Yes, I'm very aware of the election scam. But, what happened? This was supposed to be a democratic state, not a corporate state. Does everyone just not care, or just unsure what to do about it? Voting doesn't seem to be the answer.
Sounds like the biggest argument I've seen in this discussion is the fact that the teachers do not know how to use Linux/open-source software.
Easy fix - instead of making them depend on the training leeches (Like the people that teach IIS Administration for $500/day/person), give them an free resource - volunteer your time to come in and teach a group of teachers about something that you know about.
They can probably even find kids in their highschools that can teach the classes, but make the effort volunteer your time - think of the long term effect you'll have - Linux in the schools. No more MS/BSA audits.
Call your local schoolboard and ask how to go about volunteering your time. Do it now, you know you want to!!
"So don't go there if you don't want your picture taken. "
Gimme a fuckin break, a bit impossible to survive without going outside. I'd just like to go outside without my actions being recorded. Doesn't help to use idiotic/unreal arguments.
Sorry, tried it a couple months ago (on google even) and got no results. Freaked me out. Dunno what happened.
No, I do not have Internet access:)
Oh, BTW, I invented UFOs:)
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Wasn't arguing against, just thought it was a weird concept/possibility. Gotta admit it would be way weird.
Hopefully, with our huge output of trash all over the planet they will be aware of a previous civilization before them.
(PS: Fuck I am getting sick of all these delays in Slashdot - two minutes between posts, 20 seconds between hitting reply and submitting my reply - my brain and typing speed is way faster than that...) Typing this to kill time before I can actually post....
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Calm down - It was a joke already, thus the ':)' (tm)
Interesting perspective. I had not thought from that point of view. Good question: Is the GPL valid in Iowa?
Not sure about the "use your brain before you speak comment" - sounds like you are basically saying "Don't point out flaws in the GPL", although technically YOU did. (Or do I misunderstand)
"Needless to say, I wouldn't like to be an Open Source developer in Germany"
In relation to their current strong-arm tactics against open source, Microsoft may have been somewhere behind this - finding a loophole in German law that could theoretically scare a lot of German developers from doing open source from the mere fears of lawyer fees. There's a lot of Open Source developers from Germany.
But, I dunno, even to me that sounds rather paranoid. None of the people that are after me have said anything about this...:)
I'm more of a PostgreSQL person myself, but before spouting off about the shortcomings of MySQL, you should probably re-familiarize yourself with the latest MySQL - which does have those things now.
Of all places, Iowa has the most clued state government around that I know of - they have already put a law on the books that says that the UCITA is not enforcable in their state. Same with EULAs - not enforcable, only contracts that can actually be negotiated by both parties are legal.
People make a lot of fun of IOWA (Idiots Out Wandering/Wondering Around) (I don't live there myself) but I have been massively impressed by the legal stance their state gov has taken lately!
Hmmm... If I'm doing nothing wrong, why do I care?
If I am doing nothing wrong, then I am a law-abiding citizen and I fully object to the cameras just watching me to make sure. As a law-abiding citizen, they have no ethical right to follow me around just because it's possible that I may do something illegal. There's a big difference between being seen while walking down the street and having yourself recorded for later review.
If you are a good citizen, then it is defying one of the basic concepts our nation was founded upon - You are to be considered innocent, unless proven guilty. If I am being tracked by a camera, I am NOT being considered innocent.
Tell ya what, these days, the average politicians and the average cops scare me more than the average criminals.
Back when George Bush Sr was president, I saw, several times, information on how his son was the head of the FSLIC (Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, like today's FDIC [Which existed then as well as now, but for non-S&L banks {I can't think of the term for what kind of banks are covered by FDIC} which is the insitution that insures your bank deposits up to $100,000] that insured the Savings & Loan [S&L]banks)
I am almost sure that it was George Jr (aka Dubya) that was the head of it, but it could have been another son (Are ther any others besides Jeb?)
The FSLIC had not kept their insurance requirements strict enough, and it was actually the FSLIC playing some kind of games with the S&Ls to try to keep the FSLIC in business, but instead went belly-up and took the S&Ls down with it, which in turn took the Family farms down with them. Some even said that the big agricorps socially engineered these weaknesses into the FSLIC regulations to make them able to expand by assuming ownership of all the family farms for pennies on the dollar.
