Well I don't consider myself judeo-christian (nor muslimo-buddhist or even sikho-shinto), so the pagan term definitely applies to me.
As for it being insulting, "atheist" is an insult to muslims and christians as well, but I would find both of those insulting if I was called one... so...
If you lived in a Muslim nation, you would simply be put to death for being a wiccan.
If you happened to live in Salem some 200+ years ago, you'd have been put to death for having been a wiccan, whether you were one or not. Actually, in most of the christian world you would have been put to death. The common method in the catholic world was to severe your tongue, and then burn you slowly and painfully.
In fact, while it would have been fine to be a wiccan, or any kind of non threatening faith in Roma 2000 years ago, it began to change with the intrusion of the christian faith.
According to some historians, the reason why the christians were fed to the lions is due to the fact that they would'nt STFU and live peacefully with other religions which were then tolerated; they had to prevail or die. And then, when they started to prevail they eradicated all other schools of thought.
Yeah, mod me down, but there are some people in this world who will always believe celebrating the anti-pagan birth of Jesus is quite the opposite of 'fanatic' and 'superstitious'.
I'm sorry dude, but believing in an invisible, super powerful, flood creating, virgin impregnating (depending on your local flava'), fig tree slaying, water-walking friend qualifies to me as "superstitious".
By the way, do you know the difference between god and santa?
Let's not get fooled by the fanatic followers of Mr. Christ who are trying to pervert a perfectly fine pagan feast into some kind of superstitious x-tian celebration.
How many Slashdot posters have actually broken into a system without using some prior knowledge gleaned from another programmer - if it`s one percent I`d be more than surprised.
How many Slashdot posters are actually breaking into systems? Not many. It's not "security experts" vs. "script kiddies", it's "everybody" vs. "script kiddiees"
"The courses are spread into three different difficulty levels:
- NEWBIE (sic)) for newbies
- WILD (sic) for middle level
- INTRUSION for the élite"
...
Somewhere else:
INTRUSION: courses to be available alter ...
They're hiring... for their INTRUSION and WILD classes, I guess, they've got plenty of teachers for NEWBIE level already I guess.
Nooo, please no!
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Why the fuck does this appear on/.? EVERYBODY with half a clue in computer stuff laughed at these guys here in France, and cursed the journalists who gave this losers such exposure.
They are just a bunch of lame'o script kiddies wannabe.
Just to give you an idea of their stupidity, their publication (Hacker'Z voice) has been repeatedly caught publishing others' articles (see for example this article at linuxfr.org) calling it their own work.
The most striking example of their kiddie-ness is probably their spelling (both in French and English); I know, I know, flaming someone on spelling isn't exactly glorious, but when the ratio goes above one spelling error per word (and I'm not making this up), you've seriously got to wonder.
Oh, but wait! They're even more sorry fucks than you'd think. Look at their über-zekure registration form for their university: yoohoo, ACTION="mailto:...". Those guys can't even get fucked to install SSL!
Are you going to develop two versions -- one for Windows using MFC and one for Linux using GTK or QT? -- or do you plan to use one library for both?
Using GTK excludes the latter, as while it can be used on Windows, and thus makes it possible to port programs such as Gimp to this platform, it's not exactly its most supported feature. And it doesn't look like native Windows.
On the other hand Qt is really supported on Windows -- actually, you have to pay for it.
Just install a DNS server (as provided on any *nix distrib), and have it not connect to the ISP's (default setting), et voila, forget that shit.
I read in the paper that they not only want to censor "nazi" sites, but also Rotten, which displays very bad taste, but bad taste has never killed anyone, has it?
It's always the same problem with censorship: they claim to only target extremist groups, but there's always collateral damages.
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" My general rule of thumb ist that a speedup below 30% for GUI applications isn't noticed by the user. "
Are you sure? What about a 200% speedup that happens 5% of the time... on average it's much less than 30% speedup...
"If one man is worth starting a war over, then isn't it also worthwhile to fight for people's freedom? Saudi-Arabia, China, Pakistan, and Indonesia are amongst the nations that the west does business with, and yet the oppress billions of people. Why can't we justify war with these countries,"
Well freedom is nice... it's just that starting a war with China would mean a few billion dead people; if not 6 billions in nuclear winter.
I don't think *anything* is worth this. Your opinion may differ, though.
Anyway, in all seriousness, just because something is bad doesn't mean we should just squash it. War is hardly ever the best answer you know. Take the war on drugs... drug is certainly bad, however outlawing it and starting a "war" on it hasn't prevented anyone from acquiring / using / selling it.
