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Please quote the part of your constitution that grants you the freedom to move around in public without being monitored by the government. Would you apply this same freedom to the terrorists, and if not, how do you judge who is a terrorist and who is just joe coffee? You employ a police force to invade this so called privacy already, and yet you want to shackle their abilities to actually do their job, what's with that?
The constitution granted you liberty, but within the bounds of your governing law, and I don't recall it granting you privacy in public spaces, this simply isn't possible anyway since there is almost always someone else in a public space, especially in the big cities.
You haven't lost ANY liberty be being monitored on CCTV since those liberties you were granted are within the confines of your legal system. You have lost privacy, but only in public. Not really the same thing.
When you are in a public space you are open to public scrutiny. In your own home you have all the privacy you could want, but when in public other people can see you, and that includes your democratically elected government. If you don't want anyone to see what you are doing then wear a burka or stay at home. Why should you even care that there is footage of you walking along the pavement where anybody could see you anyway. Unless you are planning on committing a crime then it really doesn't matter at all does it.
Say for example you are a woman trying to get away from a cop who likes to hit you. Well you just made it harder to do so.
Well, wouldn't the women actually want the images of the cop hitting her on camera a-la Rodney King style. How does having this evidence taped and presented in court to convict the cop "chill" her freedom not to be hit.
Say for example you wanted to assemble with some of your friends and express the opinion that W is maybe not doing the best possible job in the world.
Since the right to free assembly is granted in your constituition you would surely be allowed to do this and the cameras would protect your rights. In fact, having them there might stop the police state from cracking your skulls with their batons, not a bad deal for the Bush disidents.
Please explain to this poor gaijen how "total information awareness" and "echalon" fit into the concept of not being constantly under surveilance. You have a whole section of government whose only purpose is to spy on it's own people, how does that fit in with this freedom you speak of?
I think you guys in the USA mustn't have been paying attention lately. You have very little real freedom left. With the DMCA, surveilence cameras, a state that locks people up without charges and detains them indefintely, and a media so powerful they won't even let you share your films with your own friends over the internet, about all you have left is freedom of speech - and even that is in doubt. You fingerprint people as they enter your country, have IP laws that stop small software innovators from releasing a competitive product and still enforce the death penalty (which no civilised country still uses). Check your trousers, I think someone has pickpocketed your freedom while you were all busy buying the next big piece of crap that the marketeers have been selling you.
You *had* freedom, that's for sure, but it's been eroded over the last few decades. You need to act now if you want to preserve what you have left. Let's face it, you can't even show a bit of tit on your TV during the superbowl, just exactly what sort of freedom are you talking about?
There's something wrong with your machine. Those maps load in maybe 20 secs max on my ageing Athlon 2ghz with only 512MB RAM and a single IDE hard drive.
That's probably *why* he is admitting he is wrong. It's not to humble himself and say "I goofed" but to put forth a new theory that he has worked on. This stuff is all so theoretical in any case that I expect him to need to buy two sets of encyclopaedias, just for the bulk discount so he can save some cash next time he is wrong;->
Why not just take a pint of blood with you when you grab the arm? Hell, you only need a little vial of it, like those urine sample containers doctors use.
He may have (and was) a great pioneer, but these days I think he's too busy playing with *his* old toys to notice the world has changed around him. He says we mainly read the web, and yet every person posting here is *writing* the web. He has overlooked the impact of CMS systems and more importantly wiki. Why no metion of Skype, bittorrent, 3 degrees of seperation or any form of IM? Step aside old man, let the young lions continue your work or let the scales fall from your eyes.
No, you mis-understand. What I mean is it was installed clean onto fresh hard drive, not an upgrade. You're right about the eight month thing though, my current average is to reinstall it every year (over a period of ~10 years). It just seems to get slower and slower the more I use it, and before anyone asks; defragging your hard drive makes no appreciable difference - although I still do it every month or so.
