As a former Marine I wish to disagree with you on a few point
Most of our technology and training is still heldover from the Cold War where we envisioned broad, sweeping formations and movements between huge masses of men in Eastern Europe.
Most of Marine Corp training is Battalion+ to platoon focusing on fire and manuver. This is very effective when you are fighting even the smallest of units. I have trained countless hours at the squad and platoon level and one of the favorite MCI's(Marine Corp Institute correspondence courses) is the terrorism MCI. Our equipment is pretty good but it could always be better. M1A1, Apache(Army), Night Vision Goggles, even the M16A2(some would argue that it stinks because it is not automatic but if you can only fire one or 3 shots per trigger pull you tend to aim a heck of a lot better), Lets not forget SINCGARS, .
But when your enemy instead becomes a couple people whipping up homemade bombs with readily available materials and blowing up your troops a couple at a time.The "terrorists" are certainly attacking our Army where we are unprepared and not expected.
We are trained to deal with situations like this that is why you see ONLY 1 or 2 die at a time. As sad and unfortunate those death are there is not really a defense for those types of attacks except due dilligence. The solders over there are not failing in any way nor did the generals forget to plan this is just the outcome of these kind of scenarios. The American people and press just weren't ready for it. I know that sounds a little cold and heartless but no Marine believes war and terrorism is like the movies and most of them are prepared for the real thing.
To his credit Bush did mention in a speech before this war that this could happen. To his discredit he didn't harp on it enough.
Oh ya and Korea is fscking freezing in the winter and I am from the New England.
As a resident of Mass. and a conservative(notice small "c") things like this make me feel bad about all the mean things I've said about the Honorable Mr. Frank. Today he has earned my vote.
But Ted Kennedy he still drives me crazy.
Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns.
I always thought more open source software esp. the precompileds that come with major distributions should adapt a uniform gui. I know alot of people would complain about that but since it is open source you could custimize to your liking. But I am thinking about the sake of the project/company they NEED to have standard and uniform interfaces if they want to attract "Joe Sixpack" and end esp. PHB's and Corporations. for example: If exec A uses mozilla 1.2 and then goes to show it off to exec B but now mozilla is up to 1.5 and think are "different" he is going to leave an unfavorable impression of mozilla.
Here is a good example win95/98/se/me/nt/2k what is different to the user? Nothing that matters: It looks and acts the same(minus stability).
I agree with evrything you say except the last line
Parents/teachers have to do their best to guide kids' online activity and that's about the best we can justly expect in our society.
Teachers don't raise my kids, I do.
I expect my teacher and schools to monitor the conetent my young children view while at school. After school then its my job.
I think I wasted my entire summer vacations when I was kid buying those C64 magazines that came with pages and pages of code to make simple text games. My parents loved it because I left them alone. My Favorite was "Boxing" you would win every fight if the first punch you threw was an uppercut. It also has some of the best games "hang-on" and "ninja". I remeber my parents even bought me a special "fast loader" cartridge for it. C64 taught me how to type at a pretty young age(7 or 8 I think).
I have actually thought of buying one of ebay again just for the fun of it.
If you are not from Mass. let me tell you a little about it. 75% is registered democrat yet we always elect republican governors. Why ? Who know or state house is 90% Dem as well.
The major problem we have here is patronage and not just at the state house level. Its not uncommon to see 3 or 4 generation all working at the same state job(for example the T(commuter rail)).
My guess is someones brother must be an MCSE and too dumb to learn anything new. There is a huge "right to work" sentiment here esp. if its paid for by tax dollars. Some times we go so far left here I have to lean right. We have a huge tax problem similar to California. I think its a little worse sometimes. (Excise tax anyone?)
But I would really like to see Free Software and Linux flourish here in Mass.(Birthplace of GNU).
