I am glad to see chipmakers getting off their asses and making progress finally.
I guess they are ramping up due to the fact that the lack of corporate spending on tech is going to have to have a turnaround shortly saying that all the computers people bought a few years ago now need to be replaced. However comes out ahead here is bound to make a lot money.
thank you for this eloquent reply to that moronic post.
"private socialization" is the real point here..
I am wondering now if that post was merely a flamebait because any person who thinks that is either horrible uneducated or has no concept of how the capitalist society works when mingled with private socialization for distributed risk management.:)
perhaps you are right, and my example was really meant as an just that, and example (i.e. very poor people generally don't have insurance anyway)..
however, play it out, think of it in realistic and very dry and draconian terms (as if you were an insurance company): Genetically superior people will generally be able to work more and better than people who often call in sick. Therefore these people are more likely to get raises and or higher positions/pay. This means these people have more money.
If you don't think that they break it down to things like this, then it might be time to pull your head out of the sand. They really do.
Why does the government care about a murder? because a taxpayer has been killed.
If you have had a blood test, your DNA is in the system.. CODIS I think it is called, used in healthcare and for crime-fighting peeps like CSI etc..
As an ex military person I know I am in there, they did mandatory DNA sampling. I cooked mine in the microwave for a while before handing it in though..:)
actually insurance is sort of like a private socialization of society. i.e. think.. insurance is a *business* that makes a LOT of money.. The idea that sick people should not be allowed to get insurance, or that insurance is not allowed for someone with a genetic defect (proven through DNA testing) is absurd. Otherwise, you will have insurance companies that simple select the people they know will not ever get sick and reject all the rest. This makes them money, profit being the bottom line. Now, on some levels this could be great (i.e. weeding out inferior gene stock etc..) however we would be drastically reducing our labor market.. So, who is going to empty your trashcan and "biggie-size" that for you?
The point is, our government won't do national healthcare even when Canada of all places has that, so we are stuck making do with insurance companies, and that has to cater to the lowest common denominator..
if someone wanted to ddos a site, those types of filters would make it a wonderful tool.
i.e. I wanted to ddos some competing website for something and so blasted out billions and billions (think Sagan) of emails and used peoples paranoia to my evil benefit.
No, I don't think that will work, the human portion he mentions would require someone always sitting around waiting which by then the spammer could be almost finished with his spam run..
I don't think so, it could be turned around so fast..
With all the worms this year this must have been quite a job to sift through.
I do however agree with them about the BIND vuln being at the top of the list for unix systems. That was a big issue having to update all our nameservers..
Oh I am sure it is..
however, if someone said to me..
"I am gonna try out linux" I would not point them to gentoo.. I think it is more of a: After you outgrow distributions like redhat you might want to try it because you can build a nice system.
i.e. I am sitting on a node one of a four node cluster running evilwm on xdirectfb.. that is rather specialized.. I would not recommend it for a noob though..
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but i'll bite..
I am actually not sure why Gentoo is so popular right now.. I use it, but I have kind of specific reasons for using it (four-node openmosix cluster of boxes that need to be identical and so upgrades are cron'd to go off at the same time).. For the average user not really needing to sit and fiddle around with make.conf and funky masked ebuilds I would not recommend it, Mandrake is nice for home systems where you have a ton of stuff plugged into the box and need something quick that just plain works..
I guess maybe other have specific reasons for using it..
I would post to the forum there but that is to risk massive flames and extreme moderation.;)
It is amazing that anyone was even worried about this..
however, if microsoft gets in the bios and disables the shift key... "they don't need a shift key" you can bluescreen on boot and probably get around it by pressing the windows key.
boycott Phoenix Technologies if, they want to do that.. I can see it now, the latest blaster worm infect the bios from a ms office script.. crap crap crap.. keep em out.. boycott the bitches...
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I am glad to see chipmakers getting off their asses and making progress finally.
I guess they are ramping up due to the fact that the lack of corporate spending on tech is going to have to have a turnaround shortly saying that all the computers people bought a few years ago now need to be replaced. However comes out ahead here is bound to make a lot money.
"Napster, which works only on Windows-based computers"
next...
thank you for this eloquent reply to that moronic post.
:)
"private socialization" is the real point here..
