Re:The Right not to be born
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I agree, this is rather odd. How can an unborn child, not having any knowledge of his/her rights or even know what rights -are- have the right to be unborn? This is just a nicer way (and kind of a loophole) to say "The Mother's right to have an abortion."
'If it was under the control of the FBI, with appropriate technical safeguards in place to prevent possible misuse, and nobody else used it -- we wouldn't detect it,' said Chien. 'However we would detect modified versions that might be used by hackers.'"
If it was safeguarded properly and no one misused it, there wouldn't be a modified version that would be used maliciously, would there?
If the media and most of the generally uninformed public uses the term 'hacker' instead of 'cracker,' then lawmakers will probably use 'hacker' incorrectly. It makes more sense to the rest of the world, because like you said, security coders/auditors isn't bound to 'hacker,' it's the malicious intruders and script kids that are.
Imagine what the Somalians think now to hear that the United States has shut down their two major communication companies? This will just create more anti-American tension within the world of Islam.
From WordNet (r) 1.6 :
penicillin
n : any of various antibiotics obtained from penicillium molds
(or produced synthetically) and used in the treatment of
various infections and diseases
Some people in Sweden rallied together and bought themselves a 100mpbs network for their whole village. They dug up the trenches for the fiber lines themselves. Pretty neat stuff. I don't know if this is exactly what you were talking about when referring to NANs, but this is what came to my mind.
Does anyone in the RIAA have any sense whatsoever? Don't they understand that by DoSing people they not only lag and bog the person they are trying to get, but the network path it takes to get there as well? Don't they understand that they'd be overloading other innocent companies' routers and switches, etc. too? My God, someone send a Slashdot geek over to the RIAA ASAP.
First they want to 'hack,' and a few days later, they want to DoS! Sounds like the RIAA is a true terrorist group, and we need to erradicate them. They think like criminals. Such evil, evil people.
They probably read our fellow Slashdotter's posts and realized that they had just proposed (quite possibly) the/stupidest/ thing ever in the history of propositions relating to dumb copyright laws. Thank you, Slashdot.
"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has adopted strict rules that offer protection against telemarketing fraud. These rules require that certain information be given to consumers and prohibit telemarketers from engaging is certain actions:
A telemarketer may not call you if you have previously asked not to be called.
"... (and other rules)
By law, if you ask a telemarketer to remove your number from their list and not to call again, they have to. Of course, they hardly ever abide by that law, but that/is/ the way that's/supposed/ to work;)
"Does winamp have better playlist controls then xmms?"
I have noticed that XMMS seems to pre-build a list of "from this song I'll go to this one" type thing for random play every time you start it. If you keep playing the same song, the next "random" song will always be the same until you restart XMMS. I haven't noticed this in Winamp. Just my two cents.
Recently I ran Starcraft Brood Wars in WINE. Apart from it being slow, hogging every last ounce of resources on by computer, and crashing a bit, it was fine.;)
I never thought I could've done this, so I was pretty surprised. Since I ran Starcraft off of a real Windows installation on my second hard drive, WINE probably used all the gaming DLLs and other "crap" Starcraft required from that drive.
"I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others."
I never knew that Linus was the kind of guy that didn't care about the competition, the marketing, etc.
Many companies and fans want Linux to push itself further in the market, and many of it's users want it to as well. However, the creator of the operating system isn't worrying about that. I don't know why; Shouldn't this be something he should worry about?
This sounds alot like the burials in space I've been hearing about. People's ashes get blasted into space by a rocket and then are released among the stars.
Celestis allows people to send departed loved ones into space.
"Since the time before recorded history people have looked to the sky with wonder. When humanity first mastered flight we knew that our destiny lay in the heavens above. Space travel and exploration is our greatest adventure -- today and in the future."
I had a Maxtor 10 gig drive (IBM ships Maxtors) that crapped out on me too with the same symptoms. I woke up in the middle of the night to hear odd clunking noises. I kicked my case and it didn't click for about a month. Then, when a month was up, the clunking noises came back with a vengance and my hard drive was shot. I haven't sent it back to IBM yet, but I'm hoping I'll get a free replacement.
First of all, in no way is this a flame towards:
a) any operating system, or
b) Slashdot itself.
But seriously, if Linux ever lost in a benchmark or some other form of test, would it get posted on Slashdot? I highly doubt it. I run Linux and Windows myself, therefore I do not flame either. I think the Slashdot community could be a little more unbiased towards operating systems such as Windows and leave the "Linux rocks, and if you don't preach it, you suck" bandwagon. Linux does rock, but Windows has it's high points too, and it just turns out that Linux showed off it's higher point in this test.
