversial things. Your boss goes "hey, look i recognise that IP!" checks the logs, and finds out that it was assigned to your account at the time of the posting. then he fires you like a good little conservative. Is this not a violation of your privacy?
Also what about script kiddies? remember the archiac teardrop.c, and how annoying it was before patched? personally, i'd like to keep my IP out of their hands.
I agree, Getting this on the net is a very very good thing. since the primary target in the whole witch hunt are the goths, a good 75% (don't quote me on this, it is a VERY rough estimation based from personal opinion/observations) are decently net-savvy. I remember sending a good many of my friends to the article, and printing it out for those who needed it. it really helped during times of mindless persecution and paranoia.
I was lucky because (as i said in another post) i got out of high school 2 weeks before the columbine thing occured. but it scared me. all i could think on was remembering a story (not sure if it was national) about some people who dragged a black guy behind the car untill he died. That level of inansity and prejudice was now being focused towards me and those like me. i made sure all of my goth/outcast friends had a copy of the main text of the voices from the hellmouth, and it apparently did a lot of good, because the administration was forced to see the level f stupidity they were at, and while they still did ban trenchcoats, they really were lax on the whole goth/dark group in school. not that that stopped the jocks and preps from getting a couple of brain cells. another good friend of mine was suspended because in the middle of lunch, he was surrounded bywhat seemed (to him at the time) half the football team, and things were getting ugly. he backed them off with a straight look into the "leader of the pack's" eyes and a comment on "how everyone has their braking point, and you don't know what mine is...." immediatly the group dispersed and 5 min later he was escorted to the office by the school cop and suspended. i think he was an idiot cause he gave them exactly what they wanted, but it is a prime example of the mentality.
its almost like they are trying to get rid of the problem my making it blow up.
something i have noticed, if a massacre did occur at the local high school. you would have the negative emotions, but people seem to want it to happen, as long as they are the ones who survive. that way they have a story to tell, it livens up their rather shallow existance and they get nationwide pity. remonds me of those who torture animals then have the animal put down when it finaly snapps and attacks the person.
Okay, in the 60 min since i posted that, i have gone through various sites and yes, you are correct, the swastica did exist long before the nazi regime.
What i was remembering, was the nazi swastica was a reversed and distorted version of another type of swastica that a general (from the mideval times) had used or something. =-p
i do apologise for my misinformation, and thank you for the correction. =-}
One problem, conversion is not occuring. It has been "excused" and "measures have been taken to prevent it in the future" but all thats happening is the schools are becoming more closed-off for social outcasts, a veritable "Police state" in the schools are being enforced. you just have to go up to an administrator and say "that guy over there was saying he is gonna shoot someone" and if the guy is wearing black, or something "non-conformist" then boom, immediate suspension and therapy. it is sad that if you tell that to an administrator about "Mr. Jonny football player" they will say "oh, he was just messing with you". i know. it ihas been tested. =-p Change is occuring, but only more infringements on student's rights. they have already banned trenchcoats in the schools here. and a few of my friends were put into therapy for refusing not to wear all-black. There are problems that aren't being fixed, but mearly covered up by restrictions.
I really do not see how this is flaimbait. I personally am sick of the whole thing as well. i just wolnd't have expressed it the same,, creative way. =-p **hands AC a barf bag** (try not to spill any)
It is because i do not care, weather some kids decided to slaughter some classmates. Good for them, Dumbasses.
I am non-violent by nature, but what i wear, and have worn for years, is not wrong. the same style, before the massacre, was starting to be portreyed as 'good' and the heros of many hollywood movies were beginning to go along the "i'm so bad, i'm good" style. AKA The Matrix, and Payback.
People do not have the right to decide how i am to dress. i don't give a flying f*ck if some kids killed several more. hey, thats life. the USA just killed a bunch of kosovo civillains, oh no! now we must form a social prejudice and detachment from kosovo. china kills thousands of people a year, and we turn our heads. a jet plane crashes and we all tune in, hoping to see bodies strewn out across the ground, but protest of they do show it. bodybags being wheeled out on a cart is common on the news now. hey, another person just died, i'm watching it now, because he was drunk and steped in front of a train. OH NO! we must now sensationalise and decide that trains are deadly. Is the Media now determining society's common sense? And what about my priorities? Do you have any right to decide where my priorities should lay? what IF this coat is more important to me then some dipshits who killed some kids? thats for ME to decide. to use a quote i have seen here before, that i really liked, "Your rights end where mine begin."
