you cant regulate encryption like you can regulate guns. anyone with a pencil and paper can symetrically encrypt a very strong message, even the most basic computer/programming environment can be used for encryption/decryption.
You guys are naive. Anyone with some potting soil can grow hemp - yet, what, 400,000 people a year are thrown in jail for it. The government can attempt to regulate whatever they want - they won't be 100% succesful - they aren't with guns, drugs, alcohol, or anything else - but they sure will throw a lot of people in jail.
I'm sure most of you guys will vote democrat or republican, thus perpetuating this problem indefinitely.
If you're not voting Libertarian or Constitutional party, I'm not sure what you're complaining about.
As a Libertarian sitting on the sideline, I find it very amusing that democrats/liberals that always tout how 'tolerant' they are are always the ones that are so intollerant of their opponent's viewpoint.
Seriously, if you haven't used PostgreSQL, consider it for your next project. I use both, but have ended up using PostgreSQL a lot more. It's a much more serious database, and really isn't any more difficult to setup and manage than mySQL.
8.0's introduction of point-in-time-recovery is going to be a huge boost to enterprise applications of PG!
For the love of God, somebody write a Windows virus that destroys EVERY email address harvested by Outlook so that the next round of viruses stops emailing me!:)
If you feel that the Patriot Act is a bad thing, write your congressman [aclu.org]. Join the American Civil Liberties Union [aclu.org] and the Electronic Frontier Foundation [eff.org]. But don't sit here on Slashdot and bitch, you're not changing anything.
I think you left out an essential one: Join the Libertarian Party.
Yeah, yeah, the [insert your favorite of the big two parties here] party was only kidding when they voted overwhelmingly to pass the patriot act, they're real nice guys, and they promise they won't do it again.
Let's face it, if we keep voting for democrats and republicans, this crap will never end.
Taxes? You're giving more profit to your beer manufacturer, or your gas manufacturer than the government sees in taxes.
Well,
A) No http://www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline/margins/ ht tp://www.msnbc.com/news/423165.asp?cp1=1 http://w ww.beerinstitute.org/washington_updates/st andarpoorstudy.pdf
B) They did manufacturer the product, why shouldn't they profit?
So we fought and won two world wars and defeated world communism, yet we can't protect ourselves against a few religious nuts without violating the privacy of every American?
None of this has anything to do with terrorism, it's all about using fear to make a power grab.
My company actually terminated paying for cell phones and broadband - and I agreed with it.
Budgets were tight, and in reviewing those with broadband and cell phones, we couldn't come up with anyone who didn't have a cell phone and broadband anyway for their own personal use.
So why should the company pay for it? It's a nice perk, sure, but when the money is tight...
It doesn't mean Kerry likes OSS, but it's still notable that (some) fans of OSS would rather work for Kerry than Bush. That Kerry ended up with OSS IT guys, and Bush ended up with MS-lovng IT guys (claiming that more people know how to use IIS than Apache--is this true? seems unlikely) says something about the culture of their campaigns.
Or maybe it just says that they happened to pick companies that like OSS and Microsoft, respectively.
They must have lost the stats on fraud from Russia, Israel and the USA itself, because Macedonia's negligible internet population cannot possibly account for that much trouble.
Why, Macedonian criminals aren't up to snuff with their Russian counterparts? We are talking about FRAUD, not legitimate purchases, so what makes you think the population significantly limits the scale?
Cutting off an entire country only hurts the legitimate users. And I thought all this time I was surfing the 'World Wide' Web:/"
Really? It sure seems to me that cutting off an entire country where an enormous percentage of the transactions are fraudulent helps most of us, by keeping prices low.
Or do you think I should be forced to pay more because some guy in a country that isn't willing to enforce the law has a "right" (sic) to buy online?
If Macedonians don't like it, they need to change their government and crack down on fraud. Pretty simple stuff.
As to falsifying "a significant portion of the content," I'm going to have to disagree with you here again. None of the footage was doctored.
I see that you, much like Michael Moore, won't let the facts get in your way. Maybe he needs an apprentice?
Well, the majority of the voting members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences seemed to think that it was a documentary
Whoopteedoo. I guess you're also one of those people that is glued to the television whenever some actor testifies to congress about the plight of some group of people that they portrayed in a movie, and are now "experts" ?
