An anonymous reader writes "According to an article on the Guardian, the UK Government has been working on a project to use the widely available mobile phone masts as a form of localised radar to track both people and vehicles without their knowledge. Supposedly there is even work underway to give this project the ability to see through walls! Maybe Philip K. Dick was right to be paranoid about governments."
3. You *can* customize how Netscape looks/feels on PCs with their Client Customization Kit or whatever their calling it nowadays.
Yes, this is indeed true. However, the press release of 24 September 2002 on lindows.com states, "Lindows.com engineers worked with AOL Time Warner engineers to customize Netscape 7.0 for bundling with LindowsOS beginning with Version 2.0."
Now, AOL has stated that no cooperation has taken place. This certainly implies more than, "We modified Netscape to look nice with our OS."
Think I'll go steal a Britney Spears CD... so I can BURN it!!
So, the question is whether this AC wishes to buy the CD so she can set it on fire, or, prehaps more sinisterly, make copies of it, as if actually stealing it wasn't enough, she would take away more money by distributing the copies to other. Perhaps even selling them on the black market this way she gets money and Britney starves to death.
This is clearly not flamebait. You see, flamebait is suggesting the Linux is less than perfect, or that Microsoft has had some problems with stability or security in the past. This is all behind us now, though, with Trustworthy Computing.
Flamebait is also a closed up, wooden barn with a slightly lowered floor filled with bails of hay soaking in kerosene.
This is only a lame attempt at a 'Funny' post. Please readjust your safety equiptment and try again.
That's the kind of sh*t that pisses me off, I don't pay taxes to have the government simply hand that money to a corp.
Actually, that's exactly what you do. Of course you could delude yourself into thinking that your particular share of the money was going into Condoleezza Rice's pocket, or perhaps Colin Powell's paycheck instead.
Remember, it might be neat to think about Bill Gate's money, or how much cash Microsoft has, but really. Call me when Microsoft gets awarded a multibillion dollar contract that has the potential to blow up or get shot down.
Think about it. OS X mounts Windows shares, Lindows mounts windows shares. Lindows wants to make people use it by giving it away for free and charging you for updates. OS X is $99 with free updates.
It's almost as if they were run by the same company...
I'm currently running Windows XP and Suse 7.2. It has KDE 2 and Gnome 1-something. I'd like to install a more recent Linux distro (Suse or otherwise). I'm a fairly new Linux user. I'd also like to download it for free.
I'm glad you asked that question, Tommy. You see, there are many distributions of Linux, and although all of them suck, they all suck in different ways.
You see, Red Hat Linux is a 'baseline' Linux distribution. This is what a lot of other companies base their distribution off of because they're too lazy to think for themselves. The programs are relatively recent, but still stable.
Mandrake, is based off of the Red Hat standard. This distribution is at the bleeding edge of what sucks (x86 only though). If you like to use experimental code and have a new version of an rpm released as your downloading what was once the latest version, this distro is for you.
Debian is another base distro. This is a more relaxed pace. The people who gather the software that make this distro suck are very into the GPL and only Free Software is included in it. It is generally considered the most conservative of the various distros, meaning that you'll use stuff that everyone else has been complaing about for a few weeks already.
Storm is based off of Debian, and besides being from Vancouver, BC, it has nothing going for it. Use it for fun and profit, however.
Lindows Linux is now on version 2.0, as you see. Lindows Linux sucks in much the same way as all the others, except they make you pay to download aps that you can get for free under other distros. Maybe the artwork makes up for it. Maybe it's the wine (red, nicely aged. A bit fruity) they include.
Redmond Linux is the best Linux except for Lesbian Linux.
I hope that's helped you, Tommy. Now run along and remember, if it's not Linux, it doesn't suck.
Yes. Red Hat is a shining example of what the.com top level domain should be. Comrades, you must help us stand up and unite against the growing storm of capitalists who are attempting to take over our domain and fill it with false ideas.
Take your stupid ideals and create a '.cap' top level domain, if you must. Leave.com to the comunists.
One Desktop to rule them all. One Desktop to find . -name glib* -name gt* them. One Desktop to gather them together, and within XFree ld -Bdynamic -E -r them.
Given that Taiwan's Vice-defense Minister, Kang Ningxiang, has recently (7 Sept) been to the Pentagon, it seems to suggest that this is more than just talk. [People's Daily][Saudi Press Agency]
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However, it does seem unlikely that China would risk (conventional) war with the US over Taiwan; they may have over one billion people, but much of their military technology dates back to the fifties. In the case of invasion, the US would almost certainly come to Taiwan's aid, for better or for worse.
Perhaps you've fallen behind in recent arms trades... Muzi
Also, China's missiles don't seem to shabby... News Max
I'm sure there are other deals going on. Russia's willing to sell anything to make a buck. You might say that their technology is behind the times as well, but it's a funny thing. If you have the airpower, then there is a lot of things you can do with a billion people...
