"The trick is to tie this kind of surveillance to some kind of benefit or transaction that large numbers of people must periodically sign up for or renew, like car registration or renewing a driver's license. You don't have to chase people down; they come to you."
Isn't that amazing? So that's what my thumb print was for when I got my driver's license. Makes me want to go out and create a new category for them - "person who buys strange things just to spite the gov't statistics people".
You've made some good points. I was going to say something similar about pointing out the backgrounds of the terrorists. It's funny that we have in place a social stigma against judging people by how they look, and yet we as human beings obviously have the ability to characterize things quickly for a reason. I'm not saying that you should pigeon-hole everyone, but - to put it basically - in an airport if you have a suspicious of someone for whatever reason, even ethnic, that should be permitted. Yes, you are probably infringing on a right of theirs.
However, why is it okay and different when infring someone's right if they can't see it being done? I'm talking about the database, processing, and monitoring they plan to do in lieu of simply using common judgement of suspicious characters in case they might "offend" someone. I'm already offended that they would even think of forcing such a despicable system on their own people. Freedom - bah. It's going down the crapper faster than you can say booh. People are passive. The evil ones are the ones with conviction. Guess who will win? WE need conviction, and passion, and we need to stand up for ourselves. Otherwise, we get what we deserve.
And have you listened to Bush on the television today? "The enemy hates freedom. We love freedom." He named off free speech, that you are free to worship any way that you want, and we have a free press. Any examples to back it up? Nope. He also said that every single person in America counts. Okay, so why do some people go without a decent meal? Or some without proper health care? It's all talk.
More personal... definitely. Most of the people I kept in touch with were local. I remember Image BBS on the C64 syncing up long distance every week across Canada and the US, though. That was pretty cool. Actually the last project I attempted with my ol' C64 was writing my own BBS software. That's when 64K of RAM's limitations really hit me, even in ML. I bought a 386, and marvelled at the speed ANSI colours were rendered. LOL! Did people hack BBS's? I don't remember that being a problem. Sure was a lot of fun. The games were cool, too. I miss tradewars. Silly Hoo-man!
It's pronounced "Lih-nucks", but some people say "Line-ucks" instead. Assuming people who use the latter pronunciation are idiots is pretty shallow. Personally, I think it's English class time, unless you want to call Linus "Lih-nuss". Man, the English language is going down the shitter. _Everybody_ wants an exception to the rule.
Yup... no way in hell will I ever go for Liberty or Passport. They're _reducing_ your security. Having more than one signon is of higher security, even if many people have the same passwords for each site. Why? Because the bad person trying to get your data has to know what sites you have data on, and what aliases you go by, which might not be that easy to figure out. Throw in at least a few different passwords, and it would be quite difficult to gather all of someone's information.
With a single signon service, you're throwing all your eggs in one basket (didn't your mother tell you that was bad?). If someone knows your username/password, they've got access to _everything_. No thanks, and pass the potatoes would ya?
Besides, ever get on bad terms with a merchant and want to cut all ties with them? What if they required access to your single signon area? Good luck cutting them off. I've had my share of loser companies charge me many months after terminating service after repeated attempts by me to fix the problem. Imagine if they had all that info, too. Scoundrels.
Outlaw outrageous rides? I don't know - sign a waiver? Sure. The point is that a woman and her child died while trying to have fun on what was supposed to be a safe ride. Had she known she was risking her life, she wouldn't have gotten on no doubt. But others no doubt would risk their lives for some fun.
Obviously the person who submitted the story doesn't know what he is talking about. Efficiency is a major focus of large P2P apps. When you are making hundreds of connections, you need to be efficient, or it won't work worth a damn. Coming up with an efficient enough algorithm is probably the hardest part!
As far as using up international bandwidth, the reason it is so expensive in the first place is because not enough of it is used. Telling people not to use more of it is saying that it should always remain expensive.
I agree with the parent. I really like Red Hat. Since 7.2 they've totally rocked. They fight some battles for freedom which is very admirable. Few companies will do that these days.
I think they can be (or at least have been) a little cocky, but I don't think that's reason enough to bury them. And that's far from calling them "evil" like another empire I know.
Red Hat is FAR from Microsoft, including resource-wise obviously. There are plenty of fine alternatives to Red Hat Linux. They've done a great job of bringing Linux to the masses. They've given corporate America something to rely on and bet their businesses on (read: stability). Without stability, Linux would not be catching on nearly as quickly. I believe Red Hat knows this and will maintain that stability in future versions.
Another way to look at what they do is, they are like a checkpoint for the state of Linux development. I also think it helps open source developers have something "tangible" to represent what they do and to showcase that hard work.
So basically you can put it in drive, but you have no reverse gear; you may never go back. That is what approaching infinity is about.
