rape is not about the sex, it is about having power (on such a primal, fundamental level) over someone else. This is the reason behind heterosexual males raping heterosexual males(in Iraqi prisons, or US prisons). It isn't about the sex or loniness, it is because they can.
Spam should not be jail time, that seems stupid. It makes about as much sense, personally, as drug users getting jail time when they should be getting rehab.
Spammers should be fined significantly, and be put on probation of not owning a computer (and not operating one at all, ideally) for a significant time. Violating this could be jail time or similar.
Spam is a nuissance. One that can be almost ENTIRELY fixed on the client side, mostly fixed on the server side and one that does not deserve jail time to the assholes that exploit it.
Cause and effect. We should be fixing this on the computer systems in Outlook and other email clients(preview windows, anti-virus software, anti-adware software, white/lack lists, bayesian filters, etc) and on the servers(AV, white/black lists, less stringent batesian filters, etc.). The prevalance of spam today is due to Aol, Earthlink and MSN not putting in strong spam filters and controls for the user to benefit from.
Corporations have not worked very hard in making spam go away, and thus, it hasn't. Gmail's spam filters are exceptionally powerful in the way they work(bayesian smart filters, that are partially(i believe) share by the whole community to benefit from). if AOL adopted the same system that Gmail uses, 30 million users would have less than 5 spam emails a day in the worst cases, in their inbox.
I have gone from about a dozen a day in my inbox, to about 1 a week in my inbox.
Your note on govenor control brings up a good point. This, along with the states won count by Bush, makes a constitutional ammendment to ban Gay marriage an much more(though not overly) likely possibility.
I live in Oregon. I am ashamed my state, a good democraticly-leaning, nature-loving(beautiful forests!), common sense thinking, medical marijuana selling state, was one of the eleven state to pass religious principle into legal definition.
A marriage contract is a legal matter. Granted and defined by the government. The government has no bloody right in enacting or pushing religious principles into law.
A sad day in all parts of these, the United States.
Granted, things like a good shell accounts with screen can be an amazingly powerful experience, I do hope you have a more powerful computer for none/. related computing.
Note: I am a freshman in the feild. With some, but not SA level linux experience, and some(more than linux) Windows experience that again, is not SA level.
I have spent a couple days configuring and screwing with SUS for Windows... Easy setup and sync, but the software is inconsistant and without documentation, etc. Low quality freeware from Microsoft.
The nice thing with SUS though, is the ability to apply or not apply updates.
If yum(and it might) had a server/client option that a given yum/linux server could approve updates(and create logical groups) and still do the great software rollout and dependency checking(preferably with an option gui, ofcourse) then I think it would be a huge step in the right direction. And a clear lead over patch management in windows
I would imagine some decent encryption(public key?) would be required.
I would like to see a ipod-sized wifi/bluetooth 'router'... It plugs in or creates a PAN(personal area network) of all your stuff, but also acts as a router for when you want to email someone from your pda, your pda(default gateway/aceess points) knows to send email to your wifi box, that then does the encryption and auto-discovery of other wifi boxes, access points, etc.
Each wifi box would carry packets for a set ammount of time, say, 60 minutes, so if Jane walks by and gets the packets for your email to Jon, and then walks off, Jane has 60 minutes to forward those packets etc. etc..
Now things like routing protocols and whatnot might go to hell. How do you plan for multiple deliveries(Jane has a copy, including potentially anyone Jane walks by, plus yourself). While at the same time knowing that just because you send the packets to Jane doesn't mean that they will be forwarded at all(she could not walk by anyone else)...
I think an idea similar to this would be amazing. Hell, add in a flash card for web cache... and an automated google/link list page of what your wifi box has cached and things could get really fun!
The problem isn't so much that you have to (know about and) run this debfoster software, its that it isn't built into something like yum specifically... From my limited use, I really liked yum for CLI and synaptic for GUI...
