Everyone was uber-patriotic and wanting to kill any Middle Eastern man who looked at them wrong.
There was actually not much debate in Congress. The Patriot Act passed through very easily. The only problem was that it takes away our checks and balances system of government, which is part of what makes American such a great country.
Don't trust me, though. Read what one website said: "The FBI can now access your most private medical records, your library records, and your student records... and can prevent anyone from telling you it was done.
The Department of Justice is expected to introduce a sequel, dubbed PATRIOT II, that would further erode key freedoms and liberties of every America.
Nearly 15 years after the fact, Microsoft finally gets around to acknowledging that they're not the only people in the world who know how to craft a set of operating system libraries.
And, judging by their latest code release, I'd say the quality of code tends to be a bit higher in the BSDs and Linuxes versus the "fuck shit HACKHACKHACK!" that you find in code coming from Redmond.
Leave it to big business government corporate interests to come together in the name of:
- Slowing down technology innovation - Inhibiting more technological innovation through excessive taxation and legislations - Trying to play daddy and take care of its citizens like we're total imbasoles
No thanks. I'll stick with free, open-standard technologies like TCP/IP, Linux, etc.
I have a serious question though: has anything ever NOT been ruined by standardization/regulation?
Hehe. Um, you're wrong. Even Larry the Cow knows that Gentoo's a real authentic distribution!
From their site at gentoo.org:
"We produce Gentoo Linux, a special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme performance, configurability and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.
Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo Linux can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution or something else -- whatever you need it to be. Because of its near-unlimited adaptability, we call Gentoo Linux a metadistribution."
It's just not the same now that they ditched us desktop Linux users.
Now their main business is selling overpriced licenses for their "enterprise" Linux distribution, which really isn't all that much more bulletproof than most Linux kernels/applications out there.
Sure, I love Linux, but I think the tides may turn away from Red Hat. Gentoo anyone?
Most people probably have no idea about the physics of lenses, how they work, and what they're useful for.
Here are some basic facts about lenses:
Lenses have curved surfaces, or a very large number of flat surfaces located at slightly different angles. (i.e., Fresnel lens)
Converging lenses (positive lenses) are thicker at the centre than at the edges.
Diverging lenses (negative lenses) are thicker at the edges than at the centre.
The optical centre of the lens is located at its geometric centre.
The principal axis is a construction line drawn perpendicular to the lens, through the optical centre.
Rays parallel to the principal axis will converge when passing through a converging lens, and diverge when passing through a diverging lens.
The principal focus (F) is a point on the principal axis where light comes to a focus (for a converging lens) or appears to be diverging from (for a diverging lens). Two foci exist, equidistant on either side of the lens, since light behaves the same way when travelling in either direction (Principle of Reversibility). The two foci, F and F' are called the primary principal focus and the secondary principal focus, respectively. F, sometimes also referred to as the primary focal point, is shown on the right side of a converging lens, and on the left side of a diverging lens, while F', the secondary focal point is shown on the opposite side of each respective lens.)
Guys like me warned anyone who would listen. Most operating systems in use today by home PC users are utter crap. I always love speaking about computer security because it's just so fucking important.
But I can't help but feel helpless. Virus writers will get bored again and write another killer virus. These fucking viruses can easily invade Windows PCs and then use them to attack other machines. I don't blame the virus writers -- it's just a hobby. I blame people who LOAD the viruses!
We need firewall education. We need anti-virus education. We need fucking stricter email controls.
I hate myself for saying this, but let's stop being so fucking naive. Windows is a security nightmare and it practically invites viruses in. But most people use Windows, even though there are two families of computers that are much safer -- Apple's OS 10 and the many types of Linux machines. Microsoft has a grip on the PC market by the balls that even the government can't shake loose, and so, like the family that's stuck with an unwanted brother-in-law, we're stuck with Microsoft's Windows and its many frailties.
So stop blaming the virus writers. It's not their fault. It's YOUR fault. By that I mean your friends and family and co-workers need to be education -- and by YOU if no one else will do it. Tell them Windows is a piece of fucking shit, but also SHOW THEM how to avoid viruses. You can't just talk crap and then do nothing. It's more effective to suggest alternatives and best-practices(TM).
Computer security is in a poor state of affairs, but (relative) geniuses like us can help things. We really can. Just put Linux down for a fucking second (yes, it's better than Windows) and show your mom how to avoid catching viruses.
If you have a fairly advanced toolset of software knowledge, you can download YahooPOPs! over on the SoresForge page.
What is it? Well, YahooPOPs! is an open-source initiative to provide free POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! E-mail accounts. It works in both Windoze and Unix.