I work for a pretty big Biomedical company and we recently had some "Quality Training" with one of the corporate lawyers. To sum up the meeting. We(the company) are required to keep X number of years worth of emails. We don't read your emails unless they get subpoena'ed for a court case. As a large Biomedical company we get a few cases here and there. Lots of times the Plantiff's lawyer will request our emails and we are required to give them. If we don't come up with them the plantiff could argue that since we didn't keep accurate records and archives they could have possibly won they case with the evidence that was lost or destroyed. To carry this a bit further your company esp. if it is a market leader(read: monopoly or close to it) anything you say about destroying the competition could be used in court. So even if they did read my work email(which they don't) I would understand. Thats why I have a computer at home.
This is somewhat on topic. I am a parrent of 2 kids 3 years and 1 1/2 years old . I plan on teaching them to shoot and gun saftey at a very young age(i.e 5 or 6). We will probably start with BB guns work our way up to.22's and maybe handguns, rifles and shotguns if they have an interest in it. I am not going to keep guns for self defense or hunting. I am keeping them to teach my children about guns how to handle guns and gun safety. How many times have any of us as children been around or played with guns as kids without a responsible adult? For me it was 3 or 4 times and I was lucky I never shot myself. If I had had training on guns as a young child I would immediately realize that guns are dangerous and need to be respected. When I do ventually buy a gun I am going to keep it lock up in a safe with the only key on MY key ring. I know my kids will eventually be exposed to guns either through friends, video games, TV, or me. I want to be the first that way they know what the "real deal" is and if they around guns with no parents around they KNOW they are in a bad situation.
There are also some good secondary effects to taking my kids shooting: 1) Spending time with them and talking i.e. quality time. No T.V. to distract us. 2) In the event that they have to us a gun they will not miss. 3) Maybe just maybe they can pass gun saftey to friends.
I have never gotten my scroll mouse to work until I did gentoo. Before that time I used Mandrake and it would not detect/work correctly with my mouse even if I selected a scroll mouse. I think I searched half the internet for that problem. That WAS my biggest annoyance now its "cut & paste" esp. from Mozilla to any other X11 window. I don't mind going to a command prompt to "emerge this" but that's just me my wife sure wouldn't though. That may be a problem for home users. But I don't think "power users" or SysAdmins would mind in a corporate sense as it would keep unwanted packages of the computer. Maybe it should be considered a "feature."
Not to be mister negative but... Being that slashdot is pro-Linux. You think the editors would have been nice enough to give Linux counter its own Article instead of being buried in a slashback. The Counter wasn't even mentioned on the main page.
Just to add some more info... here is a site about russian sutface to air missles http://www.wonderland.org.nz/rasa.htm as you can see some of them can reach over 200km but thats km not miles. Also they are huge and need a separte vehicle to haul them around. I think a few interesting things to note.(1) The shuttle had sustain some sort of tile damage at takeoff but they had inspected the damage and said it would cause no problems min you one of the shutttles crew had a PhD in Aerospace Engineering so I won't dispute that. Another interesting thing is that the shuttle had very little fuel which I only assume is SOP. So In my mind I rule out a fuel leaks or such things. Thr next factoid I heard was of the 113 shuttle missions now only 2 have been fatal. I somewhat doubt this means the end of the space program. Although I feel resonable sure that we won't be sending any more fo a little while following and investigation and current budget crisis. What does disturb me is the only 2 shuttle missions I have had more interest in the the others (the Challenger w/ MaCaulfe(sp?) and now the current tragedey w/ the first Isreali astronaut) go up in flames. It will be interesting to see if they can find the cause. and for the conspiracy theorists here is a list of american surface to air missiles. http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/F5C .HTM
I have enjoy Linux Journal since I started to subscribe to it a little over a year ago. What direction do you see the Journal going in the next 5 years ? If(but more likely when) Linux gains more mainstream support do expect to include more "beginner" type articles and running such promotions like including distrobutions of Linux? Keep up the good work.
Any time someone brings up Isreal/American foreign policy issues. I think this: If the U.S. nuked Isreal tommorrow would they middle eat then love us? No. I don't think they would. So what do we do from here?
what i would really like to see is this on a T-Shirt or at least a pocket emblem. Another neat thing would be as a screen saver that randomly explores diffrent levels of the kernel. ya that would be cool.
