When you find a bug, no matter how serious with someone's system, publish it. Why do I speak such insanity? I reverse engineer hardware and some software for fun, if I find a bug I'll report it because I'm a nice person and I'd like it to get fixed. I understand that our society works only because the black caps have realized when they found a doomsday bug that implementing it would mean they turn society into hell and they'de be right in the middle of it. I'd like to make a difference and help to defend myself by helping others out, this is how I convince selfish self to help others.
So, since you don't want to treat me with respect like I treat you with respect, from now on I won't be nice or treat you with respect. I'll publish your flaws for all to see. It can be as big a publication as slashdot or bugtraq, or as small a publication as telling my friends and throwing it up on p2p.
I guess we'll have to teach them what happens when they treat us with no respect. This is a decision every white cap has to make for themselves.
I for one, am done playing the part of the nice martyr. The day I get arrested and incarcerated for releasing information I or someone I know researched because someone doesn't like loosing money is the day we no longer live in a free country, and the day I go black cap. Believe me, I don't want it to come to that, I like my steak and potatoes and living in a nice house, but if that's where it's going I am going to defend my hobby.
So, farmer joe should be forced off of his land and not be able to have a decent job or earn the things he wants because someone else can do it better? Sounds an auful lot like stupidity to me. I'm all for other countries developing themselves in any way they want, but for christ sakes we don't need globalisation screwing us or them over because greedy assholes at the top of the corperate ladder want to make their investors happy. I refuse to work against someone in india, I'd rather work with them. Call me a hippy if you must, but I absolutely hate it when people tell me that the x years of education I put in won't pay enough to repay the debt on that education much less live above the poverty line. I won't accept that I'v got to accept less and work harder because some investor or CEO wants to make more money. They can go fsck themselves.
All this article brings to the table is a bunch of BS. "Better search results" means you get what you want more often, not that the indexing makes "sense". Indexing already makes sense so long as you know how to use the index.
Right now you take a webpage, look for words on it, relate the words then goto the most popular page for a given search. This works most of the time, but when someone types in a term they can mean very different things. For example, if I type in porn, I may be looking for freebie galleries, not porn.com. I may want women with 42 inch in diabeter b00bs, not some thin anarexic teen. This is where an intellegent algorythm that helps individual users filter the results helps. Take the results the search engine gives you, filter them out for the information you specified based on your personal taste and the data it's designed to collect on you.
But then you've got the obvious privacy violation. I'll stick to the current system, it works well for what I need.
Ms is forcing us to change operating systems for several reasons. Firstly, they established a anti-compeditive monopoly and broke antitrust laws, which if you had an understanding of antitrust laws and why they are there you'd understand why that's bad (read gangs of america, do a google search it's free in PDF), but I guess you've never lived in a slum so you've got no idea why poor people are poor and what happens when they start being broken.
After doing this, they proceeded to release operating systems with poor security and then throw dirt on everyone else about how their security isn't as good and then empahsise the few flaws other OS makers have. After a few big viruses, they pull patching support so nobody can fix the holes the viruses use to get into computers running it, then suggest users "upgrade" to a new operating system.
So what happens if I don't change my operating system? Well, lets see. Lets say, conservativally, in another year we'll see at least one more blaster-sized event that exploites MS operating systems. What do all the win98 users do? What does the rest of the internet do when all the win98 users are broadcasting the viruses and clogging up the lines? What damage is done to ISP's and the people who subscribe to them because people refused to upgrade and secure? Exactly, your computer stays unprotected and infected or you find a way to get rid of the virus and protect yourself.
Secondly, switching Os's has costs. Upgrading to another MS operating system means spending lots and lots of money, around $100 a copy in most instances. Not everyone can afford that.
Changing over to linux means learning a new operating system, and spending nearly as much on support on something few know. Now, if you've ever used linux you'll know most ma n' pops can get it running no problem, and if they have problems they can call up the tech support and get all the help they want. There's even a nifty helper that boots up when you use the OS that gives you an idea of what you're doing. Linux is getting very close to surpasing WinXP's user friendlyness.
Alternativally, you can switch over to Mac, and spend even more money on new hardware and a new OS.
Yup, MS is just trying to make some money.
Just like IBM was just trying to make money by selling the Nazi's indexing equipment which was used to kill millions of jews.
Just like Cisco is just trying to make some money by selling equipment to the Chinese so they can censor or kill anyone they don't happen to like the opinion of.
Just like wallmart just tries to make some money by going into small towns, bullying out the smaller buisnesses, establishing itself as the only store in town then forcing the populace to work at wallmart for minimum wage on long hours so they can barely make ends meet.
Just like investors at the old spanish stock market were just trying to make some money when they invested in lucrative pirate ships that would go out, board foreign merchant vessels and take whatever they could.
Just like the East India company did by going out and purchasing monopolies from the king of britan and forcing people out of jobs, onto the streets, and ultamatly into slavery. 10,000 of these people were apparently killed by the Virginia company later in the new world when the king decided they had to pay for their crime of loitering in the street by dieing of famine and hunger while building cities and towns for wealthy people.
Just like Gap is just trying to make some money by going into foreign countries and enslaving people at gunpoint to make pants, then paying them a measly pittance so the goverments of the region leave them alone.
And finally, I like making peace with people, and teaching stupid people (even if I don't like them). It makes life a lot easier and more enjoyable. Mabye if you'd use that brain (you know, the biggest and strongest thing in your body) and stop hating things for stupid reasons you
Why would I even think about putting work into another project for darpa? What garountee do I have that they won't just screw over the other contenders?
The reason they'll be forced to is because if they don't, within a year putting your win98 box on the internet means it bluescreening instantly from viruses. Blaster caused enough havok, what if a script kiddie can creat new blasters? There are tons of win98 boxes still running, not patching them may creat a gigantic hemmorage for the internet itself.
As for redhat, you can upgrade for free. Most of the time, upgrading a linux cluster means you get one machine, test out the kernel and whatnot on it for a week or so, and if it works you update the rest of the cluster. Besides, althogh I am a novice with linux I really don't see any reason why you wouldn't want to update your software unless you are lazy.
And finally, why don't you give the flaming a rest? It does nothing but offend the parent poster and creat a bunch of nitpicky people. We're all in this together remember, it's better if you make peace with people than tear their heads off.