This means, i have a right to wear what i want to wear. just as you have the right to be offended, but don't expect me to give up my right to accomodate your right. that also falls back on the more complex level of "respect"
I tested this several times, respect is dynamic per person per situation. Mr. A might not be offended by the trench, while Mr. B will. and if i go into a mall, noone gives a flip what i wear. but if i (for some reason) go into a church, i would show respect by removing the trenchcoat because I am the Guest. and if mister C here had a daughter who was killed while proclaiming her religion, i had better respect his feelings, because that is on a more basic emotional level and would cause a lot of emotional pain, which i am not entitled too cause.
You see, rights and emotions in today's society are complex and dynamic that it is impossable to respect the rights of everyone. therefore I will wear what i want, have my priorities how i want them, and if someone is having their rights infringed by my actions, then one or the other will have to be modified. i remember one magical word that noone seems to remember anymore.....
COMPROMISE
so you see, my priorities are in place. rudeness begets rudeness, as you say. that is true on both sides. A swastica was a modified cross, specifically designed for the nazi cause, therefore it was purely a hate symbol. a trenchcoat has existed a long time before these kids killed kids. now please, get off my land.
I remember the immediate attitude from everyone who knew me, the day Columbine occured.
I remember exactly when i heard the news. I was sitting at the computer, in my trench, when all of a sudden my younger brothers, their next door neighbor friends, and several kids i don't even know, all ran in telling me that i can't wear my coat anymore. i rolled my eyes, thinking it was some stupid kid thing, and ignored them, after a while they went away.
About five min. later, my parents, next door neighbor and a few other "mature adults" surrounded me, wanting to "talk." Turns out, i was expressly forbid from wearing my trenchcoat, "untill the whole thing calms down." then i was 'asked' to 'consider' wearing something other then black 'for a while'. Aftr about 3 hours of arguing, screaming, yelling, and nearly getting hit by several 'mature adults' because of my 'insolence' (read: because i wouldn't do exactly what they wanted with no question), i managed to 'compromise' into not wearing my trenchcoat. and still keeping my normal dress. after that i was passive-aggressivly griped at during all the media hype, (which i followed very closely) and am still looked at negatively by a few of those people as 'rude and insolent'.
Scary thing is, i had left high school, and earned my degree about 2 weeks earlier.
I am now faces with the dillema to wear it now that it is getting cold. It is the only coat i have and personally, i still like it.
Damn the hype, Damn the prejudice that immediately insues.
someone tell me where i can get the june-twenty-third-two-double-oh-one Patch and updates, because i need to make my UNIX box compliant! I've already cancelled my flights to Canada, and will drive to my june-twenty-third-two-double-oh-one shelter in Ontario! What do i need to stock for this catastrophy? Already bought my generators and year's worth of canned spam, macaroni and cheeze, and Whoppers! Anythign else i need?
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"We're Geeks, We're Freaks, now get the hell outts my way i'm coding!" =-}
Do you ever see KDE being workable for both new users and power users? Do you think KDE will eventually be the most popular *NIX desktop? how do you plan on achiving this?
Of course then you could also imagine that it is actually humans in the future going back to seed earth with genetic material, so humans will evolve. Quite a paradox i believe. but hey, thats time travel. =-}
"eventually with pepsi filled nights they will acheive their goal."
Whatever Happened to Jolt?? =-{
I find this doubleplusungood.
Damn! i knew when segfault closed its comment board, we would have the idiots flock here. Wonderr if this is the jerk who flooded the segfault boards and got them closed down. Anyways. moving on to more important stuff.
Someone made a comment in a previous topic about reading Slashdot and feeling like They are reading Segfault. Personally, i see what they mean. The inherent "Dig-Your-Own-Grave" actions of this is just plain stupid, albiet painfully real.
Here's a Question for ya:
If Microsoft is "more evil then satan"
Then would Linux Be "Holier then Christ"?
Good demonstration of why i enjoy slashdot so much. If i'm ignorant on a topic, i'm corrected. thank you.
honestly, i have to say, i personally have not done much looking into DVD encryption and copy protection, but just reading a lot of the posts here, and going over the source that was posted for this program, i am impressed with the sophistication of which DVD was developed. Unlike several other attempts at a 'secure' format, (AKA: mp3, unf*ck.exe, and other easially ripped audio formats), DVD seems to have been very well designed.