My company uses apples to interface with our flow-cytometers. I am generally not an apple guy but we are still using quadras just fine.
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As someone who has actually left the country(USA) and travaled to diffrent parts of the world (mainly asia and the middle east)let me tell you something; US, Canada, England, Australia, and many of the european countries have a good deal of freedoms pretty much in line with the bill of rights none of these countries way out thier in there laws(minus few tech laws but these will get ironed out in time and reps get more tech savvy). When I was in thailand I found it is legal to have sex with very young girls and prostitution is a mojor industry there. Some may say they have the freedom to prostitute themselves others would say its morally objectionable. these are the things that go on in other countries generally I like thai peopel they are friendly and don't look down on you because your american. when I was in japan and hong kong they would not let americans in to certain bars and nightclubs this obviously racism but no one cares. when in the middle east our female marines and sailors could not go out at night becuase they are females. If i was to rank America on personal freedoms she would easily be in the top ten. The U.S. set the standard for personal freedoms for citizens but now I think the Us has been lagging a little bit putting corporate interests ahead of the peoples. Currently this is just a minor nuisance but could get bad if left unchecked. Eventually the world be completely connected ( all hail the internet) . And the best ideas will surface and eventually be accepted. Right now Everything has an American slant to it because Americans and American Corporations get these products and ideas to market to the widest spectrum of people eventually this will change. and we will all be better for it. but whatever ihave to get back to work.
Until Mozilla 1.0 i was never trully satisfied with my browsers/mail/news client and I would find my self everyfew months trying out a whole new set of them. I like the netscape stile mail and news clients that what I first started using so its what I am used to. So the UI of those may just be own personal preference. But the Browser rocks my world. My wife and I loved Opera's tabbed browser but the ad was annoying and we didn't want to pay money for what functionally we already had for free(i.e IE). But IE always had me nervous with all the security problems. Especially since we do ALOT of online transactions. But the came Mozilla 1.0. Oh I love thee. My wife (who hates anything new) was all over it. We havn't used anything since. Good Job, Mozilla team.
The problem with the intelligence communbity is lack of communication. They all report to the president but the president can't filter and remeber all the intelligence information that is passed his way. From what I understand the FBI handles all domestic crimes(i.e. kidnapping, bank robberies, inter-state crimes. ) The CIA gathers intelligence about foriegn powers. The NSA is electronic surveillance. And the NIS handles Illegal immigrants. These groups (some or all i don't remember) report the National Security Advisor to the President. What has been happening is that all the information the organizations gather get lost in the mix because of the large scale that they are. What needs to happen is that every report that the lowliest field agent files regardless of classification needs to be submitted to an independent but small group of experts with both clearence and access to all this information. Obviously this is alot of information so I believe they need to set up some sort of small and secure network to file and review all this info. Like I said I earlier I always believed this to be the job of the National Security advisor but I believe this has now been passed to the Office of Homeland Defense. What has been happening is shameful rather than try to improve communication between these agencies, the government tries to tighten up on our rights. Which happens to fall right in to step with what the MPAA, RIAA, and BSA want: A very monitored and restricted internet. Of course like most/. ers this is my antichrist. I only hope some one in this administration has enough balls and/or knowledge to see what is going on. Semper Fidelis
In all seriousness I don't think all software should be GPL'd. When You are developing an OS or an Office suite. You will have A large cunsomers base so the cost of developing the software will be offset by the vendors. But If you are writing a small application that takes alot of time and money to develop and you see no other way of making money off of it then go ahead go commercial. I believe this more of of a freedom of choice issue than anything else. If the creator wants not to go GPL then fine it was his time and his money and his effort.
This guy must be seriously confident about his abilities. Just one small error in his calculations and he is dead. I can't manually configure X without screwing it up.