If you want some more reading material, I reccomend these books:
Rereading america
Anything by John Taylor Gatto
You are being lied to
Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian
Balance that off with your choice of monopolised media, I know I have and some stuff is absurd but around 95% of what's in those books is true.
Then, check CNN or any of the big 6 media corperations and contrast it with smaller, local publications that our country has been banning our soldiers from reading on a daily basis, such as ones that publicise that our soldiers in iraq are triggerhappy crazy people. It sounds like crazy at first, but when you've realize that most of the army advertising talks about being in the army as a career and most of our people over there have been broken down into mental mush then built back up by the military you begin wondering exactly if they really even care about the people they're supposed to protect.
AI's are dumb, this isn't like we're playing a videogame. Most of these people are air force piolets or reservists; they've got their shit together and they know what they're doing when they fly. Many have hundreds of flights under their belt, and thousands of people have trusted them with their lives.
A piolet has to take in a lot of data all at once and put out a lot of data, something a computer isn't complicated enough to do yet. Piolets can feel the plane, the controls have 60+ years of customization just for them. We're talking about engineers who are designing this thing, not piolets.
Not to mention what will happen if the computer breaks during midflight and goes haywire (although a certain amount of redundancy can be built into a device, they still will fail). Or if the goverment decides they want to add in remote flying so they can crash or redirect any plane they feel like. I don't know about you people, MKULTRA + self-pioleting planes + media monopoly = people being abducted to be guinea pigs.
The new cars that are coming out that are control-by-wire running windows CE aren't all that safe to drive. People are getting trapped in their cars because the locks freeze shut and the moter isn't powerful enough to open it or getting locked in when the battery is low. No reason to trust that fly-by-wire planes will be all that much different. I like redundancy built into the system thankyouverymuch. I like my power steering and breaking only to be assisting the steering and breaking, not doing all the stearing or breaking. If the alternator belt breaks wtf do I do then? Crash?
I'd sooner give the piolets 9mm handguns and really good door locks and spending more money on good mechanics and actual metal parts than introducing this kind of non sense to the cockpit.
And finally, don't insult the parent poster. It does little to correct them and all it does is work to break down what little sense of community we have left.
Normally I don't reply or even read what anonymous cowards post, but I feel compelled to say this.
I take the farmer analogy and apply it to today, a farmer would reap the seed they sew and eat the food they produced. This is similar to our augmentation of nature, we do jobs, get money, and can afford the things we need, want, and earn. Yes we live in a society of consumeristic whoredom never before known to the human race, but that's beside the point.
Nowdays, you'd plant the crops with efficient machines and eat what you need, sell off the rest. Many companies will simply hire you to do the work and pay you what you need. However, they've been using the idea of free market trade to push wages lower and lower and lower so as to make people homeless, hungry, uneducated, and very very VERY pissed off. 2 parents shouldn't have to work full time jobs to raise their kids and shouldn't be forced financially to send their kids to our shitty public school system but that's how it is.
Most farmers and their wives didn't work the fields 14 hours a day to make enough food. Sure, the work was hard and long but at the end of the day you got what you made and in the winter you got some offtime to do other things.
Free trade is simply an excuse large profit-driven corperations use to make the rest of us work for less to increase their profit margins because there's no other area left to cut up. Most companies have already cut benefits of any kind, as well as other perks to working there.
So, I'll tell you what. Go down to a shanty town and live there for a week or two, get to know the people and why they have the problems they do instead of telling people to stop whinging. That doesn't solve their problem of not having food or shelter and being very angry at all. Infact, if you did go down to a shanty town or a homeless person and told them that they'd probably beat you to a bloody pulp. Also, if you knew about the deregulation of buisness law over the past 200 years and the effect it's had on us, then you might understand that what's happening is wrong, it's a slow and steady push to making everyone slaves. Instead you choose to throw rocks instead of doing something harder, like educating yourself. Read Gangs of America, it's free in pdf if you do a google search for the website.
Why? It's called natural selection; the birds who are so stupid as to fly into the turbine fans die, and the ones who don't survive. Enviromental groups are crazy. This isn't like throwing chemicals into the enviroment or nuclear waste that will take thousands of years to clean up properly or burning chemical fuel in cars that turns the air black over some cities. We're talking about blind or stupid or retarded birds here.
Depends on what metric by which you measure successfullness. Everyone believes what they want to believe and I can't change that, all I can do is present the information to the best of my knowledge and hope they figure out things for themselves and hopefully, if they find something new in the process give me some insight. I do, however, live what I preach(although I'm not perfect:P). Infact, everything that I do say is from personal experience. You can have a million experts tell me "MSG won't hurt you" and I won't believe them because I'v gone postal from it before.
Personally, I measure a goverment successfullness in it's ability to solve conflicts without creating more conflicts (which is the whole basis for a goverment, social cooperation and working out problems among people in a nonviolent manner). I measure the successfullness of culture by how it treats itself and how it treats others. And I measure the successfullness of an economic system by it's ability to provide for it's people.
I'd rate the goverment as decent and slipping slowly to miserable and potentially into civil war, much of america is scared of it's own goverment and many nitpicky groups have popped up demanding things without realizing that they can get together and work together; one group says padeophiles are sick fucks, the other says they're dumb fucks, yet they nitpick about the terminology instead of agreeing that they are fucks, defining a common goal and going out with pitchforks and torches to burn the evil doers. And aside from that, look at how many wars we have started and gotten involved in, iraq, israel, the cold war, etc. Some wars were needed like WW2, what the nazi's did was wrong but did we really need to get involved with WW1?
I'd rate the culture as poor as it treats itself poorly as well as others. Notice how near nobody cares that their gap clothes come from slave labour? That's how it is here in my town, nobody gives a damn. They expect others to clean up their messes and take responsability for them without realizing nobody will. Some people do treat themselves and others well, but the most people don't. Not to mention how a lot of kids raised nowadays will turn out *shudders*.
Finally, I'd rate the economic system as decent, things get to where they need to go and people aren't starving to death but there are growing holes in it as buisness law becomes more and more deregulated (although, that might not fit into economics). If Enron is allowed to happen, then you've got to wonder what will happen to the trust relationships the economy is built upon. You can already see that crumbling away slowly, just look at what the RIAA is doing, for example.
