If I could vote for "none of the above" and if enough people did it it would them find another contender... then I'd be truly interested.
But these days I can't decide between one vile reprehensible scum bag and another. Nearly daily I stand in awe seeing how these people are fucking up an otherise perfectly fine contry. I am beginning to think we'd be better off deciding law and foreign policy with one of those ping pong ball lottery machines.
Also I don't actually live in the US any more and given the state of things I have zero confidence that my vote is actually counted... actually now that I've said that I guess I shouldn't feel any different that people that vote using Diebold Machines.
I program professionaly and I've looked over some BSD & Linux code and quite frankly it is lot more involved than what I do. So I guess I shouldn't complain but jumping Jesus H. Christ if the BSD guys can do it with the resources they have, how is it that a company the size of Microsoft can't make this work?
So you're saying the majority of America has decided breaking the law (due process, or whatever its called there) is necessary to punish people who... are... breaking the law?
If police and judges and administration are not abiding by the rules of society, why do they expect criminals to?
I don't see what everyone is getting all worked up over.
This isn't all that much more than the EU fined the company I work for... That didn't really change things for the other divisions so I expect MS won't change much either.
I am nearly 48 years old and I don't give a rat's ass about what some kid can or can not carry inside school grounds.
But I *do* think that current privacy laws were enacted in bad faith and they are used in bad faith. And it is that very vagueness that allows their manipulation.
As fars as children, cell phones, and privacy... If the school permits someone to carry a device within school grounds and they want to look at the contents of that device, they can go get a warrant... or they can go fuck themselves.
My understanding was that treaty did not affect mines already in place so much as mine prduction and placement. And the US is the largest producer of land mines on the planet.
I don't think what went on in Vietnam or what's going on in Iraq has anything to do with the right to bear arms.
I also don't think the US is doing so go these days with that whole election thing... having a choice of the lesser of two evils isn't much of a choice.
My 25 year old little brother has a life ambition of have a personal mirror of all the porn on the internet. His collection is *massive*. Having a look at this collection I have concluded a few things. There are a lot of young people making porn (college kids filming themselves fucking each other). There is sort of an arms race of weird, naughty, and taboo topics going on with the semi-pro crowd. There is a tendency to falsely label porn usually having to do with the age of the participants or weather or not the event was staged. There is a tendency to re-edit and re-label what was produced in a single event, eventually creating hundreds of versions of what was a unique filming event. So of the zillions of petabytes of porn zooming around the internet who knows how much is really 'illegal' or unique (ignoring the pictures someone takes of themselves to send to a specific person)?
Now child abuse is the second most abused fear in the American meme. Politicians create stupid ineffectual laws using this fear. Prosecutors create headlines and positive self images misusing this fear. And now this scheme comes along with another way to spy on me using this fear. There is no mention of a method to protect a falsely prosecuted person in this scheme. This scheme does not actually protect children.
So in summary all of this money is spent, a few people will have their lives ruined because of mailing or receiving some objectionable images, perhaps even a few who are actually abusing children will be caught, but in the end the real criminals learn how circumvent it and we all lose a little more of our privacy. I don't think it worth it, at all.
I think if we are going to spent money and effort protect children form sexual abuse we should spend it on the people who work with actual children detecting and preventing this sort of crime... like educators, sociologists, healthcare workers, etc... Creating the kiddie porn version of Total Information Awareness or Carnivore won't help.
What is the incidence rate of the abuse of children to create pornography?
What is the percentage of clearly illegally created porn as apposed to legally created porn?
Does this justify these measures? Does this reduce the incidents of actual abuse? My thinking is that there is not all that much actual child abuse going on and that much of the 'illegal' porn that is floating about the internet is multiple copies from the few actual abuses or it is legal porn masquerading as 'illegal' porn. I also don't believe that the problem is so widespread that I need to relinquish any more of privacy or rights than the ones already stolen from me by the federal government's 'war on terror'. I also don't think that this in anyway will lesson the incident rate of child abuse and this is what we as a society need to stop. I'm all for stopping child abuse and I don't mind paying to stop it. However, I *do* mind* loosing rights and I do mind paying for ridiculous, ineffective boondoggles. And it seems lately that the government when faced with any 'problem' can *only* come up with ridiculous, ineffective boondoggles.
This will be about as effective as stopping the consumption of cocaine in the United States by dumping millions of tons of roundup in South America.
Or about as effective as stopping terrorism by killing 50,000 Iraqi civilians *and* reading all of my email and listening to all of my phone calls.
This would be nearly a non-issue if the powers that be had gotten off their asses and funded and built the Hubble Origins Probe.
This failure is one of many that show that America is loosing the capability of space flight and research.
From their website (http://www.pha.jhu.edu/hop/):
The Hubble Origins Probe (HOP) is a proposed 2.4 meter free flying space telescope.The HOP concept is to replicate the design of the Hubble Space Telescope with a much lighter unaberrated mirror and optical telescope assembly, enabling a rapid path to launch, significant cost savings and risk mitigation. HOP will fly the instruments originally planned for the 4th HST servicing mission as well as a new very wide field imager, enhancing the original science mission of Hubble.