I know this happened, I remember the local (I lived in a small Nebraska town at the time this was happenning, so I am absolutely sure it was a Bush kid in charge) newspaper reporting on what was going on, and we had to report on it in High School. They didn't go into the conspiracy theories, of course. But it's way weird that finding info on this on the net (At least for me) has been pretty much undoable.
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Since civilizations come in waves, and eventually ours will die and be reborn (Like the Mesopotamian, Greek, and Roman empires before them), and usually a lot of information gets destroyed at the end of the wave and the beginning of the next, there's a good chance that genetic engineering will lost during the next interregnum to be re-discovered in the next wave.
But just think of the poor researchers of the next wave, assuming these mutated strawberries survive: It's going to really throw them for a loop and screw up a lot of their theories when they find Frog DNA in a strawberry. Could set them back years or even centuries trying to figure it out, coming to the realization that "Hey, somebody's already been screwing with these berries. Who the..."
Didn't we already see the dangers of mixing frog DNA with other species in Jurassic Park??:)
I suppose if someone came up to you and said "I believe you house is on on fire", you'd probably also ignore the meaning of the meassage and point out the problems with the use of "you" instead of "your" and the duplication of the word "on" while letting your house burn down.
I've got a Linksys BEFSR11 (Single Port CableModem router) - I've even gotten it to work with Lynx (Gotta send a space as the user name, other than that, no problem).
Why do they need to clean up their reputation? It'd be more of a "Ha, look you dumb fuckers, we weren't wrong, your suck-ass English society was wrong. If we were such worthless dregs of humanity that we could add more to England by none being there, then how did we turn it around into a country more successful than England? Maybe you oughta change YOUR society so that all have a part instead of just the ugly-ass, tight-ass tea-drinking old bitches that talk like they have shit in their mouth?"
I think Douglas Adams (May he rest in peace. No, how about 'may he suddenly rise from dead and get back to writing those insanely hilarious books again!') said it best:
"There we British sat, poor grey sodden creatures, huddling under our grey northern sky that seeped like a rancid dish cloth, busy sending those we wished to punish most severely to sit in bright sunlight on the coast of the Tasman sea at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef and maybe do some surfing too. No wonder the Australians have a particular kind of smile that they reserve exclusively for use on the British."
You only are calculating two dimensions rather than taking the whole thing into consideration. Any movement requires slight movement on all dimensions.
You need to remember that there is nothing as 'true rest', only relative rest. You put a rock on the ground. It is a rest in relation to the planet itself, but the world is spinning, while orbiting the sun which is rotating around the galactic center, which is moving outward from the big bang point.
Totally sense-making it is. If you move from point X1Y1Z1T1 to X2YxZxTx, everything has moved. Your primitive equation does not take that into effect. In a universe which permitted a state of true rest, your supposed loophole would, in fact, check out. But in our universe, it leaves out reality.
I went to the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign a couple weeks ago. Both to visit the birthplace of Apache/Mosaic/Telnet, and to find HAL9000.
I got there, asked around in the NCSA area, and encountered nothing but morons. They didn't even know Apache had been invented there... "I've never heard of this HAL computer you are asking about" (I think the general intelligence of UIUC has gone WAY down in the last few years, especially considering the fact of those 2001 movies they sell everywhere on campus...)
I said "Go ahead and ping hal9000.ncsa.uiuc.edu"
The guy said "I never heard of it, it must be somebody's workstation"
I had a hard time not laughing in this idiot's face while telling him about all the fanfare back in 1997 when they brought this machine online on HALs birthday (Jan 19, 1999, according to the book. Different date in the movie). "Let me get this, you are in the Networking Research Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and you've never heard of HAL9000, let alone not know that it is HERE??? WTF?"
Anyway, the guy pings it, and has enough brains to at least know what building it is located in due to it's subnet. So, I head off to the Psych/Tech research build known as 'The Beckman Institute'. A friend of mine just finished up his master's degree the day before, so it's easy gaining access.
Still, the exact location cannot be found. I find a guy that knows the IP addressing scheme of the building, and he is able to tell me the floor it is on and which side of the building. Coolness! I head that way.
I get on the elevator, get off on the right floor. Head the right direction (Feeling a bit of geek excitement here!) down a long hallway. The hallway jogs and ends with a security door with a sign that says "NSCA/CIA Research Lab. Properly Authorized Personnel Only"
CIA?!! Holy fleashit! Of course, I could not make it past that point, but it's pretty damn weird that the REAL HAL9000 is under CIA control. What exactly is going on there?
