Only one problem- With YOUR home you can replace your own latch with one you think will work better. With Microsoft's proprietary blend of software you can only have the latch that they choose, whether you think it will work for your neighborhood or not. That's why OSS is going to be popular. It keeps one entity from having too much control over YOUR computer. A good analogy, BTW.
Note to author of parent post, entitled "Article Summary": It has been independantly determined (by me) that Dr. Pepper, blown out through ones nose, can cause momentary blindness and a feeling such as one would expect when expelling acid diarrhea through the eye sockets. Just an FYI.
Dark matter is simply matter which does not readily present itself as visible. (anything you don't see through a telescope is "dark") Unaccounted for interstellar dust, gases, etc.
fucking duh, dude. I expect the same sort of problem would arise if you copied code from any proprietary product as well.
HOW ABOUT- YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO USE GPL CODE IN A CLOSED SOURCE PRODUCT. None. It's not yours, you don't own it, to you, it's just not freely available. I'm not flaming ya, what you said was highly insightful. I think that people need to stop using OSS as "freeware" and respect that it was given to you for free with certain rather minor restrictions. I have always found irony in people releasing GPL software for P2P. I mean, the software doesn't by itself violate anyone else's IP, but it seems ironic to USE GPL programs to steal other people's property.
You touchy? I have never heard of Strategic Intelligence abbreviated StratInt. That's all. Calm down. SAC everyone knows. NOFORN is similar to the "sensitive" classification, meaning it's info not releasable to foreign nationals. I never said I never heard of it and therefore it doesn't exist. It's just that your rather spectacular claim of knowledge didn't come with evidence, and critical thought demands skepticism in such cases.
Feeding the trolls
1. There was no possibility for the USA to know what exactly these microcontrollers were going to be used for. They're not exactly single-purpose. How was anyone to know the pipeline would fail in this way? You can't just program or design a logic chip to blow up pipelines. There is no "BLOW_UP_PIPELINE =1" command, you know. It was unfortunate. 2. The warfare I am talking about was waged to prevent physical conflict, and it accomplished that. Of course there was loss of life. Fucking DUH.
3. The US does not intentionally target civilians. I have served in the US military and I will just let you know right now that civilian casualty IS an issue in the development of a military strategy (strategery for republicans).
4. I will have to look into the issue you brought with US corporations policing people. Do you have any sources for this type of research? I truly am interested in knowing where this is occurring.
I do not love any one of my opinions enough to abandon reasonable debate. I also harbor no fantasy that the USA is totally free of corruption, undue influence, or greed. That said, if you think the Iraq war was fought for oil, please also realize no nation likes its dick stepped on; agreements made at the end of a war by the losing party should be kept, inspectors, if requested, must be allowed in. In my opinion, Saddam maintained no actual WMD; Instead he focused on developing the means and infrastructure necessary for their production, and much evidence of this has already been found. His puffery on the issue was a dangerous gamble, and he paid for it dearly. He was an impressively cruel bastard, and his people are better off without him. What remains to be seen is whether the coalition can make a better Iraq for the betterment of the region. I think it CAN. Will it?
I agree with you there. My grandfather had to go to the hospital and finally to nursing care because even though he's fairly well-off, he was eating very poorly. The elderly get there either through poverty, senility, or both. The kids unfortunately can only eat what they are given by parents. My wife was taken from her biological parents because of this kind of neglect. They were poor by US standards, but still could have afforded and entirely adequate diet. Instead, they bought budweiser and cigarettes. At three years old she weighed twelve pounds.
You're wrong on one statement: that people die of hunger in the USA. This is not the case. No child in the USA starves unless they are specifically denied food by their parent or guardian. There are food banks run by churches and charities. I have volunteered at several of them in several states. We never denied anyone food, and still always had food on hand. Also, there are care organizations for the poor. The thing is, some people are mentally ill, and deliberately starve kids, but this happens only a handful of times per year in the entire nation. Like any country, we have people who have no homes. Some are down on their luck, and some are mentally ill street people whose natural habitat (by their choice) is outdoors.
