I personally believe that mines should be banned, and a perfectly good treatly was passed by many of the worlds countries, unforutinatly, the US did not sign it. At first this would seem like a stupid, irrational move on the part of the American. However, the Americans were perfectly willing to sign, grated one exemption until around 2005 for landmines planted around the demilliterized zone at the korean boarder. These landmies protect the 20,000+ american soldiers still stationed in South Korea, after a cease fire ended UN involement there. North Korea is very unstable, with a much larger army then the Americans stationed their. Unforutunatly, because several of the people involved in this treaty were in line for a Nobel prize, they decided not to grant any exemptions, and the US did not sign the treaty.
First depleted uranium shells are not bombs, uranium is used because it is very dense and can puncture other metal, it never explodes.
Second,everything about maniputation of the press in Yugoslavia is just hearsay. I know a journalist that was in Yugoslavia, and he personally saw many of the horrors, mostly commited on the Albainians, but not exclusivly. The vast majority of false "atrocity" were by Milosovics government, who were sending bus's over target bridges continuosly, they know the best way to fight the US is through the American media. I do not know anything about the *illegal* cluster bombs, however i would like to know who declared them *illegal*, and if the United States signed the treaty
It seems that so many people here are so concentrated on american bashing that they can ignore the actual facts and only look at conspericy theories. I guess it is just a case of the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, but if the United States really used its special forces extensivly for illegal operations, I have a feeling Sadam Hussian would have been assainated a long time ago.
If you take time and look at these events from a unbiased viewpoint you would look back at yourself and see someone who is very "naive", however so would someone who believes everything the government or CNN say. If you do, you will see that most of the people who say other are sheep, really are themselves sheep. I really wish that would forget their biases and look at everything objectivly, but i can't see it happening soon.
Oh well, i don't even think any of this should bother me, i'm Canadian
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America = USA The americas = north and south america
one could also use America to refer to the USA and america to refer to the two contenents, as it is a thing not a name.
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The BSDs are great for servers, their perfromance is excellent, and they have alright high end hardware support.
However, if you are using this computer as your personal workstation i would highly recomend staying with Linux. Its overall environment seem better polished and more usable. It is not difficult to get around the problems of the BSD's, however they are annoying. The ports collection is invalualuable to almost anyone on all three of them.
Between the three BSD's, I have found openBSD to be the best. It not only is super secure, but it gets around many of the newsences of freeBSD. It's hardware support is excellent, i have found drivers for many devices that would not work under freeBSD or Linux. I also found the installation of openBSD was much nicer, however i have done many i386 unix installation, so i knew what i was doing.
In my network which is mixed commercial unix(mostly solaris), Win 95/NT, *BSD, linux, i use freebsd on intranet servers (excellent NFS), openBSD on the internet servers, and Linux on the rest.
If you have never used unix, i would highly recomend Linux, Redhat, SuSE, or any commercial package will work great.
It really is sad the state has to take responsibillity for children, but it is something that needs to be done. There are just to many neglectful parent who will not protect their children, that it is now nessary. Unforntuanatly this makes it harder for the many good parents out there to make decisions in what they feel is the best interest of their child. That is one on the fundumental problems all societies face, protection vs. freedom.
Personally, this legistation does not bother me (although that might be different if i had to spend thousands of dollars and change my site). It seems to do a decent job of protecting people, without taking much freedom away from parents. The only problem that i have is that by age 16, most kids are able to make an informed decision on whether or not to submit personal information, and they should be able to without problem.
No, i'm sure that he will push linux, not specificly redhat. Saying "Redhat is the best linux" means nothing to people because they have never used it. On the other hand, if you say "linux is much better than Windows", then it means something. Redhat is also aware that at least for now, people like us are their main market, and they know how easy it is to lose our support. They will not do anything to upset us, at least not now, and most likely never. It will probalely be a represnetitive of redhat talking about linux. Of course this will help Red Hat, but it will not be aimed only at "Red Hat Linux". I think we should all be just a little less cynical.
The oil and gas sector is what made Calgary what it is today. I have worked for oil firms since graduating cs at the UofC. Without it we would be a slightly warmer version of winnipeg.
Second, Conrad Black does not control the entire newpaper industry, he is the major source, but it is not overwellming. His papers tend to be better quality reporting, with more represntaion of the west, but you can still get the globe and mail. It's just that in Calgary the only real paper is owned my him
Not to mention that he is the largest publisher of dailies in the world.
