US_CITIZEN == 1 I'm sorry; but this is dumb and its modded insightful. Sad. What you are saying is that I may put a video camera in your house to make sure you don't commit a crime. Privacy is a RIGHT. You have the right to shower in your bathroom without one viewing you. You have the right to be alone and not be viewed by others. Luxury? Luxury is a highend car with leather, it doesn't PROTECT any of your freedoms. PRIVACY DOES. You comparing it to a luxury clearly spells out that you firstly don't respect the persons who died to provide you with the RIGHT to speak what you do. Secondly, you don't know what freedom is.
People like you have these "ideas" about privacy and somehow have taken over this country. It's truly a shame this has been modded up, at least hopefully not by Americans.
US_CITIZEN == 0 Americans don't believe in that bull shit; you can keep it.
Hopefully Americans, true Americans will fight to take this country back, because with shit like this its only a matter of time before we are looking to shed a little blood to make the green grass grow. I'll proudly spill some if it brings this country back to its spirit.
Reading this thread is interesting. Most minorities posters are seemingly frustrated for no reason about this topic. This is specifically to you who come across this. I'm an African-American male and I also experience racism and discrimination everyday. Just recently I was stopped over the Brooklyn Bridge for no other reason than my skin color. In Dec of 94 I started using free software exclusively. Currently, I work for a server company, most of my time is spent screwing around the kernel/selinux and distribution related crap.
I learned all I needed to learn the day I realized I could make anything that I wanted to with the tools provided to me. That day, sometime in Dec of 94 (my age 13-14 or so) I realized that worrying about discrimination and racism was unimportant in this arena. I had the tools necessary to do whatever I wanted while also be compensated for it. Also realize that the world is much bigger than the USA which is largely the most racist. (I've also traveled a bit) You'll find racism and discrimination elsewhere but your software has no color and will be warmly accepted by the people who need it; once it fits their needs.
The racist and discriminatory persons should be of no matter or recourse to you. Ignore them for the most part when it comes to matters like this. Concentrating your efforts on your work are more important and will produce better results. I'm sure some racist and discriminatory people benefit from some of my opensource work everyday. What are you going to do? I see it as a win; win all around. People are entitled to their views and opinions. I'm not racist and discriminatory and I'll fight it where it makes sense. Here's not one of the places it makes sense.
My views for everyone else are that there are less minorities in computing because the initial cost of computers were prohibitive for most. That combined with social stigmas, general disdain towards said groups and lack to equipment made it extremely difficult. I'm only lucky in the aspect that at the time my parents are what one would deem upper middle class and could afford to purchase me a Fountain PC 80286 with 5 1/4 floppy. As of current, its primarily an education problem but with free distributions and word of mouth I expect to see more minorities entering the arena in the next decade. Especially in their own countries.
As much as i'd love to regulate this argument to being primarily a class issue (which would at least be better than what it actually is). That isn't fair. The class issue is part and parcel because of the race issue. A majority of poor which is considered "class" are also black/hispanic. They are poor because a majority of the wealthy are white who then predicate discriminatory and racist behavior.
Free software changes all of this though. Minorities or people who feel oppressed economically now have all the tools needed in modern day to change that. No longer does one need to feel dependent on anything other than their capabilities and imagination to survive.
So you can complain, or you can get a copy of binutils, glibc and gcc and get to work. It's not easy and nothing ever is. There will be days you wish gdb actually fucking worked and good days. Whatever the case; use your mind and creative talents to change the world.
You'll find that the people who are really good at what they do don't care what your skin color is and if they do. You're better.
As for naming inventors. Lewis Latimer was a black scientist that created the electric lightbulb and the first air conditioner. Worked with Edison. The house he did all of his work in was recently moved to Queens. Interesting fellow and i'm lucky enough to have met the person involved for a majority of this. I even got to see his original patents. GE donated to the restoration and we held the opening ceremony last year. All in all it was a fun ceremony and it inspired me even further.
It's rank, you have to know it to pass basic training. E1 through E9 Enlisted.
01-010.. Officer.
Ummm you have to know to get out of Basic and then again to get out of AIT. So yes.. alot of people know it. You're not the only one my smartass friend.
A LTG (O8) outranks an MG (O9) by a rank. I know this, because I was in the military and again you have to know it to become a soldier. It's in every soldiers entry level FM manual given to them at their Basic stations.
I used to know their pay scales, I'm sure its changed by now but once you start hitting O8-O9-O10 you finally make a decent wage with perks, drivers etc etc.
Another "tidbit" seeing as you're one of these smartasses. Is that regardless of rank and official title. Warrant Officers are the most respected officers. A warrant officer commands respect even from generals. In some cases out of sheer respect you'll see a higher rank salute a warrant officer they admire.
One could go on. Of course you wouldn't know the above from any reference material.
As for etymology, I wasn't aware of the fact that we are looking at the origins of the word as I would have no idea what that has to do with your original statement.
I can agree with this, your earlier posting made it seem as if you wrote off Wikipedia entirely as a source of information. Something that wasn't capable of being cited. That, is what I found to be odd. If this is not the case then i've misread your original commentary on the subject.
Wiki might be a good reference, but it's not magically exempt from the rules of good research.
Good research involves using all sources available to you. You as the researcher determine whats available and what you will base your research on. If you get source material from Wikipedia and use it in your research to verify X finding there is no problem with that.
No ones claiming its magically exempt from the rules of good research except seemingly yourself and the professor above. I believe i've found my way now, thanks.
