I already do subscribe to 2600 with my CC, and fuck them if they don't like it. When it becomes 'subversive' in the US to subscribe to a magazine that I can walk into Barnes & Noble or the neighborhood newsstand and pay cash for, something is seriously wrong in this country.
I realize that latencies are way to high for gaming on satellite access, but can anyone whose tried the 2-way systems tell me if it's possible to have a decent SSH session?
For things like BitchX on IRC from a shell account or remotely administering a server?
Also, can you use a NAT box like a Linksys router to provide access to a home LAN with these systems?
No, the difference is that conservatives believe one has the freedom to either be selfless or selfish. Liberals believe that you should be FORCED to be selfless -- by their definition of selfless -- or else.
Don't tell me that government programs are wasteful. Some of these things have dire consequences, not just whether some kid from the projects gets to go to school in the suburbs or whether a wheat farmer in Iowa gets his loss covered because someone dumped a bunch of cheap Russian wheat on the market.
If he won't tell you they're wasteful, I will. Have you and your relatives ever heard of charity and insurance policies and planning ahead?
Before you label me a coldhearted bastard, let me ask you...what entitles you or your family members to the fruits of other people's labors through forced taxation? Hmmm?
The downside to a highly socialized economy is that interest groups such as the elderly and Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton's followers run around playing entitlement politics to get "their piece of the pie."
Meanwhile, the working people who don't leech off the system and don't have kids they can't support get hit with higher and higher taxes to finance the welfare state. Shit, tax amnesty day is like in May or later these days! How much more taxation do you want on the working beasts of burden in America?
Worse yet, socialism erodes individuals' sense of charity because the see themselves being taxed to death to make involuntary contributions to beneficiaries.
So, yes I will tell you that government programs are wasteful because promote dependency and addiction to the state, and not just by beneficiaries....the government workers who administer the whole mess and the contractors who pig out at the big government trough are equally to blame and lobby just as hard to protect their cushy fiefdoms at taxpayer aexpense.
How the hell do you pay for the Great Society when so much of society is dependent on an ever-shrinking tax base? Look what's happeneing in socialist Kalifornia....the red tape on small business is so bad that the middle class taxpayers are leaving the state in droves because they don't get to enjoy the fruits of their labors. Hell, in today's paper I read that there is even a state law permitting illegal aliens to attent California universities at in-state tuition rates, which an out-of-state American citizen would have to pay 10x as much to attend.
During Soviet rule, private small farms and vegetable gardens were phenomenially more productive than huge state farms. Why? Because the people running small farms had something at stake.
Greed is something you cannot change in people. If they feel they are being exploited by government to the benefit of the dead weight in society, they will either quit producing, move somewhere else where they can prosper, or both.
I would rather starve in the street than accept medicare, social security, or any other government subsidy or be dependent on government (or contractor) employment.
I swear the EFF is becoming a statist Naderite organization masquerading under the guise of "comsumer advocacy."
Fuck if I'll support an organization anymore that's gonna try to get more regulation and bureaucracy introduced in the name of "helping consumers."
The record companies can label their shit any way they want and make it playable in any device they want..or don't want. Nobody holds a gun to our heads to listen to their crappy music.
I say let the marketplace decide. I'll be giving my business to labels that press regular ole CDs, and from now on I'll be giving my shinies to EPIC insted.
The right to free speech online is important. The right to electronic privacy is important. But EFF has gone off on this wildly statist, quixotic consumerist rant lately that boils down to lobbine government to tell private property owners how they can use their private property.
Who thinks they'll notice us open source nutjobs not buying their "protected content"? Oh wait, I forgot, all us open souce nutjobs just want to "steal". Damn, I feel dirty...
Actually, the collective buying power of us "open source nutjobs" is a mole on the ass of the buying public. Whether we boycott or not, it won't be noticed in the aggregate against the masses buying Britney Spears and N'Sync.
here on slashdot, the pinko sympathizers will make some excuses for why this is a bad idea, but I believe their motives are only in bashing the great nation in the world.
