Actually Bin Laden came that close to being snuffed by the NSA, since they have tapes of him talking to his mother by sat-phone, while he was in Afghanistan and she was in Saudi Arabia. This is why Clinton bombed Afghanistan and Sudan using long-range cruise missiles. They missed him, too, by a few minutes, unfortunately.
Of course, last I heard, he only used trusted human couriers to deliver messages. He may be a madman, but he is a smart madman. And most of these couriers were not American, but Pakistani and Saudi citizens, and they try to be as discreet -- and "un-islamist" as possible. So the NSA domestic spying program is definitely not useful against terrorists. But remember, kids, if we can't listen to your phone, the terrorists have won!
...and this dum[pb] got moded up to 4? Interesting!
Actually the internet really isn't something that should have been funded by the MILITARY at all. It isn't really war research, offense or defense.
But it was a defense program. it was a research on how to keep the communications alive when a part of the network is destroyed by the enemy.
Weapons do not kill people, they are tools that PEOPLE use to kill people.
So long as the world is not ideal and there are theats and potential threats with weapons, the next best solution is for the good guys (good defined as those who share interests) to be strong enough that the bad guys are afraid of retaliation.
Stealth bombers can't actually be used for defense except for scaring the others for retaliation. You can have a gun to keep others from harming you, but firing the gun without being in real threat is just what makes you the bad guy.
Nonesense, only the man who uses force and loses is known as the bad guy. History shows the victor to be the good guy. Unless of course the current guy with all the guns spreads propoganda that a previous victor's known ideals conflicts with, then he miraculously becomes a bad guy who
Some of the great victors in history are taged as slayers, arrogants and looters. You really don't believe that history will make G. Bush a good guy? History is much more objective than you thing.
As for your example, you need to look a little more closely. You don't really believe that there is some innate correct 'owner' of property do you? If the man with the cannons was law enforcement coming and using their guns to confiscate your property because you broke their rules would you have the same view? Law enforcement is by definition the application of force to make others follow the rules of those who possess the power to apply force. By what right do they apply it? Simple, by right of the fact that nobody is strong enough to say otherwise.
I tried to resemple the way the US is acting (or the way it is trying to justify its actions, the real reason is the oil and world dominance), your example is an other case which doesn't resemple the same situtation. You still didn't say if you believe that the case in my example is fair.
Even a government 'by the people' is only a trick to keep the powerless in line while those with the force coax their gold from them 'gently' by passing laws. These laws generally help to insure that the those with the most gold will continue to possess the greatest force (or control of its use) and to continue to gently take the gold from the middle and lower classes.
Welcome to the real world. On every level the one with the force takes the gold and if he is wise uses it to gain more force. Even in the workplace, the business owners possess force that they use to enforce labor requirements, this allows them to essentially rob their employees of the gold they would have gotten without these requirements. They do this to the extent their force with allow. Employees form unions to develop counter-force to attempt to take more gold for themselves.
So what exactly are you trying to say, that exploitation of the weaks is right? that everybody must accept it? That this is right and nothing can be done to change it? You are so full of shit my friend.
The entire world on every level is nothing more than a power struggle. In the real world the self-less who live by ideals instead of wishing for them are just the ones that are being taken advantage of by the non-idealists. So go, work your 60 hr workweek on salary and be exploited the major stockholders who believe in the real world and base their actions upon it.
You are the one that is being exploited, you are the one that accepts the injustice, you are the one who pays taxes (in money and in blood) for your goverment to attack other nations and make the oil industry richer. After the wars in afganistan and iraq, is the price of gasoline lower? Are you feeling safer?
I really don't want iran to have nukes, but I also don't believe that the US gov is the good guy. And that's because history has shown otherwise
One example is the network that grew to become the present day internet. The internet would not exist without U.S. Defense research spending, spending that did not yield a useful result for the military at all but instead brought on an information age that will reduce the need for war in the future by increasing communication.
This is an example of a real defense program. But what kind of defense is a stealth bomber that is capable of flying half the perimetre of earth to release them?
However, as a USian I do feel it to be to our advantage to continue to maintain a military force at least large enough to face little challenge from any other nation/multi-national force. The golden rule is nice and all, but lets be honest; the man with the guns simply takes the gold.
With this kind of thinking don't expect people to like you, the man with the guns is the bad one and other people are justified to try to harm him. It is like saying that a neighbor of yours is trespassing your property because he has enough wealth and power to not care about the law enforcement. How would you feel if this neighbor had your house surounded by canons aiming it, and the moment you touch the kitchen knife shoot the place to hell because you are a propable threat to him
At this time, the US goverment is paying hundreds of thousands of soldiers that are fighting somewhere in the other side of the planet. This is certainly not a defense budget, it is more of a "We have the guns and we take the black gold".