I'm seriously at a loss here. You propose students do up to date research using static versions of source material? That's not really how research works in any field and it amazes me that you're actually claiming this. Research is the process of examining and finding some fact to a specific question or problem. Using prior research in your quest is always good and simply a requirement but telling your students that you wont accept citations from Wikipedia is silly. If it's too much to handle have your student provide a date with copy of the actual Wikipedia print. It's unbelievable that you'd write-off a source of information when it comes to research the way you seemingly are. Especially if the student has sufficient ground to believe it adamant to their research work.
Sounds more to me as if you should reevaluate your research component or at the very least rename it if you're going to hinder students based on sources.
I'm one of those factoid geeks who read reference books for pleasure. (Do you know why a Major ranks a Lieutenant, but a Lieutenant-General ranks a Major-General? I do, God help me!)
You and easily anyone whos been in the armed forces knows. That's alot of people. Just because you're laymen doesn't know, doesn't mean a large segment of the population isn't aware of that factoid.
I'm not sure how much crap is on Wikipedia. I just recently removed some "crap" claiming Microsoft Windows with threading (non-native; using a java machine) gave better results than the new NPTL implementation in glibc. After asking for relevant information and the paper quoted itself. None of the required factual evidence was provided so I removed it. This after searching google for information on NPTL performance etc.
So long as people keep questioning every entry on Wikipedia I believe there will always be less crap than a standard print medium or encyclopedia. It also allows experts in the field to continously update entries based on research or new findings. Your experts on a specific topic are also; crap filters. What I expect to see in the future are less people such as yourself (no offense obviously) and more people with an expertise toward their specific topic or entry. Not that your contributions aren't appreciated, its just that discussing cardiology or something related should be left to an actual cardiologist. Instead of the current situation of people who can put together a seemingly readable entry that "sounds" factual but in reality is based on reference material or other works than actual knowledge of the subject matter.
As for wikipedia 2.0. Knowledge on subject matter is always changing, so should wikipedia. That's what makes it relevant and useful.
You sir, are whats wrong with society. I'm also against the breaking of the law by anyone especially by minors. However, the moral fabric of society and law imposed by that society is a direct reflection of its leadership and adults. For instance, back in my day if a kid was caught stealing or did something stupid. His parents were informed and he got a couple of slaps and he had trouble sitting the next day. This tended to work very well. My neighbors would watch out for me, the older dudes on the street would make sure I kept my nose clean. You know the saying.. A community raises a child.
Suing a child, is unacceptable in my opinion. I'm not against discipline or dealing with a minor in appropriate fashion concerning the law. When it comes to "your kid downloaded 500 of our mp3's we are gonna need 10,000 dollars". No can do; I'll discipline my child, i'll return whatever they stole and try to mitigate any damages that occured. When you've got a corporation found guilty of price gouging trying to put the everyday family into long term debt. Unacceptable. I don't give a shit what the law says; because if we look at its origins. It was forged by them, for them; in their name. Somewhere along the line this country has turned the value of the word law into something thats bought and sold in everyday fashion. The more money you have the more justice you can buy. Which is exactly what this country was founded AGAINST.
I don't think infringing on the copyrights of the RIAA is right. It's wrong out and out. But, suing and destroying the lives of the hardworking family isn't the answer. You'd have to be someone with a loss of character and care for general decency. In other words "conduct" which is the heart of any law. The RIAA falls into this category, if they cared they'd
One thing is clear here though. you don't have kids. I mean, I don't have kids either but if you spend a couple of hours a week with one you'll learn why; you are wrong. For your sake I hope if you ever do have children, they walk the straight and narrow. Otherwise, you better hope you never come across a person such as yourself.
Then, frankly, I'm screwed in any case, since I can't think of any circumstance that would induce me to run a kernel I didn't build myself. But, again frankly, I think you're being just a wee bit paranoid. Not that there's anything wrong with paranoia--some of my best friends, and all that--but I think it looks more and more these days like the balance of power is tipping away from Microsoft.
A kernel you compile yourself will not prevent a TCPA-enabled machine from locking you out. People seemingly have this idea that TCPA is the next best thing for security. It lacks merit in about every department in terms of security. It's no more secure than having your regular computer in a stone box and throwing it into a big black rift. It's useless, and their have been flaws to its design explored. It's sad to see people rally for it because they haven't read the papers on its flaws, they tend to really not research the technology before claiming it will help them and it's just really not needed. This is another one of those cases. TCPA needs to drop the RSA engine, which might work for me or you (since we've been busy on slashdot and not writing any top secret code), but not any military insitution on the planet. It has an opt-in module which is supposed to make the consumer happy by being able to disable/enable tpm modules. Which defeats the whole purpose of having it and one could go on and on.
If the technology was made like the earlier IBM ES2 or whatever it was and beefed up a notch then it might actually be useful for hardware signing of files and shit like that. It's truly been designed as the parent poster said and is a great example. An apple with a poison pill.
The GPL is an anchor of freedom. It has nothing to do with technical merits of ones software. It has everything to do with making software freely available and open in communal fashion. I'd like to think of the GPL as a digital library of function; with protection for not only the developer but the user. Similar to fountains of knowledge that have existed through out history allowing human-kind to prosper. It should be noted that all communes and libraries of the past that operated as a hub of knowledge have been almost entirely destroyed with few exceptions. I find it hard how one would do this with the digital medium but moving along.
ESR seemingly doesn't understand that if it was simply about technical merit and time. In another 20 years we'll look back and it'll be a different story. Isn't history one of ESR's strong points? Here is another reason why ESR can't be coined as a forefront in opensource or what we all deem to be some form of movement. His views are totally not inline with freedom and freedom is what this is about. You release under GPL as a form of solidarity? How about in the future you refrain from releasing under the GPL and release under the license that you think is best. Solidarity and cowardness go hand in hand when you're in the minority.
