People have not been forced into using insecure channels for everything, unless you consider a land-line as secure.
Go rent Lethal Weapon and look at the phone that Murtock was using when he calls the shrink. The things as big as an ammo can. Do you think that thing had any encryption?
It's hard for game company VPs to understand how they will make money by releasing free software. The 4 freedoms and such are kind of anathema to their current business model of selling software for money (as opposed to good will and community driven software improvements).
Now quick, someone post a link to the top 100 open source games, cause that will show them.
The Tor Client gives you a fair amount of control over which nodes you use. Without even playing with the source code, you can select the fastest servers and only allow them into your chain. That would theoretically increase the odds that an attacker could some how track your web usage (fewer nodes == less anonymity), but if they can do that, they probably already have other methods available.
When your chain of nodes includes two multi-megabit nodes and a 15k node, the two multi-megabit nodes don't do you a bit of good.
Of course, the source is also there if you don't like fiddling with configuration files.
Linux desperately needs some sort of review process for projects, products, etc that is for the end users, not the developers.
There are way too many beta projects that are either stalled out or superfluous. Way too many application choices with almost no information to know whether the available apps are any good. I'd love to see something like downloads.com that concentrates on Linux, with user reviews and ratings, that isn't just fanbois or hopelessly out of date.
It happens so often on Slashdot where someone says, "gee, I wish there was something like this.", followed by replies that say "duh, ur stupid, use X.", "ura troll, Y has been out in beta for 6 months.". You can search for projects, and SF is fine for what it does, but it doesn't attempt to review or rate anything.
I'm not in favor of some licensing body, I just want to be able to see the choices and read a review.
"can you imagine how different things would be on the world stage today if al gore was in the white house?"
The US would have been taken over after the entire nation falls asleep listening to his first state of the union speech. Painting GW as a moronic drunk rich kid, and then bringing up al snore in the next sentence is pretty lame. Albert is a C student who really did drop out of school. Feel free to use him as a poster boy for any cause you support.
Apple IIgs rocked. My friend bought one when it first came out. I bought a PC for half the price. 6 months later they cancelled IIgs support. Still, Bard's Tale was a great game and much better than anything my pc could do at the time.
If what you say is true, then where is all the great non-label music? How about non-studio, blockbuster summer movies? How about truly great works of fiction not published by a major? If you want free, there is free available. Lots and lots of it. Download, share, all you want, that stuff is free.
If you want to listen to Gnarls Barkley, buy the CD or buy the tracks*. Otherwise, there will probably not be any more Gnarls Barkley music, and that's when we'll have to start hunting you damn file sharers down. Cause that would definately be a loss for all of society.
Even RMS knows this to be true. Taking someone else's work without their approval is stealing. It's that simple.
--- * Buy the damn CD, the best songs are not the ones released as singles.
That free copy is not free. It cost somebody some money to make the original. It cost studio time, equipment, the time to write the words and music, the cover art, arranging, etc. It also costs money to print the cds, which is the only way some people have access to music. I guess in the utopian future, everyone will have a linux computer to rip off the corporations who will have no economic incentive to make anything. You want free music and movies, they are available on the web.
Music and movies should be afforded at least the same protections as GPL code which so many slashdot hypocrites are so very quick to protect.
No one I know ever looked fondly back on boot camp. Having shared the experience with a close friend, it is something that we can talk about and laugh about now. Neither one of us would say "well, it must've been good."
Anywhile, Boot camp isn't designed to be hell. It is designed to tear down the individual (body, mind and soul) and transform them into a person capable of participating in warfare. The people who run the show, from the DIs up to the OIC, understand what it is they are trying to do and do it very efficiently. To an outsider, ie someone who has never experienced it themselves, it might seem like hell when a DI is poking their hat into someones face and screaming at them. It's not. War is hell. If someone yelling at you is going to cause you to break down, what's going to happen when the bullets start to fly.
"The problem at hand with the FISA issue is that the wiretaps are being used on Americans, located in America."
Are you suggesting that Americans can never be wiretapped? Wiretaps are not illegal, they are a recognized tool used by both law enforcement and spy agencies. It takes a warrant, except under some conditions, one of which is when somebody in America calls somebody outside of America.
The Bush position is that it is not always an American making a call from inside America. Only an idiot would attempt to argue otherwise. Therefore, it is permissable to tap those calls, up to the point that they make a determination of who is talking. If your argument is that any call inside America can not be tapped? That's a pretty specious argument.
There is also established precedence that the remedy to an illegal wiretap is the inadmissablity of the wiretapped conversation into evidence. That is, they can't use it to prosecute you.
How exactly are you going to monitor changes to something that is newly discovered? Oh, that's right, we know what the ocean currents were like 10-14K years ago. We just forgot about this Tasman current.
