McCain-Feingold limits the sizes of bribes (also known as "campaign donations") to politicians. It won't prevent Granny from down the street giving a few hundred dollars to a senatorial hopeful, but it will (hopefully) prevent Michael Eisner from quietly ordering Congress and the Senate to extend copyrights, yet again.
Personally, I think all campaign contributions should go into a single pot, with every candidate getting an equal share of the cash to run their own campaigns. How long do you suppose the likes of Phillip Morris' board members will continue contributing, when they know that Greens will also be benefiting?
Sure, you'll get some higher-profile wingnuts who can then actually afford TV time, but would that really be so bad?
Ah, sorry. I should have been more specific. I love the way styles and colours are seperate, but I'm basically looking for a grand-unified-colours-icons-and-the-kitchen-sink kind of thing. I've been trying to roll my own, but I suck at graphics (icon designers hmust have the patience of Job) and was hoping someone else had already scratched this itch.
Dude, there's about a zillion different kinds of X desktop setups out there. The KDE folks want to make one kind. You want a different kind. Now, with that in mind, what's the logical conclusion?
I'll second this. Specifically, what I'm looking for is a KDE theme that matches this GTK theme and this XMMS skin. KDE Look, this site where most people tell me to go, didn't really have anything appropriate. Just a lot of Aqua clones.
(hands plastered to cheeks in horror) Oh dear god! Not intergration of movies! That's going to utterly destroy one's ability to see 99.99999% of the sites on the web!
Use a goddamn movie player to view movies. I can't think of any browsers for any platform that don't have at least basic support for MIME types.
His government's first Speech from the Throne would probably consist of "FIRST POST!", and his first budget would look into the possibility of a Beowulf cluster of OpenBSD (gotta be patriotic, right?) machines to replace backbenchers.
Now, I'm as much of a gadget-loving technophile as the next nerd, but the voting process in Canada is fairly simple. For federal and provincial elections, there's one candidate per party. Mark an X next to the one you like. That's it. Also, our population is pretty damn low. Counting ballots doesn't take too long. The current system works for us because it's:
(1) Secure. The elections commisions can keep physical control over the ballot boxes, cutting down on election fraud. Also, there's no proprietary voting machines that could have some cute little "count a vote for party alpha as two votes, count a vote for party beta as half a vote" tricks. Widespread voting fraud would require the observers from every party to collaborate, and anyone who follows Canadian politics knows that'll never happen in this eon.
(2) Private. No-one can see who you voted for, short of installing some microscopic cameras in each voting booth. Also likely to be caught out by the above observer system, considering voting booths are usually just wood frames with cloth draped over them. Cables or antennas would be probably noticed. Also, I've heard rumours of Elections Canada (the federal voting commision) looking into the legality of using RF-jamming equipment.
(3) Reliable. Pencils and paper don't crash. And it's not like Canada's going to run out of wood and graphite.
Electronics voting is interesting for countries with huge populations, or for strictly online events, but pretty much useless up here.
I don't run Gentoo, but I built my system with LFS. I wanted to build my system from source for a reason other than optimizations: dependencies.
I like not having programs I use be dependant on some bizarre unknown little library or program that Red Hat or Mandrake saw fit to link to something important. (Requiring Sendmail to run a simple cron daemon? Requiring the installation of Vi?) When you build from source, you know that you won't be getting any missing library errors, and you know that your program won't die mysteriously because it can't find an odd little support program in the path.
What about cameras in public streets? If only one person with a window office plugged in a little laser and kept it shining 24/7 at a camera mounted on a streetlight, it could work.
Actually, that's exactly where I learned it. I used the scripts in bsd-init.txt, and modified them. I like to have a runlevel without networking but with virtual consoles (long and boring story behind that), and that hintfile made it easy.
Amen to that. I've always loved Slackware, and it's always my first choice for most systems, but my main desktop is LFS. My only nitpick is how the premade boot scripts in the book are (ick) SysV. Ah well, at least it taught me to write boot scripts from scratch, too.:)
The US government hates Castro because he kicked out their puppet fascist, Batista, and made it hard for US corporations to use Cubans as near-slave labour.
