Last year I took a networking class and I started a project that involved some openssl libraries and chat software. I am wondering how hard would it be to modify current software or write something new that can encrypt and decrypt messages with help of some ssl libraries. If you want to be very extreme, you can setup a pair of public/private keys per friend that you want to talk with. Provided that the number of friends you have is relatively small and that the computers that you use are somewhat fast, it can be done. Thanks,
It seems that people are forgetting our history. Back in the early 1920s there was a liquor prohibition and it generated more crime and underground liquor traffic than the country had before the prohibition had kicked in. So... if we follow this logic, with digital prohibition we'll face more illegal copiying and profiting from it, therefore the companies would loose more money. Interesting, isn't it?
In case if you're wondering how to stop double click from tracking your answers, here is an answer from a
site. I copied the material here:
Theory: If you tell your name server that it is in charge of the domain "doubleclick.net" then it will happily answer all requests for "Where's doubleclick.net" with the smug answer, "I know everything there is to know about doubleclick.net, and I can tell you with complete confidence that there is No Such Place." If browsers can't find doubleclick.net, then doubleclick.net can't track those users.
Because many users typically use each name server, this is not only one of the the fastest ad blocking techniques known to freedom-loving humanity, it's also the technique that protects the most users per minute spent on it.
Step 1. Log in to the name server as root.
Step 2. Find your named.conf file. It may be in the/etc or/etc/bind directory. If you have trouble finding it, use this command:
find / -name named.conf
Step 3. Open the named.conf file for editing in your favorite text editor. Locate the "localhost" zone. It should look something like this:
zone "localhost" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/db.local";
};
It doesn't matter if the filename on the line beginning with "file" is different.
Make a copy of the localhost zone elsewhere in the file. Change the copy to read "doubleclick.net" instead of "localhost".
zone "doubleclick.net" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/db.local";
};
Save the file and exit the text editor. If you mess up the file, exit without saving and do step 3 again.
Step 4. Find out the process id of named with the command
ps ax | grep named
Let's say you get something like this:
7907 ? S 0:03/usr/sbin/named
Then just do a
kill -HUP 7907
Use whatever process ID your named has, not "7907". You're done. Clear your browser cache and rejoice.
This is an easier way than using/etc/hosts or firewalls.
I've been using Mozilla for quite some time now and I love the feature that disables pop-ups. However, pop-up adds are not the only thing that annoy me as a web surfer. The second most annoying thing is trying to contact some server that belongs to "doubleclick.net" and get a response from that server. Because the servers have to handle too much load, the connection is really slow and that takes all the pleasure out of browsing. I found a couple of ways to battle with it, first is to put the server's name into my/etc/hosts file and redirect it to 127.0.0.1, the second is to configure my firewall not to accept any connections from those servers. I would like Mozilla developers to make an option that allows a user to block traffic to and from unwanted servers/networks like doubleclick. Thanks,
One of the most respected voices on national security and civil liberties, Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. has earned national and international recognition as a policy innovator, effective legislator and party spokesman on a wide range of key issues.
Now that is really funny, because his bill that can be summarized as:
Anti-counterfeiting Amendments of 2002 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit trafficking in an "illicit authentication feature." Defines that term to mean an authentication feature that: (1) without the authorization of the respective copyright owner, has been tampered with or altered so as to facilitate the reproduction or distribution of a phono-record, a copy of a computer program, a copy of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, or documentation or packaging, in violation of the rights of the copyright owner; (2) is genuine, but has been distributed, or is intended for distribution, without the authorization of the respective copyright owner; or (3) appears to be genuine but is not.
