That's true -- Mohandas Gandhi favored ten eyes for an eye. When the Nawab of Maler Kotla issued an edict demanding ten Muslims dead for every Hindu killed in the state, Mr. Nonviolent-Resistance gave it his blessing. Oh, and let's not forget the fact that up until World War I, he was just fine being an officer in the British Army (fought in the Boer Wars and the Zulu wars). Or that he let his wife die because he didn't want her to receive a penicillin injection to fight her pneumonia (hey, the guy had his principles). Of course, those principles didn't extend to refusing the quinine that saved his life when he was suffering from malaria.
Not to jump all over you in particular, Joe, it's just that I'm sick and tired of everybody talking about Gandhi like he wasn't a total dick. I mean, Christ, the guy told the Jews that they would be better off killing themselves than resisting the Nazis.
Sources: Richard Grenier's article "The Gandhi Nobody Knows," published in the March 1983 Commentary, and William L. Shirer's Gandhi: A Memoir (1979).
You've got me curious now -- are there games similar to the classic "Rocky's Boots" anymore? I learned basic logic gate behavior from that game and loved the hell out of it.
Well, yes, but almost immediately after shouting that the volume on the connection got turned way down. Dr. Cooper called back and said, "First Ninnle Call," then "Early Call," and finally "Last Call" (although this may have been the voice of the bartender in the background, as anyone behaving as foolishly as Dr. Cooper was is obviously intoxicated).
You know, all I can think of is the Simpsons episode that parodies Cape Fear. Sideshow Bob steps on nine rakes in a row -- it starts out with you chuckling, the second or third time it's overkill, but by seven and eight you're pissing your pants because it's the FUNNIEST. THING. EVAR.
Whaddaya say, Malda? Think you can get this on the front page four more times?
Try having today as your birthday. Jesus. One time, when I turned nine or ten, my best friend handed me this big freakin' box. I unwrapped it, and there was another box inside of it. Unwrapped that one, and lo and behold, another box. Three or four more iterations, and I unwrap the final box. It contains...two decorative soaps (shaped like seashells).
"April Fool!" he says.
I knee him, right in the balls. He goes down and I'm following him, punching his head repeatedly. My parents come rushing over and pull me off of his crumpled form. Chuck E. Cheese employees are freaking out, and so are all my other friends.
I found a new best friend shortly thereafter, but that didn't stop the pranks. Every year, somebody thinks it'll be clever and original to do something stupid, then shout, "April Fools! Happy birthday, Mike!"
My temper's under better control than it was when I was nine. I don't beat them up anymore. Now I have sex with their spouses.
Because the Provos in Ireland are so upset about American hegemonistic tendencies that it's encouraged them to rise up and commit acts of terror, right? Ditto the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elan, the Basque nationalists, the PKK in Turkey, the New People's Army in the Phillipines, the Zapatistas in Chiapas State, and probably several others I've never heard of.
You "think Americans can only think of solutions in terms of warfare" because that's what grabs headlines. Brinksmanship is far more interesting on the world stage than a civil trade negotiation. Please note that when the Chinese were essentially holding U.S. Navy personnel hostage, that America did not go to war. Please note also that we are acting currently to enforce UN Security Council resolutions (most of them unanimous, if memory serves) that have been on the books for an even dozen years. Simply because some other countries object to the things they agreed to in the past doesn't mean our will must waver now.
When you make obviously inflammatory blanket statements that have no basis in fact whatsofuckingever, expect to get them thrown back in your face. Oh, and as for your statement about Americans trying to control the world, I leave you with a quote from Colin Powell:
Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
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If we refused to fight we would tried and convicted and imprisioned.
And worse, if my memory of my UCMJ briefing serves. IIRC, dereliction of duty in a combat situation is punishable by summary execution, and rightly so. A soldier who refuses to do his duty in combat endangers his entire unit -- far better to end his life than to forfeit the battalion's.
Seriously, are there people here on Slashdot who believe that stealing pay-per-view movies is better than just paying the cable company the $3.25 or whatever for a movie? I'm actually curious if anyone reading this site has tried one of these things, and if so, what the rationale behind using it was.
