Okay. So you feel that X is unstable. I'm willing to bet that in reality, it is what you have done to X. I installed RH6.1 (it is hardly a standard redhat box by now), and I run gnome/enlightenment.
I am in the middle of an expected 2 week uptime period before I boot back to windows.
That will be two weeks of C development using Kdevelop (which is still a bit buggy). I segfault so often I wrote my own handler. Not to say I suck at coding, but I am writing a inter-thread, buffered messaging system from scratch. There are pointers all over the place.
Linux/X/gnome/enlightenment hasn't crashed on me once. Ever. Since I installed it this August. Not Once.
Sorry. Windows can barely handle running Halflife and SC3k and The Sims (Windows is only usable for games for me), much less any C development.
And putting video routines into the kernel will improve this stability? Just because you add something to the kernel does not make it suddenly stable. I believe that one of the reasons why the Linux kernel is so stable is because it has not done such silliness. Keep it lean. The kernel shouldn't care whether a monitor is even attached.
Are you on the GGI or Be development team or something? Your rant sounded like a generic "Product A sucks. Try the new, improved Product B!" rant.
Yeah. The only difference between him and 40 million other people with just as much or more skill than he has, is that the other 40 million have morals. If he would have sent the code in to CERT and then sat on it, not telling anyone, I would have respected him more. But he wanted the glory for himself, and therefore no, I will not respect him.
Feel free to claim innocence if you create a gun. But if that gun has special human-seeking bullets, then it could only be used for one purpose.
The DDoS tools are such creations. There is no legitimate use for them. They can only be used to harm the performance of a network. A DDoS attack is not all that different from a standard DoS, except that it is harder to track down. I see no reason for a network admin to try this on his network.
Obviously he does not care about the internet at all. Or cares more about looking 31337 than actually helping the internet.
With your own "Dear Mr. Police officer" line, you imply that he knew what he did was wrong. Doing something you know is wrong is called "immoral" and "sociopathic". What a great guy.
Crackers, this loser, and probably you care more about themselves than the internet. Go away. Come back when you grow up.
How about I see how secure you are against this kind of attack.
I am tired of people who think that they are the elite of the internet, and therefore know what is best.
Wake Up.
The average user should never have to understand the working of the internet. If they would, why would we have admins?
Truly intelligent people design systems that don't require all of its users to understand how it is done.
If you really want to help with the vulnerability of IP, then find a way of fixing it, not simply showing the vulnerability. There is already someone (obviously) smarter than you who knows about the vulnerability.
If, for instance, you were, oh say....Roman. How would you write year zero? Oh wait. You can't really do it very well. How bout you save yourself some trouble, and just start at 1.
If you have to reboot a mac server every week or so, then you should probably find someone who actually knows how to set up a mac. I have a mac server up right now used for AFP-TCP/SMB/FTP file sharing and it has been up for over a month with no problems (besides some idiots putting it on a bad cable).
Summary: Anyone who says that Macs are unstable doesn't know how to set them up.
Hmm...PC Users getting abused by mac Zealots...for some reason i have trouble feeling sorry for you.
If the mac users should check their info before posting, so should you.
What will you do when the P3-700's come out? I believe the BH6 doesn't have a multiplier setting that high.
Oh wait. You'll get a new board, or just whine.
When the P2's came out, everyone needed to get a new board. Sounds strangely familiar. I suppose you just did some custom soldering through a custom chipset to get your P2 to work in a socket 7 board.
The differences between PC and Mac Motherboards are disappearing quickly.
I've never had to click banners or upload anything. All of the mp3's I haven't downloaded (because that would be illegal) I haven't downloaded (because that would be illegal) completely free: no hassle, no wasted time.
You just seem to be looking in the wrong spot. I could tell you some of the places I have never been looking for MP3's, (because that would be illegal) but that wouldn't teach you anything. You must learn that there are other protocols besides HTTP and FTP. (none of which I have ever got MP3's from, since that would be illegal)
Didn't they have similar requests with the last series of Netscape versions (ie: 4.x, 4.5x)
The big question is: Does Mozilla already conform to these standards?
I would think that if there was any other popular browser out there that did conform to the standards, then maybe MS would be more willing to conform.
Until that time, I doubt that they will waste much time trying to do anything "correctly."
