They are willing to throw out win98 and winME but i doubt they will get rid of 2k. They know 2k is better than XP for a lot of things and it would be like shooting themselves in the foot to piss off the current installed base of win2k.
... so i will be the one to say what everyone is thinking... "duh?"... we know its insecure but what do we do? Should we try to work to get windows secure somehow or do our own open source thing? honestly what good are we going to do with this new info?
So there is a 1% chance that this will end up in a real change/project. Its basically just a bunch of theoretical stuff that if about a dozen decisions go the right way will mean something 5 years from now.
I have heard that too... from bragging GI's. Talk to someone who has some real picutre of the situation and they will tell a differant story. They have horrible problems organization and getting use out of their technology. Some companies make it past them in what they can do because companies are in it for money. Money will drive people much harder than preotecting yourself. Sure the military does have VERY high tech secrets but most of the time they arent able to mass produce anything useble out of it and end up buying their tech from companies or modifying existing products.
I think that ogg would not help anyone. A small number of people would actually let ogg support be a deciding factor in their choise to subscribe. I want it but its not going to make me decide to pay if they support ogg.
I will pay only if i have access to every song i do on p2p. Im nto going to pay for only 1/10th of what i have on p2p. Of course they cant get it all but also a lot of p2p is stuff nobody wants to sell anymore/ever.
The balkins did slow them down but it was NOT the weather. They waited too long and the weather was a problem. How can everyone get history so wrong and argue so much? What happened is simple. There was an almost sucessful assassination attempt on Hitler and he had many top military people killed.
But france was never their main goal. They didn't commit their entire army to france because they were getting ready to go to russia. They would have gone to Russia a whole lot sooner but all sorts of political events and attempted assasinations slowed them down. France still did not get the worst of the German army. Also Russia lost over 10 times as many people as france did.
He also claims to use a brush to brush off random beds he sleeps in. Sounds like a not-so-well-thought-out hoax to me. Honestly do you use a brush when you sleep someone not at home or just pass out wherever.
I dunno about that one. The french had a fairly good army which is why the 8 day invasion was so surprising. France also did not see most of the army as Germany considered the invasion of France to be tying up loose ends as they went for Russia. Most of the troops in France (which includes the ones we fought later) were 80% teenage boys and 35+ year old men. Im not saying they couldn't do anything but the true force of germany got caught in Russia (blah blah land war in Aisa). This is also why we Americans met a lot less resistance coming in. Once we got to germany they quickly took the western invasion more seriously so we took 4 years to win.
Fastrack is only good because there is a lot of users. If everyone on fastrack switched over to gnutella all would be fine. Although the same could be argued for switching to fastrack. Personally i like gnutella more but when p2p works its good enough for me.
Actually its not free at all. You must pay for the whole OS first. Notepad is not bad in itself but it cannot be purchased separatly. Although i have found it IS the perfect program to write your code and compile later with an external compiler. And nothing can beat windows explorer to organize all your source/header files.
Well most people are wrong on this topic. Its counter-intuative to most people to realize melting ice wont raise the water level. Its not even very important to know in most people's lives.
When water freezes it crystalizes. It actually expands when it becomes a solid. As the ice melts is does submerge all the way but the crystal structure breaks down and it takes up less space. None of this matters though because of one simple rule. The weight of an amount of water an object displaces is EQUAL to the weight of the object assuming it floats.
I cant believe people dont even understand frickin water on slashdot. I know its not the most obvious of science but its around us non stop so i would hope you would have learned this.
I never said it was absolute. If it was an absolute reality that our country was going to become a 1984 society obviously more people would fight this. Here are my problems with this database crawler.
A corporation may have the data but it does not mean thats all the government is going after. Its a small step to combine all the govt. databases together. Its just a few mroe small steps to get a database like this is place o combine corporate data. Maybe a few more and your PC has been checked. You dont believe this is possible now but imagine in a couple of years when collecting private data to combat terrorism is old news. You have to find the point at which you actually are helping prevent terrorism but are not trampling rights. Who knows if a corporation had the data that could have prevented 9/11. I am fairly sure however that combining all the govt. databases together is a good start and i think thats about as far as they should go.