Possibly, but maybe not. The article mentioned it was 1000x improvement in *one function*. The rest of the app may only be a few times faster, with just one query benefitting greatly from improved OS, indexing, or an updated Oracle. I'd like to see a white paper on this and some more balanced reporting. Linux doesn't need sloppy claims made on it's behalf, it can stand on it's own merits, leave that to the MS shills.
I'd tend to agree with you, even though I *am* a Linux zealot. It's likely they either got some performance boost from using Oracle 10i (what was it running before?), or from the improved hardware. I do know that Linux runs a lot of stuff faster than Windows, since I use both daily on exactly the same hardware. My Windows boot-up is godawful slow (XP, fresh install, 8 months old) and thrashes the disk relentelssly, whilst the Linux boot (Debian, fresh install, same age) runs like a dream. I think it's because of a couple of things:
better scheduling - I use kernel 2.6
better file system access - Linxu just does it faster, I can't explain why except to say when everything is a file you tune the crap out of your filesystem handling code
better memory management - Linux doesn't use 500MB to show me my desktop, 300MB of which is often paged even though I have 512MB in the machine
These factors add up to a user experience that is probably 3 times faster, and vastly faster if I want to burn a DVD and do something else at the same time, but I don't see a 1000 fold improment in speed.
There's truth in all of those stories I don't doubt. I've heard often of workers being on long term deathmarch projects, and others who have become millionaires and are as happy as can be, despite no doubt still being on frequent death march projects. Younger programmers will eat it up, thinking they are making their mark and the free pizza and coke is how the company shows it loves them. Older ones who have been corporate fucked before and worked into the ground with little reward beyond pizza and hanging out with peers will dislike it. It's a big world, and a big company, expect some truth in all the rumours.
On a personal note, whilst I used to work 36 hour stretches at the drop of a hat (not at MS) and often did 24 runs and long weekends for the companies I worked for, I simply won't now. The ugly truth is that these stretches are always a result of poor project management, or a company trying to increase it's profits by understaffing projects. This is usually to stay "competitive" in the market. The managers would rarely ever pitch in on those weekend efforts:-/ Nowadays I work my contracted hours, and the project can be late for all I care. Bad management is someone elses problem, not mine - they can pay me for my loyalty, not exploit me for my naievity.
Copyright laws are fairly clear on this. When an employee writes code, it is owned by the company that employs him/her. So no, it couldn't be his code.
The slash crowd are not the type of people you want to suggest this to. I mean really, how many overweight middle aged men do you want to see walking around with a transparent shit? Uggh.
The future: MS makes some software to run on a mobile device to control the display. Hackers find a buffer overflow and use it to change everyones' display at the rave to the Penguin;-)
train yourself more and get some more qualifications
more to a better city with more opportunites.
You've got not cause for complaint if you aren't willing to take *both* of these measures in order to remain competitive. Don't be like the small town steel mill workers who lost everything because they wouldn't/coulcn't retrain or move house.
And of course the security staff are too stupid to realise that the file called marriah-carey-diva.mp3 is actually the company database. Wow, 200MB, that's a long song, but those "divas" do tend to waffle on a bit;-> What's to stop you simply encrypting the data, then wrapping it up or tagging it on the end of valid MP3 songs?
There's plenty of scope for use and abuse of this. You could tag a person's house as belonging to a paedophile, or claim they are a rapist, all without any sort of screening. Not good.
I'm sorry, but this is only true outside of the United States at the moment, and maybe not even there if the stupid European Software patents gets approved. If you haven't noticed, MS has been hosing up new and frivalous patents at an alarming rate. It's only a matter of time before they get enough of a portfolio together to slam the living shit out of the penguin.
MS is a big business, who is actively expanding their patent portifolio, but even worse, they are in a position to negotiate hostile patent actions against GNU/Linux i.e. enter an agreement with a smaller patent holding company keen to do business with the behemoth. MS is already using SCO like some sort of meat puppet to put pressure on GNU/Linux, they won't stop there.