On a related note: Would they then be forced to change Frontpage to produce compliant pages? That would be nice. Since every Joe Bob idiot is using Frontpage to right "Joe Bob's Home Page". Am I really missing out when I can't read "Joe Bob's Home Page?" Probably not, but many of my co-workers use it too, and though they are smart enough to realize what they are doing, it doesn't stop them.
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Anthrax is not one of the bacteria that have this property.
Sure, you were right, but the information was useless.
Last I heard, they have found some strains of some Pseudomonas species that could break down some plastics and use them as food. Pseudomonas is a rather fun genus like this. There are species that can also use common soap, wood fiber (paper?), and even some detergents (with phosphorous) as food sources.
However, they are also opportunistically pathogenic. This is not so much a problem because of the ability of causing infections in this case, but more because it means it is adapted to living inside the human body, ie: it requires a high degree of moisture and 37 degrees Celsius (98 degrees for us silly americans). As a side note, they probably would not react well to the iron on the surface of the disks.
However, I suppose if you would keep the inside of your case at 37 C and 80% humidity, you might get a bit worried about this.
Summary: I think there are better chances that your aluminum hard drive will spontaneously combust than a plastic hard drive getting eaten by bacteria.
Sadly, you seem to be falling prey to the same thing you accuse everyone else of. You cannot see outside the boundaries you set for yourself. I know what life is like being truly independant. Like communism, it is great in theory and tempting in its abscence.
Science disagrees with you. Humans by nature are social. They lack the skills to thrive in solitude. We form society not because of god or power-hungry leaders, but because that is human nature. This is rapidly flowing off topic, but think to yourself, how many of the great apes are solitary animals? Or are chimpanzee's subject to the opression of our mass media and governments?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that for some reason you labled yourself as an outcast (or someone did it for you). You then take out your anger on the society that you think doesn't want you.
By the very nature of your comments, using absolutes and extremes, you are showing that you have very little idea what any of the *people* are like. You have never met me, yet you can only see me as a drone. You don't know how I think or what I believe in, but you label me mindless.
Others see me as radical thinking and a zealot. Many others see me as both. The problem is that you have only one view. Everyone is either a "free thinker" just like you, or a mindless drone completely unlike you. While what you say be be the truth to you, your views do not make something fact. If this were true, my views would also make something fact.
And I find your comments about religion rather dissappointing. They are characteristic of a person who has given up hope for a better world. You believe that everyone is trying to control you. In the end, if you subordinated by anyone, they are trying to control you.
You are one of the helpless people who think life is something that simply happens to you. Life is something that you make happen. No one controls what I think. But I also don't feel I have the right to impose that on others.
This is where we differ: I enjoy living among people with different beliefs than me. I find that it forces me to think for myself. You have decided that everyone must be like someone who hurt/damaged you, and have decided to remove yourself from that. It is simply running away from conflict.
If society is filled with government drones, why are you here (slashdot)? It is as much of a society as anything else in the world. You probably like this because you can voice your mind without fear of being embarrassed.
There are people in this world that embrace free thinkers like you. I am one of them. However, I got annoyed with you attacking me. And yes, you were attacking me. By referring to society as a whole and saying "everyone" was a certain way, you have included me.
For such a free thinking person this is rather puzzling. You seem to worship your individuality but strip it from everyone else.
The executive order passes no law. There is no change here.
Obviously you are an anarchist, and you refuse to see any government action as just, but how exactly is the president supposed to do his job, or is he simply a figurehead? Executive orders are the way that the president sets up agencies and enforcement groups and orders them to act. That is exactly what is being done here.
It's too bad that explaining how our government works is now "rabid anti-freedom/ultra communist sentiment." I have spent enough time explaining to other anti-government posts.
I choose to support the goverment because I believe in society. People helping other people. I know the government isn't perfect. However, I am still a free thinking individual. At least I try and change things instead of saying "It isn't perfect, let's scrap it and make it my way" or "let's not make it at all."
The US (and much of Europe, for our international friends) is one of the few places where you can say this and not be worried about the security of your life. Why? Because people like me will protect you anyways. I don't care what you think, when you get mugged and sit in a hospital in a coma, I am willing to pay for your health insurance with my tax dollars.