Michael Moore has himself kept correcting the information in the various editions of the movie as more information became available, even backing down from the assertion (from five people) that the Columbine killers had gone to bowling class that morning.
Then why did he delete his comments on 9/11 from his website? The comments where he basically admitted 9/11 demonstrated to him the futility of gun control? Ahh... honesty.
Come on? "Falsified"?
Yes, falsified. Did you READ the hardy law link, or can you just dismiss it since Moore claims to be a liberal 'working man'?
(Real working man, at $30k a pop for speaking engagements... his million dollar apartment must give him keen insights into the plight of the every day American)
I'm against the war in Iraq too, but after he passed off Bowling for Columbine as a documentary, yet blatantly falsified a significant portion of the content, I have no interest in seeing Farenheit 9/11 and supporting this boob.
Frankly, I think you leftists would do your cause better justice to tout someone a bit more reputable than Michael Moore. He's the leftist equivilant of Rush Limbaugh. The fact that he's against Bush makes me question my own contempt for Bush.
Gee, you begin to think that maybe prohibition isn't the solution to every problem we face?
My primary hobby is machine gun collecting and shooting. Let me tell you the fun of throwing down $10-20k, finger printing, filling out forms, then waiting 3 months for a background check for the opportunity to pay a $200 tax so I can own one of a class of firearms by which *ZERO* people have been killed by civilians in the entire 70 year history of NFA firearms.
Meanwhile, John Q. Gangbanger buys a MAC-10 on the corner for $50 and hoses down whoever.
It makes you think maybe we should outlaw killing people.
IME cops are generally helpful, useful and would much prefer to handle cleanup on a woman executing a rapist vs trying to find him and having him rape again. Of course these are just the cops I've met.
I've had a lot of experience with both. I've delt with cops like one SWAT cop who encouraged me to pack a fully automatic weapon in a shoulder holster, and I've delt with with cops like were aghast that anyone would be carrying a firearm for protection.
I think the hypocrisy was lost on that particular bunch...
This smells like BS. If this is true, what happened a couple of generations back, when so many folks had to work MUCH harder and longer hours than we do?
Somehow, they generally managed to raise better people than we seem to these days - we had personal responsibility, character, morals, ethics...
I think there's a lot more to it than the number of hours you're present. I would guess there's a serious quality factor that vastly outweighs the quantity factor. Plenty of stay at home parents fail to instill any worthwhile values in their kids.
That said, I'm hoping to be around more than my dad was, but not because I was "damaged" by him working long hours as a doctor - just because it was fun when he was around to do stuff with!
I skimmed the page you suggested. I didn't see much other than liberals whining that:
a) republicans watch fox news b) fox is right-biased simply because they aren't left-biased.
Now, I'm sure if I read more carefully they've cited a thing here or there, but honestly, I'm a Libertarian and can't stand either democrats or republicans - and the only thing I've ever noticed about Fox is that they're closer to balanced than any other "news" channel. I'm sure there's an equal number of right-wing pages citing examples of Fox's left-wing bias.
Republican bullshit not withstanding, the Canadian single-payer health care system works better than anything I have ever seen in the US.
As long as you judge by quantity instead of quality.
There are still far too many foreign nationals coming here for medical care for fear of dying on the waiting list, or dying from second-rate practitioners.:)
I think it has a something to do with the fact that we've gone socialist over the last 40 years. We punish people who work hard and are succesful by taking away more of what they make. Don't feel like working? No problem, the government will take care of you. What a motiviation killer to see 50%+ of whatever you create go to the government, to be redistributed to those who deserve it more.
Oh, and the crappy education system that's run by teachers unions more interested in self preservation than education.
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you cant regulate encryption like you can regulate guns. anyone with a pencil and paper can symetrically encrypt a very strong message, even the most basic computer/programming environment can be used for encryption/decryption.
You guys are naive. Anyone with some potting soil can grow hemp - yet, what, 400,000 people a year are thrown in jail for it. The government can attempt to regulate whatever they want - they won't be 100% succesful - they aren't with guns, drugs, alcohol, or anything else - but they sure will throw a lot of people in jail.