RMS on the other hand needs to learn that one can't force freedom. You can only protect it and the primary goal should be protection for the user and developer. The external parties should not matter beyond that. If they benefit in fashion from the GPL then one should not prevent that. This doesn't mean that the GPL should never change; I have faith that RMS will learn better to adapt the GPL to current environments as well as forseeing the road ahead.
None the less my personal views are that RMS is a leader and ESR as a mumbling imbecile and sideliner. As much as people dislike RMS and fight and rally against him. He never sidelines and he never stands in solidarity with a position he disagrees with. He stands firmly in his belief for freedom and provided the framework on which I make my living, how I learned to make my living and how I even enjoy myself every now and then.
So, unlike the rest of you; after I pickup my girl from the airport i'll have a beer in the name of RMS. Cheers; and thanks.
How is this insightful? What phone or computer would you have a person in the middle of chaos use?! FEMA of all institutions should have and be able to deploy a communication system EVERYONE can access regardless of what form of web browser they use. PERIOD! People don't have time to be frustrated by messages like. "You only do IE but you are a remotely embedded linux terminal machine; sorry champ and good luck" sort of messages. Stuck in an arena and only have access to a handheld, all circuits busy!?! Guess you'll have to wait for dell to donate those laptops. This is FEMA remember? THE Federal EMERGENCY Management Agency. Well in an emergency you usually like to have as much tools as possible at the ready. This is clearly incompetence and something needs to be done about it. Yesterday... No one should be denied the right to register because the technology exists, and this is why it exists. Exactly for these situations.. Someone at FEMA needs to be let go and let go to fucking day.
I can't imagine the frustration I'd be going through if I was in the middle of chaos and the agency that is supposed to be helping me is continually slapping me in the face. All crisis situations aren't going to run smoothly otherwise there'd be no crisis but this is absurd.
Real easy for you to sit there and actually believe most people have access to a working phone or for that matter computer.
That sort of functionality can't be implemented with "md5sums and Selinux" (md5sums stuffed into the kernel is NOT equivalent).
This functionality is certainly capable via Selinux. As for putting md5sums in the kernel that wouldn't make any sense. You seemingly aren't also aware of the many design flaws regarding TCPA. There are several papers regarding these issues. I dont have the links handy, feel free to search google.
You're also free to join the Selinux Mailing list if you have further questions regarding how to get this working. There is also a good intro book on the subject by Bill McCarty published by O'Reilly.
You should probably research DRM before claiming it will help you.
Thats what md5sums are for and/or things like Selinux, Samhain one could go on.
Having authorized binaries are pretty pointless and it leaves the authorization to the person making the binary. If you're compiling from source this maybe fine, but then you aren't doing anything different than the above.
So if I had a webserver what would be different?
If John H Hackergirl writes a plguin and it contains trojans. John H Hackergirl will sign said binary and/or package and no one would be the wiser until the trojan is released. How is this different from how things work now? I'll tell you how, it's not.
Maybe you can expound on some useful purposes for DRM but from where i'm standing, I see none. Your examples are the same strawman attempt I hear on the technology everytime someone tries to defend it.
The Firefox team could implement a md5sum server/client check policy for their binaries right inside of Firefox if they wanted. No DRM needed; people do it all the time.
If you can't beat em, join em. Sorry, but the idea of DRM is wrong in any form.
It's on my computer I paid for, with software I paid for or have an exclusive license for. It'll be a cold day in hell when I buy something and then don't have exclusive rights to it. I'm not leasing software; in any way, shape, or form.
People keep saying DRM is here!! OMG!! I'm scared mommy! Stop acting along the lines of a bitch and realize that the power in the consumer/media conglomerate relationship lies with the consumer.
With my consumer hat fully locked into place. DRM can come, stay, go, do whatever it wants to. Simply, not on my personal hardware. If it means not having the ability to use or watch media because the majority has spoken otherwise. Then so be it.
You can either tow the line with a statement and action you believe in. Or, join em. This segues right into the reason society has faltered when it comes to most anything involving standards, morals or simply standing up for ones self. There is a lot less beating, and a whole lot of joining.
You're not making any sense. Anyone can seed a torrent. It effectively lowers the cost to distribute gigs worth of data effectively. It benefits the independent distro by allowing them the ability to compete on the same scale as the bohemoth corporation.
No longer does the upstart need to be constrained by cost of things like bandwidth, which can get extremely expensive. Your anger is pointed in the wrong direction; torrents aren't the problem. If you hate corporations so, start a website that markets every single distro you think deserves the light of day.
I recommend patent examiners/lawyers joining organizations like the ACM http://www.acm.org./ They've become an invaluable resource and their digital library is excellent.
I fail to believe that the USPTO doesn't have a system that can access a database or achive of not only previous patents available to them but of a large amount of freely available papers etc.
The guidelines need to be revisited and they should be revisited on a regular basis. What you've basically stated is that the job is not getting done. It's unacceptable, especially when the technology is available at a cost so infinitely small. It's just unacceptable.
You better wakeup and look around, in some states you can't even own a weapon without severe limitation.
"It is a class D felony to manufacture, transport, dispose of, or possess a large capacity ammunition feeding device, which N.Y. Penal Law 265.00(23)defines as "a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device, manufactured after September thirteenth, nineteen hundred ninety-four, that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than ten rounds of ammunition." Section 265.02.