Now doesn't that just confuse you. I must be a government drone. I must have brainwashed by public schools. I must actually be an agent of the government posing as a common slashdot user. We are everywhere you know.
Ever taken a government philosophy class? Government is based on a society that gets together to help each other. Thus though some will need more help than others, the entire group will benefit. If you join the society, you get all the benefits of society, but have to bear the burdens of society also. To go against this (as you are) is to say that you no longer want to be part of society.
Basically, you are describing a nation without a society. Everyone acts independently without any help or interference from the government. This is sort of like normal anarchist rant, except usually you would say that there should be no government.
Without the programs you mentioned, some people will not have the money to send their children to the now commercial schools. And without school, they can no longer think like you and all the other "enlightened" people. Oh, wait. Neither can their children. I see a vicious cycle.
If you want to compare the US to Rome, do a full analysis. I think you'll come up with a few major differences.
Finally, If you think that I cannot see outside my little world, try to see outside yours. Can you immagine a world of millions of people trying to help each other? A world where people actually care about how their neighbors are doing?
Usually I find that anarchists are people who feel that society has wronged them in some way. Well, society has done nothing for me, but instead of whining, I try and change it and dream for a better day.
The country you describe is a country without dreams or hopes. A country without citizens or a soul. A country without a future. A country where life simply happens to the inhabitants, and they have even less control over what happens.
Of course you'll refuse to believe it. Fools always do.
Please. Don't even start a racial discussion. It is so far off topic I refuse to even value it as an argument.
Others have said it before and I will say it again: If you don't like it, you have two choices: Leave or Help. You are doing neither.
The reason Americans are hated abroad (according to many official, knowledgeable sources, including many non-americans) is not so much because of what our government does, but because of the political and socio-economic power the US weilds. This is the power that has kept you safe from other imperialist powers (though US is regarded as one in other countries) since WW2.
I'm sure it would be much better to live in some African country like Somalia or Rwanda. I bet a rich american would last a long time there. You would even be well liked for your expensive house and your bodyguards.
Or more importantly, are you willing to give up your right to say the government should change.
I am an American. I am proud of what I am. I realize the US Gov't isn't perfect. I believe there is no such thing as the perfect gov't. However, at the same time, I know that I could not form the perfect gov't either. Maybe you can. But I doubt it.
Like it or not, it is your gov't. You do have control over it. However, remember that I do too. And 250 Million other people. The gov't isn't around to do your bidding, its around to do our bidding.
Mitnick committed a crime. I have let my government know that I think what he did should be punished. If I am the only one, then I guess I just have to live with that. However, it seems that I am in the majority. While "Majority Rules" is not always the best way, I doubt even you would say that it should be "okay" for someone to do the same to your computers.
I am baffled by the amount of discussion this has produced. A man commits a crime, and we are debating the role of gov't in it. Please. Make him serve his time and get on with your lives. We don't have such discussions about every car-jacker that goes to jail.
This rant has gone on long enough. If you want to bash the US gov't you are bashing every US citizen. Any US citizen who thinks they have no control of the US gov't has already admitted defeat and will be subject to the control of others for the rest of their lives.
Where have you been? Your right to a speedy trial means the first trial hearing has to occur before a certain time. At that hearing, the defense can request a period of time to build a defense.
Kevin said no to this. If you believe that the big nasty government twisted his arm to do this, you must be funny in the head. Forcing the trial forward would have reached a conviction faster.
And yes, I doubt that Mitnik will get off without a guilty plea or guilty verdict. "Wrong place at the wrong time"??? Yeah. Same for Lee Harvey Oswald: He just happened to be behind the gun that shot JFK. (Please no JFK conspiracy theory stuff, it was just an example)
Mitnick broke the law. Plain and simple. He is no political prisoner. That implies that he is imprisoned for his political beliefs. I suppose if he wants to he can say that his political beliefs say it is legal to break into computer/phone systems, or even the "Freedman's Defense": "I do not recognize the authority of the US Federal Gov't." But short of either of these, a political prisoner he is not.
The cracker community tends to react zealously when any one of their fellow crackers gets caught. They try to come up with valid legal grounds on why they should be let go. Please. Grow up. This is the real world where you (should) get punished if you commit a crime.
