Are you just being stupid, or do you actually have evidence of that? I'm guessing you're just stupid (or, maybe a troll - either way, you're fortunate because I just wrote a quick reference guide for stupid people in my journal), but I'll play along anyway. At the office here, we have a high rate of theft in the actual office spaces where management and administration work. Theft in each of our warehousing, shipping, customer service, and fulfillment areas is lower (customer service being the highest of the group) than in the offices, even though approximately 65% of the company's employees are concentrated in these areas. The remaining 35% ("white-collar" groups) accounts for almost the SAME total amount of theft as all the other areas combined.
The highest dollar amount of petty theft per employee in any group (unless they're totally incompetent morons and keep on losing all their office supplies and whatnot) appears to come from..... drum roll please...
The executive offices.
In fact, somebody from the executive office STOLE A COUCH out of the lobby. They were "borrowing it" for some clients they were entertaining that weekend.
They were not schedule to meet with any clients.
They never did "get around to" bringing the couch back.
At my last job, I worked in retail. Theft on the retail floor was almost unheard of, and when it was heard of, some sales/stock clerk was losing their job for it. Hearing about people (or, seeing it, in my case) coming into departments from the executive offices and helping themselves to shoes, clothing, and even jewelery was not. We didn't sell electronics where I worked, but I've no doubt people got some very, very nicely priced TVs, stereos, and more in the stores that did.
Care to counter with your own experiences or evidence, or are you just talking out your ass?
1337 speak isn't a big deal. It's definitely filterable.
I've begun seeing chunks of text appearing in messages that are like legitimate mini-messages in and of themselves. Sort of like a counter weight. I don't think the aim is to pound Spam through the filters now, because what's happening is spam is getting slightly lower ratings each time while legitimate messages are getting slightly higher ratings.
In other words, the spam probably won't ever be legitimate, but it's making me lower my threshold for what is spam more and more. Eventually, I'll get to the point where some legit messages will cross over into being labeled as spam and spam will go through legit because the thresholds will be so close together as to practically overlap. It's also killing my ability to keep a spam trap that I can use to quickly train filters.
Whether this scene will actually play out and the "plot" will be succesful or not remains to be seen, however.
Ha! ha! You're so smart that I'll bet you're an Anonymous Structural Engineer! In fact, it's obvious since you're so smart that you conveniently missed an entire sentence while your powerful brain parsed the contents of my post:
Ok, so maybe that didn't really happen.
The only question that remains, I suppose, is which one of us is the idiot being trolled by the other. I vote you for idiot since you can't even read a post the whole way through without spasmodically hitting Reply to share your incredible insight and intellect. Tell me, does Slashdot rot people's brains, or were you stupid BEFORE you posted here?
Umm... actually, wouldn't an all-lead fallout shelter big enough to contain a human being's sleeping quarters and necessary survival tools, food, etc. be a large enough quantity of lead to pose a significantly dangerous threat from radiation? IIRC, lead in large quantities is a fairly dangerous radioactive substance to hang around.
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Somewhere, long, long ago, architects were sitting around talking about this huge, incredible building that would be a real monument to captalism and a center for world trade.
Someone said "wait... what if something smacks into it? If it hit it hard and high enough, the impact could severe the support in the building and bring enough material down fast enough that the rest of the structure would implode. That's a lot of steel and concrete falling an awful long way!"
And someone said "That's a worry for another day. Let's build it first and think about that later."
Ok, so maybe that didn't really happen. But the point remains - you'd need to plan for ANY eventuality. Rogue airplane or stray meteorite, I'm sure there's SOMETHING that could break it.
Of course, as others have mentioned, the whiplike structure of it would either burn up on entry or it would just float to the ground over a wide area (mainly ocean) so it wouldn't be much of a threat.
The point still stands though - it's not a good idea to "think about it later" when you're dealing with something this expensive and important.
Is it just me, or does it seem like every time we saw back-peddaling or inaction from SCO on some assinine demand it's because Novell beat the slop out of them with "Section 4.16(b)" of thier software agreement on UNIX licensing?
They even cracked SCO upside the head on behalf of IBM once or twice about SVRX licensing.
You're obviously not accustomed to the arbitrary, uninformed outrage expressed by the typical U.S. muttonhead... er... citizen.