does not reflect any civil liberties. =) The question is, if I see something on the news and tell my friends about it, is it goin to be illegal? First of all, I am not 'authorized' to tell it, secondly it is genuine, but has been distirbuted, and the last one, it might appear to be true.. but its not(?). Sooner or later we'll have leather masks with zippers on our mouths, that would zip us up anytime we say something without authorization. Soungs like a bondage session to me:)
Yes, I am for serious. How can you enjoy the fact that you kid has a black box in the car? First of all, let me remind you that everybody was a kid and every single one of us has been in a shady situation on the road. Sometimes you have to do it. Period. Secondly, how can parents give their kids keys to the car and allow them to drive without trusting them? If you think that your teenager is not very good at driving, why don't you practice with him/her and if they're reckless just because they like it that way, make him/her get their own car and/or pay for their insurance. This 'black box' does discriminated against teenagers. I would never install a device like that in my kid's car and I would like to see civil liberitarians to speak out about it. Thanks,
HP doesn't really need Dell. They can do better than that. Their printers are good, and I don't doubt that they will drive Dell out of the printer market. If Dell wants to make printers, they should start training and hiring good tech support people on the first place. Last time I called, it took me about 50 minutes of being on hold to get an answer "Yeah, it seems like you have a problem...". If they can't assemble and provide good tech support for their computers, I have no idea what they're going to do with designing and manufacturing their own printers. Thanks
Sad, but true. The only thing that the public can do is to execute rule #1 of business: customer is always right. If people get enough balls to show their opinion a lot of the shit that different companies try to pull will not be tolerated.
Sometimes I don't get our economy. Although I understand that companies want to make money and profit from their products or services, I don't get why some companies are at the public's throat most of the time. Don't the executives get that by making the public angry they're not doing any good to the company's reputation? Do they really expect me to buy anything that involves a JPEG algorithm after a scandal that they put on? If everybody starts pushing for patents and enourmous fees nobody will be willing to do any business, because nobody wants to be sued. I have nothing against patens, they're cool, they can profit an inventor to a reasonable degree and benefit the public at the same time. The companies that hold patents, should be proud of them and open them up to the public, after all that everybody will benefit from whatever they invent and chances are that they're going to make more money than buy suing each other.
I concur. Although Mandrake looked like RedHat on steroids at the beginning... damn those were pretty good steroids that eventually made it a quite different distro. I found that Mandrake was much better polished and suitable for an end user. Again, that is my opinion and I am not trying to enforce it on everybody.
Although I am a FreeBSD dude, I loved my workstation running Mandrake. I think they do an excellent job by trying to make the system more optimized for an end user, rather than a professional sys. admin. For a while, I thought that RedHat was the most user friendly, but I was wrong. The installation process was very smooth and clean, that's where most of Linux distros lag behind. With this in mind, I am thinking of getting the latest Mandrake release and putting it on my moms computer. I've heard that she is sick of 'those blue screens':)
I was just wondering, what incredible course of study you must be involved in, that it involves research papers on both breast cancer and sex education.
The paper was on Women's issues throughout the history of the United States. Nothing offensive. As for the rest of the comment... please read my.sig. Thanks,
This is a little bit old, but I am very glad that Mozilla has been recognized by eWeek. They had a nice review (see the link above) and I do agree with the author: there is nothing that Mozilla lacks (compared to the existing browsers). The only thing that I'd like to see in the future is anti-aliased fonts!
...if you have an internship at NASA and you still manage to fuck it up, just because you want to sell some moon rocks online. With the same luck, you can go down to Arizona desert, find some odd looking rocks, pack them up and sell them, its not like everybody knows what a 'real' moon rock looks/feels like. If those kids had more brains, they would work really hard for NASA so they could get a job there and then sell some real documents to our not-so-friendly countries like China, North Korea, Iraq, etc. Now because of those stupid kids our tax payers will have to pay more taxes, so NASA can start reviewing applicants more precisely upon hiring.