Here's an interesting question then... assuming pi has an infinite number of digits, does that mean it approaches infinity? Its value will always be smaller than 4, but you can always splice up fractions so you are just a teeny bit bigger.
So what exactly does this mean? If infinity is infinitely huge, how can you possibly approach it?
Just when you thought you had almost caught up on infinity... it got a hell of a lot bigger.;)
"...identify vulnerable computers and then peruse hundreds of confidential files containing military procedures, e-mail, Social Security numbers and financial data, according to records maintained by the company."
Now, if _I_ were the one checking the military's security, I wouldn't be stupid enough to LOOK at the files I had access to. It could be top secret, etc...! That's asking for big time trouble (eg. cement shoes). They should have said "hey, we're in", disconnected and reported the problem immediately to the government first. That would have been the responsible thing to do. I think a punishment is reasonable at this point.
Dude... that was very inspiring. Stick with it. I've been trying to make a difference for years now, and in small ways it has shown. Maybe in bigger ways, too, but it is harder for someone 'in' the situation to see. Many times only other people can appreciate the good you do, without your really knowing.
C'mon, give the Gnome people some credit. I'm actually using it right now because KDE (RH7.3) has locked up twice in two weeks. It's not as nice, but so far so good reliability wise.
I agree that Opera is fast, but you've had better luck than me if it doesn't crash daily and use up all your RAM slowly but surely. Closing and reopening it is the only remedy I'm aware of, and Opera hasn't seemed to care. Popup options are great, though!
Wish I knew why KEdit/KWrite/Kate are all so slow to load up. Windows' Notepad starts in a jiffy. So what gives?! If it's something that simply needs to be optimized, I'd be glad to help as I use KWrite every day. vi is the text mode editor I use.
I've burned ~80 discs with my Cendyne 40x with not a single problem. I use only 32x TDK discs now burned at 16x. The Nero software that came with the drive is great -- love the auto-verify after burning feature. Never a verify error! Oh yeah, I avoid Memorex discs like the plague. YMMV.
In each case, the trademark or patent holder let the name be use for a lengthy period of time before taking legal action. This is a problem - there should be some limit.. such as, after a certain period of time, the patent/trademark holder is assumed to not care and waive their right to sue in that case.
Perfect time to tell you that M$ doesn't want you to sign up for extra storage because they want your money. They want your credit card# and your personal information that goes along with it. Then later, you'll be saying hey Passport is so great, look it can fill in the fields for me automatically.
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"The trick is to tie this kind of surveillance to some kind of benefit or transaction that large numbers of people must periodically sign up for or renew, like car registration or renewing a driver's license. You don't have to chase people down; they come to you."
Isn't that amazing? So that's what my thumb print was for when I got my driver's license. Makes me want to go out and create a new category for them - "person who buys strange things just to spite the gov't statistics people".
You've made some good points. I was going to say something similar about pointing out the backgrounds of the terrorists. It's funny that we have in place a social stigma against judging people by how they look, and yet we as human beings obviously have the ability to characterize things quickly for a reason. I'm not saying that you should pigeon-hole everyone, but - to put it basically - in an airport if you have a suspicious of someone for whatever reason, even ethnic, that should be permitted. Yes, you are probably infringing on a right of theirs.
However, why is it okay and different when infring someone's right if they can't see it being done? I'm talking about the database, processing, and monitoring they plan to do in lieu of simply using common judgement of suspicious characters in case they might "offend" someone. I'm already offended that they would even think of forcing such a despicable system on their own people. Freedom - bah. It's going down the crapper faster than you can say booh. People are passive. The evil ones are the ones with conviction. Guess who will win? WE need conviction, and passion, and we need to stand up for ourselves. Otherwise, we get what we deserve.
And have you listened to Bush on the television today? "The enemy hates freedom. We love freedom." He named off free speech, that you are free to worship any way that you want, and we have a free press. Any examples to back it up? Nope. He also said that every single person in America counts. Okay, so why do some people go without a decent meal? Or some without proper health care? It's all talk.
More personal... definitely. Most of the people I kept in touch with were local. I remember Image BBS on the C64 syncing up long distance every week across Canada and the US, though. That was pretty cool.
Actually the last project I attempted with my ol' C64 was writing my own BBS software. That's when 64K of RAM's limitations really hit me, even in ML. I bought a 386, and marvelled at the speed ANSI colours were rendered. LOL!
Did people hack BBS's? I don't remember that being a problem. Sure was a lot of fun. The games were cool, too. I miss tradewars. Silly Hoo-man!
It's pronounced "Lih-nucks", but some people say "Line-ucks" instead. Assuming people who use the latter pronunciation are idiots is pretty shallow.
Personally, I think it's English class time, unless you want to call Linus "Lih-nuss". Man, the English language is going down the shitter. _Everybody_ wants an exception to the rule.