Man, does this sound like a three bong-hit rap from Abbie Hoffman or what? Just substitute "The Man" or "The Establishment" for "M$" (very mature and astute, by the way) and it's 1969 in Haight-Ashbury all over again.
Wading through the barely coherent tripe, I think I hit upon the crux of your "train of thought" (a term I use very loosely) here:
Linux will still dominates
[sic] due to the fact that most people are using it, and it's free, and it'll be very fast and very easy to use by then.
The fact is, WindowsXP is fast enough and easy enough for the average home user, and Windows 2000 is fast enough and easy enough for the professional desktop user already. They don't have to wait for some magic conglomeration of flowers and pixie dust to make their OS work properly. Linux users (and I am one -- for server work I prefer Linux's workhorse abilities to Microsoft's easy-to-use interface) will still be wading through 45 different config files to tweak their systems up to the level Microsoft's OS is at out of the box. Think Grandma wants to waste time with her monitor's VSync rate? Think again.
Congratulations on the post, though. Sometimes it's hard to push down the keys on that neat-o typewriter-looking thingie when you're as baked as you are. Remember, kids: marijuana will increase your powers of self-delusion.
If I may presume to understand the thrust of Twirlip's post, the point which he takes issue with is not the means of distributing the source; it's the fact that if you link to a GPL library, you no longer have the option not to distribute the source.
This is why Logicon (a defense contractor subsidiary of Northrop-Grumman) had a fairly major in-house fiasco a couple years back. A particular portion of some secure messaging software linked to a GPL library, thereby causing the entire software package to become "open source." Logicon's legal team reviewed the terms of the GPL and realized that there was no way to maintain the level of classification needed for the package as long as it inherited GPL properties. The developers then had to go back and rewrite some hefty chunks of the application, since they were denied the use of a pre-built library to do the things they needed to do.
As best I can tell, many of the zealots here think they have the "right" to the fruits of any programmer or company's labor, simply because it's trivial to make copies of the original work. I've been reading/. myself since '99 or so (I still remember Geeks in Space), and it seems that around here, Richard Stallman's belief that all code should be free for anyone to use or modify somehow reflects actual reality.
Of course, the reality of the situation is that the author of the work has the right (not "right") to release or distribute his work however he sees fit; this of course gives rise to the infantile bawling over how company x (where x usually equals "Microsoft") is the root of all evil, responsible for the Kennedy assassination, the Challenger and Columbia incidents, and just about anything bad that has happened to them personally in their entire lives.
Since Microsoft is only releasing code under the terms of a license the zealots feel is draconian, it is of course an egregious abridgement of the zealots' "right" to get the latest 0day_winXP_hax0r3d.iso.
Puts a whole new meaning to the phrase "This'll blow you away man!"
Thank you. Thank you. A thousand times thank you for not trotting out the tired old "X gives new meaning to 'Blue Screen of Death!!!!LOL!!!1!!one!11'" joke. It seems you're the only person in this article who's resisted, and I'm eternally grateful to you.
I've been an FPS fan since the first time I heard a Nazi guard scream "Mein Leben!" in Wolfenstein 3D. From the beginning, I've been a keyboard and mouse purist -- I tried a controller supposedly designed for corridor shooters (it looked like a little minigun and I think it was called Cybermax or something like that; it was nine years ago), but I couldn't get the control that I got out of my number pad and mouse.
Then last fall a friend brought his Xbox over and introduced me to Halo. I used his "S" controller because I have little hampster hands and it fits better than the standard gorilla controller. After about five minutes of familiarization, I was sniping, weaving, and circle-strafing with ease.
If you're having problems with the standard Xbox controller, I recommend giving the "S" model a try. It works really well for me, anyway.
This is way late, I know, but I have to admit I'm confused by your post. I assume that the journalist did get in -- right into an old building that's probably #547 on some declassification list in a DOE clerk's file cabinet. How does it follow that, because of the volume of chemical and biological weapons the US has, an abandoned building storing camping gear should be better secured? I keep my camping gear in a storage locker in my apartment building's basement. Should it have 24/7/365 armed Marine guards? We must protect the vital US chemical and biological camping supply arsenal!
Or were you saying that, assuming the journalist got into a building holding chemical and/or biological and/or nuclear weapons, that building should be better secured? Because that seems like a bit of a circular line of reasoning.