This is another story that calls for an international cyber law. Before you start modding me down, you have to realize that unfortunately free speech is not every country's value. It means that if a country's laws do not grant free speech, there is nothing the U.S. can do about it. Since the information on the Internet is very liquid we need some laws that can govern it. I am not saying that we should enslave the information and control all the web sites. All I am saying is that the countries should agree on some things. Although there are many possible solutions, I think that the best way would be for countries to agree that sanctions against web sites should not be taken by any means. It implies that no matter how offensive a government finds a site, it should not be taken down like in the case described by an article. Instead, countries should do what China has done: control the access to those sites, if you please. Why? I think this way everybody's better off. The sites that relate to things that might not acceptable will be blocked by a government that doesn't like it. Plain and simple. Countries that do not want to share our ideas don't need to be exposed to them and we do not force the people of those countries to browse the sites. I do admit that this sounds really bad, because the United States will benefit the most, since we protect the freedom of speech. But if we don't try to agree on simple things like 'to browse or not to browse', our web masters will end up in more trouble. Thanks,
1. Create a company. 2. Buy, sell, employ annoying telemarketers, do whatever you please in order to make money. Our government won't care! 3. Make sure that you have the 'right' auditors. The pick of the day is Andersen. 4. Do NOT forget to state false earnings. The more you get, the more money you are able to collect. Never mind thousands of shareholders you'll fuck over. It is okay, well we're in the United States after all. 4. When shit hits the fan, blame everything on your auditors, since they were supposed to hide everything perfectly and its their fault for not hiding it properly! 5. If everything goes well, file for Chapter 11 or Chapter 7. Make sure that your personal assets are not involved by selling off your shares of the stock. 6. Remember: "its not me, its them" line might work very well in any court, as long as you have some people interested (significant amounts of cash can increase the interest).
The result: millions in your own pocket, thousands of shareholders without retirement money left and some people to pay for your mistakes. But who cares, this is the American way of living afterall.
P.S.: for better results, make sure that your company is affiliated with a political party, since that party will receive a chunck of blame when the company will go belly-up. Also, try to involve political and military leaders into investment, the higher, the better. In addition, after screwing with both our government (it didn't really care, but still) and the public (it does care, but they don't have enough power to fight you), don't forget to mention the 5th Amedment. It is guaranteed to you by the same government that you ended up fucking over.
I have a big problem with filtering. Especially in public schools and universities. First of all, what do you want to filter? Porn? Hate sites? Please, give me a break. If somebody wants to find porn, they will find it anyway. My high school spend a lot of money on filtering software only to find out that I could simply look up a free proxy put the it in my preferences and browse
what ever I wanted. With filtering software I found out that I could not do any reseach on the topics of breast cancer, sex education and related stuff. All because they had words like "sex", "breast" and "vagina" in them. I really think that our public schools and universities should not implement cheesy filtering systems that waste our taxpayer's money. Afterall, kids will learn about sex from different sources that are widely available. Just take a look at Cosmopolitan or Maxim these magazines can be seen at any grocery store and anybody who can read can pick it up and read an article on sex and orgasms.
I do agree with you on that point. There is a lot of 'image' and 'bling-mother-fucking' bling goin on. Why don't I see all the artists that were big hits a couple of years ago? First, I don't want to see them:) Secondly, the real artists are still there, I like my oldies, I like classic rock and all the other music that I listened to when I was a kid. You have a very good point, about the Labels that own their performers, in this case, it is even worse, since RIAA wants to pockets more money and the artists won't see a big difference.
Sorry "us vs. them" didn't mean to say U.S. (as in the United States of America). "Us vs. Them" was more like "we, cool guys vs. agains them, lame guys". Why is every discussion a 'war'? Well subscribe to some newsgroup that deals with text editors and ask "Why do people use Emacs rather than VI?" or better "I've heard that Emacds sucks, is that right? Does VI suck as much?" and you will see:) From what I've seen in the past, I can't really name it a 'conflict'. Ciao~
There is nothing worse than being too radical. I can't believe that an issue like that can turn people into animals. Are we going back to our roots? After reading the article I started to think of a cartoon that I've seen a couple of years ago, its called 'evolution'. A ape becomes a person, meets computer, and becomes an ape again...