When they have enough patents organised, they can get a court request to stop distribution of Linux until it is recoded to not use those patents. This could include simple things double clicks, access to the FAT32 file system, SMB patents, maybe some of that OpenGL stuff they got a few years back. In any case, the penguin will always be in peril; in a world with software patents there is no true freedom to innovate with software.
The rar's are for downloading it from IRC networks which have a limit on max filesize. The people who BT it should have unrared the bugger and just put up a BT with the movie, not in zip or iso form...the slackers.
Anyway, I applaud Michael Moore for taking this stance. Having seen the last film, and the sites citing errors, ommisions and downright duplicity in the films I was going to not bother watching this one. Since it is now legal to watch over BT I'll definitely pull a copy and give it a watch on the hope he has something interesting to say without his grandstanding and stunts.
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The constitution granted you liberty, but within the bounds of your governing law, and I don't recall it granting you privacy in public spaces, this simply isn't possible anyway since there is almost always someone else in a public space, especially in the big cities.
You haven't lost ANY liberty be being monitored on CCTV since those liberties you were granted are within the confines of your legal system. You have lost privacy, but only in public. Not really the same thing.
When you are in a public space you are open to public scrutiny. In your own home you have all the privacy you could want, but when in public other people can see you, and that includes your democratically elected government. If you don't want anyone to see what you are doing then wear a burka or stay at home. Why should you even care that there is footage of you walking along the pavement where anybody could see you anyway. Unless you are planning on committing a crime then it really doesn't matter at all does it.
Well, wouldn't the women actually want the images of the cop hitting her on camera a-la Rodney King style. How does having this evidence taped and presented in court to convict the cop "chill" her freedom not to be hit.
Say for example you wanted to assemble with some of your friends and express the opinion that W is maybe not doing the best possible job in the world.
Since the right to free assembly is granted in your constituition you would surely be allowed to do this and the cameras would protect your rights. In fact, having them there might stop the police state from cracking your skulls with their batons, not a bad deal for the Bush disidents.
Please explain to this poor gaijen how "total information awareness" and "echalon" fit into the concept of not being constantly under surveilance. You have a whole section of government whose only purpose is to spy on it's own people, how does that fit in with this freedom you speak of?
You *had* freedom, that's for sure, but it's been eroded over the last few decades. You need to act now if you want to preserve what you have left. Let's face it, you can't even show a bit of tit on your TV during the superbowl, just exactly what sort of freedom are you talking about?
There's something wrong with your machine. Those maps load in maybe 20 secs max on my ageing Athlon 2ghz with only 512MB RAM and a single IDE hard drive.
That's probably *why* he is admitting he is wrong. It's not to humble himself and say "I goofed" but to put forth a new theory that he has worked on. This stuff is all so theoretical in any case that I expect him to need to buy two sets of encyclopaedias, just for the bulk discount so he can save some cash next time he is wrong ;->
Why not just take a pint of blood with you when you grab the arm? Hell, you only need a little vial of it, like those urine sample containers doctors use.
He may have (and was) a great pioneer, but these days I think he's too busy playing with *his* old toys to notice the world has changed around him. He says we mainly read the web, and yet every person posting here is *writing* the web. He has overlooked the impact of CMS systems and more importantly wiki. Why no metion of Skype, bittorrent, 3 degrees of seperation or any form of IM? Step aside old man, let the young lions continue your work or let the scales fall from your eyes.
No, you mis-understand. What I mean is it was installed clean onto fresh hard drive, not an upgrade. You're right about the eight month thing though, my current average is to reinstall it every year (over a period of ~10 years). It just seems to get slower and slower the more I use it, and before anyone asks; defragging your hard drive makes no appreciable difference - although I still do it every month or so.
