Did someone sell the Internet to Enron or something? Seriously, I cannot believe that the rest of the world has not demanded that the US hand over control of ICANN to the UN. At least that way we can be screwed over by multi-lateral action instead of these pre-emptive strikes.
Mate I agree with you totally on the issue of marijuana being legalised or not. However you have yet to prove to me that the US is a big nanny state.
You live in a country where it is perfectly acceptable that someone could die because they can not afford medical insurance. Your version of welfare is basically shot to bits and the one good idea when it came to health care was torn to pieces by politicians more interested in their campaign donations from the big insurers than the genuine needs of the people.
Thats what gets me about this whole "Libertarian" debate. It seems to me to be following the 80s creed "Greed Is Good". Look after numero Uno and the rest can take a flying leap. Thats not society, thats a group of individuals, there is a big difference.
Some have said in this debate that the US was founded on Libertarian ideals. Well all I can say to that is it may have started out that way but shit it didn't take long for people to realise that it just doesn't work on any scale larger than one of those paranoid Walled Communities.
Go ahead and cast your slings and arrows, Im a leftie from way back, but remember this, where I live you are garaunteed of excelent health care no matter how much you earn. Can you say the same?
Umm you say that the countries with the biggest drug problems are also the biggest nanny states? Prove it.
In no way shape or form would I say that the USA is a nanny state - well if it is then its the psycho nanny from Rock The Cradle - and yet it has a massive drug problem.
If your going to make huge generalised statements like that then at least present some evidence besides your own prejudices.
Why is it always assumed that security must come at the expense of usability. Half of the bugs that are found are buffer related and hence can be fixed through tighter coding. The other half comes from a lack of true testing of software before it is released.
As for the comment that MS excels at things it thinks it can make money from WinME anyone???
Okay I know this has been said before and will be said again, but people its Open Source Software, the source is out there for anyone to use and modify how they wish. If you don't want others playing with your code go closed source other wise shut the hell up.
The only thing KDE has any right to complain about is the removal of the about KDE fields, and even that can be worked out without the major bitching thats been going on lately.
Have they bought out Suse, Mandrake or Debian? Have they convinced Linus to take the kernel closed source?
No they haven't. RedHats target market is the corporate user, some one who needs as much stability in their computing life as possible. Combining features from both Desktops is a good thing for them.
And for gods sake people its open source, that means you can do whatever you like with the source so long as you adhere to the GPL.
Im sure RedHat weren't too happy when Mandrake forked off but there was nothing they could do about it was there.
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And I don't like this.
I mean come on beyond the obvious coolness of actually crushing a server how is this art?
To me it ranks right up there with the British artist who got 20,000 pounds for a blinking light and some blu tack on a wall.
Dammit people this is not art.
(Don't mind me nicotene withdrawels eating my brain)
Firstly rule of law??? As far as I can recall that was a british invention not an american one, and please before you go on about the US's vaunted adherence to rule of law tell my why the US wouldn't sign up to the international court?
Secondly this isn't a damn war. This is an ongoing fsking police action. You had your war in afghanistan and you won sort of. Now its an excuse to curtail those precious freedoms you were meant to be garuanteed in your constitution.
Try to think outside of the typical US isolationist mind set for a change.
For the record, I am not a european I am Australian.
Okay first up I gotta admit Im not that crash hot on encryption coding but how long is it going to take a decent coder to crack on DRM shit in the new systems?
This is what gets me, the collective *AAs are running around trying to legislate against the very technology they are going to have to use to try and protect their materials.
Mate when I was going through the custody battle with my ex, my lawyer was next to bloody useless, ended up firing him and winning the damn case my self.
Umm while reading the Euro bashing quotes and the American bashing quotes is a lot of fun for someone who is neither, shouldn't we be focusing on the more important issues? Like dealing with those organisations on both sides of the atlantic who would much rather legislate away our rights.
And they wonder why the IT community is so divided.
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Hmm lets just see what the mob has brought us shall we?
- Cops - Jerry Springer - George W Bush - Execution of Mentally Handicapped Prisoners - George W Bush
And many others.
What the TV Execs are saying
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At last we have come up with a proper use for the camps at Woomera. Instead of locking up the asylum seekers we can put the execs there when their companies hack our machines.
But seriously, this is why I have a hotmail account, so when I sign up to different sites all the spam that inevitably flows will go to that account and not clutter up my real box.
Slashdot Mirror
One Client to Rule Them All
One Client to Find Them
One Client to Bring Them All
And In the Darkness Bind Them!
AOL Strikes Again.
Woohoo watch that Karma fly
Look I know theres a line in there about moronic and the current US administration but I wont touch it.
The Internet by definition is a borderless system, why shouldn't it be controlled by the ultimate international body, as opposed to one country?
Did someone sell the Internet to Enron or something? Seriously, I cannot believe that the rest of the world has not demanded that the US hand over control of ICANN to the UN. At least that way we can be screwed over by multi-lateral action instead of these pre-emptive strikes.
Mate I agree with you totally on the issue of marijuana being legalised or not. However you have yet to prove to me that the US is a big nanny state.
