And gas prices in the USA are ridiculously low, compared with almost every other western country. For example, here in Australia, 1 litre (approx.3 gallon) is AUD0.90-0.98 on average. Translating that to USD per gallon makes it about USD2.50 per gallon. And last time I was in Norway, the price there was a little over double of Aussie prices. The world in going to hell, not in a handbasket, but in a gas-guzzling SUV...
Have you ever tried to import a non-word format into word?
Yes, I just did that last week. A friend send me a WordPerfect file, which MS Office happily converted. Of course, I wasn't quite as happy, as Word had rendered one section in some gobbledigook font, and no attempts to change it worked. Also, Word, in all its wisdom, decided that having section breaks in place of page breaks was a good idea. I had to get another friend to work some black magic on the file, and send me a legible Word format version, which still had the section breaks, but the font issue was somehow resolved. Joy...
And it can only get worse as these finite reserves of oil are consumed. What is the end game we are heading towards? Surely it is nuclear war or nuclear terrorism. We cannot tolerate where this is heading, yet we seem to ignore the clear signposts.
This is why I said a rise in the price of oil is a good thing.
If we are at the peak, then the price of oil will continue to rise, as will food prices, the prices of anything made with the use of electricity. Life as we know it will dramatically change.
In my worst case scenario, I foresee a global conflict with no holds barred, including the use of WMDs (Nuclear and Biological) by every country in attempts to seize the remaining valuable oil supplies. World War III. Of course, it won't be enough, and after further damaging our already fragile planet, we'll be at a tech level roughly equivalent to the mid 1700's, but worse off, as we've largely forgotten how to do things for ourselve to ensure survival. Do you know how to grow enough food to last a year? Make clothes from raw cotton or wool? Build a shelter? Make a fire? I know I don't have much of a clue about these things, and they are just the basics to survive. Food, shelter, warmth. I think we'll come to appreciate them..
Further problems: diseases running rampant, no emergency services of any kind available. Looting, riots, fires raging through cities. Billions dead or dying (it's estimated the die-off will reduce the global population to around 500 million). Anarchy. People killing each other to get their hands on food.
*sigh* I hope things turn out better than this, but with people like Bush in charge of the US (let's hope he is defeated and the new president of the USA is better), I see no hope for humanity.
Yep, it might be perfect for one-time pad schemes...
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However, you cleverly avoided mentioning this:
On the main page, realplayer is described as "new powerful free". Below that is a big orange download button. After you click on that, you hit the download page, which has big orange download buttons...for the pay player.
You're right, of course. However, my point still stands - the link to the free player was easy to find. I read pages from left to right, from top to bottom. When I read the top part, and reached the right hand side, there was the link...
So if someone spams you with SMS spam, the subscriber (your company in your case) has to foot the bill? Or at least part of it? Why do US mobile users put up with this?
Makes me glad to be Down Under, even if I pay too damn much to send SMSes. At least I control the costs.
See my other reply to another troll Does having no science degree mean he can't do research? Does having no degree mean he shouldn't care about a coming crisis??
Did you actually read any of the material the site uses as reference? There's a lot of material out there about the coming oil crisis. Try a search in Google for "Peak Oil" and read some of the other sites. Hmm.. maybe a geologist from Princeton might be more convincing than the site I linked to? Or how about CNN???
Why should you pay for SMS on your personal cell phone
Do you pay to receive SMS messages in the USA??? What about to send? That, too? So both sender and receiver pay? And I thought paying ~AUD$0.22 per (to send) SMS here in Australia was too expensive.. how much does it cost in the US?
but I must express my doubts that LA will have maglev monorails and all cars will be fuel cell powered by then.
Well, if the site I link to is any indication, then the cars will have to run on something other than petroleum products. Would be interesting to see if the coming energy crisis will be covered at all... Somehow, I doubt it, as ignorance (and/or denial) is bliss...