I don't care if it is a.rpm.deb or.tar.gz file. I simply want a single CLI program and GUI program (that can be used interchangably, preferablly operating essentially the same way) that handles install, dependency checking, removal (with dependency checking) and upgrading/updating.
Add/Remove/Upgrade. It is simple. I don't care how or from where, but this is a must...
To go one step further, I would be nice if I could even interchange from various sources(.deb.rpm.tar.gz) and from websites. In theory, this is just associating file types with the this program and the like.
I am undecided if I would bappy or horrified if your were my parent.
But I do agree, raing the false levels of censorship wouldn't do anything, the parents are the ones that need to take care of their kids, not the government's rules imposed on businesses.
why does the GUI, by default(in Mac, Win and Lin) resort to a 'recycle bin' while the CLI straight gets rid of the file? It always seemed awkward that the two system(in Mac and Linux they are very co-existant, Windows hides it as much as possible) would have contradictory processes for deletion.
I was surfing around my interweb the other day and it was like beep boop beep BEEP! Then it went all blank, and I was like 'dude, I just deleted the interweb!" and then I was like expecting the CIA to come get me or something, but it was in my recycle bin, so I saved it... Phew... that was a close one.
That is one of my problems with the software. But you are right, and that aspect slipped my mind.
let me rephrase it to "I will jump on it, host a large cache and leave it online for others to benefit from"
I would like freenet to have a host/cache option, where you the user knowingly host files... This at the expense of security, but easier to use. It would also not fill the network cache system upon insertion, leaving room for files that do want to remain private.
I think it is interesting that Osama's war with the United States is atleast arguably more justafiable(though not excusable) than the our war with Iraq.
We attacked Iraq before they attacked us. They posed no immediate threat, etc, etc. The particulars are arguable according to whom you decide to vote for, but that is the way of things. Heck, we have even killd 5 times as many people as Osama killed in 9-11....
Didn't we warn ourselves in the days after the attacks, that we shouldn't let them change us. That changing our liberties, our society and our convictions were what the terrorists wanted. Isn't this what we vowed not to allow to happen?
The word 'backfire' doesn't seem to quite cover the current situation.
The constitution requires that any President being, among other things, a natural-born citizen of the States. Even if Bin Laden (I can't believe I am saying this) wanted to be President, he is not qualified.
The same is true of Governator in California. He can be a Senator someday, if California *ahem* decides that, but Arnold simply does not legally qualify to be President. This was actually a common joke when he was running for Californian Governor, they saw it as the natural evolution.
It is too taboo for Google to do, though I would love to see it.
I think a web search would be huge. http://www.mozdex.com/ for example. Even if they did a regular cache of the content it can retreive, index it, and then build a search page around that. Each link being a link(and meta data description) of the p2p uri. That would be huge.
Finally, if we could use this search engine, or client-side searching improvements, to start flagging and ignoring RIAA-crippled files, broken and mislabeled content, etc.
This could be revolutionary, really.
P.S. A quick Google search turned up this for BearShare: http://www.zeropaid.com/gnusearch/
Development is not my thing, unfortunately, but Freenet is one of the projects I check up on ever so often.
Bittorrent caught on because it was straight forward to use, even though it was very different then other types of downloading, and it worked relatively easily and reliably even for regular users.
When freenet becomes reliable to instert and retreive data regularly. When routing works robustly and reliably(and is not so much a crap shoot it has been in the past) and when the system can easily handle multiple version of a new site(without fumbling, without issue), and no, my past experience with retreiving new version, or retreiving information I knew for a fact existed has been subpar, even for a beta project.
I am behind and strongly believe in the ideals of the Freenet project. The moment it gets in the final states of an equivalent 1.0 that could start getting widely used, I will jump on it, host as much free and legal software as I can, and encourage my friends to join the network. It just isn't there yet, it just doesn't work in the way it should.