Well then.. 10 rounds.. that narrows down your weapon choices significantly. One could go on. All of these "laws" and amendments threaten freedom at its base.
If we take the surface area of the avg penis which would be 2(pi*.75^2)+(2*pi*.75)*4.5 (4.5 because we subtract the head from the cylindrical area as you've suggested).
Goddamn where's my calculator
Yes you are correct.. Technically, yes; its incorrect but why has this gotten this far?:-)
If a bitch sucks your dick for 5 dollars per sq inch..
If we guestimate at the avg penis size being 5.5 inches, when erect that would be about $27.50 US dollars for most men. This; if we take into account that a penis in general has the same shape.
If she gets 40 dollars including the 5 dollar tip.
That would mean she received 35 dollars for the actual act of fellatio. Which would mean, going by the guestimates and assumptions above. The penis she was sucking had to be about 7 inches give or take. All these guestimates are seemingly inline for avg pricing of such an act nowadays. So i'll run with those numbers.
Canibus is now in the military; apart of a recon unit. He still does underground stuff.
Ugh, please, not with these same tired arguments over and over and over again.
If you are comparing OS to OS you've done an extremely poor job in pointing out anything having to do with security flaw. Everytime one of these arguments come up people spout off about Windows superior acl's and how Unix has had exploits over the years blah blah blah.
To all of you long time decisive unix users, tally up all of the Unix exploits since it's existence. Then tally up all the Windows exploits since it's existence.
If you are going to compare OS to OS then this must be a requirement. Then based on that look at the environments where Unix and Windows operate. From here you can begin to make some logical conclusion.
As i'm aware the original argument is about Virus/Trojan writers and not necessarily with the security of one system in particular. It's obvious still which one takes a more proactive measure in protecting the user. To argue tit for tat is the most silly thing i've seen and yet people continously do it. Either your argument is that authors of malware will become more prolific with market share (which has been disproven time and time again. With not only Apache, but even crap like sendmail and on and on). Or you're argument is that one operating system is more or less secure and or insecure depending on market share and type. IE:"The Desktop market share will always have the most malware and it just so happens that Windows is in this space. If it changes to lets say OS X then that will have the most malware".
Thats the only valid assumption I figure that can be made. Whether its true or not, one cannot say because reallife world data isn't available. The only data that is available to date says otherwise. It still doesn't address the statement however, so your hypothesis; however valid you may believe it to be by pushing it down the food chain to the user. Is valid only in the sense that no one can either prove or disprove it today.
However, we can forecast on the tiny bit of data that we do have. With things like Selinux (MAC, RBAC) systems being implemented into Unix via kernel and userspace utils. Allowing ones programs to run in security context against verified policy. It's going to be hard to write malware for a default install or system. It's probably going to be even harder to write malware for said system to disable that.
For the "Mallory". It'll always be easy to con a sucker. A user wouldn't give a mover the keys to their place without verification and someone being around. So user education should be aligned with some of these more simple ideas for it to hit home. User education; is important in this process.
Or whenever someone speaks about standing up for themselves or protecting ones self. It amounts to some form of vigilante act or "Oh GEEBUS!! No, thats not the way to handle it!!!" It's in line with modern day cops. Sure, we'll make an attempt to protect you but if someone robs you or tries to physically harm you. The best thing to do is just give them your money or try to run away; the last thing you should do is try and protect yourself.
I'm sorry to all the SpamProtectors out there but you have been ineffective. You've done nothing to protect the people who need it. Your tools are always one step behind. Seemingly asking one to not retaliate should come from the lips of others. Not you, one with vested interest in Spam. If there is no more Spam, there is no more SpamProtector. You will be out of a job and thats what you should be striving for.
Now, i'm not recommended vigilante acts meaning putting a hot orange in ones eye socket or random acts of grotesque violence. However, I see nothing wrong with complaining or disabling a Spam server to protect not only myself but others who aren't able to protect themselves from this problem.
1. The government has continously failed us 2. You the Spam Protector has failed us 3. Everything to date has FAILED.
You then turn around and ask the honest abiding citizens to continue to be run over the coals at the expense of SPAM?
Not today or tomorrow, so you could kiss my ass. The way I see it, the more vigilantes the better. At the very least they have not failed us and have taken the fight right to the spammers doorstep.
They seemingly understand that the only way to win a war, is to fight one. The spamprotectors seemingly remind me of the weapons dealers who play both sides. You're as bad as the spammers.
So; Cheers! To all the vigilantes out there standing up for the little guy and even the not so little guy! You are welcome round these parts anyday.
Apple came in and ate everyones lunch it looks like.. I wanted to pick up a SGI/SUN laptop on ebay on the cheap.. Tadpole laptops are too expensive.
The only unix laptop available nowadays is the ibook/powerbook. It's sad unix companies have no fucking idea how to make money.
A laptop that works with linux or insert unix here with decent specs out of the box and I don't even want windows to touch that shit. EVER. I want it to come with Insert Unix here installed and working.
The only thing close to what I deem decent is a powerbook. Thats pretty sad, considering all this G5 talk and tadpole is selling dual sparc laptops.. Its a niche market maybe, but goddamn. I know there's at least another 1,000 unix developers like me and they probably all bought powerbooks. Thats another 2.5 million to apple if you operate on the notion that there are only 1,000 unix developers.
You unix vendors are fucking dumb. Sun might survive yet though, with opensolaris.