The trick is to replace soda and cool-aid with fruit and vegitable juice;), I did this awhile ago but I occasionally do make my own soda. I drink about 3 glasses of OJ a day(I lub the oj), and occasionally apple and grape juice when it's in the house. And when you come in from lawn mowing, you don't take a gigantic chug of distilled water. You get a nice cool glass with ice, chug some, wait a few mins, chug some more and refill as much as you need until you aren't thirsty anymore.
It's not the information itself, but who has it.
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Get it straight, I could care less if a computer decided it wanted to catalouge and profile my life to help me out. Most people feel this way. I'd love to have a PDA that was intellegent enough to tell me what restuarants served food with my preferences (such as no msg, no feedlotted beef, no tap water, etc) or that'd give me directions in my car when I got lost, or could call up emergency services if I get stranded in the desert. But I have HUGE problems with the US goverment, companies and buisnesses, or even my neighbors having that information. The potential for abuse is to great for me to allow myself to be invaded like that.
Why? Because the information people have about you is power they have over you, and I don't trust anyone accept family with that information. I DO NOT trust the US goverment as much as I trust my parents or siblings and that's how it's supposed to be. I DO NOT trust sony to know what my buying preferences or toxic waste distributors like coca cola to know I don't like drinking their toxic waste. Infact, the very fact that most of us are scared shitless at the US goverment or corperations or buisnesses prying is proof enough that something's wrong and something needs to be done before a real civil war takes place and people begin shooting and dieing and nuking.
You've got to take into account that we've been adding stuff to the water like chlorine and flouride, which are pretty toxic substances even in small quantities and which cause thousands of cases of cancer each year. Fluoride has been rejected by the majority of europe yet us americans still drink it. It's been known to screw around with enzymes in the brain even in low quantities, not to mention how it gets concentrated in other products like sodapop and other products at the store or in fruit that's been farmed with tap water (which some places do). Chlorine is worse imo as it's linked to a lot of different diseases.
I don't drink unfiltered tap water unless I have to. I usually drink distilled, and I shower and wash with tap. Some people have bad reactions to the stuff that's in water and that's them, personally I think everyone should drink distilled ideally but some people can't afford it, plus it takes a lot of energy to make distilled water. At least filter your water for the chemicals in it to reduce the amount that's in the water.
Tell ya what, when in the next 20 years there's an epidemic that can't be cured by antibiotics from the feedlots and millions die off because their antibiotics can't handle it, when in 40 or so years around millions of americans have some other nuerodegeneritve disease because of the MSG and aspartame they take in on a daily basis, and when millions are out on the streets and doing slave labour because all the corperations replaced their work forces with machines to save money, you can come upto me and call the culture awesome. I can garountee those things are going to happen unless we change our ways.
Yea, right. The phone line is more secure than 1 megabit encryption on your e-mail. Are we forgetting voip? Or cross-country communicaions where the data goes into and out of multiple servers and multiple switches?
It certainly is in some cases but I would say it's not as much of a factor as say, television. School is even worse, our kids are taught to divide eachother into nitpicky groups by age, grade, sexual orientation, sex, beliefs, corperate logo's on your shirts, shoes, and jeans, etc. Combine this with TV, which usually preeches that violence is neccissary and good and you don't even need video games to make a bunch of kids into hateful little mongrels who won't mind isolating and nitpicking eachother to pieces. There's only one thing that divides the "nerds" from the rest of society and you can guess what that is....
In otherwords it's a team job. Videogames allow an escape from reality and this is the reason why many people defend them. I know videogames kept me in my needy years from, say, sticking a needle in my arm or jumping off a bridge. I'm also not a violent individual, so there's more to the picture than just videogames being bad. I wouldn't say removing videogames from the equation would have such a great impact on our society as say removing public schooling for more group-homeschooling.
But then again, the only evidence I have for that is 13 years of daily social rejection and some scars on my body and mind to proove that one.
America's leading export; poisonous culture
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Notice the streets of bagdad and afganistan are being westernised? Wanna know why they don't like that and why alqueda calls america the great satan? If you've read some of the stuff bin laden has written about the USA you'll agree with (some of) his ideology, not his methodology. He says the USA is spreading lies and deciet, which it does do and has been doing although it's people don't agree with this one bit. I noticed a picture up on BBC of afganistan children being given presents from santa this year, and if you understand the psychology of christmas you'll be frightened from that. Christmas such of a fucked up holiday it isn't even funny, as is easter. We celebrate these holidays not because we're supposed to or because it satisfies some deep religous meaning like Hanukkah , we celebrate them because corperations, the goverment, and christian churches wanted them to be celebrated that way. Notice how crazy it's gotten?
Notice the best buy catologe that comes in the mail every year with the star of david on the tree replaced with the star of best buy and the entire tree decorated with consumer electronics? Notice how all the packaging mysteriously has christmas branding on them? How Saint Nick appears in every window and every store front advertising one thing or another?
In our culture, we eat poisoned food, use poisoned stuff (cosmetics, soaps, playstations, cell phones) and buy crap we don't need fulfill some lifestyle obsession gone wrong that is even more poisonous so that crazy people at the top of the ladder can feel powerful. Japanese culture is even more poisonous imo, they tend to mimic ours and run with it as far and as fast as possible. Infact, our number 1 export to japan after ww2 was our poisonous culture.
Our number 1 export to the rest of the world is poisonous culture, and to whoever resists that without force enough to fight it off, we'll kill the parents and teach the kids our ways like we're doing in afganistan. Afterall, there's a reason we warehouse our old off into care homes near the ends of their life; so the ones that know what's wrong can't teach their kids and grandkids what's realy wrong.
Romans, Spartians, Mideval crusades, 100 years war, ww1, ww2, gulf war, colonial slavery, East India company, Virginia company, Gulf war 2, war on terrorism, spanish war, american civil wars, mexican civil war, but mostly, the fact that you can still walk out on the streets in almost every area of every city in this country and all of the backwoods areas and not have to worry about getting shot up by some kid who thought doom was such a good game he'd go out a 12 gauge and begin reaking havok. You might have to deal with gangsta's and the mafia, random incidents of drunken crime or crazy people who want to rape then kill you, but I can garountee to you that postal 2 will never inspire a mentally well adjusted individual to go on a shooting spree. Show me a couple, just 1 or 2 people with no reason and everything to loose whom decide to go postal just because of the game and I'll change my tune real fast.
