Canada is more big brotherly than the USA. The only difference is that the Canadian government is not so gung-ho about dramatically applying their backdoor legal technology. (With a day-time raid by dozens of federal agents pointing machine guns, for example.) Nobody in Canada notices unless somebody 'normal' is 'wrongfully' made to suffer. As long as the police and courts punish the undesirables, the Canadian media and talking classes do not seem to notice or care.
One law, Judicial Restraint, or Peace Bond, or 810 Order, can restrict people as if on probation even if no crime has been committed, without a conviction. The only thing required is suspicion of (various things) by the police. A judge then makes a decision something like those he makes when allowing a search warrant. The level of proof necessary is 'reasonableness' rather than 'beyond a reasonable doubt'. In other words, bias, prejudice, weak evidence and other vagueries are officially invited to attend to someones legal harassment by the state.
These 810 orders result in a one year prison term if the terms are not agreed to by the individual in question. They are renewable annually to no end.
810.1 orders are particularly interesting, because in addition to there having to be no crime committed, there needen't even be a target of a crime apparent, only the vague possibility that one could occure. This special treatment is metted out to pedophiles, the new garbage class of the world.
As I said before, this law is not overtly pursued. We only very rarely hear about so-and-so being forced to sign a peace bond, even though hundreds of people do so every year. It hasn't appeared on any journalist's radar. One may think that only those people who 'deserve it' fall under the yoke. But what it amounts to, in my view, is an legal loophole to persecute people the police and society doesn't like, without the threshold of proof or process inherent in a usual court-convictions.
Instead of giving an individual the benefit of the doubt, or treating a prison term as the sum payment for a particular crime (as it is said to be), certain segments of the population are open to continual threat of harassment and punishment by a fickle public mood.
In this case, Austin could have been quietly harrassed out of existence by an application of the 810 Order. He would have been forced to appear before the court, then given the choice of losing his right to live freely, or go to prison. The Canadian media would have said nothing about it, except maybe to yawn.
I expect it was a great deal of work to digitize this material, but the result isn't even legible. Upon showing a really small image of a book laid out flat, the user is invited to open up a larger, only slighly more useless, version of the page. Even if this book was written in English, I would not be able to read it, and I have a 19 inch Trinitron monitor.
Why would a university bother putting up illegible material on the web?
Like with drugs, the motivation behind child pornography is profit.
The trade in child pornography is almost entirely non-commercial and therefore your assertion is incorrect. Most child pornography is traded over newsgroups, IRC, IM, or on egroups, where only in-kind renumeration is required.
Most commercial child pornography websites are actually fronts for police sting operations. I scanned about 15 so-called Russian child porn websites and found that all of them were hosted within the US.
Because the police do not inform the public about their sting operations, it is difficult to make judgements about how lively the commercial child porn trade is. For all we know, 100% of commercial child porn websites are run by the police, or it could be less than that.
I can tell you that it's a recognized fact that during the 1980's, the US Postal Service was the only distributor of child porn in the United States, a state of affairs the US government would like to enjoy again in their game of luring and jailing people.
Philip Jenkin's Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet is about as fair a work on the subject as can be had in these days if you are interested in more information.
Paedophilia, or pedophilia, is a sort of sexual attraction. Being attracted to children is not in itself a crime. Therefore the wording of the/. story is a little misleading unless the police are indeed targetting pedophiles for no reason other than their professed attraction. But that would be a police harrassment, rather than law enforcement.
As a non-bilingual Canadian, I can understand a lot of Parisian French (if only by guessing the 'latinesque' roots and the translating that into english). I can not understand Quebec french.
I think it would be a mistake to equate Quebec french with 'joual', the slang of the Quebecois. Sure, it may represent a unique variation of french, and one similar to ebonics in terms of it's relation to the mother-language, but it is not the only sort of french being spoken. There are many flavors and accents active throughout Quebec.
And I notice that Quebecois can turn off the slang, just as English speakers can speak more or less formally. 'Joual' seems to be something made in addition to a well-grounded understanding of French, rather than something that has taken it's place.
