In France, we use to nickname him "dobeuliou" (double-u, or W.) considering it is the only letter of his name that makes his different from his father's.
Well, I used to argue a lot with a Christian friend about morality, science, sex, etc... We used to stall. But recently I have read the Bible. This book is just great! whatever your opinion on any issue, you will find a reference backing you!
Maaaaaaaan, same article, one paragraph below. Though they don't say which british expert and what was his source...
Yeah, Bin Laden said he had nothing to do with the attacks then reluctantly admited he was the boss. He is wanted dead or alive, without any public proof (Bush has said they had proof that they would disclose in time, before the Afghan war). I think there is a good chance he is responsible, but I don't like to see such justice raping.
US "esperts" said that the figure is probably in fact between 1$ for 1,000$ and 1$ for 10,000$. It is believed Bin Laden used a metaphork, but, in the same article he goes on:
bin Laden cited a British estimate that it cost al Qaeda about $500,000 to carry out the attacks of September 11, 2001, an amount that he said paled in comparison with the costs incurred by the United States.
Great, now we can hide a PC in a wall socket, I have read some crazy people managed to put a webserver in a big ethernet connector.
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And they want me to trust them when they bring an electronic voting machine, hopefully show me some code, maybe show me the inners of the machine and tell me "this is the code we run, trust us even if we have a past of lies and deception".
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I would like to know one time for sure that I am just a paranoiac guy that tend to apply network security practices to real life too much...
I don't know how is the trend on the other side of the Atlantic, but here, in Paris, last time I went to a Fnac (a bookshop akin to Virgin Megastore, with less music and more books) asking for a mathbook (had to re-read some courses) I was given a strange look and redirected toward the 'science' books, in the 'philosophy' shelves. Gaaah!
I know this comment was supposed to be humorous, but still... Slashdot, even if unashamely (is that a word ?) biased against some companies, I have discovered how precious it is as a source of information from the tech world. the 1% of comments which are not crap often carry some precious addition to the article and are often well moderated. I work in a software company, and I have coworkers, I mean, coder coworkers who do not know what the DMCA is or what is DRM or the stance of EU toward software patents (my company is based in France). No, really, call it slackdot if you want but you can tell your boss some problems he will be facing if he wanted to use BluRay drives for a project and why you think that he should forbid his colleague from the marketing department to do p2p during work hours...
Well DRMs are a step further, they consider it equally criminal to pirate a media as to crack the algorithm in order to read a media you purchased. In fact, publishing the cracking algorithm is probably considered more grave than sharing a pirated movie.
Because the combination DRM+DMCA prevents the creation of an open source implementation of a player/encoder of any DRMed format.
I see the logic behind the FSF position and it seems objective enough to me. Their goal is to defend the 2-3% of the population known as "the geeks" who care for their digital rights and who have, in the field of computer science, a better chance than the rest of the population to recognise a "slippery slope". Of course, 97-98% of the population don't know/don't care about these issues and are numerous enough to make a commercial success
I ma not sure if one should consider this article biaised toward or against China. Comments are, of course, that's what they are for, but I read the article as "economical mammoth attacks industrial mammoth" and fail to see a bias.
I think too it is great that monopolies are fought. And if it is unethical protagonists that fight them, well, at least they are good for something.
I think that if they have half decent scientists, they knew about it for many years. I wonder if they had a way to stealthily build an enrichment chain without international control, or if they are not currently building it.
BTW, they will manage to get the bomb. North Korea too, Afghanistan too, one day, every country will have its nuclear weapons. We can delay the Iranian bomb by 5-10 years maybe, but what then ? Isn't it time to have a political plan about the question ? Preferably before it becomes possible for a grade student to make a nuke as a school project...
I would like to note that MP3 used to violate a software patent (I believe it is not true anymore as of today). Its owner never really made the step to go to court against OSS but could very well have.
That means that when one buys a DVD, he isn't entitled to watch it, but only to use one of the licenced and selected software. I think most MPAA officials don't give a damn at linux, all they want is that no one can make an alternative player able to skip ads and FBI warning...
I am pointing at contradictions in their stories with the list (few posts above) of facts that are reasonally well documented. I am not making a story up, I don't have enough facts for that. All I know is that I don't know what happened on 9/11/2001 and that the official version doesn't hold.
This administration has been seen telling a big lie (Iras has WMD) and getting along with that without even a word of excuse.
It then told another big lie (Iraq-Al Quaeda ties). What is so unbelievable in the fact that they could have lied on another intelligence report ?
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In France, we use to nickname him "dobeuliou" (double-u, or W.) considering it is the only letter of his name that makes his different from his father's.
Hey, if the GP wasn't insightful it would be pretty funny...
Well, I used to argue a lot with a Christian friend about morality, science, sex, etc... We used to stall. But recently I have read the Bible. This book is just great! whatever your opinion on any issue, you will find a reference backing you!