Heh, on this similiar topic (sorta) i noticed that on the Taco Bell© old "Star Wars" contest, there was a line on it "Residents of Canada must take mathmatical skills test before ward of prize money" or something similiar. This struck me as funny, and i wonder if those who have a good knowladge of laws, could explain this to me. cause its quite,, unexpected.
You know what i'd liek to see.
some "hacker" "hack" this page. GOD that woul d be funny as hell!
*Thump*
What was that?
I think i just heard Orwell Turn over in his grave.
AOL and cable modems. thats not a good combination =-p
Oh lookie i'm elite cause i got first post goody goody now i can brag to all my friends and use back oraface to () \/\/ /\/ them!!
You know, thisis an excellent way to demonstrate a large flaw in the bill.
What would be even better, if they threw a lot of power behind it and cracked it, and it turned out to be something small, like littering or speeding, or something that would be of very little concequence.
I would find this very humerous. =-}
Edison == Bill Gate's Idol?
Or worse.. Bill Gates is Edison Reincarnated!!
Makes you wonder why light bulbs need to be replaces so much....
First of all, Lose the bold. It makes you look like an idiot. ALMOST AS BAD AS TYPING IN ALL CAPS FOR THE ENTIRE POST.
Thank you.
Second of all, the more important part.. the IP doesn't reveal your physical location, but it reveals the location of your computer on the network (AKA. the Internet).
This can be just as bad, for example,,
you join an online discussion, from the ip 207.46.131.13, and you post some really controversial things. Your boss goes "hey, look i recognise that IP!" checks the logs, and finds out that it was assigned to your account at the time of the posting. then he fires you like a good little conservative.
Is this not a violation of your privacy?
Also what about script kiddies? remember the archiac teardrop.c, and how annoying it was before patched? personally, i'd like to keep my IP out of their hands.
I agree, Getting this on the net is a very very good thing.
since the primary target in the whole witch hunt are the goths, a good 75% (don't quote me on this, it is a VERY rough estimation based from personal opinion/observations) are decently net-savvy.
I remember sending a good many of my friends to the article, and printing it out for those who needed it. it really helped during times of mindless persecution and paranoia.
I was lucky because (as i said in another post) i got out of high school 2 weeks before the columbine thing occured. but it scared me. all i could think on was remembering a story (not sure if it was national) about some people who dragged a black guy behind the car untill he died. That level of inansity and prejudice was now being focused towards me and those like me. i made sure all of my goth/outcast friends had a copy of the main text of the voices from the hellmouth, and it apparently did a lot of good, because the administration was forced to see the level f stupidity they were at, and while they still did ban trenchcoats, they really were lax on the whole goth/dark group in school. not that that stopped the jocks and preps from getting a couple of brain cells. another good friend of mine was suspended because in the middle of lunch, he was surrounded bywhat seemed (to him at the time) half the football team, and things were getting ugly. he backed them off with a straight look into the "leader of the pack's" eyes and a comment on "how everyone has their braking point, and you don't know what mine is...." immediatly the group dispersed and 5 min later he was escorted to the office by the school cop and suspended.
i think he was an idiot cause he gave them exactly what they wanted, but it is a prime example of the mentality.
its almost like they are trying to get rid of the problem my making it blow up.
something i have noticed, if a massacre did occur at the local high school. you would have the negative emotions, but people seem to want it to happen, as long as they are the ones who survive. that way they have a story to tell, it livens up their rather shallow existance and they get nationwide pity. remonds me of those who torture animals then have the animal put down when it finaly snapps and attacks the person.
Okay, in the 60 min since i posted that, i have gone through various sites and yes, you are correct, the swastica did exist long before the nazi regime.
What i was remembering, was the nazi swastica was a reversed and distorted version of another type of swastica that a general (from the mideval times) had used or something. =-p
i do apologise for my misinformation, and thank you for the correction. =-}
They're dead, Jim...
Damnit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a reporter!
One problem,
conversion is not occuring.
It has been "excused" and "measures have been taken to prevent it in the future"
but all thats happening is the schools are becoming more closed-off for social outcasts, a veritable "Police state" in the schools are being enforced. you just have to go up to an administrator and say "that guy over there was saying he is gonna shoot someone" and if the guy is wearing black, or something "non-conformist" then boom, immediate suspension and therapy.
it is sad that if you tell that to an administrator about "Mr. Jonny football player" they will say "oh, he was just messing with you". i know. it ihas been tested. =-p
Change is occuring, but only more infringements on student's rights. they have already banned trenchcoats in the schools here. and a few of my friends were put into therapy for refusing not to wear all-black. There are problems that aren't being fixed, but mearly covered up by restrictions.