Yes, the guy is right. Unelss we start presenting ourselves like professionals nobody will look at us and/or count our opinion. Why? Sorry pals, but the book is being judged by its cover in this country.
is another session of corporate diarrhea down our throats. Bumper stickes, hatred, interrupting speakers and having millions of blind fans will not solve the problem. The only way to solve the problem would be to clean up the House, corportate executives and people in charge of making decisions. What we need is people who are able to think without a dollar bill being waved in front of them. Dirty capitalizm is a banana peel that our country is stepping on and unless we find something that can blance it out, it is going to fall. Unfortunately money makes the world go round and unless we have some financial power there is nothing we can do. Something gives me a feeling that having a bunch of geeks protesting gives those bastards more pleasure than fear.
Telecom companies own phone numbers, hence they can be the legal owners of the info, therefore they can sell information about it. Now, can sewer companies sell my information about my shit (literaly) that they traffic through their pipes? If so, I better get a diarrhea. On the other hand, I think that the sewer companies won't be able to get sell the information. Too much traffic, too much corporate bullshit to analyze. There you have it.
Hi there. The article is nice, but yet it describes Debian just as another Linux distribution. Don't get me wrong, but I think that you can write and say a lot of good things about any Linux distribution, as long as you're the one who runs it. I have nothing against Debian, RedHat, Slackware, etc., but I think that every distribution is good in its own way. The article is nice, but I do not think that it should be 'another reason' for using Debian. Come on, people, it is just a matter of personal preference. Let's not start 'emacs vs. vi' or 'us vs. them' wars again. If it works great for you... that is just wonderful! Thanks,
I think RIAA got it wrong. They make money by selling the music, radio station advertise their products (songs), therefore RIAA should encourage the broadcast of the songs in every way. Moreover with declining quality of songs, I think that radiostations should charge artists for playing some songs. Come on guys, aren't you tired of listening to crap like "Its getting hot in here" or "H to the izzo"? The constantly try to shove some crap down our throats. Every time I turn my TV on to MTV or E! (happens once in a month, when I press a wrong button or browse through channels) I see rappers, and all the other pop-stars decked out in gold, driving brand new luxary cars and living in enormous houses. How do they get the money? They make money on CDs that are promoted by different media channels. It hurts, becuase it seems like they don't get enough and they want to sue the ones who provided them with popularity and wealth.
Thanks,
Slashdot Mirror
Last year I took a networking class and I started a project that involved some openssl libraries and chat software. I am wondering how hard would it be to modify current software or write something new that can encrypt and decrypt messages with help of some ssl libraries. If you want to be very extreme, you can setup a pair of public/private keys per friend that you want to talk with. Provided that the number of friends you have is relatively small and that the computers that you use are somewhat fast, it can be done. Thanks,
It seems that people are forgetting our history. Back in the early 1920s there was a liquor prohibition and it generated more crime and underground liquor traffic than the country had before the prohibition had kicked in. So... if we follow this logic, with digital prohibition we'll face more illegal copiying and profiting from it, therefore the companies would loose more money. Interesting, isn't it?
In case if you're wondering how to stop double click from tracking your answers, here is an answer from a site. I copied the material here:
/etc or /etc/bind directory. If you have trouble finding it, use this command:
find / -name named.conf
/usr/sbin/named
Then just do a
kill -HUP 7907
Use whatever process ID your named has, not "7907". You're done. Clear your browser cache and rejoice.
/etc/hosts or firewalls.
Theory: If you tell your name server that it is in charge of the domain "doubleclick.net" then it will happily answer all requests for "Where's doubleclick.net" with the smug answer, "I know everything there is to know about doubleclick.net, and I can tell you with complete confidence that there is No Such Place." If browsers can't find doubleclick.net, then doubleclick.net can't track those users.
Because many users typically use each name server, this is not only one of the the fastest ad blocking techniques known to freedom-loving humanity, it's also the technique that protects the most users per minute spent on it. Step 1. Log in to the name server as root.
Step 2. Find your named.conf file. It may be in the
Step 3. Open the named.conf file for editing in your favorite text editor. Locate the "localhost" zone. It should look something like this: zone "localhost" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.local"; }; It doesn't matter if the filename on the line beginning with "file" is different. Make a copy of the localhost zone elsewhere in the file. Change the copy to read "doubleclick.net" instead of "localhost". zone "doubleclick.net" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.local"; }; Save the file and exit the text editor. If you mess up the file, exit without saving and do step 3 again.
