I think a significant difference is the frequency with which major attacks occur. Prior to the Blaster worm, the last major Windows security flaw was discovered less than a month ago.
>But for the "ignorant" masses an independant investigation will go a long way to dispell any doubts, especially from one by a country >independant from that of the said "fraudsters", plus with any luck they might be able to complete some worthy science along the way.
maybe we could get henry kissinger to head up the investigation... =)
ok, i'll take the bait again, because i have a pet peeve about drug disinformation.
when albert hoffman discovered lsd, he was working on ergot derivitaves to create a more potent drug to induce contractions during labour. (ergot is a type of fungus, and a number of ergot-derived drugs are used in obstetrics). he did not intend for the drug to have any psychological effects, the only thing he was looking for was its action on the uteral muscles. in the late 1930's, he created a number of similar compounds, derivatives of lysergic acid; most of which showed no medicinal promise. he noted (as related in his book "My Problem Child") however, that one of them, d-lysergic acid diethylamide-25, caused "the experimental animals [to become] restless during the narcosis". but since this showed nothing as to the effects he was hoping for, he put lsd on the back burner, so to speak.
in 1943,hoffman gave some more thought to the substance he created. "A peculiar presentiment - the feeling that this substance could possess properties other than those established in the first investigations - induced me, five years after the first synthesis, to produce LSD-25 once again so that a sample could be given to the pharmacological department for further tests." then, on April 19th 1943, Hoffman became the first human test subject, as he relates in the following passage:
"17:00: Beginning dizziness, feeling of anxiety, visual distortions, symptoms of paralysis, desire to laugh.
Here the notes in my laboratory journal cease. I was able to write the last words only with great effort. By now it was already clear to me that LSD had been the cause of the remarkable experience of the previous Friday, for the altered perceptions were of the same type as before, only much more intense. I had to struggle to speak intelligibly. I asked my laboratory assistant, who was informed of the self-experiment, to escort me home. We went by bicycle, no automobile being available because of wartime restrictions on their use. On the way home, my condition began to assume threatening forms. Everything in my field of vision wavered and was distorted as if seen in a curved mirror. I also had the sensation of being unable to move from the spot. Nevertheless, my assistant later told me that we had traveled very rapidly. Finally, we arrived at home safe and sound, and I was just barely capable of asking my companion to summon our family doctor and request milk from the neighbors.
The dizziness and sensation of fainting became so strong at times that I could no longer hold myself erect, and had to lie down on a sofa. My surroundings had now transformed themselves in more terrifying ways. Everything in the room spun around, and the familiar objects and pieces of furniture assumed grotesque, threatening forms. They were in continuous motion, animated, as if driven by an inner restlessness. The lady next door, whom I scarcely recognized, brought me milk - in the course of the evening I drank more than two liters. She was no longer Mrs. R., but rather a malevolent, insidious witch with a colored mask."
Well, its not quite a film of electrons, but we're apparently getting close. This quote is from Science...
"This year, researchers turned their new attosecond strobes onto the action within atoms. In October, the Austrian and German members of the original team used their attosecond pulses to excite electrons in krypton atoms, each of which left behind an electron vacancy. With another laser pulse, they were then able to track the timing with which excited electrons gave up some of their energy and fell back into the more stable energy levels. It's not Hitchcock, but attosecond movies will give physicists a whole new view of life inside the atom."
> Look, the guy really does have a point - KDE (and to a lesser extent GNOME) has always tried to copy
> windows and it's made it a far worse product as a result. It looks contrived, it's slow, and there's
> no good reason why anyone would want to use it instead of Windows, unless they cared about (a)
> opensource philosophy or (b) having to pay money for windows. Both KDE and GNOME are just as ugly
> and souless as Windows, and no amount of pro-Linux propaganda is going to miraculously fix this!
while this argument may hold water for KDE and gnome, there is a fundamental point being missed here. KDE and gnome are NOT linux. they are programs, window managers, than CAN be run on linux, but need NOT be. this is the primary flaw in the article, which invalidates his whole argument. judging linux solely by them is like judging the preverbial book by the cover; only in this case, you can use whatever cover you want.
> Secondly, they tried to get Linda Hamilton to
> reprise her role as Sarah, she refused to do it
> after looking at the script. Not a good sign.
especially considering the last movie she was in that did any business was...well, terminator 2...
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> In fact, I think people like music, and people will > always make nice music and it will be available. we > have the ability to make it happen.
for the record (no pun intended), i'm a musician, and have been for roughly 15 years. all told, i've made less than 500 dollars, but i still make music.
why? because i like making music. sure, it'd be nice if i got a big fat royality check every month. or even enough to pay for my gear. =) but real musicians don't play so they have money to live, they live to play...
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I think a significant difference is the frequency with which major attacks occur. Prior to the Blaster worm, the last major Windows security flaw was discovered less than a month ago.