I have spoken to Parisians who were, to form, snobby about their language, and felt that I shouldn't learn Quebec french. They thought it sounded very antiquated, like language old farmers might use. But, the difference is minimal once we get away from 'joual'.
Speaking as a non-linguist, the difference between Parisian and Quebec french in pronounciation and vocabulary seems to be on the order of the difference between American and Irish english. Clearly they are different, and initially incompatible. But it doesn't take long for people to cross over from one to the other.
And as another poster mentioned in this thread, American english has not thrown out it's anglo-saxon roots. In the same way, Quebec french remains a latin language. In written form, Quebec and Parisian french would appear almost identical, except for differences in idiom and minor ones in vocabulary, for example, using 'gens' to the exclusion of 'mecs', a word Parisians prefer. The real problem, I think, is idiom.
The bad atttitudes of the Quebecois today are a reaction to the bad attitudes of their British and Canadian conquerers. It wasn't so long ago that a french speaking individual could not get a good job in Montreal. They would have to speak english, just like management, and the owners. It was not uncommon for Quebecois to feel inferior to english speaking people in their own province, on their own streets.
The Quiet Revolution of the 70's turned all that around. Now french has become ascendent. But why not? Quebec is a french-speaking province. Of course business should take place in french, and give opportunities to the french speaking youth of the province. And why shouldn't signs be primarily in french? I think being the only significant foothold of the french language in North America, which operates under the most powerful language of today, renders these kinds of expectations fairly reasonable. Anyway, the Quebecois have lived the alternative.
Some of the attitudes and laws have gone too far, but that is how action-reaction works. I think that everyone feels that things are becoming more balanced. The 'language police' are not as active as they used to be.
As for being 'hated', I can tell you as an english speaking resident of Quebec for 4 years that I have experienced only one incident of what I would call prejudice. I have noticed that people like for you to speak in their native language, or at least try. Even english speaking people.
Honestly, I have heard more prejudiced remarks about language coming from english speaking individuals who complain about their lost privilage. They used to be on top, and now they're just another minority.
The bad atttitudes of the Quebecois today are a reaction to the bad attitudes of their British and Canadian conquerers. It wasn't so long ago that a french speaking individual could not get a good job in Montreal. They would have to speak english, just like management, and the owners. It was not uncommon for Quebecois to feel inferior to english speaking people in their own province, on their own streets.
The Quiet Revolution of the 70's turned all that around. Now french has become ascendent. But why not? Quebec is a french-speaking province. Of course business should take place in french, and give opportunities to the french speaking youth of the province. And why shouldn't signs be primarily in french? I think being the only significant foothold of the french language in North America, which operates under the most powerful language of today, renders these kinds of expectations fairly reasonable. Anyway, the Quebecois have lived the alternative.
Some of the attitudes and laws have gone too far, but that is how action-reaction works. I think that everyone feels that things are becoming more balanced. The 'language police' are not as active as they used to be.
As for being 'hated', I can tell you as an english speaking resident of Quebec for 4 years that I have experienced only one incident of what I would call prejudice. I have noticed that people like for you to speak in their native language, or at least try. Even english speaking people.
Honestly, I have heard more prejudiced remarks about language coming from english speaking individuals who complain about their lost privilage. They used to be on top, and now they're just another minority.
_khl
Here's a little comparasin, as I use both Opera and Pheonix.
Some stuff opera does that pheonix doesn't do, or doesn't do as well (that I actually use):
1. switch all graphics on and off
2. switch css on and off
3. zoom in and out
Stuff pheonix (and extensions) does that opera doesn't do, or doesn't do as well:
1. turns off specific graphics
2. better tab management (middle click!)
3. better personal bar, (I especially like opening all my newssites at once with a single middle click, and then throwing them away with another single click when I need to move onto another task.)
Just chiming in...