We've got people screaming bloody murder about "frankenfood" who learned everything they know about genetics from "The Hulk" and "Spiderman". They SHOULD be screaming for studies, they ARE screaming for a ban.
I'd be surprised if someone DOESN'T try to outlaw this or classify it as a military weapon or something similarly idiotic. "Somebody think of the children!" they'll scream as kids keep shining laser pointers in each others' eyes as a "joke".
There might be little guys that offer it in the short term, but it wouldn't take long for Pfizer et. al. to swoop in and mop the scene with a "New and Improved" version just for the sake of killing the little supplier to keep them from becoming a big, competing supplier. Once the little supplier is dead, they can the "New and Improved" version and nobody else has the guts to come stomping on that territory again.
It's the same general principle as a big, rich company setting up a crappy lean-to next to an existing gas station, then undercutting the price until you're both losing money on each sale. Eventually, if you have the cash reserves to survive the profit loss on sale and the other guy doesn't, the other guy dies off because he absolutely cannot cut his price any lower (and people are buying from you because you still have the lower price) and you tear down your lean-to and leave.
Aren't there certain bacteria that can survive the long, harsh trip through space? What if they were attached since liftoff, survived the trip through space, survived the burn in the thin atmosphere, and wound up being deposited in a somewhat moist area? Even if there wasn't MUCH water, if there was SOME water, they could, in theory, manage to survive slightly under the surface. Even the tiniest petri dish could wind up with a breeding ground for life on Mars and so long as there's some atmosphere to contain the water and the gases emitted by the bacteria, it could be a spark for future life on Mars.
Sorry if I'm rambling illogically. I'm not well versed in the Martian atmosphere, so feel free to shoot my naive, young hopes down if I'm totally out in left field.
So because I don't believe in your idea of wealth-redistribution I'm a bigot?
No, THAT post proved that your an elitist bigot AND it proved you're an idiot since I never said anything about anything close to "wealth-redistrution" in the vein that you seem to be suggesting with your insolent post.
Seriously, non-troll for a minute - how do you propose we "deal with" people who are born mentally retarded? Should we execute them? How about people who WERE working their asses off when a mine collapsed on them and left them permanently immobilized so you could have lights and heat? Leave them to die in the cold and the dark? What bitter irony.
There's one extreme where you have total assholes abusing the welfare system because they're lazy pricks, but they're not the majority. Of course, there's the other extreme where you have greedy assholes cutting huge swaths through the labor market so they can buy a second, third, or fourth house in the mountains and a nice new Carrera to get there.
Oh wait. I forgot. Rich people that abuse the system for their own personal greed aren't abusing the system, just poor people on welfare.
There is no "welfare state". Lazy ignoramouses will always be around to abuse any system you set up, but that's no excuse for cutting people who are unable to work out of the loop through no fault of their own. And, I don't know you, so I'm not really going to pass any judgement on how "hard" you worked, but I'm willing to bet that, given the average "hard work" of the typical employed moron in this country these days, the odds are strongly stacked such that you have NO CLUE what hard work is and you've never come in even the remotest contact with it. Maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt it. Odds are better you're just a blowhard and you have no concept of REASONABLE human compassion. Forking out money to people who are just plain lazy or flat out communism is one thing. Supporting people who CAN'T do it for themselves out of basic decency is another. If you believe otherwise, all I can say is, I hope nobody ever has to rely on YOU for anything and I sure pity any family you may have to support. They're in for a rude awakening if you really believe that and the day comes that you find yourself unemployed and left behind by progress.
Thank you. Your outpouring of sympathy and concern for other people and their decisions is an uplifting testament to just how...
...pathetically fucking self-centered the average asshole is on this planet.
I wish people like you would feel the abuse of unnecessary, arbitrary majority decision for once. Maybe if you understood what it meant to be told "No, sorry - we have plenty of resources to help you at this time without any significant drawbacks, but you're unpopular little stance hasn't been budgeted for because our majority population would like to raise its GDP by.00000000012% next year." you wouldn't be so quick to assume that any money not spent on you is a waste. You're not the only person on the planet and there's nothing wrong with being nice and supporting something the majority doesn't necessarily benefit from "just because". If they're abusing the money, fine. If they're just accepting it so they can live their own lives their own way, just shut up and stop whining about all these perceived "leeches" that are sucking from you hard working folks. This position is reinforced further by the likelihood that you've never even visited the island so you undoubtedly have NO how they live or what they do for work.
