All that star wars laser jazz they are developing. Seems like a good way to get target practice with it once it's fully built, let the guys take out pieces of space junk. ZZZZAAAP!
NORAD, huh? Got any "fast movers" stories you can neither confirm nor deny?;)
Stop calling assembly manufacturing please, some of the biggest FUD out there now. Use the correct terms. Picky point but it's true. We used to manufacture cars, now we do not, we put together car kits.
And how is it "all of us" when it's not "all of us" who can get these cheaper goods and services? Aren't you leaving out the ones displaced, out of work, rehired at less wages, etc? That means it's not "all" of us, correct? Seems like you are assuming two things at the same time, that outsourced jobs result in zero loss of jobs here, and that they make more jobs at the same time. Say whut? How are people who have now much less money or no money supposed to take advantage of just cheaper trinkets, when basic bills and utilities aren't even being met?
Sorry, it ain't working, been hearing this scam pushed for over 20 years now. Stuff in general costs more, and good well paying jobs are much harder to come by, you can't just pick and choose a few selected entries like CPU chips or something and call it the total economy. Got the personal memory, don't need an article to tell me that. Stuff costs more now, not less, generally speaking.Yes, there are new products on the market, but in general, nope, stuff costs more. Food, energy, housing,clothing, all costs more. People have lost purchaising power, not gained. Bankruptcies are at record levels-why if these games are making the economy so good? Why is that? Really, why? Savings at all time historic lows-why is that? if we are all so better off, wouldn't it be trivially easy to sock away more now? But it's not happening. House notes are now common at 30 years, I can remember when 10 was common. Why are they at 30 now, is it because houses cost more, or less? and yes, I even mean the same excact size houses in the same areas. And interest only loans? Excuse me? WTF is that noise? People are getting so desparate to hang onto their houses-just a place to live- they basically agree to rent them forever? That's simply...weird, but I'm seeing the ads now on Tv and such, never used to be that way. Car notes are at 60 months now, I remember 12 month loans, and any random middle of the road joe normal blue collar paycheck could pay them off to boot, let alone a white collar at 2x the average wage. And some people are being forced to a perpetual lease, they can never really own a car (that runs and ain't beat to snot) now, it's turned into an expected monthly utility bill because the lease is all that's affordable. I remember when leasing was extremely uncommon for joe sixpack, now they push those magic cheaper numbers because outright purchase is so hig-where's the cheaper cars at? I remember a ton of cars brand new at under 2 grand when I first started driving, where are they now?
Less people have jobs with full benefits now. More people have lost their primary jobs and have been forced to take lesser paying jobs with less or zero benefits, sometimes not even getting a full work week. They just screwed people over on overtime this week with that new law to boot. More households require two checks to function, when one used to cut it easily.
How is this "better"?
Nope, the US did well when we pushed a full, completely diverse, vertically integrated and protected economy, the whole magilla, manufacturing, agriculture, energy production, etc, all of the above. It went downhill when they pushed swapping the cow-working- for the magic beans of get rich quick "investing" in whoknowswhereistan and making millionaires into billionaires. The only servicing I am seeing is the US middle class getting "serviced" right up the tuchus by the same old slick snakeoil guys.
The better era with a better styled economy would have been the 50's to late 60's. Since then, coincidentaly with allowing dumping of autos and the start of offshoring,and allowing huge tariff imbalances, and also giving TAX BREAKS to offshore, we've gone steadily down hill. Just because we have some shinier stuff now doesn't mean we have a bette
He's dead now. And he wanted them to PRODUCE it, not just shelve it, which I think he thought they would do, both from low balling him on the offer,and also from what he knew about past detroit track records with consumer cars. You got to understand, he was an outstanding engineer, he knew first hand daily how bad detroit iron was then, all he did was improve on it constantly to get it to reliable racing specs. And it's not like they didn't know, the original "planned obsolesence" came from detroit. Think about it from the maximum profits crowd, do you make more selling a new car every 100 to 200 thou miles,(less usually) or if you sold million mile cars that only cost 50% more to manufacture? And if you are an uberfatcat who sells cars and also got a big hand in the selling gas and oil market, do you really want high mileage cars? It's simple math to them, that's why I used this example to go along with the corporate condemening, pure profit capitalism does not always result in the best stuff, it usually results in the barely good enough quality being sold for the very most the market can bear. Hmm, I guess this being slasherdot I'll say MS is another example there.