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/ is a good tool too.
Come on! You know that facts have a strong liberal bias!
This motto is from the Bible: John 8:32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
I'd like to know where you got that from as well
Maaaaaaaan, same article, one paragraph below. Though they don't say which british expert and what was his source...
Yeah, Bin Laden said he had nothing to do with the attacks then reluctantly admited he was the boss. He is wanted dead or alive, without any public proof (Bush has said they had proof that they would disclose in time, before the Afghan war). I think there is a good chance he is responsible, but I don't like to see such justice raping.
"Every dollar of al Qaeda defeated a million dollars, by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs,"
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/01/binlade
US "esperts" said that the figure is probably in fact between 1$ for 1,000$ and 1$ for 10,000$. It is believed Bin Laden used a metaphork, but, in the same article he goes on:
bin Laden cited a British estimate that it cost al Qaeda about $500,000 to carry out the attacks of September 11, 2001, an amount that he said paled in comparison with the costs incurred by the United States.
The only question is : can I record it ?
I like the Bin Laden comment "For one dollar spent by Al-Quaeda, we make the Bush administration spend one million dollar"
Great, now we can hide a PC in a wall socket, I have read some crazy people managed to put a webserver in a big ethernet connector.
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And they want me to trust them when they bring an electronic voting machine, hopefully show me some code, maybe show me the inners of the machine and tell me "this is the code we run, trust us even if we have a past of lies and deception".
[/offtopic]
I would like to know one time for sure that I am just a paranoiac guy that tend to apply network security practices to real life too much...
I don't know how is the trend on the other side of the Atlantic, but here, in Paris, last time I went to a Fnac (a bookshop akin to Virgin Megastore, with less music and more books) asking for a mathbook (had to re-read some courses) I was given a strange look and redirected toward the 'science' books, in the 'philosophy' shelves. Gaaah!
I know this comment was supposed to be humorous, but still...
Slashdot, even if unashamely (is that a word ?) biased against some companies, I have discovered how precious it is as a source of information from the tech world. the 1% of comments which are not crap often carry some precious addition to the article and are often well moderated. I work in a software company, and I have coworkers, I mean, coder coworkers who do not know what the DMCA is or what is DRM or the stance of EU toward software patents (my company is based in France). No, really, call it slackdot if you want but you can tell your boss some problems he will be facing if he wanted to use BluRay drives for a project and why you think that he should forbid his colleague from the marketing department to do p2p during work hours...
Well DRMs are a step further, they consider it equally criminal to pirate a media as to crack the algorithm in order to read a media you purchased. In fact, publishing the cracking algorithm is probably considered more grave than sharing a pirated movie.
Because the combination DRM+DMCA prevents the creation of an open source implementation of a player/encoder of any DRMed format.
I see the logic behind the FSF position and it seems objective enough to me. Their goal is to defend the 2-3% of the population known as "the geeks" who care for their digital rights and who have, in the field of computer science, a better chance than the rest of the population to recognise a "slippery slope". Of course, 97-98% of the population don't know/don't care about these issues and are numerous enough to make a commercial success
I ma not sure if one should consider this article biaised toward or against China. Comments are, of course, that's what they are for, but I read the article as "economical mammoth attacks industrial mammoth" and fail to see a bias.
I think too it is great that monopolies are fought. And if it is unethical protagonists that fight them, well, at least they are good for something.
I think that if they have half decent scientists, they knew about it for many years. I wonder if they had a way to stealthily build an enrichment chain without international control, or if they are not currently building it.
...
BTW, they will manage to get the bomb. North Korea too, Afghanistan too, one day, every country will have its nuclear weapons. We can delay the Iranian bomb by 5-10 years maybe, but what then ? Isn't it time to have a political plan about the question ? Preferably before it becomes possible for a grade student to make a nuke as a school project
I would like to note that MP3 used to violate a software patent (I believe it is not true anymore as of today). Its owner never really made the step to go to court against OSS but could very well have.
That means that when one buys a DVD, he isn't entitled to watch it, but only to use one of the licenced and selected software. I think most MPAA officials don't give a damn at linux, all they want is that no one can make an alternative player able to skip ads and FBI warning...
...that means don't download, don't buy.
administration rights restriction.
I would say "user education" instead, but education is not a very strong value these days...
"in the wild" == personal computers massively distributed
tssss, communists hippies!
What ?
Well, the first computers "in the wild" were arguably Apple's too. So...
I am pointing at contradictions in their stories with the list (few posts above) of facts that are reasonally well documented. I am not making a story up, I don't have enough facts for that. All I know is that I don't know what happened on 9/11/2001 and that the official version doesn't hold.
This administration has been seen telling a big lie (Iras has WMD) and getting along with that without even a word of excuse.
It then told another big lie (Iraq-Al Quaeda ties). What is so unbelievable in the fact that they could have lied on another intelligence report ?