Maybe you ought to go back to kicking homeless people to alleviate your outrage at the "dredge" of society instead of posting your bigoted viewpoints on Slashdot. Not everything is as black and white as you made it appear.
Come on, admit it, you just wanted to say "The Americans are threatening the local people!" The entire nation of America is threatening them?
I love it when people like you open your mouths. You don't seem to realize that your thought processes aren't magically shared by everybody else and you comment on things based on how you used your own personal insecurities, biases, preferences, and prejudices to read the statement.
Why so defensive on the "Americans" comment? A cursory glance at the linked document tells me that three of four individuals involved are, indeed, Americans abusing the.nu top-level domain for their own greedy ends and have, in effect, stolen it from these people. I read the grandparent post as "the Americans involved" and you seem to have read it as "all American citizens".
The thought that every American citizen might support this abusive behavior if they knew about it never even occurred to me. Yet, it's apparently the first thing that occurred to you. I have to wonder, why? Do you have so little faith in the American public that you think that all of them, or, even a significant number of them would support this behavior?
Or, to put it another way, if you're going to jump to conclusions and word them such that they suggest some fear of an entire group of people, maybe you ought to stop and consider who is the one harboring the prejudice - you, or the person you're responding to?
IBM is looking out for itself, yes, but it's also looking out for the source of one of its business arms that it apparently feels has a potentially strong future - Linux.
If you have some skill I need, it behooves me to look out for you even if I don't care about you. Of course, we're hoping that IBM is in this to nurture and grow Linux rather than just exploit it. But, either way, they're still looking out for Linux AS WELL AS themselves.
"Apache" is misleading. "Apache" is the group that makes "Apache httpd" (Apache HTTP Daemon). This is typically just called "Apache" because it is, by far, the most popular offering from the group and because there was already an httpd on *nix systems. Calling it Apache avoids confusing the Apache HTTP Server and the NCSA HTTP Server, but at the expense of confusing the Apache HTTP Server with all the other Apache offerings like Ant and James.
The mail server, Ant, all that other stuff are totally separate daemons and you have to actively add them to your system. IIS is just sort of, well, everything. You can shut all that extra crap down in IIS once you get it up, but it can be a real hassle sometimes.
That's the typical difference between Windows and *nix systems though. *nix gives you a box of tools and says "build a house with whatever you want in it" and Windows gives you a house with everything in it and says "tear down whatever parts you don't want". Alas... I find the latter manner to be a much bigger long term hassle even though it takes longer to build your own house.
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Alright - let's have it! Where are they hiding all the exploits? They obviously have waaaayyyyy more since viruses and exploits are dependant on popularity, not how well the software is engineered. Since Apache is kicking IIS's scraggly ass all over the 'net, it must have more exploits, right? No? Oh? So all those people that keep saying Windows suffers so much are admitting they're wrong?
Oh, that's right. IIS is also an FTP server, mail server, dinner server, and a cheauffer that takes your wife out on dates then screws her in your bed while you're out of town on business.....
... whoops.. sorry, go a little carried away there. Seriously - face it, that's a flaw. If the software wants to do everything, and, by doing everything, fails, it still failed, AND it failed BECAUSE it does everything. That means the Apache software is a better engineered web server and IIS is, well, a load of crap.
Sorry... a little bitter. If you've ever had to administer that horrendous piece of garbage IIS you'd understand. I think, perhaps, the reason Apache is whooping up on IIS is that IIS is so ludicrously twitchy and convoluted. Normally, I'd say point and clicky interfaces are easier to manage, but god... setting something up in IIS that's not set up by default can result in tremendously time-wasting efforts searching through numerous, poorly labeled, badly designed interfaces. Apache? Whip out a reference book, type in a few lines, and you're done. Even if you have to restart the system, it's not much hassle. I've NEVER managed to shut down IIS and bring it back up on Win2k where it didn't stop responding and, eventually, chew up all the resources on the box forcing a hard reboot of the whole system. That pisses off SQL Server which then fucks up the TrendMicro stuff... Ick.