Another thing about his engines, they had normal carbs, he didn't even need fuel injection to get what he was getting.
Anyway, this subject comes up occassionally and I usually drop a link to it. It's because I remember reading the magazine at the time and thinking "cool, good mileage and goodf performance cars around the corner". Back then you got one or the other, not both at the same time. Now it's two DECADES later and they are struggling to reproduce what he had then, and they have to do it with computerised fuel injection and variable computer controlled ignition and whatnot. His was all mechanical, he just followed normal thermodynamic principles combined with very good quality machining. Racing tech applied to commuter cars. The stuff we have offered to us now is a horror show of rube goldberg overly complicated profit generators more than anything else.
Ever hear of Smokey Yunick? He was big time when I was a kid. Famous nascar mechanic and auto editor of popular science? Not some unknown inventor that someone's cousin heard someones nephew talking abouty in 1897, nope, a pretty famous dude. He built some engines and stuck them in some cars back in the 80's that were fantastic. If dee-troit (corporations, to get to the point) had followed his lead cars would be getting twice the mileage they are today, maybe more.
Here is an url that has a lot of links relating to him and his inventions.
http://schou.dk/hvce/
little copy/paste from one of the links off that first page:
"Did you happen to hear about "Smokey" Henry Yunick's adiabatic engine? He holds several patents related to the article I saw in the April 1983 issue of Popular Science. He managed to get 150 Hp and 60 MPG out of a 78 ci. 2 cyl motor. The article even goes on to say that one of the "detroit boys" were donating a car (chassis) to him for testing. Of course you've never heard about this since. Check out patent #4,862,859 and his related patents."
I have a photocopy of this issue, shows the car, etc, and had a full write up. It was a normal VW model, sorry , forget which one, but a normal for the time commuter car. It was the cover story that month. And the car didn't overheat, in fact it ran so efficiently that it ran quite cool. 150 horse and 60 mpg, not bad for in the 80s.
AFAIK now, been awhile since I read about it, GM offered him a paltry 250 grand for his patents, he laughed at them and went back to professional racing, because he knew it was worth a lot more.
As to software and patents and computer hardware, who knows if advanced software had been open sourced a long time ago. I hear guys here to this day claim amiga was killer good OS for instance, years ahead of anything else in a lot of aspects. I never used it myself, just I know it's been priased here over and over again.
Patents and copyrights are good and bad. I have no doubt they need to be reassessed though, especially patenting intangibles like software, I think that's just silly and counterproductive to long term advances.
I don't trust any of those companies until they make a big public push to eliminate software patenting. That means, IBM, HP, Sun, Microsoft, Apple, you name it. That they AREN'T says a lot about their long term goals, and in particular linux "friend" IBM.
I think one day we are going to be discussing what happened to linux when it turns out 7/8ths of it is pwn3dz by a handful of large companies. A *small* handful. And they will have done it right in front of everyone's noses,they will have sucked in billions in free work, and people will be whining THEY CAN'T DO THAT after the fact of them "doing that".
And IBM is certainly big enough to get the ball rolling on eliminating software patents all by themselves, to boot. All you need is a couple of senators and a couple of house reps to start a bill that gets noticed.
These alleged copies aren't on the media they were originally released on either, so in that aspect they aren't a copy either. Now just to me, if it's a copy, it would have to be on a CD and in the original form.
But who knows, the industry has been busted for monopolistic practices before,including conspiracy-RICO- to set prices artificially high and to insure that only their pet projects get universal airplay from payola to stations and DJs, and instead of those corporations being dissolved,lose their corporate charters in other words, they are allowed to continue. That's an even bigger crime, IMO.
