"Israel perhaps they could do the same and admit they have also illegally aqquired WMD too ? then we can move on to sanctions and UN inspections"
No, it doesn't quite work like that. Whether you agree with it or not, we don't do that to our allies.... notice that france and england both have nuclear weapons also. (and i just found out today, belgium does too)
one commercial one that I _really_ like is Languard Network Scanner from GFI.
While it is closed source, it has 30-day full functionality, and has limited functionality after that. Still even with the 'limited' functionality, it provides the full scanning capabilities, it just doesn't let you use some of the features that I never use anyways (scheduling, etc).
I'd really recommend giving it a try, its pretty slick.
"Record companies like to make it easy and market the same group of artists, and milk their talents. Look at Eminem, he's got a new album every freaking month. Do you think that was his choice?"
and before that he was on death row records, which Dre originally set up because he hated the record industry, so I'm guessing that death row is probably more artist-friendly than most
I dont know what any of that means in the terms of this discussion, just clearing up a few facts.:)
and that would be a great argument, if there was no more child porn on kazaa. unfortunately there is, which proves they really dont have the ability to tell the bad bits from the good, (without manually looking, and it would take a _lot_ of people to really make an impact)...
"Garth Montgomery says the court heard evidence that Kazaa's software already had the ability to block copyrighted tracks built in"
Really. I thought it was illegal to lie in court. Perjury I think its called. How the bleep would kazaa know which group of bits are copyrighted and which bits are not...
A laser pointer will blind a CCD camera. Im too lazy to look for a link, but shine your laser pointer at your webcam and see what happens. Works great.
My problem, I guess, is that we are still more free than most people have been and are. So the gov't wants to see what library books I've checked out. Terrorism is a minor threat, I agree with you. Thats why we are not instituting internment camps as FDR did in WW2 to the japanese, germans, and italians. Thats why Bush has not declared himself the sole ruler of America, as Abraham Lincoln did. I dont fault old Abe or FDR, they did what they had to do. But you cannot seriously say that our collective rights are being curtailed anywhere as much as they have been at other points in our history.
I agree that you are more likely to die from bee stings as from terrorism. Or sharks. Thats not the point though. If Osama could kill one million americans, do you think he would hesitate to press the button? On the flip side, if Bush has the button (p.s. he does), is it going to get pushed? probably not. Hey, lets prevent Osama, Saddam, Jong-Il, et al from gaining such weapons. Or not.
either way, my life will probably end up the same. and either way, i wish the whole middle east would calm the fuck down. i dont want war, and im guessing most people over there dont want war either. but as far as human rights go, especially women, the afghanis are far more free, and the iraqis are able to protest US involvment. Great. Try protesting under Saddam, or Castro, or Jong-IL. Write me a postcard and let me know how that works for ya.
"The 21st century's answer to Communism when it comes to ignoring due process."
Because, yeah, 'ignoring due process' is only done by countries that promote anti-terrorism. Never mind that 'ignoring due process' (by American standards) is also practiced by China, North Korea, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, several African nations such as Nigeria, Somalia, Etheopia, as well as others. None of these countries ignore due process because of 'terrorism', they have other reasons. But in all of these countries 'due process' as well as basic human rights are _ignored_.
I am a Native American (Chippewa/Anishinabe), and I could probably pass for a mid-easterner if I had been working in the yard all day and then wore the right headwear. I would rather be mistaken for a terrorist in America than to be mistaken for an American in north korea or in various parts of saudi arabia. I would certainly rather spend time in a jail in America than in a jail in Saudi or N.Korea or Mexico for that matter. Yet when an issue of civil rights comes up, its america to blame. end rant.
p.s. i like civil liberties. i dont like some of the patriot act, and good to see you go mr. ashcroft.
Your comment is dead on. One of the more insightful things I've read here in a while. The part I like though is when the rich dont feel like going through the hassle, they hire someone like me. Or you.
I don't usually go around replacing dead monitors anymore, but if some rich dude offered me a thousand to do it because he doesn't want the hassle, I'm there. I do mostly programming these days, but when a friend of a friend that is well-to-do offers me a bunch of money to deal with a problem that is simple (to you or I, but not to them), I will certainly jump on the chance.
And, this sort of thing cannot be outsourced. My programming job is secure for this very reason, as well as all my side jobs. Im doing quite well in this 'downturned' economy.
--OT-- notice you are on my foes list. probably because im a crazy-right-winger and you are a crazy-left-winger. Nice to see we can agree on something. ------
as I tried to state before, I didn't really mean to actively target you, more like you were the tlast on a long list where I finally had to rant.
no offense:)
As far as the more specific subject at hand, let me ask, when was p2p derided? Granted I havent been up on the p2p scene since the beginning, but my knowledge of p2p is this....