The Calgary Hearld is an excellent paper, it provides excellent, fair coverage. I have been reading it as long as i can read, and i've never had a problem with it.
First off in Canada the conservitive views are actually more liberal (confusing, but it should make sense). Of course we have oil money, but thats not why we have such conservitive(eg right wing economics) views. In fact in the west our conservitism is more based on freedom then tradtion, and is thus far more liberal on the ture political system. We want freedom and democracy. We do not want to be told what hospital to go to, or what daycare our children should attend (public daycare, not here, but comming).
As far as a tech town, Calgary is one of the best in Canada, this is because of our low taxes, the only problem is that the US is still lower. When us Calgarian are pushing for a less representitive system of government, then the negitivly toned conservitives.
I think that the best way for this problem to be solved, would be for a government agency to obtain a code breaking computer, and operate it publicly. It would require a warrent to use. Then they could encourge the use of strong crypto, at least dommesticly. Internatioally would be a bigger problem, but it the millitary operated simillar machines in the public eye, it may work.
The problem with this is that it would require the NSA to admit they have the technology to crack strong crypto (granted that they can, but with their budget and personal, it seems likely). It would also stir up many paranoid people, who would only see it as more evidence that their being watched.
I know many paranoid people would consider this even worse, i think that it would be a huge step forward. I would hate to see a child molester get off because he encrypted the photos that he took and then just got rid of the key.
The ozone hole is now shrinking and should be fully recovered in around 75 years at the current rate, as technology continues to improve it will be at an accelerated rate
Technology is not to blame, it is what will ultimatly help. At this time technology somethimes involves pollution, but in the long run it will help
I do agree that we have to look towards the long term, but what do we do if the earth starts to naturally cool?
Anyway, the hurricans have to do with la nina or whatever it's called
people THINK that indutrialization is responsible, the fact is that the temperature of the earth varies quite significantly. There have been several large varriations of temperatures in the past century. There were many large storms in the 50-60, then it slowed down, and now its going back up. The coldest time recorded i believe was in the mid 1850's. The net difference since 1850 is several degrees, but i doubt its that significant compared to the last 10,000 years. It is possible that in 100 years there may be fear of global cooling (guess who the enviromentalists will blame that on).
The global warming is happening, however nobody has yet proven it is a result of industrialization, its just environmentalists have made you believe this.
We have to reduce pollution, but we shouldn't do it in a knee jurk reaction to "global warming" at the cost of many peoples jobs.
Now while i agree that Americans are very self centered, this is true of almost any country, in Canada we think of ourselves as better than the Americans,(compare the murder rates in Vancouver and Seattle, and no we don't have gun control, yet) as well as all other countries. This is true with all countries, and is called nationalism.
ENIAC may not have been the very first computer finished, however it was the one that counted. Regardless if anthoer computer was finished first, ENIAC was the one that started it all.
As far as history is concerned, the british may have been first, but the Americans made it useful.
America referes to the the United states, while the americas refer to the two continents. Americans sounds much better than United Statian, it has been called America since its conception, maybe longer, so i think they have a right. Why do the british use the same name as the british iles? Why is Austrilia using the same name as its continent? What about New Zeland and the numerous islands that are consitered part of it.
Please think before you insult the United States, plenty of problems you can comment on, but this is not one of them.
I read the W. Richard Stevens article at -1, and while the content of many of the posts was distrbing, it was quite obvious that the majorty of the worst posts were done by only one or two people. These people are not the majority of slashdot readers. It is sad to see anyone disrespecting someone that so many people looked up to, but these posts were most likely just to anger people, not to disrespect Mr. Stevens.
It is sad that these people must be so immature and irresponsible as to write disrespectful, and in many case completely false things about someone who as died. This group does not represent the majority of us, but they do represent a problem. I do not enjoy reading through 4th grade insults and mistruths, and i doubt that most of you do. What rob has but into place is the best that he can do to prevent this, and while it may interfear with firewalls, it is a small sacrafice. My suggestion here is to only disallow anonymous posters on banned ips.
There were also several posts about Mr. Stevens and his dislike of perl. These posts, while not near as bad as the rest, were still very disrespectful. These posts were made by several people, however they only make up a miniscule part of the slashdot readership.