Here is hoping that Freenet will become what I dream it will be. I will be the loudest and most adament cheerleader of this software. Again, this is probably on my list of top 3 or 4 coolest and most interesting projects, so I very much want it to succeed.
if a half dozen fresh eyes from the open source community sat down with that code, cleaned it up and gave a new perspective on old bugs and troubles, I think the freenet userbase(and thus, its security as it grows more reliable and secure when it scaleS) would double on a weekly basis.
The concept is there, the code is there, the design is there. Freenet has been plagued with instability and innefficient algorithms for finding and retrievin(and inserting) data.
Also, an ability to host(though you would lose some security, it should be an option) your own share library alongside your cache of the secure-content on the network.
Kerry isn't perfect, but a) it ISN'T universal healthcare, but it does get us closer. b) 2 trillion? factcheck.org, among others, have widely put down the number Bush has put out there on how the government will be running the health care system if kerry wins, and the number used to pooh-pooh the plan are imcomplete are wrong.
However, if you wanted to say a (reasonable and accurate) 900 billion dollar figure, that both Kerry has accpeted and the multiple non-partisan groups have arrived at and presented with facts. Thorpe Study presented by Factcheck.org. (it is a.doc file, sorry)
Factcheck has the best article, and it is even critical of Kerry. Yes, he has more specifics to give. His plans will pay for a bulk of it, but not necesarily all of it. More specifics and more ways of redistributing money would likely cover this.
2 Trillion is a rediculous and simply unfounded number. I understand that not everyone has time to lookup every fact, but don't spread things you havn't atleast TRIED to look into as truth. Esspecially if you were presented this information from a politician that stands to benefit from the damage those numbers imply.
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rape is not about the sex, it is about having power (on such a primal, fundamental level) over someone else. This is the reason behind heterosexual males raping heterosexual males(in Iraqi prisons, or US prisons). It isn't about the sex or loniness, it is because they can.
Spam should not be jail time, that seems stupid. It makes about as much sense, personally, as drug users getting jail time when they should be getting rehab.
Spammers should be fined significantly, and be put on probation of not owning a computer (and not operating one at all, ideally) for a significant time. Violating this could be jail time or similar.
Spam is a nuissance. One that can be almost ENTIRELY fixed on the client side, mostly fixed on the server side and one that does not deserve jail time to the assholes that exploit it.
Cause and effect. We should be fixing this on the computer systems in Outlook and other email clients(preview windows, anti-virus software, anti-adware software, white/lack lists, bayesian filters, etc) and on the servers(AV, white/black lists, less stringent batesian filters, etc.). The prevalance of spam today is due to Aol, Earthlink and MSN not putting in strong spam filters and controls for the user to benefit from.
Corporations have not worked very hard in making spam go away, and thus, it hasn't. Gmail's spam filters are exceptionally powerful in the way they work(bayesian smart filters, that are partially(i believe) share by the whole community to benefit from). if AOL adopted the same system that Gmail uses, 30 million users would have less than 5 spam emails a day in the worst cases, in their inbox.
I have gone from about a dozen a day in my inbox, to about 1 a week in my inbox.
Your note on govenor control brings up a good point. This, along with the states won count by Bush, makes a constitutional ammendment to ban Gay marriage an much more(though not overly) likely possibility.
I live in Oregon. I am ashamed my state, a good democraticly-leaning, nature-loving(beautiful forests!), common sense thinking, medical marijuana selling state, was one of the eleven state to pass religious principle into legal definition.
A marriage contract is a legal matter. Granted and defined by the government. The government has no bloody right in enacting or pushing religious principles into law.
A sad day in all parts of these, the United States.
Nader carried 45 states? Wow, talk about unexpected!
I am sure the small population increase over the past century has had negligible inpact on the time it takes to count an entire state's ballots.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
/. related computing.
Granted, things like a good shell accounts with screen can be an amazingly powerful experience, I do hope you have a more powerful computer for none
A web-based app woudl be excellent, actually. Probably better (remote access) then a local application. Absolutely.
Note: I am a freshman in the feild. With some, but not SA level linux experience, and some(more than linux) Windows experience that again, is not SA level.