[quote]When something goes haywire and you payed some college kid $500, you can't call him in the middle of his exams and expect him to fix it. You can ask him, but he/she is certainly not obliged to fix it.
If you go with Nokia, you can give their tollfree hotline a call and tell them your problem and the chances are that the hotfix/patch is already available.[/quote]
No, you're naive.
First of all, you don't hire some college kid. You hire a professional freelancer who isn't going to charge you $30,000 for a piece of software and who knows what they're doing.
Secondly, you ask for and keep documentation so that if a fix needs to be made and the guy you originally contracted with is gone or can't do it, you can hire another contractor to do it. You also ask for guys he knows will do a good job if he's unavailable.
Thirdly, management doesn't understand technology. If management teams understood technology and adapted accordingly they'd be able to go a lot farther with their buisnesses. Because of this they tend to stick with what they think will work instead of what their workers are telling them will work. Bosses should learn to trust the people they hire, not some numskull with a powerpoint presentation who's out to make a buck.
And finally, the management software maker doesn't have to give you the source code or anything about their program. However, there's no law saying you can't reverse engineer or haggle with them when you buy it to take out the reverse engineering part or even to require the source code with the software under a NDA. If you're a smaller buisness then this may not be reasonable, but medium and large companies that make large purchases can usually haggle and negotiate the contract. There's no garountee that they aren't screwing you over anyway with the management software in the first place by adding in timed "break in 12 months after their software lisence is up" lines of code so they can get more money.
1: Parents for not teaching their kid why killing is bad and the difference between a video game and real life.
2: The military's fault for not publicly executing soldiers who purposly fire on unarmed civilians for no reason infront of other armed soldiers who are manditorially required to be there. There is no space for antisocial behavior in the armed forces or in any army. Yes, a screen makes killing a bit easier, because you don't even have to see the whites of their eyes. As time goes on we'll see more of the old sniper mentality where the only thing that keeps a sniper together is the fact he knows, not thinks or fears, but knows that it's either the enemy or himself. Most soldiers get reprimanded or court marshalled at the worst. Personally, if any soldier comes back from iraq and starts bragging about how he shot and killed some civilians infront of me who were giving him some trouble, he's getting a bullet in the head and that's that. Call it harsh if you want to, but it's better to put an end to their insanity now than give them a chance to shoot more civilians in the off chance one of them had a bomb.
3: The news and media, for censoring all of the real violence out of our lives so we can't see what it really is. It'd snap us out of that great good consuming frenzy if we saw what a real sweatshop in africa producing gap jeans looks like.
But mostly,
4: Idiots like yourself who fabricate this idea that their kids or other people's kids, or even other people are bloodthirsty monsters. 99% of people aren't psycho's. I know my neighbors have a grip on why killing people are bad, and while there are psycho's out and about, 99% of people aren't them. The media would like us to think so and they pump the fear right into our veigns with every news broadcast they can. There are things that will cause kids to become violent, such as a lack of education or love or constant abuse by society to name a few.
Postal 2 is like a really disgusting piece of art. You can call it tacky, dumb, perverted, or even try to burn it down. But when it comes to the end of it, that piece of art has done it's job; provoked you to some emotion or another. I'v played through Postal 2, it was, content wise, one of the best games I'v played in awhile. I had a blast, and I killed plenty of virtual people while ranting on and on about their stupidity. In order to stay healthy mentally, you've got to explore the extremes. Everyone who thinks does this, and even after awhile I got disgusted with the game. When you get to the point of standing on a roof with a can of gas, making a gigantic puddle on the street and lighting it on fire, then throwing down 30 cats that turn into little firey hellhounds in an attempt to light everyone in town on fire you've got to start thinking if this game is effecting your mental health.
I'm not going to call someone crazy for not liking or for liking this game, some people find it repulsive others find it enteraining, it's akin to how I think freelancer sucked and tribes2 roxors. But, at least get your information straight.
Why the hell would norad need to track santa? Are we going to intercept him with one of those shiney icbm's or starwars project lasers?
"Hey joe, lookie here, there's one heck of a fast moving dot on the screen"
"It isn't confimed by anyone, shoot er' down"
*somewhere over the pacific*
Ho ho ho, ZAP, BANG! *several seconds later, a 9 cooked reigndeer, 1 cooked fat guy and a slegh fall through some poor youngsters roof*
Besides that, with all the bad FUD creating news lately, does anyone really trust a crazy man in a sleigh dressed in red passing out packages who can somehow travel faster than the speed of light? Seriously, he COULD be a terrorist, and all those shiney packages COULD be filled with anthrax, or nukes, or something else far more poisinous to the planet, like PS2's or televisions.
And then, everyone sits down to a nice dinner of diseased feedlotted, poisioned food(aspartame, Monosodium glutamate, carnageenan, http://www.ideatown.com/ntxa/index.html for the list) and talk amongst themselves. This is why we have outbreaks every year, undercooked meat gets on the table, people eat it and catch whatever the poor animal had at the feedlot in china. This is also why they are getting worse year by year, antibiotics injected into your animals daily when they are sick will make an infection that's resistant to those antibiotics. So celebrating good ol' jolly saint nick has some pretty bad effects, far worse a toll than some terrorists crashing planes into buildings imo.
Then of course, kids rip open playstations or televisions or gamecubes or other toys, never things that they really need like books, electronics kits, free hug cards from their parents or in some cases, computers w/ internet connections. Instead of going out and experiencing life they sit at home and play games or watch TV and poison themselves on junk food. The sugary candy of entertainment.
But that's just my bitching, don't mind the madman. Even though I'm right and you all know it I'll be neatly ignored because you're all, unlike me, sluts to convenience. I'm happy this year because I'v got family who sent me cards and remembered I existed, and everyone in my family is in one piece. Some kids don't care, or don't even know their parents because they work 14 hours a day all week and the kids never get to see them. Others take them for granted, and they don't give enough hugs.