You live in a country where it is perfectly acceptable that someone could die because they can not afford medical insurance. Your version of welfare is basically shot to bits and the one good idea when it came to health care was torn to pieces by politicians more interested in their campaign donations from the big insurers than the genuine needs of the people.
Thats what gets me about this whole "Libertarian" debate. It seems to me to be following the 80s creed "Greed Is Good". Look after numero Uno and the rest can take a flying leap. Thats not society, thats a group of individuals, there is a big difference.
Some have said in this debate that the US was founded on Libertarian ideals. Well all I can say to that is it may have started out that way but shit it didn't take long for people to realise that it just doesn't work on any scale larger than one of those paranoid Walled Communities.
Go ahead and cast your slings and arrows, Im a leftie from way back, but remember this, where I live you are garaunteed of excelent health care no matter how much you earn. Can you say the same?
Umm you say that the countries with the biggest drug problems are also the biggest nanny states? Prove it.
In no way shape or form would I say that the USA is a nanny state - well if it is then its the psycho nanny from Rock The Cradle - and yet it has a massive drug problem.
If your going to make huge generalised statements like that then at least present some evidence besides your own prejudices.
I like the last line in the article stating that Microsofts only option is going to be to out innovate the Open Source Commmunity.
I give them three weeks if they go down that path as opposed to the jack boot, "You vill use our Softvare" approach.
Why is it always assumed that security must come at the expense of usability. Half of the bugs that are found are buffer related and hence can be fixed through tighter coding. The other half comes from a lack of true testing of software before it is released.
As for the comment that MS excels at things it thinks it can make money from WinME anyone???
Okay I know this has been said before and will be said again, but people its Open Source Software, the source is out there for anyone to use and modify how they wish. If you don't want others playing with your code go closed source other wise shut the hell up.
The only thing KDE has any right to complain about is the removal of the about KDE fields, and even that can be worked out without the major bitching thats been going on lately.
Have they bought out Suse, Mandrake or Debian? Have they convinced Linus to take the kernel closed source?
No they haven't. RedHats target market is the corporate user, some one who needs as much stability in their computing life as possible. Combining features from both Desktops is a good thing for them.
And for gods sake people its open source, that means you can do whatever you like with the source so long as you adhere to the GPL.
Im sure RedHat weren't too happy when Mandrake forked off but there was nothing they could do about it was there.
And I don't like this.
I mean come on beyond the obvious coolness of actually crushing a server how is this art?
To me it ranks right up there with the British artist who got 20,000 pounds for a blinking light and some blu tack on a wall.
Dammit people this is not art.
(Don't mind me nicotene withdrawels eating my brain)
WTF??? What the hell does this have to do with the topic at hand??
If you are going to troll at least troll to the topic. Sheesh
Good Words, but oh god you think he would have gotten some one with some talent to actually sing???
Seriously very nice though
And I used to think this was a purely Australian thing. As soon as someone rises above the mob they try to cut them down.
For gods sakes, its Linux... in corporate environments... accepted by the PHBs. What more do you want???
Okay a couple of points:
Firstly rule of law??? As far as I can recall that was a british invention not an american one, and please before you go on about the US's vaunted adherence to rule of law tell my why the US wouldn't sign up to the international court?
Secondly this isn't a damn war. This is an ongoing fsking police action. You had your war in afghanistan and you won sort of. Now its an excuse to curtail those precious freedoms you were meant to be garuanteed in your constitution.
Try to think outside of the typical US isolationist mind set for a change.
For the record, I am not a european I am Australian.
Okay first up I gotta admit Im not that crash hot on encryption coding but how long is it going to take a decent coder to crack on DRM shit in the new systems?
This is what gets me, the collective *AAs are running around trying to legislate against the very technology they are going to have to use to try and protect their materials.
It aint going to work people.
Im so glad I managed to patent those tin foil caps. I'll be a millionaire.
Oh man are we in trouble
Mate when I was going through the custody battle with my ex, my lawyer was next to bloody useless, ended up firing him and winning the damn case my self.
Umm while reading the Euro bashing quotes and the American bashing quotes is a lot of fun for someone who is neither, shouldn't we be focusing on the more important issues? Like dealing with those organisations on both sides of the atlantic who would much rather legislate away our rights.
And they wonder why the IT community is so divided.
Hmm lets just see what the mob has brought us shall we?
- Cops
- Jerry Springer
- George W Bush
- Execution of Mentally Handicapped Prisoners
- George W Bush
And many others.
All your base are belong to us!!!!!
At last we have come up with a proper use for the camps at Woomera. Instead of locking up the asylum seekers we can put the execs there when their companies hack our machines.
Damn, my wife is going to so dissappointed.
But seriously, this is why I have a hotmail account, so when I sign up to different sites all the spam that inevitably flows will go to that account and not clutter up my real box.
Dammit I got it wrong.
Excuse me sir I'll just load myself into the garbage disposal chute. It may mean a slight delay in next weeks laundry
Okay MySQL has its limitations but when it comes to doing simple web work and not so simple web work it does the trick.
For simple work I would rather use a free as in beer DB than pay thousands of dollars for features I just don't need.