Your post sounds like a mismatch of peer reviewed articles. Modern agriculture started when the ocean currents formed? A shutdown of global ocean currents 10-14K years ago?
I hope the view is pretty at the top of you house of cards.
If the Global Warmers/Climate Changers would stop trying to lay all of the blame on the US, maybe the US government wouldn't be so inclined to ignore their claims.
If scientists could just admit when they are wrong and stop trying to become celebrities, maybe more people wouldn't be so quick to dismiss their claims as well.
The original graph from this guys data was so completely off that once the bug was reported, a quick look could confirm that it was wrong. Now the graphs are smooth and much less frightening and yet somehow this doesn't change anything? The guy should just admit he has egg on his face. He should be double and triple checking everything before he starts making pronouncements, because who knows what else he's gotten wrong.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. How many peer reviewed articles did he publish using this flawed data? How many peer reviewed articles cited this data or his own articles? How many peers completely missed that the graphs were completely bungled? Well, we know now that it was all of them.
Good job scientists! You know lawyering used to be a respected position as well.
You have a right to privacy and free speech. But only a fool would argue that either is unlimited. A warrant for a wiretap makes wiretapping legal. It is law enforcement following the rules. Your rights are not impacted.
You have no standing (a legal term) because the rights you think you have lost were never there to begin with. Just ask the ACLU, who had their case dismissed for the same thing.
I think this is a myth. Take a look at the linux checksum routines from that time and you'll see that MS doesn't do their checksums the same way. It's cheaper to do them on the fly then copy them into a structure, which is the way the stack used to do them. I seriously doubt that the team at MS that retooled their stack didn't cut and paste from an open source code base. They may have looked at the code, but they'd have to be insane to outright steal it.
"Having some windows change their colors so they appear to be active when they aren't is bad.... Putting destructive actions next to commonly used, non-destructive ones is bad."
I disagree with both of these statements.
I don't mind if a window changes color because something happened, like a file download or login or disconnect. I might not want it to be active and can bloody well choose when I want it active. I detest windows that grab focus.
As far as button placement, unless you have palsy, I don't think most people would agree with you. Truly destructive actions are in general protected by confirmation dialogs. Even things like closing a browser window will bring up a close tabs dialog. Almost everything is recoverable in some manner.
Considering that the NSA doesn't even allow the internet onto their own campus, I doubt they want some remote capability for accessing this stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if the actual data is physically moved, that is, never touches the network.
The problem with FISA is that it is an old law that was inadequate to begin with. It wasn't designed for cell phones, voip, email, etc. It was designed for hard wired telephones that could be ascribed to a subscriber with pretty good accuracy. Today, you can buy a cell phone at 7-11. That's a good thing, unless you are trying to tap some mobsters, drug dealers, pimps, insider traders, terrorists communications. Even with a warrant, it's not an easy job to do.
I thought this was going to be about desktop versus server linux. An Ubuntu vs IBM type of thing. Throw in some FUD about (un)fair schedulers and file access writes slowing things down, it would make for some interesting trolling. No takers?
Anywhile, tagging the companies that work with MS as 'corporate' takes some serious spinning. I'm sure IBM, Sun, Oracle, Apple, etc would all chafe at being left out of the 'corporate' segment. But then, all 4 of them might qualify to be 'corporate' under these terms since most are in bed with MS already, to some degree.
"almost forgot Software, but it's late (3 AM) and it's also pretty much irrelevant -- any software that's not a game is almost always something I can get an open source version of, and apt-get is more convenient than any warez system I've seen, so here, legit (but free) wins."
Yeah, but you're not stealing software by using an open source alternative. If you download a movie or music, you're not getting a free alternative, you're ripping off a lot of peoples hard work. If you want a free alternative, go to You-tube and watch some of the fan films. You wonder why there are no games for Linux, look in the mirror, cheapskate.
You should consider the fact that he could be right on both accounts. The data could be screwed up because of a y2k bug (appears to be so) and it could also be that temperature station readings are skewered because of location.
He has a valid point on the latter. The heat island effect doesn't really take into account putting a temperature sensor near the exhaust of two AC units.
A lot of us supposed 'DENIERS' are really just skeptical of scientific consensus led by non-scientists and beaurocracies, reached in such a short period of time. I'm all for finding out the truth, I just don't think we have arrived at it yet.
Even the supposed consensus has had to tamper their predictions each and every time they have released one of their reports. I'm guessing they will have to do so again, unless they already knew about this, which would be a major faux pas.
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People have not been forced into using insecure channels for everything, unless you consider a land-line as secure.
Go rent Lethal Weapon and look at the phone that Murtock was using when he calls the shrink. The things as big as an ammo can. Do you think that thing had any encryption?
Your post wasn't ironic, it was just stupid.
It's hard for game company VPs to understand how they will make money by releasing free software. The 4 freedoms and such are kind of anathema to their current business model of selling software for money (as opposed to good will and community driven software improvements).