Is there a legally defined definition that has a percentage of original work tied to it? I am just wondering how far you could introduce fair use into it. Take written material. AFAIK, there is no actual percentage, just something under 100%. If it's a derivative, I don't see how any new music could be released, every note possible has been hit and recorded so far you would think. If representations of the original are disallowed, that would affect fine visual art as well. Example- "picture of a woman", sorry, already been done, even if yours is different in certain aspects by the arrangement and quantity of pixels, it's still a representation of previously copyrighted work. See? If that doesn't fly in the visual world, and it obviously doesn't, why is it acceptable for audio? Shouldn't the law be equally applied?
Is it the arrangement of notes, the notes themselves, or what? If it's *both* that would tend to validate that no new music would be allowed, because if you separate it, that means the concept is ambiguous and unclear and could be argued in court. Maybe, don't know, just guessing.
I know it's a fine line, but court cases all the time are determined by a fine line and exact word meanings, it's lawyers bread and butter.
To me, this is probably a gray area that might be re explored.
I think it could be argued that the original WAV file on the CD or whatever it was released as is the base starting point to determine if in fact a "copy" had been made. Law is exact a lot of times, words have meanings in the law. I think it could be argued that a lossy mp3 is merely a representation, and *not* a copy.
and the dismal federal response show that homeland security is a joke
We just had an old geezer shopkeeper shot and killed here (nearesty small town) for a few dollars, right in front of his wife.
Illegal immigrants, they caught them already
Guarding borders way over in whoknowswhereistan does nothing when you let in THIRTY MILLION undocumented illegals. Just ask any cop on any of the various gang activity strike forces how bad it is. We got maybe a couple hundred hardcore al queda (something like that) inside the US-maybe, just maybe-but we got around a quarter million illegal immigrant gang members who kill/steal/hijack/rape/pick any violent ctime daily. But, that's not "terrorism" that's not "an invasion" according to our glorius leaders, it's just people seeking employment.
...how much insider trading goes on, and how extensive the penetration into the super computer weilding spook agencies it gets.
Say you were a big property owner and also had some fingers into other pies, like insurance companies and airliners. Say you knew a big *something* was coming that would-say-destroy a few buildings, cause some airline stocks to drop, etc.
Could you make money with that information? I think "yes"
On a smaller scale, say you knew a major corporate website would be suffering an attack like a DDoS or defacement, and you had a buhzillion shares in that company, perhaps through some daisy chained front companies.
Could you make money from that information and action? I think "yes"
...governments do when they want to "sell" some political decision they have made or are about to make.
Page one - MOBILE BIOWEAPONS WARFARE LABS FOUND!
Page 87, several weeks later -Mobile bioweapons labs found to have been helium production units for weather baloons
and etc.
Over-sell the big lie up front, over and over, in as many ways as possible. Also helps if "you" are the ones tasked with later verification. This is a +1 bonus for governments. Hmm, lotta discrepancies in the war on terror and whatnot. Idea! Let's hand pick our own guys to investigate- us!
I *might* if it was a US layout and it was illuminated. but not at 100 clams or anything, even 50 is pushing it for a keyboard. For 50$ you can get a decent used PII complete bundle some places. I just scrounge IBM clickers whenever I find them now. Always liked closer to a mechanical typewriter-feel keyboard, it's what I learned on. I still suck at typing, but that's beside the point, still like the feel. Can't stand mushy squishy feeling keyboards. Gives me the buckwheats and stuff.
Anyway, it's still nice to see more linux centric devices hit the market, it will only get better as time goes on.
And the international globalist technofeudalists have an answer to that problem, they plan on bumping off huge numbers of the worlds populations, the "useless eaters" including inside the US during the next two decades. You can fully expect to see some strange super plagues and whatnot in the future, which they will claim just miraculously and automagically got created in nature.
The concept even has a name, it's called "stealth war" and the technique is called "slow plagues".
An added bonus for them is they will get to have the accumulated wealth of millions of elderly transferred to them, plus have the serf labor of the middle years productive classes, and the use of the younger folks as mercenaries (drafted soldiers and people who volunteer out of desparation for employment) and for other types of semi forced labor.