_KhlER3L
I've used Opera since 6.0 on Windows and Linux, and I've found it to be pretty stable. But, even when it crashes (it does occasionally), Opera will have saved it's state at the point of the crash, so simply reloading Opera brings back all the pages that were lost.
I've recently started using Pheonix and Mozilla, and have found that both are just as stable as Opera, except they do not have this feature, so my losses are more substantial, sometimes requiring me to search through my browser history to get back to where I was. I know that there is some sort of feature like this with the tabs extension, but it's not obvious how it works, and I never got it to.
You mention the ability to alter contracts when doing business face to face.
Maybe digital EULAs could do the same. They could have checkboxes that would change the installation process, maybe leaving parts out, or adding parts, or changing things like expiry dates, depending on what the user agreed to, with background logic creating a balance of acceptable terms for the software developer. A DEULA could be returned to the software developer via the web to automate a custom fee structure.
Right now, they are, at least in every instance I've found them, monolithic documents with a single, giant checkbox. Perhaps the future EULA will be a tree heirarchy of optional clauses.
Thinking the idea might be useful as software becomes more and more a mix of commercial and free software, with their possibly conflicting licenses.
Just an idea.. Maybe a bad one since it would keep lawyers employed.
Csound - which is included in the turnkey package - is one of the most powerful sound creation programs out there. For academic purposes, electroacoustic studies, raw sound effects generation, and, if one is so inclined, extremely abstract music, Csound is great. However, in terms of music that most people want to listen to and make, Csound not, the last time I checked, a very likely candidate.
Again, I would like for somebody to prove me wrong about this and link me to 'sensible' compositions that were made in CSound (ie - not 5 minute drones of stretched out cello notes.)
Basically, Linux has nothing to offer someone who does audio, as far as I know, besides playing CDs.
I know there are some authoring tools in the works, but, also afaik, they're not moving fast, octal for example. My guess is, Linux is at least 5 years away from general purpose authoring, if it ever gets there.
Btw, I'd be glad to be wrong, if someone would only point out the links to *stable* and *feature-filled* tools.
I was concerned that the per second data throughput would be strangled, like HostPro, but it's fast. I have a page that requires about 120 http connections and the he.net serve was as fast as my experience with the same site on a practically empty t1. It gave as fast as my adsl modem could take it, I guess.
About uptime/downtime/tech support - for ten bucks, I'd say it's one of the best deals around. I used to host stuff on HostPro for more than twice that much money and had really crappy throughput and, frankly, an annoying web-admin interface. Tech support was also bare minimum.
So far, he.net has been responsive, has great throughput, and a great shell environment to do admin stuff from. My only real complaint is that vim was compiled april 2001, which broke on my.vimrc.
But, anyway, if it all turns to shit and I decide I don't like it, I can always go somewhere else -- there's no year or 6 month contract, and payments are made monthly.
Most people don't need their cars to go 100 km/h on a regular basis. Driving in the city is often a stop and go affair, never breaking 60 km/h. This car, depending on how it drives, could be very suitable for that kind of driving.
_khl
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there's more important things to worry about than one's ability to get high. Besides, people will do it regardless of the law anyway.
I disagree. Hundreds of thousands of people have been made criminals by the pot laws, yet pot itself is practically harmless. It's not anywhere as addictive as cigarettes, and it doesn't induce rages like alcohol does. But you've heard all that before. Hundreds of thousands of lives damaged over a harmless experience..
It's a great danger to society to allow the infringement of other people's freedoms because 'it doesn't effect me.' People should work together to overturn bad laws, not turn their backs on one another. The American policy on pot is a bad policy, therefore, it's important to fight it, even if you are not a pot smoker -- I'm not.
As well, the United States is pressuring Canada on it's internal views on pot, to try to get a more conservative momentum there. This unimportant pot law may turn into a long standing greivance between citizens of Canada and the USA. Did you know that in Montreal, 65% of people support legalization or decriminalization?
If S@H didn't make it into a big race, people wouldn't be cheating. Give them a motivation, a simple numbers game, and they will, and have, to the detriment of the project.