Possibly, but maybe not. The article mentioned it was 1000x improvement in *one function*. The rest of the app may only be a few times faster, with just one query benefitting greatly from improved OS, indexing, or an updated Oracle. I'd like to see a white paper on this and some more balanced reporting. Linux doesn't need sloppy claims made on it's behalf, it can stand on it's own merits, leave that to the MS shills.
better scheduling - I use kernel 2.6
better file system access - Linxu just does it faster, I can't explain why except to say when everything is a file you tune the crap out of your filesystem handling code
better memory management - Linux doesn't use 500MB to show me my desktop, 300MB of which is often paged even though I have 512MB in the machine
These factors add up to a user experience that is probably 3 times faster, and vastly faster if I want to burn a DVD and do something else at the same time, but I don't see a 1000 fold improment in speed.
Actually, it's a reference to the people who will buy it...Stupid Fucking Users.
On a personal note, whilst I used to work 36 hour stretches at the drop of a hat (not at MS) and often did 24 runs and long weekends for the companies I worked for, I simply won't now. The ugly truth is that these stretches are always a result of poor project management, or a company trying to increase it's profits by understaffing projects. This is usually to stay "competitive" in the market. The managers would rarely ever pitch in on those weekend efforts :-/ Nowadays I work my contracted hours, and the project can be late for all I care. Bad management is someone elses problem, not mine - they can pay me for my loyalty, not exploit me for my naievity.
Copyright laws are fairly clear on this. When an employee writes code, it is owned by the company that employs him/her. So no, it couldn't be his code.
Perhaps they could use some of the electricity our bodies naturally produce? Does anyone know how much this is, and how many leds it could light up?
The slash crowd are not the type of people you want to suggest this to. I mean really, how many overweight middle aged men do you want to see walking around with a transparent shit? Uggh.
How on earth did a pair of Trekkies ever manage to get together and mate? Was one of them also a female?
The future: MS makes some software to run on a mobile device to control the display. Hackers find a buffer overflow and use it to change everyones' display at the rave to the Penguin ;-)
train yourself more and get some more qualifications
more to a better city with more opportunites.
You've got not cause for complaint if you aren't willing to take *both* of these measures in order to remain competitive. Don't be like the small town steel mill workers who lost everything because they wouldn't/coulcn't retrain or move house.
and then they're all offshore your jobs anyway because those foreigners will work for less and be happy to pay for their own equipment to do it on :-[
And of course the security staff are too stupid to realise that the file called marriah-carey-diva.mp3 is actually the company database. Wow, 200MB, that's a long song, but those "divas" do tend to waffle on a bit ;-> What's to stop you simply encrypting the data, then wrapping it up or tagging it on the end of valid MP3 songs?
Owner not home from 8:30AM to 6:30PM, please rob.
Smash my windows!
I'm watching you, pervert!
There's plenty of scope for use and abuse of this. You could tag a person's house as belonging to a paedophile, or claim they are a rapist, all without any sort of screening. Not good.
I'm sorry, but this is only true outside of the United States at the moment, and maybe not even there if the stupid European Software patents gets approved. If you haven't noticed, MS has been hosing up new and frivalous patents at an alarming rate. It's only a matter of time before they get enough of a portfolio together to slam the living shit out of the penguin.
MS is a big business, who is actively expanding their patent portifolio, but even worse, they are in a position to negotiate hostile patent actions against GNU/Linux i.e. enter an agreement with a smaller patent holding company keen to do business with the behemoth. MS is already using SCO like some sort of meat puppet to put pressure on GNU/Linux, they won't stop there.
When they have enough patents organised, they can get a court request to stop distribution of Linux until it is recoded to not use those patents. This could include simple things double clicks, access to the FAT32 file system, SMB patents, maybe some of that OpenGL stuff they got a few years back. In any case, the penguin will always be in peril; in a world with software patents there is no true freedom to innovate with software.
Anyway, I applaud Michael Moore for taking this stance. Having seen the last film, and the sites citing errors, ommisions and downright duplicity in the films I was going to not bother watching this one. Since it is now legal to watch over BT I'll definitely pull a copy and give it a watch on the hope he has something interesting to say without his grandstanding and stunts.