Also you said that a person cannot be prosecuted on mere suspicion. I am not so much worried about prosecution as i am a tribunal. Now that the govt. does not have to give us due process 100% of the time this database could easily be abused. Either one of these new powers is not a problem. A tribunal is not a problem if they are not bringing in innocent people. A database is not a problem if they are bringing in only terrorists. Its a combination of all the broad new powers the govt. and even worse the military is asking for after 9/11.
Ok i dont know if your trolling as the devil advocate or you really believe this BS but let me explain. We cannot live in a free society where the government suspects of things we dont do.
First of all we have the right to privacy. The constitution never says directly that we have this right but the supreme court has made it clear, to have all of our other rights to speech as well as other we must have privacy.
Because we have the right to privacy we should be able to exercise our right and be able to actually keep some privacy. Exercising your rights is not groudns for probably cause, that has been defended over and over again up to the Supreme Court.
I do care if they flag me as a terrorist. Even though i also have no intention of becoming a terrorist who knows what will be defined as terrorism. Read Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, he explains that going against the goverment is patriotism at its best and only when you stand up for yourself even while encarcerated you will be more free than any iron bars can ever lock down. Civil Disobediance open with a quote and i will end with it; "That government is best which governs least".
They want to look at seemingly "normal" people and see if there is a realtion to "known terrorists". Sounds about the same as seeing if normal people have been conversing with "known communists". They want to be able to setup a database that can flag all "non-normal" activity. Non normal activity is what life is about. I dont want to think that if i dont show up to my 9-5 job on time and get married by the time im 28 and own 1.75 SUV's im flagges as possible terrorist.
Who says the universe works in numbers? Why do we think that we can bring everything down to math. Maybe it cant be done and we are not exactly wasting time but we wont ever find the end if we simply exploit math.
lol yours is good too. I get a lot of crap for using "unmount" instead of "umount" though. I did it on purpose though and i dont care how much i get flamed.
How often do you check to see that you REALLY got $20.00 of gas. Do you measure it out down the the fluid ounce. Probably not. If The tank ifs full or you have spent enough money you pay and go on your way. What if they put half a cup less in your tank? It would be a free $0.10 x the billions of fillups a year.
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They are willing to throw out win98 and winME but i doubt they will get rid of 2k. They know 2k is better than XP for a lot of things and it would be like shooting themselves in the foot to piss off the current installed base of win2k.
... so i will be the one to say what everyone is thinking... "duh?"... we know its insecure but what do we do? Should we try to work to get windows secure somehow or do our own open source thing? honestly what good are we going to do with this new info?
So there is a 1% chance that this will end up in a real change/project. Its basically just a bunch of theoretical stuff that if about a dozen decisions go the right way will mean something 5 years from now.
I have heard that too... from bragging GI's. Talk to someone who has some real picutre of the situation and they will tell a differant story. They have horrible problems organization and getting use out of their technology. Some companies make it past them in what they can do because companies are in it for money. Money will drive people much harder than preotecting yourself. Sure the military does have VERY high tech secrets but most of the time they arent able to mass produce anything useble out of it and end up buying their tech from companies or modifying existing products.
And get only 50% compression? Personally i would like it as an option but i dont think i would use it much.
I think that ogg would not help anyone. A small number of people would actually let ogg support be a deciding factor in their choise to subscribe. I want it but its not going to make me decide to pay if they support ogg.
I will pay only if i have access to every song i do on p2p. Im nto going to pay for only 1/10th of what i have on p2p. Of course they cant get it all but also a lot of p2p is stuff nobody wants to sell anymore/ever.
The balkins did slow them down but it was NOT the weather. They waited too long and the weather was a problem. How can everyone get history so wrong and argue so much? What happened is simple. There was an almost sucessful assassination attempt on Hitler and he had many top military people killed.
But france was never their main goal. They didn't commit their entire army to france because they were getting ready to go to russia. They would have gone to Russia a whole lot sooner but all sorts of political events and attempted assasinations slowed them down. France still did not get the worst of the German army. Also Russia lost over 10 times as many people as france did.
He also claims to use a brush to brush off random beds he sleeps in. Sounds like a not-so-well-thought-out hoax to me. Honestly do you use a brush when you sleep someone not at home or just pass out wherever.