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When you find a bug, no matter how serious with someone's system, publish it. Why do I speak such insanity? I reverse engineer hardware and some software for fun, if I find a bug I'll report it because I'm a nice person and I'd like it to get fixed. I understand that our society works only because the black caps have realized when they found a doomsday bug that implementing it would mean they turn society into hell and they'de be right in the middle of it. I'd like to make a difference and help to defend myself by helping others out, this is how I convince selfish self to help others.
So, since you don't want to treat me with respect like I treat you with respect, from now on I won't be nice or treat you with respect. I'll publish your flaws for all to see. It can be as big a publication as slashdot or bugtraq, or as small a publication as telling my friends and throwing it up on p2p.
I guess we'll have to teach them what happens when they treat us with no respect. This is a decision every white cap has to make for themselves.
I for one, am done playing the part of the nice martyr. The day I get arrested and incarcerated for releasing information I or someone I know researched because someone doesn't like loosing money is the day we no longer live in a free country, and the day I go black cap. Believe me, I don't want it to come to that, I like my steak and potatoes and living in a nice house, but if that's where it's going I am going to defend my hobby.
So, farmer joe should be forced off of his land and not be able to have a decent job or earn the things he wants because someone else can do it better? Sounds an auful lot like stupidity to me. I'm all for other countries developing themselves in any way they want, but for christ sakes we don't need globalisation screwing us or them over because greedy assholes at the top of the corperate ladder want to make their investors happy. I refuse to work against someone in india, I'd rather work with them. Call me a hippy if you must, but I absolutely hate it when people tell me that the x years of education I put in won't pay enough to repay the debt on that education much less live above the poverty line. I won't accept that I'v got to accept less and work harder because some investor or CEO wants to make more money. They can go fsck themselves.
All this article brings to the table is a bunch of BS. "Better search results" means you get what you want more often, not that the indexing makes "sense". Indexing already makes sense so long as you know how to use the index.
Right now you take a webpage, look for words on it, relate the words then goto the most popular page for a given search. This works most of the time, but when someone types in a term they can mean very different things. For example, if I type in porn, I may be looking for freebie galleries, not porn.com. I may want women with 42 inch in diabeter b00bs, not some thin anarexic teen. This is where an intellegent algorythm that helps individual users filter the results helps. Take the results the search engine gives you, filter them out for the information you specified based on your personal taste and the data it's designed to collect on you.
But then you've got the obvious privacy violation. I'll stick to the current system, it works well for what I need.
A firewall and antivirus are only preventitive measures. It won't block a virus coming in through a webpage.
Ms is forcing us to change operating systems for several reasons. Firstly, they established a anti-compeditive monopoly and broke antitrust laws, which if you had an understanding of antitrust laws and why they are there you'd understand why that's bad (read gangs of america, do a google search it's free in PDF), but I guess you've never lived in a slum so you've got no idea why poor people are poor and what happens when they start being broken.
After doing this, they proceeded to release operating systems with poor security and then throw dirt on everyone else about how their security isn't as good and then empahsise the few flaws other OS makers have. After a few big viruses, they pull patching support so nobody can fix the holes the viruses use to get into computers running it, then suggest users "upgrade" to a new operating system.
So what happens if I don't change my operating system? Well, lets see. Lets say, conservativally, in another year we'll see at least one more blaster-sized event that exploites MS operating systems. What do all the win98 users do? What does the rest of the internet do when all the win98 users are broadcasting the viruses and clogging up the lines? What damage is done to ISP's and the people who subscribe to them because people refused to upgrade and secure? Exactly, your computer stays unprotected and infected or you find a way to get rid of the virus and protect yourself.
Secondly, switching Os's has costs. Upgrading to another MS operating system means spending lots and lots of money, around $100 a copy in most instances. Not everyone can afford that.
Changing over to linux means learning a new operating system, and spending nearly as much on support on something few know. Now, if you've ever used linux you'll know most ma n' pops can get it running no problem, and if they have problems they can call up the tech support and get all the help they want. There's even a nifty helper that boots up when you use the OS that gives you an idea of what you're doing. Linux is getting very close to surpasing WinXP's user friendlyness.
Alternativally, you can switch over to Mac, and spend even more money on new hardware and a new OS.
Yup, MS is just trying to make some money.
Just like IBM was just trying to make money by selling the Nazi's indexing equipment which was used to kill millions of jews.
Just like Cisco is just trying to make some money by selling equipment to the Chinese so they can censor or kill anyone they don't happen to like the opinion of.
Just like wallmart just tries to make some money by going into small towns, bullying out the smaller buisnesses, establishing itself as the only store in town then forcing the populace to work at wallmart for minimum wage on long hours so they can barely make ends meet.
Just like investors at the old spanish stock market were just trying to make some money when they invested in lucrative pirate ships that would go out, board foreign merchant vessels and take whatever they could.
Just like the East India company did by going out and purchasing monopolies from the king of britan and forcing people out of jobs, onto the streets, and ultamatly into slavery. 10,000 of these people were apparently killed by the Virginia company later in the new world when the king decided they had to pay for their crime of loitering in the street by dieing of famine and hunger while building cities and towns for wealthy people.
Just like Gap is just trying to make some money by going into foreign countries and enslaving people at gunpoint to make pants, then paying them a measly pittance so the goverments of the region leave them alone.
And finally, I like making peace with people, and teaching stupid people (even if I don't like them). It makes life a lot easier and more enjoyable. Mabye if you'd use that brain (you know, the biggest and strongest thing in your body) and stop hating things for stupid reasons you
Why would I even think about putting work into another project for darpa? What garountee do I have that they won't just screw over the other contenders?
The reason they'll be forced to is because if they don't, within a year putting your win98 box on the internet means it bluescreening instantly from viruses. Blaster caused enough havok, what if a script kiddie can creat new blasters? There are tons of win98 boxes still running, not patching them may creat a gigantic hemmorage for the internet itself.
As for redhat, you can upgrade for free. Most of the time, upgrading a linux cluster means you get one machine, test out the kernel and whatnot on it for a week or so, and if it works you update the rest of the cluster. Besides, althogh I am a novice with linux I really don't see any reason why you wouldn't want to update your software unless you are lazy.
And finally, why don't you give the flaming a rest? It does nothing but offend the parent poster and creat a bunch of nitpicky people. We're all in this together remember, it's better if you make peace with people than tear their heads off.