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I'm sorry; but this is dumb and its modded insightful. Sad. What you are saying is that I may put a video camera in your house to make sure you don't commit a crime. Privacy is a RIGHT. You have the right to shower in your bathroom without one viewing you. You have the right to be alone and not be viewed by others. Luxury? Luxury is a highend car with leather, it doesn't PROTECT any of your freedoms. PRIVACY DOES. You comparing it to a luxury clearly spells out that you firstly don't respect the persons who died to provide you with the RIGHT to speak what you do. Secondly, you don't know what freedom is.
People like you have these "ideas" about privacy and somehow have taken over this country. It's truly a shame this has been modded up, at least hopefully not by Americans.
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Americans don't believe in that bull shit; you can keep it.
Hopefully Americans, true Americans will fight to take this country back, because with shit like this its only a matter of time before we are looking to shed a little blood to make the green grass grow. I'll proudly spill some if it brings this country back to its spirit.
Reading this thread is interesting. Most minorities posters are seemingly frustrated for no reason about this topic. This is specifically to you who come across this. I'm an African-American male and I also experience racism and discrimination everyday. Just recently I was stopped over the Brooklyn Bridge for no other reason than my skin color. In Dec of 94 I started using free software exclusively. Currently, I work for a server company, most of my time is spent screwing around the kernel/selinux and distribution related crap.
I learned all I needed to learn the day I realized I could make anything that I wanted to with the tools provided to me. That day, sometime in Dec of 94 (my age 13-14 or so) I realized that worrying about discrimination and racism was unimportant in this arena. I had the tools necessary to do whatever I wanted while also be compensated for it. Also realize that the world is much bigger than the USA which is largely the most racist. (I've also traveled a bit) You'll find racism and discrimination elsewhere but your software has no color and will be warmly accepted by the people who need it; once it fits their needs.
The racist and discriminatory persons should be of no matter or recourse to you. Ignore them for the most part when it comes to matters like this. Concentrating your efforts on your work are more important and will produce better results. I'm sure some racist and discriminatory people benefit from some of my opensource work everyday. What are you going to do? I see it as a win; win all around. People are entitled to their views and opinions. I'm not racist and discriminatory and I'll fight it where it makes sense. Here's not one of the places it makes sense.
My views for everyone else are that there are less minorities in computing because the initial cost of computers were prohibitive for most. That combined with social stigmas, general disdain towards said groups and lack to equipment made it extremely difficult. I'm only lucky in the aspect that at the time my parents are what one would deem upper middle class and could afford to purchase me a Fountain PC 80286 with 5 1/4 floppy. As of current, its primarily an education problem but with free distributions and word of mouth I expect to see more minorities entering the arena in the next decade. Especially in their own countries.
As much as i'd love to regulate this argument to being primarily a class issue (which would at least be better than what it actually is). That isn't fair. The class issue is part and parcel because of the race issue. A majority of poor which is considered "class" are also black/hispanic. They are poor because a majority of the wealthy are white who then predicate discriminatory and racist behavior.
Free software changes all of this though. Minorities or people who feel oppressed economically now have all the tools needed in modern day to change that. No longer does one need to feel dependent on anything other than their capabilities and imagination to survive.
So you can complain, or you can get a copy of binutils, glibc and gcc and get to work. It's not easy and nothing ever is. There will be days you wish gdb actually fucking worked and good days. Whatever the case; use your mind and creative talents to change the world.
You'll find that the people who are really good at what they do don't care what your skin color is and if they do. You're better.
As for naming inventors. Lewis Latimer was a black scientist that created the electric lightbulb and the first air conditioner. Worked with Edison. The house he did all of his work in was recently moved to Queens. Interesting fellow and i'm lucky enough to have met the person involved for a majority of this. I even got to see his original patents. GE donated to the restoration and we held the opening ceremony last year. All in all it was a fun ceremony and it inspired me even further.
It's rank, you have to know it to pass basic training. E1 through E9 Enlisted.
01-010.. Officer.
Ummm you have to know to get out of Basic and then again to get out of AIT. So yes.. alot of people know it. You're not the only one my smartass friend.
A LTG (O8) outranks an MG (O9) by a rank. I know this, because I was in the military and again you have to know it to become a soldier. It's in every soldiers entry level FM manual given to them at their Basic stations.
I used to know their pay scales, I'm sure its changed by now but once you start hitting O8-O9-O10 you finally make a decent wage with perks, drivers etc etc.
Another "tidbit" seeing as you're one of these smartasses. Is that regardless of rank and official title. Warrant Officers are the most respected officers. A warrant officer commands respect even from generals. In some cases out of sheer respect you'll see a higher rank salute a warrant officer they admire.
One could go on. Of course you wouldn't know the above from any reference material.
As for etymology, I wasn't aware of the fact that we are looking at the origins of the word as I would have no idea what that has to do with your original statement.
I can agree with this, your earlier posting made it seem as if you wrote off Wikipedia entirely as a source of information. Something that wasn't capable of being cited. That, is what I found to be odd. If this is not the case then i've misread your original commentary on the subject.
Wiki might be a good reference, but it's not magically exempt from the rules of good research.
Good research involves using all sources available to you. You as the researcher determine whats available and what you will base your research on. If you get source material from Wikipedia and use it in your research to verify X finding there is no problem with that.
No ones claiming its magically exempt from the rules of good research except seemingly yourself and the professor above. I believe i've found my way now, thanks.
I'm seriously at a loss here. You propose students do up to date research using static versions of source material? That's not really how research works in any field and it amazes me that you're actually claiming this. Research is the process of examining and finding some fact to a specific question or problem. Using prior research in your quest is always good and simply a requirement but telling your students that you wont accept citations from Wikipedia is silly. If it's too much to handle have your student provide a date with copy of the actual Wikipedia print. It's unbelievable that you'd write-off a source of information when it comes to research the way you seemingly are. Especially if the student has sufficient ground to believe it adamant to their research work.