Technical solutions such as adding hashes of this or encrypted that's will not tackle the root source of the problem: the game playing people themselves.
A solution I think might work would be to make WU statistics viewable only by the producer himself. Everybody wants to know what he or she has done, but compiling the data for an entire work group, much less all work groups, would be next to impossible. Without 'meaningful' ranking data, game players would have to find some other way to please themselves.
I don't think installing OpenBSD is any more difficult than installing a Windows box. You have to do it a couple times before you get everything right. But OBSD has one thing going for it: The initial install is really simple, comprised of only a few steps. If you can wrap your head around the disk partitioning (you can if you try), there's really nothing to it. A from-CD install takes only 5-10 minutes.
From there,/usr/ports makes available a tonne of software (some of which even works -- amazing!).
I'm speaking as a guy who hasn't installed X (tried once and mostly failed), but enjoys the commandline quite a bit. If you like working on the 'NIX commandline, or would like to learn, OBSD is a great system to play with.
Consider, for example, a flurry of messages apparently sent to Saddam byan employee of a Saudi Arabian oil company in July and August. The e-mailscontained cryptic reports in broken English about the location of U.S. oilpipelines, as well as warnings about the movement of submarines, aircraftand other military equipment and personnel in the Middle East.
Why would a Saudi Arabian oil employee use broken english when there is a 100% chance he speaks arabic? If he's not speaking English well, then what is he speaking in an Arab country? Chinese?
Maybe I'm out to lunch, but I think arabic speaking people send each other emails in arabic.
That is a hilarious idea. I wouldn't be suprised if it actually happens: Brown coloured, pregnant girls from Thailand will earn 25 cents an hour to listen on VOIP and move a mouse cursor at the voice command of it's rich, white, Western owner. How convenient! Amazing! Space age! FUTURE!
More importantly, how are these pictures going to be stored long term?We have photos and negatives lasting over a hundred years. I'm luckyto have a hard drive last longer than three. The possibility of thegreat photographs of our day being erased with an accidental click ofa button or the failure of a hard drive read head worries me.
Transfer digital images to film negatives for archival purposes. As digital surpassses 35mm, transfer to larger film formats.
Signing a document could limit legal-liability / job-problems in the case that a modified form of a document is released with your name on it. By having signed the original document, you can prove that the problematic document is a modification and not the original.
Sometimes the utility of GPG has little to do with the capabilities of the recipient.
Solution? Get your own computer, and get your own domain name.
Yea, but, a univeristy is supposed to stand for the freedom to explore ideas. Their take on bad speech should be more, better speech, not censorship. What the university should be doing is taking a stand and challenging this in court, not capitulating based on "what-if's?".
You said: There is also no good reason why Linux in general (in reference to the many distributions of it, not the kernel), should be called GNU/Linux.
You also said: Distributions -- like Debian, Redhat, Suse, etc etc -- which usepredominantly GNU-software along with Linus' GPL'ed Linux kernelshould be called "Distro GNU-Linux";
That's the reason to call Linux GNU/Linux, in general -- because what most people think of as Linux is actually GNU/Linux. As long as RedHat, Debian, Suse, Mandrake, etc, pair GNU with Linux, and as long as those distributions are the best known and available ones, people should undertake to use a name that fairly aknowledges the main contributors. Why not?
Make the exception where the exception lies -- with Linux distros that use BSD or non-GNU/non-BSD parts. We'll call those BSD/Linux or plain Linux, or whatever. GNU/Linux is not the exception - it's the rule. So let's call it what it is.
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One law, Judicial Restraint, or Peace Bond, or 810 Order, can restrict people as if on probation even if no crime has been committed, without a conviction. The only thing required is suspicion of (various things) by the police. A judge then makes a decision something like those he makes when allowing a search warrant. The level of proof necessary is 'reasonableness' rather than 'beyond a reasonable doubt'. In other words, bias, prejudice, weak evidence and other vagueries are officially invited to attend to someones legal harassment by the state.