Finally, Script Kiddie, Yes. Kevin's knowledge of computers was not that much above the common every day script kiddie. If it was, why would he not use the knowledge to make even more money than he was. I know plenty of people who make $70k-$90k right out of college with CS degrees. How come Kevin didn't just do that? Or maybe he wasn't able to.
This is not a discussion about the OS as a whole. This is about the User Interface. Even without color, the Mac had a more elegant interface, because it was more uniform and refined.
I still find the Mac interface to be one of the most elegant (albeit power user unfriendly) user interfaces.
It sounds as if you are one of those people who trash macs because they are different. I just find that dissappointing.
No company will pay money for an add that any idiot can change. Changing to boot/shutdown screens doesn't make you an 3L33T HaXoR, it means you can follow directions.
If companies are willing to pay to put adds on BIOS (Flash EEPROMs), though there are ways of changing it, few people will really want to write their own flash utilities, and you know that Phoenix certainly wont help you.
The #1 reason for this post is the inability to learn new things. Both of your main comments are results of this simple fact:
You don't know how to use a Macintosh Computer.
I actively work with MacOS (and MacOS X), Win98, WinNT and various Linux/Unix flavors. All of them have their uses. And all are completely useless to someone who does not have the knowledge to use them.
If you would have taken the time to actually learn about the iMac and other Macs before you posted, you would have realized that all Apple monitors, since the Applevision series, including current Apple Studio Displays and the displays on iMacs actually deguass the screen every time you power it on (not on APM wake up).
The reason it looks like you just deguassed it is because the iMac just did. Try hooking two Intel/AMD boxes on the same power strip next to each other and deguass one. Hey! This PC must suck as bad as an iMac now.
Perhaps I missed it, but I don't remember reading *anywhere* that "attacking Milosevic's bank accounts" meant hacking into the bank and stealing the money. This would be an act of war against the country the bank is in.
While I dont really disagree with this tactic (I also don't disagree with strategicly aimed sniper rifles) I think everybody is going a bit overboard with this.
Usually this means applying pressure (via trade restrictions or non-delivery of "goodies") to the countries that the accounts reside in, and have them freeze the accounts.
We've done this before. No hacking involved. I swear.
I'll try not to flame too much here, but you obviously do not have any experience with any teachers besides your (possible) education.
My mother is an elementary school teacher. I know exactly how much vacation she gets. Ask yourself these questions:
1: How many 10 hour days do you work a week? 2: How many times have people threatened legal action against you because they did not understand the documentation on that last app you put out? 3: How many times have you had to listed to people say "Why should we pay you more? You suck at your job!"
My mother works 10 hour days by habit. Contrary to popular belief she does *not* have a 3 month party during summer. She is lucky if she gets enough time to actually manage a garden since she has to teach summer school to pay the bills.
She drives a 10 year old car that is falling apart because the school district doesn't have enough money to give her a raise.
I am paying my *own* way through college. I get very little help from her or the government. I loan *her* money. Sounds pretty reasonable in my view.
She has to deal with parents/children who feel that students have a *right* to get A's, and if little Johnny does not, then it is her fault.
She has to be a role model to all children, and in many cases a parent, since few parents seem to take an active part in their childrens' lives nowdays.
And most of all, she has to deal with numskulls like you who feel that teaching is a cushy job just because you disliked the teachers you had.
I would love to teach people what I know. But I refuse to because people like you seem to think that it is so simple that any idiot can do it. I have seen the hell teachers have to go through every day. I guarantee you, it is twice the stress of any tech job I have seen.
Talk to a teacher once. Not a research-professor, aim for one of those insignificant lowly second grade teachers. Tell them what you just said. See if you can honestly say that you understood.
Maybe you should try to understand before you talk next time.
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Okay. So you feel that X is unstable. I'm willing to bet that in reality, it is what you have done to X. I installed RH6.1 (it is hardly a standard redhat box by now), and I run gnome/enlightenment.
I am in the middle of an expected 2 week uptime period before I boot back to windows.
That will be two weeks of C development using Kdevelop (which is still a bit buggy). I segfault so often I wrote my own handler. Not to say I suck at coding, but I am writing a inter-thread, buffered messaging system from scratch. There are pointers all over the place.
