--I used to use ICU with a serial port webcam and voice on my old mac 180 mghz tower on a slow modem (my connection maxed at 19.2 and it still worked, which is amazing), worked OK although not perfect obviously, the video was slow but there, the voice was legible, and you had the typed chat program built in as well if the voice was bad that day. Talked to my bro all the time with his windows pc and cam, and some person in japan and some other countries. I imagine the tech has improved a lot since then, this was back in 97 and 98.
--although they as the recipient of the only nukes used in anger have a "public" position of being 'against" nuclear weaponry, it strains the bounds of credulity that they don't have their own weapons. Of course they do, I've taken that as a gimmee for a long time now. A nation that large, and with their level of technology simply has to have built last ditch contingency weapons, they have no choice in the matter.
..well, what I am complaining about is I don't want the US to keep getting worse until it becomes a second world nation with only two classes of people.
In my opinion, it's headed that way, and I strongly suspect it's being engineered (at extremely high places) to economically and socially "fail" to help bring about a one world fascist government.
*someone* is really trying to implode our economy, similar to what happened to ya'all in argentina. And it can happen FAST.
word to the wise- anyplace in the world- there's "wealth" in the form of tangibles, like decent land with it's own water and garden and woodlot, and precious metals, those are examples of stored wealth that can't be inflated, then there's inflatable poker chip "money" like pieces of paper with numbers on them and "stocks and bonds".
--my observations are both "book" induced and just anecdotal. How many government workers do you have to meet who will tell you off the record of the waste and abuse that goes on before you realise it's endemic? And how whistle blowers get treated? And how many unresolved scandals have to occur? How many more obvious crimes at high levels need to occur? And how many more "laws" do we really need? Isn't buhzillion millions ENOUGH laws? How many exist now, does anyone really know? It's seriously nutso. And electing in the same two for-profit gangs decade after decade just slap ain't working.
I reached my tolerance and "fake out" point a long time ago, the "system" is broken and the only chance of fixing it is to replace the goons in charge and return to the basic concepts of the constitution, or even the earlier articles of confederation actually, if I had my druthers. I just don't believe in their fairy tales any longer, it's the same old lying drivel. Those bought off elected marionettes on TV have no sway over my awareness, I look at results, not rhetoric.
The MAIN reason is still vote is to stay on the potential jury lists, where I guarantee I'll apply common and constitutional law as it's written in english to any case I have to sit on.
--your observation would be more true if the "money" supply was tied directly to produced wealth, but it's NOT. There are more phony pieces of money put out in paper or digitized form then what is "saved". If you were correct, japan wouldn't be having economic problems, but they are, aren't they? They are a nation of savers, unfortunately they saved phony money, although that is changing now with the housewives hitting the gold markets. It's hosed their economy and they are coasting on inertia now.
Fiat currencies (and their total supply) following the rip off central bank models are created poof out of thin air and usually inflated into the system well beyond any reasonableness, similar to how dotbomb stocks got inflated in "value", and why you see the friday afternoon sucker rallies with those gents using the PPT to keep their fatcat buddies afloat and to perpetuate the con. And they do it with poof created "money.
Keynesian economies are doomed to long term failure, they are unsustainable and only go to create hugely rich small numbers of people, and fractional reserve banking is heinous usury, and I don't believe in it.
I believe in the biblical laws of "just weights and measures",because the concept of "just" WORKS and is the right thing to do, and our monetary system as it is now violates those laws, and you can see the results. Temporary boom and bust cycles with huge amounts of scandals and massive wealth transference due to con jobs.
Also, I am well beyond the elementary economic concepts of treating "credit" as tangible stored wealth, so we can skip going there if you insist credit is money. And storing intangibles like fiat currencies doesn't matter a whole lot, they are subject to overnight changes to..nothing. Happens all the time, basic history will show you that. Just because it "sort of" is still working doesn't mean it will continue to do so. Any wildcard variable can set up a chain of events that willcause a collapse, and usually with collapses or near collapses we get major wars. With the military technology available to those bozos, I really am not looking forward to major wars, thankew very much.
I remember what my grandmothers and great aunts told me about the great depression, and the lessons sunk in to me. Now my parents generation, who were children during the depression and didn't have an adults recollection or memory or responsibility, is different, they embraced the scams perpetrated later on. It wasn't all their fault, but I will fault them for not getting educated eventually. They got seriously brainwashed into believing everything government said was the truth, primarily from coming of age during ww2. The created bust economy scam of the great depression then the profit war that ww2 was scared them into "believing" government was their savior, along with the economic scams based on ponzi schemes and lies mostly, but it's really another topic for another time.
one reply for AC, thanks for the commentary and you are welcome
--I bookmarked the page and will check it out later. Right now it won't display properly for me, but I'll try it again.