One post that made me think asked what would happen if Bill Gates died. This person said that similar comments would be made, however they would not be moderated down. I do not believe this, and while i am one of the many slashdot readers that dislike microsoft (especialy today), i do not think this would happen. The majority of slashdot readers are mature enough to realize that human life is far more important that a computer.
Fighting for freedom is not terrorism. However, it it in any way involves injury or death to anyone else then it is terrorism. Is it right to take the lives of many people in order for the minority to control the government? Your views and the views of the nationalists are so self centered that the rest of the world will never be simpithetic to you cause.
Slave labor? So their being forced to work for nothing at all? I am completely against child labor, and the poor working condition, but these workers are not slaves. They are not forced to work there, but they do, why? Because it is better than not working at all. I'm sure that you can sit around on welfare all day because you can't get a job paying $35.00/h, but it isn't a choice for the chinese. Without the factories there are no jobs and that is far worse than working 12h a day. And when comparing saleries you might want to factor in cost of living.
Yeah something should be done about the nuclear secrets, but is isn't easy dealing with a country with china's power and nuclear arsenal.
Police state eh? hum speeking of the Young Communist League, we do not live in a police state, the democratic, free market of the United States, and the mostly demcratic, mostly free market of Canada, austrialia, and the UK are just about the farthest you can get from a police states. Need I tell you the closest to police state. Personally I like freedom of speach, religion, and economics. Hum i wonder if you would have just gotten pulled over in a communist block country if your gf was a member of a democratic party.
Do not take for granted the freedom that you have, complaining that you were stoped by a bored cop is nothing compared to what might happen in a real police state.
Try using you rational, it might help you see the situation without having to resort to paranoia, which gains nothing.
Look, just because the government has the abillity to listen into your cell calls doesn't mean that they do. I am not saying that they never have, but they rarely do. It is impractical and almost useless to monitor everyone. Why does any time an artical on information exchange is posted on slahsdot does everyone start screeming that the FBI, CIA and NSA are monitoring everyone. The scariest part of these posts is that so many people are so paranoid. Unless the government has a good reason to watch you, they most likely are not. You say that anyone who doesn't believe in the government monitoring is just a sheep, but if you bothered to look at the issue from a neutral point, the eveidence of monitoring is much less, both in amount and quality than that against it.
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I personally believe that mines should be banned, and a perfectly good treatly was passed by many of the worlds countries, unforutinatly, the US did not sign it.
At first this would seem like a stupid, irrational move on the part of the American. However, the Americans were perfectly willing to sign, grated one exemption until around 2005 for landmines planted around the demilliterized zone at the korean boarder.
These landmies protect the 20,000+ american soldiers still stationed in South Korea, after a cease fire ended UN involement there. North Korea is very unstable, with a much larger army then the Americans stationed their.
Unforutunatly, because several of the people involved in this treaty were in line for a Nobel prize, they decided not to grant any exemptions, and the US did not sign the treaty.
I think you are mixing up a few things
First depleted uranium shells are not bombs, uranium is used because it is very dense and can puncture other metal, it never explodes.
Second,everything about maniputation of the press in Yugoslavia is just hearsay. I know a journalist that was in Yugoslavia, and he personally saw many of the horrors, mostly commited on the Albainians, but not exclusivly. The vast majority of false "atrocity" were by Milosovics government, who were sending bus's over target bridges continuosly, they know the best way to fight the US is through the American media.
I do not know anything about the *illegal* cluster bombs, however i would like to know who declared them *illegal*, and if the United States signed the treaty
It seems that so many people here are so concentrated on american bashing that they can ignore the actual facts and only look at conspericy theories. I guess it is just a case of the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, but if the United States really used its special forces extensivly for illegal operations, I have a feeling Sadam Hussian would have been assainated a long time ago.
If you take time and look at these events from a unbiased viewpoint you would look back at yourself and see someone who is very "naive", however so would someone who believes everything the government or CNN say. If you do, you will see that most of the people who say other are sheep, really are themselves sheep. I really wish that would forget their biases and look at everything objectivly, but i can't see it happening soon.
Oh well, i don't even think any of this should bother me, i'm Canadian
America = USA
The americas = north and south america
one could also use America to refer to the USA and america to refer to the two contenents, as it is a thing not a name.
The BSDs are great for servers, their perfromance is excellent, and they have alright high end hardware support.
However, if you are using this computer as your personal workstation i would highly recomend staying with Linux. Its overall environment seem better polished and more usable. It is not difficult to get around the problems of the BSD's, however they are annoying. The ports collection is invalualuable to almost anyone on all three of them.