Long story short? IIS sucks and few (smart) people debate that whether they're pro-Microsoft, pro-*nix, pro-Mac, or, smarter than any of them pro-whatever-works.
Speaking of encyrption and the ridiculous fight with the government over it, this is a good time to introduce someone to all the young bucks around here who may have never heard of him - D. J. Bernstein at cr.yp.to
I keep clicking that link to the encryption section, but the case is never resolved. He's doing a lot of important stuff in the arena of encryption and the government's reaction to it, and I encourage everyone to follow along with it.
That's because you and everyone who participated all got modded down to -1, (Nucking Futs) and you're not browsing at a low enough threshold.
Seriously though. Show me some real evidence, not just the archaic ramblings of any random looney tune on the Network, and I'll think the "Illuminati" really is some secret organization and not just a funny conspiracy theory that explains the clearly out of control system of blatant deception and incompetence that doesn't need a mask because people are too stupid to care about it anyway.
The "Illuminati" doesn't need to hide, and it certainly doesn't need a silly name like that or funny eyeballs or secret headquarters and meetings. The People of the United States are so braindead thanks to "media" conjecture, loaded polls, and hair-brained rumors about "ter'rists", "the economy, stupid", and the latest bogus Super Diseases that they're too fried to critcally analyze anything anyone says. As a result, they take any assinine comment out of the President's mouth or any ridiculous load of steaming horseshit that Brokaw reads, or whatever moronic headline they see in the Washington Post as gospel. You don't need to hide from people who would just as soon make excuses for your stupidity, crooked dealings, and lies as challenge you on them.
Or, to put it another way, how do a make a bunch of foolish people realize that they are, in fact, being led by fools, and what makes you think the fools doing the leading need to hide from their incompetent followers?
Funny thing about campaign promises that aren't on totally neutral ground... they have a nasty tendency of vanishing into thin air. Let's go dig up campaign promises for Bush from his last bid and see how many came to fruition. Then Clinton, then Bush Sr., then Reagan, then Carter, then Ford, then Nixon, then Johnson, then... well, I can't remember who was before Johnson. I'd love to see it happen, but let's be realistic. When the money's on the way and nobody else can stonewall it any further, THEN I'll cheer. Right now it's just a vague promise without a plan. Nice to see someone bring the idea to the foreground, but, I'll save the glee and mirth and all that for when there's actually a plan and money. Besides, NASA has big internal problems that need fixed before something as complicated as a Human Mars shot or a sustained moon mission can occur.
And yes, I'm aware that Ford didn't have any campaign promises, I just didn't want to break my rythm.
Bush hopes to spark a renewed public interest in space exploration.
Bush hopes to spark renewed public interest in his re-election campaign....
It's campaign season, folks. I'd love to see it happen, but let's save the Huzzahs! until it actually does, hmm?
...Bush wants to aggressively reinvigorate the space program, which has been demoralized by a series of setbacks, including the space shuttle disaster last February that killed seven astronauts.
Funding and realistic goals. Reusable craft and cheaper delivery methods to space and blah blah blah. You know the drill.
Or, we could just throw money at the problem and pretend it will go away that way. Actually, I'll chip in to a fund for an X-Ray machine for the NASA managers' and directors' skulls in case someone's actually looking for the source of the "setbacks".
He'll lose his position eventually. If it takes eight years to toss him, it'll take eight years. The problem isn't that ONE person is a dictator.
The problem is that the entire political system has been corrupted at the roots all the way to the top of the tree. So, when this kook and his cronies and the current inept morons at each level of government are gone, they'll be replaced by a whole new set of gibbering morons and self-indulgent puppets.
Yes, it's Democracy. Yes, it's a republic. But, what's the point when you're choices always boil down to dumb, dumber, or dumbest?
If this goes on much longer, that is, if the American populace doesn't start demanding accountability from it's own government, the only solution will eventually be to rip the whole thing up by the roots and put an uncorrupted system back in its place. The odds of a successful transplant on that scale are, to say the least, not good.
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Oh really?