Yes, what you said, something like that. There's no real reason that the "core" install needs to have access to the net, when a virtual system can take the chances, and still "do the work". It makes by far the best sense to me yet of all the various security schema. It would also make upgrading better as you wouldn't be afraid of hosing your mission critical stuff while it's running.
--thanks for the tip. I've been doing that, I'm just at the point now that what might bork is the ability to even boot or get online with a successful boot. No getting online would mean no more apt-get nuthin. But I'll try that tip. The recursive dependency issue needs a slightly more automagical way to resolve.
As to the time, we're talking SLOW-MO here on my rural dialup and coal-fired modem, it's like weeks or at least many solid days, not an afternoon, heh. I actually have a set of cloned 8.0 disks but I didn't like the install so I went back to my (full price boxed set) 7.2 disks, from there to go the 7.3 upgrade path. 8.0 I could never get to even dialout, and without that, it was worthless to me. I might try to snag some of the progs off those disks later, especially open office and maybe gnome 2.
rpm -e, OK, I'll remember that and try it, thanks again
...could this be a possible way to have "more" security while running and hooked to the net? Is there any angle here to make the virtual OS that's connected be totally locked away from the actual OS that runs everything, so that in the event of a major "owning" you could delete that virtual system, then reproduce it easily from a "spare" OS with it's set of apps that's already installed and clean? Sort of like the knoppix idea?
--government tax rate is 100% of the money out there. It's not any percentage lower. Joe sixpack makes a wage, they call that "income" and it gets taxed. Joe sixpack purchases items, they get sales taxed. That money then gets paid out upstream and downstream, to different employees, to suppliers,etc, etc who pay their income and sales taxes on it. After just a few hand-offs, ALL the money has been taxed, then it gets retaxed again and again.
It's a scam. "Government" as it exists now is nothing more than a self perpetuating extortion racket, with a few services-bones thrown at us in at a wasteful level to "justify" the ripoff. It doesn't have to be that way, but for sure that's what it's morphed into. Just LOOK at the IT jobs thread running, who's bragging the most numbers-wise about their "secure lifetime jobs with bennies and pensions"? The GOVERNMENT employees. WHY? Why can't we put a limit on government "service" and make it SERVICE, with a years served CAP then back to the private sector, and NO PENSIONS. As it stands now, there is NO incentive for government ANYWHERE at any level to get smaller or become efficient or top stay within it's constitutional bounds, as anyone elected is still in the system and looking for that pension and the salary. There's NO incentive for governmental workers-either hired on, elected, or appointed- to "vote" to have their jobs eliminated. They might mumble, "ya, there's some waste, we could trim a job here and there", but it's ALWAYS some other guys job, NOT theirs! There's no incentive for "lawmakers" to eliminate their jobs or to make things streamlined or more efficient, because that puts them out of a job! "Careers" in government is the major problem!
I say a one time law, ten years max governmental service, any combination of jobs, then BUH BYE, back to private sector, no pension unless you saved your own money somehow, same as anyone else. sure, you can get paid fair, similar to whatever the private sector reasonable norm is for a similar job, no probs, but NO life time 'career' and especially eliminate DOUBLE DIPPING, the two pension scam that so many governmental workers pull off. And ZILCH for politicians. We don't NEED goombah blowhards in the senate and house for decades, nor in the bureaucracy.
And here's a real radical notion, NO voting for office that effects where you are employed. Work for the feds, no voting in federal election, but you can vote state or local. Work for the state, no voting while employed by the state for any state office, and etc, all levels. And then make it a crime called "bribery" for any governmental employee to accept donations, contributions, gifts, whatever, it's bribery, pure and simple, everyone knows it, so let's treat it like that, "lobbying" that results in transfer of money or goods and services to a governmental employee is bribery, even one penny's worth. And that goes triple for the professional politician class of governmental "workers".
Enough's enough on the wealth transference at the point of a gun. Tonight some puppet marionette moron went on and on about "terrorism" on the TV, NOPE, the real terrorists are the ones who seek to enrich themselves for generations with YOUR wealth, and take it using threats of violence.