Now if we had a truly international effort run by the UN or some other similar organisation the costs for a truly spectacular Space programme could quite easily be shared across the many nations.
Because the Tanzanians, Bolivians, and Tongans will definitely be able to pony up the scratch to make a top-notch space program work. No, a UN effort would be primarily supported by the G-8. Everyone else would just feel good about "being a part" of the program without pulling their own weight. Hmmm, that almost sounds like everything the UN gets its hooks into!
NB: The only exception I can think of to the "UN involvement equals hamfisted fiasco" scenario is the WHO. Cool organization.
What nationality was Timothy McVeigh? Yep, he was a local.
Sure, Tim was an American, but how about the perpetrators of the following acts?
1978: NCO Club, Ramstein AB, Federal Republic of Germany
1983: U.S. Embassy, Beirut, Lebanon
1986: Nightclub, Berlin (American Sector), German Democratic Republic
1992: World Trade Centers, New York City
1996: U.S. Air Force Barracks, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1998: U.S. Embassies, Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
1999: U.S.S. Cole, Persian Gulf
Admittedly, I've left all the hijackings (and the Achille Lauro) off the list, but that's mostly because I can't remember dates or flight numbers off the top of my head. Also, I'm a little fuzzy on when the Cole incident was. Please feel free to correct my dates -- this is Slashdot, after all.
Just in case you're keeping score at home, the answers to the above questions are, respectively:
Baader-Meinhof Gang (West German communists)
Muslim terrorists
Muslim terrorists (operating with Lybian intelligence and funding)
Muslim terrorists
Muslim terrorists
Muslim terrorists
Muslim terrorists
I'm all for law enforcement giving the hairy eyeball to domestic terrorist groups -- that is, groups who advocate dismantling the American government by force -- but I think that the true threat axis speaks fairly well for itself.
<Dennis_Miller>Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.</Dennis_Miller>
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That's true -- Mohandas Gandhi favored ten eyes for an eye. When the Nawab of Maler Kotla issued an edict demanding ten Muslims dead for every Hindu killed in the state, Mr. Nonviolent-Resistance gave it his blessing. Oh, and let's not forget the fact that up until World War I, he was just fine being an officer in the British Army (fought in the Boer Wars and the Zulu wars). Or that he let his wife die because he didn't want her to receive a penicillin injection to fight her pneumonia (hey, the guy had his principles). Of course, those principles didn't extend to refusing the quinine that saved his life when he was suffering from malaria.
Not to jump all over you in particular, Joe, it's just that I'm sick and tired of everybody talking about Gandhi like he wasn't a total dick. I mean, Christ, the guy told the Jews that they would be better off killing themselves than resisting the Nazis.
Sources: Richard Grenier's article "The Gandhi Nobody Knows," published in the March 1983 Commentary, and William L. Shirer's Gandhi: A Memoir (1979).
My father calls it John Wayne toilet paper: it's rough, tough, and don't take shit off nobody.
You've got me curious now -- are there games similar to the classic "Rocky's Boots" anymore? I learned basic logic gate behavior from that game and loved the hell out of it.
And GNU/Hurd ships in just one more year -- I hear it's using Enlightenment 1.0 as its GUI!
Well, yes, but almost immediately after shouting that the volume on the connection got turned way down. Dr. Cooper called back and said, "First Ninnle Call," then "Early Call," and finally "Last Call" (although this may have been the voice of the bartender in the background, as anyone behaving as foolishly as Dr. Cooper was is obviously intoxicated).
30 years ago was 2003? Jesus, somebody must have signed me up for a subscription, because I'm getting stories from the distant future!
Just do what we do -- make all your root passwords a single carriage return! Easy to remember, and nigh impossible to
HACKED BY CHINESE
You know, all I can think of is the Simpsons episode that parodies Cape Fear. Sideshow Bob steps on nine rakes in a row -- it starts out with you chuckling, the second or third time it's overkill, but by seven and eight you're pissing your pants because it's the FUNNIEST. THING. EVAR.
Whaddaya say, Malda? Think you can get this on the front page four more times?
I hate April 1st.