Sounds more to me as if you should reevaluate your research component or at the very least rename it if you're going to hinder students based on sources.
Have you even used wikipedia?
I'm one of those factoid geeks who read reference books for pleasure. (Do you know why a Major ranks a Lieutenant, but a Lieutenant-General ranks a Major-General? I do, God help me!)
You and easily anyone whos been in the armed forces knows. That's alot of people. Just because you're laymen doesn't know, doesn't mean a large segment of the population isn't aware of that factoid.
I'm not sure how much crap is on Wikipedia. I just recently removed some "crap" claiming Microsoft Windows with threading (non-native; using a java machine) gave better results than the new NPTL implementation in glibc. After asking for relevant information and the paper quoted itself. None of the required factual evidence was provided so I removed it. This after searching google for information on NPTL performance etc.
So long as people keep questioning every entry on Wikipedia I believe there will always be less crap than a standard print medium or encyclopedia. It also allows experts in the field to continously update entries based on research or new findings. Your experts on a specific topic are also; crap filters. What I expect to see in the future are less people such as yourself (no offense obviously) and more people with an expertise toward their specific topic or entry. Not that your contributions aren't appreciated, its just that discussing cardiology or something related should be left to an actual cardiologist. Instead of the current situation of people who can put together a seemingly readable entry that "sounds" factual but in reality is based on reference material or other works than actual knowledge of the subject matter.
As for wikipedia 2.0. Knowledge on subject matter is always changing, so should wikipedia. That's what makes it relevant and useful.
You sir, are whats wrong with society. I'm also against the breaking of the law by anyone especially by minors. However, the moral fabric of society and law imposed by that society is a direct reflection of its leadership and adults. For instance, back in my day if a kid was caught stealing or did something stupid. His parents were informed and he got a couple of slaps and he had trouble sitting the next day. This tended to work very well. My neighbors would watch out for me, the older dudes on the street would make sure I kept my nose clean. You know the saying.. A community raises a child.
Suing a child, is unacceptable in my opinion. I'm not against discipline or dealing with a minor in appropriate fashion concerning the law. When it comes to "your kid downloaded 500 of our mp3's we are gonna need 10,000 dollars". No can do; I'll discipline my child, i'll return whatever they stole and try to mitigate any damages that occured. When you've got a corporation found guilty of price gouging trying to put the everyday family into long term debt. Unacceptable. I don't give a shit what the law says; because if we look at its origins. It was forged by them, for them; in their name. Somewhere along the line this country has turned the value of the word law into something thats bought and sold in everyday fashion. The more money you have the more justice you can buy. Which is exactly what this country was founded AGAINST.
I don't think infringing on the copyrights of the RIAA is right. It's wrong out and out. But, suing and destroying the lives of the hardworking family isn't the answer. You'd have to be someone with a loss of character and care for general decency. In other words "conduct" which is the heart of any law. The RIAA falls into this category, if they cared they'd
One thing is clear here though. you don't have kids. I mean, I don't have kids either but if you spend a couple of hours a week with one you'll learn why; you are wrong. For your sake I hope if you ever do have children, they walk the straight and narrow. Otherwise, you better hope you never come across a person such as yourself.
Then, frankly, I'm screwed in any case, since I can't think of any circumstance that would induce me to run a kernel I didn't build myself. But, again frankly, I think you're being just a wee bit paranoid. Not that there's anything wrong with paranoia--some of my best friends, and all that--but I think it looks more and more these days like the balance of power is tipping away from Microsoft.
A kernel you compile yourself will not prevent a TCPA-enabled machine from locking you out. People seemingly have this idea that TCPA is the next best thing for security. It lacks merit in about every department in terms of security. It's no more secure than having your regular computer in a stone box and throwing it into a big black rift. It's useless, and their have been flaws to its design explored. It's sad to see people rally for it because they haven't read the papers on its flaws, they tend to really not research the technology before claiming it will help them and it's just really not needed. This is another one of those cases. TCPA needs to drop the RSA engine, which might work for me or you (since we've been busy on slashdot and not writing any top secret code), but not any military insitution on the planet. It has an opt-in module which is supposed to make the consumer happy by being able to disable/enable tpm modules. Which defeats the whole purpose of having it and one could go on and on.
If the technology was made like the earlier IBM ES2 or whatever it was and beefed up a notch then it might actually be useful for hardware signing of files and shit like that. It's truly been designed as the parent poster said and is a great example. An apple with a poison pill.
The GPL is an anchor of freedom. It has nothing to do with technical merits of ones software. It has everything to do with making software freely available and open in communal fashion. I'd like to think of the GPL as a digital library of function; with protection for not only the developer but the user. Similar to fountains of knowledge that have existed through out history allowing human-kind to prosper. It should be noted that all communes and libraries of the past that operated as a hub of knowledge have been almost entirely destroyed with few exceptions. I find it hard how one would do this with the digital medium but moving along.
ESR seemingly doesn't understand that if it was simply about technical merit and time. In another 20 years we'll look back and it'll be a different story. Isn't history one of ESR's strong points? Here is another reason why ESR can't be coined as a forefront in opensource or what we all deem to be some form of movement. His views are totally not inline with freedom and freedom is what this is about. You release under GPL as a form of solidarity? How about in the future you refrain from releasing under the GPL and release under the license that you think is best. Solidarity and cowardness go hand in hand when you're in the minority.