If you want some more reading material, I reccomend these books:
Rereading america
Anything by John Taylor Gatto
You are being lied to
Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian
Balance that off with your choice of monopolised media, I know I have and some stuff is absurd but around 95% of what's in those books is true.
Then, check CNN or any of the big 6 media corperations and contrast it with smaller, local publications that our country has been banning our soldiers from reading on a daily basis, such as ones that publicise that our soldiers in iraq are triggerhappy crazy people. It sounds like crazy at first, but when you've realize that most of the army advertising talks about being in the army as a career and most of our people over there have been broken down into mental mush then built back up by the military you begin wondering exactly if they really even care about the people they're supposed to protect.
AI's are dumb, this isn't like we're playing a videogame. Most of these people are air force piolets or reservists; they've got their shit together and they know what they're doing when they fly. Many have hundreds of flights under their belt, and thousands of people have trusted them with their lives.
A piolet has to take in a lot of data all at once and put out a lot of data, something a computer isn't complicated enough to do yet. Piolets can feel the plane, the controls have 60+ years of customization just for them. We're talking about engineers who are designing this thing, not piolets.
Not to mention what will happen if the computer breaks during midflight and goes haywire (although a certain amount of redundancy can be built into a device, they still will fail). Or if the goverment decides they want to add in remote flying so they can crash or redirect any plane they feel like. I don't know about you people, MKULTRA + self-pioleting planes + media monopoly = people being abducted to be guinea pigs.
The new cars that are coming out that are control-by-wire running windows CE aren't all that safe to drive. People are getting trapped in their cars because the locks freeze shut and the moter isn't powerful enough to open it or getting locked in when the battery is low. No reason to trust that fly-by-wire planes will be all that much different. I like redundancy built into the system thankyouverymuch. I like my power steering and breaking only to be assisting the steering and breaking, not doing all the stearing or breaking. If the alternator belt breaks wtf do I do then? Crash?
I'd sooner give the piolets 9mm handguns and really good door locks and spending more money on good mechanics and actual metal parts than introducing this kind of non sense to the cockpit.
And finally, don't insult the parent poster. It does little to correct them and all it does is work to break down what little sense of community we have left.
Normally I don't reply or even read what anonymous cowards post, but I feel compelled to say this.
I take the farmer analogy and apply it to today, a farmer would reap the seed they sew and eat the food they produced. This is similar to our augmentation of nature, we do jobs, get money, and can afford the things we need, want, and earn. Yes we live in a society of consumeristic whoredom never before known to the human race, but that's beside the point.
Nowdays, you'd plant the crops with efficient machines and eat what you need, sell off the rest. Many companies will simply hire you to do the work and pay you what you need. However, they've been using the idea of free market trade to push wages lower and lower and lower so as to make people homeless, hungry, uneducated, and very very VERY pissed off. 2 parents shouldn't have to work full time jobs to raise their kids and shouldn't be forced financially to send their kids to our shitty public school system but that's how it is.
Most farmers and their wives didn't work the fields 14 hours a day to make enough food. Sure, the work was hard and long but at the end of the day you got what you made and in the winter you got some offtime to do other things.
Free trade is simply an excuse large profit-driven corperations use to make the rest of us work for less to increase their profit margins because there's no other area left to cut up. Most companies have already cut benefits of any kind, as well as other perks to working there.
So, I'll tell you what. Go down to a shanty town and live there for a week or two, get to know the people and why they have the problems they do instead of telling people to stop whinging. That doesn't solve their problem of not having food or shelter and being very angry at all. Infact, if you did go down to a shanty town or a homeless person and told them that they'd probably beat you to a bloody pulp. Also, if you knew about the deregulation of buisness law over the past 200 years and the effect it's had on us, then you might understand that what's happening is wrong, it's a slow and steady push to making everyone slaves. Instead you choose to throw rocks instead of doing something harder, like educating yourself. Read Gangs of America, it's free in pdf if you do a google search for the website.
Why? It's called natural selection; the birds who are so stupid as to fly into the turbine fans die, and the ones who don't survive. Enviromental groups are crazy. This isn't like throwing chemicals into the enviroment or nuclear waste that will take thousands of years to clean up properly or burning chemical fuel in cars that turns the air black over some cities. We're talking about blind or stupid or retarded birds here.
Depends on what metric by which you measure successfullness. Everyone believes what they want to believe and I can't change that, all I can do is present the information to the best of my knowledge and hope they figure out things for themselves and hopefully, if they find something new in the process give me some insight. I do, however, live what I preach(although I'm not perfect :P). Infact, everything that I do say is from personal experience. You can have a million experts tell me "MSG won't hurt you" and I won't believe them because I'v gone postal from it before.
Personally, I measure a goverment successfullness in it's ability to solve conflicts without creating more conflicts (which is the whole basis for a goverment, social cooperation and working out problems among people in a nonviolent manner). I measure the successfullness of culture by how it treats itself and how it treats others. And I measure the successfullness of an economic system by it's ability to provide for it's people.
I'd rate the goverment as decent and slipping slowly to miserable and potentially into civil war, much of america is scared of it's own goverment and many nitpicky groups have popped up demanding things without realizing that they can get together and work together; one group says padeophiles are sick fucks, the other says they're dumb fucks, yet they nitpick about the terminology instead of agreeing that they are fucks, defining a common goal and going out with pitchforks and torches to burn the evil doers. And aside from that, look at how many wars we have started and gotten involved in, iraq, israel, the cold war, etc. Some wars were needed like WW2, what the nazi's did was wrong but did we really need to get involved with WW1?
I'd rate the culture as poor as it treats itself poorly as well as others. Notice how near nobody cares that their gap clothes come from slave labour? That's how it is here in my town, nobody gives a damn. They expect others to clean up their messes and take responsability for them without realizing nobody will. Some people do treat themselves and others well, but the most people don't. Not to mention how a lot of kids raised nowadays will turn out *shudders*.
Finally, I'd rate the economic system as decent, things get to where they need to go and people aren't starving to death but there are growing holes in it as buisness law becomes more and more deregulated (although, that might not fit into economics). If Enron is allowed to happen, then you've got to wonder what will happen to the trust relationships the economy is built upon. You can already see that crumbling away slowly, just look at what the RIAA is doing, for example.
