I'm talking about actually being able to go outside your home without worrying that the government will put you away for pissing off some minor bureaucratic official.
Heh. What's new? With cops kicking the shit out of illegal immigrants that cross the Mexico border, and Rodney King, and soliciting sex from women pulled over for speeding, this is just America showing its true Jock (love bullies, hate geeks) colours without hiding behind lawyers and media gagging orders for a change. It's refreshing because we're seeing the beauracratic officials' unhindered actions and opinions in a naked sense.
Now what my real question is: If you are so concerned about the rights of an enemy of the United States, maybe you should be under investigation.
Yeah like locking that second grader in jail for saying, "If everyone at school including the teachers hated me and sidelined me, if they made way for the jocks, bullied me, gave no homework to jocks, treated stupid jocks like they were Gods, and this happened every school day then maybe I'd get damn sick of it and also think about doing what happened in Columbine High school"
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So , hmm September 11 never happened ?
Man, when will it stop being "wag the dog" style war ?
When 1,2, 5 millions of people are dead.
Would that be enough for you ?
In my opinion, > 3 cities being nuked. The number of people killed in WTC won't even register on the next national census. < 0.0005% of the US population were killed in WTC, far far less than WW2.
Hell, as far as I'm concerned, they should be torn to pieces and thrown to the sharks. The tricky part is establishing who's actually in Al Qaeda and who isn't
That's exactly why the courts were invented, they decide how much evidence is necessary, etc. The US is playing smoke and mirrors against the DoJ by keeping them in a jurisdictionally disputed area. The US courts have the same rights there as they do over Russian warez sites. I think this is a good thing because it shows Bush is afraid of the Courts (read: Watergate)
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My wife hates time travel and refuses to talk with me about it.
That's probably because when you're late for dinner you say, "But honey if I was on time then you'd just complain about me not cleaning up or not taking the trash out, so precognitively I thought I'd be late for dinner because that's what I'd like you to complain about today."
How long has MS been in court with the Feds? Haven't they been *convicted* of obtaining a monopoly through illegal business practices? Isn't the European Union investigating them? Don't Russian government/military agencies use a lot of Linux and other GPLed software? Don't the Germans use a lot of Linux?
IMO, if they try to lock *any* software out of this scheme, they'll be busted by the Feds and completely dropped by other countries fasters than they can write their shitty, bug-ridden, insecure code!
With Bush in power, if they can drill for oil in Alaska and the Arctic, then you're damn right Micro$oft can get away with this. If Bush gives $100million aid to Russia and friends to not rock Micro$oft's boat, then you can bet they'll just sit back and smile.
I don't believe a word of this palladium thing until I see a working chip, and I see that it works better than current systems. THEN we can start talking about that, and hacking it.
By then it will be too late. As kerberos has shown, it's possible to come up with a pretty much unhackable system. It's possible to use a kerberos/SSH-type mechanism in every chip on the board to encrypt all transmissions on every bus. To hack that every linux user will need an ion-beam in their garage.
If you seriously think anything can be hacked, then show me an exploit in the current release of MIT kerberos that is a fatal flaw which is unpatchable and valid forever more.
Not exactly, Onstream didn't do a cheap linux port of their driver. If they create trash it looks bad for the company. Right now every company can just remove Flash like Micro$oft removed JRE from XP. Macromedia wants to change this by OSI. This way only stupid browsers won't support it, like Opera pre-alpha saying "Yeah we support HTML 4.01 w3c specification but we don't render IFRAMEs." It's like IFRAMEs are part of the HTML 4.01 spec, if you can't render them, then your browser is trash, simple as that. OSI compliance moves the locus of responsibility.
Dude, don't complain about freenixes. They soak up the old technology so companies have to create new stuff. If freenixes didn't exist, then Gates might still be leeching us for Windows 3.0 saying "Upgrade to 3.1"
Actually why are i.e. ANSI emails not possible? Wouldn't this be something cool?