So, if you are willing to stand up for the Bill of Rights--the 4th Amendment in this case--that makes you a pinko sympathizer?
People like you represent the rule of men, not the rule of law. I bet you couldn't even paraphrase the Bill of Rights in glowing generalities, let alone verbatim, and I would wager you've never even bothered to read the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers.
The problem with these programs is that they open up a large possibility of abuse.
Yeah, all those Bushbot cheerleaders out there who think this is a swell idea should pause a moment and imagine President Hilary Clinton with this kind of tool at her beckon and call.
on the radio, go to the concerts....that way the band gets ALL the cash and you are screwing the record company (aslong as you don't buy a cd at the concert)
Fuck the radio stations too. Well, not all of them, but Clear Channel and Infinity own about 80% of them now.
The bastards keep buying out local stations and canning good talk show hosts and replacing them with syndicated crap. I swear it's the AOL-ization of talkradio. I have to use the net to even listen to Jeff Rense's show anymore, and it looks like streaming audio might be the only way to listen to good broadcasts of music soon.
Using Japan as an example of firearms prohibition leading to less crime falls flat on its face when you look at the UK, which also has eliminated most firearms ownership, yet has skyrocketing violent crime rates...because the perps know the victims are unarmed.
I don't think it's too fringe of an assumption to say Americans are alot closer to Brits than than to Japanese in their core beliefs and values. In fact, some people warn that events in the UK are a foreshadow of possible events in the US.
The Japanese still have a modern tribalism based on honor and respect in a well-ordered society. With or without firearms ownership, crime would still be low there.
Alas, you point out why I and so many others still need to keep a 'doze workstation handy for such specialized tasks.
What would be really awesome is if Linksys could put something on the router's HTML admin pages that would let you check for firmware upgrades and then install them from the browser so it wouldn't matter what OS you used.
So, if any Linksys techs are reading this, take note.
While I agree that the vast majority of home users will either lack the technical expertise or poise to flash the firmware, these are the people who will plug in the router and forget it, which means remote management won't be turned on so the attack won't be possible (unless the user opens up a telnet or SSH port for NAT pass-thru.
I flashed mine today and it's as brainless a job as it gets....download a Win32 executable, run it, it scans your RFC1918 network, finds the IP of your router, asks you to confirm the ip, then flashes...total time from download to complete in under 3 minutes, and nothing but clickin-n-dickin.
On one semi large forum I visit, they held an impromptu poll, result, 30% current un-or-underemployment, various fields, not just IT, various, software engineers to teachers to construction, you name it, it appears to be worse anecdotally than the "official" numbers promulgated by the government and wall street.
The "official" numbers are lower (possibly far lower) than reality because many workers have grown discouraged and dropped out of the labor market.
Okay, here's one I don't get, and it's been shoved down my throat a hundred times. How is deregulation a good idea?
Well, I ran a mom-and-pop ISP and remember all the hype about deregulation with the Telco Act of '96 and the FCC taking a laissez-faire attitude during the Internet boom.
On paper, it looked good...local telcos could get into long distance, long distance could get into local tone, CLECs could spring up and provide competitive service, and the Internet was open to everyone. More competition would spur innovation, and customers would have more choices and lower prices.
But what happened in reality was rather different. As long as services were geared on dial-up, where rates for lines had been in place for some time and all the cards were on the table, this sort of worked.
Then came broadband, with huge capital costs associated with network buildout to provision it. Naturally, the cable companies and ILECs weren't about to risk their own capital to give some competitor cheap pricing on their own expensive network, and a big fight ensued at the FCC.
What basically happened was that cable companies were able to lock out everyone from their networks, while ILECs were able to charge premium prices to ISPs and CLECs who wanted to offer DSL. In fact, the price of Telco resources for DSL to ISPs was so high that it wasn't competitive against the retail price of Telco DSL service itself. Anyone remember SBC's "Project Pronto" where monthly DSL was only $39.95 a month with no setup fee and free DSL router?