And it's because of precisely this subject, they can run the numbers and ran them from day one, it's just not sustainable, especially as the planet is running out of petroleum and water. We are at a critical juncture right now. A major part of the Iraq war for instance was not only oil, but control of the water, iraq has the largest supplies in the middle east. One of the next targets will be sudan, for the same reason, oil and water. Iran will be in between most likely, but I more expect they will try for an internal coup there first, seeing as how it's a pretty hard target.
I saw it used for that purpose. A friend of mine had that, and he says "watch this, got this back orifice thing, you control folks computarz and stuff! Gonna turn on this chicks webcam, watch this now...."
so, he does what he does....anticipation......
AAAK, ME EYES!
It was some old lady shuffling around in her bathrobe! Mrs. Lubner deluxe!
a lot of that came about from necessity. You are a family, best income you have is close to minimum wage, with zero benefits. Say you go get welfare, make close to that in a check, but more importantly you get medical coverage now. That's where a lot of the broken families starting in the mid 60s came from, now it's common. It's also the law, people living low income and getting AFDC for the kids can only have one parent at home, as far as I know. If both parents there, SOL.
Georgia used to be an English penal (prison) colony, with WHITE prisoners, and, like Australia, turned out just fine.
--except for the meth and crack addicts, chicano gangs, and the neofeudalistic "good ole boy" power structure network.
--and don't get me started about yankees who come down here, move in, drive up property prices and taxes, and then start complaining about the weather and never stop....
but ya, besides that it's nice, don't tell anyone!
or you could build individual rooms for your house, then hoist them out with a crane and finish assembling them on land wherever you want them. I was just reading the other day about the global shortages of cement driving up the costs of concrete severely. This might be an alternative building technique. Maybe just grow individual blocks for that matter, in huge quantities.
...having a graphical explanation for a graphical user interface. Seems a natural anyway.
Long time ago, not sure which version, 95 maybe, a friend of mine had a VCR tape he got mailorder that walked you through a lot of windows stuff, it was quite good really, as you could set up your machine next to the Tv and play along with it.
...Fedora is designed to be a more or less bleeding edge perpetual beta, even though they call it a release. Sorta like moz in a way. Call it a stable~beta, freebie community/developer/enthusiast edition. If you want "more" stable and more and longer support, you go to the redhat pay per view version, or stick to legacy Rh 7-9 as long as that lasts.
With that said I like fedora, it works fine,seems perfectly stable to me with only a few minor hiccups, no showe stoppers, and twice a year to plop a few Cds in isn't hard, and updating even on my old coal burner system and rural slow dialup is not hard either.
Basically, you can't have it both ways at the same time. If you want new and improved, well, the developers ain't lazy and come out with new and improved all the time, so there ya go. If you want to run a distro for a long time, then just run a distro for a long time. If it's gotta-haveit security updates, you might have to compile it in. thems the breaks. You can't have a 5 ton truck that gets 50 MPG, just ain't happening, some times ya got to make some compromises. I bet there's folks here still running RH6 probably, and similar vintage older various distros/OSes. Heck, I run new linux but I still crank up some old macs running 7.x and 8.x sometimes, and still got a laptop with win 95 on it that I (and who knows who else, heh) fool with occassionaly just for sport.
..outside-WELL outside- my area of expertise but even I could understand it and it made a lot of good points, both specifically and in general with open source. Good article.
yours is closest to the best idea, IMO. All email-in should be blocked by default, and only whitelist allowed in through the filter. You can use a form on a web page for a first contact.
I'd also like to see email addys be treated exactly the same as a snail mail street address addy or a telephone number, ie, make them cost to get, so they are treated correctly. We register domains, why not email addys? If it cost 10$ a year (something like that) to register an email addy, there would be no incentive for the spammers to throw the dictionary at domains, and conversely, the spammers couldn't/wouldn't want to create thousands of email addys to spam from.
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All that star wars laser jazz they are developing. Seems like a good way to get target practice with it once it's fully built, let the guys take out pieces of space junk. ZZZZAAAP!
;)
NORAD, huh? Got any "fast movers" stories you can neither confirm nor deny?
maybe a beeper to let you know you are getting a phone call. Have it in your wristwatch, a light flashing.