Step 4. Find out the process id of named with the command ps ax | grep named Let's say you get something like this: 7907 ? S 0:03
This is an easier way than using
I've been using Mozilla for quite some time now and I love the feature that disables pop-ups. However, pop-up adds are not the only thing that annoy me as a web surfer. The second most annoying thing is trying to contact some server that belongs to "doubleclick.net" and get a response from that server. Because the servers have to handle too much load, the connection is really slow and that takes all the pleasure out of browsing. I found a couple of ways to battle with it, first is to put the server's name into my /etc/hosts file and redirect it to 127.0.0.1, the second is to configure my firewall not to accept any connections from those servers. I would like Mozilla developers to make an option that allows a user to block traffic to and from unwanted servers/networks like doubleclick. Thanks,
I found this line on his page.:
One of the most respected voices on national security and civil liberties, Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. has earned national and international recognition as a policy innovator, effective legislator and party spokesman on a wide range of key issues.
Now that is really funny, because his bill that can be summarized as:
Anti-counterfeiting Amendments of 2002 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit trafficking in an "illicit authentication feature." Defines that term to mean an authentication feature that: (1) without the authorization of the respective copyright owner, has been tampered with or altered so as to facilitate the reproduction or distribution of a phono-record, a copy of a computer program, a copy of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, or documentation or packaging, in violation of the rights of the copyright owner; (2) is genuine, but has been distributed, or is intended for distribution, without the authorization of the respective copyright owner; or (3) appears to be genuine but is not.
does not reflect any civil liberties. =) The question is, if I see something on the news and tell my friends about it, is it goin to be illegal? First of all, I am not 'authorized' to tell it, secondly it is genuine, but has been distirbuted, and the last one, it might appear to be true.. but its not(?). Sooner or later we'll have leather masks with zippers on our mouths, that would zip us up anytime we say something without authorization. Soungs like a bondage session to me
Yes, I am for serious. How can you enjoy the fact that you kid has a black box in the car? First of all, let me remind you that everybody was a kid and every single one of us has been in a shady situation on the road. Sometimes you have to do it. Period. Secondly, how can parents give their kids keys to the car and allow them to drive without trusting them? If you think that your teenager is not very good at driving, why don't you practice with him/her and if they're reckless just because they like it that way, make him/her get their own car and/or pay for their insurance. This 'black box' does discriminated against teenagers. I would never install a device like that in my kid's car and I would like to see civil liberitarians to speak out about it. Thanks,
HP doesn't really need Dell. They can do better than that. Their printers are good, and I don't doubt that they will drive Dell out of the printer market. If Dell wants to make printers, they should start training and hiring good tech support people on the first place. Last time I called, it took me about 50 minutes of being on hold to get an answer "Yeah, it seems like you have a problem...". If they can't assemble and provide good tech support for their computers, I have no idea what they're going to do with designing and manufacturing their own printers. Thanks
Sad, but true. The only thing that the public can do is to execute rule #1 of business: customer is always right. If people get enough balls to show their opinion a lot of the shit that different companies try to pull will not be tolerated.
Sometimes I don't get our economy. Although I understand that companies want to make money and profit from their products or services, I don't get why some companies are at the public's throat most of the time. Don't the executives get that by making the public angry they're not doing any good to the company's reputation? Do they really expect me to buy anything that involves a JPEG algorithm after a scandal that they put on? If everybody starts pushing for patents and enourmous fees nobody will be willing to do any business, because nobody wants to be sued. I have nothing against patens, they're cool, they can profit an inventor to a reasonable degree and benefit the public at the same time. The companies that hold patents, should be proud of them and open them up to the public, after all that everybody will benefit from whatever they invent and chances are that they're going to make more money than buy suing each other.
I concur. Although Mandrake looked like RedHat on steroids at the beginning... damn those were pretty good steroids that eventually made it a quite different distro. I found that Mandrake was much better polished and suitable for an end user. Again, that is my opinion and I am not trying to enforce it on everybody.