Actually cutting the US defense budget and routing the billions...
Maybe the US like to call it a "defense" budget but it has nothing to do with defense. It should be an offense budget since this is their strategy in foreign politics. Most of those inventions are used to invade other countries or defend the friendly/cooperative regimes in the other side of the planet. The later is even more of an offensive strategy since meddling with other countries' affairs creates more foreign enemies and results in more excuses to invade an other country.
If the US weren't so dominant over the world they wouldn't have so many enemies and could do with a smaller "defense" budget.
It is how all debian based distros start/stop/restart their services (it's common in other BSD like distros). It's basic knowledge, just like elementary school is to your education
that Linux machine must have had some hardware flaw. Bad memory comes to mind...
most cases I run to is not bad hardware, it's propably some software flaw... which always comes down to bad tech support services... which is why those guys should read more slashdot...:-)
I haven't installed a Microsoft product on one of my systems in a long time, but Windows used to arbitrarily refuse to install on a system that had a partition type it didn't recognize
Well I have a dual boot system now, didn't have any trouble setting both OSs. Of course I first installed windows (just because it clears everything from the boot sector during installation, very annoying), then installed fedora with no prob at all.
I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to add some code to Windows Vista that refuses to boot if there's a "Non-Trusted" operating system on the same system.
The hell with it then, although I doubt it. Microsoft is being flamed all the time for its marketing policies. There are already countries, municipalities, academic/educational institutes that are considering an alternative based on linux, this trend will get a boost in that case.
Anyway, I'm not realy sure why I need windows installed in my system anymore. I found out that I do all my work in linux, especially after the release of OOo Writer 2.0Beta. It seems that alternatives to MS products are keep coming. And by the time Vista will be released I'd have to upgrade all my hardware to install it so maybe I'll just pass. I prefer to give my money to PS3 if I need a new gaming expirience.
What does `copied' mean? From the perspective of a storage device, the data being read and put on a CD, which is then duplicated a million times, is exactly the same as the data being read, decoded, passed through a DAC and fed into someone's ears. It seems that these constraints are either unenforceable or just plain silly.
Think that everything from the storage device through to the speakers or headphones must support hardware DRM. If any device in the sequence isn't DRM compatible it will not play. So, you can only copy it by air (place a recorder near the speaker).
Well, first of all, they didn't fail to hide the data. The data were publically available on purpose, so other scientists can make observations of their own. And secondary, Ortiz's team didn't have an idea if the same observations were made by Brown's team, because those _were_ hidden from the public.
In this case, anyway, there isn't any stolen data. Brown's log confirms that the data from the telescope were publically available and could be reached by using the common web searching methods everyone in this planet use. So they had something but others got there first, pity.
I wish I could help you more. Anyway, I never use svgalib, I had found out that it was buggy (in much older kernels, like 2.2), that or the apps that were using it. It seems totally useless to me. And another thing, don't mess linux headers with glibc headers./usr/src/linux/include and/usr/include/linux shouldn't be the same http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Kernel/usr-src-linux-sym link.html. That is unless you compiled glibc yourself, but that is something you shouldn't do in an already unstable system. Well if you did, I would suggest to go back to the package provided by your distro.
From web surfing a little and reading about the current status of kernel 2.6, I found out that most of the people complaining for stability issues were gentoo users, using 2.6 with the gentoo patches.
No kernel version can be considered stable unless it's widely tested from the world. 2.6.x.y are the more stable kernels since they 're bugfixes to 2.6.x.
Patches for bugs are incorporated in the immediate next official release, no matter what. It's the new features that are being affected by the developement process.
I agree with linus that 2.6 is stable, it seems rock solid on my systems.
And why are you forced to use 2.6. Your distro doesn't provide a package, so what? Have you tried to download and install 2.4.31 by yourself? What is exactly that you fear it will break in your distribution by installing a 2.4 kernel? You can have both 2.4 and 2.6 installed in a system anyway. Compile your kernel and configure lilo/grub, what's stoping you?
PS.
You said that your 2.6 kernel is unstable, but didn't mention the symptom. Why is it unstable? it hangs up and reboots? X just freezes? filesystem data corruption? Are you sure it's something that can't be fixed? Have you found others with the very same exact problem? Are you sure it isn't something you did wrong?
I like the 2.6 kernel over the 2.4 kernel because I can play MP3s and Oggs without skips every time I refocus the window.
I have very good reasons to believe that MP3/Ogg skips are not a kernel problem, but a set up problem.
On the down side, I'm running Ubuntu 5.04 on a Sony S270 laptop. I use the 2.6.11 when I want sound to work at all and 2.6.10 when I want my touch pad to work right. I've tried a couple of custom compiles of 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 but haven't gotten either to work right yet.