I went to the Real website, and clicked on three fairly obvious links, and Firefox asked me where to save the installer for the free version. (I chose to cancel, BTW)
I don't see how it's difficult to find:
First click from the main page to the download or buy RealOne. (The link was cunningly hidden in the top-right corner. I admit the choice of location here is a little unfriendly, but I saw it within 2 seconds of the page rendering) Second click to specify 'Download the free player'. (Bottom-right, large obvious letters, spotted instantly) Third click to specify the mirror site to use. (Hmm.. no.au site, ok, just pick one at random)
Are the people who had to 'hunt for 10 minutes' blind? (If so, then maybe the time was spend waiting for the text-to-speech to read out the whole page?)
Real might have a lot of bloat in their software, but don't blame them for your inability to click on three easy to see links.
After more than five years of active development, the FreeS/WAN project will be coming to an end.
The initial goal of the project was ambitious -- to secure the Internet using opportunisitically negotiated encryption, invisible and convenient to the user. For more, see our history page. A secondary goal was to challenge then-current US export regulations, which prohibited the export of strong cryptography (such as triple DES encryption) of US origin or authorship.
Since the project's inception, there has been limited success on the political front. After the watershed Bernstein case, US export regulations were relaxed. Since then, many US companies have exported strong cryptography, without seeming restriction other than having to notify the Bureau of Export Administration for tracking purposes.
This comfortable situation has perhaps created a false sense of security. The catch? Export regulations are not laws. The US government still reserves the right to change its export regulations on short notice, and there is no facility to challenge them directly in a court of law. This leaves the US crypto community and US Linux distributions in a position which seems safe, but is not legally protected -- where the US government might at any time *retroactively* regulate previously released code, by prohibiting its future export. This is why FreeS/WAN has always been developed outside the US (in Canada and in Greece), and why it has never (to the best of our knowledge) accepted US patches.
If FreeS/WAN has neither secured the Internet, nor secured the right of US citizens to export software that could do so, it has still had positive benefit.
With version 1.x, the FreeS/WAN team created a mature, well-tested IPsec VPN (Virtual Private Network) product for Linux. The Linux community has relied on it for some time, and it (or a patched variant) has shipped with several Linux distributions.
With version 2.x, FreeS/WAN development efforts focussed on increasing the usability of Opportunistic Encryption (OE), IPSec encryption without prearrangement. Configuration was simplified, FreeS/WAN's cryptographic offerings were streamlined, and the team promoted OE through talks and outreach.
However, nine months after the release of FreeS/WAN 2.00, OE has not caught on as we'd hoped. The Linux user community demands feature-rich VPNs for corporate clients, and while folks genuinely enjoy FreeS/WAN and its derivatives, the ways they use FreeS/WAN don't seem to be getting us any closer to the project's goal: widespread deployment of OE. For its part, OE requires more testing and community feedback before it is ready to be used without second thought. The project's funders have therefore chosen to withdraw their funding.
Anywhere you stop, a little of the road ahead is visible. FreeS/WAN 2.x might have developed further, for example to include ipv6 support.
Before the project stops, the team plans to do at least one more release. Release 2.06 will see FreeS/WAN making a late step toward its goal of being a simple, secure OE product with the removal of Transport Mode. This in keeping with one of Neils Fergusson's and Bruce Schneier's security recommendations, in A Cryptographic Evaluation of IPsec. 2.06 will also feature KLIPS (FreeS/WAN's Kernel Layer IPsec machinery) changes to faciliate use with the 2.6 kernel series.
After Release 2.06, FreeS/WAN code will continue to be available for public use and tinkering. Our website will stay up, and our mailing lists at lists.freeswan.org will continue to provide a forum for users to support one another. We expect that FreeS/WAN and its derivatives will be widely deployed for some time to come.
It is our hope that the public will one day be ready for, and demand, transparent, opportunistic encryption. Perhaps then some adventurous folks pick up FreeS/WAN 2.x and continue its development, making the project's original goal a reality.
Now it says: Due to a recent slashdot article related to SCO, the forums are experiencing an extremely high number of connections, we are actively working on upgrading the servers and should be able to restore some order shortly.
From what I've read and think I understand fairly well, the reason the GPL even exists is to keep software free, through the use of copyright laws.