Taxachussetts came pretty close to eliminating it's sales tax in a referndum this year, hopefully next time they WILL. The only way to shrink government is to cut off most of it's funding, and that's IT. that'sd the only thing that will sink in, just MAKE it more efficient by eliminating the largesse. "Voting" for better, more honest, more efficient "government" has been a colossal failure and it's getting worse and worse every election. Taking away the money is the only thing that will work in the long run, and making service an honorable patriotic thing to do, with the emphasis on "service", which starts with educating children to our real history and historical positive values. You can see it in the private sector, merely "throwing money and warm bodfies" at a project most of the time doesn't work, that'sd wasteful stupid panic mode, and you can see companies fail when they do it. Government on the other hand screws up, then DEMANDS more money to fix their screw-ups, and it never ends!/rant
--just so happens I'm in the middle of a project using apt to try and jump from a stock 7.2 from cds install to "updated" 7.3 and I've about hit a wall. Can't seem to get newer labeled kernels to take, nor initiscripts and etc. You can upgrade a lot of the packages, even fake the machine out to think it's fully upgraded, but when you get down to it you get into dependecy conflicts that are super hard to resolve. I've googled and hit irc channels looking for examples or tips, but not a lot of luck so far, although theoretically it seems like it's possible, or should be. I'm on a slow modem so downloading isos is not happening. I'd like to be able to do this a package or group of packages at a time (like at night when not surfing, etc), at my leisure, but haven't found any real good guidelines for procedure yet.
.....ya know, a create your own desktop wizard would be a *good thing* for this legendary linux desktop. End all the window manager wars-maybe. At least cool for noobs, first time ya boot up you get a series of questions, click here, click there, la dee dah, eventually it goes "finish" and poof, what ya want, the apps ya want, the menus you want, all your bells and whistles a done deal.
ya ya I know you can do this now,in a way, but making a newbie friendly GUI wizard would be appreciated by quite a few people.
--thanks for your reply, I just checked out your website. A follow up, any plans for just a client application, not geared for servers but for stand alone or small networks that aren't configged as servers? Guess what I am looking for is "more" in the way of personal security/firewalling/whatnot, and I like your kernel-level concepts-those that I can understand anyway, heh!. Thanks again.
--delivery methods can be as simple as loading one up in a container and having it delivered to the major port city of your target nation perhaps*. Call it an ICCDS, an intercontinental cargo container delivery system. And just suppose-just for grins-that there exists a global long range plan by a group of nations to eliminate what they perceive to be a "threat" posed by the US. Global politics is too complex for simplistic realities, I don't claim to "know it all" on geopolitics, but it has been a major interest of mine for 4 decades now following it, and the concept of a premeptive assymetrical strike combined with conventional and supra-conventional strike is not totally absent from the realms of possibility or even probability for that matter. And their-back to the NKs now- last test wasn't a failure, by most accounts it went further and "better" than what "they" -the international arms watching community- expected. It might not have hit all of it's projected goals, but it got from point A to B, and did it years earlier than all the previous projections had their analysis pegged for.
I think they are a credible threat, and we'd have a hard time dealing with them short of nukes, and if nukes were used all over the peninsula, japan would be hosed from fallout-more or less, and I got no idea how china would react, call it "most annoyed" to be on the conservativce side. And we aren't even mentioning any other surprises of the biological kind might be hidden inside the US for "just in case" scenarios. And they have blackmailed us, we give them food and until lately oil so they would stop their nuke and export missile projects. The food went to party members and to keep their army fed, and now the scandal is a lot of south korean cash went there as well, that is still developing. It's a complex situation. We also shipped them two reactors gratis of the kind that allegedly can't be used to make weapons with. they didn't even say thanks, just took them. That's blackmail as close as I understand the term, and we paid it. There's no wiggle room there. They threatened to keep working on advanced weapons unless they were paid off, we "trusted' them, paid them off, and surprise! Like most nations they are liars. It was a doomed from the start impractical gambit, so was leaving the war hanging way back when. Yet another subject that would have to delve into the UN and high level traitors in the US and whatnot, another time perhaps.
I think we are more or less on the same page here, I just tend to give them a scosh more of a + rating as a military force than I would say iraq, and a +++ rating on going batsquat sometime. Not that it would matter if they used it-except for the millions of people who would croak, and what the consequences would be of a major war there, and whether or not other wars might break out once that one started, and if assymetrical warfare hit CONUS, which I would give a 99% probability of happening. International "things" have a past historical reality of getting quite out of hand sometimes, too many wildcards to adequately predict what might happen or how far it would go.
** bet this has already happened to the US, and deep (and intelligently) hidden someplace are some nukes, delivered by "some other nation or nations". Another topic, and no, no pure hard evidence (beyond defectors stories)to go on beyond the fact that for the past decades, untold thousands of tons of whatever have gotten successfully smuggled in, and untold millions of completely unvetted humans are waltzing around this nation. I have no idea how many of those millions of folks from various nations are serious badguys and NEITHER do our government agencies tasked with "protecting" us. Our borders have been in the "horse is out of the barn" state for a long time now, and it still hasn't changed much, even after 9-11.
--couple of points, I think if you talk to any spook the consensus is they at least have *some* nukes now, and have the ability to make more rapidly if they choose to. They have been able to literally blackmail the US into giving them aid based solely on that premise, so let's take that as a gimmee.