Konqueror is very good, however it lacks one feature that made me switch to Mozilla last week:
The ability to disable pop-up windows on page load, page close or timer events.
If you disable window.open entirely, you get fucked on sites like Cnn.com where some links open tiny windows to display, say, photos or infographics.
Also there's the "tab" feature... Now that's awesome.
Last, I found Konq still has a nasty memory leak, the process grows to hundreds of MB after a couple days; while Mozilla doesn't seem to leak significant memory so far.
Gandi is "sort of" non-commercial. It was started as a protest against commercial registrars. The founders thought that they were overpriced and were charging for what ought to be free. So they started selling domain names at almost cost... and to their own surprise, they started making money, which they are investing back to support community project such as Gitoyen.
The interesting consequences of this is that they are not actively seeking customers. They don't have a marketing department. They don't advertise. They don't spam, nor do they try to lock the customers. You are free to go to another registrar -- no fee, no hassle. They are based on free software exclusively.
It's implemented in just about every language. It's a silly concept, but it works; and is not that hard to get working.
I'm currently writing an app in Perl & Java; back end in Java, web front-end in Perl. I could have switched Java for C++, doesn't matter. Or Perl and PHP.
The US supports with money and weapons a disgusting regime because it provides a steady supply of oil and generally cooperates with the US.
Without that oil, at this point in time, the West is *fucked*. Well, it would not be fucked should the US actually put taxes on gas and reduce its consumption, instead of wasting 3 times the amount per capita Europeans do.
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They offered to help me track down potential license infrigements. And certainly, I could provide him with a list of software I'm using.
The comical effect was lost as the clueless telemarketer could'nt find "lunix", "apache" and "perl" in his list.
"It's open-s... nevermind, I have a meeting bye"
You don't get it: the banners at the Hungersite are NOT profitable advertising per se; it's the advertisers who are actually donating money.
A non-charity counterpart would'nt raise much money.
Why not just say that the god-which-is-not-meta is beyond our scope as well, and just be a nice agnostic like any sane person?
Well I don't consider myself judeo-christian (nor muslimo-buddhist or even sikho-shinto), so the pagan term definitely applies to me.
... so ...
As for it being insulting, "atheist" is an insult to muslims and christians as well, but I would find both of those insulting if I was called one
Ok, you have a problem with the universe existing by itself, so you have to come up with that "god" thingie to solve this intellectual problem?
Well, guess what, I have just as big a problem with you "god" existing in the first place. Who created god? A meta-god?
So why not just stick with the simplest explanation -- there is no tooth fairy.
Most "shareware" is just plain crap anyway. Better use really free-as-in-speech software.
They've succesfully brainwashed slashdot as well, or what?
If you lived in a Muslim nation, you would simply be put to death for being a wiccan.
If you happened to live in Salem some 200+ years ago, you'd have been put to death for having been a wiccan, whether you were one or not. Actually, in most of the christian world you would have been put to death. The common method in the catholic world was to severe your tongue, and then burn you slowly and painfully.
In fact, while it would have been fine to be a wiccan, or any kind of non threatening faith in Roma 2000 years ago, it began to change with the intrusion of the christian faith.
According to some historians, the reason why the christians were fed to the lions is due to the fact that they would'nt STFU and live peacefully with other religions which were then tolerated; they had to prevail or die. And then, when they started to prevail they eradicated all other schools of thought.
Fanaticism! There is no other word.
Yeah, mod me down, but there are some people in this world who will always believe celebrating the anti-pagan birth of Jesus is quite the opposite of 'fanatic' and 'superstitious'.
I'm sorry dude, but believing in an invisible, super powerful, flood creating, virgin impregnating (depending on your local flava'), fig tree slaying, water-walking friend qualifies to me as "superstitious".
By the way, do you know the difference between god and santa?
Santa claus, it's true.
(Courtesy Dominique Colucci).
Let's not get fooled by the fanatic followers of Mr. Christ who are trying to pervert a perfectly fine pagan feast into some kind of superstitious x-tian celebration.
Happy Winter Solstice!
"The right solution, which many would take if doing it again today, is to do it all in Unicode."
Isn't there several way to encode a given char in Unicode?
How many Slashdot posters have actually broken into a system without using some prior knowledge gleaned from another programmer - if it`s one percent I`d be more than surprised.
How many Slashdot posters are actually breaking into systems? Not many. It's not "security experts" vs. "script kiddies", it's "everybody" vs. "script kiddiees"
From their site:
... for their INTRUSION and WILD classes, I guess, they've got plenty of teachers for NEWBIE level already I guess.