Stop calling assembly manufacturing please, some of the biggest FUD out there now. Use the correct terms. Picky point but it's true. We used to manufacture cars, now we do not, we put together car kits.
And how is it "all of us" when it's not "all of us" who can get these cheaper goods and services? Aren't you leaving out the ones displaced, out of work, rehired at less wages, etc? That means it's not "all" of us, correct? Seems like you are assuming two things at the same time, that outsourced jobs result in zero loss of jobs here, and that they make more jobs at the same time. Say whut? How are people who have now much less money or no money supposed to take advantage of just cheaper trinkets, when basic bills and utilities aren't even being met?
Sorry, it ain't working, been hearing this scam pushed for over 20 years now. Stuff in general costs more, and good well paying jobs are much harder to come by, you can't just pick and choose a few selected entries like CPU chips or something and call it the total economy. Got the personal memory, don't need an article to tell me that. Stuff costs more now, not less, generally speaking.Yes, there are new products on the market, but in general, nope, stuff costs more. Food, energy, housing,clothing, all costs more. People have lost purchaising power, not gained. Bankruptcies are at record levels-why if these games are making the economy so good? Why is that? Really, why? Savings at all time historic lows-why is that? if we are all so better off, wouldn't it be trivially easy to sock away more now? But it's not happening. House notes are now common at 30 years, I can remember when 10 was common. Why are they at 30 now, is it because houses cost more, or less? and yes, I even mean the same excact size houses in the same areas. And interest only loans? Excuse me? WTF is that noise? People are getting so desparate to hang onto their houses-just a place to live- they basically agree to rent them forever? That's simply...weird, but I'm seeing the ads now on Tv and such, never used to be that way. Car notes are at 60 months now, I remember 12 month loans, and any random middle of the road joe normal blue collar paycheck could pay them off to boot, let alone a white collar at 2x the average wage. And some people are being forced to a perpetual lease, they can never really own a car (that runs and ain't beat to snot) now, it's turned into an expected monthly utility bill because the lease is all that's affordable. I remember when leasing was extremely uncommon for joe sixpack, now they push those magic cheaper numbers because outright purchase is so hig-where's the cheaper cars at? I remember a ton of cars brand new at under 2 grand when I first started driving, where are they now?
Less people have jobs with full benefits now. More people have lost their primary jobs and have been forced to take lesser paying jobs with less or zero benefits, sometimes not even getting a full work week. They just screwed people over on overtime this week with that new law to boot. More households require two checks to function, when one used to cut it easily.
How is this "better"?
Nope, the US did well when we pushed a full, completely diverse, vertically integrated and protected economy, the whole magilla, manufacturing, agriculture, energy production, etc, all of the above. It went downhill when they pushed swapping the cow-working- for the magic beans of get rich quick "investing" in whoknowswhereistan and making millionaires into billionaires. The only servicing I am seeing is the US middle class getting "serviced" right up the tuchus by the same old slick snakeoil guys.
The better era with a better styled economy would have been the 50's to late 60's. Since then, coincidentaly with allowing dumping of autos and the start of offshoring,and allowing huge tariff imbalances, and also giving TAX BREAKS to offshore, we've gone steadily down hill. Just because we have some shinier stuff now doesn't mean we have a bette
quote "For the record, Linux doesn't support Intel's wireless chip. H-P's WiFi modules work just fine."
Why is this? Intels fault, or what? Driver issue, voodoo, or like my dad was fond of saying (lack of ) F.M.?, last letter means "magic"
He's dead now. And he wanted them to PRODUCE it, not just shelve it, which I think he thought they would do, both from low balling him on the offer,and also from what he knew about past detroit track records with consumer cars. You got to understand, he was an outstanding engineer, he knew first hand daily how bad detroit iron was then, all he did was improve on it constantly to get it to reliable racing specs. And it's not like they didn't know, the original "planned obsolesence" came from detroit. Think about it from the maximum profits crowd, do you make more selling a new car every 100 to 200 thou miles,(less usually) or if you sold million mile cars that only cost 50% more to manufacture? And if you are an uberfatcat who sells cars and also got a big hand in the selling gas and oil market, do you really want high mileage cars? It's simple math to them, that's why I used this example to go along with the corporate condemening, pure profit capitalism does not always result in the best stuff, it usually results in the barely good enough quality being sold for the very most the market can bear. Hmm, I guess this being slasherdot I'll say MS is another example there.