What it does is emulate a POP3/SMTP server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, IncrediMail, Calypso, etc., to DOWNLOAD AND SEND emails from Yahoo! accounts.
It's amazing, bro. I had NO idea it'd even work. I had to download it to believe it. There are also other similar programs out there for MSN, Lycos, etc.
No self-respecting webmail user should be WITHOUT it.
I have NO REGRETS about paying to subscribe to Slashdot and the New York Times.
The extra features I get as a Slashdot subscriber are well worth the cost, and getting the Times news fresh every morning with my cup of coffee is unbeatable. I love their fresh angle on each news story, and really appreciate the Editorials page.
Count me in, America - I'm a happy online news subscriber - and lovin' it!
It's not because Linux is somehow inferior or less secure, but because the result of the how popular Linux has become in the server world and all these ex-Windows admins who know jack shit about Linux trying to admin Linux servers.
God, people, read the fucking quote by DK Matai (mi2g chairman): "The swift adoption of Linux last year within the online government and non-government server community, coupled with inadequate training and knowledge on how to keep that environment secure when running vulnerable third party applications, has contributed to a consistently higher proportion of compromised Linux servers."
In other words, it's the administrators, stupid -- BSD is no more secure than Linux!
Am I the only one surprised that professional writers don't utilize voice recognition software? (Especially Mr. Gibson, since I doubt he runs Linux or any OS that doesn't support speech-to-text software.)
Within 5 years, I predict that most machines will use RAM memory for all system storage. A backup power system will be required, but system speeds will go through the roof due to faster data access times.
Hard drives fail and are slow as hell. They are the bottlenecks in 99% of today's systems. That will change soon, thanks in part to Intel and AMD.
Remember back how during the.com boom, people always invested in the stocks that were gaining the most? Well, just because something gains quickly doesn't mean it's truly valuable.
Howard R. Dean's campaign is no longer a.com-style campaign. All the fucking momentum is gone. And momentum followers in the hippie crowd have jumped ship to Kerry, or the ultimate 9/11-spawned momentum man, President W. Bush.
If Dean doesn't make legit promises now, he's going to lose. The campaign will die. He will die inside. Many will mourn the loss of the only non-special interest candidate.
Granted, I'm a computer science professor, but I've taken many an econ and poly sci class; what we're seeing in campaign 2004 is not uncommon, and has happened before.
So don't blame anything or anyone for Dean's limp cock campaign but Dean himself. It's not spam. It's his fault, and I feel bad for him because he's fairly cute and seems nice and suitable.
If you bothered to look up my username here, you'd see it's the name of my favourite character in Gangs of New York.
Ever consider that I don't want to post my opinions online for all the world to see considering I'm a speaker for IEEE and ACM, as well as a professional computer science educator?
This is fucking weird. I just bought Capcom Vs. SNK2: EO for Xbox from a used movie store. It's an *amazing* game that brings back memories of all the SNK characters of yore.
I'm so into SNK now that I'm kind of becoming a collector *sigh*. Yes I know, how American of me, collect and buy and stock up, but I have so much fun with the SNK characters and reminiscing. In fact, I found the original game artwork pulled from a dedicated POW machine on eBay in an auction. I may buy it. It includes the complete control panel, monitor bezel, and marquee, all in great condition.
Anyway, sorry to ramble, I'm just totally into SNK, and this article was excellent.
... the OS X system is just so fucking sweet though. I *never* thought I'd enjoy it, but a student got a new Mac notebook when OS X was first introduced, and he showed me how he organized his iCal and Outlook to keep track of homework, labs, and projects, and how he could open a native terminal window and do things like ls -R | grep filename and search his system for files.
Well, needless to say, I feel in love. Things like the recent introduction of iTunes and a better browser only make the deal sweeter.
Sure, the hardware's pricier and maybe a bit modern art-deco for my tastes, but as much as I love Linux, I can't imagine running it instead of OS X on my laptop.
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Everyone was uber-patriotic and wanting to kill any Middle Eastern man who looked at them wrong.
There was actually not much debate in Congress. The Patriot Act passed through very easily. The only problem was that it takes away our checks and balances system of government, which is part of what makes American such a great country.
Don't trust me, though. Read what one website said: "The FBI can now access your most private medical records, your library records, and your student records... and can prevent anyone from telling you it was done.
The Department of Justice is expected to introduce a sequel, dubbed PATRIOT II, that would further erode key freedoms and liberties of every America.
The Patriot Act is the worst thing I've seen in 40+ years of living in the USA.