Public domain code has nothing stopping companies from adopting the code, turning it into a proprietary product and never releasing the source, nor allowing free copying and redistribution. The result? Non-free software.
The GPL simply says that the software is free and if you change it, it must stay free. The result? Free software.
While I'm not a RMS fanboy, I appreciate his (and the FSF's) work to give us Free (as in libre) software, through the GPL.
PTSD is one of the easiest to treat in my experience (7 years as a clinical hypnotherapist). You know exactly what the problem is (recurring memories), and you know what the therapeutic outcome is (ability to remember whilst remaning calm). Where's the difficulty?
I'm curious to know how many treatments a PTSD client required to be 'cured'? Do you use NLP at all?
Thanks for this. I've been reading through some of them, and even though I'm pretty familiar with the basics, I'm still picking up little things here and there. I'm looking forward to going into them in more depth, and learning new things. So, mainly due to the costs involved (US$1,200 vs ~US$400), I will focus on LPI, rather than the O'Reilly/Useractive offerings.
Which also means: you can't use KDE or GPL'd Qt on XFree86 4.4. This is a fairly big deal for Mandrake.
What crack are you smoking? There's nothing to stop you from using non-GPL software with GPL software. For example, you can run non-GPL drivers like Nvidia's graphics drivers on XFree86 on the GPL'ed GNU/Linux OS. No problems. Similarly, you can run the GPL'ed GIMP on the (very) non-GPL Windows OS. No problems. What makes you think you couldn't run KDE or Qt on this new XFree86? Is there a clause in the new XFree86 licence whch states that "You may not run any GPL software in conjunction with this XFree86 licenced software"?? Come on, moderators, why mod this hogwash as "Informative" when it's clearly crap?
While I am excited by mankind's abilities to reach out into space and touch other planets, there are more immediate concerns. One which I was made aware of yesterday, through a link on Fark, is Peak Oil, something which appears will make our worst Y2K nightmares look like pleasant fantasies. This is scary stuff! Read the linked page, read the pages it references, think about it for a while, then tell your friends and loved ones.
Slashdot Mirror
I suspect the cartels are cutting back on supply, not to screw America, but because oil production has peaked and they are starting to run out of cheap oil
And gas prices in the USA are ridiculously low, compared with almost every other western country.
For example, here in Australia, 1 litre (approx
The world in going to hell, not in a handbasket, but in a gas-guzzling SUV...
Yes, I just did that last week. A friend send me a WordPerfect file, which MS Office happily converted.
Of course, I wasn't quite as happy, as Word had rendered one section in some gobbledigook font, and no attempts to change it worked.
Also, Word, in all its wisdom, decided that having section breaks in place of page breaks was a good idea.
I had to get another friend to work some black magic on the file, and send me a legible Word format version, which still had the section breaks, but the font issue was somehow resolved.
Joy...
I like this chart, showing the steadiness of IBM, the bubble of SCO and the growth of a real Linux company.
Some people believe we're at Peak Oil now, and the crash will hit us in the next 3-8 years.
If we are at the peak, then the price of oil will continue to rise, as will food prices, the prices of anything made with the use of electricity. Life as we know it will dramatically change.
In my worst case scenario, I foresee a global conflict with no holds barred, including the use of WMDs (Nuclear and Biological) by every country in attempts to seize the remaining valuable oil supplies. World War III.
Of course, it won't be enough, and after further damaging our already fragile planet, we'll be at a tech level roughly equivalent to the mid 1700's, but worse off, as we've largely forgotten how to do things for ourselve to ensure survival. Do you know how to grow enough food to last a year? Make clothes from raw cotton or wool? Build a shelter? Make a fire? I know I don't have much of a clue about these things, and they are just the basics to survive. Food, shelter, warmth. I think we'll come to appreciate them..
Further problems: diseases running rampant, no emergency services of any kind available. Looting, riots, fires raging through cities. Billions dead or dying (it's estimated the die-off will reduce the global population to around 500 million). Anarchy. People killing each other to get their hands on food.