Another thing about his engines, they had normal carbs, he didn't even need fuel injection to get what he was getting.
Anyway, this subject comes up occassionally and I usually drop a link to it. It's because I remember reading the magazine at the time and thinking "cool, good mileage and goodf performance cars around the corner". Back then you got one or the other, not both at the same time. Now it's two DECADES later and they are struggling to reproduce what he had then, and they have to do it with computerised fuel injection and variable computer controlled ignition and whatnot. His was all mechanical, he just followed normal thermodynamic principles combined with very good quality machining. Racing tech applied to commuter cars. The stuff we have offered to us now is a horror show of rube goldberg overly complicated profit generators more than anything else.
Ever hear of Smokey Yunick? He was big time when I was a kid. Famous nascar mechanic and auto editor of popular science? Not some unknown inventor that someone's cousin heard someones nephew talking abouty in 1897, nope, a pretty famous dude. He built some engines and stuck them in some cars back in the 80's that were fantastic. If dee-troit (corporations, to get to the point) had followed his lead cars would be getting twice the mileage they are today, maybe more.
Here is an url that has a lot of links relating to him and his inventions.
http://schou.dk/hvce/
little copy/paste from one of the links off that first page:
"Did you happen to hear about "Smokey" Henry Yunick's adiabatic engine? He holds several patents related to the article I saw in the April 1983 issue of Popular Science. He managed to get 150 Hp and 60 MPG out of a 78 ci. 2 cyl motor. The article even goes on to say that one of the "detroit boys" were donating a car (chassis) to him for testing. Of course you've never heard about this since. Check out patent #4,862,859 and his related patents."
I have a photocopy of this issue, shows the car, etc, and had a full write up. It was a normal VW model, sorry , forget which one, but a normal for the time commuter car. It was the cover story that month. And the car didn't overheat, in fact it ran so efficiently that it ran quite cool. 150 horse and 60 mpg, not bad for in the 80s.
AFAIK now, been awhile since I read about it, GM offered him a paltry 250 grand for his patents, he laughed at them and went back to professional racing, because he knew it was worth a lot more.
As to software and patents and computer hardware, who knows if advanced software had been open sourced a long time ago. I hear guys here to this day claim amiga was killer good OS for instance, years ahead of anything else in a lot of aspects. I never used it myself, just I know it's been priased here over and over again.
Patents and copyrights are good and bad. I have no doubt they need to be reassessed though, especially patenting intangibles like software, I think that's just silly and counterproductive to long term advances.
... on the internet traffic report graphs right now? What happened to cause them?
I don't trust any of those companies until they make a big public push to eliminate software patenting. That means, IBM, HP, Sun, Microsoft, Apple, you name it. That they AREN'T says a lot about their long term goals, and in particular linux "friend" IBM.
I think one day we are going to be discussing what happened to linux when it turns out 7/8ths of it is pwn3dz by a handful of large companies. A *small* handful. And they will have done it right in front of everyone's noses,they will have sucked in billions in free work, and people will be whining THEY CAN'T DO THAT after the fact of them "doing that".
And IBM is certainly big enough to get the ball rolling on eliminating software patents all by themselves, to boot. All you need is a couple of senators and a couple of house reps to start a bill that gets noticed.
These alleged copies aren't on the media they were originally released on either, so in that aspect they aren't a copy either. Now just to me, if it's a copy, it would have to be on a CD and in the original form.
But who knows, the industry has been busted for monopolistic practices before,including conspiracy-RICO- to set prices artificially high and to insure that only their pet projects get universal airplay from payola to stations and DJs, and instead of those corporations being dissolved,lose their corporate charters in other words, they are allowed to continue. That's an even bigger crime, IMO.