When was the last major GNU security lapse?
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since when are "real company" and "the face of evil" mutually exclusive? i think its more probable that they're synonyms...
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>But for the "ignorant" masses an independant investigation will go a long way to dispell any doubts, especially from one by a country
>independant from that of the said "fraudsters", plus with any luck they might be able to complete some worthy science along the way.
maybe we could get henry kissinger to head up the investigation... =)
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ok, i'll take the bait again, because i have a pet peeve about drug disinformation.
when albert hoffman discovered lsd, he was working on ergot derivitaves to create a more potent drug to induce contractions during labour. (ergot is a type of fungus, and a number of ergot-derived drugs are used in obstetrics). he did not intend for the drug to have any psychological effects, the only thing he was looking for was its action on the uteral muscles. in the late 1930's, he created a number of similar compounds, derivatives of lysergic acid; most of which showed no medicinal promise. he noted (as related in his book "My Problem Child") however, that one of them, d-lysergic acid diethylamide-25, caused "the experimental animals [to become] restless during the narcosis". but since this showed nothing as to the effects he was hoping for, he put lsd on the back burner, so to speak.
in 1943,hoffman gave some more thought to the substance he created. "A peculiar presentiment - the feeling that this substance could possess properties other than those established in the first investigations - induced me, five years after the first synthesis, to produce LSD-25 once again so that a sample could be given to the pharmacological department for further tests." then, on April 19th 1943, Hoffman became the first human test subject, as he relates in the following passage:
"17:00: Beginning dizziness, feeling of anxiety, visual distortions, symptoms of paralysis, desire to laugh.
Here the notes in my laboratory journal cease. I was able to write the last words only with great effort. By now it was already clear to me that LSD had been the cause of the remarkable experience of the previous Friday, for the altered perceptions were of the same type as before, only much more intense. I had to struggle to speak intelligibly. I asked my laboratory assistant, who was informed of the self-experiment, to escort me home. We went by bicycle, no automobile being available because of wartime restrictions on their use. On the way home, my condition began to assume threatening forms. Everything in my field of vision wavered and was distorted as if seen in a curved mirror. I also had the sensation of being unable to move from the spot. Nevertheless, my assistant later told me that we had traveled very rapidly. Finally, we arrived at home safe and sound, and I was just barely capable of asking my companion to summon our family doctor and request milk from the neighbors.
The dizziness and sensation of fainting became so strong at times that I could no longer hold myself erect, and had to lie down on a sofa. My surroundings had now transformed themselves in more terrifying ways. Everything in the room spun around, and the familiar objects and pieces of furniture assumed grotesque, threatening forms. They were in continuous motion, animated, as if driven by an inner restlessness. The lady next door, whom I scarcely recognized, brought me milk - in the course of the evening I drank more than two liters. She was no longer Mrs. R., but rather a malevolent, insidious witch with a colored mask."
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Well, its not quite a film of electrons, but we're apparently getting close. This quote is from Science... "This year, researchers turned their new attosecond strobes onto the action within atoms. In October, the Austrian and German members of the original team used their attosecond pulses to excite electrons in krypton atoms, each of which left behind an electron vacancy. With another laser pulse, they were then able to track the timing with which excited electrons gave up some of their energy and fell back into the more stable energy levels. It's not Hitchcock, but attosecond movies will give physicists a whole new view of life inside the atom."
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> Look, the guy really does have a point - KDE (and to a lesser extent GNOME) has always tried to copy
> windows and it's made it a far worse product as a result. It looks contrived, it's slow, and there's
> no good reason why anyone would want to use it instead of Windows, unless they cared about (a)
> opensource philosophy or (b) having to pay money for windows. Both KDE and GNOME are just as ugly
> and souless as Windows, and no amount of pro-Linux propaganda is going to miraculously fix this!
while this argument may hold water for KDE and gnome, there is a fundamental point being missed here. KDE and gnome are NOT linux. they are programs, window managers, than CAN be run on linux, but need NOT be. this is the primary flaw in the article, which invalidates his whole argument. judging linux solely by them is like judging the preverbial book by the cover; only in this case, you can use whatever cover you want.
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As a jew, i'd like to say that if we DO run the world, i haven't seen my share of the riches yet.
When will the Elders of Zion be mailing me my check??
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> Secondly, they tried to get Linda Hamilton to > reprise her role as Sarah, she refused to do it > after looking at the script. Not a good sign. especially considering the last movie she was in that did any business was...well, terminator 2... --
> In fact, I think people like music, and people will > always make nice music and it will be available. we > have the ability to make it happen.
for the record (no pun intended), i'm a musician, and have been for roughly 15 years. all told, i've made less than 500 dollars, but i still make music.
why? because i like making music. sure, it'd be nice if i got a big fat royality check every month. or even enough to pay for my gear. =) but real musicians don't play so they have money to live, they live to play...