In order to maintain public calm, the word 'Freedom' is no longer to be used in it's archaic sense. Freedom now means: 'Conducting one's life in accordance with the wishes of our Glorious Leaders'.
...for loosing the cold war. The space race was (IMO) a pissing contest between the USA and USSR. When the USA threatened to raise the stakes in the arms race (SDI, star wars) the USSR's economy couldn't keep up and they surrendered. Without the propeganda and military incentive it wasn't worth the USA's time to continue the expansion into space.
With China getting into space travel we may see a revival within the next decade or two simply because the USA won't want to let the Chinese get ahead in the new space race. Of course humanity's continued existance depends on someone building self sustaining non-terrestrial colonies as we are gonna wreck this planet in the next century ot two.
Perhaps the problems just don't effect me. I've not used windows for 5 years and I rarely want to email anyone who's ISP blocks my mail. If I do then I just route it via Telewest's mail servers. If they blocked outbound port 25 I would not be happy. One of the reasons I like Telewest is the absence of such arbitrary restrictions. I would have no problem with them disconnecting zombies.
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If they are as competent as you claim, the only explanation is that they just don't give a shit how much damage their fuckwad customers are doing isn't it?
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I think the story highlights the dangers of running a well-known incompatible and insecure operating system. Personally I blame the companies that produce such operating systems, not my ISP which has offered nothing but exemplary service for the last 4 and a half years.
If a particular make of car regularly spews oil all over the road who is responsible? The car manufacturer or the authority charged with maintaining the road network?
Oh, and I will generously ignore the fact you called me a fuckwad:P
I have to say they are the best ISP I have used to date. My only other option for broadband in my area is British Telecom or AOL and the like which use the British Telecom network. Their service is reliable, fast, and although they don't officialy support open source operating systems they have never put artificial barriers in my way to cause problems. I use a BSD based NAT router/firewall and my home LAN is all Debian. It all works fine.
Their tech support line is a free call, and on the rare occasions I have had to call them I have always talked to someone who knows what they are talking about! Being a true computer fanatic I run my own mail server (I guess that makes me one of the 16,000 email servers mentioned in the story) and from my logs I can see that they have an automated check running to ensure it's not an open relay.
I think the story highlights the dangers of running a well-known incompatible and insecure operating system. Personally I blame the companies that produce such operating systems, not my ISP which has offered nothing but exemplary service for the last 4 and a half years.
Even if Bush shut down all economic activity in the US and wiped out all CO2 producing machinery, it would have made exactly NO DIFFERENCE.
No difference to what happened this year, but perhaps it could make a difference to what happens 20, 100 or 1000 years from now. There is a proverb, although I have no idea of the source, "We don't inherit the world from our parents, we borrow it from our children". Personally I believe damaging the planet and thereby causing suffering to our descendants in our quest for luxury is immoral. It seems the climate is changing, the weather certainly is.
I can't believe you're blaming Bush for hurricanes now. That's just intellectually pathetic.
I think you misunderstand. I did not suggest that Mr. Bush caused the hurricanes, that was thought up by you. I suggested that voting for someone who stands in the way of action to limit climate change when your state has just suffered what may well be the result of climate change seems illogical. If, hypothetically, I wished to blame a single person for the results of possible climate change, then I think that Mr. Bush would be fairly high on the list (Texan oil family, refusing to ratify Kyoto, leader of the world's largest polluter...).
So Bush, instrumental in not acting on climate change, gains votes as the result of the increased frequency of hurricanes in Florida? Am I the only one to see a hole in this logic?
There are already a few things similar to ports available. You already know about gentoo I assume, personally I prefer Lunar. I know of 4 or 5 other source based distros, but Lunar seems to me the most stable and mature.
I think you'll find that ~10,000 is an unreasonably large amount of nuclear warheads, [sarcasm]but I guess that's ok since they are making the world a safer place.[/sarcasm]
The reproduction of hardware costs a lot, while the reproduction of software costs very little. People often make a success of things that ignore reality, but they rarely do so with things that are directly opposed to reality.