Is there a legally defined definition that has a percentage of original work tied to it? I am just wondering how far you could introduce fair use into it. Take written material. AFAIK, there is no actual percentage, just something under 100%. If it's a derivative, I don't see how any new music could be released, every note possible has been hit and recorded so far you would think. If representations of the original are disallowed, that would affect fine visual art as well. Example- "picture of a woman", sorry, already been done, even if yours is different in certain aspects by the arrangement and quantity of pixels, it's still a representation of previously copyrighted work. See? If that doesn't fly in the visual world, and it obviously doesn't, why is it acceptable for audio? Shouldn't the law be equally applied?
Is it the arrangement of notes, the notes themselves, or what? If it's *both* that would tend to validate that no new music would be allowed, because if you separate it, that means the concept is ambiguous and unclear and could be argued in court. Maybe, don't know, just guessing.
I know it's a fine line, but court cases all the time are determined by a fine line and exact word meanings, it's lawyers bread and butter.
To me, this is probably a gray area that might be re explored.
I think it could be argued that the original WAV file on the CD or whatever it was released as is the base starting point to determine if in fact a "copy" had been made. Law is exact a lot of times, words have meanings in the law. I think it could be argued that a lossy mp3 is merely a representation, and *not* a copy.
and the dismal federal response show that homeland security is a joke
We just had an old geezer shopkeeper shot and killed here (nearesty small town) for a few dollars, right in front of his wife.
Illegal immigrants, they caught them already
Guarding borders way over in whoknowswhereistan does nothing when you let in THIRTY MILLION undocumented illegals. Just ask any cop on any of the various gang activity strike forces how bad it is. We got maybe a couple hundred hardcore al queda (something like that) inside the US-maybe, just maybe-but we got around a quarter million illegal immigrant gang members who kill/steal/hijack/rape/pick any violent ctime daily. But, that's not "terrorism" that's not "an invasion" according to our glorius leaders, it's just people seeking employment.
...how much insider trading goes on, and how extensive the penetration into the super computer weilding spook agencies it gets.
Say you were a big property owner and also had some fingers into other pies, like insurance companies and airliners. Say you knew a big *something* was coming that would-say-destroy a few buildings, cause some airline stocks to drop, etc.
Could you make money with that information? I think "yes"
On a smaller scale, say you knew a major corporate website would be suffering an attack like a DDoS or defacement, and you had a buhzillion shares in that company, perhaps through some daisy chained front companies.
Could you make money from that information and action? I think "yes"
Nope, I'm not cynical....
...governments do when they want to "sell" some political decision they have made or are about to make.
Page one - MOBILE BIOWEAPONS WARFARE LABS FOUND!
Page 87, several weeks later -Mobile bioweapons labs found to have been helium production units for weather baloons
and etc.
Over-sell the big lie up front, over and over, in as many ways as possible. Also helps if "you" are the ones tasked with later verification. This is a +1 bonus for governments. Hmm, lotta discrepancies in the war on terror and whatnot. Idea! Let's hand pick our own guys to investigate- us!
That should-and did-work.
I *might* if it was a US layout and it was illuminated. but not at 100 clams or anything, even 50 is pushing it for a keyboard. For 50$ you can get a decent used PII complete bundle some places. I just scrounge IBM clickers whenever I find them now. Always liked closer to a mechanical typewriter-feel keyboard, it's what I learned on. I still suck at typing, but that's beside the point, still like the feel. Can't stand mushy squishy feeling keyboards. Gives me the buckwheats and stuff.
Anyway, it's still nice to see more linux centric devices hit the market, it will only get better as time goes on.
And the international globalist technofeudalists have an answer to that problem, they plan on bumping off huge numbers of the worlds populations, the "useless eaters" including inside the US during the next two decades. You can fully expect to see some strange super plagues and whatnot in the future, which they will claim just miraculously and automagically got created in nature.
The concept even has a name, it's called "stealth war" and the technique is called "slow plagues".