Yup... no way in hell will I ever go for Liberty or Passport. They're _reducing_ your security. Having more than one signon is of higher security, even if many people have the same passwords for each site. Why? Because the bad person trying to get your data has to know what sites you have data on, and what aliases you go by, which might not be that easy to figure out. Throw in at least a few different passwords, and it would be quite difficult to gather all of someone's information.
With a single signon service, you're throwing all your eggs in one basket (didn't your mother tell you that was bad?). If someone knows your username/password, they've got access to _everything_. No thanks, and pass the potatoes would ya?
Besides, ever get on bad terms with a merchant and want to cut all ties with them? What if they required access to your single signon area? Good luck cutting them off. I've had my share of loser companies charge me many months after terminating service after repeated attempts by me to fix the problem. Imagine if they had all that info, too. Scoundrels.
About time NY Times touts Linux... the # of hits Slashdot sends their way must be astounding.
Outlaw outrageous rides? I don't know - sign a waiver? Sure. The point is that a woman and her child died while trying to have fun on what was supposed to be a safe ride. Had she known she was risking her life, she wouldn't have gotten on no doubt. But others no doubt would risk their lives for some fun.
Obviously the person who submitted the story doesn't know what he is talking about.
Efficiency is a major focus of large P2P apps. When you are making hundreds of connections, you need to be efficient, or it won't work worth a damn. Coming up with an efficient enough algorithm is probably the hardest part!
As far as using up international bandwidth, the reason it is so expensive in the first place is because not enough of it is used. Telling people not to use more of it is saying that it should always remain expensive.
The story submitter is totally off-base.
Aha... that last sentence ties it together for me. Thanks everyone. :)
Mod this guy up! Bloody hilarious I say.
I agree with the parent. I really like Red Hat. Since 7.2 they've totally rocked. They fight some battles for freedom which is very admirable. Few companies will do that these days.
I think they can be (or at least have been) a little cocky, but I don't think that's reason enough to bury them. And that's far from calling them "evil" like another empire I know.
Red Hat is FAR from Microsoft, including resource-wise obviously. There are plenty of fine alternatives to Red Hat Linux. They've done a great job of bringing Linux to the masses. They've given corporate America something to rely on and bet their businesses on (read: stability). Without stability, Linux would not be catching on nearly as quickly. I believe Red Hat knows this and will maintain that stability in future versions.
Another way to look at what they do is, they are like a checkpoint for the state of Linux development. I also think it helps open source developers have something "tangible" to represent what they do and to showcase that hard work.
So basically you can put it in drive, but you have no reverse gear; you may never go back. That is what approaching infinity is about.
Here's an interesting question then... assuming pi has an infinite number of digits, does that mean it approaches infinity? Its value will always be smaller than 4, but you can always splice up fractions so you are just a teeny bit bigger.
Hey.. I recognize that writing style. Oh yeah, it slightly resembles the $$$hundreds$$$ of spams I get every day! LOL
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So what exactly does this mean? If infinity is infinitely huge, how can you possibly approach it? Just when you thought you had almost caught up on infinity... it got a hell of a lot bigger. ;)
If God gave us zipdisks, then the devil gave us the Click of Death. IOMega sucks.
Dude... that was very inspiring. Stick with it. I've been trying to make a difference for years now, and in small ways it has shown. Maybe in bigger ways, too, but it is harder for someone 'in' the situation to see. Many times only other people can appreciate the good you do, without your really knowing.
Man, even Microsoft can't afford $2.2 Trillion. Methinks they'll never actually see a dime of that if the case is a success.
C'mon, give the Gnome people some credit. I'm actually using it right now because KDE (RH7.3) has locked up twice in two weeks. It's not as nice, but so far so good reliability wise.
I agree that Opera is fast, but you've had better luck than me if it doesn't crash daily and use up all your RAM slowly but surely. Closing and reopening it is the only remedy I'm aware of, and Opera hasn't seemed to care. Popup options are great, though!
Wish I knew why KEdit/KWrite/Kate are all so slow to load up. Windows' Notepad starts in a jiffy. So what gives?! If it's something that simply needs to be optimized, I'd be glad to help as I use KWrite every day. vi is the text mode editor I use.
I've burned ~80 discs with my Cendyne 40x with not a single problem. I use only 32x TDK discs now burned at 16x. The Nero software that came with the drive is great -- love the auto-verify after burning feature. Never a verify error! Oh yeah, I avoid Memorex discs like the plague. YMMV.
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In each case, the trademark or patent holder let the name be use for a lengthy period of time before taking legal action. This is a problem - there should be some limit.. such as, after a certain period of time, the patent/trademark holder is assumed to not care and waive their right to sue in that case.Perfect time to tell you that M$ doesn't want you to sign up for extra storage because they want your money. They want your credit card# and your personal information that goes along with it. Then later, you'll be saying hey Passport is so great, look it can fill in the fields for me automatically.