The main point is that Al Gore had already earned a reputation as a liar and exagerator before that Internet incident. "Internet Al" may be inaccurate, but the character flaws that led people to call him that were very real.
"Another point. Maybe you haven't looked at a default Windows installation, but users don't see file extensions. They only see "My Filename", not "My Filename.DOC". Telling them not to use.DOC files is futile because THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A.DOC FILE IS. Trying to get people to do a "Save
As" and selecting "Rich Text Format" is so foreign to most Windows users it's never going to happen. "
Which is one reason Windoze is a haven for viruses. The victim/Doze user clicks on an innocent looking file called "ReadThis.txt" only to find that its real name was "ReadThis.txt.vbs" and it just e-mailed his Quicken files to Timbucktoo.
Having recently lost power due to an ice storm, I can tell you there were 3 things I wanted restored ASAP.
1. Heating - the house got real cold real fast.
2. Internet access - admittedly a distant second, and not essential for survival, but since when is life about bare survival.
3. TV - mostly crap, but still just enough good stuff that I was PO'd not having it.
My guesses: A. The area around the Klingon Empire IS dangerous, but mostly because the Klingons themselves keep starting trouble. B. Klingons ARE totally paranoid! C. Humans are idealistic, which is often mistaken for naivete. Regarding Klingon advancment, they certainly have bigger/better guns (not surprising), but I've seen no evidence that their warp drive was any faster, and in Kirk's day, a lot of their tech was less reliable than the Federation. I suspect that early Klingon ships had just as many bugs as the first Enterprise, but they weren't as well known cause they killed anyone who found out about them.
There are limits to that. For example, the odds of your 800 pound man living that long are slim, in spite of all the modern advances. He might live for years in that state (compared to 5 minutes in the middle of the wilderness), but he'll likely have all sorts of medical problems, and if there is a major power outage, like what happened in the Midwest U.S. this week, he'll be in big trouble.
I don't know how Slackware compares to RH and others, but I do know that I got r00ted on my Slackware 7.1 box last year! Windows may be worse than Linux, but Linux still sux on security!
Yes, Unix has shortcomings security-wise, but Windows assumes EVERYONE is root! NT has multiple users, but a default installation is Administrator (equivelent to root). That is so older Win9X based software that thinks it has root access will run properly.
I'm currently finding out the problems of dependence on modern convienences. A large number of people, myself included, lost power in the Midwest's ice storm. My battery-powered radio was NOT a luxury, it was important for information! Worse, was the loss of my furnace in the middle of winter. Probably, the pioneers of 2 centuries ago built rip-roaring fires to keep warm; that wouldn't be an option inside a house (without a fireplace). People are getting through it by staying with relatives, friends, hotels, shelters, but what if all of them had also lost all power/heat? And while I'll admit that the Internet isn't a neccesity, after 5+ days without it, it feels like one (I have to post this from work).
"And what would armed resistance have achieved, other than bringing down more force on them, AND the government labelling them more strongly as subversive terrorists, swinging public opinion further away from them. "
*sarcasm* Heaven forbid anything that would have caused Hitler to make things worse for the jews! */sarcasm*
"I'm assuming you're an American who is pro the constitutional right to bear arms based on the argument that it allows you to form a militia and over-throw an oppressive government. Really, how will this ever happen? Do you really think the US government will ever let any group concentrate enough power to threaten their rule? I don't think so: you'll just get another Waco, TX, coupled with media manipulation and propaganda to swing public opinion against you. This is what democracy is about: we vote, we don't shoot. Even so, if a
[more] oppressive government did take over, Ghandi has already demonstrated that it is possible to
overthrow such a governement without arms, which in some ways is much more democratic."
Clearly, no amount of civilian held arms will overthrow the government. But it might make them think twice before stepping over the line. The problem with Waco is that they were just a small group with a crazy leader. If the government ever starts oppressing "normal" citizens, it won't be so easy to yell "cult" and sweep it under the rug. Obviously, the ballet is far better than the bullet, but if the ballet doesn't work, we reserve the right to use the bullet (as a VERY last resort). And, yes, I am an American.