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As a former Marine I wish to disagree with you on a few point Most of our technology and training is still heldover from the Cold War where we envisioned broad, sweeping formations and movements between huge masses of men in Eastern Europe. Most of Marine Corp training is Battalion+ to platoon focusing on fire and manuver. This is very effective when you are fighting even the smallest of units. I have trained countless hours at the squad and platoon level and one of the favorite MCI's(Marine Corp Institute correspondence courses) is the terrorism MCI. Our equipment is pretty good but it could always be better. M1A1, Apache(Army), Night Vision Goggles, even the M16A2(some would argue that it stinks because it is not automatic but if you can only fire one or 3 shots per trigger pull you tend to aim a heck of a lot better), Lets not forget SINCGARS, . But when your enemy instead becomes a couple people whipping up homemade bombs with readily available materials and blowing up your troops a couple at a time.The "terrorists" are certainly attacking our Army where we are unprepared and not expected. We are trained to deal with situations like this that is why you see ONLY 1 or 2 die at a time. As sad and unfortunate those death are there is not really a defense for those types of attacks except due dilligence. The solders over there are not failing in any way nor did the generals forget to plan this is just the outcome of these kind of scenarios. The American people and press just weren't ready for it. I know that sounds a little cold and heartless but no Marine believes war and terrorism is like the movies and most of them are prepared for the real thing. To his credit Bush did mention in a speech before this war that this could happen. To his discredit he didn't harp on it enough. Oh ya and Korea is fscking freezing in the winter and I am from the New England.
As a resident of Mass. and a conservative(notice small "c") things like this make me feel bad about all the mean things I've said about the Honorable Mr. Frank. Today he has earned my vote.
But Ted Kennedy he still drives me crazy.
Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns.
I found it disturbing but not quite as disturbing as Britney Spears.
I always thought more open source software esp. the precompileds that come with major distributions should adapt a uniform gui. I know alot of people would complain about that but since it is open source you could custimize to your liking. But I am thinking about the sake of the project/company they NEED to have standard and uniform interfaces if they want to attract "Joe Sixpack" and end esp. PHB's and Corporations.
for example: If exec A uses mozilla 1.2 and then goes to show it off to exec B but now mozilla is up to 1.5 and think are "different" he is going to leave an unfavorable impression of mozilla.
Here is a good example win95/98/se/me/nt/2k what is different to the user? Nothing that matters: It looks and acts the same(minus stability).
I agree with evrything you say except the last line Parents/teachers have to do their best to guide kids' online activity and that's about the best we can justly expect in our society. Teachers don't raise my kids, I do. I expect my teacher and schools to monitor the conetent my young children view while at school. After school then its my job.
His other articles include this, this, and this
I think I wasted my entire summer vacations when I was kid buying those C64 magazines that came with pages and pages of code to make simple text games. My parents loved it because I left them alone. My Favorite was "Boxing" you would win every fight if the first punch you threw was an uppercut. It also has some of the best games "hang-on" and "ninja". I remeber my parents even bought me a special "fast loader" cartridge for it. C64 taught me how to type at a pretty young age(7 or 8 I think).
I have actually thought of buying one of ebay again just for the fun of it.
If you are not from Mass. let me tell you a little about it. 75% is registered democrat yet we always elect republican governors. Why ? Who know or state house is 90% Dem as well.
The major problem we have here is patronage and not just at the state house level. Its not uncommon to see 3 or 4 generation all working at the same state job(for example the T(commuter rail)).
My guess is someones brother must be an MCSE and too dumb to learn anything new. There is a huge "right to work" sentiment here esp. if its paid for by tax dollars. Some times we go so far left here I have to lean right. We have a huge tax problem similar to California. I think its a little worse sometimes. (Excise tax anyone?)
But I would really like to see Free Software and Linux flourish here in Mass.(Birthplace of GNU).
I work for a pretty big Biomedical company and we recently had some "Quality Training" with one of the corporate lawyers. To sum up the meeting. We(the company) are required to keep X number of years worth of emails. We don't read your emails unless they get subpoena'ed for a court case. As a large Biomedical company we get a few cases here and there. Lots of times the Plantiff's lawyer will request our emails and we are required to give them. If we don't come up with them the plantiff could argue that since we didn't keep accurate records and archives they could have possibly won they case with the evidence that was lost or destroyed.
