I actually thought the first post was quite funny but I suppose anyone suggesting that the US govt might like to censor anything is offensive to some people. The reality is that the US goverment and certain states in particular have a long history of censorship.
So you don't care if your code is used to help track some minority a government hates and wants to exterminate?
The only way to avoid that is not release it in the first place. If you keep it just to yourself it should be safe, but once someone who wanted to do something like this with it got hold of it, they can providing they dont release a product to the masses. Selling that product to every corrupt nation on the planet would not be prohibited under the GPL3 as far as I am aware.
I know it sounds a bit impractical, but it is the only sure fire solution.
My parents tried many methods to stop me using a PC and modem when they were not around, I foiled all of them. DrWatson startup log was too easy, the keyboard lock could be picked easily, BIOS passwords could be seen by watching what keys they pressed when entering it. This did however give me real world skills I have found useful ever since. Much better than the useless cack I was supposed to be learning in school at the time.
A more practical solution though might be to just make sure the only internet PC in the house is in a very public part of the house where the kid has no privacy. If they want privacy, they can go to their room, just not with a PC.
More importantly: they have a great dislike of US ciulture and US companies.
And your basis for this statement is?
On a similar note you may not have realised this but there is a great deal of anti-american sentiment everywhere in the world nowadays. I will try to sum up some of the reasons I think this is below:
1) US Attitude. At the start of this discussion above there are a number of people talking like this is a frivilous lawsuit becuase of US laws. They either assumed that this must be happening in their country or that everywhere else has the same laws. Both of these assumptions are incorrect.
2) US Millitary. If you have the largest millitary in the world people get a little intimidated and hence trust you less.
3) Lack of respect for international Laws. There has long been an attitude from within the US that they should not ratify international treaties or respect international law if they dont like it (ie - Kyoto, Geneva Convention on Human Rights, International Criminal Court, Foreign Prisoner Rendition, Guantanamo Bay, etc)
There are plenty more articles regarding this on the internet if you care to look.
This attitude would be alot more tollerable to other nations if not fot the fact that the US Govt frequently hold not following international law against other countries and then use it as an excuse for millitary action. You cannot expect other nations to obey the international community if you will not.
4) Economic Wealth - If you have more money than someone they often get jealous, especially if they are starving to death (not me, I just ate lunch).
5) American peoples attitude abroad. I mention this, but as Brit I can honestly say we are just as bad. We seem to have the attitude that everyone should bend to our whim even though we are a guest in their country. The most basic example of this is not attempting to learn the language of the countries we visit, even when there for considerable lengths of time. This may also be a cause of our attitude in this regard as everyone speaks english anyway we think this should extend to other aspects of local tradition.
When you add up all of the above they can end up being interpreted that the US government views itself and it's citizens as superior to other nations. The reality is they are just different. Every country has a few black marks on it record us Brits of course have the invention of slavery, empire, piracy (not software - the thieving ships kind is an easy way to obtain a navy) and helping to invade Iraq and Afganistan in recent times.
With a alashdot ID that low I am surprised you can remember that far back:)
Sorry, couldn't resist taking the piss a little. On another note I actually agree with you about IDE's but far too many places to hand them out to students very early on. I think the first coding I did at uni was in pascal (under DOS) using the borland IDE.
The course I did also required us to use the good old GNU C compiler but under windows unfortunately instead of unix. We also did some JAVA, once again without any sort of IDE (unless you count notepad).
I wasn't actually thinking so much about it from the point of view you put forward, I was thinking that MS would rather we all graduated with no exposure to anything except their IDE and their OS. This would not make us very good developers, but it would increase lockin to MS products. In my case that did not happen but I had used unix before I even went to college. I also know after talking to my employer that when he was looking for someone for my job I was the first person who had any unix / linux experience.
