I guess the lab gets its name from you, judging by that photo - you look "high energy" there! Seems you've also managed to recruit the obligatory llama into your team.:D
Nice work.
I agree with most of your post. You do recognise that we are talking about abuses and betrayals of principle.
One should ask questions like "are abuses such as the inquisition inherent to christianity or (organised) religion in general?" or "does communism tend to/always lead to totalitarianism?". If the answer is yes, you have to ask why.
To return to islam and terrorism, I see it this way: Islam is for many what Communism has been for many African and Asian countries. These are nations that have suffered abuse under colonial and local despots. These ideologies provide a intellectual counterpoint and a mobilizing force against colonialists.
I think it's perfectly valid to say inquisitionists weren't "real" Christians any more than Russia's Liberal Democrats are real liberal or democrats. Of course they'll try to twist things around with convoluted logic, but their ideas and actions can't stand a minute of reasoned debate.
In the end all these debates boil down to meanings of key words, but I'm confident it's possible to capture the essence of "Christianity" or "Liberalism" to the extent that you can show they contradict these people's ideas and actions.
Such actions and motives don't stem from their convictions, but from the fact that they are mentally ill, power-hungry, feeling marginalized, angry, they didn't get enough attention as kids or whatever.
Ideologies are power tools. If you were to start a war, you'd have to mobilize the masses. Pick one from: Democracy, Freedom, The Nation, The Flag, King and Country, God, Allah, Protect your family etc. If you have a secret agenda you take an accepted ideology and use it for your own purposes.
Lastly, I'm not sure how fruitful or even possible it is to try to compare the "value of religious convictions". Values stem from convictions and vice versa. If you are a Christian you're quite likely to end up thinking Christianity is better in line with your own Christian values than other religions, i.e. most "valuable".:)
It's the same in developed countries like Finland. We produce the largest number of university-educated engineers per population in the world, IIRC. Top executives are often engineers too. If you graduate with an arts degree you go straight on the dole.
The cause is the economization of society, and on a larger scale it's globalization. The government measures everything in terms of efficiency.
It's kind of sad because when you have a society going through changes such as economic growth and transformation towards an industrialized society (in the case of developing countries), awareness of societal implications is necessary to smooth out the process. Social and political development don't always match economic development.
Well, my point was that you can't sum up the dollars people have spent on buying commercial Linux distros and then say that is how many Linux boxes are out there.
My guess is only a fraction of Linux installs are commercial.
I personally have only bought one RedHat box for a previous employer. I felt like a freerider using Mandrake without joining MandrakeClub so I've converted to Debian and Slackware instead.
He goes on to say the main competitors are FIRMS that sell Linux, such as IBM and RedHat. In other words, there is no Linux, Inc. or a single Linux product.
Reminds me a study I read about in an industry rag some months back. It concluded that Windows is n times more pervasive than Linux because that is how much more people spend on buying their OS.
Just the small fact that Linux is FREE and what you really pay for wheny buying a Linux distro such as RedHat or SuSe is support.
Your statement that "religion requires unconditional acceptance" is a stereotypical view that atheists love to hold. Faith and unquestioning acceptance are not the same.
You shouldn't read religious text scientifically or scientific papers religiously.
If you/really/ have an open mind you'll keep it open to religions as well.
The solution would be to have a "raw download" section on your HD separate from your "personal use" folder. Of course this requires more HD space.
I wonder if this system thwarts the review functionality in eDonkey, where you can leave comments for others users to see. Bogus files tend to have a red exclamation mark next to them.
Also, DC++ hubs are heavily moderated and users with bogus files get kicked quickly.
I'm tired of P2P myself, can't be bothered anymore with either music or movies. I just don't listen to them anymore. Internet radio is a lot more convenient than fiddling with tags or compiling playlists.
FYI your "Federal ordered" hookups are vital administrative tools for use in corporate environments so administrators don't have time to install and configure each of hundreds or thousands of machines by hand. Read up on Windows server, Active Directory and group policies.
Home users don't realise that a large number of features in NT and derivatives Win2K and XP are not intended for home users, but for corporate environments. This means they have services which unfortunately in turn have vulnerabilities.
What does a system for secure legal transactions using XML have to do with a teenager who was ratted on by his mates? Either this was a joke or this guy is way past help. I suspect the first option.
I can't believe this has been modded up. Well, Funny may have been appropriate.
Baaah, statism has been dying for a decade. Estonia is the most liberal country in the EU, at least in terms of the economy. Flat tax rate, no company tax etc.
I saw a TV programme that featured a teacher who has become hypersenstive to electomagnetic radiation. He can't get close to mobile phones or computers or he becomes ill. Apparently copy machines are the worst.
The iexplore executable is 89kb. It's just a kickstarter.
Internet explorer is in fact part of explorer.exe, the windows shell.
Test: Open task manager and close IE so you can only see explorer.exe, not iexplore.exe. Open windows explorer and type a URL into the location bar. It'll open a web page and you'll get the IE toolbars. Check task manager: no iexplore.exe.
It doesn't really matter _where_ the flaw is, as long as it leads to privilege escalation it's as bad as it can get.
My thoughts exactly. Back here in Finland a bank had to close shop in the entire country for a day because of Sasser. Instead of being worried about how they didn't update their systems I'm more worried why MS is being used on mission critical systems like banks and the coast guard.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds familiar.
Not necessarily a big difference.
Saves them from dealing with many small fish.
I guess the lab gets its name from you, judging by that photo - you look "high energy" there! Seems you've also managed to recruit the obligatory llama into your team. :D
Nice work.
Yeah, and with less than 70 comments. A new record?