I am wondering now if that post was merely a flamebait because any person who thinks that is either horrible uneducated or has no concept of how the capitalist society works when mingled with private socialization for distributed risk management.
hahahahaha
yea, that actually is scary that I might get picked up and dissected at some point..
either that or when we go the ultimate draconian route (i.e. hitler'esque) and they decide to remove the lower portion of the genetic bellcurve.
perhaps you are right, and my example was really meant as an just that, and example (i.e. very poor people generally don't have insurance anyway)..
however, play it out, think of it in realistic and very dry and draconian terms (as if you were an insurance company):
Genetically superior people will generally be able to work more and better than people who often call in sick. Therefore these people are more likely to get raises and or higher positions/pay. This means these people have more money.
If you don't think that they break it down to things like this, then it might be time to pull your head out of the sand. They really do.
Why does the government care about a murder? because a taxpayer has been killed.
If you have had a blood test, your DNA is in the system..
:)
CODIS I think it is called, used in healthcare and for crime-fighting peeps like CSI etc..
As an ex military person I know I am in there, they did mandatory DNA sampling. I cooked mine in the microwave for a while before handing it in though..
actually insurance is sort of like a private socialization of society.
i.e. think.. insurance is a *business* that makes a LOT of money.. The idea that sick people should not be allowed to get insurance, or that insurance is not allowed for someone with a genetic defect (proven through DNA testing) is absurd.
Otherwise, you will have insurance companies that simple select the people they know will not ever get sick and reject all the rest. This makes them money, profit being the bottom line.
Now, on some levels this could be great (i.e. weeding out inferior gene stock etc..) however we would be drastically reducing our labor market.. So, who is going to empty your trashcan and "biggie-size" that for you?
The point is, our government won't do national healthcare even when Canada of all places has that, so we are stuck making do with insurance companies, and that has to cater to the lowest common denominator..
keep outta my jeans..
err.. genes..
you get the point..
if you are going to be at a university, expect to be censored.
Arn't they supposed to be on "Internet2" at this point anyway? what happened to that?
it won't let you get past because it didn't send you an email with an ecrypted string that tells it to insert your email address into the database.
why is this news for nerd, and does it matter?
hell no...
This is just some guy trying in vain to use a name that was once a symbol of music and "screw the man" to now make a buck.
What a loser.. I used to make fun of that guy on IRC before the whole thing started..
I set up a whitelist after getting hundreds of spam per day and trying every filter and this and that.
It was just ridiculous.
the filter points people to my captcha, which is here and they have to type in "I am not a spammer" and then the letters in the graphic.
The amazing part is, I have actually had spammers complete this process (by hand obviously) trying to get their email to me..
Anyway, the system I use is opensourced here if anyone wants to set one up.
mine goes to /dev/null
what is this trashcan you speak of?
if someone wanted to ddos a site, those types of filters would make it a wonderful tool.
i.e. I wanted to ddos some competing website for something and so blasted out billions and billions (think Sagan) of emails and used peoples paranoia to my evil benefit.
No, I don't think that will work, the human portion he mentions would require someone always sitting around waiting which by then the spammer could be almost finished with his spam run..
I don't think so, it could be turned around so fast..
I think I used a mailinator.com address when I signed up.
the "don't call me, spam me" list.. saying they are collecting millions of email from users and have a dubious privacy policy.
and WAIS too!!!
With all the worms this year this must have been quite a job to sift through.
I do however agree with them about the BIND vuln being at the top of the list for unix systems. That was a big issue having to update all our nameservers..
are important... ;)
i like proteins
why do I find this sooo damn funny....
nuff said
Oh I am sure it is.. however, if someone said to me.. "I am gonna try out linux" I would not point them to gentoo.. I think it is more of a: After you outgrow distributions like redhat you might want to try it because you can build a nice system. i.e. I am sitting on a node one of a four node cluster running evilwm on xdirectfb .. that is rather specialized.. I would not recommend it for a noob though..
but i'll bite..
;)
I am actually not sure why Gentoo is so popular right now.. I use it, but I have kind of specific reasons for using it (four-node openmosix cluster of boxes that need to be identical and so upgrades are cron'd to go off at the same time)..
For the average user not really needing to sit and fiddle around with make.conf and funky masked ebuilds I would not recommend it, Mandrake is nice for home systems where you have a ton of stuff plugged into the box and need something quick that just plain works..
I guess maybe other have specific reasons for using it..
I would post to the forum there but that is to risk massive flames and extreme moderation.
fun fun..
they never saw *that* coming did they?
sheesh..
It is amazing that anyone was even worried about this..
however, if microsoft gets in the bios and disables the shift key... "they don't need a shift key" you can bluescreen on boot and probably get around it by pressing the windows key.
boycott Phoenix Technologies if, they want to do that..
I can see it now, the latest blaster worm infect the bios from a ms office script..
crap crap crap..
keep em out.. boycott the bitches...