The fact is though people like youself who have used unix / C should find it easier to pick up MS stuff than going in the opposite direction. Your right, IDE's usually are very easy to learn, but people who leave college after having only used an IDE that holds your hand for you all the way often find it very difficult to move to the command line. Certainly if they are used to something like the recent versions of Visual Studio that complete every command as soon as you type a few letters (and press space on the option you want). I have only used one for a few months some years back and I found it far to easy to get used to.
You also mention the academic licence being available for about $100. My thinking has always been that these academic licences exist for exactly the reasons I put forward. That as a producer of software, it is in your interest to get people used to using it from as early as possible as young minds pick things up more easily.
The only part of your reply I disagreed with was the part about coding into the night not being beneficial. I think that the more practice you can get coding the more you improve, the same as with just about anything in life. "Practice makes perfect" is a mantra I put alot of stock in. True it does have to be the right sort of practice, but if someone is self disiplined and enjoys something enough to do it in their own time they will soon learn to excel at it, especially if they also have someone giving them a helping hand in the right direction (ie - lecturers, professional mentors, etc)
I saw nothng in the parent post suggesting the poster was a troll. You post sounded more like one.
On the subject of RMS though, does he actually contribute any code to any projects or do anything usefull or is he just a worthless commie who whines about other poeple not having the same political outlook as him using Linux.
Wow, that's some nice spin there. Or out right lies, which ever you prefer. The blog says none of those things.
Where? In the parent post you replied to or in the register article on this topic that is linked in the synopsis above.
Personally I think it was a good idea to get a free version for those that wanted to try their hands at programming.Net. You don't even need Testdriven.net to unit test with Express. Where did that idea come from? Express might dry up now because of Jamie.
This might happen, but it is a gamble on microsofts part. They know that if the remove express from the marketplace then alot of students studying programming will not be able to afford the full version. This gives them a limited number of choices:
1) Stop working from home.
For many this is simply not an option. Even if it was it doesnt benefit anyone in the long term as they will undoubtably suffer in the long term as they will not be as capable programmers as they could have been had they coded into the night for years on end.
2) Pirate the full version.
This has the result of getting people used to using knock off software. Since this is a mindset the MS are trying avoid people getting into as if they have to use pirated software for the duration of the degree they may continue when they start work instead of asking their boss to buy them a license for their home PC if they need to work from home alot.
3) Use a different IDE or platform.
This is worst case scenario for MS. For starters, it means that alot of the professionals of tomorrow are able to use non-MS products reducing vendor lock in to.NET. The most expensive part of vendor lock in to deal with is training people and changing their habits so this is very bad from microsofts point of view (I work for a training company). It gives companies more freedom to move to a different platform without having to retrain all their staff.
Of the three options listed above, option 1 is out of the question for a great many students (The kind like me who slept during lectures). That leaves option 2 or 3. Option 2 is a far better choice from microsofts point of view and one the used to ignore people doing (maybe even encourage), now however they are certainly trying to change peoples mindset such that pirated software is bad from a very young age.
Actually I think the dupe tag was far too overused.
Since an awful lot of slashdot users are too lazy to actually read the full article they would tag something as dupe just because it was on the same topic that was previously mentioned, even though the article that was linked to would often add something unique that had previously been unknown in the slashdot debate.
I this case the previous article was regarding the guys blog and this was regarding the registers coverage of the same article. Since I have not read this guys blog in its entirety I am unable to say whether the register article adds anything new.
I was however that the register article was posted here as it gave me a way of finding out the synopsis of the story without having trawl through what would have been a one sided account. People being threatened with legal action are rarely impartial about the people trying to drag them through the courts.
I think a better solution than removing the dupe tage though would have been to prevent people who do not click on any links contained in the text from posting a comment or any feedback. Afterall, what can you possible add to the discussion if you are too lazy to RTFA.
I know there are exceptions to this such as if you hover over the link and see if it is the same link you have previously read but how many people apart from me do this?
Such a minimal server is easy on the BSD/Linux distros, and will be supported with Windows Server 2008.