It DESTROYS our privacy rights.
Nearly 15 years after the fact, Microsoft finally gets around to acknowledging that they're not the only people in the world who know how to craft a set of operating system libraries.
And, judging by their latest code release, I'd say the quality of code tends to be a bit higher in the BSDs and Linuxes versus the "fuck shit HACKHACKHACK!" that you find in code coming from Redmond.
Leave it to big business government corporate interests to come together in the name of:
- Slowing down technology innovation
- Inhibiting more technological innovation through excessive taxation and legislations
- Trying to play daddy and take care of its citizens like we're total imbasoles
No thanks. I'll stick with free, open-standard technologies like TCP/IP, Linux, etc.
I have a serious question though: has anything ever NOT been ruined by standardization/regulation?
Let's see, I'd say the handful of boxed releases I bought from them at $50 a piece helped a bit. I guess not as much as I thought though.
Hehe. Um, you're wrong. Even Larry the Cow knows that Gentoo's a real authentic distribution!
From their site at gentoo.org:
"We produce Gentoo Linux, a special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme performance, configurability and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.
Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo Linux can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution or something else -- whatever you need it to be. Because of its near-unlimited adaptability, we call Gentoo Linux a metadistribution."
It's just not the same now that they ditched us desktop Linux users.
Now their main business is selling overpriced licenses for their "enterprise" Linux distribution, which really isn't all that much more bulletproof than most Linux kernels/applications out there.
Sure, I love Linux, but I think the tides may turn away from Red Hat. Gentoo anyone?
Here are some basic facts about lenses:
Lenses have curved surfaces, or a very large number of flat surfaces located at slightly different angles. (i.e., Fresnel lens)
Converging lenses (positive lenses) are thicker at the centre than at the edges.
Diverging lenses (negative lenses) are thicker at the edges than at the centre.
The optical centre of the lens is located at its geometric centre.
The principal axis is a construction line drawn perpendicular to the lens, through the optical centre.
Rays parallel to the principal axis will converge when passing through a converging lens, and diverge when passing through a diverging lens.
The principal focus (F) is a point on the principal axis where light comes to a focus (for a converging lens) or appears to be diverging from (for a diverging lens). Two foci exist, equidistant on either side of the lens, since light behaves the same way when travelling in either direction (Principle of Reversibility). The two foci, F and F' are called the primary principal focus and the secondary principal focus, respectively. F, sometimes also referred to as the primary focal point, is shown on the right side of a converging lens, and on the left side of a diverging lens, while F', the secondary focal point is shown on the opposite side of each respective lens.)
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Guys like me warned anyone who would listen. Most operating systems in use today by home PC users are utter crap. I always love speaking about computer security because it's just so fucking important.
But I can't help but feel helpless. Virus writers will get bored again and write another killer virus. These fucking viruses can easily invade Windows PCs and then use them to attack other machines. I don't blame the virus writers -- it's just a hobby. I blame people who LOAD the viruses!
We need firewall education. We need anti-virus education. We need fucking stricter email controls.
I hate myself for saying this, but let's stop being so fucking naive. Windows is a security nightmare and it practically invites viruses in. But most people use Windows, even though there are two families of computers that are much safer -- Apple's OS 10 and the many types of Linux machines. Microsoft has a grip on the PC market by the balls that even the government can't shake loose, and so, like the family that's stuck with an unwanted brother-in-law, we're stuck with Microsoft's Windows and its many frailties.
So stop blaming the virus writers. It's not their fault. It's YOUR fault. By that I mean your friends and family and co-workers need to be education -- and by YOU if no one else will do it. Tell them Windows is a piece of fucking shit, but also SHOW THEM how to avoid viruses. You can't just talk crap and then do nothing. It's more effective to suggest alternatives and best-practices(TM).
Computer security is in a poor state of affairs, but (relative) geniuses like us can help things. We really can. Just put Linux down for a fucking second (yes, it's better than Windows) and show your mom how to avoid catching viruses.
If you have a fairly advanced toolset of software knowledge, you can download YahooPOPs! over on the SoresForge page.
What is it? Well, YahooPOPs! is an open-source initiative to provide free POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! E-mail accounts. It works in both Windoze and Unix.
What it does is emulate a POP3/SMTP server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, IncrediMail, Calypso, etc., to DOWNLOAD AND SEND emails from Yahoo! accounts.
It's amazing, bro. I had NO idea it'd even work. I had to download it to believe it. There are also other similar programs out there for MSN, Lycos, etc.
No self-respecting webmail user should be WITHOUT it.