People don't starve to death in the USA but there are some people who choose to buy cigarettes and beer instead of groceries. It's more an ill of ignorance than scarcity.
You're missing the point. This was the hardware equivalent of a honeypot. Their own espionage did them in. If you think that Kruschev never had ambitions of destroying or crippling the West, think again. The Cold War was the most humane and genteel war ever fought. It was not a non-war, it was a different kind of war. It was a standoff, so the battles took place in the covert space rather than the overt space. The Soviets were, from the 1950's to the 1980's, engaged in empire building. They were not merely building relationships with countries like Vietnam, Cambodia and Cuba, but were actually dominating their decision making. This action threatened many nations, and the USA was not alone in fighting the Cold war. Britain, France, Spain, Turkey, Australia, and Canada all felt threatened by the bizarre behavior of the Soviets. That's why NATO was formed, and why these countries still feel kinship with each other at the diplomatic level.
You may not agree with the tactics of warfare, and you may object in every case of its use, but war serves a useful purpose for humanity. Until we can develop to the point where nations treat each other and their populaces with respect, there can be no peace but a false one. Lack of war is not peace, lack of injustice and suffering is peace. It's a quandry that, until all the assholes are killed off, there can't be true peace. (An asshole is someone who will kill others or take what is lawfully theirs for his own enrichment.) Just because a person takes a different political tack from you does not make him one of those assholes. Go to Somalia, Zaire, Congo, South Africa, Cuba, North Korea, Liberia or even Sudan if you want to see the real ones. They hire men to drive around in armed trucks we call "technicals" to harass the populace into compliance. They have Secret Police. People fear speaking out against their government's policies, and have reason to fear. Much hyperbole is made about this current administration, but there are no gulags, no secret police, no hidden microphones, no government minders, no technicals on the streets. Watch this: GEORGE W BUSH CAN SUCK MY FATTY.
nope, no stormtroopers, no disappearances. Show me a forum in China where people can gather to criticize the Communist Party. Show me a date where a rally is to be held to protest conditions in Cuba. Show me someone in North Korea who thinks Kim Jong-il has a poor quality haircut for Chrissakes. How about a political party in opposition to Saddam prior to the US invasion? The point is that none of the normal flow of opinion happen in places where tanks are driven over student protestors. Pointing nuclear missiles at the Soviets ensured that no land war occurred. All through history, when two powerful nations saw their interests in conflict, as the USA and CCCP were, the result was protracted bloody warfare. Nuclear deterrence on both sides moved the war into a war of economies, of hardware and technology, rather than one of cannon and trenches. Complain of that if you need to to feel trendy and hip, but wars used to be much worse than they are now. They're still bad, of course, but the alternative would be capitulation to mass-murderers and global inaction and apathy. No thanks for that. I think that coalitions of well meaning people should be formed to fight and kill those who torture their people and rule with fear. Call me a fossil.
I read it, and while it didn't turn out to be nearly as spectacular a loss of freedom as I had been told, there were good points and bad ones. On the good side, the definitions of the word terrorist were clearly described enough that the parts of the bill specific to terrorism couldn't be used elsewhere.
However, any time a wiretap is basically rubberstamped by the judge charged with oversight, it's frightening. More frightening than PATRIOT is the fact that several US CITIZENS who were arrested IN THE USA are at Guantanamo. That should not happen.
Relax, it will have USB2 ports and MS will probably offer an external hard drive for it for 75 bucks. That would pretty much allow the system to be upgraded easily (just like a PC).
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Only one problem- With YOUR home you can replace your own latch with one you think will work better. With Microsoft's proprietary blend of software you can only have the latch that they choose, whether you think it will work for your neighborhood or not. That's why OSS is going to be popular. It keeps one entity from having too much control over YOUR computer.
A good analogy, BTW.
I spent just a wee bit more on a 5700 and it really was worth it. The 5200 isn't viable as a video card without major overclocking.
What are you alluding to? The internet has MORE than just porn? DUH. There's also the whole world of softcore and bathing suit pinups.
Note to author of parent post, entitled "Article Summary": It has been independantly determined (by me) that Dr. Pepper, blown out through ones nose, can cause momentary blindness and a feeling such as one would expect when expelling acid diarrhea through the eye sockets. Just an FYI.