RMS on the other hand needs to learn that one can't force freedom. You can only protect it and the primary goal should be protection for the user and developer. The external parties should not matter beyond that. If they benefit in fashion from the GPL then one should not prevent that. This doesn't mean that the GPL should never change; I have faith that RMS will learn better to adapt the GPL to current environments as well as forseeing the road ahead.
None the less my personal views are that RMS is a leader and ESR as a mumbling imbecile and sideliner. As much as people dislike RMS and fight and rally against him. He never sidelines and he never stands in solidarity with a position he disagrees with. He stands firmly in his belief for freedom and provided the framework on which I make my living, how I learned to make my living and how I even enjoy myself every now and then.
So, unlike the rest of you; after I pickup my girl from the airport i'll have a beer in the name of RMS. Cheers; and thanks.
How is this insightful? What phone or computer would you have a person in the middle of chaos use?! FEMA of all institutions should have and be able to deploy a communication system EVERYONE can access regardless of what form of web browser they use. PERIOD! People don't have time to be frustrated by messages like. "You only do IE but you are a remotely embedded linux terminal machine; sorry champ and good luck" sort of messages. Stuck in an arena and only have access to a handheld, all circuits busy!?! Guess you'll have to wait for dell to donate those laptops. This is FEMA remember? THE Federal EMERGENCY Management Agency. Well in an emergency you usually like to have as much tools as possible at the ready. This is clearly incompetence and something needs to be done about it. Yesterday... No one should be denied the right to register because the technology exists, and this is why it exists. Exactly for these situations.. Someone at FEMA needs to be let go and let go to fucking day.
I can't imagine the frustration I'd be going through if I was in the middle of chaos and the agency that is supposed to be helping me is continually slapping me in the face. All crisis situations aren't going to run smoothly otherwise there'd be no crisis but this is absurd.
Real easy for you to sit there and actually believe most people have access to a working phone or for that matter computer.
If checksumming is now considered DRM then ok.
That sort of functionality can't be implemented with "md5sums and Selinux" (md5sums stuffed into the kernel is NOT equivalent).
This functionality is certainly capable via Selinux. As for putting md5sums in the kernel that wouldn't make any sense. You seemingly aren't also aware of the many design flaws regarding TCPA. There are several papers regarding these issues. I dont have the links handy, feel free to search google.
You're also free to join the Selinux Mailing list if you have further questions regarding how to get this working. There is also a good intro book on the subject by Bill McCarty published by O'Reilly.
You should probably research DRM before claiming it will help you.
Thats what md5sums are for and/or things like Selinux, Samhain one could go on.
Having authorized binaries are pretty pointless and it leaves the authorization to the person making the binary. If you're compiling from source this maybe fine, but then you aren't doing anything different than the above.
So if I had a webserver what would be different?
If John H Hackergirl writes a plguin and it contains trojans. John H Hackergirl will sign said binary and/or package and no one would be the wiser until the trojan is released. How is this different from how things work now? I'll tell you how, it's not.
Maybe you can expound on some useful purposes for DRM but from where i'm standing, I see none. Your examples are the same strawman attempt I hear on the technology everytime someone tries to defend it.
The Firefox team could implement a md5sum server/client check policy for their binaries right inside of Firefox if they wanted. No DRM needed; people do it all the time.
If you can't beat em, join em. Sorry, but the idea of DRM is wrong in any form.
It's on my computer I paid for, with software I paid for or have an exclusive license for. It'll be a cold day in hell when I buy something and then don't have exclusive rights to it. I'm not leasing software; in any way, shape, or form.
People keep saying DRM is here!! OMG!! I'm scared mommy! Stop acting along the lines of a bitch and realize that the power in the consumer/media conglomerate relationship lies with the consumer.
With my consumer hat fully locked into place. DRM can come, stay, go, do whatever it wants to. Simply, not on my personal hardware. If it means not having the ability to use or watch media because the majority has spoken otherwise. Then so be it.
You can either tow the line with a statement and action you believe in. Or, join em. This segues right into the reason society has faltered when it comes to most anything involving standards, morals or simply standing up for ones self. There is a lot less beating, and a whole lot of joining.
You're not making any sense. Anyone can seed a torrent. It effectively lowers the cost to distribute gigs worth of data effectively. It benefits the independent distro by allowing them the ability to compete on the same scale as the bohemoth corporation.
No longer does the upstart need to be constrained by cost of things like bandwidth, which can get extremely expensive. Your anger is pointed in the wrong direction; torrents aren't the problem. If you hate corporations so, start a website that markets every single distro you think deserves the light of day.
Instead of being angry, do something about it.
I recommend patent examiners/lawyers joining organizations like the ACM http://www.acm.org./ They've become an invaluable resource and their digital library is excellent.
I fail to believe that the USPTO doesn't have a system that can access a database or achive of not only previous patents available to them but of a large amount of freely available papers etc.
The guidelines need to be revisited and they should be revisited on a regular basis. What you've basically stated is that the job is not getting done. It's unacceptable, especially when the technology is available at a cost so infinitely small. It's just unacceptable.
You better wakeup and look around, in some states you can't even own a weapon without severe limitation.
"It is a class D felony to manufacture, transport, dispose of, or possess a large capacity ammunition feeding device, which N.Y. Penal Law 265.00(23)defines as "a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device, manufactured after September thirteenth, nineteen hundred ninety-four, that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than ten rounds of ammunition." Section 265.02.
Well then.. 10 rounds.. that narrows down your weapon choices significantly. One could go on. All of these "laws" and amendments threaten freedom at its base.