*sigh* I hope things turn out better than this, but with people like Bush in charge of the US (let's hope he is defeated and the new president of the USA is better), I see no hope for humanity.
hehehe...
Yep, it might be perfect for one-time pad schemes...
You're right, of course.
However, my point still stands - the link to the free player was easy to find. I read pages from left to right, from top to bottom.
When I read the top part, and reached the right hand side, there was the link...
Good grief!
:)
So if someone spams you with SMS spam, the subscriber (your company in your case) has to foot the bill? Or at least part of it?
Why do US mobile users put up with this?
Makes me glad to be Down Under, even if I pay too damn much to send SMSes. At least I control the costs.
Thanks for the answers!
See my other reply to another troll
Does having no science degree mean he can't do research?
Does having no degree mean he shouldn't care about a coming crisis??
Ok, I'll bite, Mr Troll..
Did you actually read any of the material the site uses as reference?
There's a lot of material out there about the coming oil crisis.
Try a search in Google for "Peak Oil" and read some of the other sites.
Hmm.. maybe a geologist from Princeton might be more convincing than the site I linked to?
Or how about CNN???
Maybe Bill is compensating for something?
After all, he called his company "microsoft"..
(Yeah, yeah, old joke, I know!!)
Do you pay to receive SMS messages in the USA???
What about to send? That, too? So both sender and receiver pay?
And I thought paying ~AUD$0.22 per (to send) SMS here in Australia was too expensive.. how much does it cost in the US?
Well, if the site I link to is any indication, then the cars will have to run on something other than petroleum products.
Would be interesting to see if the coming energy crisis will be covered at all...
Somehow, I doubt it, as ignorance (and/or denial) is bliss...
I haven't implemented it myself, but I *think* OpenLDAP can do what you want, in conjunction with Samba...
I went to the Real website, and clicked on three fairly obvious links, and Firefox asked me where to save the installer for the free version. (I chose to cancel, BTW)
.au site, ok, just pick one at random)
I don't see how it's difficult to find:
First click from the main page to the download or buy RealOne. (The link was cunningly hidden in the top-right corner. I admit the choice of location here is a little unfriendly, but I saw it within 2 seconds of the page rendering)
Second click to specify 'Download the free player'. (Bottom-right, large obvious letters, spotted instantly)
Third click to specify the mirror site to use. (Hmm.. no
Are the people who had to 'hunt for 10 minutes' blind?
(If so, then maybe the time was spend waiting for the text-to-speech to read out the whole page?)
Real might have a lot of bloat in their software, but don't blame them for your inability to click on three easy to see links.
Amazing!!!
Let's get this copy- and crack-proof encryption on everything!!
Hmm... perhaps Cypak are a little too confident about their encryption..??
So much for "(Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!)", huh?
Dear FreeS/WAN Community,
After more than five years of active development, the FreeS/WAN project will be coming to an end.
The initial goal of the project was ambitious -- to secure the Internet using opportunisitically negotiated encryption, invisible and convenient to the user. For more, see our history page. A secondary goal was to challenge then-current US export regulations, which prohibited the export of strong cryptography (such as triple DES encryption) of US origin or authorship.
Since the project's inception, there has been limited success on the political front. After the watershed Bernstein case, US export regulations were relaxed. Since then, many US companies have exported strong cryptography, without seeming restriction other than having to notify the Bureau of Export Administration for tracking purposes.
This comfortable situation has perhaps created a false sense of security. The catch? Export regulations are not laws. The US government still reserves the right to change its export regulations on short notice, and there is no facility to challenge them directly in a court of law. This leaves the US crypto community and US Linux distributions in a position which seems safe, but is not legally protected -- where the US government might at any time *retroactively* regulate previously released code, by prohibiting its future export. This is why FreeS/WAN has always been developed outside the US (in Canada and in Greece), and why it has never (to the best of our knowledge) accepted US patches.
If FreeS/WAN has neither secured the Internet, nor secured the right of US citizens to export software that could do so, it has still had positive benefit.