These 810 orders result in a one year prison term if the terms are not agreed to by the individual in question. They are renewable annually to no end.
810.1 orders are particularly interesting, because in addition to there having to be no crime committed, there needen't even be a target of a crime apparent, only the vague possibility that one could occure. This special treatment is metted out to pedophiles, the new garbage class of the world.
As I said before, this law is not overtly pursued. We only very rarely hear about so-and-so being forced to sign a peace bond, even though hundreds of people do so every year. It hasn't appeared on any journalist's radar. One may think that only those people who 'deserve it' fall under the yoke. But what it amounts to, in my view, is an legal loophole to persecute people the police and society doesn't like, without the threshold of proof or process inherent in a usual court-convictions.
Instead of giving an individual the benefit of the doubt, or treating a prison term as the sum payment for a particular crime (as it is said to be), certain segments of the population are open to continual threat of harassment and punishment by a fickle public mood.
In this case, Austin could have been quietly harrassed out of existence by an application of the 810 Order. He would have been forced to appear before the court, then given the choice of losing his right to live freely, or go to prison. The Canadian media would have said nothing about it, except maybe to yawn.
_KhlER3L
Why would a university bother putting up illegible material on the web?
_khl
The trade in child pornography is almost entirely non-commercial and therefore your assertion is incorrect. Most child pornography is traded over newsgroups, IRC, IM, or on egroups, where only in-kind renumeration is required.
Most commercial child pornography websites are actually fronts for police sting operations. I scanned about 15 so-called Russian child porn websites and found that all of them were hosted within the US.
Because the police do not inform the public about their sting operations, it is difficult to make judgements about how lively the commercial child porn trade is. For all we know, 100% of commercial child porn websites are run by the police, or it could be less than that.
I can tell you that it's a recognized fact that during the 1980's, the US Postal Service was the only distributor of child porn in the United States, a state of affairs the US government would like to enjoy again in their game of luring and jailing people.
Philip Jenkin's Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet is about as fair a work on the subject as can be had in these days if you are interested in more information.
_khl
_khl
I think it would be a mistake to equate Quebec french with 'joual', the slang of the Quebecois. Sure, it may represent a unique variation of french, and one similar to ebonics in terms of it's relation to the mother-language, but it is not the only sort of french being spoken. There are many flavors and accents active throughout Quebec.
And I notice that Quebecois can turn off the slang, just as English speakers can speak more or less formally. 'Joual' seems to be something made in addition to a well-grounded understanding of French, rather than something that has taken it's place.
I have spoken to Parisians who were, to form, snobby about their language, and felt that I shouldn't learn Quebec french. They thought it sounded very antiquated, like language old farmers might use. But, the difference is minimal once we get away from 'joual'.
Speaking as a non-linguist, the difference between Parisian and Quebec french in pronounciation and vocabulary seems to be on the order of the difference between American and Irish english. Clearly they are different, and initially incompatible. But it doesn't take long for people to cross over from one to the other.
And as another poster mentioned in this thread, American english has not thrown out it's anglo-saxon roots. In the same way, Quebec french remains a latin language. In written form, Quebec and Parisian french would appear almost identical, except for differences in idiom and minor ones in vocabulary, for example, using 'gens' to the exclusion of 'mecs', a word Parisians prefer. The real problem, I think, is idiom.
_khl - also a non-bilingual anglo
The Quiet Revolution of the 70's turned all that around. Now french has become ascendent. But why not? Quebec is a french-speaking province. Of course business should take place in french, and give opportunities to the french speaking youth of the province. And why shouldn't signs be primarily in french? I think being the only significant foothold of the french language in North America, which operates under the most powerful language of today, renders these kinds of expectations fairly reasonable. Anyway, the Quebecois have lived the alternative.
Some of the attitudes and laws have gone too far, but that is how action-reaction works. I think that everyone feels that things are becoming more balanced. The 'language police' are not as active as they used to be.