Linux/X/gnome/enlightenment hasn't crashed on me once. Ever. Since I installed it this August. Not Once.
Sorry. Windows can barely handle running Halflife and SC3k and The Sims (Windows is only usable for games for me), much less any C development.
And putting video routines into the kernel will improve this stability? Just because you add something to the kernel does not make it suddenly stable. I believe that one of the reasons why the Linux kernel is so stable is because it has not done such silliness. Keep it lean. The kernel shouldn't care whether a monitor is even attached.
Are you on the GGI or Be development team or something? Your rant sounded like a generic "Product A sucks. Try the new, improved Product B!" rant.
Yeah. The only difference between him and 40 million other people with just as much or more skill than he has, is that the other 40 million have morals. If he would have sent the code in to CERT and then sat on it, not telling anyone, I would have respected him more. But he wanted the glory for himself, and therefore no, I will not respect him.
I agree, to an extent.
Feel free to claim innocence if you create a gun. But if that gun has special human-seeking bullets, then it could only be used for one purpose.
The DDoS tools are such creations. There is no legitimate use for them. They can only be used to harm the performance of a network. A DDoS attack is not all that different from a standard DoS, except that it is harder to track down. I see no reason for a network admin to try this on his network.
Obviously he does not care about the internet at all. Or cares more about looking 31337 than actually helping the internet.
With your own "Dear Mr. Police officer" line, you imply that he knew what he did was wrong. Doing something you know is wrong is called "immoral" and "sociopathic". What a great guy.
Crackers, this loser, and probably you care more about themselves than the internet. Go away. Come back when you grow up.
How about I see how secure you are against this kind of attack.
I am tired of people who think that they are the elite of the internet, and therefore know what is best.
Wake Up.
The average user should never have to understand the working of the internet. If they would, why would we have admins?
Truly intelligent people design systems that don't require all of its users to understand how it is done.
If you really want to help with the vulnerability of IP, then find a way of fixing it, not simply showing the vulnerability. There is already someone (obviously) smarter than you who knows about the vulnerability.
Umm.
False.
Check your facts next time.
As possibly stated elsewhere:
If you have to reboot a mac server every week or so, then you should probably find someone who actually knows how to set up a mac. I have a mac server up right now used for AFP-TCP/SMB/FTP file sharing and it has been up for over a month with no problems (besides some idiots putting it on a bad cable).
Summary: Anyone who says that Macs are unstable doesn't know how to set them up.
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Hmm...PC Users getting abused by mac Zealots...for some reason i have trouble feeling sorry for you.
If the mac users should check their info before posting, so should you.
What will you do when the P3-700's come out? I believe the BH6 doesn't have a multiplier setting that high.
Oh wait. You'll get a new board, or just whine.
When the P2's came out, everyone needed to get a new board. Sounds strangely familiar. I suppose you just did some custom soldering through a custom chipset to get your P2 to work in a socket 7 board.
The differences between PC and Mac Motherboards are disappearing quickly.
I've never had to click banners or upload anything. All of the mp3's I haven't downloaded (because that would be illegal) I haven't downloaded (because that would be illegal) completely free: no hassle, no wasted time.
You just seem to be looking in the wrong spot. I could tell you some of the places I have never been looking for MP3's, (because that would be illegal) but that wouldn't teach you anything. You must learn that there are other protocols besides HTTP and FTP. (none of which I have ever got MP3's from, since that would be illegal)
Didn't they have similar requests with the last series of Netscape versions (ie: 4.x, 4.5x)
The big question is: Does Mozilla already conform to these standards?
I would think that if there was any other popular browser out there that did conform to the standards, then maybe MS would be more willing to conform.
Until that time, I doubt that they will waste much time trying to do anything "correctly."
On a related note: Would they then be forced to change Frontpage to produce compliant pages? That would be nice. Since every Joe Bob idiot is using Frontpage to right "Joe Bob's Home Page". Am I really missing out when I can't read "Joe Bob's Home Page?" Probably not, but many of my co-workers use it too, and though they are smart enough to realize what they are doing, it doesn't stop them.
Anthrax is not one of the bacteria that have this property.
Sure, you were right, but the information was useless.