Now quick, someone post a link to the top 100 open source games, cause that will show them.
The Tor Client gives you a fair amount of control over which nodes you use. Without even playing with the source code, you can select the fastest servers and only allow them into your chain. That would theoretically increase the odds that an attacker could some how track your web usage (fewer nodes == less anonymity), but if they can do that, they probably already have other methods available.
When your chain of nodes includes two multi-megabit nodes and a 15k node, the two multi-megabit nodes don't do you a bit of good.
Of course, the source is also there if you don't like fiddling with configuration files.
Linux desperately needs some sort of review process for projects, products, etc that is for the end users, not the developers.
There are way too many beta projects that are either stalled out or superfluous. Way too many application choices with almost no information to know whether the available apps are any good. I'd love to see something like downloads.com that concentrates on Linux, with user reviews and ratings, that isn't just fanbois or hopelessly out of date.
It happens so often on Slashdot where someone says, "gee, I wish there was something like this.", followed by replies that say "duh, ur stupid, use X.", "ura troll, Y has been out in beta for 6 months.". You can search for projects, and SF is fine for what it does, but it doesn't attempt to review or rate anything.
I'm not in favor of some licensing body, I just want to be able to see the choices and read a review.
"can you imagine how different things would be on the world stage today if al gore was in the white house?"
The US would have been taken over after the entire nation falls asleep listening to his first state of the union speech. Painting GW as a moronic drunk rich kid, and then bringing up al snore in the next sentence is pretty lame. Albert is a C student who really did drop out of school. Feel free to use him as a poster boy for any cause you support.
Apple IIgs rocked. My friend bought one when it first came out. I bought a PC for half the price. 6 months later they cancelled IIgs support. Still, Bard's Tale was a great game and much better than anything my pc could do at the time.
EU Theory? European Union? Expected Utility? Please provide the answer, I want to know all about this new and exciting theory.
I did see a PU Theory. Perchance you were refering to such?
If what you say is true, then where is all the great non-label music? How about non-studio, blockbuster summer movies? How about truly great works of fiction not published by a major? If you want free, there is free available. Lots and lots of it. Download, share, all you want, that stuff is free.
If you want to listen to Gnarls Barkley, buy the CD or buy the tracks*. Otherwise, there will probably not be any more Gnarls Barkley music, and that's when we'll have to start hunting you damn file sharers down. Cause that would definately be a loss for all of society.
Even RMS knows this to be true. Taking someone else's work without their approval is stealing. It's that simple.
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* Buy the damn CD, the best songs are not the ones released as singles.
That free copy is not free. It cost somebody some money to make the original. It cost studio time, equipment, the time to write the words and music, the cover art, arranging, etc. It also costs money to print the cds, which is the only way some people have access to music. I guess in the utopian future, everyone will have a linux computer to rip off the corporations who will have no economic incentive to make anything. You want free music and movies, they are available on the web.
Music and movies should be afforded at least the same protections as GPL code which so many slashdot hypocrites are so very quick to protect.
No one I know ever looked fondly back on boot camp. Having shared the experience with a close friend, it is something that we can talk about and laugh about now. Neither one of us would say "well, it must've been good."
Anywhile, Boot camp isn't designed to be hell. It is designed to tear down the individual (body, mind and soul) and transform them into a person capable of participating in warfare. The people who run the show, from the DIs up to the OIC, understand what it is they are trying to do and do it very efficiently. To an outsider, ie someone who has never experienced it themselves, it might seem like hell when a DI is poking their hat into someones face and screaming at them. It's not. War is hell. If someone yelling at you is going to cause you to break down, what's going to happen when the bullets start to fly.
"The problem at hand with the FISA issue is that the wiretaps are being used on Americans, located in America."
Are you suggesting that Americans can never be wiretapped? Wiretaps are not illegal, they are a recognized tool used by both law enforcement and spy agencies. It takes a warrant, except under some conditions, one of which is when somebody in America calls somebody outside of America.
The Bush position is that it is not always an American making a call from inside America. Only an idiot would attempt to argue otherwise. Therefore, it is permissable to tap those calls, up to the point that they make a determination of who is talking. If your argument is that any call inside America can not be tapped? That's a pretty specious argument.
There is also established precedence that the remedy to an illegal wiretap is the inadmissablity of the wiretapped conversation into evidence. That is, they can't use it to prosecute you.
I'm okay with that.
How exactly are you going to monitor changes to something that is newly discovered? Oh, that's right, we know what the ocean currents were like 10-14K years ago. We just forgot about this Tasman current.
Your post sounds like a mismatch of peer reviewed articles. Modern agriculture started when the ocean currents formed? A shutdown of global ocean currents 10-14K years ago?
I hope the view is pretty at the top of you house of cards.