I have spent a couple days configuring and screwing with SUS for Windows... Easy setup and sync, but the software is inconsistant and without documentation, etc. Low quality freeware from Microsoft.
The nice thing with SUS though, is the ability to apply or not apply updates.
If yum(and it might) had a server/client option that a given yum/linux server could approve updates(and create logical groups) and still do the great software rollout and dependency checking(preferably with an option gui, ofcourse) then I think it would be a huge step in the right direction. And a clear lead over patch management in windows
I would imagine some decent encryption(public key?) would be required.
I would like to see a ipod-sized wifi/bluetooth 'router'... It plugs in or creates a PAN(personal area network) of all your stuff, but also acts as a router for when you want to email someone from your pda, your pda(default gateway/aceess points) knows to send email to your wifi box, that then does the encryption and auto-discovery of other wifi boxes, access points, etc.
Each wifi box would carry packets for a set ammount of time, say, 60 minutes, so if Jane walks by and gets the packets for your email to Jon, and then walks off, Jane has 60 minutes to forward those packets etc. etc..
Now things like routing protocols and whatnot might go to hell. How do you plan for multiple deliveries(Jane has a copy, including potentially anyone Jane walks by, plus yourself). While at the same time knowing that just because you send the packets to Jane doesn't mean that they will be forwarded at all(she could not walk by anyone else)...
I think an idea similar to this would be amazing. Hell, add in a flash card for web cache... and an automated google/link list page of what your wifi box has cached and things could get really fun!
The problem isn't so much that you have to (know about and) run this debfoster software, its that it isn't built into something like yum specifically... From my limited use, I really liked yum for CLI and synaptic for GUI...
.rpm .deb or .tar.gz file. I simply want a single CLI program and GUI program (that can be used interchangably, preferablly operating essentially the same way) that handles install, dependency checking, removal (with dependency checking) and upgrading/updating.
.rpm .tar.gz) and from websites. In theory, this is just associating file types with the this program and the like.
I don't care if it is a
Add/Remove/Upgrade. It is simple. I don't care how or from where, but this is a must...
To go one step further, I would be nice if I could even interchange from various sources(.deb
Is there any development in this area?
I am undecided if I would bappy or horrified if your were my parent.
But I do agree, raing the false levels of censorship wouldn't do anything, the parents are the ones that need to take care of their kids, not the government's rules imposed on businesses.
Are the graphics and game feel improved much, or is really just the GTA3 engine with some new features and a touch up?
I have played GTA3, loved it. Missed almost entirely Vice City, but am planning on buying a PStwo(the mini one) shortly with San Andreas.
Firefox 0.9.3, win xp sp1.
Clicking the link takes me to Google.com, the status bar says Google.com also.
Civil disobedience.
alias google=" grep -r . -H -I -i -n -e"
:)
google "foobar"
Now THAT is a charm.
You linux guys always make it harder than it needs to be!
why does the GUI, by default(in Mac, Win and Lin) resort to a 'recycle bin' while the CLI straight gets rid of the file? It always seemed awkward that the two system(in Mac and Linux they are very co-existant, Windows hides it as much as possible) would have contradictory processes for deletion.
Any thoughts?
Oh man, don't remind me.
I was surfing around my interweb the other day and it was like beep boop beep BEEP! Then it went all blank, and I was like 'dude, I just deleted the interweb!" and then I was like expecting the CIA to come get me or something, but it was in my recycle bin, so I saved it... Phew... that was a close one.
That is one of my problems with the software. But you are right, and that aspect slipped my mind.
let me rephrase it to "I will jump on it, host a large cache and leave it online for others to benefit from"
I would like freenet to have a host/cache option, where you the user knowingly host files... This at the expense of security, but easier to use. It would also not fill the network cache system upon insertion, leaving room for files that do want to remain private.
I think it is interesting that Osama's war with the United States is atleast arguably more justafiable(though not excusable) than the our war with Iraq.