Between the three BSD's, I have found openBSD to be the best. It not only is super secure, but it gets around many of the newsences of freeBSD. It's hardware support is excellent, i have found drivers for many devices that would not work under freeBSD or Linux. I also found the installation of openBSD was much nicer, however i have done many i386 unix installation, so i knew what i was doing.
In my network which is mixed commercial unix(mostly solaris), Win 95/NT, *BSD, linux, i use freebsd on intranet servers (excellent NFS), openBSD on the internet servers, and Linux on the rest.
If you have never used unix, i would highly recomend Linux, Redhat, SuSE, or any commercial package will work great.
It really is sad the state has to take responsibillity for children, but it is something that needs to be done. There are just to many neglectful parent who will not protect their children, that it is now nessary. Unforntuanatly this makes it harder for the many good parents out there to make decisions in what they feel is the best interest of their child. That is one on the fundumental problems all societies face, protection vs. freedom.
Personally, this legistation does not bother me (although that might be different if i had to spend thousands of dollars and change my site). It seems to do a decent job of protecting people, without taking much freedom away from parents. The only problem that i have is that by age 16, most kids are able to make an informed decision on whether or not to submit personal information, and they should be able to without problem.
No, i'm sure that he will push linux, not specificly redhat. Saying "Redhat is the best linux" means nothing to people because they have never used it. On the other hand, if you say "linux is much better than Windows", then it means something. Redhat is also aware that at least for now, people like us are their main market, and they know how easy it is to lose our support. They will not do anything to upset us, at least not now, and most likely never. It will probalely be a represnetitive of redhat talking about linux. Of course this will help Red Hat, but it will not be aimed only at "Red Hat Linux".
I think we should all be just a little less cynical.
The oil and gas sector is what made Calgary what it is today. I have worked for oil firms since graduating cs at the UofC. Without it we would be a slightly warmer version of winnipeg.
Second, Conrad Black does not control the entire newpaper industry, he is the major source, but it is not overwellming. His papers tend to be better quality reporting, with more represntaion of the west, but you can still get the globe and mail. It's just that in Calgary the only real paper is owned my him
Not to mention that he is the largest publisher of dailies in the world.
The Calgary Hearld is an excellent paper, it provides excellent, fair coverage. I have been reading it as long as i can read, and i've never had a problem with it.
First off in Canada the conservitive views are actually more liberal (confusing, but it should make sense). Of course we have oil money, but thats not why we have such conservitive(eg right wing economics) views. In fact in the west our conservitism is more based on freedom then tradtion, and is thus far more liberal on the ture political system. We want freedom and democracy. We do not want to be told what hospital to go to, or what daycare our children should attend (public daycare, not here, but comming).
As far as a tech town, Calgary is one of the best in Canada, this is because of our low taxes, the only problem is that the US is still lower. When us Calgarian are pushing for a less representitive system of government, then the negitivly toned conservitives.
I think that the best way for this problem to be solved, would be for a government agency to obtain a code breaking computer, and operate it publicly. It would require a warrent to use. Then they could encourge the use of strong crypto, at least dommesticly. Internatioally would be a bigger problem, but it the millitary operated simillar machines in the public eye, it may work.
The problem with this is that it would require the NSA to admit they have the technology to crack strong crypto (granted that they can, but with their budget and personal, it seems likely). It would also stir up many paranoid people, who would only see it as more evidence that their being watched.
I know many paranoid people would consider this even worse, i think that it would be a huge step forward. I would hate to see a child molester get off because he encrypted the photos that he took and then just got rid of the key.
The ozone hole is now shrinking and should be fully recovered in around 75 years at the current rate, as technology continues to improve it will be at an accelerated rate
Technology is not to blame, it is what will ultimatly help. At this time technology somethimes involves pollution, but in the long run it will help
I do agree that we have to look towards the long term, but what do we do if the earth starts to naturally cool?
Anyway, the hurricans have to do with la nina or whatever it's called
people THINK that indutrialization is responsible, the fact is that the temperature of the earth varies quite significantly. There have been several large varriations of temperatures in the past century. There were many large storms in the 50-60, then it slowed down, and now its going back up. The coldest time recorded i believe was in the mid 1850's. The net difference since 1850 is several degrees, but i doubt its that significant compared to the last 10,000 years. It is possible that in 100 years there may be fear of global cooling (guess who the enviromentalists will blame that on).