In my experience: Not only is Debian much harder to install than Slackware, but several attempts to upgrade from stable to "testing/unstable" broke my system, whereas I have yet to break my system installing packages from slack-current. OTOH, though reliable, Slack is not particularly easy. If you want "better dependencies" you probably don't want Slackware.
The last 2.5 version I tried was 2.4.15-greased-turkey. For some odd reason I'm reluctant to try another.
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I'm weird too. I like technology. I make my living with it. I post on/. with it. But I don't want to be any more dependent on it than I already am (which is too much). I'd rather have the comfort that, though I'm old & fat, I can still walk up 3 flights of stairs if the elevator is broken. I may not know the names of the trees I walk past, but at least I walk past them.
I thought the major distros (RH, SuSe, Mandrake) used modified AC kernels. I don't know about Debian, but I think they patch their kernels too. Slackware is the only distro that uses "raw" Linus kernels, and even they included a patch for the broken 2.4.5 kernel, though it was up to the user to apply it.
The bully doesn't need to smile for the other kids, he just needs to smile for the teacher. "Miss Davis, you look lovely wearing those rose-colored glasses I bought you. Yes, I know they keep you from seeing out the Windows (tm), but I'm not beating up kids anymore. Trust me (tm)!"
The Dem's would love to make political hay out of Enron. Only one problem. All of them are on Enron's payroll as well! Face it, this isn't Republican vs Democrat, it's corruption on both sides!
I wouldn't put any of that info in a business e-mail. And I handle business with my realtor in person or over the phone. Perhaps, if someone accessed his records they could find my lowest price, but there's no paper trail on my end.
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"Why don't we see monkeys in classrooms?"
You obviously didn't go to my school.
Hmmm! I'd better get to the gym then.
The main point is that Al Gore had already earned a reputation as a liar and exagerator before that Internet incident. "Internet Al" may be inaccurate, but the character flaws that led people to call him that were very real.
"Another point. Maybe you haven't looked at a default Windows installation, but users don't see file extensions. They only see "My Filename", not "My Filename.DOC". Telling them not to use .DOC files is futile because THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A .DOC FILE IS. Trying to get people to do a "Save
As" and selecting "Rich Text Format" is so foreign to most Windows users it's never going to happen. "
Which is one reason Windoze is a haven for viruses. The victim/Doze user clicks on an innocent looking file called "ReadThis.txt" only to find that its real name was "ReadThis.txt.vbs" and it just e-mailed his Quicken files to Timbucktoo.
Having recently lost power due to an ice storm, I can tell you there were 3 things I wanted restored ASAP.
1. Heating - the house got real cold real fast.
2. Internet access - admittedly a distant second, and not essential for survival, but since when is life about bare survival.
3. TV - mostly crap, but still just enough good stuff that I was PO'd not having it.
At that rate, it will be awhile until 0.9.99!
My guesses: A. The area around the Klingon Empire IS dangerous, but mostly because the Klingons themselves keep starting trouble. B. Klingons ARE totally paranoid! C. Humans are idealistic, which is often mistaken for naivete. Regarding Klingon advancment, they certainly have bigger/better guns (not surprising), but I've seen no evidence that their warp drive was any faster, and in Kirk's day, a lot of their tech was less reliable than the Federation. I suspect that early Klingon ships had just as many bugs as the first Enterprise, but they weren't as well known cause they killed anyone who found out about them.
Debian names its releases after "Toy Stories" characters. "Sid" was the boy that kept breaking his toys, therefore Debian "unstable" is Sid.
There are limits to that. For example, the odds of your 800 pound man living that long are slim, in spite of all the modern advances. He might live for years in that state (compared to 5 minutes in the middle of the wilderness), but he'll likely have all sorts of medical problems, and if there is a major power outage, like what happened in the Midwest U.S. this week, he'll be in big trouble.
Aunt Tillie can do it with no trouble. Of course, Aunt Tillie also compiles the Linux 2.5 kernel.
I don't know how Slackware compares to RH and others, but I do know that I got r00ted on my Slackware 7.1 box last year! Windows may be worse than Linux, but Linux still sux on security!
