(sarcasm on) Those are the people who get things done, like in Haiti (sarcasm off). The Internet distributes information. If the Chinese people had access to such a thing during Tiennamen Square, the government wouldn't have been able to cover it up and just let it drift away into the memory hole. Why do you think censorship is such a favored tool of dictatorships like Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia? It is absolutely necessary to prevent those you wish to control from communicating. And, you must not let them find out about other groups who revolt or rise up. Revolution will become an "emergent phenomenon" in the future. Can you imagine what Ghandi could have done if Indians had access to the Internet? How quickly it could have happened and on such a massive scale? Twenty people with guns might get things done in a village, but 200 million pissed off, interconnected people can do a whole lot more on a global level. The entire goal of a controlling power is to prevent the masses from communicating. Just convince them to play by your rules. "Get your guys and meet my guys on the hilltop and we'll have a shoot out." Except, his guys have bombs, tanks and body armor while your guys have pitch forks. Only the idiot plays by the state's rules when it comes to revolution. Rocket propelled grenades aren't going to cut it. And if all it takes is guns to solve things, how come the USA didn't stomp the living shit out of Vietnam?
Even if it's a cliche, it's true. Information is power. It's much more desireable for oppressed people to begin to recognize the seeds of discontent in those around them and begin to resist as a large group. Very little good will come of whatever violent revolt happened in Haiti. Very little good would come from some band of revolutionaries getting guns and taking over China. It just starts over. Someone else is in control of a bunch of ignorant people. Some other guys with guns will come along.
Without television, do you think the Civil Rights Act would have been passed as soon as it was? Do you believe that as many people would have joined the protests around the country?
You must have read the article very fast. Mr. Conran is a man. His brother's friend's wife, Marsha Oglesby (a movie producer), came by. She had heard about his little piece and wanted to see it. Conran didn't want to show it because he thought it wasn't ready. She pressed him, and he finally showed it. He did not push it on her or self-promote (according to the story.) Marsha Oglesby showed it to Avnet. He was essentiall discovered against his will.
The only thing that matters is the accuracy of the information. It doesn't matter who handed it over. That only matters when you want to speculate about questionable information. If this email can be verified as authentic without identifying who leaked it, then there is no problem. The original point was about some perceived incongruence between supporting open source (therefore distrusting closed source code) and trusting information from anonymous sources. Obviously, one must be suspicious of this leaked email's authenticity.. but that doesn't mean that anonymous sources conflict with Open Source sensibilities.
And, I agree.. I think this letter is a practical joke (with such redikulus spelling). I don't know why people got so excited about it. But, if I'm wrong, and this was leaked by someone inside SCO.. it doesn't matter who it was. It only matters if one can verify the truthfulness of this email. But.. unless they subpoena hard drives or question any of the recipients (or supposed sender) about its authenticity.. you can't know. It's good mainly in that it gives some leads on where to look.. if you take it at face value.
I can't find where it says who got this document or why it was even in the form of a Word doc. Why don't they spend some dollars for some software to barf out.pdf's instead..?
"lons"? I don't know where it is that some of you work... but this is beyond the pale. This seems to be a good example of stereotypical spelling mistakes injected into fake emails. "fo"? This guy would have to be trying to finish up his email in a burning building to be this rushed.. he flubs marketing, brutal, for, loans, keep but then gets acquisitions, gauntlet (why not guantlet? favorite word?)
In the very least, this is way too suspect just to be spammed onto your website. At least give some indication that you know the "whistleblower" is from inside SCO. I can't see how this Mike Anderer guy could keep work (let alone secure clients) if he's using "kepp" for "keep" in professional interbusinees (oh no! sp!!) dealinks.
I have a very hard time seeing the connection between a whistleblower (not sure if this reaches that level, but it's a handy label) and proprietary voting machine software. Code is not a person.. code cannot be retaliated against. In my opinion, your confusing the person or agent making information known.. and the information that "should" be known. The identity of the person isn't important.. it could be the Pope or Osama Bin Laden.. all that matters is the authenticity of the information. That can generally be determined without knowing who released it.
it would seem to me that a LiveCD in all cases is good for reparing a system if something has gone horribly wrong.. like a Super Rescue Floppy. So, it's good for system administrators I guess. Also, fun for college students and the like to go into computer labs and boot from cd to goof around. Oh, and the fact that Knoppix doesn't allow bootup support for multiple languages isn't really a plus IMO. Unless, of course, you only use the LiveCD to demo FreeBSD.. but then you can just use the toolset to make one that boots straight in. Then again, I can't tell that they have the toolset available at the moment.
yeah, I was wondering if it would have an ISO compiled for powerpc. I usually borrow a friend's cd burner.. and he no use FreeBSD. Also, FreeSBIE's page didn't even really say what was on the LiveCD.. oh well. p
I believe that, due to the "War" on Drugs.. your cash can be seized if it is above a certain amount. Unfortunately, this is, at best, something I've heard. You have to convince them not to take it. My pop was taking out a lot of cash for a vacation, and the bank teller asked him what it was for. Being a fairly hard core Libertarian, he said, "I'm going to buy a bunch of drugs. What does it matter to you?"