1. This college guy shawn fanning made napster, the first(?) p2p app, certainly the first that had any impact. along with the brand new mp3 encoding format...
2. See, here's where I cant remember any 'derision' before the 'attacks'... Metallica, Dr. Dre, some other losers slapped a lawsuit on napster, court orders to reveal IP addresses, so on.
3. Kazaa
4. *AA vs Kazaa
5. EMule, Gnutella
6. ??? (profit?)
So im just saying I dont see where P2P has been derided or laughed at, mostly they've just been attacked.
and I don't think I've said anything _against_ p2p. re-reading the above, I dont think ive been anti-p2p in any way. Im quite pro p2p, bittorrent, open source, and all else that is good. I do seem to be in a rant mood I guess. No harm meant.
good god. am I the only one that is sick of this gandhi quote being used for _everything_???
To compare the struggle that gandhi went through, to P2P apps. Okay, I do see the freedom of speech angle, but really, this gandhi quote turns up about every third article. It only cheapens it. Much the same as the martin niemoller quote "first they came for the communists..." and so on.
And parent didnt even get the quote right!
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Throw a "then profit" step in there, i dont care, at least get it right!
And again, if you use it for each and every topic, it loses meaning. Please reserve such things for _important_ things. Maybe you consider this topic to be that important, okay, in that case I don't fault you directly. Im just sick of seeing important quotes from important people used on non-important topics.
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It's a Reeves turtle.
They're from Asia. Here's a link to a pic. The one in the pic isn't mine but it looks the same.
I don't currently have a salt water setup but I have in the past....
They only live a year though? That kind of sucks.
I've had my oldest turtle for 18 years now. (and he was an adult when I got him so I have no idea how old he actually is)
I have fish, turtles, snakes, (and dogs and cats of course)
How would I go about getting an octopus? Are they expensive?
I've heard similar stories, that they are really quite intelligent.
if you happen to be using windows XP there is a fix
Download and install the 'tweakUI' there is a setting in there which prevents that from happening.
"Israel
perhaps they could do the same and admit they have also illegally aqquired WMD too ?
then we can move on to sanctions and UN inspections"
No, it doesn't quite work like that. Whether you agree with it or not, we don't do that to our allies.... notice that france and england both have nuclear weapons also. (and i just found out today, belgium does too)
snort, ethereal, nmap, etc
one commercial one that I _really_ like is Languard Network Scanner from GFI.
While it is closed source, it has 30-day full functionality, and has limited functionality after that. Still even with the 'limited' functionality, it provides the full scanning capabilities, it just doesn't let you use some of the features that I never use anyways (scheduling, etc).
I'd really recommend giving it a try, its pretty slick.
free tibet still gets plenty of hits....
even falun gong gets plenty of hits back.
Once I get off work im gonna have to anonymous proxy inside china and try it.
"Record companies like to make it easy and market the same group of artists, and milk their talents. Look at Eminem, he's got a new album every freaking month. Do you think that was his choice?"
:)
Uhm, Eminem has his own record label, shadyrecords.com
warning, its a flash site.
and before that he was on death row records, which Dre originally set up because he hated the record industry, so I'm guessing that death row is probably more artist-friendly than most
I dont know what any of that means in the terms of this discussion, just clearing up a few facts.
and that would be a great argument, if there was no more child porn on kazaa. unfortunately there is, which proves they really dont have the ability to tell the bad bits from the good, (without manually looking, and it would take a _lot_ of people to really make an impact)...
just sayin'
"Garth Montgomery says the court heard evidence that Kazaa's software already had the ability to block copyrighted tracks built in"
Really. I thought it was illegal to lie in court. Perjury I think its called. How the bleep would kazaa know which group of bits are copyrighted and which bits are not...
"Which country consumes the most resources?
Which country pollutes the most ?"
Which country pollutes less per unit of anything produced? America.
"Which country kills the most people?"
Regarding capital punishment, China kills more in one year than the US has in the last century. Drug dealers mostly.
most the jobs in my area are for java. which i cant stand. gotta pay the bills tho. and there is _nothing_ for linux >:(
so yeah, stay with the java. i see C jobs here and there, but mostly java. and i've yet to see a python job in my area (minneapolis minnesota)
Linux is holy and Java is bizarre.
"I'm curious how many more animals need prosthetics?"
I saw a titmouse once. It didn't have any, well uhm... you know.
dude, you have thought about this waaaaaaay too much. no offense, just sayin'
passed some 17 novell tests and am qualified to train, and to the question: "Should We Follow Novell v. MS in Detail", I say.... No.
Spent probably 8 years of my life doing novell, and sorry, but its dead.
"Yeah, the inverted pendulum is a cute trick, but then again, so is riding a unicycle. I wouldn't advise my grandmother to ride either one."
Somehow that made me think of this
A laser pointer will blind a CCD camera. Im too lazy to look for a link, but shine your laser pointer at your webcam and see what happens. Works great.