Americans hate Cuba because of a several decades of relentless propaganda from the US gov't about how evil Castro allegedly is, and how he's an "evil communist dictator". Of course, they don't don't mention how equally bad Batista's government was.
Not exactly true. Living in Canada and watching the US is like watching an older sibling slowly becoming a self-destructive burnout. It's a sad, sick feeling, made worse by the thought that US citizens are even worse off in their plutocracy than we are, and there's little we can do to help.
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Basically this leads to anything java being god aweful slow.
Hashes can be subverted by putting one trojan into the P2P software itself. How can you trust that what you're seeing on the screen is true? Sure, you could do a manual checksum of the downloaded file, but there's lots of lazy people out there.
I'm also quite leery of running network programs as root, even if it's just for the installation of the new software package. And don't even bother mentioning chroot jails. They are utterly useless for this situation.
Any crackpot software-update-via-peer-to-peer-network scheme *damn* well better have the client's source code subjected to a full scale security audit. Downloading a corrupt copy of Pop Song De Jour by Boy Band X or Bubblegum Tune #5643 by Slut Of The Week is no big deal. Downloading a copy of OpenSSH with a backdoor added is a (pardon my french) MAJOR FUCKING ISSUE.
In conclusion, I don't want to get rooted, and you're a dick.
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McCain-Feingold limits the sizes of bribes (also known as "campaign donations") to politicians. It won't prevent Granny from down the street giving a few hundred dollars to a senatorial hopeful, but it will (hopefully) prevent Michael Eisner from quietly ordering Congress and the Senate to extend copyrights, yet again.
Personally, I think all campaign contributions should go into a single pot, with every candidate getting an equal share of the cash to run their own campaigns. How long do you suppose the likes of Phillip Morris' board members will continue contributing, when they know that Greens will also be benefiting?
Sure, you'll get some higher-profile wingnuts who can then actually afford TV time, but would that really be so bad?
Goddamn, I wish I had mod points. That deserves a +1 funny. I had to look twice at the image URL to make sure it wasn't from The Onion or Satirewire.
Ah, sorry. I should have been more specific. I love the way styles and colours are seperate, but I'm basically looking for a grand-unified-colours-icons-and-the-kitchen-sink kind of thing. I've been trying to roll my own, but I suck at graphics (icon designers hmust have the patience of Job) and was hoping someone else had already scratched this itch.
Dude, there's about a zillion different kinds of X desktop setups out there. The KDE folks want to make one kind. You want a different kind. Now, with that in mind, what's the logical conclusion?
I'll second this. Specifically, what I'm looking for is a KDE theme that matches this GTK theme and this XMMS skin. KDE Look, this site where most people tell me to go, didn't really have anything appropriate. Just a lot of Aqua clones.
I hate to sound shallow, but this will come as a huge relief to all the homely guys who hang around Possum Lodge.
(hands plastered to cheeks in horror) Oh dear god! Not intergration of movies! That's going to utterly destroy one's ability to see 99.99999% of the sites on the web!
Use a goddamn movie player to view movies. I can't think of any browsers for any platform that don't have at least basic support for MIME types.
Care to have another stab at it?
His government's first Speech from the Throne would probably consist of "FIRST POST!", and his first budget would look into the possibility of a Beowulf cluster of OpenBSD (gotta be patriotic, right?) machines to replace backbenchers.
Now, I'm as much of a gadget-loving technophile as the next nerd, but the voting process in Canada is fairly simple. For federal and provincial elections, there's one candidate per party. Mark an X next to the one you like. That's it. Also, our population is pretty damn low. Counting ballots doesn't take too long. The current system works for us because it's:
(1) Secure. The elections commisions can keep physical control over the ballot boxes, cutting down on election fraud. Also, there's no proprietary voting machines that could have some cute little "count a vote for party alpha as two votes, count a vote for party beta as half a vote" tricks. Widespread voting fraud would require the observers from every party to collaborate, and anyone who follows Canadian politics knows that'll never happen in this eon.