It was Hot Wheels underwear. I was seven.
I would be SO embarassed if I owned anything even remotely similar now.
Dark matter is simply matter which does not readily present itself as visible. (anything you don't see through a telescope is "dark") Unaccounted for interstellar dust, gases, etc.
MSN messenger has not been able to connect all day. My wife confirms this at home. (I am at work).
You forgot: Bulemia: Windows Me
These things prey on people's desperation and feelings of inadequacy. I mean really, even a tiny dude can score if his head game is good.
fucking duh, dude. I expect the same sort of problem would arise if you copied code from any proprietary product as well.
HOW ABOUT- YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO USE GPL CODE IN A CLOSED SOURCE PRODUCT. None. It's not yours, you don't own it, to you, it's just not freely available.
I'm not flaming ya, what you said was highly insightful. I think that people need to stop using OSS as "freeware" and respect that it was given to you for free with certain rather minor restrictions. I have always found irony in people releasing GPL software for P2P. I mean, the software doesn't by itself violate anyone else's IP, but it seems ironic to USE GPL programs to steal other people's property.
From your post, I surmise that you have taken part in a less than peaceful protest of some sort, or have been at ground zero of a riot or bar brawl?
If the democrats held all three branches of government they would logically be receiving the lion's share of lobbyists' money.
Dickhead, what if she wasn't that great of an Aunt?
Hell awaits me, just feeding the troll.
Blind conjecture, my man, blind conjecture.
You weren't expecting otherwise, HERE, were you??
(snicker)
You touchy? I have never heard of Strategic Intelligence abbreviated StratInt. That's all. Calm down. SAC everyone knows. NOFORN is similar to the "sensitive" classification, meaning it's info not releasable to foreign nationals. I never said I never heard of it and therefore it doesn't exist. It's just that your rather spectacular claim of knowledge didn't come with evidence, and critical thought demands skepticism in such cases.
Feeding the trolls
1. There was no possibility for the USA to know what exactly these microcontrollers were going to be used for. They're not exactly single-purpose. How was anyone to know the pipeline would fail in this way? You can't just program or design a logic chip to blow up pipelines. There is no "BLOW_UP_PIPELINE =1" command, you know. It was unfortunate.
2. The warfare I am talking about was waged to prevent physical conflict, and it accomplished that. Of course there was loss of life. Fucking DUH. 3. The US does not intentionally target civilians. I have served in the US military and I will just let you know right now that civilian casualty IS an issue in the development of a military strategy (strategery for republicans).
4. I will have to look into the issue you brought with US corporations policing people. Do you have any sources for this type of research? I truly am interested in knowing where this is occurring.
I do not love any one of my opinions enough to abandon reasonable debate.
I also harbor no fantasy that the USA is totally free of corruption, undue influence, or greed. That said, if you think the Iraq war was fought for oil, please also realize no nation likes its dick stepped on; agreements made at the end of a war by the losing party should be kept, inspectors, if requested, must be allowed in.
In my opinion, Saddam maintained no actual WMD; Instead he focused on developing the means and infrastructure necessary for their production, and much evidence of this has already been found. His puffery on the issue was a dangerous gamble, and he paid for it dearly. He was an impressively cruel bastard, and his people are better off without him. What remains to be seen is whether the coalition can make a better Iraq for the betterment of the region. I think it CAN. Will it?
I agree with you there. My grandfather had to go to the hospital and finally to nursing care because even though he's fairly well-off, he was eating very poorly. The elderly get there either through poverty, senility, or both. The kids unfortunately can only eat what they are given by parents. My wife was taken from her biological parents because of this kind of neglect. They were poor by US standards, but still could have afforded and entirely adequate diet. Instead, they bought budweiser and cigarettes. At three years old she weighed twelve pounds.
hey, you troll bastard ! I can't stop , well, um, BREATHING because of you! It's worse than the Small World ride song! ACK!
Personally I install the washers for mechanical strain relief. Do you guys use them or go commando?
