Yeah, because a country with a completely different philosophy of its community, were everybody in the last 1000 years literally failed, will be possible to "get right" (for your view of "right", which is not the Afghans' view of "right" anyway).
My father is Afghan. And I can tell you: It's not worth it! Please just leave the country alone, everybody. The only ones who could help, would be those with similar philosophies. (In Afghanistan it's all a big hierarchy of respect. Nobody is going to vote against the one above him [e.g. the clan leader]. Not because of fear of what could happen. But because it's the basic philosophy. So "democracy" can't work by definition. And it's also not needed.)
So what you may see as "getting it right", can be "imposing unnatural values on the people" for them. And nobody of you is wrong, in his view on reality. Also, nobody's view is somehow worse. Unless you happen to be arrogant and egocentric. Which I don't think you are.)
Of course, as Afghanistan was just a strategic battleground for other regimes since forever... (The cold war was not cold at all. It was in fact very hot. But it was an indirect "war by proxy". Sometimes the US took a dummy nation to fight for them. Sometimes the Soviet Union did. But always, Afghans or people of the other dummy nations died.)
So everybody get over yourselves, and leave the once green and beautiful country, that now is a mountain of rubble, alone. Thank you.
And you mean, the ESC key is *not* used?? LOL. How do you cancel things then? Especially those that have no cancel button. Like a dropdown or menu. I hope you did not make a mouse-only GUI. That would be *nasty*. ^^
WTF?? Some asshole with mod-points is on a down-modding spree! All my comments that are now modded into oblivion were higher than +2 Interesting yesterday! Boy there are some losers on this planet...
WTF?? Some asshole with mod-points is on a down-modding spree! All my comments that are now modded into oblivion were higher than +2 Interesting yesterday! Boy there are some losers on this planet...
Well said. It's not what you have to hide! It's what they want to find!
Add to that the Cardinal Richelieu way of thinking: "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
And you have a recipe for terror. Real terror. Not that TV "terror".
Properly done, it's clear, that this should be opt-in at the creation of the account. And not only the option of making it public. But also the option of storing it on a computer you don't own in the first place.
Everything else should be illegal and get you into PMITA prison.
That model is already law for "please give my data to third parties" and "please send me spam" options in account creation forms in Germany. It should be law for all other data storage as well.
WTF?? Some asshole with mod-points is on a down-modding spree! All my comments that are now modded into oblivion were higher than +2 Interesting yesterday! Boy there are some losers on this planet...
the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.
And had I been there at the writing of this headline, I would have kicked his ass! ^^
Wait for the next article's headline to be: Someone Kicked Philip K Dickhead's Ass Again! (Because I bet, with that name, it happened more than once already.;)
Everybody here has a mobile phone with home zone function.
But of course, I have a better setup:
I have a little server, with a asterisk system, and a ISDN card. so i connected the ISDN-card to the landline, and asterisk to VoIP. which gives me a bi-directional gateway (Yes I secured it!), which i mostly use, to save money, by leaving the server running while away, and calling it over the internet via VoIP. letting me do local calls in all of the country for "free" (flatrate at home, WLAN in the hotel) while I'm far away, traveling. It also works in the other direction, if I happen to be online.
I also have a self-written answering machine script that acts like a butler, taking calls for me. Because the "conversation" is so short, it works. It can even greet known people with their names! And I can set it to away messages, right with all the other protocols in my instant messenger. It even works as a "phonewall", optionally only answering in: a) callers not in the blacklist, a) those, and non-anonymous callers, b) non-blacklisted callers in my phone book, c) non-blacklisted callers in a category of my phone book or c) nobody:) People in the blacklist get the same message that they would get, if the number wouldn't exist. So it is perfectly stealthy. My phone does not even ring.:D
And I get nice logs of everything. And a mail when I receive a call. (Or a fax, if that ever will happen ^^)
Smartcards still need a password, or they are no more secure than a fingerprint (cut off the finger) or a credit card (buy something immediately after stealing it).
Passwords alone of course a also not great. But at least nobody can steal a password that is stored only in your mind.
Additionally, why would they extradite Nigeria's third largest business?
Also, what crazy person thinks, natural selection (the weeding out of total retards) is something bad? If anything, they're doing us a service. Something that we ourselves stopped doing: Rewarding those who have a working brain!
As the anus is the ring with the hole in your ass, and as prolapsing means falling out of place.
Additionally, "anal prolapse" is the normally used term. You know... by normal people who do not call each other assholes, while attacking their statement with their own bullshit out of their own tiny fucked up world, "you asshole".
...a netbook with a screen that can be folded with a wider angle than others, and a simplified (read: oversimplified so far it's strongly limited (read: retard fostering) instead of efficient) UI... with a price tag of $700.
I guess their motto must be: Offer less, pay double, and make the world a worse (=dumber) place.