(2) Private. No-one can see who you voted for, short of installing some microscopic cameras in each voting booth. Also likely to be caught out by the above observer system, considering voting booths are usually just wood frames with cloth draped over them. Cables or antennas would be probably noticed. Also, I've heard rumours of Elections Canada (the federal voting commision) looking into the legality of using RF-jamming equipment.
(3) Reliable. Pencils and paper don't crash. And it's not like Canada's going to run out of wood and graphite.
Electronics voting is interesting for countries with huge populations, or for strictly online events, but pretty much useless up here.
I don't run Gentoo, but I built my system with LFS. I wanted to build my system from source for a reason other than optimizations: dependencies.
I like not having programs I use be dependant on some bizarre unknown little library or program that Red Hat or Mandrake saw fit to link to something important. (Requiring Sendmail to run a simple cron daemon? Requiring the installation of Vi?) When you build from source, you know that you won't be getting any missing library errors, and you know that your program won't die mysteriously because it can't find an odd little support program in the path.
I'm not sure whether that's a comment on George Lucas or Carl Macek. Or both.
She was 99.
And one of these days I'm going to take a cellphone and embed it into a shoe.
Best of all, "86" is slang in lots of places for "dead".
Yes, kids, that's why they gave Maxwell Smart that number, too.
Exactly! You'd just be depriving artists of proper advertising by not playing their music. That's just like theft, you music terrorist.
Hey! A whole new world for Petoria to conquer. Cool.
What about cameras in public streets? If only one person with a window office plugged in a little laser and kept it shining 24/7 at a camera mounted on a streetlight, it could work.
Actually, that's exactly where I learned it. I used the scripts in bsd-init.txt, and modified them. I like to have a runlevel without networking but with virtual consoles (long and boring story behind that), and that hintfile made it easy.
Amen to that. I've always loved Slackware, and it's always my first choice for most systems, but my main desktop is LFS. My only nitpick is how the premade boot scripts in the book are (ick) SysV. Ah well, at least it taught me to write boot scripts from scratch, too. :)
Subgenii (yes, they really call themselves that) pursue the mystical quality known as "slack". It's pretty much that simple.
(And besides, we all know that She What Done It All really runs things. 23 skidoo.)
The US government hates Castro because he kicked out their puppet fascist, Batista, and made it hard for US corporations to use Cubans as near-slave labour.
Americans hate Cuba because of a several decades of relentless propaganda from the US gov't about how evil Castro allegedly is, and how he's an "evil communist dictator". Of course, they don't don't mention how equally bad Batista's government was.
Not exactly true. Living in Canada and watching the US is like watching an older sibling slowly becoming a self-destructive burnout. It's a sad, sick feeling, made worse by the thought that US citizens are even worse off in their plutocracy than we are, and there's little we can do to help.
Basically this leads to anything java being god aweful slow.
Aw, hell, it's too easy. I can't say it.
Nice troll. A lack of profanity, proper spelling and punctuation. I rate it a 9/10.
Hashes can be subverted by putting one trojan into the P2P software itself. How can you trust that what you're seeing on the screen is true? Sure, you could do a manual checksum of the downloaded file, but there's lots of lazy people out there.
I'm also quite leery of running network programs as root, even if it's just for the installation of the new software package. And don't even bother mentioning chroot jails. They are utterly useless for this situation.
Any crackpot software-update-via-peer-to-peer-network scheme *damn* well better have the client's source code subjected to a full scale security audit. Downloading a corrupt copy of Pop Song De Jour by Boy Band X or Bubblegum Tune #5643 by Slut Of The Week is no big deal. Downloading a copy of OpenSSH with a backdoor added is a (pardon my french) MAJOR FUCKING ISSUE.
In conclusion, I don't want to get rooted, and you're a dick.
Thank you for your time.
Yay! Even more opportunity for trojans to get into Debian! Sign me up!
Not.