We all know SCO will eventually loose this lawsuit against IBM and most likely will loose big. I know a few small businesses in the medical industry who are pretty much trapped with SCO.
After this transpires, I'd bet that a SCO Linux with some sort of SCO Unix migration support would be popular and pretty profitable.
Also I wonder what Novell will do with code once SCO augers in. I dare say they don't really need it.
You have to sign an NDA to get the documents. So you would be violating the NDA to redistribute them.
There isn't a business advantage to this sort of secrecy because your competitors can easily obtain this same information through a blind. So it comes down to policy motivated by irrational fear & greed. Who needs to really deal with company with these qualities?
This topic is of primary interest to me because I am shopping for a crypto accelerator card right now, for use in the fall. Given the success and ease I have had using OpenBSD, and given the great support I have from the mailing lists, this is a reasonable criterion to use when purchasing hardware. In fact at some point of the decision making process for all of my hardware I have done a search on the OpenBSD mailing lists. This sort of information makes installation and maintenance a simple thing.
So it really does boil down to unless the OpenBSD group recommends a certain piece of hardware I won't buy it...
Complete access to appropriate APIs for the Samba & Wine groups and donate a few tens of thousands of dollars to each group to make up for those shenanigans Completely open all of the file formats for office Render void all OEM agreements related to installed OSes & Applications, desktop configuration, and links Donate a few tens thousands of dollars to Haiku OS.
Include drivers to read & write all popular file systems in future windows releases Include capability for all MS Office applications to read & write OO.org files Include capability for all MS applications to read & write appropriate & popular filetypes Include ability to interact with MacOS and UNIX
MSIE no longer "required"
Release all code, owned by Microsoft and no longer supported by Microsoft, under the MIT license
I'm sure that's not even the half of it... just a few things that annoy me
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If I could vote for "none of the above" and if enough people did it it would them find another contender... then I'd be truly interested.
But these days I can't decide between one vile reprehensible scum bag and another. Nearly daily I stand in awe seeing how these people are fucking up an otherise perfectly fine contry. I am beginning to think we'd be better off deciding law and foreign policy with one of those ping pong ball lottery machines.
Also I don't actually live in the US any more and given the state of things I have zero confidence that my vote is actually counted... actually now that I've said that I guess I shouldn't feel any different that people that vote using Diebold Machines.
Radiant cool: think like the floor and the walls of a fully underground basement
"I don't think it to be realistic to turn 1/4 of your apartment into a heat/cold storage just to drive the AC."
I see you haven't met my ex-wife.
I Think you meant 'Theirtube'
That's not all that of a bad idea... I haven't used IRIX in a long, long time :)
But I wonder if you could just hire some BSD developers insted and arrive in same place only being free
I program professionaly and I've looked over some BSD & Linux code and quite frankly it is lot more involved than what I do. So I guess I shouldn't complain but jumping Jesus H. Christ if the BSD guys can do it with the resources they have, how is it that a company the size of Microsoft can't make this work?
can't help myself:
So you're saying the majority of America has decided breaking the law (due process, or whatever its called there) is necessary to punish people who... are... breaking the law?
If police and judges and administration are not abiding by the rules of society, why do they expect criminals to?
Yes you are right but I *realy* pine for really good autovectorization.
GCC 4.1 does slightly worse than I can do myself and Intel C does it slightly better.
But I know some folks that work on compiliers and I know they can do better.
This dual G5 user thinks very much so!
I don't see what everyone is getting all worked up over.
This isn't all that much more than the EU fined the company I work for... That didn't really change things for the other divisions so I expect MS won't change much either.
I am a worng thinking that AoE is a little more flexible / interesting than this?
I am nearly 48 years old and I don't give a rat's ass about what some kid can or can not carry inside school grounds.
But I *do* think that current privacy laws were enacted in bad faith and they are used in bad faith.
And it is that very vagueness that allows their manipulation.
As fars as children, cell phones, and privacy... If the school permits someone to carry a device within school grounds and they want to look at the contents of that device, they can go get a warrant... or they can go fuck themselves.
My understanding was that treaty did not affect mines already in place so much as mine prduction and placement.
And the US is the largest producer of land mines on the planet.
Many of which are sold to the South Koreans.
I don't think what went on in Vietnam or what's going on in Iraq has anything to do with the right to bear arms.
I also don't think the US is doing so go these days with that whole election thing... having a choice of the lesser of two evils isn't much of a choice.
It's a pity I can't vote for "none of the above"
do you honestly think the "right to bear arms" could have any effect on fighting the tyranny of the US government?
How? I'd hazard the guess that you'd be labled a terrorist and prosecuted.
My 25 year old little brother has a life ambition of have a personal mirror of all the porn on the internet. His collection is *massive*. Having a look at this collection I have concluded a few things. There are a lot of young people making porn (college kids filming themselves fucking each other). There is sort of an arms race of weird, naughty, and taboo topics going on with the semi-pro crowd. There is a tendency to falsely label porn usually having to do with the age of the participants or weather or not the event was staged. There is a tendency to re-edit and re-label what was produced in a single event, eventually creating hundreds of versions of what was a unique filming event. So of the zillions of petabytes of porn zooming around the internet who knows how much is really 'illegal' or unique (ignoring the pictures someone takes of themselves to send to a specific person)?