I have written several apps that use it. I honestly think it's the best or at least second best (behind the BSD license).
Use the GPL -- it's there, it's already done, and it saves our money as taxpayers.
I have NO REGRETS about paying to subscribe to Slashdot and the New York Times.
The extra features I get as a Slashdot subscriber are well worth the cost, and getting the Times news fresh every morning with my cup of coffee is unbeatable. I love their fresh angle on each news story, and really appreciate the Editorials page.
Count me in, America - I'm a happy online news subscriber - and lovin' it!
It's not because Linux is somehow inferior or less secure, but because the result of the how popular Linux has become in the server world and all these ex-Windows admins who know jack shit about Linux trying to admin Linux servers.
God, people, read the fucking quote by DK Matai (mi2g chairman):
"The swift adoption of Linux last year within the online government and non-government server community, coupled with inadequate training and knowledge on how to keep that environment secure when running vulnerable third party applications, has contributed to a consistently higher proportion of compromised Linux servers."
In other words, it's the administrators, stupid -- BSD is no more secure than Linux!
Nah, one's always between your sister's thighs (-;
"The typing on the keyboard takes about a year."
Am I the only one surprised that professional writers don't utilize voice recognition software? (Especially Mr. Gibson, since I doubt he runs Linux or any OS that doesn't support speech-to-text software.)
Please include one sentence, Timothy, mentioning this is not REAL per se, it's just an illustration.
Otherwise it's very deceiving.
Within 5 years, I predict that most machines will use RAM memory for all system storage. A backup power system will be required, but system speeds will go through the roof due to faster data access times.
Hard drives fail and are slow as hell. They are the bottlenecks in 99% of today's systems. That will change soon, thanks in part to Intel and AMD.
ing... you CANNOT thwart technology.
We will overcome. We will adapt. We will survive. Look at P2P.
Remember back how during the .com boom, people always invested in the stocks that were gaining the most? Well, just because something gains quickly doesn't mean it's truly valuable.
.com-style campaign. All the fucking momentum is gone. And momentum followers in the hippie crowd have jumped ship to Kerry, or the ultimate 9/11-spawned momentum man, President W. Bush.
Howard R. Dean's campaign is no longer a
If Dean doesn't make legit promises now, he's going to lose. The campaign will die. He will die inside. Many will mourn the loss of the only non-special interest candidate.
Granted, I'm a computer science professor, but I've taken many an econ and poly sci class; what we're seeing in campaign 2004 is not uncommon, and has happened before.
So don't blame anything or anyone for Dean's limp cock campaign but Dean himself. It's not spam. It's his fault, and I feel bad for him because he's fairly cute and seems nice and suitable.
At least this is IMPORTANT spam. Granted, it's still spam, but the fate of our great country depends on it.
I call on all Americans to not write spam filters for this. We should read what our candidates have to say.
I love my country more than anything else, and want this 2004 election to truly make a differences.
And a fucking damn good one at that. But that being said, when I first read "Georgia", I thought of the country near Russia (info).
I ask that you please say "US state of Georgia" or something similar next time to make things clearer for those of us who are international.
If you bothered to look up my username here, you'd see it's the name of my favourite character in Gangs of New York.
Ever consider that I don't want to post my opinions online for all the world to see considering I'm a speaker for IEEE and ACM, as well as a professional computer science educator?
Get a life you fucking dick.
This is fucking weird. I just bought Capcom Vs. SNK2: EO for Xbox from a used movie store. It's an *amazing* game that brings back memories of all the SNK characters of yore.
I'm so into SNK now that I'm kind of becoming a collector *sigh*. Yes I know, how American of me, collect and buy and stock up, but I have so much fun with the SNK characters and reminiscing. In fact, I found the original game artwork pulled from a dedicated POW machine on eBay in an auction. I may buy it. It includes the complete control panel, monitor bezel, and marquee, all in great condition.
Anyway, sorry to ramble, I'm just totally into SNK, and this article was excellent.
I don't know, I don't use iCal.
... the OS X system is just so fucking sweet though. I *never* thought I'd enjoy it, but a student got a new Mac notebook when OS X was first introduced, and he showed me how he organized his iCal and Outlook to keep track of homework, labs, and projects, and how he could open a native terminal window and do things like ls -R | grep filename and search his system for files.
Well, needless to say, I feel in love. Things like the recent introduction of iTunes and a better browser only make the deal sweeter.
Sure, the hardware's pricier and maybe a bit modern art-deco for my tastes, but as much as I love Linux, I can't imagine running it instead of OS X on my laptop.
Even Robin Malda uses OS X!