I dunno about that one. The french had a fairly good army which is why the 8 day invasion was so surprising. France also did not see most of the army as Germany considered the invasion of France to be tying up loose ends as they went for Russia. Most of the troops in France (which includes the ones we fought later) were 80% teenage boys and 35+ year old men. Im not saying they couldn't do anything but the true force of germany got caught in Russia (blah blah land war in Aisa). This is also why we Americans met a lot less resistance coming in. Once we got to germany they quickly took the western invasion more seriously so we took 4 years to win.
Fastrack is only good because there is a lot of users. If everyone on fastrack switched over to gnutella all would be fine. Although the same could be argued for switching to fastrack. Personally i like gnutella more but when p2p works its good enough for me.
Actually its not free at all. You must pay for the whole OS first. Notepad is not bad in itself but it cannot be purchased separatly. Although i have found it IS the perfect program to write your code and compile later with an external compiler. And nothing can beat windows explorer to organize all your source/header files.
Well most people are wrong on this topic. Its counter-intuative to most people to realize melting ice wont raise the water level. Its not even very important to know in most people's lives.
When water freezes it crystalizes. It actually expands when it becomes a solid. As the ice melts is does submerge all the way but the crystal structure breaks down and it takes up less space. None of this matters though because of one simple rule. The weight of an amount of water an object displaces is EQUAL to the weight of the object assuming it floats.
I cant believe people dont even understand frickin water on slashdot. I know its not the most obvious of science but its around us non stop so i would hope you would have learned this.
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I never said it was absolute. If it was an absolute reality that our country was going to become a 1984 society obviously more people would fight this. Here are my problems with this database crawler.
A corporation may have the data but it does not mean thats all the government is going after. Its a small step to combine all the govt. databases together. Its just a few mroe small steps to get a database like this is place o combine corporate data. Maybe a few more and your PC has been checked. You dont believe this is possible now but imagine in a couple of years when collecting private data to combat terrorism is old news. You have to find the point at which you actually are helping prevent terrorism but are not trampling rights. Who knows if a corporation had the data that could have prevented 9/11. I am fairly sure however that combining all the govt. databases together is a good start and i think thats about as far as they should go.
Also you said that a person cannot be prosecuted on mere suspicion. I am not so much worried about prosecution as i am a tribunal. Now that the govt. does not have to give us due process 100% of the time this database could easily be abused. Either one of these new powers is not a problem. A tribunal is not a problem if they are not bringing in innocent people. A database is not a problem if they are bringing in only terrorists. Its a combination of all the broad new powers the govt. and even worse the military is asking for after 9/11.
Ok i dont know if your trolling as the devil advocate or you really believe this BS but let me explain. We cannot live in a free society where the government suspects of things we dont do.
First of all we have the right to privacy. The constitution never says directly that we have this right but the supreme court has made it clear, to have all of our other rights to speech as well as other we must have privacy.
Because we have the right to privacy we should be able to exercise our right and be able to actually keep some privacy. Exercising your rights is not groudns for probably cause, that has been defended over and over again up to the Supreme Court.
I do care if they flag me as a terrorist. Even though i also have no intention of becoming a terrorist who knows what will be defined as terrorism. Read Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, he explains that going against the goverment is patriotism at its best and only when you stand up for yourself even while encarcerated you will be more free than any iron bars can ever lock down. Civil Disobediance open with a quote and i will end with it; "That government is best which governs least".
They want to look at seemingly "normal" people and see if there is a realtion to "known terrorists". Sounds about the same as seeing if normal people have been conversing with "known communists". They want to be able to setup a database that can flag all "non-normal" activity. Non normal activity is what life is about. I dont want to think that if i dont show up to my 9-5 job on time and get married by the time im 28 and own 1.75 SUV's im flagges as possible terrorist.
... I should be ther first to say "POINDEXTER" LOLOLOL
Who says the universe works in numbers? Why do we think that we can bring everything down to math. Maybe it cant be done and we are not exactly wasting time but we wont ever find the end if we simply exploit math.
Hes MACGYVER... hes a practially a MACHINE...
lol yours is good too. I get a lot of crap for using "unmount" instead of "umount" though. I did it on purpose though and i dont care how much i get flamed.
I run two boxers at once... thats two threads at once...
How often do you check to see that you REALLY got $20.00 of gas. Do you measure it out down the the fluid ounce. Probably not. If The tank ifs full or you have spent enough money you pay and go on your way. What if they put half a cup less in your tank? It would be a free $0.10 x the billions of fillups a year.