Although I am a FreeBSD dude, I loved my workstation running Mandrake. I think they do an excellent job by trying to make the system more optimized for an end user, rather than a professional sys. admin. For a while, I thought that RedHat was the most user friendly, but I was wrong. The installation process was very smooth and clean, that's where most of Linux distros lag behind. With this in mind, I am thinking of getting the latest Mandrake release and putting it on my moms computer. I've heard that she is sick of 'those blue screens'
I was just wondering, what incredible course of study you must be involved in, that it involves research papers on both breast cancer and sex education.
The paper was on Women's issues throughout the history of the United States. Nothing offensive. As for the rest of the comment... please read my
This is a little bit old, but I am very glad that Mozilla has been recognized by eWeek. They had a nice review (see the link above) and I do agree with the author: there is nothing that Mozilla lacks (compared to the existing browsers). The only thing that I'd like to see in the future is anti-aliased fonts!
...if you have an internship at NASA and you still manage to fuck it up, just because you want to sell some moon rocks online. With the same luck, you can go down to Arizona desert, find some odd looking rocks, pack them up and sell them, its not like everybody knows what a 'real' moon rock looks/feels like. If those kids had more brains, they would work really hard for NASA so they could get a job there and then sell some real documents to our not-so-friendly countries like China, North Korea, Iraq, etc. Now because of those stupid kids our tax payers will have to pay more taxes, so NASA can start reviewing applicants more precisely upon hiring.
This is another story that calls for an international cyber law. Before you start modding me down, you have to realize that unfortunately free speech is not every country's value. It means that if a country's laws do not grant free speech, there is nothing the U.S. can do about it. Since the information on the Internet is very liquid we need some laws that can govern it. I am not saying that we should enslave the information and control all the web sites. All I am saying is that the countries should agree on some things. Although there are many possible solutions, I think that the best way would be for countries to agree that sanctions against web sites should not be taken by any means. It implies that no matter how offensive a government finds a site, it should not be taken down like in the case described by an article. Instead, countries should do what China has done: control the access to those sites, if you please. Why? I think this way everybody's better off. The sites that relate to things that might not acceptable will be blocked by a government that doesn't like it. Plain and simple. Countries that do not want to share our ideas don't need to be exposed to them and we do not force the people of those countries to browse the sites. I do admit that this sounds really bad, because the United States will benefit the most, since we protect the freedom of speech. But if we don't try to agree on simple things like 'to browse or not to browse', our web masters will end up in more trouble. Thanks,
1. Create a company.
2. Buy, sell, employ annoying telemarketers, do whatever you please in order to make money. Our government won't care!
3. Make sure that you have the 'right' auditors. The pick of the day is Andersen.
4. Do NOT forget to state false earnings. The more you get, the more money you are able to collect. Never mind thousands of shareholders you'll fuck over. It is okay, well we're in the United States after all.
4. When shit hits the fan, blame everything on your auditors, since they were supposed to hide everything perfectly and its their fault for not hiding it properly!
5. If everything goes well, file for Chapter 11 or Chapter 7. Make sure that your personal assets are not involved by selling off your shares of the stock.
6. Remember: "its not me, its them" line might work very well in any court, as long as you have some people interested (significant amounts of cash can increase the interest).
The result: millions in your own pocket, thousands of shareholders without retirement money left and some people to pay for your mistakes. But who cares, this is the American way of living afterall.
P.S.: for better results, make sure that your company is affiliated with a political party, since that party will receive a chunck of blame when the company will go belly-up. Also, try to involve political and military leaders into investment, the higher, the better. In addition, after screwing with both our government (it didn't really care, but still) and the public (it does care, but they don't have enough power to fight you), don't forget to mention the 5th Amedment. It is guaranteed to you by the same government that you ended up fucking over.