You're wrong on one statement: that people die of hunger in the USA. This is not the case. No child in the USA starves unless they are specifically denied food by their parent or guardian. There are food banks run by churches and charities. I have volunteered at several of them in several states. We never denied anyone food, and still always had food on hand. Also, there are care organizations for the poor. The thing is, some people are mentally ill, and deliberately starve kids, but this happens only a handful of times per year in the entire nation. Like any country, we have people who have no homes. Some are down on their luck, and some are mentally ill street people whose natural habitat (by their choice) is outdoors. People don't starve to death in the USA but there are some people who choose to buy cigarettes and beer instead of groceries. It's more an ill of ignorance than scarcity.
You're missing the point. This was the hardware equivalent of a honeypot. Their own espionage did them in. If you think that Kruschev never had ambitions of destroying or crippling the West, think again. The Cold War was the most humane and genteel war ever fought. It was not a non-war, it was a different kind of war. It was a standoff, so the battles took place in the covert space rather than the overt space.
The Soviets were, from the 1950's to the 1980's, engaged in empire building. They were not merely building relationships with countries like Vietnam, Cambodia and Cuba, but were actually dominating their decision making. This action threatened many nations, and the USA was not alone in fighting the Cold war. Britain, France, Spain, Turkey, Australia, and Canada all felt threatened by the bizarre behavior of the Soviets. That's why NATO was formed, and why these countries still feel kinship with each other at the diplomatic level.
You may not agree with the tactics of warfare, and you may object in every case of its use, but war serves a useful purpose for humanity. Until we can develop to the point where nations treat each other and their populaces with respect, there can be no peace but a false one. Lack of war is not peace, lack of injustice and suffering is peace. It's a quandry that, until all the assholes are killed off, there can't be true peace. (An asshole is someone who will kill others or take what is lawfully theirs for his own enrichment.) Just because a person takes a different political tack from you does not make him one of those assholes. Go to Somalia, Zaire, Congo, South Africa, Cuba, North Korea, Liberia or even Sudan if you want to see the real ones. They hire men to drive around in armed trucks we call "technicals" to harass the populace into compliance. They have Secret Police. People fear speaking out against their government's policies, and have reason to fear.
Much hyperbole is made about this current administration, but there are no gulags, no secret police, no hidden microphones, no government minders, no technicals on the streets. Watch this: GEORGE W BUSH CAN SUCK MY FATTY.
nope, no stormtroopers, no disappearances.
Show me a forum in China where people can gather to criticize the Communist Party. Show me a date where a rally is to be held to protest conditions in Cuba. Show me someone in North Korea who thinks Kim Jong-il has a poor quality haircut for Chrissakes. How about a political party in opposition to Saddam prior to the US invasion? The point is that none of the normal flow of opinion happen in places where tanks are driven over student protestors.
Pointing nuclear missiles at the Soviets ensured that no land war occurred. All through history, when two powerful nations saw their interests in conflict, as the USA and CCCP were, the result was protracted bloody warfare. Nuclear deterrence on both sides moved the war into a war of economies, of hardware and technology, rather than one of cannon and trenches. Complain of that if you need to to feel trendy and hip, but wars used to be much worse than they are now. They're still bad, of course, but the alternative would be capitulation to mass-murderers and global inaction and apathy. No thanks for that. I think that coalitions of well meaning people should be formed to fight and kill those who torture their people and rule with fear. Call me a fossil.
Never heard of Strat. Int. Sorry.
Oh, so we're supposed to believe an Anonymous Coward with an obvious political agenda instead of numerous verifiable CIA sources?
I read it, and while it didn't turn out to be nearly as spectacular a loss of freedom as I had been told, there were good points and bad ones. On the good side, the definitions of the word terrorist were clearly described enough that the parts of the bill specific to terrorism couldn't be used elsewhere. However, any time a wiretap is basically rubberstamped by the judge charged with oversight, it's frightening. More frightening than PATRIOT is the fact that several US CITIZENS who were arrested IN THE USA are at Guantanamo. That should not happen.
Relax, it will have USB2 ports and MS will probably offer an external hard drive for it for 75 bucks. That would pretty much allow the system to be upgraded easily (just like a PC).