I'm talking about resonsibility.. but don't worry, we don't have to keep talking about it. I know you know very little about it, and have little interest. Perhaps there's something good on television?
First of all, I am not German (or European for that matter), so I'm glad you Americans kicked Hitlers ass. Thanks for doing that, mate.
Second of all, were I to be German I would assume that my responsibility is to let the history of my now-democratic country to continue to serve as an example of the Cause of Justice, since Hitlers government no longer exists (thanks again, Americans) and had its crimes exposed in court at Nuremberg (thanks again America), and justice was actually served to all those whose crimes were disclosed by the free world (America, woowoo!), I would say that the issue of responsibility is entirely resolved in the case of the Nazi's. The bad guys went to jail, end of story. (Yup, America again!!)
Those guys ain't in power no' mo', they've been hanged and handled. The Nazi's got their dues.
50 years of continued American war, and countless U.S. War Crimes, however, have not been dealt with. U.S. War Criminals have not. The U.S. continues to aggressively invade, under whatever pretext it chooses, foreign nations, and looses its war machines whenever stock inventory (bomb shelf life) seems to warrant it. Completely ignorant of, nay flaunting, International Law.
But, coming back to Hitler (heh heh..), since the Nazi's were dealt with, justice served under International Law and by International Standards (thanks again America), well.. the U.S. sure have committed a lot of war crimes by those same standards. For which its people continue to refuse responsibility for, just like happened with those Big Bad Germans (one last ta, America!!)...
You can compare the U.S. to Hitler, in fact you must if there is to be any value to the lesson at all. For the sake of those who died under his evil grip, those alive today, and those yet to be born!
There's video of U.S. War Crimes! Hitler didn't have video!! (pity)
So just have it be the first thing that runs when she logs into Ubuntu.
It'll take over the screen, look, act, and feel exactly like her old system. Its not emulating anything; it is VM-swapping and playing along nicely with Darwin...
It is not "The Government", like its some sorta separate corporation that you can just decide not to 'be a consumer of'.
It exists, ONLY ON THE BASIS OF THE RESPONSIBILITY of and for and by its citizens: YOU.
Thus, actions it takes 'in the name of its citizens and for the nation of america', ARE the responsibility OF its citizens. Directly, and as a cause of!
Your disconnect is because you are a victim of a calculated conspiracy to produce 'consumer paeon slaves of a corporate state' who begrudgingly hate its government and bear its sins, in the name of global dominance, yet all the while refusing to take any responsibility, in the meantime.
It means you can now make a computer that'll only run its own binaries, finally, and not only that but the process that allows it becomes an essential part of the manufacturing/QA stage.
TCCBOOT is what is going to defeat the DMCA, because pretty soon, from firmware on, we can all be encrypting our own executable binaries to a safe and unique internal system key. TCCBOOT makes it possible to integrate even the operating system build into a key-based, locked-down-in-sillicon, complete computing system.
As a manufacturer of equipment, this is exciting to me. As a consumer, it sorta is a bit scarey, but I don't wanna be much of a consumer any more anyway, so I'm not that freaky about it.. as a programmer, this really interests me because it means I could probably make money from software again; it'd mean I'd have to *only distribute source* (i.e. the death of precompiled binaries), but then, I like that anyway, being an F/OSS activist, as I am..
manufacturing makes a machine, it has tccboot in firmware. product is finished, goes to be tested. first test: turn it on, it compiles its own kernel, its own operating system, its own libs. its own app. there is no 'image copied' for mfr'ing; the machine makes its own software itself (source code is served to the firmware over network).
why would this be cool? it would mean an end to the 'all systems run the same binary' dilemna, you know.. the reason for the success of software piracy?
i predict that there will be a distro of linux, using tccboot, in the very near future, which offers the ability to encrypt everything to a unique system key, probably something on-chip. per-processor, custom binaries, it will only run what it compiles itself.
it is, finally, a complete fresh-firmware->compile->boot->operating_system solution. i can imagine this being used in manufacturing, instantly, to do system installs, fresh and clean, from *first power-up*, each system having compiled its own operating system and apps, itself, on production.
why is that good? well, umm.. tinycc is open. i could put encryption in there if i want to..
Thats a good question; to be honest, I do not know the answer.
I've run Linux in VPC (x86-bins linux, emulated, that is), enough to get a fairly large amount of work done in Linux-land, but I'm finding that doing it the other way around works just as fine: Linux boots first, Mac-On-Linux boots OSX second. This gives me OSX/Darwin when I need it, and Linux (finally) on the hardware I love. (I run Linux on 5 different architectures these days.. its nice that my tiBook is useful again!)