They are also stark raving NUTZ. By most accounts the most controlled, closed and brainwashed lock step military regime on the planet. Not the largest, but the most controlled-albeit some other "regimes" are headed that way, including ones large and close, but that's another topic. The thought that people are so desperate there they would risk torture and/or death just to escape to mainland china as a step up should be a serious clue. They also get caught all the time basically committing acts of "mini warfare" against south korea and japan, inserting commandos, etc, kidnapping people, etc, etc. And their only realy exports and R&D of note are armaments, that's it.
--can you expand on this some more? I got overpeer, but redteam? And did this start on a file sharing network or on irc or usenet, etc? Or did someone just decide to try it out first just at random? I'm not seeing the connection between the ms sql and the music sharing. And I haven't read any "first sighting in the wild" reports yet.
..it's the timing and location that are suspicious to me. I don't believe in coincidences too much. And yes, I thought about it being before the weekend, there's another reality for that, less actual human beings on site to fix things. and it could just be an "amateurish" but still state sponsored event, that takes care of the attack angle.
Now I'll go out on another possible speculative limb, just musing here now, my earlier reference to a "reichstagg fire" event. enough to scare, not enough to damage much. What's the outcome of all this attacking today? A million guys downloading and slapping patches on as fast as they can? -->insert jon lovitz voice--> "patches", ya-a-a-a, THAT'S the ticket! patches!"
Impossible? So were the odds of the mad snipers hitting dc AND being the week before the homeland security bill vote. That's another one of those too-far out odds to be true just "random chance" events, at least for my supicious nature of modern political reality.
--you REALLY think this was a script kiddie attack? Been following ye olde internationale newse lately? Didja notice the main place this started last night?
I'm not trolling, I'm using my user name and self modded down -1, but, really, 2+2 and stuff. This was cyberwarfare, not script kiddies. As to WHO started it, no idea, legit attack or reichstagg fire styled attack, take yer pick at this point.
--I thought this too, but I mean semi seriously. I stayed up real late watching it to make sure it wasn't a 'war' prelude. All the second world potential badguys have a cyber attack part of their assymetrical warfare plans, that's just freely available data you can read about.
My "oh crap,no internet" communications plans are a heap-o shortwaves and scanners. Better than nuthin. I know all the commercial am and fm and tv stations will all get taken over by the fema boxes, and start spewing dotgov propaganda (moreso than normal), so I'd be more monitoring some more "unregulated" sources.
half the dang sites I try to surf to are poofed. The net radio lasts 60 seconds then poofs. I thought it was me, not glad to see it happening but at least glad to see this ain't a hallucination. Hope it gets fixed soon.
--from what I am reading, snail mail to legislators is hugely backlogged from "terrorist" concerns and having to inspect and irradiate all the snail mail. Is it the same with the various agencies? Normally I fax as a compromise between snail mail and email, which the latter I know is mostly ignored because I only get a real reply maybe one in a hundred times if that. On VERY important issues I telephone, at least talk to a human.
--I'm a linux noob, but have found apt not that hard to get going on redhat using rpm's and it's great! Put enough repositories in your list and just go for it. I use synaptic for the gui front end part, really, you can update release versions all at once or in stages like I am doing right this second on a slow dialup, and you can find and get applications that aren't installed already. What's not to like?
As to dvds, no idea, don't own one and near as I can see there's no agreed on standard for them so as far as I am concerned I will "struggle" with cds until that changes. The mplayer I have has played everything I've thrown at it so far, again, all the packages and dependecies found and installed using apt. I entered linux knowing in advance that doing things might be difficult at times, and also knowing maybe apps weren't as polished, but the tradeoffs of customizability and the sheer volume of available 'stuff' and the enthusiasm of open source makes it pleasant. Sure, if I had the spare loot for a 3 grand titanium powerbook maxed out running jaguar, ya, no probs, but that's a lot of "spare" loot I don't have. And as soon as there is a check-off list micropayments service for open source developers I'll contribute more cash to help them with their volunteer efforts. The complaints of this or that app not being flawless have some merit, but really, the rent and beer got to be paid as well. If there's a service made some time where I can send in a 20 and check the apps I want to see be worked on more and that money gets proportionally divvied up to those people it would be a "good thing" and maybe help with all these projects. There's a lot of us non-coders out here who still like to help, it's just hard when you want to help 1000 different projects and you are a "dozenaire". Maybe if this jamie guy spent some time actually helping the mplayer folks somehow? I am ass-uming he's a coder, yes/no? Maybe if the xmms and mplayer guys joined forces to make an integrated product?