We attacked Iraq before they attacked us. They posed no immediate threat, etc, etc. The particulars are arguable according to whom you decide to vote for, but that is the way of things. Heck, we have even killd 5 times as many people as Osama killed in 9-11....
Didn't we warn ourselves in the days after the attacks, that we shouldn't let them change us. That changing our liberties, our society and our convictions were what the terrorists wanted. Isn't this what we vowed not to allow to happen?
The word 'backfire' doesn't seem to quite cover the current situation.
The constitution requires that any President being, among other things, a natural-born citizen of the States. Even if Bin Laden (I can't believe I am saying this) wanted to be President, he is not qualified.
The same is true of Governator in California. He can be a Senator someday, if California *ahem* decides that, but Arnold simply does not legally qualify to be President. This was actually a common joke when he was running for Californian Governor, they saw it as the natural evolution.
It is too taboo for Google to do, though I would love to see it.
I think a web search would be huge. http://www.mozdex.com/ for example. Even if they did a regular cache of the content it can retreive, index it, and then build a search page around that. Each link being a link(and meta data description) of the p2p uri. That would be huge.
Finally, if we could use this search engine, or client-side searching improvements, to start flagging and ignoring RIAA-crippled files, broken and mislabeled content, etc.
This could be revolutionary, really.
P.S. A quick Google search turned up this for BearShare: http://www.zeropaid.com/gnusearch/
Development is not my thing, unfortunately, but Freenet is one of the projects I check up on ever so often.
Bittorrent caught on because it was straight forward to use, even though it was very different then other types of downloading, and it worked relatively easily and reliably even for regular users.
When freenet becomes reliable to instert and retreive data regularly. When routing works robustly and reliably(and is not so much a crap shoot it has been in the past) and when the system can easily handle multiple version of a new site(without fumbling, without issue), and no, my past experience with retreiving new version, or retreiving information I knew for a fact existed has been subpar, even for a beta project.
I am behind and strongly believe in the ideals of the Freenet project. The moment it gets in the final states of an equivalent 1.0 that could start getting widely used, I will jump on it, host as much free and legal software as I can, and encourage my friends to join the network. It just isn't there yet, it just doesn't work in the way it should.
Here is hoping that Freenet will become what I dream it will be. I will be the loudest and most adament cheerleader of this software. Again, this is probably on my list of top 3 or 4 coolest and most interesting projects, so I very much want it to succeed.
if a half dozen fresh eyes from the open source community sat down with that code, cleaned it up and gave a new perspective on old bugs and troubles, I think the freenet userbase(and thus, its security as it grows more reliable and secure when it scaleS) would double on a weekly basis.
The concept is there, the code is there, the design is there. Freenet has been plagued with instability and innefficient algorithms for finding and retrievin(and inserting) data.
Also, an ability to host(though you would lose some security, it should be an option) your own share library alongside your cache of the secure-content on the network.
47kb of actual free publically accessible "legal" information... should be enough for anybody.
But Bush is leading by 2% in the 7-11 polls...
Kerry isn't perfect, but a) it ISN'T universal healthcare, but it does get us closer. b) 2 trillion? factcheck.org, among others, have widely put down the number Bush has put out there on how the government will be running the health care system if kerry wins, and the number used to pooh-pooh the plan are imcomplete are wrong.
However, if you wanted to say a (reasonable and accurate) 900 billion dollar figure, that both Kerry has accpeted and the multiple non-partisan groups have arrived at and presented with facts. Thorpe Study presented by Factcheck.org. (it is a .doc file, sorry)
Factcheck has the best article, and it is even critical of Kerry. Yes, he has more specifics to give. His plans will pay for a bulk of it, but not necesarily all of it. More specifics and more ways of redistributing money would likely cover this.
2 Trillion is a rediculous and simply unfounded number. I understand that not everyone has time to lookup every fact, but don't spread things you havn't atleast TRIED to look into as truth. Esspecially if you were presented this information from a politician that stands to benefit from the damage those numbers imply.