Dude, be quiet. Let Micro$oft collapse under its own weight when its lawyers try to lobby China to stop the selling of unlicensed copies, then suddenly the Chinese premiere says, "Microsoft is trying to screw us, just like Falum Gong". Then that's it.
Now who would actually implement this? Currently instead of going to the w3c which Microsoft will just ignore (think Frontpage extensions), you'll have to convince Micro$oft to get Outlook to support ANSI emails. The linux people will b*tch about Micro$oft changing standards for a few weeks until the latest version of Eudoro supports it, then they'll shut up. It's so sad that Micro$oft has to pioneer new tech, otherwise it'll end up as just another pre-alpha on sourceforge. Catch-22, why use ANSI in email when nobody can read it, why get an ANSI email reader when nobody's going to send you any.
This is what makes legislated morality so stupid - you just can't legislate morality - you teach it by example.
Exactly, again and again on Jenny Jones these stupid kids come on saying, "I was playing Russian roulette with live ammo, I didn't think anything was gonna happen". So who you gonna put in jail for that one, eh? The police are a reactionary force, they can only prevent some repeat crimes at best.
You definately have something to lose: a recommendation
As Parent said, his manager only sees that he failed to solve the impossible problem. So his bridge is already burnt, he'll get a neutral recommendation at best.
If he complains to upper management in writing then his grievance will be officially logged. He must say "my Manager was harassing me and physically assaulted me to meet my deadline". If he switches jobs or loses the job because of it he can come down on the company hard on the grounds of discrimination (not racial, but circumstancial like constructive dismissal). This is in the UK, in US this might be a little different.
I have to agree with the judge in this case: linking to articles that provide detailed instructions for sabotaging trains and killing dozens, if not hundreds of innocent people, should not be tolerated. Free speech is a privilege, not a right, and it should be used responsibly - not to hurt people. Posting instructions on how to cook meth (which harms no-one) is a reasonable exercise of one's first amendment rights
YEEHAA! Is this illegal:
If you want to find out how to derail trains. Go to the *library*.
Gonna put me in jail now huh? I've linked to a place where this information is avilable...
Make KDE illegal, long live Gnome, so ruled a Dutch Judge this morning. Nobody has the authority to judge what is right and what is wrong. A lawyer argues about how to legally commit murder (take him to Somalia, do it there, then come back to the US no crime committed, fine by a US lawyer). Maybe that's why more lawyers commit suicide than anybody else? If you go to the conservative American heartland, if you have some marijuana in your hand they'll treat you like you're binLaden himself. Everybody has different judgement criteria.
But now step backward from your techy knowledge and think about it from a pure users perspective. Now why can't I put colors in my email???
Or even better just use a Macromedia Flash attachment with a cute little animation. Plus attach IloveYou.bat.exe. Viruses propogate for a reason, dude, you hit the hammer on the head.
Two days later when he came to me and told me that he didn't think it was possible I had to fight very hard to hold back the "I told you so" because I was hoping that this incident would convince him that in the future if I say "impossible" then he should consider the possibility of something really being impossible. Unfortunately nothing has changed and I am now looking to change jobs.
If you're going to leave the company, shout at the manager first, I mean SHOUT. You should have said "I told you so, you've wasted 3 months of project time, the customer is gonna be very unhappy. I'm reporting this incident to upper management." Take your crumpled up proof with you. You can always go over peoples' heads, if upper management likes you nobody is gonna let you go and your manager will get fired. These CEOs don't get paid > $millions for sitting on their asses.
Best case: Take him out. Take a counteroffer from another employer to your CEO and get a pay rise for yourself Intermediate case: Take him out, he pulls strings and takes you with him (you're gonna leave anyway so you've got nothing to lose, plus you get the satisfaction of ruining his life) Worst case: You get taken out (you're gonna leave anyway so you've got nothing to lose)
Re:How is the Brooks article unintentionally funny
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hey, you mentioned this before...