Does that mean I will finally be able throw remote desktop in the bin. I admin 7 linux systems and 2 windows 2003 ones. I can work so much more quickly on the Linux servers.
No waiting for screens to draw, no crappy logout problems, just a nice clean, bash prompt over ssh. Ok, I have to remember what to type but after a few years that comes fairly naturally.
Most of what I do is moving files about and restarting web / mysql servers. I have no need of a gui on any of them and would much rather remove it. Far less memory footprint and no stupid graphical progress bar taking up processor space / memory when moving large files.
(Anyone argueing that the bar doesnt take up much space should compare a file move on the command like to one via a gui. No matter which OS you try it under the command line will come out quicker)
Do the entire general populace get to vote for who becomes the democratic presidential candidate? I thought that was selected by members of the democratic party.
Is it not the case that by the time the entired populace is asked to vote there are only a few viable candidiates. Is it also not the case that at the last election the war in Iraq was going badly and Bush was unpopular, but the only effective choice that was put to the American public (as a whole) was Bush or Kerry.
I also thought that the way the political system in the US was structured so that if you live in the swing states your vote counts for more than if you live in either candidates political heartlands. Where I live it doesnt matter who I vote for, one party will always win due to the nature of the area and the way other people vote. The same party has won the seat since I was 18 (14 years ago).
I actually understand a fair bit about politics after having been to election counts since I was a nipper and having been brought up in very political household. I also used to live with a fringe party electoral candidate so have been to more electoral counts than I care to remember. I have even been a political candidate for local council elections, not that I ever expected to win but I felt it important that people have the right to express them selves even if it was by wasting a vote.
I was not saying the a true democracy was a workable solution, I was merely pointing out that we do not live in one so should stop calling it as such and forcing it on other nations through the barrel of a gun.
(By the way, thanks for drawing attention to my piss poor spelling with a bit of latin. If you look hard enough you can probably find more than a few spelling errors in this too. Maybe try looking for grammatical errors too and then giving me marks out of ten at the end in red.)
Western civilization has poured a lot of time, thinking and blood into trying to get democracy to actually work, and it was found pretty early that a pure interpretation simply does not work on a large scale.
So will this also exempt companies who sold rack mountable servers, with customised versions of linux on them (think RAQ's although I know they are know longer available direct)?
Surely they would also be exempt as they are not for use the sense defined above, but I am clueless in regard to US law or the legal definition of a consumer product.
The current western version of democracy is just public relations theory. It is about making the public think they have some say in who rules their country without actually giving them too much. The problem is that we are given such a small selection of people to choose who will rule us from (2 in the US) that it does not actualy count as a democracy according to the strict (original) definition.
The other problem is that once a particular person / party has been elected they are very hard to remove from power even if they make some very unpopular decisions. A better description of the current system in the US or UK (or Russia for that matter) would be an elected dictatorship. Some countries in Europe do slightly better by allowing proportional representation rather than "first past the post" but these still probably would not count as a democracy in the orignal sense.
One problem with current democracy is that you need huge amounts of money to get elected, this rules out most people. This may also explain why both of the frontrunner democratic candidates (Barrack and Hillary) have taken money from the RIAA even though a great deal of the american population (I have not said majority of the US population so lets not get into semantics) voted them the worst company in the US. (The source for this is here: http://consumerist.com/consumer/worst-company-in-a merica/contact-information-for-50-politicians-who- take-campaign-money-from-the-riaa-264638.php)
Anyone who has read this far might find it interesting too look at the definition of Democracy with respect to constitutional republics as defined on the wikipedia page here:
Please also note that I am not trying to argue that one is superior to the other, I am just trying to suggest that democracy is often overrated when used in the modern context of the word.