The trick is to replace soda and cool-aid with fruit and vegitable juice ;), I did this awhile ago but I occasionally do make my own soda. I drink about 3 glasses of OJ a day(I lub the oj), and occasionally apple and grape juice when it's in the house. And when you come in from lawn mowing, you don't take a gigantic chug of distilled water. You get a nice cool glass with ice, chug some, wait a few mins, chug some more and refill as much as you need until you aren't thirsty anymore.
Get it straight, I could care less if a computer decided it wanted to catalouge and profile my life to help me out. Most people feel this way. I'd love to have a PDA that was intellegent enough to tell me what restuarants served food with my preferences (such as no msg, no feedlotted beef, no tap water, etc) or that'd give me directions in my car when I got lost, or could call up emergency services if I get stranded in the desert. But I have HUGE problems with the US goverment, companies and buisnesses, or even my neighbors having that information. The potential for abuse is to great for me to allow myself to be invaded like that.
Why? Because the information people have about you is power they have over you, and I don't trust anyone accept family with that information. I DO NOT trust the US goverment as much as I trust my parents or siblings and that's how it's supposed to be. I DO NOT trust sony to know what my buying preferences or toxic waste distributors like coca cola to know I don't like drinking their toxic waste. Infact, the very fact that most of us are scared shitless at the US goverment or corperations or buisnesses prying is proof enough that something's wrong and something needs to be done before a real civil war takes place and people begin shooting and dieing and nuking.
You've got to take into account that we've been adding stuff to the water like chlorine and flouride, which are pretty toxic substances even in small quantities and which cause thousands of cases of cancer each year. Fluoride has been rejected by the majority of europe yet us americans still drink it. It's been known to screw around with enzymes in the brain even in low quantities, not to mention how it gets concentrated in other products like sodapop and other products at the store or in fruit that's been farmed with tap water (which some places do). Chlorine is worse imo as it's linked to a lot of different diseases.
I don't drink unfiltered tap water unless I have to. I usually drink distilled, and I shower and wash with tap. Some people have bad reactions to the stuff that's in water and that's them, personally I think everyone should drink distilled ideally but some people can't afford it, plus it takes a lot of energy to make distilled water. At least filter your water for the chemicals in it to reduce the amount that's in the water.
Tell ya what, when in the next 20 years there's an epidemic that can't be cured by antibiotics from the feedlots and millions die off because their antibiotics can't handle it, when in 40 or so years around millions of americans have some other nuerodegeneritve disease because of the MSG and aspartame they take in on a daily basis, and when millions are out on the streets and doing slave labour because all the corperations replaced their work forces with machines to save money, you can come upto me and call the culture awesome. I can garountee those things are going to happen unless we change our ways.
Yea, right. The phone line is more secure than 1 megabit encryption on your e-mail. Are we forgetting voip? Or cross-country communicaions where the data goes into and out of multiple servers and multiple switches?
It certainly is in some cases but I would say it's not as much of a factor as say, television. School is even worse, our kids are taught to divide eachother into nitpicky groups by age, grade, sexual orientation, sex, beliefs, corperate logo's on your shirts, shoes, and jeans, etc. Combine this with TV, which usually preeches that violence is neccissary and good and you don't even need video games to make a bunch of kids into hateful little mongrels who won't mind isolating and nitpicking eachother to pieces. There's only one thing that divides the "nerds" from the rest of society and you can guess what that is....
In otherwords it's a team job. Videogames allow an escape from reality and this is the reason why many people defend them. I know videogames kept me in my needy years from, say, sticking a needle in my arm or jumping off a bridge. I'm also not a violent individual, so there's more to the picture than just videogames being bad. I wouldn't say removing videogames from the equation would have such a great impact on our society as say removing public schooling for more group-homeschooling.
But then again, the only evidence I have for that is 13 years of daily social rejection and some scars on my body and mind to proove that one.
Notice the streets of bagdad and afganistan are being westernised? Wanna know why they don't like that and why alqueda calls america the great satan? If you've read some of the stuff bin laden has written about the USA you'll agree with (some of) his ideology, not his methodology. He says the USA is spreading lies and deciet, which it does do and has been doing although it's people don't agree with this one bit. I noticed a picture up on BBC of afganistan children being given presents from santa this year, and if you understand the psychology of christmas you'll be frightened from that. Christmas such of a fucked up holiday it isn't even funny, as is easter. We celebrate these holidays not because we're supposed to or because it satisfies some deep religous meaning like Hanukkah , we celebrate them because corperations, the goverment, and christian churches wanted them to be celebrated that way. Notice how crazy it's gotten?
Notice the best buy catologe that comes in the mail every year with the star of david on the tree replaced with the star of best buy and the entire tree decorated with consumer electronics? Notice how all the packaging mysteriously has christmas branding on them? How Saint Nick appears in every window and every store front advertising one thing or another?
In our culture, we eat poisoned food, use poisoned stuff (cosmetics, soaps, playstations, cell phones) and buy crap we don't need fulfill some lifestyle obsession gone wrong that is even more poisonous so that crazy people at the top of the ladder can feel powerful. Japanese culture is even more poisonous imo, they tend to mimic ours and run with it as far and as fast as possible. Infact, our number 1 export to japan after ww2 was our poisonous culture.
Our number 1 export to the rest of the world is poisonous culture, and to whoever resists that without force enough to fight it off, we'll kill the parents and teach the kids our ways like we're doing in afganistan. Afterall, there's a reason we warehouse our old off into care homes near the ends of their life; so the ones that know what's wrong can't teach their kids and grandkids what's realy wrong.
oh yes I did, the real tragedy is that I didn't get the computer I wanted when I was little.
Romans, Spartians, Mideval crusades, 100 years war, ww1, ww2, gulf war, colonial slavery, East India company, Virginia company, Gulf war 2, war on terrorism, spanish war, american civil wars, mexican civil war, but mostly, the fact that you can still walk out on the streets in almost every area of every city in this country and all of the backwoods areas and not have to worry about getting shot up by some kid who thought doom was such a good game he'd go out a 12 gauge and begin reaking havok. You might have to deal with gangsta's and the mafia, random incidents of drunken crime or crazy people who want to rape then kill you, but I can garountee to you that postal 2 will never inspire a mentally well adjusted individual to go on a shooting spree. Show me a couple, just 1 or 2 people with no reason and everything to loose whom decide to go postal just because of the game and I'll change my tune real fast.