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--I used to use ICU with a serial port webcam and voice on my old mac 180 mghz tower on a slow modem (my connection maxed at 19.2 and it still worked, which is amazing), worked OK although not perfect obviously, the video was slow but there, the voice was legible, and you had the typed chat program built in as well if the voice was bad that day. Talked to my bro all the time with his windows pc and cam, and some person in japan and some other countries. I imagine the tech has improved a lot since then, this was back in 97 and 98.
--although they as the recipient of the only nukes used in anger have a "public" position of being 'against" nuclear weaponry, it strains the bounds of credulity that they don't have their own weapons. Of course they do, I've taken that as a gimmee for a long time now. A nation that large, and with their level of technology simply has to have built last ditch contingency weapons, they have no choice in the matter.
..well, what I am complaining about is I don't want the US to keep getting worse until it becomes a second world nation with only two classes of people.
In my opinion, it's headed that way, and I strongly suspect it's being engineered (at extremely high places) to economically and socially "fail" to help bring about a one world fascist government.
*someone* is really trying to implode our economy, similar to what happened to ya'all in argentina. And it can happen FAST.
word to the wise- anyplace in the world- there's "wealth" in the form of tangibles, like decent land with it's own water and garden and woodlot, and precious metals, those are examples of stored wealth that can't be inflated, then there's inflatable poker chip "money" like pieces of paper with numbers on them and "stocks and bonds".
--my observations are both "book" induced and just anecdotal. How many government workers do you have to meet who will tell you off the record of the waste and abuse that goes on before you realise it's endemic? And how whistle blowers get treated? And how many unresolved scandals have to occur? How many more obvious crimes at high levels need to occur? And how many more "laws" do we really need? Isn't buhzillion millions ENOUGH laws? How many exist now, does anyone really know? It's seriously nutso. And electing in the same two for-profit gangs decade after decade just slap ain't working.
I reached my tolerance and "fake out" point a long time ago, the "system" is broken and the only chance of fixing it is to replace the goons in charge and return to the basic concepts of the constitution, or even the earlier articles of confederation actually, if I had my druthers. I just don't believe in their fairy tales any longer, it's the same old lying drivel. Those bought off elected marionettes on TV have no sway over my awareness, I look at results, not rhetoric.
The MAIN reason is still vote is to stay on the potential jury lists, where I guarantee I'll apply common and constitutional law as it's written in english to any case I have to sit on.
--your observation would be more true if the "money" supply was tied directly to produced wealth, but it's NOT. There are more phony pieces of money put out in paper or digitized form then what is "saved". If you were correct, japan wouldn't be having economic problems, but they are, aren't they? They are a nation of savers, unfortunately they saved phony money, although that is changing now with the housewives hitting the gold markets. It's hosed their economy and they are coasting on inertia now.
Fiat currencies (and their total supply) following the rip off central bank models are created poof out of thin air and usually inflated into the system well beyond any reasonableness, similar to how dotbomb stocks got inflated in "value", and why you see the friday afternoon sucker rallies with those gents using the PPT to keep their fatcat buddies afloat and to perpetuate the con. And they do it with poof created "money.
Keynesian economies are doomed to long term failure, they are unsustainable and only go to create hugely rich small numbers of people, and fractional reserve banking is heinous usury, and I don't believe in it.
I believe in the biblical laws of "just weights and measures",because the concept of "just" WORKS and is the right thing to do, and our monetary system as it is now violates those laws, and you can see the results. Temporary boom and bust cycles with huge amounts of scandals and massive wealth transference due to con jobs.
Also, I am well beyond the elementary economic concepts of treating "credit" as tangible stored wealth, so we can skip going there if you insist credit is money. And storing intangibles like fiat currencies doesn't matter a whole lot, they are subject to overnight changes to..nothing. Happens all the time, basic history will show you that. Just because it "sort of" is still working doesn't mean it will continue to do so. Any wildcard variable can set up a chain of events that willcause a collapse, and usually with collapses or near collapses we get major wars. With the military technology available to those bozos, I really am not looking forward to major wars, thankew very much.
I remember what my grandmothers and great aunts told me about the great depression, and the lessons sunk in to me. Now my parents generation, who were children during the depression and didn't have an adults recollection or memory or responsibility, is different, they embraced the scams perpetrated later on. It wasn't all their fault, but I will fault them for not getting educated eventually. They got seriously brainwashed into believing everything government said was the truth, primarily from coming of age during ww2. The created bust economy scam of the great depression then the profit war that ww2 was scared them into "believing" government was their savior, along with the economic scams based on ponzi schemes and lies mostly, but it's really another topic for another time.
one reply for AC, thanks for the commentary and you are welcome
--I bookmarked the page and will check it out later. Right now it won't display properly for me, but I'll try it again.