It would be interesting to see if there are any PPC virtual machines out there that will cooperate with Darwin enough to give Linux some slice, I guess I'll have to hit google and find out...
I will NOT be held responsible for the actions of other individuals, let alone the actions of government.
*sigh* and heres' the problem. You *SHOULD* take responsibility for the actions of your government, IT IS YOUR GOVERNMENT.
That you are piously inclined to not see that in fact, you Dont Have The Right to not take responsiblity for the actions of your government, should show you how much of a mess you are in.
It is because Americans refuse to take responsibility for the actions of their government, that you don't see the results of those actions reported on your beloved television 'free media'...
You (you know, 'the public') don't want to see the results of the wanton application of America War Machine over the last 50 years, you only want to benefit from the economic rewards presented to you by it... but there are people out there in the world right now, many thousands upon thousands of them in fact, whose lives (and limbs) have been changed, irrevocably, for that fact.
I take offense that you imply that I somehow had something to do with those crimes.
The fact is, American Citizen #93208239, you had everything to do with those crimes. And I am not surprised that you take offense; you (and your country) always do.
I'm thinking you kinda invalidate any right you may have thought you had to grouse about American "consumer marketplace economics" when you lazily request Hollywood warez sites be e-mailed to you in your perch in Germany.
yeah, coz you know, all my points of view, over all time, are supposed to 'make sense' to each other. uh huh.
thanks for pointing out my hypocricy though, thats a sure-fire defeat for the argument that america is a consumerist-whore society that is eating the earth.
As far as America's "innate desire for fascism" goes, uhhhh, don't you think might be just projecting a teensy bit? Fascism is on the rise, all right. But we Americans are dorky amateurs at it.
Typical.. you think just because there is 'merican' in there that I'm only talking about Americans?
No. There are consumericans here in Germany too. That this particularly nefarious social disease started in America, with its 'our cars are bigger than your car' doctrine, is immaterial to the actual meaning of the word.
Funny, though, that you would think that Consumericanism is only an American disease, given that countries predilection for exporting such things...
MPG4 is just a container format, the frames in that container can be 'compressed' with different codecs.. though you can have a 'raw-data mpeg4' file containing individual bitbuffers full of video, most mpeg4's depend on a codec to reduce the file size.
You know, that White-Picket Fence "keeping up with the Joneses" agitated nervousness that comes as a result of being breast-fed consumerican ethics from the day you were born..
Its sickening, really, to watch consumericans eat themselves over such things as 'competitive marketplace economics', but hey, when you live in a society that has to mask its innate desire for fascism with product-owning mechanics, you're gonna get sick a lot..
.. are conducive to rapid-scan indexing of frames.
Sure, on an uncompressed mpeg4, you can just fseek() where you need to go and pick right up, but some codecs (not gonna mention names) are designed with limitations that make faster-than-1x speed indexes exceedingly difficult for simple lower-power processors..
Yeah.. *ahem*.. all of that Apt package management is for naught if, after doing a successful install, you still don't get icons in your Program menu.
This is the #1 problem I have with Ubuntu so far (besides the slow X refresh rate...), its so frustrating to have to work out how to start apps once they've installed, and I usually just resort back to the shell to fire things up.. stupid!
I dunno, I found that image to be quite sexy, two hot chicks with big smiles, nice top-down boob profiles, standing in a suggestive circle, implying that.. once you log in.. the 3 of them are gonna get it on..
Mine is the rev-a powerbook (the one with the firewire problems), so maybe its my hardware, but the default X config that ships with Ubuntu is s-l-o-w.. you can see visible tearing with rect updates in the manager, though the system generally feels (from the cmd line) about as fast as it should be.
It is pretty darn nice, sloppy GUI aside, to be running Linux on this machine, which has been a trusty and productive computer (running OSX) since I got it. It truly is pleasurable to have the two best operating sytems around as a selection on my powerBook.. and with Mac-On-Linux (installed, but not properly config'ed.. yet) I'll be in real heaven, using OSX for candy and Linux for hard-core work.
OSX is a great Unix, anyway, but for the things that I can't be bothered porting (or using fink to install), and just want to check out anyway, a quick boot into Linux to have a complete 'standard-ish' Linux system to apply that code to, is really productive.