Are you just being stupid, or do you actually have evidence of that? I'm guessing you're just stupid (or, maybe a troll - either way, you're fortunate because I just wrote a quick reference guide for stupid people in my journal), but I'll play along anyway. At the office here, we have a high rate of theft in the actual office spaces where management and administration work. Theft in each of our warehousing, shipping, customer service, and fulfillment areas is lower (customer service being the highest of the group) than in the offices, even though approximately 65% of the company's employees are concentrated in these areas. The remaining 35% ("white-collar" groups) accounts for almost the SAME total amount of theft as all the other areas combined.
The highest dollar amount of petty theft per employee in any group (unless they're totally incompetent morons and keep on losing all their office supplies and whatnot) appears to come from..... drum roll please...
The executive offices.
In fact, somebody from the executive office STOLE A COUCH out of the lobby. They were "borrowing it" for some clients they were entertaining that weekend.
They were not schedule to meet with any clients.
They never did "get around to" bringing the couch back.
At my last job, I worked in retail. Theft on the retail floor was almost unheard of, and when it was heard of, some sales/stock clerk was losing their job for it. Hearing about people (or, seeing it, in my case) coming into departments from the executive offices and helping themselves to shoes, clothing, and even jewelery was not. We didn't sell electronics where I worked, but I've no doubt people got some very, very nicely priced TVs, stereos, and more in the stores that did.
Care to counter with your own experiences or evidence, or are you just talking out your ass?
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1337 speak isn't a big deal. It's definitely filterable.
I've begun seeing chunks of text appearing in messages that are like legitimate mini-messages in and of themselves. Sort of like a counter weight. I don't think the aim is to pound Spam through the filters now, because what's happening is spam is getting slightly lower ratings each time while legitimate messages are getting slightly higher ratings.
In other words, the spam probably won't ever be legitimate, but it's making me lower my threshold for what is spam more and more. Eventually, I'll get to the point where some legit messages will cross over into being labeled as spam and spam will go through legit because the thresholds will be so close together as to practically overlap. It's also killing my ability to keep a spam trap that I can use to quickly train filters.
Whether this scene will actually play out and the "plot" will be succesful or not remains to be seen, however.
Ha! ha! You're so smart that I'll bet you're an Anonymous Structural Engineer! In fact, it's obvious since you're so smart that you conveniently missed an entire sentence while your powerful brain parsed the contents of my post:
Ok, so maybe that didn't really happen.
The only question that remains, I suppose, is which one of us is the idiot being trolled by the other. I vote you for idiot since you can't even read a post the whole way through without spasmodically hitting Reply to share your incredible insight and intellect. Tell me, does Slashdot rot people's brains, or were you stupid BEFORE you posted here?
Moron.
Umm... actually, wouldn't an all-lead fallout shelter big enough to contain a human being's sleeping quarters and necessary survival tools, food, etc. be a large enough quantity of lead to pose a significantly dangerous threat from radiation? IIRC, lead in large quantities is a fairly dangerous radioactive substance to hang around.
Somewhere, long, long ago, architects were sitting around talking about this huge, incredible building that would be a real monument to captalism and a center for world trade.
Someone said "wait... what if something smacks into it? If it hit it hard and high enough, the impact could severe the support in the building and bring enough material down fast enough that the rest of the structure would implode. That's a lot of steel and concrete falling an awful long way!"
And someone said "That's a worry for another day. Let's build it first and think about that later."
Ok, so maybe that didn't really happen. But the point remains - you'd need to plan for ANY eventuality. Rogue airplane or stray meteorite, I'm sure there's SOMETHING that could break it.
Of course, as others have mentioned, the whiplike structure of it would either burn up on entry or it would just float to the ground over a wide area (mainly ocean) so it wouldn't be much of a threat.
The point still stands though - it's not a good idea to "think about it later" when you're dealing with something this expensive and important.
Is it just me, or does it seem like every time we saw back-peddaling or inaction from SCO on some assinine demand it's because Novell beat the slop out of them with "Section 4.16(b)" of thier software agreement on UNIX licensing?
They even cracked SCO upside the head on behalf of IBM once or twice about SVRX licensing.
Doh! Sulphur.. yes... duh. That's what I would've been thinking if I wasn't thinking the wrong thing.
If it can't yet slice through a block of cheese, then it's hardly a cheese slicer, is it?