Yes, what you said, something like that. There's no real reason that the "core" install needs to have access to the net, when a virtual system can take the chances, and still "do the work". It makes by far the best sense to me yet of all the various security schema. It would also make upgrading better as you wouldn't be afraid of hosing your mission critical stuff while it's running.
--thanks for the tip. I've been doing that, I'm just at the point now that what might bork is the ability to even boot or get online with a successful boot. No getting online would mean no more apt-get nuthin. But I'll try that tip. The recursive dependency issue needs a slightly more automagical way to resolve.
As to the time, we're talking SLOW-MO here on my rural dialup and coal-fired modem, it's like weeks or at least many solid days, not an afternoon, heh. I actually have a set of cloned 8.0 disks but I didn't like the install so I went back to my (full price boxed set) 7.2 disks, from there to go the 7.3 upgrade path. 8.0 I could never get to even dialout, and without that, it was worthless to me. I might try to snag some of the progs off those disks later, especially open office and maybe gnome 2.
rpm -e, OK, I'll remember that and try it, thanks again
...could this be a possible way to have "more" security while running and hooked to the net? Is there any angle here to make the virtual OS that's connected be totally locked away from the actual OS that runs everything, so that in the event of a major "owning" you could delete that virtual system, then reproduce it easily from a "spare" OS with it's set of apps that's already installed and clean? Sort of like the knoppix idea?
--government tax rate is 100% of the money out there. It's not any percentage lower. Joe sixpack makes a wage, they call that "income" and it gets taxed. Joe sixpack purchases items, they get sales taxed. That money then gets paid out upstream and downstream, to different employees, to suppliers,etc, etc who pay their income and sales taxes on it. After just a few hand-offs, ALL the money has been taxed, then it gets retaxed again and again.
/rant
It's a scam. "Government" as it exists now is nothing more than a self perpetuating extortion racket, with a few services-bones thrown at us in at a wasteful level to "justify" the ripoff. It doesn't have to be that way, but for sure that's what it's morphed into. Just LOOK at the IT jobs thread running, who's bragging the most numbers-wise about their "secure lifetime jobs with bennies and pensions"? The GOVERNMENT employees. WHY? Why can't we put a limit on government "service" and make it SERVICE, with a years served CAP then back to the private sector, and NO PENSIONS. As it stands now, there is NO incentive for government ANYWHERE at any level to get smaller or become efficient or top stay within it's constitutional bounds, as anyone elected is still in the system and looking for that pension and the salary. There's NO incentive for governmental workers-either hired on, elected, or appointed- to "vote" to have their jobs eliminated. They might mumble, "ya, there's some waste, we could trim a job here and there", but it's ALWAYS some other guys job, NOT theirs! There's no incentive for "lawmakers" to eliminate their jobs or to make things streamlined or more efficient, because that puts them out of a job! "Careers" in government is the major problem!
I say a one time law, ten years max governmental service, any combination of jobs, then BUH BYE, back to private sector, no pension unless you saved your own money somehow, same as anyone else. sure, you can get paid fair, similar to whatever the private sector reasonable norm is for a similar job, no probs, but NO life time 'career' and especially eliminate DOUBLE DIPPING, the two pension scam that so many governmental workers pull off. And ZILCH for politicians. We don't NEED goombah blowhards in the senate and house for decades, nor in the bureaucracy.
And here's a real radical notion, NO voting for office that effects where you are employed. Work for the feds, no voting in federal election, but you can vote state or local. Work for the state, no voting while employed by the state for any state office, and etc, all levels. And then make it a crime called "bribery" for any governmental employee to accept donations, contributions, gifts, whatever, it's bribery, pure and simple, everyone knows it, so let's treat it like that, "lobbying" that results in transfer of money or goods and services to a governmental employee is bribery, even one penny's worth. And that goes triple for the professional politician class of governmental "workers".
Enough's enough on the wealth transference at the point of a gun. Tonight some puppet marionette moron went on and on about "terrorism" on the TV, NOPE, the real terrorists are the ones who seek to enrich themselves for generations with YOUR wealth, and take it using threats of violence.
Taxachussetts came pretty close to eliminating it's sales tax in a referndum this year, hopefully next time they WILL. The only way to shrink government is to cut off most of it's funding, and that's IT. that'sd the only thing that will sink in, just MAKE it more efficient by eliminating the largesse. "Voting" for better, more honest, more efficient "government" has been a colossal failure and it's getting worse and worse every election. Taking away the money is the only thing that will work in the long run, and making service an honorable patriotic thing to do, with the emphasis on "service", which starts with educating children to our real history and historical positive values. You can see it in the private sector, merely "throwing money and warm bodfies" at a project most of the time doesn't work, that'sd wasteful stupid panic mode, and you can see companies fail when they do it. Government on the other hand screws up, then DEMANDS more money to fix their screw-ups, and it never ends!