Still, companies like Covad and others threw their hats into the ring. Once the markets went south, the ILECs and large cablecos were in the catbird's seat. The rule was, whoever had the biggest cash reserves could endure the war of attrition, and we saw CLECs and weaker cablecos go out of business or get absorbed by the big boys, who, meanwhile raised prices and cut back on service.
What telco deregulation accomplished was the appearance of a more competitve marketplace, and for awhile it sort of worked and whole new businesses sprang up to do business in the environment. But when when broadband hit bigtime, deregulation paved the way for unprecedeted mergers and acquisitions.
You can also see a similar trend in media (ie content) mergers and mergers between media and infrastructure. Look at the big media conglomerates we have now and how it's watered down quality journalism. Let me give you one example. In the early 90's populist talk radio was truly changing the political landscape and scared the pants off the power elite. Ross Perot pulling 20% of the popular vote and firebrand freshman GOP candidates getting elected to the House in 1994 was a direct result of the masses getting information from talk radio. So, what the moneyed media barons do? They bought up radio stations across the country at 2x-3x their real value, canned talk show hosts, and replaced them with their own politically-correct syndicated crap. Today Clear Channel and Infinity own about 80% of the radio stations in the country that idiots tune into to hear what they think is 'alternative' news: Rush, Dr. Laura, Michael Savage, and Art Bell. But the hosts who really upset the apple cart like G. Gordon Liddy, Chuck Harder and Jeff Rense and others are either off the air completely or have a tiny fraction of stations compared to their heyday in the 90's.
Luckily, we still have the net, but I assure you that powerful, wealthy interests don't like this free exchange of ideas and will, if they can, put fences around it, regulate it, co-opt it, and squelch it.
Also there is the new PGI installer. Version 1.0 is out now. This is as simple as redhat/mandrake installers. It has great hardware detection and set up and gnome desktop.
Interesting they are talking to CEO's and not CTO's. Would seem more appropriate to talk to someone in charge of technology.
Why? The CEO's will take the heat from the Board when the company loses an out-of-court settlement for $1 million (or more) like those dudes in Arizona sharing mp3's on their LAN.
50 CD's a year?! That's almost a thousand bucks (plus about another $480 for a fast enough connection)! Geez, for that kind of money I'd expect Hillary Rosen to come to my house and receive a "download" from me.
Not likely....she's a lesbian
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Xandros just sounds like something out of a space movie.
Sounds more like a name for a spermicidal jelly to me
Cause god forbid anybody make enough money to feed their children. My only question is when did all the socialists start reading Slashdot??
Methinks you need to get your terms of political economy straight...socialists desire a high level of government involvement in the economy, funded through high taxes. OSS is the product of volunteers making a charitable contribution of their programming talents to the community. From the economist's viewpoint, there's nothing "socialist" about that. Just because some commerical vendors are able to roll up packages into distributions and sell them with support services doesn't inherently make the free, community-based distros (Debian, Gentoo) socialistic.
Valve/Sierra/Blizzard are all cogs in the machine that is the Vivendi conglomerate...to hell with them for suing bnetd
I don't give a shit how good their games are...when they start to sue legit open source projects I refuse to do business with them or play their products anymore.
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I already do subscribe to 2600 with my CC, and fuck them if they don't like it. When it becomes 'subversive' in the US to subscribe to a magazine that I can walk into Barnes & Noble or the neighborhood newsstand and pay cash for, something is seriously wrong in this country.
For things like BitchX on IRC from a shell account or remotely administering a server?
Also, can you use a NAT box like a Linksys router to provide access to a home LAN with these systems?
I agree!
If he won't tell you they're wasteful, I will. Have you and your relatives ever heard of charity and insurance policies and planning ahead?
Before you label me a coldhearted bastard, let me ask you...what entitles you or your family members to the fruits of other people's labors through forced taxation? Hmmm?
The downside to a highly socialized economy is that interest groups such as the elderly and Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton's followers run around playing entitlement politics to get "their piece of the pie."
