Well, even if it were open source, how would you know that it didn't contain a trap door? By trusting that the binary you download is clean? By trusting that the source you download hasn't been tampered with or the server hacked? Or how about the compiler you're going to use, changed to add a trap door to your clean sourced app?
Now let's presume that your source is the true blue Open Source Stuff - does that mean you can be sure there is no trap door? Even in projects with hundreds of active developers and thousands of kibitzers there are bugs unfound for years. Yeah, when they are found, they are fixed in no time - but until then, the aforementioned one-liner, intentional or just a bug, can mean your protection is worthless.
So the only way to make sure there is no trap door (or well hiden hole in he floor that accidently got created) is to comb through the source very carefully. When you are done, the encryption can probably be cracked by brute force on a cheap PC. Who said being paranoid wasn't a full-time job?;-:
Americans sold arms to all opposing arm camps in both World Wars and countless others; Americans financed Hitler and his election campaign when his German backers couldn't keep up anymore; And yes, some of those bombers over London were build in American owned factories, making their owners money.
We colonized; we stopped. After all, we spent almost 200 years as a colony under the thumb of a distant monarchy. Europeans were/are better at it. (See west Africa today.)
Yet spending almost 200 years as a colony under the thumb of a distant monarchy didn't stop you from colonizing like madmen. And Europeans were only slightly better at it than you, and that with the good headstart they had.
Trade isn't looting.
Tell me how looting done by Europeans turns into trade when done by Americans.
Our relations with native Americans are nothing to be proud of, but it was inevitable.
More of your "I'm holier than thou, for I am American" bullshit. "It was actually the evil Europeans killing those redskins, then they turned into Americans and stopped, now being friendly to the Noble Natives." Yeah, right. But it doesn't stop there. Race segregation is still rampant in the US. Non-whites are still far more likely to be stopped by the police and to end up in jail, and still are poorer on average.
We have our share of loons, charlatans and criminals, too. We just don't vote them into office, walk away from democracy, and let them start the killing.
Yup, no American loon, charlatan or criminal has ever been elected into office. Not that they needed it to kill people.
Sure, but almost everything he states also goes for PC clusters. Esp. for the firsts to appear on the Top 500 list, most of which used plain PCs (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, new entry in current list at place 117), while the others used huge servers, not 1U racks. And the bandwidth constraints of the G5 desktop? Cough, yeah right, compare to PCs please - even high end.
Last, but not least: If the Mac G5 is such a "piss-poor design for supercomputers", why will it reach the top 10 (maybe even top 5), beating almost all specialized "PC"-clusters including many costing more? Another benchmark ruined by Macs.
PS: they "only" use the Combo drive, not the DVD burner, so nyah-nyah.
Yeah, you invented democracy, just like you invented the car, television, telephone, airplanes, and the computer. No, instead of conquering the world, you send money to Europe to support Hitler and prevent the NSDAP from going broke - thank you so much, where would you be without you and the weapons you provided to all parties in several wars around the world. Thank you for furthering democracy by eliminating it in dozens of countries, while supporting dictators as long as they are good lapdogs. Well, until the populace gets enough of them, and a Communist regime results. Thanks for being you.
Financing Hitler to stop the spread of Communism - no, rather anything remotly working for the right of workers. Making sure that people who don't want to be your slaves get killed. No, I have absolutely nothing against people "trying to advance their own interests", may their names be Rockefeller or Theodore Kaczynski, Coca Cola or Al Qaida. Like I said, take it like a man. You asked for it, if only by not giving a shit.
Unless the interests of American businessmen are touched. IOW always. Then you only fight those (threats to democracy) / democracies that threaten them and support those (threats to democracy) / democracies that can help make them money.
Not that it's always the US government doing it - or even a TLA that the government long since has lost control over. Sometimes its just the businessmen themselves - until they lose control, that's when the government again comes into play. This has been going on for most of the USAs existence.
To put it another way: Nobody is expecting the US to help the world, we are expecting you to stop helping yourself at the expense of the rest of the world - or at least take it like a man when somebody returns the favour.
The U.S. is not some benificent society obligated to help the world. It's a country created explicitly to avoid the rest of the world.
Interesting point - but why doesn't the U.S. just leave the rest of the world alone then? If you don't want to meet other people, don't go where there are lots of people - and acting like a 800lb gorilla while being there doesn't really help matters either.
Sorry that I put a grain of salt to your wonderful world of free market environmentalism. Face it, that article (6 years old BTW) is based on nothing but the authors agenda. There is no scientific basis, no data to back it up. The fact that the source is constantly spreading stuff like this and coincidently gets money from the worst poluters speaks values.
So if he wants to release his project under anything but the GPL, he better claim to not look at the Linux source. Or is having RMS on your back productive;-)
saying recycling isn't worth it. The Heartlandwhat? Heartland bills itself as "the marketing arm of the free-market movement. Title of it's newsletter is Intellectual Ammunition, they get grants by GM, Exxon, Chevron and Amoco. The mission of Heartland is to support ideas like "market-based approaches to environmental protection" - IOW, if there's no money in protecting the environment, it's evil communism.