Apparently they do now.
Good, my respect for him just went up.
If the Global Warmers/Climate Changers would stop trying to lay all of the blame on the US, maybe the US government wouldn't be so inclined to ignore their claims.
If scientists could just admit when they are wrong and stop trying to become celebrities, maybe more people wouldn't be so quick to dismiss their claims as well.
The original graph from this guys data was so completely off that once the bug was reported, a quick look could confirm that it was wrong. Now the graphs are smooth and much less frightening and yet somehow this doesn't change anything? The guy should just admit he has egg on his face. He should be double and triple checking everything before he starts making pronouncements, because who knows what else he's gotten wrong.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. How many peer reviewed articles did he publish using this flawed data? How many peer reviewed articles cited this data or his own articles? How many peers completely missed that the graphs were completely bungled? Well, we know now that it was all of them.
Good job scientists! You know lawyering used to be a respected position as well.
When MS made their patent violation claims, everyone said 'Show me'. Now all the idiots want it the other way around.
You have a right to privacy and free speech. But only a fool would argue that either is unlimited. A warrant for a wiretap makes wiretapping legal. It is law enforcement following the rules. Your rights are not impacted.
You have no standing (a legal term) because the rights you think you have lost were never there to begin with. Just ask the ACLU, who had their case dismissed for the same thing.
I think this is a myth. Take a look at the linux checksum routines from that time and you'll see that MS doesn't do their checksums the same way. It's cheaper to do them on the fly then copy them into a structure, which is the way the stack used to do them. I seriously doubt that the team at MS that retooled their stack didn't cut and paste from an open source code base. They may have looked at the code, but they'd have to be insane to outright steal it.
"Having some windows change their colors so they appear to be active when they aren't is bad. ... Putting destructive actions next to commonly used, non-destructive ones is bad."
I disagree with both of these statements.
I don't mind if a window changes color because something happened, like a file download or login or disconnect. I might not want it to be active and can bloody well choose when I want it active. I detest windows that grab focus.
As far as button placement, unless you have palsy, I don't think most people would agree with you. Truly destructive actions are in general protected by confirmation dialogs. Even things like closing a browser window will bring up a close tabs dialog. Almost everything is recoverable in some manner.
I don't believe in the one true user interface.
Considering that the NSA doesn't even allow the internet onto their own campus, I doubt they want some remote capability for accessing this stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if the actual data is physically moved, that is, never touches the network.
The problem with FISA is that it is an old law that was inadequate to begin with. It wasn't designed for cell phones, voip, email, etc. It was designed for hard wired telephones that could be ascribed to a subscriber with pretty good accuracy. Today, you can buy a cell phone at 7-11. That's a good thing, unless you are trying to tap some mobsters, drug dealers, pimps, insider traders, terrorists communications. Even with a warrant, it's not an easy job to do.
I thought this was going to be about desktop versus server linux. An Ubuntu vs IBM type of thing. Throw in some FUD about (un)fair schedulers and file access writes slowing things down, it would make for some interesting trolling. No takers?
Anywhile, tagging the companies that work with MS as 'corporate' takes some serious spinning. I'm sure IBM, Sun, Oracle, Apple, etc would all chafe at being left out of the 'corporate' segment. But then, all 4 of them might qualify to be 'corporate' under these terms since most are in bed with MS already, to some degree.
"almost forgot Software, but it's late (3 AM) and it's also pretty much irrelevant -- any software that's not a game is almost always something I can get an open source version of, and apt-get is more convenient than any warez system I've seen, so here, legit (but free) wins."
Yeah, but you're not stealing software by using an open source alternative. If you download a movie or music, you're not getting a free alternative, you're ripping off a lot of peoples hard work. If you want a free alternative, go to You-tube and watch some of the fan films. You wonder why there are no games for Linux, look in the mirror, cheapskate.
I I I I I? You must be an only child.
You got em both...
You should consider the fact that he could be right on both accounts. The data could be screwed up because of a y2k bug (appears to be so) and it could also be that temperature station readings are skewered because of location.
He has a valid point on the latter. The heat island effect doesn't really take into account putting a temperature sensor near the exhaust of two AC units.
A lot of us supposed 'DENIERS' are really just skeptical of scientific consensus led by non-scientists and beaurocracies, reached in such a short period of time. I'm all for finding out the truth, I just don't think we have arrived at it yet.
Even the supposed consensus has had to tamper their predictions each and every time they have released one of their reports. I'm guessing they will have to do so again, unless they already knew about this, which would be a major faux pas.
Who cares what this data says, don't we already have consensus on this?
9 out of 10 scientists say the hottest decade was the 1990s, how dare anyone suggest otherwise?
Zogby should poll all of the scientists in the world and figure out what is going on.
But it was recalled, apparently making his point even more valid. Same with other products people have listed.