As for being 'hated', I can tell you as an english speaking resident of Quebec for 4 years that I have experienced only one incident of what I would call prejudice. I have noticed that people like for you to speak in their native language, or at least try. Even english speaking people.
Honestly, I have heard more prejudiced remarks about language coming from english speaking individuals who complain about their lost privilage. They used to be on top, and now they're just another minority.
_khl
The bad atttitudes of the Quebecois today are a reaction to the bad attitudes of their British and Canadian conquerers. It wasn't so long ago that a french speaking individual could not get a good job in Montreal. They would have to speak english, just like management, and the owners. It was not uncommon for Quebecois to feel inferior to english speaking people in their own province, on their own streets. The Quiet Revolution of the 70's turned all that around. Now french has become ascendent. But why not? Quebec is a french-speaking province. Of course business should take place in french, and give opportunities to the french speaking youth of the province. And why shouldn't signs be primarily in french? I think being the only significant foothold of the french language in North America, which operates under the most powerful language of today, renders these kinds of expectations fairly reasonable. Anyway, the Quebecois have lived the alternative. Some of the attitudes and laws have gone too far, but that is how action-reaction works. I think that everyone feels that things are becoming more balanced. The 'language police' are not as active as they used to be. As for being 'hated', I can tell you as an english speaking resident of Quebec for 4 years that I have experienced only one incident of what I would call prejudice. I have noticed that people like for you to speak in their native language, or at least try. Even english speaking people. Honestly, I have heard more prejudiced remarks about language coming from english speaking individuals who complain about their lost privilage. They used to be on top, and now they're just another minority. _khl
Here's a little comparasin, as I use both Opera and Pheonix. Some stuff opera does that pheonix doesn't do, or doesn't do as well (that I actually use): 1. switch all graphics on and off 2. switch css on and off 3. zoom in and out Stuff pheonix (and extensions) does that opera doesn't do, or doesn't do as well: 1. turns off specific graphics 2. better tab management (middle click!) 3. better personal bar, (I especially like opening all my newssites at once with a single middle click, and then throwing them away with another single click when I need to move onto another task.) Just chiming in... _KhlER3L
I've recently started using Pheonix and Mozilla, and have found that both are just as stable as Opera, except they do not have this feature, so my losses are more substantial, sometimes requiring me to search through my browser history to get back to where I was. I know that there is some sort of feature like this with the tabs extension, but it's not obvious how it works, and I never got it to.
_KhlER3L
Maybe digital EULAs could do the same. They could have checkboxes that would change the installation process, maybe leaving parts out, or adding parts, or changing things like expiry dates, depending on what the user agreed to, with background logic creating a balance of acceptable terms for the software developer. A DEULA could be returned to the software developer via the web to automate a custom fee structure.
Right now, they are, at least in every instance I've found them, monolithic documents with a single, giant checkbox. Perhaps the future EULA will be a tree heirarchy of optional clauses.
Thinking the idea might be useful as software becomes more and more a mix of commercial and free software, with their possibly conflicting licenses.
Just an idea.. Maybe a bad one since it would keep lawyers employed.
_KhlER3L
You mean, go outside? Well, fuck me, I'll try anything once!
_khl
Again, I would like for somebody to prove me wrong about this and link me to 'sensible' compositions that were made in CSound (ie - not 5 minute drones of stretched out cello notes.)
_khl
- MIDI workstation: logic audio | cubase | or even (puke) cakewalk
- Powerful trackers: buzz | FT2 | IT
- Easy to use authoring tools: fruityloops | rebirth | reason
- Advanced outboard softsynths: reaktor | absynth | Q1 | grainlab
- Mastering tools: tracktor
- Powerful sample editing tools: cool edit/96/pro | soundforge
Basically, Linux has nothing to offer someone who does audio, as far as I know, besides playing CDs.I know there are some authoring tools in the works, but, also afaik, they're not moving fast, octal for example. My guess is, Linux is at least 5 years away from general purpose authoring, if it ever gets there.