With version 1.x, the FreeS/WAN team created a mature, well-tested IPsec VPN (Virtual Private Network) product for Linux. The Linux community has relied on it for some time, and it (or a patched variant) has shipped with several Linux distributions.
With version 2.x, FreeS/WAN development efforts focussed on increasing the usability of Opportunistic Encryption (OE), IPSec encryption without prearrangement. Configuration was simplified, FreeS/WAN's cryptographic offerings were streamlined, and the team promoted OE through talks and outreach.
However, nine months after the release of FreeS/WAN 2.00, OE has not caught on as we'd hoped. The Linux user community demands feature-rich VPNs for corporate clients, and while folks genuinely enjoy FreeS/WAN and its derivatives, the ways they use FreeS/WAN don't seem to be getting us any closer to the project's goal: widespread deployment of OE. For its part, OE requires more testing and community feedback before it is ready to be used without second thought. The project's funders have therefore chosen to withdraw their funding.
Anywhere you stop, a little of the road ahead is visible. FreeS/WAN 2.x might have developed further, for example to include ipv6 support.
Before the project stops, the team plans to do at least one more release. Release 2.06 will see FreeS/WAN making a late step toward its goal of being a simple, secure OE product with the removal of Transport Mode. This in keeping with one of Neils Fergusson's and Bruce Schneier's security recommendations, in A Cryptographic Evaluation of IPsec. 2.06 will also feature KLIPS (FreeS/WAN's Kernel Layer IPsec machinery) changes to faciliate use with the 2.6 kernel series.
After Release 2.06, FreeS/WAN code will continue to be available for public use and tinkering. Our website will stay up, and our mailing lists at lists.freeswan.org will continue to provide a forum for users to support one another. We expect that FreeS/WAN and its derivatives will be widely deployed for some time to come.
It is our hope that the public will one day be ready for, and demand, transparent, opportunistic encryption. Perhaps then some adventurous folks pick up FreeS/WAN 2.x and continue its development, making the project's original goal a reality.
Now it says:
Due to a recent slashdot article related to SCO, the forums are experiencing an extremely high number of connections, we are actively working on upgrading the servers and should be able to restore some order shortly.
Wonder if they will "upgrade" to Unixware?
I love the feature which lists their features... oh, wait, it's just their features page...
From what I've read and think I understand fairly well, the reason the GPL even exists is to keep software free, through the use of copyright laws.
Public domain code has nothing stopping companies from adopting the code, turning it into a proprietary product and never releasing the source, nor allowing free copying and redistribution. The result? Non-free software.
The GPL simply says that the software is free and if you change it, it must stay free. The result? Free software.
While I'm not a RMS fanboy, I appreciate his (and the FSF's) work to give us Free (as in libre) software, through the GPL.
I'm curious to know how many treatments a PTSD client required to be 'cured'?
Do you use NLP at all?
Thanks for this.
I've been reading through some of them, and even though I'm pretty familiar with the basics, I'm still picking up little things here and there.
I'm looking forward to going into them in more depth, and learning new things.
So, mainly due to the costs involved (US$1,200 vs ~US$400), I will focus on LPI, rather than the O'Reilly/Useractive offerings.
What crack are you smoking?
There's nothing to stop you from using non-GPL software with GPL software.
For example, you can run non-GPL drivers like Nvidia's graphics drivers on XFree86 on the GPL'ed GNU/Linux OS. No problems.
Similarly, you can run the GPL'ed GIMP on the (very) non-GPL Windows OS. No problems.
What makes you think you couldn't run KDE or Qt on this new XFree86?
Is there a clause in the new XFree86 licence whch states that "You may not run any GPL software in conjunction with this XFree86 licenced software"??
Come on, moderators, why mod this hogwash as "Informative" when it's clearly crap?
While I am excited by mankind's abilities to reach out into space and touch other planets, there are more immediate concerns.
One which I was made aware of yesterday, through a link on Fark, is Peak Oil, something which appears will make our worst Y2K nightmares look like pleasant fantasies.
This is scary stuff! Read the linked page, read the pages it references, think about it for a while, then tell your friends and loved ones.
Oooops!
Not too familiar with US universities...