Meanwhile, the working people who don't leech off the system and don't have kids they can't support get hit with higher and higher taxes to finance the welfare state. Shit, tax amnesty day is like in May or later these days! How much more taxation do you want on the working beasts of burden in America?
Worse yet, socialism erodes individuals' sense of charity because the see themselves being taxed to death to make involuntary contributions to beneficiaries.
So, yes I will tell you that government programs are wasteful because promote dependency and addiction to the state, and not just by beneficiaries....the government workers who administer the whole mess and the contractors who pig out at the big government trough are equally to blame and lobby just as hard to protect their cushy fiefdoms at taxpayer aexpense.
How the hell do you pay for the Great Society when so much of society is dependent on an ever-shrinking tax base? Look what's happeneing in socialist Kalifornia....the red tape on small business is so bad that the middle class taxpayers are leaving the state in droves because they don't get to enjoy the fruits of their labors. Hell, in today's paper I read that there is even a state law permitting illegal aliens to attent California universities at in-state tuition rates, which an out-of-state American citizen would have to pay 10x as much to attend.
During Soviet rule, private small farms and vegetable gardens were phenomenially more productive than huge state farms. Why? Because the people running small farms had something at stake.
Greed is something you cannot change in people. If they feel they are being exploited by government to the benefit of the dead weight in society, they will either quit producing, move somewhere else where they can prosper, or both.
I would rather starve in the street than accept medicare, social security, or any other government subsidy or be dependent on government (or contractor) employment.
Fuck if I'll support an organization anymore that's gonna try to get more regulation and bureaucracy introduced in the name of "helping consumers."
The record companies can label their shit any way they want and make it playable in any device they want..or don't want. Nobody holds a gun to our heads to listen to their crappy music.
I say let the marketplace decide. I'll be giving my business to labels that press regular ole CDs, and from now on I'll be giving my shinies to EPIC insted.
The right to free speech online is important. The right to electronic privacy is important. But EFF has gone off on this wildly statist, quixotic consumerist rant lately that boils down to lobbine government to tell private property owners how they can use their private property.
Fuck that statist bullshit.
Actually, the collective buying power of us "open source nutjobs" is a mole on the ass of the buying public. Whether we boycott or not, it won't be noticed in the aggregate against the masses buying Britney Spears and N'Sync.
So, if you are willing to stand up for the Bill of Rights--the 4th Amendment in this case--that makes you a pinko sympathizer?
People like you represent the rule of men, not the rule of law. I bet you couldn't even paraphrase the Bill of Rights in glowing generalities, let alone verbatim, and I would wager you've never even bothered to read the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers.
Yeah, all those Bushbot cheerleaders out there who think this is a swell idea should pause a moment and imagine President Hilary Clinton with this kind of tool at her beckon and call.
Fuck the radio stations too. Well, not all of them, but Clear Channel and Infinity own about 80% of them now.
The bastards keep buying out local stations and canning good talk show hosts and replacing them with syndicated crap. I swear it's the AOL-ization of talkradio. I have to use the net to even listen to Jeff Rense's show anymore, and it looks like streaming audio might be the only way to listen to good broadcasts of music soon.
Using Japan as an example of firearms prohibition leading to less crime falls flat on its face when you look at the UK, which also has eliminated most firearms ownership, yet has skyrocketing violent crime rates...because the perps know the victims are unarmed.
I don't think it's too fringe of an assumption to say Americans are alot closer to Brits than than to Japanese in their core beliefs and values. In fact, some people warn that events in the UK are a foreshadow of possible events in the US.
The Japanese still have a modern tribalism based on honor and respect in a well-ordered society. With or without firearms ownership, crime would still be low there.
What would be really awesome is if Linksys could put something on the router's HTML admin pages that would let you check for firmware upgrades and then install them from the browser so it wouldn't matter what OS you used.
So, if any Linksys techs are reading this, take note.
I flashed mine today and it's as brainless a job as it gets....download a Win32 executable, run it, it scans your RFC1918 network, finds the IP of your router, asks you to confirm the ip, then flashes...total time from download to complete in under 3 minutes, and nothing but clickin-n-dickin.