Oh yeah I did actually, in a Parent of a Parent. You're on the ball today, let's hope Owen and Beckham are as well
bitter?;-P
Depends on whether Brazil score.
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I put it to you that the market rate for house prices is heavily dictated (by demand) by repayment affordability. Upon an interest rate rise, the effect is twofold - the repayments rise beyond the affordability of the majority of mortgageholders because it upsets the calculations they did at the low interest rate. Plus it discourages new homebuyers as they'll see high repayments (indirect links are not always weak), causing a crash in the housing market.
So sudden increase in interest rates induces a drop in value of house and an increase in mortgage burden
True, but it still scares the heck out of me. Reiserfs and friends are still quite new, personally I have more faith in ext3 after the author wrote that it had about 100 sanity checks or something plus it's closely based on ext2.
Critical systems programming is a very different beast, even LILO would fail (power-off in the middle of writing the boot sector if you don't believe me). In my book a good operating system would be able to achieve full unmanned recovery from a power failure occuring in the middle of a hard disk write of any file that isn't a read-only part of the operating system itself. Otherwise, you better have a keyboard and a couple spare disk images lying around plus tapes just in case (which I do with Onstream)
In many cases, there isn't enough information kept outside the driver to completely reconstruct the state before the crash (and no guarantee that retrying the operation won't cause another crash).
True, then don't reinitialise the driver, just cause a kernel panic then kill the driver, unless of course it's tty. I can imagine someone coming up with an API standard for this sort of communication between the kernel and an outside driver.
start seeing protected memory for drivers and also running somewhere in ring-1+.
Not gonna happen. As soon as the drivers are taken out of kernelspace and you get a performance hit, tomshardware will come down on you like a ton of bricks. Heck they even get excited about 0.5% speed increases. I wish they would say "Yeah it's 30% slower on the benchmarks than everything else but it's the most stable so I'll give it a 10/10
There IS a difference-- we have strict building codes to minimize this risk-- with stiff penalties for violations. Maybe we should do this with software.
Software companies shouldn't be allowed to waive all responsibility like they do now. Thing is you don't sometimes know who's gonna use that software, and even open source systems are vulnerable like the intermittent FS corruption bug in FreeBSD on shutdown disk usage, I've been hearing about corruption there for a while but I never suspected FreeBSD had a major flaw. Bajesus.
What would be better than law is new trading standards, you have to tell the customer about how reliable your software is and who is liable. If my car had written on it "this car might explode if you switch on the AC" most people are gonna be real apprehensive and ask a *lot* of questions. Joe sixpack must be forced to ask these questions.
Don't even talk about software certification e.g. MCSE, urghhhh!
I just serviced a Win2k HP netserver 2000 in RAID-1 configuration. Uptime: 6 months (15 APC power failure warnings that nobody had noticed). Halfway through clicking away I said, "Uhhh, oh yeah do you log these power failures?" and she said, "What power failures?".
When I asked the secretary where her server was and she looked at me weird and said, "But... NOBODY goes into the server room, they came and fitted it, and then told us NOT to touch it" as if it was Freddy Kruger's damn basement or something. I've seen this phenomenon with *nix boxes, but never with Windows until today. Seeing in the log "screensaver has been active for 12000000 seconds" (4 months) on Win2k is an unprecedented experience. I need a double vodka.
Win2k is better than WinXP, screw Micro$oft's planned obsolescence programme.
That's such a shame. If you are a teacher, then surely you know other younger teachers that work in schools and teach the younger children. Why don't you tell those teachers to be frank about China? There's plenty of truths about China that must be known. That way also next year you'll get more business.
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If you seriously think anything can be hacked, then show me an exploit in the current release of MIT kerberos that is a fatal flaw which is unpatchable and valid forever more.