If you've got a PowerBook, I urge you to dual-boot it with Linux/OSX. It will give you some serious reflection about the power of your computer, I think, to see Linux running on it, and OSX side-by-side, as well..
Don't you think the extremists in Iraq get to know their hostages before they behead them?
No. Definitely not. Extremists are 'extreme' because they are so full of un-addressed vitriol and hatred that it would take more than just a week or two of sharing the same cinderblock dunny to penetrate that armor.
Look, I'm all for humanitarian aid, but we aren't we being a bit naive?
Who said anything about humanitarian aid? I'm talking about rock concerts. I'm talking about the whole world tuning into the Iraqi village to watch real peace making occur, live, so that both sides know there is some responsibility to be had in their actions.
Whats naive is ignoring the fact that daily crimes are being committed, and covered up. This is what is allows war to be perpetuated; if all those military secrets were suddenly to become World Knowledge, it wouldn't be so easy for insurgents to run and hide..
We're not fighting the 98% of peaceful Iraqis.
Propaganda Alarm. How do you know its only 2%?
Plus, aren't we rebuilding part of Iraq already?
Yeah, about that re-building. You cannot shirk, nor place in higher light, your responsibilities to rebuild, after all that shock and awe thats been going on.
Frankly, all I'm saying is, take all those air-carriers and choppers, and instead of dropping short-shelf-life munitions, use it to bring the world to that area. Put on massive concerts. Broadcast live from Fallujah, from the street, 24/7, non-stop, to the rest of the world. Give the locals a means of understanding the reality and consequences of the fact that 200,000,000,000 people are watching them.
Bring unity, not warfare, with all that high technology..
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.. I wouldn't vote for Bush, we can't see his website.
Democracy? Who said anything about democracy?
I'm talking about resonsibility.. but don't worry, we don't have to keep talking about it. I know you know very little about it, and have little interest. Perhaps there's something good on television?
.. get vaginal ..
hey, geeze, don't make me look it up in the dictionary for you:
"consumerican" != "american".
there, you happy?
What are you, the slashdot police?
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Well, y'know, we all serve the dialectic.
First of all, I am not German (or European for that matter), so I'm glad you Americans kicked Hitlers ass. Thanks for doing that, mate.
.. the U.S. sure have committed a lot of war crimes by those same standards. For which its people continue to refuse responsibility for, just like happened with those Big Bad Germans (one last ta, America!!) ...
Second of all, were I to be German I would assume that my responsibility is to let the history of my now-democratic country to continue to serve as an example of the Cause of Justice, since Hitlers government no longer exists (thanks again, Americans) and had its crimes exposed in court at Nuremberg (thanks again America), and justice was actually served to all those whose crimes were disclosed by the free world (America, woowoo!), I would say that the issue of responsibility is entirely resolved in the case of the Nazi's. The bad guys went to jail, end of story. (Yup, America again!!)
Those guys ain't in power no' mo', they've been hanged and handled. The Nazi's got their dues.
50 years of continued American war, and countless U.S. War Crimes, however, have not been dealt with. U.S. War Criminals have not. The U.S. continues to aggressively invade, under whatever pretext it chooses, foreign nations, and looses its war machines whenever stock inventory (bomb shelf life) seems to warrant it. Completely ignorant of, nay flaunting, International Law.
But, coming back to Hitler (heh heh..), since the Nazi's were dealt with, justice served under International Law and by International Standards (thanks again America), well
You can compare the U.S. to Hitler, in fact you must if there is to be any value to the lesson at all. For the sake of those who died under his evil grip, those alive today, and those yet to be born!
There's video of U.S. War Crimes! Hitler didn't have video!! (pity)
So just have it be the first thing that runs when she logs into Ubuntu.
It'll take over the screen, look, act, and feel exactly like her old system. Its not emulating anything; it is VM-swapping and playing along nicely with Darwin...
My god, you have seriously lost the plot.
It is not "The Government", like its some sorta separate corporation that you can just decide not to 'be a consumer of'.
It exists, ONLY ON THE BASIS OF THE RESPONSIBILITY of and for and by its citizens: YOU.
Thus, actions it takes 'in the name of its citizens and for the nation of america', ARE the responsibility OF its citizens. Directly, and as a cause of!
Your disconnect is because you are a victim of a calculated conspiracy to produce 'consumer paeon slaves of a corporate state' who begrudgingly hate its government and bear its sins, in the name of global dominance, yet all the while refusing to take any responsibility, in the meantime.
AMERICAN: You Are Your Government.