The global warming is happening, however nobody has yet proven it is a result of industrialization, its just environmentalists have made you believe this.
We have to reduce pollution, but we shouldn't do it in a knee jurk reaction to "global warming" at the cost of many peoples jobs.
First of all i'm Canadian
Now while i agree that Americans are very self centered, this is true of almost any country, in Canada we think of ourselves as better than the Americans,(compare the murder rates in Vancouver and Seattle, and no we don't have gun control, yet) as well as all other countries. This is true with all countries, and is called nationalism.
ENIAC may not have been the very first computer finished, however it was the one that counted. Regardless if anthoer computer was finished first, ENIAC was the one that started it all.
As far as history is concerned, the british may have been first, but the Americans made it useful.
America referes to the the United states, while the americas refer to the two continents. Americans sounds much better than United Statian, it has been called America since its conception, maybe longer, so i think they have a right.
Why do the british use the same name as the british iles? Why is Austrilia using the same name as its continent? What about New Zeland and the numerous islands that are consitered part of it.
Please think before you insult the United States, plenty of problems you can comment on, but this is not one of them.
I read the W. Richard Stevens article at -1, and while the content of many of the posts was distrbing, it was quite obvious that the majorty of the worst posts were done by only one or two people. These people are not the majority of slashdot readers. It is sad to see anyone disrespecting someone that so many people looked up to, but these posts were most likely just to anger people, not to disrespect Mr. Stevens.
It is sad that these people must be so immature and irresponsible as to write disrespectful, and in many case completely false things about someone who as died. This group does not represent the majority of us, but they do represent a problem. I do not enjoy reading through 4th grade insults and mistruths, and i doubt that most of you do. What rob has but into place is the best that he can do to prevent this, and while it may interfear with firewalls, it is a small sacrafice. My suggestion here is to only disallow anonymous posters on banned ips.
There were also several posts about Mr. Stevens and his dislike of perl. These posts, while not near as bad as the rest, were still very disrespectful. These posts were made by several people, however they only make up a miniscule part of the slashdot readership.
One post that made me think asked what would happen if Bill Gates died. This person said that similar comments would be made, however they would not be moderated down. I do not believe this, and while i am one of the many slashdot readers that dislike microsoft (especialy today), i do not think this would happen. The majority of slashdot readers are mature enough to realize that human life is far more important that a computer.
Fighting for freedom is not terrorism. However, it it in any way involves injury or death to anyone else then it is terrorism.
Is it right to take the lives of many people in order for the minority to control the government?
Your views and the views of the nationalists are so self centered that the rest of the world will never be simpithetic to you cause.
Slave labor?
So their being forced to work for nothing at all?
I am completely against child labor, and the poor working condition, but these workers are not slaves. They are not forced to work there, but they do, why? Because it is better than not working at all. I'm sure that you can sit around on welfare all day because you can't get a job paying $35.00/h, but it isn't a choice for the chinese. Without the factories there are no jobs and that is far worse than working 12h a day.
And when comparing saleries you might want to factor in cost of living.
Yeah something should be done about the nuclear secrets, but is isn't easy dealing with a country with china's power and nuclear arsenal.
Police state eh?
hum speeking of the Young Communist League, we do not live in a police state, the democratic, free market of the United States, and the mostly demcratic, mostly free market of Canada, austrialia, and the UK are just about the farthest you can get from a police states. Need I tell you the closest to police state.
Personally I like freedom of speach, religion, and economics.
Hum i wonder if you would have just gotten pulled over in a communist block country if your gf was a member of a democratic party.
Do not take for granted the freedom that you have, complaining that you were stoped by a bored cop is nothing compared to what might happen in a real police state.
Try using you rational, it might help you see the situation without having to resort to paranoia, which gains nothing.
Look, just because the government has the abillity to listen into your cell calls doesn't mean that they do.
I am not saying that they never have, but they rarely do. It is impractical and almost useless to monitor everyone.
Why does any time an artical on information exchange is posted on slahsdot does everyone start screeming that the FBI, CIA and NSA are monitoring everyone.
The scariest part of these posts is that so many people are so paranoid.
Unless the government has a good reason to watch you, they most likely are not.
You say that anyone who doesn't believe in the government monitoring is just a sheep, but if you bothered to look at the issue from a neutral point, the eveidence of monitoring is much less, both in amount and quality than that against it.