It's there, it exists, it responds to pings at hal9000.ncsa.uiuc.edu, but it does not respond to anything else (web, telnet, ftp, etc.) I suspect a firewall is blocking it off. I at least wanted to get a screenshot of something like:
Connected to hal9000.ncsa.uiuc.edu
CyberDyne Linux Systems v10.3
Kernel 3.5.23 on an i986
login:
But know luck...
Anybody know what is hidden behind that closed door?
"Skyward uses the same security measures that online retailers like Amazon.com use for credit card purchases over the Internet.
Um, how many times have we seen reports of Amazon's customer information being hacked? Skyward is pretty stupid if they think that comparing their security to Amazon's security makes them look good...
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Yes, I'm very aware of the election scam. But, what happened? This was supposed to be a democratic state, not a corporate state. Does everyone just not care, or just unsure what to do about it? Voting doesn't seem to be the answer.
Or, you could use: B4 3C BB 00 00 88 D8 80 C4 10 8E
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Why am I not afraid?? :)
"in a hurry to get second post and forgot the not" Forgot what not? Are you ___ making sense today? (Oops, I forgot the not)
Easy fix - instead of making them depend on the training leeches (Like the people that teach IIS Administration for $500/day/person), give them an free resource - volunteer your time to come in and teach a group of teachers about something that you know about.
They can probably even find kids in their highschools that can teach the classes, but make the effort volunteer your time - think of the long term effect you'll have - Linux in the schools. No more MS/BSA audits.
Call your local schoolboard and ask how to go about volunteering your time. Do it now, you know you want to!!
True, busted me on Views - I should do my OWN homework...
Gimme a fuckin break, a bit impossible to survive without going outside. I'd just like to go outside without my actions being recorded. Doesn't help to use idiotic/unreal arguments.
No, I do not have Internet access :)
Oh, BTW, I invented UFOs :)
Hopefully, with our huge output of trash all over the planet they will be aware of a previous civilization before them.
(PS: Fuck I am getting sick of all these delays in Slashdot - two minutes between posts, 20 seconds between hitting reply and submitting my reply - my brain and typing speed is way faster than that...) Typing this to kill time before I can actually post....
Calm down - It was a joke already, thus the ':)' (tm)
Not sure about the "use your brain before you speak comment" - sounds like you are basically saying "Don't point out flaws in the GPL", although technically YOU did. (Or do I misunderstand)
In relation to their current strong-arm tactics against open source, Microsoft may have been somewhere behind this - finding a loophole in German law that could theoretically scare a lot of German developers from doing open source from the mere fears of lawyer fees. There's a lot of Open Source developers from Germany.
But, I dunno, even to me that sounds rather paranoid. None of the people that are after me have said anything about this... :)
I really expected SciFi channel to run this series all throughout 1999, but it didn't happen. Why? Probably some legal bullshit.
Absolute, complete bullshit. Where'd you come up with this drivel?
I'm more of a PostgreSQL person myself, but before spouting off about the shortcomings of MySQL, you should probably re-familiarize yourself with the latest MySQL - which does have those things now.
People make a lot of fun of IOWA (Idiots Out Wandering/Wondering Around) (I don't live there myself) but I have been massively impressed by the legal stance their state gov has taken lately!
If I am doing nothing wrong, then I am a law-abiding citizen and I fully object to the cameras just watching me to make sure. As a law-abiding citizen, they have no ethical right to follow me around just because it's possible that I may do something illegal. There's a big difference between being seen while walking down the street and having yourself recorded for later review.
If you are a good citizen, then it is defying one of the basic concepts our nation was founded upon - You are to be considered innocent, unless proven guilty. If I am being tracked by a camera, I am NOT being considered innocent.
Tell ya what, these days, the average politicians and the average cops scare me more than the average criminals.
I am almost sure that it was George Jr (aka Dubya) that was the head of it, but it could have been another son (Are ther any others besides Jeb?)
The FSLIC had not kept their insurance requirements strict enough, and it was actually the FSLIC playing some kind of games with the S&Ls to try to keep the FSLIC in business, but instead went belly-up and took the S&Ls down with it, which in turn took the Family farms down with them. Some even said that the big agricorps socially engineered these weaknesses into the FSLIC regulations to make them able to expand by assuming ownership of all the family farms for pennies on the dollar.