Yeah... "great" idea... Oh and that wider angle is sooo "genius". Nobody could have ever come up with that one!
Nah. As Iraq now officially is a US colony, they (the US) are in fact the ones who actually HAVE thousands of nukes. AND they are the only ones, who ever were douchy enough to actually use them! On innocent people too!
And they want others not to have them... Yeah right! Because it's so hard to enslave countries if you're not the only side who has nukes.
Sorry, but if you have nukes, you thereby lost the right to tell others not to have them. And about the "crazy president and extremistic freaks in the background": Two words: Bush and Cheney! ^^
That's why I always used the mother of tabbing. The mother of many cool features in Firefox. The king of raw speed since forever!
OPERA!
But nowadays I can't live without my AdBlock, TagSifter, FireGestures, SmoothWeel (AMO), DownloadHelper, DownThemAll, Greasemonkey (with Greasefire), TabMixPlus, BetterSeach, Resurrect Pages, Stylish, and in its own special category: Firebug (with FirePHP, Firecookie, Firefinder, Codeburner, FireRainbow, Jiffy) and the Web Developer toolbar, the Javascript Debugger, Tamper Data, Colorzilla, Measure It, Palette Grabber, Pixel Perfect.
How can any browser ever replace that?? And who cares for that itty bitty piece of speed you gain, when you then have to give up all that?
Because they will never ever include an ad-blocker. Because Google is and advertising company. The biggest on the net in fact.
I know that there are tons of Google fanboys here on/. But I don't trust them more than any other ad company. (And of course, as they are fanboys, they will never ever tolerate the existence of another view, or... basic facts... So prepare for this to get modded into oblivion as proof. ^^)
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getting Afghanistan right the first time
Yeah, because a country with a completely different philosophy of its community, were everybody in the last 1000 years literally failed, will be possible to "get right" (for your view of "right", which is not the Afghans' view of "right" anyway).
My father is Afghan. And I can tell you: It's not worth it! Please just leave the country alone, everybody. The only ones who could help, would be those with similar philosophies. (In Afghanistan it's all a big hierarchy of respect. Nobody is going to vote against the one above him [e.g. the clan leader]. Not because of fear of what could happen. But because it's the basic philosophy. So "democracy" can't work by definition. And it's also not needed.)
So what you may see as "getting it right", can be "imposing unnatural values on the people" for them. And nobody of you is wrong, in his view on reality. Also, nobody's view is somehow worse. Unless you happen to be arrogant and egocentric. Which I don't think you are.)
Of course, as Afghanistan was just a strategic battleground for other regimes since forever... (The cold war was not cold at all. It was in fact very hot. But it was an indirect "war by proxy". Sometimes the US took a dummy nation to fight for them. Sometimes the Soviet Union did. But always, Afghans or people of the other dummy nations died.)
So everybody get over yourselves, and leave the once green and beautiful country, that now is a mountain of rubble, alone. Thank you.
And you mean, the ESC key is *not* used?? LOL. How do you cancel things then? Especially those that have no cancel button. Like a dropdown or menu. I hope you did not make a mouse-only GUI. That would be *nasty*. ^^
WTF?? Some asshole with mod-points is on a down-modding spree! All my comments that are now modded into oblivion were higher than +2 Interesting yesterday! Boy there are some losers on this planet...
WTF?? Some asshole with mod-points is on a down-modding spree! All my comments that are now modded into oblivion were higher than +2 Interesting yesterday! Boy there are some losers on this planet...
Well said. It's not what you have to hide! It's what they want to find!
Add to that the Cardinal Richelieu way of thinking:
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
And you have a recipe for terror. Real terror. Not that TV "terror".
Properly done, it's clear, that this should be opt-in at the creation of the account. And not only the option of making it public. But also the option of storing it on a computer you don't own in the first place.
Everything else should be illegal and get you into PMITA prison.
That model is already law for "please give my data to third parties" and "please send me spam" options in account creation forms in Germany. It should be law for all other data storage as well.
'In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we've built the Google Dashboard.'
So I get to control other users' data? Yay. Does that make me part of Google? :P
So you are unable to detect, that the "a" was supposed to be an "I"??
Look at the mirror. Did the drooling already start?
WTF?? Some asshole with mod-points is on a down-modding spree! All my comments that are now modded into oblivion were higher than +2 Interesting yesterday! Boy there are some losers on this planet...
the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.
And had I been there at the writing of this headline, I would have kicked his ass! ^^
Wait for the next article's headline to be: Someone Kicked Philip K Dickhead's Ass Again! (Because I bet, with that name, it happened more than once already. ;)
Everybody here has a mobile phone with home zone function.