Last I heard, they have found some strains of some Pseudomonas species that could break down some plastics and use them as food. Pseudomonas is a rather fun genus like this. There are species that can also use common soap, wood fiber (paper?), and even some detergents (with phosphorous) as food sources.
However, they are also opportunistically pathogenic. This is not so much a problem because of the ability of causing infections in this case, but more because it means it is adapted to living inside the human body, ie: it requires a high degree of moisture and 37 degrees Celsius (98 degrees for us silly americans). As a side note, they probably would not react well to the iron on the surface of the disks.
However, I suppose if you would keep the inside of your case at 37 C and 80% humidity, you might get a bit worried about this.
Summary: I think there are better chances that your aluminum hard drive will spontaneously combust than a plastic hard drive getting eaten by bacteria.
Sadly, you seem to be falling prey to the same thing you accuse everyone else of. You cannot see outside the boundaries you set for yourself. I know what life is like being truly independant. Like communism, it is great in theory and tempting in its abscence.
Science disagrees with you. Humans by nature are social. They lack the skills to thrive in solitude. We form society not because of god or power-hungry leaders, but because that is human nature. This is rapidly flowing off topic, but think to yourself, how many of the great apes are solitary animals? Or are chimpanzee's subject to the opression of our mass media and governments?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that for some reason you labled yourself as an outcast (or someone did it for you). You then take out your anger on the society that you think doesn't want you.
By the very nature of your comments, using absolutes and extremes, you are showing that you have very little idea what any of the *people* are like. You have never met me, yet you can only see me as a drone. You don't know how I think or what I believe in, but you label me mindless.
Others see me as radical thinking and a zealot. Many others see me as both. The problem is that you have only one view. Everyone is either a "free thinker" just like you, or a mindless drone completely unlike you. While what you say be be the truth to you, your views do not make something fact. If this were true, my views would also make something fact.
And I find your comments about religion rather dissappointing. They are characteristic of a person who has given up hope for a better world. You believe that everyone is trying to control you. In the end, if you subordinated by anyone, they are trying to control you.
You are one of the helpless people who think life is something that simply happens to you. Life is something that you make happen. No one controls what I think. But I also don't feel I have the right to impose that on others.
This is where we differ: I enjoy living among people with different beliefs than me. I find that it forces me to think for myself. You have decided that everyone must be like someone who hurt/damaged you, and have decided to remove yourself from that. It is simply running away from conflict.
If society is filled with government drones, why are you here (slashdot)? It is as much of a society as anything else in the world. You probably like this because you can voice your mind without fear of being embarrassed.
There are people in this world that embrace free thinkers like you. I am one of them. However, I got annoyed with you attacking me. And yes, you were attacking me. By referring to society as a whole and saying "everyone" was a certain way, you have included me.
For such a free thinking person this is rather puzzling. You seem to worship your individuality but strip it from everyone else.
The executive order passes no law. There is no change here.
Obviously you are an anarchist, and you refuse to see any government action as just, but how exactly is the president supposed to do his job, or is he simply a figurehead? Executive orders are the way that the president sets up agencies and enforcement groups and orders them to act. That is exactly what is being done here.
It's too bad that explaining how our government works is now "rabid anti-freedom/ultra communist sentiment." I have spent enough time explaining to other anti-government posts.
I choose to support the goverment because I believe in society. People helping other people. I know the government isn't perfect. However, I am still a free thinking individual. At least I try and change things instead of saying "It isn't perfect, let's scrap it and make it my way" or "let's not make it at all."
The US (and much of Europe, for our international friends) is one of the few places where you can say this and not be worried about the security of your life. Why? Because people like me will protect you anyways. I don't care what you think, when you get mugged and sit in a hospital in a coma, I am willing to pay for your health insurance with my tax dollars.
Now doesn't that just confuse you. I must be a government drone. I must have brainwashed by public schools. I must actually be an agent of the government posing as a common slashdot user. We are everywhere you know.
Ever taken a government philosophy class? Government is based on a society that gets together to help each other. Thus though some will need more help than others, the entire group will benefit. If you join the society, you get all the benefits of society, but have to bear the burdens of society also. To go against this (as you are) is to say that you no longer want to be part of society.
Basically, you are describing a nation without a society. Everyone acts independently without any help or interference from the government. This is sort of like normal anarchist rant, except usually you would say that there should be no government.