Now child abuse is the second most abused fear in the American meme. Politicians create stupid ineffectual laws using this fear. Prosecutors create headlines and positive self images misusing this fear. And now this scheme comes along with another way to spy on me using this fear. There is no mention of a method to protect a falsely prosecuted person in this scheme. This scheme does not actually protect children.
So in summary all of this money is spent, a few people will have their lives ruined because of mailing or receiving some objectionable images, perhaps even a few who are actually abusing children will be caught, but in the end the real criminals learn how circumvent it and we all lose a little more of our privacy. I don't think it worth it, at all.
I think if we are going to spent money and effort protect children form sexual abuse we should spend it on the people who work with actual children detecting and preventing this sort of crime... like educators, sociologists, healthcare workers, etc... Creating the kiddie porn version of Total Information Awareness or Carnivore won't help.
What is the incidence rate of the abuse of children to create pornography?
What is the percentage of clearly illegally created porn as apposed to legally created porn?
Does this justify these measures? Does this reduce the incidents of actual abuse?
My thinking is that there is not all that much actual child abuse going on and that much of the 'illegal' porn that is floating about the internet is multiple copies from the few actual abuses or it is legal porn masquerading as 'illegal' porn. I also don't believe that the problem is so widespread that I need to relinquish any more of privacy or rights than the ones already stolen from me by the federal government's 'war on terror'. I also don't think that this in anyway will lesson the incident rate of child abuse and this is what we as a society need to stop. I'm all for stopping child abuse and I don't mind paying to stop it. However, I *do* mind* loosing rights and I do mind paying for ridiculous, ineffective boondoggles. And it seems lately that the government when faced with any 'problem' can *only* come up with ridiculous, ineffective boondoggles.
This will be about as effective as stopping the consumption of cocaine in the United States by dumping millions of tons of roundup in South America.
Or about as effective as stopping terrorism by killing 50,000 Iraqi civilians *and* reading all of my email and listening to all of my phone calls.
They already have a technology sharing program.
Once I got into it I found much of it not really worth the mountain of paperwork required.
But it is there and it can be used.
This would be nearly a non-issue if the powers that be had gotten off their asses and funded and built the Hubble Origins Probe.
This failure is one of many that show that America is loosing the capability of space flight and research.
From their website (http://www.pha.jhu.edu/hop/):
The Hubble Origins Probe (HOP) is a proposed 2.4 meter free flying space telescope.The HOP concept is to replicate the design of the Hubble Space Telescope with a much lighter unaberrated mirror and optical telescope assembly, enabling a rapid path to launch, significant cost savings and risk mitigation. HOP will fly the instruments originally planned for the 4th HST servicing mission as well as a new very wide field imager, enhancing the original science mission of Hubble.
We all know SCO will eventually loose this lawsuit against IBM and most likely will loose big. I know a few small businesses in the medical industry who are pretty much trapped with SCO.
After this transpires, I'd bet that a SCO Linux with some sort of SCO Unix migration support would be popular and pretty profitable.
Also I wonder what Novell will do with code once SCO augers in. I dare say they don't really need it.
Yes.
You have to sign an NDA to get the documents. So you would be violating the NDA to redistribute them.
There isn't a business advantage to this sort of secrecy because your competitors can easily obtain this same information through a blind. So it comes down to policy motivated by irrational fear & greed. Who needs to really deal with company with these qualities?
This topic is of primary interest to me because I am shopping for a crypto accelerator card right now, for use in the fall. Given the success and ease I have had using OpenBSD, and given the great support I have from the mailing lists, this is a reasonable criterion to use when purchasing hardware. In fact at some point of the decision making process for all of my hardware I have done a search on the OpenBSD mailing lists. This sort of information makes installation and maintenance a simple thing.
So it really does boil down to unless the OpenBSD group recommends a certain piece of hardware I won't buy it...
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. (Inigo Montoya)
OK, let us discuss terms.
Complete access to appropriate APIs for the Samba & Wine groups and donate a few tens of thousands of dollars to each group to make up for those shenanigans
Completely open all of the file formats for office
Render void all OEM agreements related to installed OSes & Applications, desktop configuration, and links
Donate a few tens thousands of dollars to Haiku OS.
Include drivers to read & write all popular file systems in future windows releases
Include capability for all MS Office applications to read & write OO.org files
Include capability for all MS applications to read & write appropriate & popular filetypes
Include ability to interact with MacOS and UNIX
MSIE no longer "required"
Release all code, owned by Microsoft and no longer supported by Microsoft, under the MIT license
I'm sure that's not even the half of it... just a few things that annoy me
Where I live, there is no question, it's certainly stolen.
Judging by the dude's webpage and the response from NYPD I'd say that's the case in the US as well.
I use cscope from within VIM... I'm pretty sure it's compiled by default in the available binaries... but I'm not sure.
Anyway it works really well and I like VIM for the rest of my devleopment anyway so no extra tools are really needed.