I have a big problem with filtering. Especially in public schools and universities. First of all, what do you want to filter? Porn? Hate sites? Please, give me a break. If somebody wants to find porn, they will find it anyway. My high school spend a lot of money on filtering software only to find out that I could simply look up a free proxy put the it in my preferences and browse what ever I wanted. With filtering software I found out that I could not do any reseach on the topics of breast cancer, sex education and related stuff. All because they had words like "sex", "breast" and "vagina" in them. I really think that our public schools and universities should not implement cheesy filtering systems that waste our taxpayer's money. Afterall, kids will learn about sex from different sources that are widely available. Just take a look at Cosmopolitan or Maxim these magazines can be seen at any grocery store and anybody who can read can pick it up and read an article on sex and orgasms.
I do agree with you on that point. There is a lot of 'image' and 'bling-mother-fucking' bling goin on. Why don't I see all the artists that were big hits a couple of years ago? First, I don't want to see them :) Secondly, the real artists are still there, I like my oldies, I like classic rock and all the other music that I listened to when I was a kid. You have a very good point, about the Labels that own their performers, in this case, it is even worse, since RIAA wants to pockets more money and the artists won't see a big difference.
Sorry "us vs. them" didn't mean to say U.S. (as in the United States of America). "Us vs. Them" was more like "we, cool guys vs. agains them, lame guys". Why is every discussion a 'war'? Well subscribe to some newsgroup that deals with text editors and ask "Why do people use Emacs rather than VI?" or better "I've heard that Emacds sucks, is that right? Does VI suck as much?" and you will see :) From what I've seen in the past, I can't really name it a 'conflict'. Ciao~
There is nothing worse than being too radical. I can't believe that an issue like that can turn people into animals. Are we going back to our roots? After reading the article I started to think of a cartoon that I've seen a couple of years ago, its called 'evolution'. A ape becomes a person, meets computer, and becomes an ape again...
Yes, the guy is right. Unelss we start presenting ourselves like professionals nobody will look at us and/or count our opinion. Why? Sorry pals, but the book is being judged by its cover in this country.
is another session of corporate diarrhea down our throats. Bumper stickes, hatred, interrupting speakers and having millions of blind fans will not solve the problem. The only way to solve the problem would be to clean up the House, corportate executives and people in charge of making decisions. What we need is people who are able to think without a dollar bill being waved in front of them. Dirty capitalizm is a banana peel that our country is stepping on and unless we find something that can blance it out, it is going to fall. Unfortunately money makes the world go round and unless we have some financial power there is nothing we can do. Something gives me a feeling that having a bunch of geeks protesting gives those bastards more pleasure than fear.
Telecom companies own phone numbers, hence they can be the legal owners of the info, therefore they can sell information about it. Now, can sewer companies sell my information about my shit (literaly) that they traffic through their pipes? If so, I better get a diarrhea. On the other hand, I think that the sewer companies won't be able to get sell the information. Too much traffic, too much corporate bullshit to analyze. There you have it.
Hi there. The article is nice, but yet it describes Debian just as another Linux distribution. Don't get me wrong, but I think that you can write and say a lot of good things about any Linux distribution, as long as you're the one who runs it. I have nothing against Debian, RedHat, Slackware, etc., but I think that every distribution is good in its own way. The article is nice, but I do not think that it should be 'another reason' for using Debian. Come on, people, it is just a matter of personal preference. Let's not start 'emacs vs. vi' or 'us vs. them' wars again. If it works great for you... that is just wonderful! Thanks,
I think RIAA got it wrong. They make money by selling the music, radio station advertise their products (songs), therefore RIAA should encourage the broadcast of the songs in every way. Moreover with declining quality of songs, I think that radiostations should charge artists for playing some songs. Come on guys, aren't you tired of listening to crap like "Its getting hot in here" or "H to the izzo"? The constantly try to shove some crap down our throats. Every time I turn my TV on to MTV or E! (happens once in a month, when I press a wrong button or browse through channels) I see rappers, and all the other pop-stars decked out in gold, driving brand new luxary cars and living in enormous houses. How do they get the money? They make money on CDs that are promoted by different media channels. It hurts, becuase it seems like they don't get enough and they want to sue the ones who provided them with popularity and wealth. Thanks,