I also take issue with you implying that western democracies are impartial with regard to race or sexual orientation. Until the US elect a black gay man as president or the US senate is made up of the same balance as the general population I think this is a hard case to make. Wikipedia also has a good page on this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_demographics_o f_the_United_States. Once the senate (and the senators who chair select commitees) have a simlar racial makeup and you will have a valid point but until then it still amounts to public relations theory.
In many ways the US is moving away from impartiality in politics with regard to sexual orientation as religion becomes higher on the list of criteria people consider when choosing how to cast their vote.
In my view the primary western value in recent years has been profit, and Russians have certainly embraced this with open arms. That is what the whole IP issue with regard to AK's is all about. They want money for people using what is a Russian state design (and a damn good one). The man who invented and designed the original AK was at the time of its design, a serving Russian military officer. If wanting to get money for what you or your employees invent is not a western value then where does the current US stance on copyright come from?
Don't Google search boxes operate on a similar business model?
They sell / rent these very expensive boxes that you put on your corporate intranet and then get a local google search that you can alloy to spider your very sensitive documents without fearing they end up one a public web. I believe google prohibit you from messing with them at all in case you were able to extract too much infomation about googles proprietary search algorithms and figure out how they work. I mention this because I believe that google uses linux as a base for these boxes but then build alot on top of it.
I think the GPL3 is an interesting idea but I am worried it may force a huge amount of companies to stop using linux altogether.
It has improved enormously of late. It runs on linux, it doesnt install any spyware and the actual player is open source. To playback RM clips you need the proprietary codecs but let compare this to the other most widely used streaming media frameworks.
WMV / ASF
Windows only. I know you can get players that play the non DRM stuff but most sites seem to embed the clips in a webpage and try and force us to Windows Media Player.
Quicktime
Windows / Mac Only. No fullscreen unless you pay for the player (used to be anyway, havent used it for some time).
When compared to this lot Realplayer wins hands down. Now I know we could compare it to 8 million other formats / frameworks but these are the ones most widely used. This seems to be because most providers of content try and prevent you from keeping a local copy of their works, and things like MPG give you no way of doing this.
Interesting that you put jews into the poem. The original never mentioned Jews at all.
The other problem is the order. Hitler rounded up the communists first long before he had even looked at the Jews. After he dealt with the communists he moved on to the Gypsies. The Jews were actually the last victims of the holocaust, although they do probably make up the greatest number.
I wish I had some points for this. Funny and insightful in the same post.
The problem is that the people who are paying these systems know plenty of economists, but they only seem to consider the financial side of things. They dont seem to recognise that alot of people value other things above money. Personally I value things like achievement and self worth above the state of my bank balance.
Given a choice between a high paying job which I found dull (like being an executive) and doing something I enjoy I know what I would choose.
I bank with HSBC. I also only visit my bank website from (Gentoo) Linux using firefox via the bookmark I set sometime ago.
To get at my hosts file you need me to run your dodgy code as root. Since I am a fairly paranoid individual this is unlikely to happen. I have not used a web browser from the root account ever. The only thing I use my root account for is mounting disk images from the command line and using portage.
My router does not cache DNS requests as far as I am aware.
This discounts both of your atacks I believe. I would love to hear some holes in this approach as I am genuinely curious and will institute a better security policy to prevent you from doing these in future.
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China has a group of hackers that do nothing but make viruses, spyware, to try and infiltrate and sabotauge foreign computers.
In the real world, or just in Command and Conquer Generals?
I thought that most spyware originated in the US where you could sell marketing data you gathered for the greatest returns.
I notice the moronic mods are out in force.
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I actually thought the first post was quite funny but I suppose anyone suggesting that the US govt might like to censor anything is offensive to some people. The reality is that the US goverment and certain states in particular have a long history of censorship.
As usual, wikipedia has a pretty decent page on the subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_Un
I am not saying that the US is as bad as China, but no government is above trying to censor things they dont aggree with for any number of reasons.
Nah, they dont always use -1 Troll, they seem to be fond of using -1 OffTopic too.