Reading the whole book is recommended, but for those that don't...
"Strange," mused the Director, as they turned away, "strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's madness. Nowadays the Controllers won't approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games." He interrupted himself.
... A system of government whereby the people get the rulers they deserve.
Seriously though, I'm generally an advocate of using IT to automate boring and repetitive tasks, but as far as elections are concerned I think it's a very bad idea. The outcome of the last US election was effected by the use of 'voting technology', and they (I'm not a US citizen, thank god) ended up having a president appointed by a panel of judges.
If elections are run in the more traditional way of putting an X in a box on a piece of paper and then having an army of people count the ballots then the whole process becomes transparent. Election fraud is made difficult by having many people involved in it's administration, the reverse is also true.
My tinfoil hat is beginning to itch, but if I wanted to rig an election using voting machines I'd like to leave myself an alibi. After all, one should never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence. Think about it.
...was remade my a different culture. The original British comic strip was excellent IMO, it actually made some very interesting points about both the future and human nature. Then it was remade by hollywood and sucked beyond belief.
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I assume you are a US citizen.
In the rest or the world shooting people dead is generally frowned upon. I wish I could say the same for the growing practise of corporations using the law and government as tools for the better subjugation of the masses.
...and that will be the day I stop using flash. While Wine is very nice I refuse to have any windows software on any of my machines. Making the 'Linux' version of flash a tweaked windows binary is a huge step backwards, let's hope it doesn't happen.
I am one of these linux zealots of which you speak, and I would like to report a number of factual errors in this story.
1. SCO's allegations have nothing to do with patents, rather they claim that intellectual property which they own the licencing right to has illegally been copied into the Linux kernel. There is some uncertainty as to whether or not they actually own this intellectual property, it may or may not be owned my Novell.
2. SCO has not sued IBM because it uses Linux, it has sued IBM for breach of contract. IBM had licenced the UNIX code in question some years ago in order to incorporate it into it's AIX operating system. SCO claims that IBM illegally contributed some of this code to Linux.
3. DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks are not a new phenomenon. Worms of this type have been used many times in the past, often by spammers who wish to attack anti-spam web sites. The Russian mafia also has a history of performing DDOS attacks on legitimate businesses around the world for reasons of extortion, and there are close ties between the Russian mafia and some of the world's most prolific spammers. I am not qualified to comment on whether or not the MyDoom worm is "a new level of sophistication", but worms of this type have been around for several years. As far as I know there is nothing particularly innovative about this latest variant.
In addition to the factual errors I find the article to be heavily biased. It presents a disgruntled Linux enthusiast as the only possible source of this virus, when there is at least as good a case to be made for the culprit being a spammer. The worm originated in Russia, is of a type that has historically been used by spammers, and it is "signed" with a message that seems to indicate it was written to order. The open source community is a threat to the spammers, producing much of the anti-spam software that is used by mail servers across the world. It would be in their interests to discredit this community.
I find it interesting that this story is by your north American business correspondent, I would expect a story on this subject to be written by someone with a better understanding of the technical issues involved. Is that this story is a re-worded version of an SCO press release?
If you require any more information on my comments please email me and I can provide you with a list of web links to more informed comment on the MyDoom virus and the SCO case.
Regards,
I didn't include my conspiracy theory that the BBC is taking orders from Redmond via (our glorious leader) Tony Blair due to the recent shaming of the BBC in the Hutton inquiry. Bill Gates was kinghted while his company is being taken to court in Europe for monopolistic practices after all. Can you say "Ministry of Information"?
I have to admit I was confused for a while too, but any post that contains the phrase "the unbiased reporting that CNN provides" cannot possibly be serious.
Bottom left, 2nd ad from bottom: "Order your NRA/Ruger pistol, click here". Looks to me like this is a den of terrorists/arms dealers posing as a political organization. I suggest that the country acting as host to this threat to world peace is liberated as soon as possible.