But of course, I have a better setup:
I have a little server, with a asterisk system, and a ISDN card. so i connected the ISDN-card to the landline, and asterisk to VoIP. which gives me a bi-directional gateway (Yes I secured it!), which i mostly use, to save money, by leaving the server running while away, and calling it over the internet via VoIP. letting me do local calls in all of the country for "free" (flatrate at home, WLAN in the hotel) while I'm far away, traveling. It also works in the other direction, if I happen to be online.
I also have a self-written answering machine script that acts like a butler, taking calls for me. Because the "conversation" is so short, it works. It can even greet known people with their names! And I can set it to away messages, right with all the other protocols in my instant messenger. It even works as a "phonewall", optionally only answering in: a) callers not in the blacklist, a) those, and non-anonymous callers, b) non-blacklisted callers in my phone book, c) non-blacklisted callers in a category of my phone book or c) nobody :) :D
People in the blacklist get the same message that they would get, if the number wouldn't exist. So it is perfectly stealthy.
My phone does not even ring.
And I get nice logs of everything.
And a mail when I receive a call. (Or a fax, if that ever will happen ^^)
Aaaahhh... good times for a geek! ^^
It's what you get your high-speed Internet over. ^^
(TV cables included!)
I have no C:, you insensitive clod!
(I have a root though.)
How can they do something that cool, and not make a video of it??
Where's the video??
Yes. But you start with the cable. And you then start with the machine, when the first 15 years of developing the cable are passed.
You don't start with the machine. And forget about the cable!
That was the precise argument of GP!
Because you haven't understood security at all!
Smartcards still need a password, or they are no more secure than a fingerprint (cut off the finger) or a credit card (buy something immediately after stealing it).
Passwords alone of course a also not great. But at least nobody can steal a password that is stored only in your mind.
It has destroyed the alternative states, yes. But it has created a separate universe for everybody!
So now we all run our very own instances of the universe.
Who am I telling this... you could just be imaginations of my mind... and if not, you are now in MY universe anyway! :D
You already have a havoc machine: The one that releases farts that cause havoc on the whole neighborhood. ^^
Additionally, why would they extradite Nigeria's third largest business?
Also, what crazy person thinks, natural selection (the weeding out of total retards) is something bad? If anything, they're doing us a service. Something that we ourselves stopped doing: Rewarding those who have a working brain!
As the anus is the ring with the hole in your ass, and as prolapsing means falling out of place.
Additionally, "anal prolapse" is the normally used term. You know... by normal people who do not call each other assholes, while attacking their statement with their own bullshit out of their own tiny fucked up world, "you asshole".
I FUCKIN PAY for the bandwith I BOUGHT!
And you openly add a function that makes it impossible for you to fulfill your FUCKIN' CONTRACT??
YOU BREAK THE CONTRACT FUCKIN' ASSHOLES!
Someone is getting sued to hell and back! I expect at least a trillion dollars damage. Plus assrape in PMITA prison for the bosses by next Monday!
...a netbook with a screen that can be folded with a wider angle than others, and a simplified (read: oversimplified so far it's strongly limited (read: retard fostering) instead of efficient) UI... with a price tag of $700.
I guess their motto must be: Offer less, pay double, and make the world a worse (=dumber) place.
Yeah... "great" idea... Oh and that wider angle is sooo "genius". Nobody could have ever come up with that one!
Nah. As Iraq now officially is a US colony, they (the US) are in fact the ones who actually HAVE thousands of nukes. AND they are the only ones, who ever were douchy enough to actually use them! On innocent people too!
And they want others not to have them... Yeah right! Because it's so hard to enslave countries if you're not the only side who has nukes.
Sorry, but if you have nukes, you thereby lost the right to tell others not to have them.
And about the "crazy president and extremistic freaks in the background": Two words: Bush and Cheney! ^^
That's why I always used the mother of tabbing. The mother of many cool features in Firefox. The king of raw speed since forever!
OPERA!
But nowadays I can't live without my AdBlock, TagSifter, FireGestures, SmoothWeel (AMO), DownloadHelper, DownThemAll, Greasemonkey (with Greasefire), TabMixPlus, BetterSeach, Resurrect Pages, Stylish, and in its own special category: Firebug (with FirePHP, Firecookie, Firefinder, Codeburner, FireRainbow, Jiffy) and the Web Developer toolbar, the Javascript Debugger, Tamper Data, Colorzilla, Measure It, Palette Grabber, Pixel Perfect.
How can any browser ever replace that?? And who cares for that itty bitty piece of speed you gain, when you then have to give up all that?
Because they will never ever include an ad-blocker.
Because Google is and advertising company. The biggest on the net in fact.
I know that there are tons of Google fanboys here on /. But I don't trust them more than any other ad company.
(And of course, as they are fanboys, they will never ever tolerate the existence of another view, or... basic facts... So prepare for this to get modded into oblivion as proof. ^^)