Without the programs you mentioned, some people will not have the money to send their children to the now commercial schools. And without school, they can no longer think like you and all the other "enlightened" people. Oh, wait. Neither can their children. I see a vicious cycle.
If you want to compare the US to Rome, do a full analysis. I think you'll come up with a few major differences.
Finally, If you think that I cannot see outside my little world, try to see outside yours. Can you immagine a world of millions of people trying to help each other? A world where people actually care about how their neighbors are doing?
Usually I find that anarchists are people who feel that society has wronged them in some way. Well, society has done nothing for me, but instead of whining, I try and change it and dream for a better day.
The country you describe is a country without dreams or hopes. A country without citizens or a soul. A country without a future. A country where life simply happens to the inhabitants, and they have even less control over what happens.
Of course you'll refuse to believe it. Fools always do.
Just pointing that out.
Move along, nothing more to see here.
Please. Don't even start a racial discussion. It is so far off topic I refuse to even value it as an argument.
Others have said it before and I will say it again: If you don't like it, you have two choices: Leave or Help. You are doing neither.
The reason Americans are hated abroad (according to many official, knowledgeable sources, including many non-americans) is not so much because of what our government does, but because of the political and socio-economic power the US weilds. This is the power that has kept you safe from other imperialist powers (though US is regarded as one in other countries) since WW2.
I'm sure it would be much better to live in some African country like Somalia or Rwanda. I bet a rich american would last a long time there. You would even be well liked for your expensive house and your bodyguards.
Or more importantly, are you willing to give up your right to say the government should change.
I am an American. I am proud of what I am. I realize the US Gov't isn't perfect. I believe there is no such thing as the perfect gov't. However, at the same time, I know that I could not form the perfect gov't either. Maybe you can. But I doubt it.
Like it or not, it is your gov't. You do have control over it. However, remember that I do too. And 250 Million other people. The gov't isn't around to do your bidding, its around to do our bidding.
Mitnick committed a crime. I have let my government know that I think what he did should be punished. If I am the only one, then I guess I just have to live with that. However, it seems that I am in the majority. While "Majority Rules" is not always the best way, I doubt even you would say that it should be "okay" for someone to do the same to your computers.
I am baffled by the amount of discussion this has produced. A man commits a crime, and we are debating the role of gov't in it. Please. Make him serve his time and get on with your lives. We don't have such discussions about every car-jacker that goes to jail.
This rant has gone on long enough. If you want to bash the US gov't you are bashing every US citizen. Any US citizen who thinks they have no control of the US gov't has already admitted defeat and will be subject to the control of others for the rest of their lives.
Kevin said no to this. If you believe that the big nasty government twisted his arm to do this, you must be funny in the head. Forcing the trial forward would have reached a conviction faster.
And yes, I doubt that Mitnik will get off without a guilty plea or guilty verdict. "Wrong place at the wrong time"??? Yeah. Same for Lee Harvey Oswald: He just happened to be behind the gun that shot JFK. (Please no JFK conspiracy theory stuff, it was just an example)
Mitnick broke the law. Plain and simple. He is no political prisoner. That implies that he is imprisoned for his political beliefs. I suppose if he wants to he can say that his political beliefs say it is legal to break into computer/phone systems, or even the "Freedman's Defense": "I do not recognize the authority of the US Federal Gov't." But short of either of these, a political prisoner he is not.
The cracker community tends to react zealously when any one of their fellow crackers gets caught. They try to come up with valid legal grounds on why they should be let go. Please. Grow up. This is the real world where you (should) get punished if you commit a crime.
Finally, Script Kiddie, Yes. Kevin's knowledge of computers was not that much above the common every day script kiddie. If it was, why would he not use the knowledge to make even more money than he was. I know plenty of people who make $70k-$90k right out of college with CS degrees. How come Kevin didn't just do that? Or maybe he wasn't able to.
Script Kiddies go home.
This is not a discussion about the OS as a whole. This is about the User Interface. Even without color, the Mac had a more elegant interface, because it was more uniform and refined.
I still find the Mac interface to be one of the most elegant (albeit power user unfriendly) user interfaces.
It sounds as if you are one of those people who trash macs because they are different. I just find that dissappointing.