I have a Sony VGN-FS215B with Ubuntu 5.04 running 2.6.12. I use the ALSA driver (Intel HDA) for my sound card, works ok. For making the touchpad work right I had to change xorg.conf to use the correct event device (/dev/input/event3 instead of/dev/psaux). 'cat/proc/bus/input/devices' should give you a clue for which is the right device for your touchpad (You need to enable CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV). For much more information on this have a look at http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/ and for every other possible issues http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/sony.html.
2.5 wasn't stable, it's a development branch. Linus has officially declared that 2.6 is stable - if it wasn't, it should have remained 2.5 - and what we should use, and 2.4 is the legacy branch.
Sorry for my poor english, I didn't mean 2.5 was stable, I was refering to the process of having the most expiremental features added on 2.5 and keep 2.4 as stable as possible. And 2.4 is not a legacy branch, it's still being developed and most things of 2.6 (like new hardware support) are being backported to 2.4
I don't, but my distro no longer supports using 2.4.
In my company we have Debian for our servers running with 2.4 kernels. I also use Debian and Ubuntu for my desktop PCs with 2.6 kernels (so far without any stability issue). Both 2.4 kai 2.6 kernels are fully supported by my distros, non of those distros have a policy that forced me to upgrade to 2.6.
Most of the nice things of 2.6 are backported to the 2.4 series. So there isn't any reason for a distro to stop supporting 2.4 or be flamed for supporting it.
2.6 is officially the stable branch of the kernel, and distributions are flamed if they do not switch to it. As such, it should actually be stable.
Actually most of the linux servers out there are still running on 2.4, and 2.6 is recommended mostly for desktop workstations. Switching to 2.6 is not the only option, since both can be supported. I can think of a reason for a distro to be flamed if it _does stop_ supporting 2.4, but not in the other way around.
When you say that distros are flamed for not switching, flamed by who? Maybe from people like you, eager to upgrade everything to the last version because they think that this is always the right thing to do.
Maybe you should stop blaming linus for the way he chooses to develop _his_ project, and start complaining to your distro maintainers for quiting on 2.4 and shiping with an unstable 2.6.
The kernel is, for me, no longer stable with 2.6, and the obvious change to attribute this to is Linus' not branching off a 2.7 for development.
My system worked perfectly with 2.4. It doesn't with 2.6. That's why I have a problem.
You are stack with the old process, you need to understand that 2.6 vanilla aren't considered stable, in the same way 2.4 and 2.5 were. Now, why do you want so much to upgrade to 2.6 if you are so happy with 2.4 kernel? I really can't see what is your point.
I've always found it intriguing that a programmer who could master several arcane computer languages (especially since computers are notably intolerant of errors), could fail so utterly to master his own native human language.
That's because computer programming is more close to mathematical thought. There are no semantics, just very specific instructions that the CPU must follow to complete a task and solve a problem. If you mistype an instruction, or make a syntax error, the compiler will notice it for you. And of course the API reference is just in the next/side screen:)
Maybe you have noticed that students that are good at maths are rarely good at literature class too. The human brain is built in a way that some particular skills are exercised more easily and those are different from human to human.
Do you know how much a certificate costs? When someone writes a small plugin and shares with the rest of the world for nothing, what reasons does he have to sign it.
If you want to install a plugin, just make sure you trust the provider. I think it's better to install plugins only from the official mozilla web site, just as a precaution.
The original poster is correct - the Muslims had invaded the Holy Lands by force
I did said recapture.
Europe foresaw the danger coming from the east and acted. The holyness given to this war was just an excuse to recruit soldiers (else nobody would fight outside europe, people didn't give shit for what was happening thousands of miles away). The crusades made use of sword in their way even in places that were still christian, mostly looting to sustain supplies for their troops (they were anything but gentle).
The Crusades were used by politic interests, in the Fourth Crusade French and Venetians captured Constantinople (today known as Instanbul) practicly destroying temporarly the Byzantine Empire (which was christian) and gave the Turks the chance to conquer even more land.
The Crusades were launched to restore the right of pilgrimage and protect the Holy sites of Jerusalem.
Your history knowledge seems to be highschool based. Don't be that naive, there is no war that's made for holy or justice purpose. Everything is done for power and money, look what is happening in Iraq and Afganistan, this is just another Crusade.
There is no problem with URL arguments. Why shouldn't you be able to include a part of code from another server (when you know exactly what that is)?
However, who ever writes code like require($some_variable); with global_vars on or with $some_variable acquired from user interaction, should be slapped.
Some of the comments on this article argue that this is not a good solution since they replace a non pollutive vehicle with one more pollutive. I can't believe that most of those comments are voted as insightful, where in fact they show ignorance and very narrow thinking.