Despite the fact that a discussion of the GPL licence in relation to a story about IIS being more likely to host malware is pretty offtopic anyway.
So you don't care if your code is used to help track some minority a government hates and wants to exterminate?
The only way to avoid that is not release it in the first place. If you keep it just to yourself it should be safe, but once someone who wanted to do something like this with it got hold of it, they can providing they dont release a product to the masses. Selling that product to every corrupt nation on the planet would not be prohibited under the GPL3 as far as I am aware.
I know it sounds a bit impractical, but it is the only sure fire solution.
My parents tried many methods to stop me using a PC and modem when they were not around, I foiled all of them. DrWatson startup log was too easy, the keyboard lock could be picked easily, BIOS passwords could be seen by watching what keys they pressed when entering it. This did however give me real world skills I have found useful ever since. Much better than the useless cack I was supposed to be learning in school at the time.
A more practical solution though might be to just make sure the only internet PC in the house is in a very public part of the house where the kid has no privacy. If they want privacy, they can go to their room, just not with a PC.
More importantly: they have a great dislike of US ciulture and US companies.
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And your basis for this statement is?
On a similar note you may not have realised this but there is a great deal of anti-american sentiment everywhere in the world nowadays. I will try to sum up some of the reasons I think this is below:
1) US Attitude. At the start of this discussion above there are a number of people talking like this is a frivilous lawsuit becuase of US laws. They either assumed that this must be happening in their country or that everywhere else has the same laws. Both of these assumptions are incorrect.
2) US Millitary. If you have the largest millitary in the world people get a little intimidated and hence trust you less.
3) Lack of respect for international Laws. There has long been an attitude from within the US that they should not ratify international treaties or respect international law if they dont like it (ie - Kyoto, Geneva Convention on Human Rights, International Criminal Court, Foreign Prisoner Rendition, Guantanamo Bay, etc)
For those who do not believe this here is a link:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/UN_report_moral
There are plenty more articles regarding this on the internet if you care to look.
This attitude would be alot more tollerable to other nations if not fot the fact that the US Govt frequently hold not following international law against other countries and then use it as an excuse for millitary action. You cannot expect other nations to obey the international community if you will not.
4) Economic Wealth - If you have more money than someone they often get jealous, especially if they are starving to death (not me, I just ate lunch).
5) American peoples attitude abroad. I mention this, but as Brit I can honestly say we are just as bad. We seem to have the attitude that everyone should bend to our whim even though we are a guest in their country. The most basic example of this is not attempting to learn the language of the countries we visit, even when there for considerable lengths of time. This may also be a cause of our attitude in this regard as everyone speaks english anyway we think this should extend to other aspects of local tradition.
When you add up all of the above they can end up being interpreted that the US government views itself and it's citizens as superior to other nations. The reality is they are just different. Every country has a few black marks on it record us Brits of course have the invention of slavery, empire, piracy (not software - the thieving ships kind is an easy way to obtain a navy) and helping to invade Iraq and Afganistan in recent times.
I've been to college.....
:)
With a alashdot ID that low I am surprised you can remember that far back
Sorry, couldn't resist taking the piss a little. On another note I actually agree with you about IDE's but far too many places to hand them out to students very early on. I think the first coding I did at uni was in pascal (under DOS) using the borland IDE.
The course I did also required us to use the good old GNU C compiler but under windows unfortunately instead of unix. We also did some JAVA, once again without any sort of IDE (unless you count notepad).
I wasn't actually thinking so much about it from the point of view you put forward, I was thinking that MS would rather we all graduated with no exposure to anything except their IDE and their OS. This would not make us very good developers, but it would increase lockin to MS products. In my case that did not happen but I had used unix before I even went to college. I also know after talking to my employer that when he was looking for someone for my job I was the first person who had any unix / linux experience.