I know this happened, I remember the local (I lived in a small Nebraska town at the time this was happenning, so I am absolutely sure it was a Bush kid in charge) newspaper reporting on what was going on, and we had to report on it in High School. They didn't go into the conspiracy theories, of course. But it's way weird that finding info on this on the net (At least for me) has been pretty much undoable.
But just think of the poor researchers of the next wave, assuming these mutated strawberries survive: It's going to really throw them for a loop and screw up a lot of their theories when they find Frog DNA in a strawberry. Could set them back years or even centuries trying to figure it out, coming to the realization that "Hey, somebody's already been screwing with these berries. Who the..."
Didn't we already see the dangers of mixing frog DNA with other species in Jurassic Park?? :)
Don't bore us, nobody thinks you're smart.
I've got a Linksys BEFSR11 (Single Port CableModem router) - I've even gotten it to work with Lynx (Gotta send a space as the user name, other than that, no problem).
Fuck, name a non-fixed security problem in Apache at all...
I think Douglas Adams (May he rest in peace. No, how about 'may he suddenly rise from dead and get back to writing those insanely hilarious books again!') said it best:
"There we British sat, poor grey sodden creatures, huddling under our grey northern sky that seeped like a rancid dish cloth, busy sending those we wished to punish most severely to sit in bright sunlight on the coast of the Tasman sea at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef and maybe do some surfing too. No wonder the Australians have a particular kind of smile that they reserve exclusively for use on the British."
Your primitive Earth equation is too simplistic.
Movement will take time.
You only are calculating two dimensions rather than taking the whole thing into consideration. Any movement requires slight movement on all dimensions.
You need to remember that there is nothing as 'true rest', only relative rest. You put a rock on the ground. It is a rest in relation to the planet itself, but the world is spinning, while orbiting the sun which is rotating around the galactic center, which is moving outward from the big bang point.
Totally sense-making it is. If you move from point X1Y1Z1T1 to X2YxZxTx, everything has moved. Your primitive equation does not take that into effect. In a universe which permitted a state of true rest, your supposed loophole would, in fact, check out. But in our universe, it leaves out reality.
I got there, asked around in the NCSA area, and encountered nothing but morons. They didn't even know Apache had been invented there... "I've never heard of this HAL computer you are asking about" (I think the general intelligence of UIUC has gone WAY down in the last few years, especially considering the fact of those 2001 movies they sell everywhere on campus...)
I said "Go ahead and ping hal9000.ncsa.uiuc.edu"
The guy said "I never heard of it, it must be somebody's workstation"
I had a hard time not laughing in this idiot's face while telling him about all the fanfare back in 1997 when they brought this machine online on HALs birthday (Jan 19, 1999, according to the book. Different date in the movie). "Let me get this, you are in the Networking Research Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and you've never heard of HAL9000, let alone not know that it is HERE??? WTF?"
Anyway, the guy pings it, and has enough brains to at least know what building it is located in due to it's subnet. So, I head off to the Psych/Tech research build known as 'The Beckman Institute'. A friend of mine just finished up his master's degree the day before, so it's easy gaining access.
Still, the exact location cannot be found. I find a guy that knows the IP addressing scheme of the building, and he is able to tell me the floor it is on and which side of the building. Coolness! I head that way.
I get on the elevator, get off on the right floor. Head the right direction (Feeling a bit of geek excitement here!) down a long hallway. The hallway jogs and ends with a security door with a sign that says "NSCA/CIA Research Lab. Properly Authorized Personnel Only"
CIA?!! Holy fleashit! Of course, I could not make it past that point, but it's pretty damn weird that the REAL HAL9000 is under CIA control. What exactly is going on there?
It's there, it exists, it responds to pings at hal9000.ncsa.uiuc.edu, but it does not respond to anything else (web, telnet, ftp, etc.) I suspect a firewall is blocking it off. I at least wanted to get a screenshot of something like:
Connected to hal9000.ncsa.uiuc.edu
CyberDyne Linux Systems v10.3
Kernel 3.5.23 on an i986
login:
But know luck...
Anybody know what is hidden behind that closed door?
Um, how many times have we seen reports of Amazon's customer information being hacked? Skyward is pretty stupid if they think that comparing their security to Amazon's security makes them look good...