To carry this a bit further your company esp. if it is a market leader(read: monopoly or close to it) anything you say about destroying the competition could be used in court. So even if they did read my work email(which they don't) I would understand. Thats why I have a computer at home.
This is somewhat on topic. .22's and maybe handguns, rifles and shotguns if they have an interest in it. I am not going to keep guns for self defense or hunting. I am keeping them to teach my children about guns how to handle guns and gun safety. How many times have any of us as children been around or played with guns as kids without a responsible adult? For me it was 3 or 4 times and I was lucky I never shot myself. If I had had training on guns as a young child I would immediately realize that guns are dangerous and need to be respected. When I do ventually buy a gun I am going to keep it lock up in a safe with the only key on MY key ring. I know my kids will eventually be exposed to guns either through friends, video games, TV, or me. I want to be the first that way they know what the "real deal" is and if they around guns with no parents around they KNOW they are in a bad situation.
I am a parrent of 2 kids 3 years and 1 1/2 years old . I plan on teaching them to shoot and gun saftey at a very young age(i.e 5 or 6). We will probably start with BB guns work our way up to
There are also some good secondary effects to taking my kids shooting:
1) Spending time with them and talking i.e. quality time. No T.V. to distract us.
2) In the event that they have to us a gun they will not miss.
3) Maybe just maybe they can pass gun saftey to friends.
A company called Ampro has these little 486 boards complete with Ethernet, PS/2, IDE and VGA connections and they are affordable.
I have never gotten my scroll mouse to work until I did gentoo. Before that time I used Mandrake and it would not detect/work correctly with my mouse even if I selected a scroll mouse. I think I searched half the internet for that problem. That WAS my biggest annoyance now its "cut & paste" esp. from Mozilla to any other X11 window.
I don't mind going to a command prompt to "emerge this" but that's just me my wife sure wouldn't though. That may be a problem for home users. But I don't think "power users" or SysAdmins would mind in a corporate sense as it would keep unwanted packages of the computer. Maybe it should be considered a "feature."
Not to be mister negative but...
Being that slashdot is pro-Linux. You think the editors would have been nice enough to give Linux counter its own Article instead of being buried in a slashback. The Counter wasn't even mentioned on the main page.
Just to add some more info...s you can see some of them can reach over 200km but thats km not miles. Also they are huge and need a separte vehicle to haul them around. I think a few interesting things to note.(1) The shuttle had sustain some sort of tile damage at takeoff but they had inspected the damage and said it would cause no problems min you one of the shutttles crew had a PhD in Aerospace Engineering so I won't dispute that. Another interesting thing is that the shuttle had very little fuel which I only assume is SOP. So In my mind I rule out a fuel leaks or such things. Thr next factoid I heard was of the 113 shuttle missions now only 2 have been fatal. I somewhat doubt this means the end of the space program. Although I feel resonable sure that we won't be sending any more fo a little while following and investigation and current budget crisis. What does disturb me is the only 2 shuttle missions I have had more interest in the the others (the Challenger w/ MaCaulfe(sp?) and now the current tragedey w/ the first Isreali astronaut) go up in flames. It will be interesting to see if they can find the cause.C .HTM
here is a site about russian sutface to air missles
http://www.wonderland.org.nz/rasa.htm
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and for the conspiracy theorists here is a list of american surface to air missiles.
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/F5
I have enjoy Linux Journal since I started to subscribe to it a little over a year ago. What direction do you see the Journal going in the next 5 years ? If(but more likely when) Linux gains more mainstream support do expect to include more "beginner" type articles and running such promotions like including distrobutions of Linux? Keep up the good work.