I'm excited that GNOME 2.0 has finally debuted, but what else has debuted along with it?
Does/Will it have built in anti-aliasing? Is it considerably faster than 1.4? What is the main concern the GNOME development team is taking into consideration in regards to 2.0? Does anyone have any further information on it? The LinuxToday article doesn't really answer any of the questions alot of people are wanting to know.
People want the latest software at times, even if it isn't stable. Kind of like when Windows XP RC1 was accidently placed on the anonymous FTP, and the location was leaked. Everyone wanted it.
SuSE is more of a desktop OS, and often the desktop market isn't looking for awesome stability and high uptimes.
Why is it that SuSE gets a relatively large amount of money for a smaller company, and then they slash more employees. I understand they want to "stay in the game" and want to save alot of that money, but are we going to notice the quality of their output lessen as more and more workers get slashed, and yet they get more financial support from other companies? Cutting 500 jobs from a company such as SuSE sounds like quote a bit. Does anyone know how many people are currently employed with SuSE?
This article at NY Times has an interesting article on other methods of using body energy to power things.
It mentions methods such as cranking and pumping, and of course, stride (i.e. stride-powered watches). One company created a human-powered electricity generator which creates electricity by hand pumping. If you pump one of these for a few minutes, it can power a cell phone for around 20 minutes.
Enemy of the State was a movie, and as we all know, Hollywood makes things look easier than they really are. Just like in Mission Impossible 2, they show satellites capable of seeing facial details. It doesn't work that way.
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I agree, this is rather odd. How can an unborn child, not having any knowledge of his/her rights or even know what rights -are- have the right to be unborn? This is just a nicer way (and kind of a loophole) to say "The Mother's right to have an abortion."
'If it was under the control of the FBI, with appropriate technical safeguards in place to prevent possible misuse, and nobody else used it -- we wouldn't detect it,' said Chien. 'However we would detect modified versions that might be used by hackers.'"
If it was safeguarded properly and no one misused it, there wouldn't be a modified version that would be used maliciously, would there?
This bug had already been mentioned on a post on the original article that informed us of 2.5's release.
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What happened? Didn't anyone take this seriously?
If the media and most of the generally uninformed public uses the term 'hacker' instead of 'cracker,' then lawmakers will probably use 'hacker' incorrectly. It makes more sense to the rest of the world, because like you said, security coders/auditors isn't bound to 'hacker,' it's the malicious intruders and script kids that are.
Imagine what the Somalians think now to hear that the United States has shut down their two major communication companies? This will just create more anti-American tension within the world of Islam.
There is an article that deals with this same issue that was released a day or two ago over at The Register
Click.
Penicillin is actually a mold.
From WordNet (r) 1.6 : penicillin n : any of various antibiotics obtained from penicillium molds (or produced synthetically) and used in the treatment of various infections and diseases
Some people in Sweden rallied together and bought themselves a 100mpbs network for their whole village. They dug up the trenches for the fiber lines themselves. Pretty neat stuff. I don't know if this is exactly what you were talking about when referring to NANs, but this is what came to my mind.
Check it out: http://www.acc.umu.se/~tfytbk/mattgrand/. There's some cool pictures of the equipment, screenshots of 6mb/sec downloads, etc.
Er, that is the same picture, only it is larger and clearer to see.
EdgeReview did an article on this watch, (it has a nice picture on it, too), here: http://www.edgereview.com/ataglance.cfm?category=i maging&ID=246
The metal-banded WQV3D-8 costs $269, while its companion costs $249.
Is this thing waterproof? Can it take pictures underwater? (I doubt that one).
Does anyone in the RIAA have any sense whatsoever? Don't they understand that by DoSing people they not only lag and bog the person they are trying to get, but the network path it takes to get there as well? Don't they understand that they'd be overloading other innocent companies' routers and switches, etc. too? My God, someone send a Slashdot geek over to the RIAA ASAP.
First they want to 'hack,' and a few days later, they want to DoS! Sounds like the RIAA is a true terrorist group, and we need to erradicate them. They think like criminals. Such evil, evil people.
They probably read our fellow Slashdotter's posts and realized that they had just proposed (quite possibly) the /stupidest/ thing ever in the history of propositions relating to dumb copyright laws. Thank you, Slashdot.