Btw, I'd be glad to be wrong, if someone would only point out the links to *stable* and *feature-filled* tools.
_khl
About uptime/downtime/tech support - for ten bucks, I'd say it's one of the best deals around. I used to host stuff on HostPro for more than twice that much money and had really crappy throughput and, frankly, an annoying web-admin interface. Tech support was also bare minimum.
So far, he.net has been responsive, has great throughput, and a great shell environment to do admin stuff from. My only real complaint is that vim was compiled april 2001, which broke on my .vimrc.
But, anyway, if it all turns to shit and I decide I don't like it, I can always go somewhere else -- there's no year or 6 month contract, and payments are made monthly.
_khl
Most people don't need their cars to go 100 km/h on a regular basis. Driving in the city is often a stop and go affair, never breaking 60 km/h. This car, depending on how it drives, could be very suitable for that kind of driving.
_khl
I disagree. Hundreds of thousands of people have been made criminals by the pot laws, yet pot itself is practically harmless. It's not anywhere as addictive as cigarettes, and it doesn't induce rages like alcohol does. But you've heard all that before. Hundreds of thousands of lives damaged over a harmless experience..
It's a great danger to society to allow the infringement of other people's freedoms because 'it doesn't effect me.' People should work together to overturn bad laws, not turn their backs on one another. The American policy on pot is a bad policy, therefore, it's important to fight it, even if you are not a pot smoker -- I'm not.
As well, the United States is pressuring Canada on it's internal views on pot, to try to get a more conservative momentum there. This unimportant pot law may turn into a long standing greivance between citizens of Canada and the USA. Did you know that in Montreal, 65% of people support legalization or decriminalization?
_khl
Technical solutions such as adding hashes of this or encrypted that's will not tackle the root source of the problem: the game playing people themselves.
A solution I think might work would be to make WU statistics viewable only by the producer himself. Everybody wants to know what he or she has done, but compiling the data for an entire work group, much less all work groups, would be next to impossible. Without 'meaningful' ranking data, game players would have to find some other way to please themselves.
khl
From there, /usr/ports makes available a tonne of software (some of which even works -- amazing!).
I'm speaking as a guy who hasn't installed X (tried once and mostly failed), but enjoys the commandline quite a bit. If you like working on the 'NIX commandline, or would like to learn, OBSD is a great system to play with.
khl
Why would a Saudi Arabian oil employee use broken english when there is a 100% chance he speaks arabic? If he's not speaking English well, then what is he speaking in an Arab country? Chinese?
Maybe I'm out to lunch, but I think arabic speaking people send each other emails in arabic.
This Wired article stinks of something...
khl
khl
I almost fell off my seat when I noticed the irony.
_khl
Transfer digital images to film negatives for archival purposes. As digital surpassses 35mm, transfer to larger film formats.
_khl
Sometimes the utility of GPG has little to do with the capabilities of the recipient.
khl
Yea, but, a univeristy is supposed to stand for the freedom to explore ideas. Their take on bad speech should be more, better speech, not censorship. What the university should be doing is taking a stand and challenging this in court, not capitulating based on "what-if's?".
khl
There is also no good reason why Linux in general (in reference to the many distributions of it, not the kernel), should be called GNU/Linux.
You also said:
Distributions -- like Debian, Redhat, Suse, etc etc -- which usepredominantly GNU-software along with Linus' GPL'ed Linux kernelshould be called "Distro GNU-Linux";
That's the reason to call Linux GNU/Linux, in general -- because what most people think of as Linux is actually GNU/Linux. As long as RedHat, Debian, Suse, Mandrake, etc, pair GNU with Linux, and as long as those distributions are the best known and available ones, people should undertake to use a name that fairly aknowledges the main contributors. Why not?
Make the exception where the exception lies -- with Linux distros that use BSD or non-GNU/non-BSD parts. We'll call those BSD/Linux or plain Linux, or whatever. GNU/Linux is not the exception - it's the rule. So let's call it what it is.
khl