Try having today as your birthday. Jesus. One time, when I turned nine or ten, my best friend handed me this big freakin' box. I unwrapped it, and there was another box inside of it. Unwrapped that one, and lo and behold, another box. Three or four more iterations, and I unwrap the final box. It contains...two decorative soaps (shaped like seashells).
"April Fool!" he says.
I knee him, right in the balls. He goes down and I'm following him, punching his head repeatedly. My parents come rushing over and pull me off of his crumpled form. Chuck E. Cheese employees are freaking out, and so are all my other friends.
I found a new best friend shortly thereafter, but that didn't stop the pranks. Every year, somebody thinks it'll be clever and original to do something stupid, then shout, "April Fools! Happy birthday, Mike!"
My temper's under better control than it was when I was nine. I don't beat them up anymore. Now I have sex with their spouses.
Happy birthday. Happy frigging birthday to me.
Because the Provos in Ireland are so upset about American hegemonistic tendencies that it's encouraged them to rise up and commit acts of terror, right? Ditto the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elan, the Basque nationalists, the PKK in Turkey, the New People's Army in the Phillipines, the Zapatistas in Chiapas State, and probably several others I've never heard of.
You "think Americans can only think of solutions in terms of warfare" because that's what grabs headlines. Brinksmanship is far more interesting on the world stage than a civil trade negotiation. Please note that when the Chinese were essentially holding U.S. Navy personnel hostage, that America did not go to war. Please note also that we are acting currently to enforce UN Security Council resolutions (most of them unanimous, if memory serves) that have been on the books for an even dozen years. Simply because some other countries object to the things they agreed to in the past doesn't mean our will must waver now.
When you make obviously inflammatory blanket statements that have no basis in fact whatsofuckingever, expect to get them thrown back in your face. Oh, and as for your statement about Americans trying to control the world, I leave you with a quote from Colin Powell:
If we refused to fight we would tried and convicted and imprisioned.
And worse, if my memory of my UCMJ briefing serves. IIRC, dereliction of duty in a combat situation is punishable by summary execution, and rightly so. A soldier who refuses to do his duty in combat endangers his entire unit -- far better to end his life than to forfeit the battalion's.
Seriously, are there people here on Slashdot who believe that stealing pay-per-view movies is better than just paying the cable company the $3.25 or whatever for a movie? I'm actually curious if anyone reading this site has tried one of these things, and if so, what the rationale behind using it was.
Man, does this sound like a three bong-hit rap from Abbie Hoffman or what? Just substitute "The Man" or "The Establishment" for "M$" (very mature and astute, by the way) and it's 1969 in Haight-Ashbury all over again.
Wading through the barely coherent tripe, I think I hit upon the crux of your "train of thought" (a term I use very loosely) here:
The fact is, WindowsXP is fast enough and easy enough for the average home user, and Windows 2000 is fast enough and easy enough for the professional desktop user already. They don't have to wait for some magic conglomeration of flowers and pixie dust to make their OS work properly. Linux users (and I am one -- for server work I prefer Linux's workhorse abilities to Microsoft's easy-to-use interface) will still be wading through 45 different config files to tweak their systems up to the level Microsoft's OS is at out of the box. Think Grandma wants to waste time with her monitor's VSync rate? Think again.
Congratulations on the post, though. Sometimes it's hard to push down the keys on that neat-o typewriter-looking thingie when you're as baked as you are. Remember, kids: marijuana will increase your powers of self-delusion.
If I may presume to understand the thrust of Twirlip's post, the point which he takes issue with is not the means of distributing the source; it's the fact that if you link to a GPL library, you no longer have the option not to distribute the source.
This is why Logicon (a defense contractor subsidiary of Northrop-Grumman) had a fairly major in-house fiasco a couple years back. A particular portion of some secure messaging software linked to a GPL library, thereby causing the entire software package to become "open source." Logicon's legal team reviewed the terms of the GPL and realized that there was no way to maintain the level of classification needed for the package as long as it inherited GPL properties. The developers then had to go back and rewrite some hefty chunks of the application, since they were denied the use of a pre-built library to do the things they needed to do.