It means you can now make a computer that'll only run its own binaries, finally, and not only that but the process that allows it becomes an essential part of the manufacturing/QA stage.
..
TCCBOOT is what is going to defeat the DMCA, because pretty soon, from firmware on, we can all be encrypting our own executable binaries to a safe and unique internal system key. TCCBOOT makes it possible to integrate even the operating system build into a key-based, locked-down-in-sillicon, complete computing system.
As a manufacturer of equipment, this is exciting to me. As a consumer, it sorta is a bit scarey, but I don't wanna be much of a consumer any more anyway, so I'm not that freaky about it.. as a programmer, this really interests me because it means I could probably make money from software again; it'd mean I'd have to *only distribute source* (i.e. the death of precompiled binaries), but then, I like that anyway, being an F/OSS activist, as I am
TCCBOOT is a big wind in a very small place.
manufacturing makes a machine, it has tccboot in firmware. product is finished, goes to be tested. first test: turn it on, it compiles its own kernel, its own operating system, its own libs. its own app. there is no 'image copied' for mfr'ing; the machine makes its own software itself (source code is served to the firmware over network).
.. the reason for the success of software piracy?
why would this be cool? it would mean an end to the 'all systems run the same binary' dilemna, you know
i predict that there will be a distro of linux, using tccboot, in the very near future, which offers the ability to encrypt everything to a unique system key, probably something on-chip. per-processor, custom binaries, it will only run what it compiles itself.
bamm!! take that, microsoft!! vmlinuz=undefeatable!
why do i think that this is so cool?
it is, finally, a complete fresh-firmware->compile->boot->operating_system solution. i can imagine this being used in manufacturing, instantly, to do system installs, fresh and clean, from *first power-up*, each system having compiled its own operating system and apps, itself, on production.
why is that good? well, umm
Thats a good question; to be honest, I do not know the answer.
I've run Linux in VPC (x86-bins linux, emulated, that is), enough to get a fairly large amount of work done in Linux-land, but I'm finding that doing it the other way around works just as fine: Linux boots first, Mac-On-Linux boots OSX second. This gives me OSX/Darwin when I need it, and Linux (finally) on the hardware I love. (I run Linux on 5 different architectures these days.. its nice that my tiBook is useful again!)
It would be interesting to see if there are any PPC virtual machines out there that will cooperate with Darwin enough to give Linux some slice, I guess I'll have to hit google and find out
I will NOT be held responsible for the actions of other individuals, let alone the actions of government.
... but there are people out there in the world right now, many thousands upon thousands of them in fact, whose lives (and limbs) have been changed, irrevocably, for that fact.
*sigh* and heres' the problem. You *SHOULD* take responsibility for the actions of your government, IT IS YOUR GOVERNMENT.
That you are piously inclined to not see that in fact, you Dont Have The Right to not take responsiblity for the actions of your government, should show you how much of a mess you are in.
It is because Americans refuse to take responsibility for the actions of their government, that you don't see the results of those actions reported on your beloved television 'free media'...
You (you know, 'the public') don't want to see the results of the wanton application of America War Machine over the last 50 years, you only want to benefit from the economic rewards presented to you by it
I take offense that you imply that I somehow had something to do with those crimes.
The fact is, American Citizen #93208239, you had everything to do with those crimes. And I am not surprised that you take offense; you (and your country) always do.
I'm thinking you kinda invalidate any right you may have thought you had to grouse about American "consumer marketplace economics" when you lazily request Hollywood warez sites be e-mailed to you in your perch in Germany.
yeah, coz you know, all my points of view, over all time, are supposed to 'make sense' to each other. uh huh.
thanks for pointing out my hypocricy though, thats a sure-fire defeat for the argument that america is a consumerist-whore society that is eating the earth.
As far as America's "innate desire for fascism" goes, uhhhh, don't you think might be just projecting a teensy bit? Fascism is on the rise, all right. But we Americans are dorky amateurs at it.
No, Americans are seasoned pro's at the spread of fascism, I'm afraid. Not only that, but your economy (war machine) is dependent on the continuation of this condition. Americans are nothing without War.
You guys remain the world-class professionals at it.
-1 point for assuming that I'm German. Nice!
Typical .. you think just because there is 'merican' in there that I'm only talking about Americans?
No. There are consumericans here in Germany too. That this particularly nefarious social disease started in America, with its 'our cars are bigger than your car' doctrine, is immaterial to the actual meaning of the word.