[quote]When something goes haywire and you payed some college kid $500, you can't call him in the middle of his exams and expect him to fix it. You can ask him, but he/she is certainly not obliged to fix it. If you go with Nokia, you can give their tollfree hotline a call and tell them your problem and the chances are that the hotfix/patch is already available.[/quote] No, you're naive. First of all, you don't hire some college kid. You hire a professional freelancer who isn't going to charge you $30,000 for a piece of software and who knows what they're doing. Secondly, you ask for and keep documentation so that if a fix needs to be made and the guy you originally contracted with is gone or can't do it, you can hire another contractor to do it. You also ask for guys he knows will do a good job if he's unavailable. Thirdly, management doesn't understand technology. If management teams understood technology and adapted accordingly they'd be able to go a lot farther with their buisnesses. Because of this they tend to stick with what they think will work instead of what their workers are telling them will work. Bosses should learn to trust the people they hire, not some numskull with a powerpoint presentation who's out to make a buck.
And finally, the management software maker doesn't have to give you the source code or anything about their program. However, there's no law saying you can't reverse engineer or haggle with them when you buy it to take out the reverse engineering part or even to require the source code with the software under a NDA. If you're a smaller buisness then this may not be reasonable, but medium and large companies that make large purchases can usually haggle and negotiate the contract. There's no garountee that they aren't screwing you over anyway with the management software in the first place by adding in timed "break in 12 months after their software lisence is up" lines of code so they can get more money.
And you're akin to the idiot who says a piece of art sucks because the entire picture is a white backround with a red dot in the middle of it.
Video games aren't the problem. The problem is;
1: Parents for not teaching their kid why killing is bad and the difference between a video game and real life.
2: The military's fault for not publicly executing soldiers who purposly fire on unarmed civilians for no reason infront of other armed soldiers who are manditorially required to be there. There is no space for antisocial behavior in the armed forces or in any army. Yes, a screen makes killing a bit easier, because you don't even have to see the whites of their eyes. As time goes on we'll see more of the old sniper mentality where the only thing that keeps a sniper together is the fact he knows, not thinks or fears, but knows that it's either the enemy or himself. Most soldiers get reprimanded or court marshalled at the worst. Personally, if any soldier comes back from iraq and starts bragging about how he shot and killed some civilians infront of me who were giving him some trouble, he's getting a bullet in the head and that's that. Call it harsh if you want to, but it's better to put an end to their insanity now than give them a chance to shoot more civilians in the off chance one of them had a bomb.
3: The news and media, for censoring all of the real violence out of our lives so we can't see what it really is. It'd snap us out of that great good consuming frenzy if we saw what a real sweatshop in africa producing gap jeans looks like.
But mostly,
4: Idiots like yourself who fabricate this idea that their kids or other people's kids, or even other people are bloodthirsty monsters. 99% of people aren't psycho's. I know my neighbors have a grip on why killing people are bad, and while there are psycho's out and about, 99% of people aren't them. The media would like us to think so and they pump the fear right into our veigns with every news broadcast they can. There are things that will cause kids to become violent, such as a lack of education or love or constant abuse by society to name a few.
Postal 2 is like a really disgusting piece of art. You can call it tacky, dumb, perverted, or even try to burn it down. But when it comes to the end of it, that piece of art has done it's job; provoked you to some emotion or another. I'v played through Postal 2, it was, content wise, one of the best games I'v played in awhile. I had a blast, and I killed plenty of virtual people while ranting on and on about their stupidity. In order to stay healthy mentally, you've got to explore the extremes. Everyone who thinks does this, and even after awhile I got disgusted with the game. When you get to the point of standing on a roof with a can of gas, making a gigantic puddle on the street and lighting it on fire, then throwing down 30 cats that turn into little firey hellhounds in an attempt to light everyone in town on fire you've got to start thinking if this game is effecting your mental health.
I'm not going to call someone crazy for not liking or for liking this game, some people find it repulsive others find it enteraining, it's akin to how I think freelancer sucked and tribes2 roxors. But, at least get your information straight.
Why the hell would norad need to track santa? Are we going to intercept him with one of those shiney icbm's or starwars project lasers?
"Hey joe, lookie here, there's one heck of a fast moving dot on the screen"
"It isn't confimed by anyone, shoot er' down"
*somewhere over the pacific*
Ho ho ho, ZAP, BANG! *several seconds later, a 9 cooked reigndeer, 1 cooked fat guy and a slegh fall through some poor youngsters roof*
Besides that, with all the bad FUD creating news lately, does anyone really trust a crazy man in a sleigh dressed in red passing out packages who can somehow travel faster than the speed of light? Seriously, he COULD be a terrorist, and all those shiney packages COULD be filled with anthrax, or nukes, or something else far more poisinous to the planet, like PS2's or televisions.
And then, everyone sits down to a nice dinner of diseased feedlotted, poisioned food(aspartame, Monosodium glutamate, carnageenan, http://www.ideatown.com/ntxa/index.html for the list) and talk amongst themselves. This is why we have outbreaks every year, undercooked meat gets on the table, people eat it and catch whatever the poor animal had at the feedlot in china. This is also why they are getting worse year by year, antibiotics injected into your animals daily when they are sick will make an infection that's resistant to those antibiotics. So celebrating good ol' jolly saint nick has some pretty bad effects, far worse a toll than some terrorists crashing planes into buildings imo.
Then of course, kids rip open playstations or televisions or gamecubes or other toys, never things that they really need like books, electronics kits, free hug cards from their parents or in some cases, computers w/ internet connections. Instead of going out and experiencing life they sit at home and play games or watch TV and poison themselves on junk food. The sugary candy of entertainment.
But that's just my bitching, don't mind the madman. Even though I'm right and you all know it I'll be neatly ignored because you're all, unlike me, sluts to convenience. I'm happy this year because I'v got family who sent me cards and remembered I existed, and everyone in my family is in one piece. Some kids don't care, or don't even know their parents because they work 14 hours a day all week and the kids never get to see them. Others take them for granted, and they don't give enough hugs.