I really do not see how this is flaimbait.
I personally am sick of the whole thing as well.
i just wolnd't have expressed it the same,, creative way. =-p
**hands AC a barf bag**
(try not to spill any)
It is because i do not care, weather some kids decided to slaughter some classmates. Good for them, Dumbasses.
I am non-violent by nature, but what i wear, and have worn for years, is not wrong. the same style, before the massacre, was starting to be portreyed as 'good' and the heros of many hollywood movies were beginning to go along the "i'm so bad, i'm good" style. AKA The Matrix, and Payback.
People do not have the right to decide how i am to dress. i don't give a flying f*ck if some kids killed several more. hey, thats life.
the USA just killed a bunch of kosovo civillains, oh no! now we must form a social prejudice and detachment from kosovo. china kills thousands of people a year, and we turn our heads. a jet plane crashes and we all tune in, hoping to see bodies strewn out across the ground, but protest of they do show it. bodybags being wheeled out on a cart is common on the news now. hey, another person just died, i'm watching it now, because he was drunk and steped in front of a train. OH NO! we must now sensationalise and decide that trains are deadly.
Is the Media now determining society's common sense?
And what about my priorities? Do you have any right to decide where my priorities should lay? what IF this coat is more important to me then some dipshits who killed some kids? thats for ME to decide.
to use a quote i have seen here before, that i really liked, "Your rights end where mine begin."
This means, i have a right to wear what i want to wear. just as you have the right to be offended, but don't expect me to give up my right to accomodate your right.
that also falls back on the more complex level of "respect"
I tested this several times, respect is dynamic per person per situation. Mr. A might not be offended by the trench, while Mr. B will. and if i go into a mall, noone gives a flip what i wear. but if i (for some reason) go into a church, i would show respect by removing the trenchcoat because I am the Guest. and if mister C here had a daughter who was killed while proclaiming her religion, i had better respect his feelings, because that is on a more basic emotional level and would cause a lot of emotional pain, which i am not entitled too cause.
You see, rights and emotions in today's society are complex and dynamic that it is impossable to respect the rights of everyone. therefore I will wear what i want, have my priorities how i want them, and if someone is having their rights infringed by my actions, then one or the other will have to be modified. i remember one magical word that noone seems to remember anymore.....
COMPROMISE
so you see, my priorities are in place. rudeness begets rudeness, as you say. that is true on both sides. A swastica was a modified cross, specifically designed for the nazi cause, therefore it was purely a hate symbol. a trenchcoat has existed a long time before these kids killed kids. now please, get off my land.
I remember the immediate attitude from everyone who knew me, the day Columbine occured.
I remember exactly when i heard the news.
I was sitting at the computer, in my trench, when all of a sudden my younger brothers, their next door neighbor friends, and several kids i don't even know, all ran in telling me that i can't wear my coat anymore. i rolled my eyes, thinking it was some stupid kid thing, and ignored them, after a while they went away.
About five min. later, my parents, next door neighbor and a few other "mature adults" surrounded me, wanting to "talk." Turns out, i was expressly forbid from wearing my trenchcoat, "untill the whole thing calms down."
then i was 'asked' to 'consider' wearing something other then black 'for a while'. Aftr about 3 hours of arguing, screaming, yelling, and nearly getting hit by several 'mature adults' because of my 'insolence' (read: because i wouldn't do exactly what they wanted with no question), i managed to 'compromise' into not wearing my trenchcoat. and still keeping my normal dress. after that i was passive-aggressivly griped at during all the media hype, (which i followed very closely) and am still looked at negatively by a few of those people as 'rude and insolent'.
Scary thing is, i had left high school, and earned my degree about 2 weeks earlier.
I am now faces with the dillema to wear it now that it is getting cold. It is the only coat i have and personally, i still like it.
Damn the hype, Damn the prejudice that immediately insues.
someone tell me where i can get the june-twenty-third-two-double-oh-one Patch and updates, because i need to make my UNIX box compliant!
I've already cancelled my flights to Canada, and will drive to my june-twenty-third-two-double-oh-one shelter in Ontario! What do i need to stock for this catastrophy? Already bought my generators and year's worth of canned spam, macaroni and cheeze, and Whoppers! Anythign else i need?