I don't think "Cheese Mangler" has the same appeal.
You're obviously not accustomed to the arbitrary, uninformed outrage expressed by the typical U.S. muttonhead... er... citizen.
We've got people screaming bloody murder about "frankenfood" who learned everything they know about genetics from "The Hulk" and "Spiderman". They SHOULD be screaming for studies, they ARE screaming for a ban.
I'd be surprised if someone DOESN'T try to outlaw this or classify it as a military weapon or something similarly idiotic. "Somebody think of the children!" they'll scream as kids keep shining laser pointers in each others' eyes as a "joke".
Nitrogen, probably.
There might be little guys that offer it in the short term, but it wouldn't take long for Pfizer et. al. to swoop in and mop the scene with a "New and Improved" version just for the sake of killing the little supplier to keep them from becoming a big, competing supplier. Once the little supplier is dead, they can the "New and Improved" version and nobody else has the guts to come stomping on that territory again.
It's the same general principle as a big, rich company setting up a crappy lean-to next to an existing gas station, then undercutting the price until you're both losing money on each sale. Eventually, if you have the cash reserves to survive the profit loss on sale and the other guy doesn't, the other guy dies off because he absolutely cannot cut his price any lower (and people are buying from you because you still have the lower price) and you tear down your lean-to and leave.
Aren't there certain bacteria that can survive the long, harsh trip through space? What if they were attached since liftoff, survived the trip through space, survived the burn in the thin atmosphere, and wound up being deposited in a somewhat moist area? Even if there wasn't MUCH water, if there was SOME water, they could, in theory, manage to survive slightly under the surface. Even the tiniest petri dish could wind up with a breeding ground for life on Mars and so long as there's some atmosphere to contain the water and the gases emitted by the bacteria, it could be a spark for future life on Mars.
Sorry if I'm rambling illogically. I'm not well versed in the Martian atmosphere, so feel free to shoot my naive, young hopes down if I'm totally out in left field.
So because I don't believe in your idea of wealth-redistribution I'm a bigot?
No, THAT post proved that your an elitist bigot AND it proved you're an idiot since I never said anything about anything close to "wealth-redistrution" in the vein that you seem to be suggesting with your insolent post.
Seriously, non-troll for a minute - how do you propose we "deal with" people who are born mentally retarded? Should we execute them? How about people who WERE working their asses off when a mine collapsed on them and left them permanently immobilized so you could have lights and heat? Leave them to die in the cold and the dark? What bitter irony.
There's one extreme where you have total assholes abusing the welfare system because they're lazy pricks, but they're not the majority. Of course, there's the other extreme where you have greedy assholes cutting huge swaths through the labor market so they can buy a second, third, or fourth house in the mountains and a nice new Carrera to get there.
Oh wait. I forgot. Rich people that abuse the system for their own personal greed aren't abusing the system, just poor people on welfare.
There is no "welfare state". Lazy ignoramouses will always be around to abuse any system you set up, but that's no excuse for cutting people who are unable to work out of the loop through no fault of their own. And, I don't know you, so I'm not really going to pass any judgement on how "hard" you worked, but I'm willing to bet that, given the average "hard work" of the typical employed moron in this country these days, the odds are strongly stacked such that you have NO CLUE what hard work is and you've never come in even the remotest contact with it. Maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt it. Odds are better you're just a blowhard and you have no concept of REASONABLE human compassion. Forking out money to people who are just plain lazy or flat out communism is one thing. Supporting people who CAN'T do it for themselves out of basic decency is another. If you believe otherwise, all I can say is, I hope nobody ever has to rely on YOU for anything and I sure pity any family you may have to support. They're in for a rude awakening if you really believe that and the day comes that you find yourself unemployed and left behind by progress.
Thank you. Your outpouring of sympathy and concern for other people and their decisions is an uplifting testament to just how...
...pathetically fucking self-centered the average asshole is on this planet.