What if you had a clue that TC&C software is not running the satellite? What if you realized there was a seperate program running on the satellite that did attitude control, etc?
First, he could be speaking of Linux, the kernel. It is still called that, despite what you may think.
LGPL is sometimes referred to as the "Library" GPL. In fact, if you go to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html, the title of the page proclaims, "GNU Library General Public License".
I'm glad that you're looking out for all of our interests. I know I sure hate trying to take information in and make decisions for myself. Thank you for relieving me of independent thought.
Honestly, is that how you think? The GPL is gospel, perfect in every way.
Look at it this way, if I said to you, "Anyone who doesn't have a good handle on the bible already ought to avoid reading the Quran like the plague. Folks who fully understand the bible should take..." Wow, scary, huh?
I'd say you had one hell of a database. What kind of crime? White, middle class, males who are having financial difficulties are more apt to commit white color crimes. Individuals in low income, high crime areas are more likely to be involved in violent crime.
Is that perfect? Nope. If the information is freely available (ie: open source media) and a program can collect info together or it is input, what's wrong with it? Maybe you don't watch enough movies or read Tom Clancy novels.
Maybe I read too many of them.
It's all a very moralistic thing anyway. ie: It doesn't happen in real life. No matter what the law says, if two people are brought in for the same crime, with the same circumstances, they are most likely *not* going to be treated the same. We're human and we make judgements on the way people look, act, and speak.
Being from Texas, I'm sure you can think of a few examples of this. I'm sure you'd have a very different view of me if I said I was a Yankee or a Southerner.
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That one's just a typo.
An anonymous reader writes "According to an article on the Guardian, the UK Government has been working on a project to use the widely available mobile phone masts as a form of localised radar to track both people and vehicles without their knowledge. Supposedly there is even work underway to give this project the ability to see through walls! Maybe Philip K. Dick was right to be paranoid about governments."
Think of trying to implement democracy in Iraq after Saddam's fall, or even better, in some far more impoverished nation with much less technology.
You mean, Afghanistan?
Perhap DEP is the son/daughter of "Deep Throat"....
Good idea. Stop sending your data to the US too. We don't want your packets on our IP network.
Asshole.
Well, you can download the source to the GAIM component from http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
You can get the base of the GUI from http://www.kde.org/
Is there a particular component that you would like? I'm sure I can help you find it.
3. You *can* customize how Netscape looks/feels on PCs with their Client Customization Kit or whatever their calling it nowadays.
Yes, this is indeed true. However, the press release of 24 September 2002 on lindows.com states, "Lindows.com engineers worked with AOL Time Warner engineers to customize Netscape 7.0 for bundling with LindowsOS beginning with Version 2.0."
Now, AOL has stated that no cooperation has taken place. This certainly implies more than, "We modified Netscape to look nice with our OS."
That's the problem.
...I just want to use softs that don't suck.
So, you're using Windows 2000 Professional?
Think I'll go steal a Britney Spears CD... so I can BURN it!!
So, the question is whether this AC wishes to buy the CD so she can set it on fire, or, prehaps more sinisterly, make copies of it, as if actually stealing it wasn't enough, she would take away more money by distributing the copies to other. Perhaps even selling them on the black market this way she gets money and Britney starves to death.
This is clearly not flamebait. You see, flamebait is suggesting the Linux is less than perfect, or that Microsoft has had some problems with stability or security in the past. This is all behind us now, though, with Trustworthy Computing.
Flamebait is also a closed up, wooden barn with a slightly lowered floor filled with bails of hay soaking in kerosene.
This is only a lame attempt at a 'Funny' post. Please readjust your safety equiptment and try again.
That's the kind of sh*t that pisses me off, I don't pay taxes to have the government simply hand that money to a corp.
Actually, that's exactly what you do. Of course you could delude yourself into thinking that your particular share of the money was going into Condoleezza Rice's pocket, or perhaps Colin Powell's paycheck instead.
Of course, your money is probably going to TRW, Lockheed Martin, or Boeing, or perhaps all 3.
Remember, it might be neat to think about Bill Gate's money, or how much cash Microsoft has, but really. Call me when Microsoft gets awarded a multibillion dollar contract that has the potential to blow up or get shot down.
I've never seen Windows crash quite like that.
I think they should change the name to LOSX.
Think about it. OS X mounts Windows shares, Lindows mounts windows shares. Lindows wants to make people use it by giving it away for free and charging you for updates. OS X is $99 with free updates.
It's almost as if they were run by the same company...
I'm currently running Windows XP and Suse 7.2. It has KDE 2 and Gnome 1-something. I'd like to install a more recent Linux distro (Suse or otherwise). I'm a fairly new Linux user. I'd also like to download it for free.
I'm glad you asked that question, Tommy. You see, there are many distributions of Linux, and although all of them suck, they all suck in different ways.