The fact is though people like youself who have used unix / C should find it easier to pick up MS stuff than going in the opposite direction. Your right, IDE's usually are very easy to learn, but people who leave college after having only used an IDE that holds your hand for you all the way often find it very difficult to move to the command line. Certainly if they are used to something like the recent versions of Visual Studio that complete every command as soon as you type a few letters (and press space on the option you want). I have only used one for a few months some years back and I found it far to easy to get used to.
You also mention the academic licence being available for about $100. My thinking has always been that these academic licences exist for exactly the reasons I put forward. That as a producer of software, it is in your interest to get people used to using it from as early as possible as young minds pick things up more easily.
The only part of your reply I disagreed with was the part about coding into the night not being beneficial. I think that the more practice you can get coding the more you improve, the same as with just about anything in life. "Practice makes perfect" is a mantra I put alot of stock in. True it does have to be the right sort of practice, but if someone is self disiplined and enjoys something enough to do it in their own time they will soon learn to excel at it, especially if they also have someone giving them a helping hand in the right direction (ie - lecturers, professional mentors, etc)
Finish the troll with a flourish. Nice work.
I saw nothng in the parent post suggesting the poster was a troll. You post sounded more like one.
On the subject of RMS though, does he actually contribute any code to any projects or do anything usefull or is he just a worthless commie who whines about other poeple not having the same political outlook as him using Linux.
(That was a troll!)
Wow, that's some nice spin there. Or out right lies, which ever you prefer. The blog says none of those things.
.Net. You don't even need Testdriven.net to unit test with Express. Where did that idea come from? Express might dry up now because of Jamie.
.NET. The most expensive part of vendor lock in to deal with is training people and changing their habits so this is very bad from microsofts point of view (I work for a training company). It gives companies more freedom to move to a different platform without having to retrain all their staff.
Where? In the parent post you replied to or in the register article on this topic that is linked in the synopsis above.
Personally I think it was a good idea to get a free version for those that wanted to try their hands at programming
This might happen, but it is a gamble on microsofts part. They know that if the remove express from the marketplace then alot of students studying programming will not be able to afford the full version. This gives them a limited number of choices:
1) Stop working from home.
For many this is simply not an option. Even if it was it doesnt benefit anyone in the long term as they will undoubtably suffer in the long term as they will not be as capable programmers as they could have been had they coded into the night for years on end.
2) Pirate the full version.
This has the result of getting people used to using knock off software. Since this is a mindset the MS are trying avoid people getting into as if they have to use pirated software for the duration of the degree they may continue when they start work instead of asking their boss to buy them a license for their home PC if they need to work from home alot.
3) Use a different IDE or platform.
This is worst case scenario for MS. For starters, it means that alot of the professionals of tomorrow are able to use non-MS products reducing vendor lock in to
Of the three options listed above, option 1 is out of the question for a great many students (The kind like me who slept during lectures). That leaves option 2 or 3. Option 2 is a far better choice from microsofts point of view and one the used to ignore people doing (maybe even encourage), now however they are certainly trying to change peoples mindset such that pirated software is bad from a very young age.
Actually I think the dupe tag was far too overused.
Since an awful lot of slashdot users are too lazy to actually read the full article they would tag something as dupe just because it was on the same topic that was previously mentioned, even though the article that was linked to would often add something unique that had previously been unknown in the slashdot debate.
I this case the previous article was regarding the guys blog and this was regarding the registers coverage of the same article. Since I have not read this guys blog in its entirety I am unable to say whether the register article adds anything new.
I was however that the register article was posted here as it gave me a way of finding out the synopsis of the story without having trawl through what would have been a one sided account. People being threatened with legal action are rarely impartial about the people trying to drag them through the courts.
I think a better solution than removing the dupe tage though would have been to prevent people who do not click on any links contained in the text from posting a comment or any feedback. Afterall, what can you possible add to the discussion if you are too lazy to RTFA.
I know there are exceptions to this such as if you hover over the link and see if it is the same link you have previously read but how many people apart from me do this?