I agree with what you have said.
My problem, I guess, is that we are still more free than most people have been and are. So the gov't wants to see what library books I've checked out. Terrorism is a minor threat, I agree with you. Thats why we are not instituting internment camps as FDR did in WW2 to the japanese, germans, and italians. Thats why Bush has not declared himself the sole ruler of America, as Abraham Lincoln did. I dont fault old Abe or FDR, they did what they had to do. But you cannot seriously say that our collective rights are being curtailed anywhere as much as they have been at other points in our history.
I agree that you are more likely to die from bee stings as from terrorism. Or sharks. Thats not the point though. If Osama could kill one million americans, do you think he would hesitate to press the button? On the flip side, if Bush has the button (p.s. he does), is it going to get pushed? probably not. Hey, lets prevent Osama, Saddam, Jong-Il, et al from gaining such weapons. Or not.
either way, my life will probably end up the same. and either way, i wish the whole middle east would calm the fuck down. i dont want war, and im guessing most people over there dont want war either. but as far as human rights go, especially women, the afghanis are far more free, and the iraqis are able to protest US involvment. Great. Try protesting under Saddam, or Castro, or Jong-IL. Write me a postcard and let me know how that works for ya.
"The 21st century's answer to Communism when it comes to ignoring due process."
Because, yeah, 'ignoring due process' is only done by countries that promote anti-terrorism. Never mind that 'ignoring due process' (by American standards) is also practiced by China, North Korea, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, several African nations such as Nigeria, Somalia, Etheopia, as well as others. None of these countries ignore due process because of 'terrorism', they have other reasons. But in all of these countries 'due process' as well as basic human rights are _ignored_.
I am a Native American (Chippewa/Anishinabe), and I could probably pass for a mid-easterner if I had been working in the yard all day and then wore the right headwear. I would rather be mistaken for a terrorist in America than to be mistaken for an American in north korea or in various parts of saudi arabia. I would certainly rather spend time in a jail in America than in a jail in Saudi or N.Korea or Mexico for that matter. Yet when an issue of civil rights comes up, its america to blame. end rant.
p.s. i like civil liberties. i dont like some of the patriot act, and good to see you go mr. ashcroft.
Your comment is dead on. One of the more insightful things I've read here in a while. The part I like though is when the rich dont feel like going through the hassle, they hire someone like me. Or you.
I don't usually go around replacing dead monitors anymore, but if some rich dude offered me a thousand to do it because he doesn't want the hassle, I'm there. I do mostly programming these days, but when a friend of a friend that is well-to-do offers me a bunch of money to deal with a problem that is simple (to you or I, but not to them), I will certainly jump on the chance.
And, this sort of thing cannot be outsourced. My programming job is secure for this very reason, as well as all my side jobs. Im doing quite well in this 'downturned' economy.
--OT--
notice you are on my foes list. probably because im a crazy-right-winger and you are a crazy-left-winger. Nice to see we can agree on something.
------
I went and found a hosts file that blocks most every known ad-server. I havent seen an ad in months, activex or otherwise.
shareaza? try gnucleus
as I tried to state before, I didn't really mean to actively target you, more like you were the tlast on a long list where I finally had to rant.
:)
no offense
As far as the more specific subject at hand, let me ask, when was p2p derided? Granted I havent been up on the p2p scene since the beginning, but my knowledge of p2p is this....
1. This college guy shawn fanning made napster, the first(?) p2p app, certainly the first that had any impact. along with the brand new mp3 encoding format...
2. See, here's where I cant remember any 'derision' before the 'attacks'... Metallica, Dr. Dre, some other losers slapped a lawsuit on napster, court orders to reveal IP addresses, so on.
3. Kazaa
4. *AA vs Kazaa
5. EMule, Gnutella
6. ??? (profit?)
So im just saying I dont see where P2P has been derided or laughed at, mostly they've just been attacked.
and I don't think I've said anything _against_ p2p. re-reading the above, I dont think ive been anti-p2p in any way. Im quite pro p2p, bittorrent, open source, and all else that is good. I do seem to be in a rant mood I guess. No harm meant.
good god. am I the only one that is sick of this gandhi quote being used for _everything_???
To compare the struggle that gandhi went through, to P2P apps. Okay, I do see the freedom of speech angle, but really, this gandhi quote turns up about every third article. It only cheapens it. Much the same as the martin niemoller quote "first they came for the communists..." and so on.
And parent didnt even get the quote right!
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Throw a "then profit" step in there, i dont care, at least get it right!
And again, if you use it for each and every topic, it loses meaning. Please reserve such things for _important_ things. Maybe you consider this topic to be that important, okay, in that case I don't fault you directly. Im just sick of seeing important quotes from important people used on non-important topics.
no offense.