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My, I have nothing to offer against your superior American intelect. History from comic books; professional know-nothing lefties - whoa.
Oh boy, did you miss the point of my post. But then, you're paranoid.
Tell that to yourself long enough, and it might come true.
Now let's presume that your source is the true blue Open Source Stuff - does that mean you can be sure there is no trap door? Even in projects with hundreds of active developers and thousands of kibitzers there are bugs unfound for years. Yeah, when they are found, they are fixed in no time - but until then, the aforementioned one-liner, intentional or just a bug, can mean your protection is worthless.
So the only way to make sure there is no trap door (or well hiden hole in he floor that accidently got created) is to comb through the source very carefully. When you are done, the encryption can probably be cracked by brute force on a cheap PC. Who said being paranoid wasn't a full-time job? ;-:
We colonized; we stopped. After all, we spent almost 200 years as a colony under the thumb of a distant monarchy. Europeans were/are better at it. (See west Africa today.)
Yet spending almost 200 years as a colony under the thumb of a distant monarchy didn't stop you from colonizing like madmen. And Europeans were only slightly better at it than you, and that with the good headstart they had.
Trade isn't looting.
Tell me how looting done by Europeans turns into trade when done by Americans.
Our relations with native Americans are nothing to be proud of, but it was inevitable.
More of your "I'm holier than thou, for I am American" bullshit. "It was actually the evil Europeans killing those redskins, then they turned into Americans and stopped, now being friendly to the Noble Natives." Yeah, right. But it doesn't stop there. Race segregation is still rampant in the US. Non-whites are still far more likely to be stopped by the police and to end up in jail, and still are poorer on average.
We have our share of loons, charlatans and criminals, too. We just don't vote them into office, walk away from democracy, and let them start the killing.
Yup, no American loon, charlatan or criminal has ever been elected into office. Not that they needed it to kill people.
AFAIK not. Would that prove anything?
Last, but not least: If the Mac G5 is such a "piss-poor design for supercomputers", why will it reach the top 10 (maybe even top 5), beating almost all specialized "PC"-clusters including many costing more? Another benchmark ruined by Macs.
PS: they "only" use the Combo drive, not the DVD burner, so nyah-nyah.
Tell me again how Americans weren't colonialists themselves.
Tell me again how Americans didn't prosper on the looted wealth and resources of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Tell me again how Americans accept all their minorities, rather than segregating and attempting to exterminate several of them.
Tell me again that Americans didn't write and believe Dianetics, The Manifesto of the Unabomber, and The Turner Diaries.
Yeah, if that would have been his point - yet it wasn't. Thanks for playing. BTW they do intend to use the Radeons for calculations.
Yeah, you invented democracy, just like you invented the car, television, telephone, airplanes, and the computer. No, instead of conquering the world, you send money to Europe to support Hitler and prevent the NSDAP from going broke - thank you so much, where would you be without you and the weapons you provided to all parties in several wars around the world. Thank you for furthering democracy by eliminating it in dozens of countries, while supporting dictators as long as they are good lapdogs. Well, until the populace gets enough of them, and a Communist regime results. Thanks for being you.
Yeah, yeah, and PC clusters are the bee's knees. I got you.
Financing Hitler to stop the spread of Communism - no, rather anything remotly working for the right of workers. Making sure that people who don't want to be your slaves get killed. No, I have absolutely nothing against people "trying to advance their own interests", may their names be Rockefeller or Theodore Kaczynski, Coca Cola or Al Qaida. Like I said, take it like a man. You asked for it, if only by not giving a shit.
Oh, people have seen it, and even filmed it.
Not that it's always the US government doing it - or even a TLA that the government long since has lost control over. Sometimes its just the businessmen themselves - until they lose control, that's when the government again comes into play. This has been going on for most of the USAs existence.
To put it another way: Nobody is expecting the US to help the world, we are expecting you to stop helping yourself at the expense of the rest of the world - or at least take it like a man when somebody returns the favour.
Interesting point - but why doesn't the U.S. just leave the rest of the world alone then? If you don't want to meet other people, don't go where there are lots of people - and acting like a 800lb gorilla while being there doesn't really help matters either.
As opposed to Batista's? Nice twist of logic.
Especially because he turned his island into a Soviet launch pad.
How dare he! Only the US is alowed to turn something into a launch pad!
Oh, you seem to confuse conservativism with capitalism. I don't.
Sorry that I put a grain of salt to your wonderful world of free market environmentalism. Face it, that article (6 years old BTW) is based on nothing but the authors agenda. There is no scientific basis, no data to back it up. The fact that the source is constantly spreading stuff like this and coincidently gets money from the worst poluters speaks values.
Cost compared to CD depends on whether you want the whole album or just one or to songs. So much for your bubble.
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Yeah, there never was a Y2K problem either, because my machine from 2002 never had any problems.
So if he wants to release his project under anything but the GPL, he better claim to not look at the Linux source. Or is having RMS on your back productive ;-)
Everything is obvious - once somebody else came up with it.
Not everybody who did get iTunes for Windows can use the iTMS, same goes for the Mac version - because you only can access it from the US.
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