I wish people like you would feel the abuse of unnecessary, arbitrary majority decision for once. Maybe if you understood what it meant to be told "No, sorry - we have plenty of resources to help you at this time without any significant drawbacks, but you're unpopular little stance hasn't been budgeted for because our majority population would like to raise its GDP by .00000000012% next year." you wouldn't be so quick to assume that any money not spent on you is a waste. You're not the only person on the planet and there's nothing wrong with being nice and supporting something the majority doesn't necessarily benefit from "just because". If they're abusing the money, fine. If they're just accepting it so they can live their own lives their own way, just shut up and stop whining about all these perceived "leeches" that are sucking from you hard working folks. This position is reinforced further by the likelihood that you've never even visited the island so you undoubtedly have NO how they live or what they do for work.
Maybe you ought to go back to kicking homeless people to alleviate your outrage at the "dredge" of society instead of posting your bigoted viewpoints on Slashdot. Not everything is as black and white as you made it appear.
Let the troll mods fly....
Come on, admit it, you just wanted to say "The Americans are threatening the local people!" The entire nation of America is threatening them?
I love it when people like you open your mouths. You don't seem to realize that your thought processes aren't magically shared by everybody else and you comment on things based on how you used your own personal insecurities, biases, preferences, and prejudices to read the statement.
Why so defensive on the "Americans" comment? A cursory glance at the linked document tells me that three of four individuals involved are, indeed, Americans abusing the .nu top-level domain for their own greedy ends and have, in effect, stolen it from these people. I read the grandparent post as "the Americans involved" and you seem to have read it as "all American citizens".
The thought that every American citizen might support this abusive behavior if they knew about it never even occurred to me. Yet, it's apparently the first thing that occurred to you. I have to wonder, why? Do you have so little faith in the American public that you think that all of them, or, even a significant number of them would support this behavior?
Or, to put it another way, if you're going to jump to conclusions and word them such that they suggest some fear of an entire group of people, maybe you ought to stop and consider who is the one harboring the prejudice - you, or the person you're responding to?
You are, of course, totally wrong.
IBM is looking out for itself, yes, but it's also looking out for the source of one of its business arms that it apparently feels has a potentially strong future - Linux.
If you have some skill I need, it behooves me to look out for you even if I don't care about you. Of course, we're hoping that IBM is in this to nurture and grow Linux rather than just exploit it. But, either way, they're still looking out for Linux AS WELL AS themselves.
"Apache" is misleading. "Apache" is the group that makes "Apache httpd" (Apache HTTP Daemon). This is typically just called "Apache" because it is, by far, the most popular offering from the group and because there was already an httpd on *nix systems. Calling it Apache avoids confusing the Apache HTTP Server and the NCSA HTTP Server, but at the expense of confusing the Apache HTTP Server with all the other Apache offerings like Ant and James.
The mail server, Ant, all that other stuff are totally separate daemons and you have to actively add them to your system. IIS is just sort of, well, everything. You can shut all that extra crap down in IIS once you get it up, but it can be a real hassle sometimes.
That's the typical difference between Windows and *nix systems though. *nix gives you a box of tools and says "build a house with whatever you want in it" and Windows gives you a house with everything in it and says "tear down whatever parts you don't want". Alas... I find the latter manner to be a much bigger long term hassle even though it takes longer to build your own house.
Alright - let's have it! Where are they hiding all the exploits? They obviously have waaaayyyyy more since viruses and exploits are dependant on popularity, not how well the software is engineered. Since Apache is kicking IIS's scraggly ass all over the 'net, it must have more exploits, right? No? Oh? So all those people that keep saying Windows suffers so much are admitting they're wrong?
Oh, that's right. IIS is also an FTP server, mail server, dinner server, and a cheauffer that takes your wife out on dates then screws her in your bed while you're out of town on business.....
... whoops.. sorry, go a little carried away there. Seriously - face it, that's a flaw. If the software wants to do everything, and, by doing everything, fails, it still failed, AND it failed BECAUSE it does everything. That means the Apache software is a better engineered web server and IIS is, well, a load of crap.
Sorry... a little bitter. If you've ever had to administer that horrendous piece of garbage IIS you'd understand. I think, perhaps, the reason Apache is whooping up on IIS is that IIS is so ludicrously twitchy and convoluted. Normally, I'd say point and clicky interfaces are easier to manage, but god... setting something up in IIS that's not set up by default can result in tremendously time-wasting efforts searching through numerous, poorly labeled, badly designed interfaces. Apache? Whip out a reference book, type in a few lines, and you're done. Even if you have to restart the system, it's not much hassle. I've NEVER managed to shut down IIS and bring it back up on Win2k where it didn't stop responding and, eventually, chew up all the resources on the box forcing a hard reboot of the whole system. That pisses off SQL Server which then fucks up the TrendMicro stuff... Ick.