"Never interupt yoour enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon
Any time someone brings up Isreal/American foreign policy issues. I think this: If the U.S. nuked Isreal tommorrow would they middle eat then love us? No. I don't think they would. So what do we do from here?
what i would really like to see is this on a T-Shirt or at least a pocket emblem. Another neat thing would be as a screen saver that randomly explores diffrent levels of the kernel. ya that would be cool.
My company uses apples to interface with our flow-cytometers. I am generally not an apple guy but we are still using quadras just fine.
As someone who has actually left the country(USA) and travaled to diffrent parts of the world (mainly asia and the middle east)let me tell you something; US, Canada, England, Australia, and many of the european countries have a good deal of freedoms pretty much in line with the bill of rights none of these countries way out thier in there laws(minus few tech laws but these will get ironed out in time and reps get more tech savvy). When I was in thailand I found it is legal to have sex with very young girls and prostitution is a mojor industry there. Some may say they have the freedom to prostitute themselves others would say its morally objectionable. these are the things that go on in other countries generally I like thai peopel they are friendly and don't look down on you because your american. when I was in japan and hong kong they would not let americans in to certain bars and nightclubs this obviously racism but no one cares. when in the middle east our female marines and sailors could not go out at night becuase they are females. If i was to rank America on personal freedoms she would easily be in the top ten. The U.S. set the standard for personal freedoms for citizens but now I think the Us has been lagging a little bit putting corporate interests ahead of the peoples. Currently this is just a minor nuisance but could get bad if left unchecked. Eventually the world be completely connected ( all hail the internet) . And the best ideas will surface and eventually be accepted. Right now Everything has an American slant to it because Americans and American Corporations get these products and ideas to market to the widest spectrum of people eventually this will change. and we will all be better for it. but whatever ihave to get back to work.
Until Mozilla 1.0 i was never trully satisfied with my browsers/mail/news client and I would find my self everyfew months trying out a whole new set of them. I like the netscape stile mail and news clients that what I first started using so its what I am used to. So the UI of those may just be own personal preference. But the Browser rocks my world. My wife and I loved Opera's tabbed browser but the ad was annoying and we didn't want to pay money for what functionally we already had for free(i.e IE). But IE always had me nervous with all the security problems. Especially since we do ALOT of online transactions. But the came Mozilla 1.0. Oh I love thee. My wife (who hates anything new) was all over it. We havn't used anything since. Good Job, Mozilla team.
The problem with the intelligence communbity is lack of communication. They all report to the president but the president can't filter and remeber all the intelligence information that is passed his way. From what I understand the FBI handles all domestic crimes(i.e. kidnapping, bank robberies, inter-state crimes. ) The CIA gathers intelligence about foriegn powers. The NSA is electronic surveillance. And the NIS handles Illegal immigrants. These groups (some or all i don't remember) report the National Security Advisor to the President. What has been happening is that all the information the organizations gather get lost in the mix because of the large scale that they are. What needs to happen is that every report that the lowliest field agent files regardless of classification needs to be submitted to an independent but small group of experts with both clearence and access to all this information. Obviously this is alot of information so I believe they need to set up some sort of small and secure network to file and review all this info. Like I said I earlier I always believed this to be the job of the National Security advisor but I believe this has now been passed to the Office of Homeland Defense. What has been happening is shameful rather than try to improve communication between these agencies, the government tries to tighten up on our rights. Which happens to fall right in to step with what the MPAA, RIAA, and BSA want: A very monitored and restricted internet. Of course like most /. ers this is my antichrist. I only hope some one in this administration has enough balls and/or knowledge to see what is going on.
Semper Fidelis
In all seriousness I don't think all software should be GPL'd. When You are developing an OS or an Office suite. You will have A large cunsomers base so the cost of developing the software will be offset by the vendors. But If you are writing a small application that takes alot of time and money to develop and you see no other way of making money off of it then go ahead go commercial. I believe this more of of a freedom of choice issue than anything else. If the creator wants not to go GPL then fine it was his time and his money and his effort.
This guy must be seriously confident about his abilities. Just one small error in his calculations and he is dead. I can't manually configure X without screwing it up.