Funny, though, that you would think that Consumericanism is only an American disease, given that countries predilection for exporting such things...
MPG4 is just a container format, the frames in that container can be 'compressed' with different codecs.. though you can have a 'raw-data mpeg4' file containing individual bitbuffers full of video, most mpeg4's depend on a codec to reduce the file size.
You know, that White-Picket Fence "keeping up with the Joneses" agitated nervousness that comes as a result of being breast-fed consumerican ethics from the day you were born ..
..
Its sickening, really, to watch consumericans eat themselves over such things as 'competitive marketplace economics', but hey, when you live in a society that has to mask its innate desire for fascism with product-owning mechanics, you're gonna get sick a lot
.. are conducive to rapid-scan indexing of frames.
..
Sure, on an uncompressed mpeg4, you can just fseek() where you need to go and pick right up, but some codecs (not gonna mention names) are designed with limitations that make faster-than-1x speed indexes exceedingly difficult for simple lower-power processors
Why would you want to run *nix on a ppc when you can run it on a cheaper amd64 machine?
Shit this is a stupid question, but I'll answer it anyway:
Because you have a PPC machine, and don't have an AMD64.
Consumericanism, kiddies. Cure thyself!
Yeah .. *ahem* .. all of that Apt package management is for naught if, after doing a successful install, you still don't get icons in your Program menu.
.. stupid!
This is the #1 problem I have with Ubuntu so far (besides the slow X refresh rate...), its so frustrating to have to work out how to start apps once they've installed, and I usually just resort back to the shell to fire things up
I dunno, I found that image to be quite sexy, two hot chicks with big smiles, nice top-down boob profiles, standing in a suggestive circle, implying that .. once you log in .. the 3 of them are gonna get it on ..
.. dual-boot with OSX.
.. you can see visible tearing with rect updates in the manager, though the system generally feels (from the cmd line) about as fast as it should be.
.. and with Mac-On-Linux (installed, but not properly config'ed .. yet) I'll be in real heaven, using OSX for candy and Linux for hard-core work.
..
Mine is the rev-a powerbook (the one with the firewire problems), so maybe its my hardware, but the default X config that ships with Ubuntu is s-l-o-w
It is pretty darn nice, sloppy GUI aside, to be running Linux on this machine, which has been a trusty and productive computer (running OSX) since I got it. It truly is pleasurable to have the two best operating sytems around as a selection on my powerBook
OSX is a great Unix, anyway, but for the things that I can't be bothered porting (or using fink to install), and just want to check out anyway, a quick boot into Linux to have a complete 'standard-ish' Linux system to apply that code to, is really productive.
If you've got a PowerBook, I urge you to dual-boot it with Linux/OSX. It will give you some serious reflection about the power of your computer, I think, to see Linux running on it, and OSX side-by-side, as well
.. its all here ...
Al Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups seem to have the policy of preventing any human contact with the enemy!
So does the U.S. Army. So does the British Army. Your point?
My point is, this divide is artificial, it is created, it is handed down from in-human sources to human beings to have to deal with in the field.
Don't you think the extremists in Iraq get to know their hostages before they behead them?
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No. Definitely not. Extremists are 'extreme' because they are so full of un-addressed vitriol and hatred that it would take more than just a week or two of sharing the same cinderblock dunny to penetrate that armor.
Look, I'm all for humanitarian aid, but we aren't we being a bit naive?
Who said anything about humanitarian aid? I'm talking about rock concerts. I'm talking about the whole world tuning into the Iraqi village to watch real peace making occur, live, so that both sides know there is some responsibility to be had in their actions.
Whats naive is ignoring the fact that daily crimes are being committed, and covered up. This is what is allows war to be perpetuated; if all those military secrets were suddenly to become World Knowledge, it wouldn't be so easy for insurgents to run and hide
We're not fighting the 98% of peaceful Iraqis.
Propaganda Alarm. How do you know its only 2%?
Plus, aren't we rebuilding part of Iraq already?
Yeah, about that re-building. You cannot shirk, nor place in higher light, your responsibilities to rebuild, after all that shock and awe thats been going on.
Frankly, all I'm saying is, take all those air-carriers and choppers, and instead of dropping short-shelf-life munitions, use it to bring the world to that area. Put on massive concerts. Broadcast live from Fallujah, from the street, 24/7, non-stop, to the rest of the world. Give the locals a means of understanding the reality and consequences of the fact that 200,000,000,000 people are watching them.
Bring unity, not warfare, with all that high technology