Not exactly, Onstream didn't do a cheap linux port of their driver. If they create trash it looks bad for the company. Right now every company can just remove Flash like Micro$oft removed JRE from XP. Macromedia wants to change this by OSI. This way only stupid browsers won't support it, like Opera pre-alpha saying "Yeah we support HTML 4.01 w3c specification but we don't render IFRAMEs." It's like IFRAMEs are part of the HTML 4.01 spec, if you can't render them, then your browser is trash, simple as that. OSI compliance moves the locus of responsibility.
Dude, don't complain about freenixes. They soak up the old technology so companies have to create new stuff. If freenixes didn't exist, then Gates might still be leeching us for Windows 3.0 saying "Upgrade to 3.1"
Now who would actually implement this? Currently instead of going to the w3c which Microsoft will just ignore (think Frontpage extensions), you'll have to convince Micro$oft to get Outlook to support ANSI emails. The linux people will b*tch about Micro$oft changing standards for a few weeks until the latest version of Eudoro supports it, then they'll shut up. It's so sad that Micro$oft has to pioneer new tech, otherwise it'll end up as just another pre-alpha on sourceforge. Catch-22, why use ANSI in email when nobody can read it, why get an ANSI email reader when nobody's going to send you any.
If he complains to upper management in writing then his grievance will be officially logged. He must say "my Manager was harassing me and physically assaulted me to meet my deadline". If he switches jobs or loses the job because of it he can come down on the company hard on the grounds of discrimination (not racial, but circumstancial like constructive dismissal). This is in the UK, in US this might be a little different.
If you want to find out how to derail trains. Go to the *library*.
Gonna put me in jail now huh? I've linked to a place where this information is avilable...
Make KDE illegal, long live Gnome, so ruled a Dutch Judge this morning. Nobody has the authority to judge what is right and what is wrong. A lawyer argues about how to legally commit murder (take him to Somalia, do it there, then come back to the US no crime committed, fine by a US lawyer). Maybe that's why more lawyers commit suicide than anybody else? If you go to the conservative American heartland, if you have some marijuana in your hand they'll treat you like you're binLaden himself. Everybody has different judgement criteria.
Best case: Take him out. Take a counteroffer from another employer to your CEO and get a pay rise for yourself
Intermediate case: Take him out, he pulls strings and takes you with him (you're gonna leave anyway so you've got nothing to lose, plus you get the satisfaction of ruining his life)
Worst case: You get taken out (you're gonna leave anyway so you've got nothing to lose)
So sudden increase in interest rates induces a drop in value of house and an increase in mortgage burden
Critical systems programming is a very different beast, even LILO would fail (power-off in the middle of writing the boot sector if you don't believe me). In my book a good operating system would be able to achieve full unmanned recovery from a power failure occuring in the middle of a hard disk write of any file that isn't a read-only part of the operating system itself. Otherwise, you better have a keyboard and a couple spare disk images lying around plus tapes just in case (which I do with Onstream)
What would be better than law is new trading standards, you have to tell the customer about how reliable your software is and who is liable. If my car had written on it "this car might explode if you switch on the AC" most people are gonna be real apprehensive and ask a *lot* of questions. Joe sixpack must be forced to ask these questions.
Don't even talk about software certification e.g. MCSE, urghhhh!
When I asked the secretary where her server was and she looked at me weird and said, "But... NOBODY goes into the server room, they came and fitted it, and then told us NOT to touch it" as if it was Freddy Kruger's damn basement or something. I've seen this phenomenon with *nix boxes, but never with Windows until today. Seeing in the log "screensaver has been active for 12000000 seconds" (4 months) on Win2k is an unprecedented experience. I need a double vodka.
Win2k is better than WinXP, screw Micro$oft's planned obsolescence programme.
That's such a shame. If you are a teacher, then surely you know other younger teachers that work in schools and teach the younger children. Why don't you tell those teachers to be frank about China? There's plenty of truths about China that must be known. That way also next year you'll get more business.