Such a minimal server is easy on the BSD/Linux distros, and will be supported with Windows Server 2008.
Does that mean I will finally be able throw remote desktop in the bin. I admin 7 linux systems and 2 windows 2003 ones. I can work so much more quickly on the Linux servers.
No waiting for screens to draw, no crappy logout problems, just a nice clean, bash prompt over ssh. Ok, I have to remember what to type but after a few years that comes fairly naturally.
Most of what I do is moving files about and restarting web / mysql servers. I have no need of a gui on any of them and would much rather remove it. Far less memory footprint and no stupid graphical progress bar taking up processor space / memory when moving large files.
(Anyone argueing that the bar doesnt take up much space should compare a file move on the command like to one via a gui. No matter which OS you try it under the command line will come out quicker)
Do the entire general populace get to vote for who becomes the democratic presidential candidate? I thought that was selected by members of the democratic party.
Is it not the case that by the time the entired populace is asked to vote there are only a few viable candidiates. Is it also not the case that at the last election the war in Iraq was going badly and Bush was unpopular, but the only effective choice that was put to the American public (as a whole) was Bush or Kerry.
I also thought that the way the political system in the US was structured so that if you live in the swing states your vote counts for more than if you live in either candidates political heartlands. Where I live it doesnt matter who I vote for, one party will always win due to the nature of the area and the way other people vote. The same party has won the seat since I was 18 (14 years ago).
I actually understand a fair bit about politics after having been to election counts since I was a nipper and having been brought up in very political household. I also used to live with a fringe party electoral candidate so have been to more electoral counts than I care to remember. I have even been a political candidate for local council elections, not that I ever expected to win but I felt it important that people have the right to express them selves even if it was by wasting a vote.
I was not saying the a true democracy was a workable solution, I was merely pointing out that we do not live in one so should stop calling it as such and forcing it on other nations through the barrel of a gun.
(By the way, thanks for drawing attention to my piss poor spelling with a bit of latin. If you look hard enough you can probably find more than a few spelling errors in this too. Maybe try looking for grammatical errors too and then giving me marks out of ten at the end in red.)
Sounds like London
Western civilization has poured a lot of time, thinking and blood into trying to get democracy to actually work, and it was found pretty early that a pure interpretation simply does not work on a large scale.
When was it tried?
Wow, thanks for the info.
So will this also exempt companies who sold rack mountable servers, with customised versions of linux on them (think RAQ's although I know they are know longer available direct)?
Surely they would also be exempt as they are not for use the sense defined above, but I am clueless in regard to US law or the legal definition of a consumer product.
What a crock of shit.
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o f_the_United_States. Once the senate (and the senators who chair select commitees) have a simlar racial makeup and you will have a valid point but until then it still amounts to public relations theory.
The current western version of democracy is just public relations theory. It is about making the public think they have some say in who rules their country without actually giving them too much. The problem is that we are given such a small selection of people to choose who will rule us from (2 in the US) that it does not actualy count as a democracy according to the strict (original) definition.
The other problem is that once a particular person / party has been elected they are very hard to remove from power even if they make some very unpopular decisions. A better description of the current system in the US or UK (or Russia for that matter) would be an elected dictatorship. Some countries in Europe do slightly better by allowing proportional representation rather than "first past the post" but these still probably would not count as a democracy in the orignal sense.
One problem with current democracy is that you need huge amounts of money to get elected, this rules out most people. This may also explain why both of the frontrunner democratic candidates (Barrack and Hillary) have taken money from the RIAA even though a great deal of the american population (I have not said majority of the US population so lets not get into semantics) voted them the worst company in the US.
(The source for this is here: http://consumerist.com/consumer/worst-company-in-
Anyone who has read this far might find it interesting too look at the definition of Democracy with respect to constitutional republics as defined on the wikipedia page here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
Please also note that I am not trying to argue that one is superior to the other, I am just trying to suggest that democracy is often overrated when used in the modern context of the word.