"The courses are spread into three different difficulty levels:
- NEWBIE (sic)) for newbies
- WILD (sic) for middle level
- INTRUSION for the élite"
...
Somewhere else:
INTRUSION: courses to be available alter
...
They're hiring
Why the fuck does this appear on /.? EVERYBODY with half a clue in computer stuff laughed at these guys here in France, and cursed the journalists who gave this losers such exposure.
They are just a bunch of lame'o script kiddies wannabe.
Just to give you an idea of their stupidity, their publication (Hacker'Z voice) has been repeatedly caught publishing others' articles (see for example this article at linuxfr.org) calling it their own work.
The most striking example of their kiddie-ness is probably their spelling (both in French and English); I know, I know, flaming someone on spelling isn't exactly glorious, but when the ratio goes above one spelling error per word (and I'm not making this up), you've seriously got to wonder.
Oh, but wait! They're even more sorry fucks than you'd think. Look at their über-zekure registration form for their university: yoohoo, ACTION="mailto:...". Those guys can't even get fucked to install SSL!
Couple links for completeness:
Hacker Z Voice site
Hacker U site
Most web browsers make use of If-Modified-Since:, Netscape has been doing it since 3.0 I think.
Most current web browsers do use Range:, and so does wget.
Most web browsers implement SSL authentification.
Few implement upload, though.
Are you going to develop two versions -- one for Windows using MFC and one for Linux using GTK or QT? -- or do you plan to use one library for both?
Using GTK excludes the latter, as while it can be used on Windows, and thus makes it possible to port programs such as Gimp to this platform, it's not exactly its most supported feature. And it doesn't look like native Windows.
On the other hand Qt is really supported on Windows -- actually, you have to pay for it.
Just install a DNS server (as provided on any *nix distrib), and have it not connect to the ISP's (default setting), et voila, forget that shit.
I read in the paper that they not only want to censor "nazi" sites, but also Rotten, which displays very bad taste, but bad taste has never killed anyone, has it?
It's always the same problem with censorship: they claim to only target extremist groups, but there's always collateral damages.
" My general rule of thumb ist that a speedup below 30% for GUI applications isn't noticed by the user. "
... on average it's much less than 30% speedup ...
Are you sure? What about a 200% speedup that happens 5% of the time
I'm using 2.4.13. Still leaks.
Err this is just so wrong. A 17 year old is not a child.
"If one man is worth starting a war over, then isn't it also worthwhile to fight for people's freedom? Saudi-Arabia, China, Pakistan, and Indonesia are amongst the nations that the west does business with, and yet the oppress billions of people. Why can't we justify war with these countries,"
... it's just that starting a war with China would mean a few billion dead people; if not 6 billions in nuclear winter.
... drug is certainly bad, however outlawing it and starting a "war" on it hasn't prevented anyone from acquiring / using / selling it.
Well freedom is nice
I don't think *anything* is worth this. Your opinion may differ, though.
Anyway, in all seriousness, just because something is bad doesn't mean we should just squash it. War is hardly ever the best answer you know. Take the war on drugs
Konqueror is very good, however it lacks one feature that made me switch to Mozilla last week:
... Now that's awesome.
The ability to disable pop-up windows on page load, page close or timer events.
If you disable window.open entirely, you get fucked on sites like Cnn.com where some links open tiny windows to display, say, photos or infographics.
Also there's the "tab" feature
Last, I found Konq still has a nasty memory leak, the process grows to hundreds of MB after a couple days; while Mozilla doesn't seem to leak significant memory so far.
Gandi is "sort of" non-commercial. It was started as a protest against commercial registrars. The founders thought that they were overpriced and were charging for what ought to be free. So they started selling domain names at almost cost ... and to their own surprise, they started making money, which they are investing back to support community project such as Gitoyen.
The interesting consequences of this is that they are not actively seeking customers. They don't have a marketing department. They don't advertise. They don't spam, nor do they try to lock the customers. You are free to go to another registrar -- no fee, no hassle. They are based on free software exclusively.
It's implemented in just about every language. It's a silly concept, but it works; and is not that hard to get working.
I'm currently writing an app in Perl & Java; back end in Java, web front-end in Perl. I could have switched Java for C++, doesn't matter. Or Perl and PHP.
The US supports with money and weapons a disgusting regime because it provides a steady supply of oil and generally cooperates with the US.
Without that oil, at this point in time, the West is *fucked*. Well, it would not be fucked should the US actually put taxes on gas and reduce its consumption, instead of wasting 3 times the amount per capita Europeans do.