--just so happens I'm in the middle of a project using apt to try and jump from a stock 7.2 from cds install to "updated" 7.3 and I've about hit a wall. Can't seem to get newer labeled kernels to take, nor initiscripts and etc. You can upgrade a lot of the packages, even fake the machine out to think it's fully upgraded, but when you get down to it you get into dependecy conflicts that are super hard to resolve. I've googled and hit irc channels looking for examples or tips, but not a lot of luck so far, although theoretically it seems like it's possible, or should be. I'm on a slow modem so downloading isos is not happening. I'd like to be able to do this a package or group of packages at a time (like at night when not surfing, etc), at my leisure, but haven't found any real good guidelines for procedure yet.
.....ya know, a create your own desktop wizard would be a *good thing* for this legendary linux desktop. End all the window manager wars-maybe. At least cool for noobs, first time ya boot up you get a series of questions, click here, click there, la dee dah, eventually it goes "finish" and poof, what ya want, the apps ya want, the menus you want, all your bells and whistles a done deal.
ya ya I know you can do this now,in a way, but making a newbie friendly GUI wizard would be appreciated by quite a few people.
--thanks for your reply, I just checked out your website. A follow up, any plans for just a client application, not geared for servers but for stand alone or small networks that aren't configged as servers? Guess what I am looking for is "more" in the way of personal security/firewalling/whatnot, and I like your kernel-level concepts-those that I can understand anyway, heh!. Thanks again.
--I'd be interested in hearing from anyone here who uses these cylant security products and would like to comment on them. Thanks in advance.
--delivery methods can be as simple as loading one up in a container and having it delivered to the major port city of your target nation perhaps*. Call it an ICCDS, an intercontinental cargo container delivery system. And just suppose-just for grins-that there exists a global long range plan by a group of nations to eliminate what they perceive to be a "threat" posed by the US. Global politics is too complex for simplistic realities, I don't claim to "know it all" on geopolitics, but it has been a major interest of mine for 4 decades now following it, and the concept of a premeptive assymetrical strike combined with conventional and supra-conventional strike is not totally absent from the realms of possibility or even probability for that matter. And their-back to the NKs now- last test wasn't a failure, by most accounts it went further and "better" than what "they" -the international arms watching community- expected. It might not have hit all of it's projected goals, but it got from point A to B, and did it years earlier than all the previous projections had their analysis pegged for.
I think they are a credible threat, and we'd have a hard time dealing with them short of nukes, and if nukes were used all over the peninsula, japan would be hosed from fallout-more or less, and I got no idea how china would react, call it "most annoyed" to be on the conservativce side. And we aren't even mentioning any other surprises of the biological kind might be hidden inside the US for "just in case" scenarios. And they have blackmailed us, we give them food and until lately oil so they would stop their nuke and export missile projects. The food went to party members and to keep their army fed, and now the scandal is a lot of south korean cash went there as well, that is still developing. It's a complex situation. We also shipped them two reactors gratis of the kind that allegedly can't be used to make weapons with. they didn't even say thanks, just took them. That's blackmail as close as I understand the term, and we paid it. There's no wiggle room there. They threatened to keep working on advanced weapons unless they were paid off, we "trusted' them, paid them off, and surprise! Like most nations they are liars. It was a doomed from the start impractical gambit, so was leaving the war hanging way back when. Yet another subject that would have to delve into the UN and high level traitors in the US and whatnot, another time perhaps.
I think we are more or less on the same page here, I just tend to give them a scosh more of a + rating as a military force than I would say iraq, and a +++ rating on going batsquat sometime. Not that it would matter if they used it-except for the millions of people who would croak, and what the consequences would be of a major war there, and whether or not other wars might break out once that one started, and if assymetrical warfare hit CONUS, which I would give a 99% probability of happening. International "things" have a past historical reality of getting quite out of hand sometimes, too many wildcards to adequately predict what might happen or how far it would go.
** bet this has already happened to the US, and deep (and intelligently) hidden someplace are some nukes, delivered by "some other nation or nations". Another topic, and no, no pure hard evidence (beyond defectors stories)to go on beyond the fact that for the past decades, untold thousands of tons of whatever have gotten successfully smuggled in, and untold millions of completely unvetted humans are waltzing around this nation. I have no idea how many of those millions of folks from various nations are serious badguys and NEITHER do our government agencies tasked with "protecting" us. Our borders have been in the "horse is out of the barn" state for a long time now, and it still hasn't changed much, even after 9-11.