An added bonus for them is they will get to have the accumulated wealth of millions of elderly transferred to them, plus have the serf labor of the middle years productive classes, and the use of the younger folks as mercenaries (drafted soldiers and people who volunteer out of desparation for employment) and for other types of semi forced labor.
And it's because of precisely this subject, they can run the numbers and ran them from day one, it's just not sustainable, especially as the planet is running out of petroleum and water. We are at a critical juncture right now. A major part of the Iraq war for instance was not only oil, but control of the water, iraq has the largest supplies in the middle east. One of the next targets will be sudan, for the same reason, oil and water. Iran will be in between most likely, but I more expect they will try for an internal coup there first, seeing as how it's a pretty hard target.
I saw it used for that purpose. A friend of mine had that, and he says "watch this, got this back orifice thing, you control folks computarz and stuff! Gonna turn on this chicks webcam, watch this now...."
so, he does what he does....anticipation......
AAAK, ME EYES!
It was some old lady shuffling around in her bathrobe! Mrs. Lubner deluxe!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
...is KIA, dotmil jargon for "killed in action".
a lot of that came about from necessity. You are a family, best income you have is close to minimum wage, with zero benefits. Say you go get welfare, make close to that in a check, but more importantly you get medical coverage now. That's where a lot of the broken families starting in the mid 60s came from, now it's common. It's also the law, people living low income and getting AFDC for the kids can only have one parent at home, as far as I know. If both parents there, SOL.
Georgia used to be an English penal (prison) colony, with WHITE prisoners, and, like Australia, turned out just fine.
--except for the meth and crack addicts, chicano gangs, and the neofeudalistic "good ole boy" power structure network.
--and don't get me started about yankees who come down here, move in, drive up property prices and taxes, and then start complaining about the weather and never stop....
but ya, besides that it's nice, don't tell anyone!
%^)
or you could build individual rooms for your house, then hoist them out with a crane and finish assembling them on land wherever you want them. I was just reading the other day about the global shortages of cement driving up the costs of concrete severely. This might be an alternative building technique. Maybe just grow individual blocks for that matter, in huge quantities.
...having a graphical explanation for a graphical user interface. Seems a natural anyway.
Long time ago, not sure which version, 95 maybe, a friend of mine had a VCR tape he got mailorder that walked you through a lot of windows stuff, it was quite good really, as you could set up your machine next to the Tv and play along with it.
...Fedora is designed to be a more or less bleeding edge perpetual beta, even though they call it a release. Sorta like moz in a way. Call it a stable~beta, freebie community/developer/enthusiast edition. If you want "more" stable and more and longer support, you go to the redhat pay per view version, or stick to legacy Rh 7-9 as long as that lasts.
With that said I like fedora, it works fine,seems perfectly stable to me with only a few minor hiccups, no showe stoppers, and twice a year to plop a few Cds in isn't hard, and updating even on my old coal burner system and rural slow dialup is not hard either.
Basically, you can't have it both ways at the same time. If you want new and improved, well, the developers ain't lazy and come out with new and improved all the time, so there ya go. If you want to run a distro for a long time, then just run a distro for a long time. If it's gotta-haveit security updates, you might have to compile it in. thems the breaks. You can't have a 5 ton truck that gets 50 MPG, just ain't happening, some times ya got to make some compromises. I bet there's folks here still running RH6 probably, and similar vintage older various distros/OSes. Heck, I run new linux but I still crank up some old macs running 7.x and 8.x sometimes, and still got a laptop with win 95 on it that I (and who knows who else, heh) fool with occassionaly just for sport.
..outside-WELL outside- my area of expertise but even I could understand it and it made a lot of good points, both specifically and in general with open source. Good article.
yours is closest to the best idea, IMO. All email-in should be blocked by default, and only whitelist allowed in through the filter. You can use a form on a web page for a first contact.
I'd also like to see email addys be treated exactly the same as a snail mail street address addy or a telephone number, ie, make them cost to get, so they are treated correctly. We register domains, why not email addys? If it cost 10$ a year (something like that) to register an email addy, there would be no incentive for the spammers to throw the dictionary at domains, and conversely, the spammers couldn't/wouldn't want to create thousands of email addys to spam from.