Visit http://www.law.state.ak.us/consumer/tele_alaska.ht ml
... (and other rules)
/is/ the way that's /supposed/ to work ;)
"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has adopted strict rules that offer protection against telemarketing fraud. These rules require that certain information be given to consumers and prohibit telemarketers from engaging is certain actions: A telemarketer may not call you if you have previously asked not to be called. "
By law, if you ask a telemarketer to remove your number from their list and not to call again, they have to. Of course, they hardly ever abide by that law, but that
"Does winamp have better playlist controls then xmms?"
I have noticed that XMMS seems to pre-build a list of "from this song I'll go to this one" type thing for random play every time you start it. If you keep playing the same song, the next "random" song will always be the same until you restart XMMS. I haven't noticed this in Winamp. Just my two cents.
Recently I ran Starcraft Brood Wars in WINE. Apart from it being slow, hogging every last ounce of resources on by computer, and crashing a bit, it was fine. ;)
I never thought I could've done this, so I was pretty surprised. Since I ran Starcraft off of a real Windows installation on my second hard drive, WINE probably used all the gaming DLLs and other "crap" Starcraft required from that drive.
"I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others."
I never knew that Linus was the kind of guy that didn't care about the competition, the marketing, etc.
Many companies and fans want Linux to push itself further in the market, and many of it's users want it to as well. However, the creator of the operating system isn't worrying about that. I don't know why; Shouldn't this be something he should worry about?
This sounds alot like the burials in space I've been hearing about. People's ashes get blasted into space by a rocket and then are released among the stars.
Celestis allows people to send departed loved ones into space.
"Since the time before recorded history people have looked to the sky with wonder. When humanity first mastered flight we knew that our destiny lay in the heavens above. Space travel and exploration is our greatest adventure -- today and in the future."
I had a Maxtor 10 gig drive (IBM ships Maxtors) that crapped out on me too with the same symptoms. I woke up in the middle of the night to hear odd clunking noises. I kicked my case and it didn't click for about a month. Then, when a month was up, the clunking noises came back with a vengance and my hard drive was shot. I haven't sent it back to IBM yet, but I'm hoping I'll get a free replacement.
Yes, I have. It requires some XftConfig tweaking so that the smaller fonts don't get anti-aliased (much like the way Windows does it).
...in your XftConfig
Something like...
match
any size > 10
edit
antialias = false;
You might want to refer to http://dot.kde.org/989808269/ for more information.
First of all, in no way is this a flame towards:
a) any operating system, or b) Slashdot itself.
But seriously, if Linux ever lost in a benchmark or some other form of test, would it get posted on Slashdot? I highly doubt it. I run Linux and Windows myself, therefore I do not flame either. I think the Slashdot community could be a little more unbiased towards operating systems such as Windows and leave the "Linux rocks, and if you don't preach it, you suck" bandwagon. Linux does rock, but Windows has it's high points too, and it just turns out that Linux showed off it's higher point in this test.
I'm excited that GNOME 2.0 has finally debuted, but what else has debuted along with it?
Does/Will it have built in anti-aliasing? Is it considerably faster than 1.4? What is the main concern the GNOME development team is taking into consideration in regards to 2.0? Does anyone have any further information on it? The LinuxToday article doesn't really answer any of the questions alot of people are wanting to know.
People want the latest software at times, even if it isn't stable. Kind of like when Windows XP RC1 was accidently placed on the anonymous FTP, and the location was leaked. Everyone wanted it.
SuSE is more of a desktop OS, and often the desktop market isn't looking for awesome stability and high uptimes.
Why is it that SuSE gets a relatively large amount of money for a smaller company, and then they slash more employees. I understand they want to "stay in the game" and want to save alot of that money, but are we going to notice the quality of their output lessen as more and more workers get slashed, and yet they get more financial support from other companies? Cutting 500 jobs from a company such as SuSE sounds like quote a bit. Does anyone know how many people are currently employed with SuSE?
This article at NY Times has an interesting article on other methods of using body energy to power things.
It mentions methods such as cranking and pumping, and of course, stride (i.e. stride-powered watches). One company created a human-powered electricity generator which creates electricity by hand pumping. If you pump one of these for a few minutes, it can power a cell phone for around 20 minutes.
Enemy of the State was a movie, and as we all know, Hollywood makes things look easier than they really are. Just like in Mission Impossible 2, they show satellites capable of seeing facial details. It doesn't work that way.