Long story short? IIS sucks and few (smart) people debate that whether they're pro-Microsoft, pro-*nix, pro-Mac, or, smarter than any of them pro-whatever-works.
Yea, that's what I meant. Thanks for clarifying. Those'll go up once the case against the government is ended.
Speaking of encyrption and the ridiculous fight with the government over it, this is a good time to introduce someone to all the young bucks around here who may have never heard of him - D. J. Bernstein at cr.yp.to
I keep clicking that link to the encryption section, but the case is never resolved. He's doing a lot of important stuff in the arena of encryption and the government's reaction to it, and I encourage everyone to follow along with it.
That's because you and everyone who participated all got modded down to -1, (Nucking Futs) and you're not browsing at a low enough threshold.
Seriously though. Show me some real evidence, not just the archaic ramblings of any random looney tune on the Network, and I'll think the "Illuminati" really is some secret organization and not just a funny conspiracy theory that explains the clearly out of control system of blatant deception and incompetence that doesn't need a mask because people are too stupid to care about it anyway.
The "Illuminati" doesn't need to hide, and it certainly doesn't need a silly name like that or funny eyeballs or secret headquarters and meetings. The People of the United States are so braindead thanks to "media" conjecture, loaded polls, and hair-brained rumors about "ter'rists", "the economy, stupid", and the latest bogus Super Diseases that they're too fried to critcally analyze anything anyone says. As a result, they take any assinine comment out of the President's mouth or any ridiculous load of steaming horseshit that Brokaw reads, or whatever moronic headline they see in the Washington Post as gospel. You don't need to hide from people who would just as soon make excuses for your stupidity, crooked dealings, and lies as challenge you on them.
Or, to put it another way, how do a make a bunch of foolish people realize that they are, in fact, being led by fools, and what makes you think the fools doing the leading need to hide from their incompetent followers?
Funny thing about campaign promises that aren't on totally neutral ground... they have a nasty tendency of vanishing into thin air. Let's go dig up campaign promises for Bush from his last bid and see how many came to fruition. Then Clinton, then Bush Sr., then Reagan, then Carter, then Ford, then Nixon, then Johnson, then... well, I can't remember who was before Johnson. I'd love to see it happen, but let's be realistic. When the money's on the way and nobody else can stonewall it any further, THEN I'll cheer. Right now it's just a vague promise without a plan. Nice to see someone bring the idea to the foreground, but, I'll save the glee and mirth and all that for when there's actually a plan and money. Besides, NASA has big internal problems that need fixed before something as complicated as a Human Mars shot or a sustained moon mission can occur.
And yes, I'm aware that Ford didn't have any campaign promises, I just didn't want to break my rythm.
Bush hopes to spark a renewed public interest in space exploration.
Bush hopes to spark renewed public interest in his re-election campaign....
It's campaign season, folks. I'd love to see it happen, but let's save the Huzzahs! until it actually does, hmm?
Funding and realistic goals. Reusable craft and cheaper delivery methods to space and blah blah blah. You know the drill.
Or, we could just throw money at the problem and pretend it will go away that way. Actually, I'll chip in to a fund for an X-Ray machine for the NASA managers' and directors' skulls in case someone's actually looking for the source of the "setbacks".
No, it's not.
He'll lose his position eventually. If it takes eight years to toss him, it'll take eight years. The problem isn't that ONE person is a dictator.
The problem is that the entire political system has been corrupted at the roots all the way to the top of the tree. So, when this kook and his cronies and the current inept morons at each level of government are gone, they'll be replaced by a whole new set of gibbering morons and self-indulgent puppets.
Yes, it's Democracy. Yes, it's a republic. But, what's the point when you're choices always boil down to dumb, dumber, or dumbest?
If this goes on much longer, that is, if the American populace doesn't start demanding accountability from it's own government, the only solution will eventually be to rip the whole thing up by the roots and put an uncorrupted system back in its place. The odds of a successful transplant on that scale are, to say the least, not good.