Its been a while but lets see.
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If we take the surface area of the avg penis which would be 2(pi*.75^2)+(2*pi*.75)*4.5 (4.5 because we subtract the head from the cylindrical area as you've suggested).
Goddamn where's my calculator
Yes you are correct.. Technically, yes; its incorrect but why has this gotten this far?
As always is poor form. I must amend my earlier comment. It seems Canibus is now out of the army and has released an album.
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I guess we can forward the above thread to his email for clarification purposes
If a bitch sucks your dick for 5 dollars per sq inch..
If we guestimate at the avg penis size being 5.5 inches, when erect that would be about $27.50 US dollars for most men. This; if we take into account that a penis in general has the same shape.
If she gets 40 dollars including the 5 dollar tip.
That would mean she received 35 dollars for the actual act of fellatio. Which would mean, going by the guestimates and assumptions above. The penis she was sucking had to be about 7 inches give or take. All these guestimates are seemingly inline for avg pricing of such an act nowadays. So i'll run with those numbers.
Canibus is now in the military; apart of a recon unit. He still does underground stuff.
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Pretty much sums up my whole feeling on this "phenomena" or "hiphop segment".
Ugh, please, not with these same tired arguments over and over and over again.
If you are comparing OS to OS you've done an extremely poor job in pointing out anything having to do with security flaw. Everytime one of these arguments come up people spout off about Windows superior acl's and how Unix has had exploits over the years blah blah blah.
To all of you long time decisive unix users, tally up all of the Unix exploits since it's existence. Then tally up all the Windows exploits since it's existence.
If you are going to compare OS to OS then this must be a requirement. Then based on that look at the environments where Unix and Windows operate. From here you can begin to make some logical conclusion.
As i'm aware the original argument is about Virus/Trojan writers and not necessarily with the security of one system in particular. It's obvious still which one takes a more proactive measure in protecting the user. To argue tit for tat is the most silly thing i've seen and yet people continously do it. Either your argument is that authors of malware will become more prolific with market share (which has been disproven time and time again. With not only Apache, but even crap like sendmail and on and on). Or you're argument is that one operating system is more or less secure and or insecure depending on market share and type. IE:"The Desktop market share will always have the most malware and it just so happens that Windows is in this space. If it changes to lets say OS X then that will have the most malware".
Thats the only valid assumption I figure that can be made. Whether its true or not, one cannot say because reallife world data isn't available. The only data that is available to date says otherwise. It still doesn't address the statement however, so your hypothesis; however valid you may believe it to be by pushing it down the food chain to the user. Is valid only in the sense that no one can either prove or disprove it today.
However, we can forecast on the tiny bit of data that we do have. With things like Selinux (MAC, RBAC) systems being implemented into Unix via kernel and userspace utils. Allowing ones programs to run in security context against verified policy. It's going to be hard to write malware for a default install or system. It's probably going to be even harder to write malware for said system to disable that.
For the "Mallory". It'll always be easy to con a sucker. A user wouldn't give a mover the keys to their place without verification and someone being around. So user education should be aligned with some of these more simple ideas for it to hit home. User education; is important in this process.
Or whenever someone speaks about standing up for themselves or protecting ones self. It amounts to some form of vigilante act or "Oh GEEBUS!! No, thats not the way to handle it!!!" It's in line with modern day cops. Sure, we'll make an attempt to protect you but if someone robs you or tries to physically harm you. The best thing to do is just give them your money or try to run away; the last thing you should do is try and protect yourself.
I'm sorry to all the SpamProtectors out there but you have been ineffective. You've done nothing to protect the people who need it. Your tools are always one step behind. Seemingly asking one to not retaliate should come from the lips of others. Not you, one with vested interest in Spam. If there is no more Spam, there is no more SpamProtector. You will be out of a job and thats what you should be striving for.
Now, i'm not recommended vigilante acts meaning putting a hot orange in ones eye socket or random acts of grotesque violence. However, I see nothing wrong with complaining or disabling a Spam server to protect not only myself but others who aren't able to protect themselves from this problem.
1. The government has continously failed us
2. You the Spam Protector has failed us
3. Everything to date has FAILED.
You then turn around and ask the honest abiding citizens to continue to be run over the coals at the expense of SPAM?
Not today or tomorrow, so you could kiss my ass. The way I see it, the more vigilantes the better. At the very least they have not failed us and have taken the fight right to the spammers doorstep.
They seemingly understand that the only way to win a war, is to fight one. The spamprotectors seemingly remind me of the weapons dealers who play both sides. You're as bad as the spammers.
So; Cheers! To all the vigilantes out there standing up for the little guy and even the not so little guy! You are welcome round these parts anyday.
Apple came in and ate everyones lunch it looks like.. I wanted to pick up a SGI/SUN laptop on ebay on the cheap.. Tadpole laptops are too expensive.
The only unix laptop available nowadays is the ibook/powerbook. It's sad unix companies have no fucking idea how to make money.
A laptop that works with linux or insert unix here with decent specs out of the box and I don't even want windows to touch that shit. EVER. I want it to come with Insert Unix here installed and working.
The only thing close to what I deem decent is a powerbook. Thats pretty sad, considering all this G5 talk and tadpole is selling dual sparc laptops.. Its a niche market maybe, but goddamn. I know there's at least another 1,000 unix developers like me and they probably all bought powerbooks. Thats another 2.5 million to apple if you operate on the notion that there are only 1,000 unix developers.
You unix vendors are fucking dumb. Sun might survive yet though, with opensolaris.