"Roadrunner and Tweety are eating cake. The eagle is on board."
Hey. It works for the Army.
There will be no way to change it.
No company will pay money for an add that any idiot can change. Changing to boot/shutdown screens doesn't make you an 3L33T HaXoR, it means you can follow directions.
If companies are willing to pay to put adds on BIOS (Flash EEPROMs), though there are ways of changing it, few people will really want to write their own flash utilities, and you know that Phoenix certainly wont help you.
-Me
You wanted to know how many times you were going to be subjected to ridecule:
Well...now its one more.
I'm curious if DAVEO is actually Bob Dole. We'll see if I actually read *anything* he posts.
Note: Not intended as a flame. Just trying to encourage an annoying person to change.
Lets hope that Slashdot is just a phase DAVEO is going through
- Glothar
okay Daveo, I'm sure you are all "kewl" and stuff now.
But the third-person references and all-caps style is very childish.
Sadly, I agree (sort of) with what you said, but cant really support you because I refuse to fully read any of your messages.
please. i feel sorry if you go through your life refering to yourself in the third person as you yell at everyone around you.
- Glothar : a (semi) normal person.
The #1 reason for this post is the inability to learn new things. Both of your main comments are results of this simple fact:
You don't know how to use a Macintosh Computer.
I actively work with MacOS (and MacOS X), Win98, WinNT and various Linux/Unix flavors. All of them have their uses. And all are completely useless to someone who does not have the knowledge to use them.
If you would have taken the time to actually learn about the iMac and other Macs before you posted, you would have realized that all Apple monitors, since the Applevision series, including current Apple Studio Displays and the displays on iMacs actually deguass the screen every time you power it on (not on APM wake up).
The reason it looks like you just deguassed it is because the iMac just did. Try hooking two Intel/AMD boxes on the same power strip next to each other and deguass one. Hey! This PC must suck as bad as an iMac now.
I just dont understand people sometimes.
All of this talk makes me wonder...
Do you suppose all the serbs remembered to apply all the nuke fixes on their most-recent quarterly re-install of Win98?
How about service pack 5 for NT?
Somehow I think not. Oh...I think the CIA is calling me...
Perhaps I missed it, but I don't remember reading *anywhere* that "attacking Milosevic's bank accounts" meant hacking into the bank and stealing the money. This would be an act of war against the country the bank is in.
While I dont really disagree with this tactic (I also don't disagree with strategicly aimed sniper rifles) I think everybody is going a bit overboard with this.
Usually this means applying pressure (via trade restrictions or non-delivery of "goodies") to the countries that the accounts reside in, and have them freeze the accounts.
We've done this before. No hacking involved. I swear.
I'll try not to flame too much here, but you obviously do not have any experience with any teachers besides your (possible) education.
My mother is an elementary school teacher. I know exactly how much vacation she gets. Ask yourself these questions:
1: How many 10 hour days do you work a week?
2: How many times have people threatened legal action against you because they did not understand the documentation on that last app you put out?
3: How many times have you had to listed to people say "Why should we pay you more? You suck at your job!"
My mother works 10 hour days by habit. Contrary to popular belief she does *not* have a 3 month party during summer. She is lucky if she gets enough time to actually manage a garden since she has to teach summer school to pay the bills.
She drives a 10 year old car that is falling apart because the school district doesn't have enough money to give her a raise.
I am paying my *own* way through college. I get very little help from her or the government. I loan *her* money. Sounds pretty reasonable in my view.
She has to deal with parents/children who feel that students have a *right* to get A's, and if little Johnny does not, then it is her fault.
She has to be a role model to all children, and in many cases a parent, since few parents seem to take an active part in their childrens' lives nowdays.
And most of all, she has to deal with numskulls like you who feel that teaching is a cushy job just because you disliked the teachers you had.
I would love to teach people what I know. But I refuse to because people like you seem to think that it is so simple that any idiot can do it. I have seen the hell teachers have to go through every day. I guarantee you, it is twice the stress of any tech job I have seen.
Talk to a teacher once. Not a research-professor, aim for one of those insignificant lowly second grade teachers. Tell them what you just said. See if you can honestly say that you understood.
Maybe you should try to understand before you talk next time.