You see, Red Hat Linux is a 'baseline' Linux distribution. This is what a lot of other companies base their distribution off of because they're too lazy to think for themselves. The programs are relatively recent, but still stable.
Mandrake, is based off of the Red Hat standard. This distribution is at the bleeding edge of what sucks (x86 only though). If you like to use experimental code and have a new version of an rpm released as your downloading what was once the latest version, this distro is for you.
Debian is another base distro. This is a more relaxed pace. The people who gather the software that make this distro suck are very into the GPL and only Free Software is included in it. It is generally considered the most conservative of the various distros, meaning that you'll use stuff that everyone else has been complaing about for a few weeks already.
Storm is based off of Debian, and besides being from Vancouver, BC, it has nothing going for it. Use it for fun and profit, however.
Lindows Linux is now on version 2.0, as you see. Lindows Linux sucks in much the same way as all the others, except they make you pay to download aps that you can get for free under other distros. Maybe the artwork makes up for it. Maybe it's the wine (red, nicely aged. A bit fruity) they include.
Redmond Linux is the best Linux except for Lesbian Linux.
I hope that's helped you, Tommy. Now run along and remember, if it's not Linux, it doesn't suck.
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring was rather good, in my opinion.
As was Shrek...
Yes, there are a lot of lame movies. "Swim Fan", for example. There are some good ones though.
Yes. Red Hat is a shining example of what the .com top level domain should be. Comrades, you must help us stand up and unite against the growing storm of capitalists who are attempting to take over our domain and fill it with false ideas.
.com to the comunists.
Take your stupid ideals and create a '.cap' top level domain, if you must. Leave
One Desktop to rule them all.
One Desktop to find . -name glib* -name gt* them.
One Desktop to gather them together,
and within XFree ld -Bdynamic -E -r them.
How about:
<style type="text/css">
span.bold { font-weight : bold; }
</style>
<span class="bold">go and <a href="somelink">click me</a> now<span>
What now?
Actually, Bush has said the exact opposite.
Maybe CNN is too hot. Maybe the BBC is better?
Given that Taiwan's Vice-defense Minister, Kang Ningxiang, has recently (7 Sept) been to the Pentagon, it seems to suggest that this is more than just talk. [People's Daily] [Saudi Press Agency]
However, it does seem unlikely that China would risk (conventional) war with the US over Taiwan; they may have over one billion people, but much of their military technology dates back to the fifties. In the case of invasion, the US would almost certainly come to Taiwan's aid, for better or for worse.
Perhaps you've fallen behind in recent arms trades... Muzi
Also, China's missiles don't seem to shabby... News Max
I'm sure there are other deals going on. Russia's willing to sell anything to make a buck. You might say that their technology is behind the times as well, but it's a funny thing. If you have the airpower, then there is a lot of things you can do with a billion people...
It's not GPLed open source but, within NASA, it is open source.
This is the dumbest comment I've ever read. Did you think a company keeps it's software private among its own people as well?
By that statement I could say, "It's not GPLed open source, but within Microsoft, Windows is open source."
Shesh....
What if you had a clue that TC&C software is not running the satellite? What if you realized there was a seperate program running on the satellite that did attitude control, etc?
Lets take each point, shall we.
First, he could be speaking of Linux, the kernel. It is still called that, despite what you may think.
LGPL is sometimes referred to as the "Library" GPL. In fact, if you go to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html, the title of the page proclaims, "GNU Library General Public License".
Perhaps you too have a lot to learn.
Spoken like a true zealot.
I'm glad that you're looking out for all of our interests. I know I sure hate trying to take information in and make decisions for myself. Thank you for relieving me of independent thought.
Honestly, is that how you think? The GPL is gospel, perfect in every way.
Look at it this way, if I said to you, "Anyone who doesn't have a good handle on the bible already ought to avoid reading the Quran like the plague. Folks who fully understand the bible should take..." Wow, scary, huh?
This is why I've given up on computers. It's too much of a pain in the ass to deal with companies.
Much better to be a politician and deal with stupid countries. At least they talk nice to you when they're standing right there...
I'd say you had one hell of a database. What kind of crime? White, middle class, males who are having financial difficulties are more apt to commit white color crimes. Individuals in low income, high crime areas are more likely to be involved in violent crime.
Is that perfect? Nope. If the information is freely available (ie: open source media) and a program can collect info together or it is input, what's wrong with it? Maybe you don't watch enough movies or read Tom Clancy novels.
Maybe I read too many of them.
It's all a very moralistic thing anyway. ie: It doesn't happen in real life. No matter what the law says, if two people are brought in for the same crime, with the same circumstances, they are most likely *not* going to be treated the same. We're human and we make judgements on the way people look, act, and speak.
Being from Texas, I'm sure you can think of a few examples of this. I'm sure you'd have a very different view of me if I said I was a Yankee or a Southerner.