Either way, I guess one could just ask their local Law Enforcement Agent.
There are RFID chips that can fit into paper. Digital Watermarking is a perfect solution for fighting counterfeiting. See here and here for random crap discussing it. The only question is: If they haven't released RFID chips in paper money yet, when will they? This would also make processing large amounts paper money much easier for banks. Anyhow, the Slashdot community is not ready for Alex Jones. He's like some wild eyed sooth sayer reading the tea leaves. You have to decipher what he's saying by ignoring his editorializing. You can't just process everything literally.
Read Clark's paper on Next Generation Routing.. then click the link for instructions on using Unstable. Unstable is much nicer for browsing, in my experience. Just install the stable version, then replace freenet.jar and seednodes.ref with the appropriate "unstable" files.
I still have problems using the "stable" branch. I frequently get horribly slow access.. and very little content seems to be available. Go to the
Next Generation Routing page for instructions on getting the Unstable branch. Browse this. First, install the normal, stable Freenet then replace Freenet.jar and seednodes.ref with the appropriate "unstable" files.
Browsing common pages is much more reasonable. If you're behind NAT, make sure to read this
see if you can request this:
SSK@l4Kq8dXYucgTzJlhEHOiBWj~A~sPAgM,WvqLp6tz7psphr 79zB30tA/
torrent and Freenet are different things. Torrents are plainly trackable as noted by Bram Cohen in the New York Times, yesterday. Freenet is a very different beast.. read the Freenet page. If someone is saying that Freenet downloads are trackable, it is total FUD unless they give a technical explanation of how it is possible.
It is laughable to think that people still debate whether or not Kazaa or torrent file sharing is traceable. If you downloaded source code from anything other than Freenet while at your home. Start looking for a program to wipe your HDD in case you get a call.
Yeah, now that the source code is out.. We'll see copies of an OS in stores called, 'Win Dows' or 'Windos' or just plain old 'Window' or 'Microwsoft Windows'
Like going to the border and getting a new 'Shrap' calculator for 50 cents.
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Well... sentencing has been delayed until June so I'm sure it was worthwhile waiting all this time to release the interview.
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you've been Hannitized, haven't you?
(sarcasm on) Those are the people who get things done, like in Haiti (sarcasm off). The Internet distributes information. If the Chinese people had access to such a thing during Tiennamen Square, the government wouldn't have been able to cover it up and just let it drift away into the memory hole. Why do you think censorship is such a favored tool of dictatorships like Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia? It is absolutely necessary to prevent those you wish to control from communicating. And, you must not let them find out about other groups who revolt or rise up. Revolution will become an "emergent phenomenon" in the future. Can you imagine what Ghandi could have done if Indians had access to the Internet? How quickly it could have happened and on such a massive scale? Twenty people with guns might get things done in a village, but 200 million pissed off, interconnected people can do a whole lot more on a global level. The entire goal of a controlling power is to prevent the masses from communicating. Just convince them to play by your rules. "Get your guys and meet my guys on the hilltop and we'll have a shoot out." Except, his guys have bombs, tanks and body armor while your guys have pitch forks. Only the idiot plays by the state's rules when it comes to revolution. Rocket propelled grenades aren't going to cut it. And if all it takes is guns to solve things, how come the USA didn't stomp the living shit out of Vietnam?
Even if it's a cliche, it's true. Information is power. It's much more desireable for oppressed people to begin to recognize the seeds of discontent in those around them and begin to resist as a large group. Very little good will come of whatever violent revolt happened in Haiti. Very little good would come from some band of revolutionaries getting guns and taking over China. It just starts over. Someone else is in control of a bunch of ignorant people. Some other guys with guns will come along.
Without television, do you think the Civil Rights Act would have been passed as soon as it was? Do you believe that as many people would have joined the protests around the country?
p
sit around and bitch about people sitting around and bitching.
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Welles never did a 'War of the Worlds' movie.. he did the fun radio address that scared people. Here is the first movie done after the radio address.
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Thanks and dam you for pointing that out. Maybe I'll re-point it out and hope no one notices. p
You must have read the article very fast. Mr. Conran is a man. His brother's friend's wife, Marsha Oglesby (a movie producer), came by. She had heard about his little piece and wanted to see it. Conran didn't want to show it because he thought it wasn't ready. She pressed him, and he finally showed it. He did not push it on her or self-promote (according to the story.) Marsha Oglesby showed it to Avnet. He was essentiall discovered against his will.
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That's not nice, my blog is a good blog. AND, I contributed a good news story that no one else seemed to register. My post was not a flame.
be sure to read my blog. Much thanks, citizens!
The only thing that matters is the accuracy of the information. It doesn't matter who handed it over. That only matters when you want to speculate about questionable information. If this email can be verified as authentic without identifying who leaked it, then there is no problem. The original point was about some perceived incongruence between supporting open source (therefore distrusting closed source code) and trusting information from anonymous sources. Obviously, one must be suspicious of this leaked email's authenticity.. but that doesn't mean that anonymous sources conflict with Open Source sensibilities.