I'm sure most of you guys will vote democrat or republican, thus perpetuating this problem indefinitely.
If you're not voting Libertarian or Constitutional party, I'm not sure what you're complaining about.
As a Libertarian sitting on the sideline, I find it very amusing that democrats/liberals that always tout how 'tolerant' they are are always the ones that are so intollerant of their opponent's viewpoint.
Case in point, the idiot quoted in this article.
PostgreSQL gets another boost! :)
Seriously, if you haven't used PostgreSQL, consider it for your next project. I use both, but have ended up using PostgreSQL a lot more. It's a much more serious database, and really isn't any more difficult to setup and manage than mySQL.
8.0's introduction of point-in-time-recovery is going to be a huge boost to enterprise applications of PG!
http://www.rackmountnet.com
:)
It looks like they now have 4U systems holding up to 24 drives. I bought a 4U that held 16 PATA drives last year, and it's worked fairly well.
It's amazing what a little googling can do.
The lawyers get $3.3M. Wow. Where do I sign up to be a class action ambulance chaser? :)
For the love of God, somebody write a Windows virus that destroys EVERY email address harvested by Outlook so that the next round of viruses stops emailing me! :)
If you feel that the Patriot Act is a bad thing, write your congressman [aclu.org]. Join the American Civil Liberties Union [aclu.org] and the Electronic Frontier Foundation [eff.org]. But don't sit here on Slashdot and bitch, you're not changing anything.
I think you left out an essential one: Join the Libertarian Party.
Yeah, yeah, the [insert your favorite of the big two parties here] party was only kidding when they voted overwhelmingly to pass the patriot act, they're real nice guys, and they promise they won't do it again.
Let's face it, if we keep voting for democrats and republicans, this crap will never end.
Taxes? You're giving more profit to your beer manufacturer, or your gas manufacturer than the government sees in taxes.
t tp://www.msnbc.com/news/423165.asp?cp1=1w ww.beerinstitute.org/washington_updates/st andarpoorstudy.pdf
Well,
A) No
http://www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline/margins/
h
http://
B) They did manufacturer the product, why shouldn't they profit?
Why would we not believe Novell? Didn't they recently purchase the #2 Linux vendor in the world? :)
I'm inclined to think they're no longer running joins across 21 databases. :)
So we fought and won two world wars and defeated world communism, yet we can't protect ourselves against a few religious nuts without violating the privacy of every American?
None of this has anything to do with terrorism, it's all about using fear to make a power grab.
My company actually terminated paying for cell phones and broadband - and I agreed with it.
...
Budgets were tight, and in reviewing those with broadband and cell phones, we couldn't come up with anyone who didn't have a cell phone and broadband anyway for their own personal use.
So why should the company pay for it? It's a nice perk, sure, but when the money is tight
It doesn't mean Kerry likes OSS, but it's still notable that (some) fans of OSS would rather work for Kerry than Bush. That Kerry ended up with OSS IT guys, and Bush ended up with MS-lovng IT guys (claiming that more people know how to use IIS than Apache--is this true? seems unlikely) says something about the culture of their campaigns.
:)
Or maybe it just says that they happened to pick companies that like OSS and Microsoft, respectively.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
PS: I hate both of them.
They must have lost the stats on fraud from Russia, Israel and the USA itself, because Macedonia's negligible internet population cannot possibly account for that much trouble.
:/"
Why, Macedonian criminals aren't up to snuff with their Russian counterparts? We are talking about FRAUD, not legitimate purchases, so what makes you think the population significantly limits the scale?
Cutting off an entire country only hurts the legitimate users. And I thought all this time I was surfing the 'World Wide' Web
Really? It sure seems to me that cutting off an entire country where an enormous percentage of the transactions are fraudulent helps most of us, by keeping prices low.
Or do you think I should be forced to pay more because some guy in a country that isn't willing to enforce the law has a "right" (sic) to buy online?
If Macedonians don't like it, they need to change their government and crack down on fraud. Pretty simple stuff.
This'll finally put them on the map like Brockway, Audbinville, and North Haverbrooke!
As to falsifying "a significant portion of the content," I'm going to have to disagree with you here again. None of the footage was doctored.
I see that you, much like Michael Moore, won't let the facts get in your way. Maybe he needs an apprentice?