I saw that phrase spray painted on a wall in Carlisle (northern England) in 2001. I have to say it's one of the most profound and insightful phrases I have ever come across.
The fact is that, as Marx and Engels correctly stated, capitalism leads to massive over-production, and because of this must constantly search for new markets for the goods it produces in order to justify itself. Now we have rampant globalisation it is no longer sufficient for this expansion to be geographical in nature. Instead the cult of marketing is used to persuade people that they need what recently didn't exist.
I have expierienced poverty (or what passes for poverty in the industrialised west), and I have also expierienced a more conventional middle class existence. I can honestly say that you do not need what the arch-capitalists are trying to sell you.
Why spend an hour commuting in your polluting vehicle to work all day in a job you hate for people you despise? Is that whay you really want to do with your life? Do the suger-water, status symbols, foreign holidays and useless junk make it worth while? I don't think so.
I am not in favour of 'sponging' off society, that is not the answer either. Instead: Work less, buy less.
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In order to maintain public calm, the word 'Freedom' is no longer to be used in it's archaic sense. Freedom now means: 'Conducting one's life in accordance with the wishes of our Glorious Leaders'.
...for loosing the cold war. The space race was (IMO) a pissing contest between the USA and USSR. When the USA threatened to raise the stakes in the arms race (SDI, star wars) the USSR's economy couldn't keep up and they surrendered. Without the propeganda and military incentive it wasn't worth the USA's time to continue the expansion into space.
With China getting into space travel we may see a revival within the next decade or two simply because the USA won't want to let the Chinese get ahead in the new space race. Of course humanity's continued existance depends on someone building self sustaining non-terrestrial colonies as we are gonna wreck this planet in the next century ot two.
I agree completely and would like Mr. Bush to leave ASAP.
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Perhaps the problems just don't effect me. I've not used windows for 5 years and I rarely want to email anyone who's ISP blocks my mail. If I do then I just route it via Telewest's mail servers. If they blocked outbound port 25 I would not be happy. One of the reasons I like Telewest is the absence of such arbitrary restrictions. I would have no problem with them disconnecting zombies.
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I said...
If a particular make of car regularly spews oil all over the road who is responsible? The car manufacturer or the authority charged with maintaining the road network?
Oh, and I will generously ignore the fact you called me a fuckwad :P
I have to say they are the best ISP I have used to date. My only other option for broadband in my area is British Telecom or AOL and the like which use the British Telecom network. Their service is reliable, fast, and although they don't officialy support open source operating systems they have never put artificial barriers in my way to cause problems. I use a BSD based NAT router/firewall and my home LAN is all Debian. It all works fine.
Their tech support line is a free call, and on the rare occasions I have had to call them I have always talked to someone who knows what they are talking about! Being a true computer fanatic I run my own mail server (I guess that makes me one of the 16,000 email servers mentioned in the story) and from my logs I can see that they have an automated check running to ensure it's not an open relay.
I think the story highlights the dangers of running a well-known incompatible and insecure operating system. Personally I blame the companies that produce such operating systems, not my ISP which has offered nothing but exemplary service for the last 4 and a half years.
I won't if you won't.
No difference to what happened this year, but perhaps it could make a difference to what happens 20, 100 or 1000 years from now. There is a proverb, although I have no idea of the source, "We don't inherit the world from our parents, we borrow it from our children". Personally I believe damaging the planet and thereby causing suffering to our descendants in our quest for luxury is immoral. It seems the climate is changing, the weather certainly is.
I think you misunderstand. I did not suggest that Mr. Bush caused the hurricanes, that was thought up by you. I suggested that voting for someone who stands in the way of action to limit climate change when your state has just suffered what may well be the result of climate change seems illogical. If, hypothetically, I wished to blame a single person for the results of possible climate change, then I think that Mr. Bush would be fairly high on the list (Texan oil family, refusing to ratify Kyoto, leader of the world's largest polluter...).