And, I agree.. I think this letter is a practical joke (with such redikulus spelling). I don't know why people got so excited about it. But, if I'm wrong, and this was leaked by someone inside SCO.. it doesn't matter who it was. It only matters if one can verify the truthfulness of this email. But.. unless they subpoena hard drives or question any of the recipients (or supposed sender) about its authenticity.. you can't know. It's good mainly in that it gives some leads on where to look.. if you take it at face value.
p
I can't find where it says who got this document or why it was even in the form of a Word doc. Why don't they spend some dollars for some software to barf out .pdf's instead..?
p
"lons"? I don't know where it is that some of you work... but this is beyond the pale. This seems to be a good example of stereotypical spelling mistakes injected into fake emails. "fo"? This guy would have to be trying to finish up his email in a burning building to be this rushed.. he flubs marketing, brutal, for, loans, keep but then gets acquisitions, gauntlet (why not guantlet? favorite word?)
In the very least, this is way too suspect just to be spammed onto your website. At least give some indication that you know the "whistleblower" is from inside SCO. I can't see how this Mike Anderer guy could keep work (let alone secure clients) if he's using "kepp" for "keep" in professional interbusinees (oh no! sp!!) dealinks.
p
I have a very hard time seeing the connection between a whistleblower (not sure if this reaches that level, but it's a handy label) and proprietary voting machine software. Code is not a person.. code cannot be retaliated against. In my opinion, your confusing the person or agent making information known.. and the information that "should" be known. The identity of the person isn't important.. it could be the Pope or Osama Bin Laden.. all that matters is the authenticity of the information. That can generally be determined without knowing who released it.
p
it would seem to me that a LiveCD in all cases is good for reparing a system if something has gone horribly wrong.. like a Super Rescue Floppy. So, it's good for system administrators I guess. Also, fun for college students and the like to go into computer labs and boot from cd to goof around. Oh, and the fact that Knoppix doesn't allow bootup support for multiple languages isn't really a plus IMO. Unless, of course, you only use the LiveCD to demo FreeBSD.. but then you can just use the toolset to make one that boots straight in. Then again, I can't tell that they have the toolset available at the moment.
p
yeah, I was wondering if it would have an ISO compiled for powerpc. I usually borrow a friend's cd burner.. and he no use FreeBSD. Also, FreeSBIE's page didn't even really say what was on the LiveCD.. oh well.
p
I believe that, due to the "War" on Drugs.. your cash can be seized if it is above a certain amount. Unfortunately, this is, at best, something I've heard. You have to convince them not to take it. My pop was taking out a lot of cash for a vacation, and the bank teller asked him what it was for. Being a fairly hard core Libertarian, he said, "I'm going to buy a bunch of drugs. What does it matter to you?"
Either way, I guess one could just ask their local Law Enforcement Agent.
p
There are RFID chips that can fit into paper. Digital Watermarking is a perfect solution for fighting counterfeiting. See here and here for random crap discussing it. The only question is: If they haven't released RFID chips in paper money yet, when will they? This would also make processing large amounts paper money much easier for banks. Anyhow, the Slashdot community is not ready for Alex Jones. He's like some wild eyed sooth sayer reading the tea leaves. You have to decipher what he's saying by ignoring his editorializing. You can't just process everything literally.
p
A domain of a spammer listed for level13 was rooted. OR did a spammer root all of this users domains and use them to spam?
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Read Clark's paper on Next Generation Routing.. then click the link for instructions on using Unstable. Unstable is much nicer for browsing, in my experience. Just install the stable version, then replace freenet.jar and seednodes.ref with the appropriate "unstable" files.
I still have problems using the "stable" branch. I frequently get horribly slow access.. and very little content seems to be available. Go to the Next Generation Routing page for instructions on getting the Unstable branch. Browse this. First, install the normal, stable Freenet then replace Freenet.jar and seednodes.ref with the appropriate "unstable" files.
r 79zB30tA/
Browsing common pages is much more reasonable. If you're behind NAT, make sure to read this
see if you can request this:
SSK@l4Kq8dXYucgTzJlhEHOiBWj~A~sPAgM,WvqLp6tz7psph
Make sure to remove the inserted space.
p
nevermind, I vow not to post before my second cup of coffee anymore. confused Freenode and Freenet. The second part still holds.
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torrent and Freenet are different things. Torrents are plainly trackable as noted by Bram Cohen in the New York Times, yesterday. Freenet is a very different beast.. read the Freenet page. If someone is saying that Freenet downloads are trackable, it is total FUD unless they give a technical explanation of how it is possible.
It is laughable to think that people still debate whether or not Kazaa or torrent file sharing is traceable. If you downloaded source code from anything other than Freenet while at your home. Start looking for a program to wipe your HDD in case you get a call.
p
Yeah, now that the source code is out.. We'll see copies of an OS in stores called, 'Win Dows' or 'Windos' or just plain old 'Window' or 'Microwsoft Windows'
Like going to the border and getting a new 'Shrap' calculator for 50 cents.
p
just take your laptop to the local coffee shop (with free wireless) and do your torrenting there.