Yes, Unix has shortcomings security-wise, but Windows assumes EVERYONE is root! NT has multiple users, but a default installation is Administrator (equivelent to root). That is so older Win9X based software that thinks it has root access will run properly.
I'm currently finding out the problems of dependence on modern convienences. A large number of people, myself included, lost power in the Midwest's ice storm. My battery-powered radio was NOT a luxury, it was important for information! Worse, was the loss of my furnace in the middle of winter. Probably, the pioneers of 2 centuries ago built rip-roaring fires to keep warm; that wouldn't be an option inside a house (without a fireplace). People are getting through it by staying with relatives, friends, hotels, shelters, but what if all of them had also lost all power/heat? And while I'll admit that the Internet isn't a neccesity, after 5+ days without it, it feels like one (I have to post this from work).
"And what would armed resistance have achieved, other than bringing down more force on them, AND the government labelling them more strongly as subversive terrorists, swinging public opinion further away from them. "
*sarcasm* Heaven forbid anything that would have caused Hitler to make things worse for the jews! */sarcasm*
"I'm assuming you're an American who is pro the constitutional right to bear arms based on the argument that it allows you to form a militia and over-throw an oppressive government. Really, how will this ever happen? Do you really think the US government will ever let any group concentrate enough power to threaten their rule? I don't think so: you'll just get another Waco, TX, coupled with media manipulation and propaganda to swing public opinion against you. This is what democracy is about: we vote, we don't shoot. Even so, if a
[more] oppressive government did take over, Ghandi has already demonstrated that it is possible to
overthrow such a governement without arms, which in some ways is much more democratic."
Clearly, no amount of civilian held arms will overthrow the government. But it might make them think twice before stepping over the line. The problem with Waco is that they were just a small group with a crazy leader. If the government ever starts oppressing "normal" citizens, it won't be so easy to yell "cult" and sweep it under the rug. Obviously, the ballet is far better than the bullet, but if the ballet doesn't work, we reserve the right to use the bullet (as a VERY last resort). And, yes, I am an American.
In my experience: Not only is Debian much harder to install than Slackware, but several attempts to upgrade from stable to "testing/unstable" broke my system, whereas I have yet to break my system installing packages from slack-current. OTOH, though reliable, Slack is not particularly easy. If you want "better dependencies" you probably don't want Slackware.
Doesn't Debian still use 2.0.xx? :)
The last 2.5 version I tried was 2.4.15-greased-turkey. For some odd reason I'm reluctant to try another.
I'm weird too. I like technology. I make my living with it. I post on /. with it. But I don't want to be any more dependent on it than I already am (which is too much). I'd rather have the comfort that, though I'm old & fat, I can still walk up 3 flights of stairs if the elevator is broken. I may not know the names of the trees I walk past, but at least I walk past them.
I believe Linux 1.0 came out in 1991. Any new OS has a 11 year gap to close (except BSD which isn't new).
I thought the major distros (RH, SuSe, Mandrake) used modified AC kernels. I don't know about Debian, but I think they patch their kernels too. Slackware is the only distro that uses "raw" Linus kernels, and even they included a patch for the broken 2.4.5 kernel, though it was up to the user to apply it.
"MS: 'Everybody raise their hands if you trust your data on this man's server' "
I'd trust my data more on his server than on M$'s. Without even knowing who the **** he is!
The bully doesn't need to smile for the other kids, he just needs to smile for the teacher. "Miss Davis, you look lovely wearing those rose-colored glasses I bought you. Yes, I know they keep you from seeing out the Windows (tm), but I'm not beating up kids anymore. Trust me (tm)!"
The Dem's would love to make political hay out of Enron. Only one problem. All of them are on Enron's payroll as well! Face it, this isn't Republican vs Democrat, it's corruption on both sides!
Because he was smarter than the 2nd most corrupt President, who badly needed a document shredding poicy.
I wouldn't put any of that info in a business e-mail. And I handle business with my realtor in person or over the phone. Perhaps, if someone accessed his records they could find my lowest price, but there's no paper trail on my end.