I agree with most of your post. You do recognise that we are talking about abuses and betrayals of principle. One should ask questions like "are abuses such as the inquisition inherent to christianity or (organised) religion in general?" or "does communism tend to/always lead to totalitarianism?". If the answer is yes, you have to ask why. To return to islam and terrorism, I see it this way: Islam is for many what Communism has been for many African and Asian countries. These are nations that have suffered abuse under colonial and local despots. These ideologies provide a intellectual counterpoint and a mobilizing force against colonialists.
I think it's perfectly valid to say inquisitionists weren't "real" Christians any more than Russia's Liberal Democrats are real liberal or democrats. Of course they'll try to twist things around with convoluted logic, but their ideas and actions can't stand a minute of reasoned debate.
In the end all these debates boil down to meanings of key words, but I'm confident it's possible to capture the essence of "Christianity" or "Liberalism" to the extent that you can show they contradict these people's ideas and actions. Such actions and motives don't stem from their convictions, but from the fact that they are mentally ill, power-hungry, feeling marginalized, angry, they didn't get enough attention as kids or whatever.
Ideologies are power tools. If you were to start a war, you'd have to mobilize the masses. Pick one from: Democracy, Freedom, The Nation, The Flag, King and Country, God, Allah, Protect your family etc. If you have a secret agenda you take an accepted ideology and use it for your own purposes.
Lastly, I'm not sure how fruitful or even possible it is to try to compare the "value of religious convictions". Values stem from convictions and vice versa. If you are a Christian you're quite likely to end up thinking Christianity is better in line with your own Christian values than other religions, i.e. most "valuable". :)
Nothing a for-loop and wget can't handle. (Don't ask how I got the idea. Hint: image-intensive content...).
Now rape my free webspace provider!It's the same in developed countries like Finland. We produce the largest number of university-educated engineers per population in the world, IIRC. Top executives are often engineers too. If you graduate with an arts degree you go straight on the dole.
The cause is the economization of society, and on a larger scale it's globalization. The government measures everything in terms of efficiency.
It's kind of sad because when you have a society going through changes such as economic growth and transformation towards an industrialized society (in the case of developing countries), awareness of societal implications is necessary to smooth out the process. Social and political development don't always match economic development.
Great stuff, now we can just expect MILLIONS of spam calls from China.
- Unregulated
- Dirt cheap
- Easy to script a 5 sec call to millions of numbers
Well, my point was that you can't sum up the dollars people have spent on buying commercial Linux distros and then say that is how many Linux boxes are out there. My guess is only a fraction of Linux installs are commercial. I personally have only bought one RedHat box for a previous employer. I felt like a freerider using Mandrake without joining MandrakeClub so I've converted to Debian and Slackware instead.
I'd hazard to guess that the fin on top of the case is a WiFi antenna.
He goes on to say the main competitors are FIRMS that sell Linux, such as IBM and RedHat. In other words, there is no Linux, Inc. or a single Linux product.
Reminds me a study I read about in an industry rag some months back. It concluded that Windows is n times more pervasive than Linux because that is how much more people spend on buying their OS.
Just the small fact that Linux is FREE and what you really pay for wheny buying a Linux distro such as RedHat or SuSe is support.
This is slightly OT, but can anyone recommend a good FOSS stream encoder & proxy combo?
I've looked at the offerings on freshmeat but would appreciate opinions based on real experience.
TIA
I suspect he/she likes to lurk on messageboards and posts "witty" comments anonymously.
The proof is not in the pudding.
/pedant
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Thank you.
Your statement that "religion requires unconditional acceptance" is a stereotypical view that atheists love to hold. Faith and unquestioning acceptance are not the same.
/really/ have an open mind you'll keep it open to religions as well.
You shouldn't read religious text scientifically or scientific papers religiously.
If you
The solution would be to have a "raw download" section on your HD separate from your "personal use" folder. Of course this requires more HD space.
I wonder if this system thwarts the review functionality in eDonkey, where you can leave comments for others users to see. Bogus files tend to have a red exclamation mark next to them.
Also, DC++ hubs are heavily moderated and users with bogus files get kicked quickly.
I'm tired of P2P myself, can't be bothered anymore with either music or movies. I just don't listen to them anymore. Internet radio is a lot more convenient than fiddling with tags or compiling playlists.
Home users don't realise that a large number of features in NT and derivatives Win2K and XP are not intended for home users, but for corporate environments. This means they have services which unfortunately in turn have vulnerabilities.
What does a system for secure legal transactions using XML have to do with a teenager who was ratted on by his mates? Either this was a joke or this guy is way past help. I suspect the first option.
I can't believe this has been modded up. Well, Funny may have been appropriate.
Jeez.
Baaah, statism has been dying for a decade. Estonia is the most liberal country in the EU, at least in terms of the economy. Flat tax rate, no company tax etc.
A threat to what, I may add.
I saw a TV programme that featured a teacher who has become hypersenstive to electomagnetic radiation. He can't get close to mobile phones or computers or he becomes ill. Apparently copy machines are the worst.
The iexplore executable is 89kb. It's just a kickstarter.
Internet explorer is in fact part of explorer.exe, the windows shell.
Test: Open task manager and close IE so you can only see explorer.exe, not iexplore.exe. Open windows explorer and type a URL into the location bar. It'll open a web page and you'll get the IE toolbars. Check task manager: no iexplore.exe.
It doesn't really matter _where_ the flaw is, as long as it leads to privilege escalation it's as bad as it can get.
Yup, a new supplier and a contract that stipulates a certain level of service. I'm also surprised why critical systems are linked to the Internet.
My thoughts exactly. Back here in Finland a bank had to close shop in the entire country for a day because of Sasser. Instead of being worried about how they didn't update their systems I'm more worried why MS is being used on mission critical systems like banks and the coast guard.