Sheesh, if someone can't figure that out....
The "official" numbers are lower (possibly far lower) than reality because many workers have grown discouraged and dropped out of the labor market.
Well, I ran a mom-and-pop ISP and remember all the hype about deregulation with the Telco Act of '96 and the FCC taking a laissez-faire attitude during the Internet boom.
On paper, it looked good...local telcos could get into long distance, long distance could get into local tone, CLECs could spring up and provide competitive service, and the Internet was open to everyone. More competition would spur innovation, and customers would have more choices and lower prices.
But what happened in reality was rather different. As long as services were geared on dial-up, where rates for lines had been in place for some time and all the cards were on the table, this sort of worked.
Then came broadband, with huge capital costs associated with network buildout to provision it. Naturally, the cable companies and ILECs weren't about to risk their own capital to give some competitor cheap pricing on their own expensive network, and a big fight ensued at the FCC.
What basically happened was that cable companies were able to lock out everyone from their networks, while ILECs were able to charge premium prices to ISPs and CLECs who wanted to offer DSL. In fact, the price of Telco resources for DSL to ISPs was so high that it wasn't competitive against the retail price of Telco DSL service itself. Anyone remember SBC's "Project Pronto" where monthly DSL was only $39.95 a month with no setup fee and free DSL router?
Still, companies like Covad and others threw their hats into the ring. Once the markets went south, the ILECs and large cablecos were in the catbird's seat. The rule was, whoever had the biggest cash reserves could endure the war of attrition, and we saw CLECs and weaker cablecos go out of business or get absorbed by the big boys, who, meanwhile raised prices and cut back on service.
What telco deregulation accomplished was the appearance of a more competitve marketplace, and for awhile it sort of worked and whole new businesses sprang up to do business in the environment. But when when broadband hit bigtime, deregulation paved the way for unprecedeted mergers and acquisitions.
You can also see a similar trend in media (ie content) mergers and mergers between media and infrastructure. Look at the big media conglomerates we have now and how it's watered down quality journalism. Let me give you one example. In the early 90's populist talk radio was truly changing the political landscape and scared the pants off the power elite. Ross Perot pulling 20% of the popular vote and firebrand freshman GOP candidates getting elected to the House in 1994 was a direct result of the masses getting information from talk radio. So, what the moneyed media barons do? They bought up radio stations across the country at 2x-3x their real value, canned talk show hosts, and replaced them with their own politically-correct syndicated crap. Today Clear Channel and Infinity own about 80% of the radio stations in the country that idiots tune into to hear what they think is 'alternative' news: Rush, Dr. Laura, Michael Savage, and Art Bell. But the hosts who really upset the apple cart like G. Gordon Liddy, Chuck Harder and Jeff Rense and others are either off the air completely or have a tiny fraction of stations compared to their heyday in the 90's.
Luckily, we still have the net, but I assure you that powerful, wealthy interests don't like this free exchange of ideas and will, if they can, put fences around it, regulate it, co-opt it, and squelch it.
if I wanted to hear "use google you lazy n00b" I'd have asked #openbsd on efnet
Does anyone know if anyone has ported the OpenBSD pf over to Debian?
Does PGI have a KDE option, or will it soon?
Why? The CEO's will take the heat from the Board when the company loses an out-of-court settlement for $1 million (or more) like those dudes in Arizona sharing mp3's on their LAN.
Not likely....she's a lesbian
Sounds more like a name for a spermicidal jelly to me
Methinks you need to get your terms of political economy straight...socialists desire a high level of government involvement in the economy, funded through high taxes. OSS is the product of volunteers making a charitable contribution of their programming talents to the community. From the economist's viewpoint, there's nothing "socialist" about that. Just because some commerical vendors are able to roll up packages into distributions and sell them with support services doesn't inherently make the free, community-based distros (Debian, Gentoo) socialistic.
I don't give a shit how good their games are...when they start to sue legit open source projects I refuse to do business with them or play their products anymore.
...oh and unlike the PCG-U1, this little Fujitsu is available in the US already!