As to delivery systems, they have a lot of planes, and here's an overview of their long range missile technology that is known about publically at this time
They are also stark raving NUTZ. By most accounts the most controlled, closed and brainwashed lock step military regime on the planet. Not the largest, but the most controlled-albeit some other "regimes" are headed that way, including ones large and close, but that's another topic. The thought that people are so desperate there they would risk torture and/or death just to escape to mainland china as a step up should be a serious clue. They also get caught all the time basically committing acts of "mini warfare" against south korea and japan, inserting commandos, etc, kidnapping people, etc, etc. And their only realy exports and R&D of note are armaments, that's it.
--can you expand on this some more? I got overpeer, but redteam? And did this start on a file sharing network or on irc or usenet, etc? Or did someone just decide to try it out first just at random? I'm not seeing the connection between the ms sql and the music sharing. And I haven't read any "first sighting in the wild" reports yet.
sure would be embarassing for them, though......
--if the dos was a side issue, then do you think this was just an early proof of concept thing?
..it's the timing and location that are suspicious to me. I don't believe in coincidences too much. And yes, I thought about it being before the weekend, there's another reality for that, less actual human beings on site to fix things. and it could just be an "amateurish" but still state sponsored event, that takes care of the attack angle.
Now I'll go out on another possible speculative limb, just musing here now, my earlier reference to a "reichstagg fire" event. enough to scare, not enough to damage much. What's the outcome of all this attacking today? A million guys downloading and slapping patches on as fast as they can? -->insert jon lovitz voice--> "patches", ya-a-a-a, THAT'S the ticket! patches!"
Impossible? So were the odds of the mad snipers hitting dc AND being the week before the homeland security bill vote. That's another one of those too-far out odds to be true just "random chance" events, at least for my supicious nature of modern political reality.
--you REALLY think this was a script kiddie attack? Been following ye olde internationale newse lately? Didja notice the main place this started last night?
I'm not trolling, I'm using my user name and self modded down -1, but, really, 2+2 and stuff. This was cyberwarfare, not script kiddies. As to WHO started it, no idea, legit attack or reichstagg fire styled attack, take yer pick at this point.
...which file system on install do you recommend, and why? And try 1.6 stable first, or a newer release?
--I thought this too, but I mean semi seriously. I stayed up real late watching it to make sure it wasn't a 'war' prelude. All the second world potential badguys have a cyber attack part of their assymetrical warfare plans, that's just freely available data you can read about.
My "oh crap,no internet" communications plans are a heap-o shortwaves and scanners. Better than nuthin. I know all the commercial am and fm and tv stations will all get taken over by the fema boxes, and start spewing dotgov propaganda (moreso than normal), so I'd be more monitoring some more "unregulated" sources.
half the dang sites I try to surf to are poofed. The net radio lasts 60 seconds then poofs. I thought it was me, not glad to see it happening but at least glad to see this ain't a hallucination. Hope it gets fixed soon.
--from what I am reading, snail mail to legislators is hugely backlogged from "terrorist" concerns and having to inspect and irradiate all the snail mail. Is it the same with the various agencies? Normally I fax as a compromise between snail mail and email, which the latter I know is mostly ignored because I only get a real reply maybe one in a hundred times if that. On VERY important issues I telephone, at least talk to a human.
--I'm a linux noob, but have found apt not that hard to get going on redhat using rpm's and it's great! Put enough repositories in your list and just go for it. I use synaptic for the gui front end part, really, you can update release versions all at once or in stages like I am doing right this second on a slow dialup, and you can find and get applications that aren't installed already. What's not to like?
As to dvds, no idea, don't own one and near as I can see there's no agreed on standard for them so as far as I am concerned I will "struggle" with cds until that changes. The mplayer I have has played everything I've thrown at it so far, again, all the packages and dependecies found and installed using apt. I entered linux knowing in advance that doing things might be difficult at times, and also knowing maybe apps weren't as polished, but the tradeoffs of customizability and the sheer volume of available 'stuff' and the enthusiasm of open source makes it pleasant. Sure, if I had the spare loot for a 3 grand titanium powerbook maxed out running jaguar, ya, no probs, but that's a lot of "spare" loot I don't have. And as soon as there is a check-off list micropayments service for open source developers I'll contribute more cash to help them with their volunteer efforts. The complaints of this or that app not being flawless have some merit, but really, the rent and beer got to be paid as well. If there's a service made some time where I can send in a 20 and check the apps I want to see be worked on more and that money gets proportionally divvied up to those people it would be a "good thing" and maybe help with all these projects. There's a lot of us non-coders out here who still like to help, it's just hard when you want to help 1000 different projects and you are a "dozenaire". Maybe if this jamie guy spent some time actually helping the mplayer folks somehow? I am ass-uming he's a coder, yes/no? Maybe if the xmms and mplayer guys joined forces to make an integrated product?
--way to go GEEKS! That's one nifty little bicycle ya got there!