As best I can tell, many of the zealots here think they have the "right" to the fruits of any programmer or company's labor, simply because it's trivial to make copies of the original work. I've been reading /. myself since '99 or so (I still remember Geeks in Space), and it seems that around here, Richard Stallman's belief that all code should be free for anyone to use or modify somehow reflects actual reality.
Of course, the reality of the situation is that the author of the work has the right (not "right") to release or distribute his work however he sees fit; this of course gives rise to the infantile bawling over how company x (where x usually equals "Microsoft") is the root of all evil, responsible for the Kennedy assassination, the Challenger and Columbia incidents, and just about anything bad that has happened to them personally in their entire lives.
Since Microsoft is only releasing code under the terms of a license the zealots feel is draconian, it is of course an egregious abridgement of the zealots' "right" to get the latest 0day_winXP_hax0r3d.iso.
Hope this helps.
Puts a whole new meaning to the phrase "This'll blow you away man!"
Thank you. Thank you. A thousand times thank you for not trotting out the tired old "X gives new meaning to 'Blue Screen of Death!!!!LOL!!!1!!one!11'" joke. It seems you're the only person in this article who's resisted, and I'm eternally grateful to you.
I've been an FPS fan since the first time I heard a Nazi guard scream "Mein Leben!" in Wolfenstein 3D. From the beginning, I've been a keyboard and mouse purist -- I tried a controller supposedly designed for corridor shooters (it looked like a little minigun and I think it was called Cybermax or something like that; it was nine years ago), but I couldn't get the control that I got out of my number pad and mouse.
Then last fall a friend brought his Xbox over and introduced me to Halo. I used his "S" controller because I have little hampster hands and it fits better than the standard gorilla controller. After about five minutes of familiarization, I was sniping, weaving, and circle-strafing with ease.
If you're having problems with the standard Xbox controller, I recommend giving the "S" model a try. It works really well for me, anyway.
If it does enough damage, maybe people will learn, through aversive conditioning, not to use stupid passwords.
Just like Melissa, and ILoveYou, and Klez, and Goner have taught the users to be very careful when opening e-mail attachments.
Only subscribers would know about it -- by the time it hit the front page for the rest of us rabble, the nukes would already be here.
Shouldn't that be, "A pancake IN SOVIET RUSSIA..."? :)
This is way late, I know, but I have to admit I'm confused by your post. I assume that the journalist did get in -- right into an old building that's probably #547 on some declassification list in a DOE clerk's file cabinet. How does it follow that, because of the volume of chemical and biological weapons the US has, an abandoned building storing camping gear should be better secured? I keep my camping gear in a storage locker in my apartment building's basement. Should it have 24/7/365 armed Marine guards? We must protect the vital US chemical and biological camping supply arsenal!
Or were you saying that, assuming the journalist got into a building holding chemical and/or biological and/or nuclear weapons, that building should be better secured? Because that seems like a bit of a circular line of reasoning.
Now if we had a truly international effort run by the UN or some other similar organisation the costs for a truly spectacular Space programme could quite easily be shared across the many nations.
Because the Tanzanians, Bolivians, and Tongans will definitely be able to pony up the scratch to make a top-notch space program work. No, a UN effort would be primarily supported by the G-8. Everyone else would just feel good about "being a part" of the program without pulling their own weight. Hmmm, that almost sounds like everything the UN gets its hooks into!
NB: The only exception I can think of to the "UN involvement equals hamfisted fiasco" scenario is the WHO. Cool organization.
[If] you want Dead Kennedys talk to Cosmic John, [if you] need Billy Joel...
...kill yourself.
What nationality was Timothy McVeigh? Yep, he was a local.
Sure, Tim was an American, but how about the perpetrators of the following acts?
Admittedly, I've left all the hijackings (and the Achille Lauro) off the list, but that's mostly because I can't remember dates or flight numbers off the top of my head. Also, I'm a little fuzzy on when the Cole incident was. Please feel free to correct my dates -- this is Slashdot, after all.
Just in case you're keeping score at home, the answers to the above questions are, respectively:
I'm all for law enforcement giving the hairy eyeball to domestic terrorist groups -- that is, groups who advocate dismantling the American government by force -- but I think that the true threat axis speaks fairly well for itself.
<Dennis_Miller>Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.</Dennis_Miller>
Because we all know that business and government are only "a small subset of users."