Well, the majority of the voting members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences seemed to think that it was a documentary
Whoopteedoo. I guess you're also one of those people that is glued to the television whenever some actor testifies to congress about the plight of some group of people that they portrayed in a movie, and are now "experts" ?
Michael Moore has himself kept correcting the information in the various editions of the movie as more information became available, even backing down from the assertion (from five people) that the Columbine killers had gone to bowling class that morning.
Then why did he delete his comments on 9/11 from his website? The comments where he basically admitted 9/11 demonstrated to him the futility of gun control? Ahh... honesty.
Come on? "Falsified"?
Yes, falsified. Did you READ the hardy law link, or can you just dismiss it since Moore claims to be a liberal 'working man'?
(Real working man, at $30k a pop for speaking engagements... his million dollar apartment must give him keen insights into the plight of the every day American)
I'm against the war in Iraq too, but after he passed off Bowling for Columbine as a documentary, yet blatantly falsified a significant portion of the content, I have no interest in seeing Farenheit 9/11 and supporting this boob.
Frankly, I think you leftists would do your cause better justice to tout someone a bit more reputable than Michael Moore. He's the leftist equivilant of Rush Limbaugh. The fact that he's against Bush makes me question my own contempt for Bush.
http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html
Gee, you begin to think that maybe prohibition isn't the solution to every problem we face?
My primary hobby is machine gun collecting and shooting. Let me tell you the fun of throwing down $10-20k, finger printing, filling out forms, then waiting 3 months for a background check for the opportunity to pay a $200 tax so I can own one of a class of firearms by which *ZERO* people have been killed by civilians in the entire 70 year history of NFA firearms.
Meanwhile, John Q. Gangbanger buys a MAC-10 on the corner for $50 and hoses down whoever.
It makes you think maybe we should outlaw killing people.
IME cops are generally helpful, useful and would much prefer to handle cleanup on a woman executing a rapist vs trying to find him and having him rape again. Of course these are just the cops I've met.
...
I've had a lot of experience with both. I've delt with cops like one SWAT cop who encouraged me to pack a fully automatic weapon in a shoulder holster, and I've delt with with cops like were aghast that anyone would be carrying a firearm for protection.
I think the hypocrisy was lost on that particular bunch
This smells like BS. If this is true, what happened a couple of
...
generations back, when so many folks had to work MUCH harder and longer
hours than we do?
Somehow, they generally managed to raise better people than we seem to
these days - we had personal responsibility, character, morals, ethics
I think there's a lot more to it than the number of hours you're
present. I would guess there's a serious quality factor that vastly
outweighs the quantity factor. Plenty of stay at home parents fail to
instill any worthwhile values in their kids.
That said, I'm hoping to be around more than my dad was, but not because
I was "damaged" by him working long hours as a doctor - just because it
was fun when he was around to do stuff with!
[When America joined the war in Earnest December 7th, 1943, England and France were already in shambled!].
:)
:)
1943? Was that when Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Where's Earnest, North Africa?
I skimmed the page you suggested. I didn't see much other than liberals whining that:
a) republicans watch fox news
b) fox is right-biased simply because they aren't left-biased.
Now, I'm sure if I read more carefully they've cited a thing here or there, but honestly, I'm a Libertarian and can't stand either democrats or republicans - and the only thing I've ever noticed about Fox is that they're closer to balanced than any other "news" channel. I'm sure there's an equal number of right-wing pages citing examples of Fox's left-wing bias.
Republican bullshit not withstanding, the Canadian single-payer health care system works better than anything I have ever seen in the US.
:)
As long as you judge by quantity instead of quality.
There are still far too many foreign nationals coming here for medical care for fear of dying on the waiting list, or dying from second-rate practitioners.
Perhaps, but you silly twits outlawed machine guns a while back, whereas I can still toy around with mine here. For now. :)
I think it has a something to do with the fact that we've gone socialist over the last 40 years. We punish people who work hard and are succesful by taking away more of what they make. Don't feel like working? No problem, the government will take care of you. What a motiviation killer to see 50%+ of whatever you create go to the government, to be redistributed to those who deserve it more.
Oh, and the crappy education system that's run by teachers unions more interested in self preservation than education.