I also take issue with you implying that western democracies are impartial with regard to race or sexual orientation. Until the US elect a black gay man as president or the US senate is made up of the same balance as the general population I think this is a hard case to make. Wikipedia also has a good page on this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_demographics_
In many ways the US is moving away from impartiality in politics with regard to sexual orientation as religion becomes higher on the list of criteria people consider when choosing how to cast their vote.
In my view the primary western value in recent years has been profit, and Russians have certainly embraced this with open arms. That is what the whole IP issue with regard to AK's is all about. They want money for people using what is a Russian state design (and a damn good one). The man who invented and designed the original AK was at the time of its design, a serving Russian military officer. If wanting to get money for what you or your employees invent is not a western value then where does the current US stance on copyright come from?
Don't Google search boxes operate on a similar business model?
They sell / rent these very expensive boxes that you put on your corporate intranet and then get a local google search that you can alloy to spider your very sensitive documents without fearing they end up one a public web. I believe google prohibit you from messing with them at all in case you were able to extract too much infomation about googles proprietary search algorithms and figure out how they work. I mention this because I believe that google uses linux as a base for these boxes but then build alot on top of it.
I think the GPL3 is an interesting idea but I am worried it may force a huge amount of companies to stop using linux altogether.
Why bother reverse engineering an open source project you moron.
See here: https://helixcommunity.org/
Then go to this site and improve it:
https://helixcommunity.org/
About 5 years ago they open sourced the entire player and just held on to the codecs.
without all the bloat and adware that RealPlayer delivers.
Please name some. It never seems to install anything I dont ask it to on my system, either under windows or linux.
Why does everyone whine about realplayer so much?
It has improved enormously of late. It runs on linux, it doesnt install any spyware and the actual player is open source.
To playback RM clips you need the proprietary codecs but let compare this to the other most widely used streaming media frameworks.
WMV / ASF
Windows only. I know you can get players that play the non DRM stuff but most sites seem to embed the clips in a webpage and try and force us to Windows Media Player.
Quicktime
Windows / Mac Only. No fullscreen unless you pay for the player (used to be anyway, havent used it for some time).
When compared to this lot Realplayer wins hands down. Now I know we could compare it to 8 million other formats / frameworks but these are the ones most widely used. This seems to be because most providers of content try and prevent you from keeping a local copy of their works, and things like MPG give you no way of doing this.
Interesting that you put jews into the poem. The original never mentioned Jews at all.
The other problem is the order. Hitler rounded up the communists first long before he had even looked at the Jews.
After he dealt with the communists he moved on to the Gypsies. The Jews were actually the last victims of the holocaust, although they do probably make up the greatest number.
Where did your version of the poem come from?
Thanks for posting the same message but with nicer formatting but I was able to read it the first time.
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I did post a reply detailing my bank and some of the other details you asked for along with my reasoning as to why your attack will not work.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=236921&cid=19
Please take the time to read it and let me know what you think.
I wish I had some points for this. Funny and insightful in the same post.
The problem is that the people who are paying these systems know plenty of economists, but they only seem to consider the financial side of things. They dont seem to recognise that alot of people value other things above money. Personally I value things like achievement and self worth above the state of my bank balance.
Given a choice between a high paying job which I found dull (like being an executive) and doing something I enjoy I know what I would choose.
I bank with HSBC. I also only visit my bank website from (Gentoo) Linux using firefox via the bookmark I set sometime ago.
To get at my hosts file you need me to run your dodgy code as root. Since I am a fairly paranoid individual this is unlikely to happen. I have not used a web browser from the root account ever. The only thing I use my root account for is mounting disk images from the command line and using portage.
My router does not cache DNS requests as far as I am aware.
This discounts both of your atacks I believe. I would love to hear some holes in this approach as I am genuinely curious and will institute a better security policy to prevent you from doing these in future.