So Bush, instrumental in not acting on climate change, gains votes as the result of the increased frequency of hurricanes in Florida? Am I the only one to see a hole in this logic?
Ever get the feeling that the neo-conservatives in the US are just plain wrong?
There are already a few things similar to ports available. You already know about gentoo I assume, personally I prefer Lunar. I know of 4 or 5 other source based distros, but Lunar seems to me the most stable and mature.
I think you'll find that ~10,000 is an unreasonably large amount of nuclear warheads, [sarcasm]but I guess that's ok since they are making the world a safer place.[/sarcasm]
The reproduction of hardware costs a lot, while the reproduction of software costs very little. People often make a success of things that ignore reality, but they rarely do so with things that are directly opposed to reality.
Does that make Microsoft a terrorist group?
Sound familiar?
Reading the whole book is recommended, but for those that don't...
I guess that depends on whether you consider punching machines technology or not ;)
... A system of government whereby the people get the rulers they deserve.
Seriously though, I'm generally an advocate of using IT to automate boring and repetitive tasks, but as far as elections are concerned I think it's a very bad idea. The outcome of the last US election was effected by the use of 'voting technology', and they (I'm not a US citizen, thank god) ended up having a president appointed by a panel of judges.
If elections are run in the more traditional way of putting an X in a box on a piece of paper and then having an army of people count the ballots then the whole process becomes transparent. Election fraud is made difficult by having many people involved in it's administration, the reverse is also true.
My tinfoil hat is beginning to itch, but if I wanted to rig an election using voting machines I'd like to leave myself an alibi. After all, one should never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence. Think about it.
...was remade my a different culture. The original British comic strip was excellent IMO, it actually made some very interesting points about both the future and human nature. Then it was remade by hollywood and sucked beyond belief.
I assume you are a US citizen. In the rest or the world shooting people dead is generally frowned upon. I wish I could say the same for the growing practise of corporations using the law and government as tools for the better subjugation of the masses.
...and that will be the day I stop using flash. While Wine is very nice I refuse to have any windows software on any of my machines. Making the 'Linux' version of flash a tweaked windows binary is a huge step backwards, let's hope it doesn't happen.
My complaint....
I didn't include my conspiracy theory that the BBC is taking orders from Redmond via (our glorious leader) Tony Blair due to the recent shaming of the BBC in the Hutton inquiry. Bill Gates was kinghted while his company is being taken to court in Europe for monopolistic practices after all. Can you say "Ministry of Information"?
I have to admit I was confused for a while too, but any post that contains the phrase "the unbiased reporting that CNN provides" cannot possibly be serious.
Did anyone else expect this to be a guide on constructing sentences that can be used to fool spam filters?
Answer: all of the above. I had a quick google and found this definition for the phrase operating system. I hope this answers your question :)
Bottom left, 2nd ad from bottom: "Order your NRA/Ruger pistol, click here". Looks to me like this is a den of terrorists/arms dealers posing as a political organization. I suggest that the country acting as host to this threat to world peace is liberated as soon as possible.
Work less, buy less
I saw that phrase spray painted on a wall in Carlisle (northern England) in 2001. I have to say it's one of the most profound and insightful phrases I have ever come across.
The fact is that, as Marx and Engels correctly stated, capitalism leads to massive over-production, and because of this must constantly search for new markets for the goods it produces in order to justify itself. Now we have rampant globalisation it is no longer sufficient for this expansion to be geographical in nature. Instead the cult of marketing is used to persuade people that they need what recently didn't exist.
I have expierienced poverty (or what passes for poverty in the industrialised west), and I have also expierienced a more conventional middle class existence. I can honestly say that you do not need what the arch-capitalists are trying to sell you.
Why spend an hour commuting in your polluting vehicle to work all day in a job you hate for people you despise? Is that whay you really want to do with your life? Do the suger-water, status symbols, foreign holidays and useless junk make it worth while? I don't think so.
I am not in favour of 'sponging' off society, that is not the answer either. Instead: Work less, buy less.