In the modern world the need for everyday transportation increases rapidly, and so is the pace of living in large cities. People just have to move fast and the transition to more efficient transportation is inevitable.
The high population and poverty in China forced people to develope a better, smarter approach to solve this problem. Nevertheless, this model seems to work fine in China and stands as an example for the rest of world to mimic.
Another thing I noticed is that some people are wondering why in China and not in the US. For their information, US is the biggest polluter in the world. Bush has not attended to big environmental summits because any result would hurt US economy. As another/.er mentioned here: I soon realized that here in America nobody would ride one of these because of the social implications. Your either such a lazy fat bastard that you need a motor on your bike or your too weak and pathetic to just ride a normal bike or your a broke looser who can't afford a motorcycle or car.
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Actually Bin Laden came that close to being snuffed by the NSA, since they have tapes of him talking to his mother by sat-phone, while he was in Afghanistan and she was in Saudi Arabia. This is why Clinton bombed Afghanistan and Sudan using long-range cruise missiles. They missed him, too, by a few minutes, unfortunately. Of course, last I heard, he only used trusted human couriers to deliver messages. He may be a madman, but he is a smart madman. And most of these couriers were not American, but Pakistani and Saudi citizens, and they try to be as discreet -- and "un-islamist" as possible. So the NSA domestic spying program is definitely not useful against terrorists. But remember, kids, if we can't listen to your phone, the terrorists have won!
Actually the internet really isn't something that should have been funded by the MILITARY at all. It isn't really war research, offense or defense.
But it was a defense program. it was a research on how to keep the communications alive when a part of the network is destroyed by the enemy.
Weapons do not kill people, they are tools that PEOPLE use to kill people.
So long as the world is not ideal and there are theats and potential threats with weapons, the next best solution is for the good guys (good defined as those who share interests) to be strong enough that the bad guys are afraid of retaliation.
Stealth bombers can't actually be used for defense except for scaring the others for retaliation. You can have a gun to keep others from harming you, but firing the gun without being in real threat is just what makes you the bad guy.
Nonesense, only the man who uses force and loses is known as the bad guy. History shows the victor to be the good guy. Unless of course the current guy with all the guns spreads propoganda that a previous victor's known ideals conflicts with, then he miraculously becomes a bad guy who
Some of the great victors in history are taged as slayers, arrogants and looters. You really don't believe that history will make G. Bush a good guy? History is much more objective than you thing.
As for your example, you need to look a little more closely. You don't really believe that there is some innate correct 'owner' of property do you? If the man with the cannons was law enforcement coming and using their guns to confiscate your property because you broke their rules would you have the same view? Law enforcement is by definition the application of force to make others follow the rules of those who possess the power to apply force. By what right do they apply it? Simple, by right of the fact that nobody is strong enough to say otherwise.
I tried to resemple the way the US is acting (or the way it is trying to justify its actions, the real reason is the oil and world dominance), your example is an other case which doesn't resemple the same situtation. You still didn't say if you believe that the case in my example is fair.
Even a government 'by the people' is only a trick to keep the powerless in line while those with the force coax their gold from them 'gently' by passing laws. These laws generally help to insure that the those with the most gold will continue to possess the greatest force (or control of its use) and to continue to gently take the gold from the middle and lower classes.
Welcome to the real world. On every level the one with the force takes the gold and if he is wise uses it to gain more force. Even in the workplace, the business owners possess force that they use to enforce labor requirements, this allows them to essentially rob their employees of the gold they would have gotten without these requirements. They do this to the extent their force with allow. Employees form unions to develop counter-force to attempt to take more gold for themselves.
So what exactly are you trying to say, that exploitation of the weaks is right? that everybody must accept it? That this is right and nothing can be done to change it? You are so full of shit my friend.
The entire world on every level is nothing more than a power struggle. In the real world the self-less who live by ideals instead of wishing for them are just the ones that are being taken advantage of by the non-idealists. So go, work your 60 hr workweek on salary and be exploited the major stockholders who believe in the real world and base their actions upon it.
You are the one that is being exploited, you are the one that accepts the injustice, you are the one who pays taxes (in money and in blood) for your goverment to attack other nations and make the oil industry richer. After the wars in afganistan and iraq, is the price of gasoline lower? Are you feeling safer?
I really don't want iran to have nukes, but I also don't believe that the US gov is the good guy. And that's because history has shown otherwise
One example is the network that grew to become the present day internet. The internet would not exist without U.S. Defense research spending, spending that did not yield a useful result for the military at all but instead brought on an information age that will reduce the need for war in the future by increasing communication.
This is an example of a real defense program. But what kind of defense is a stealth bomber that is capable of flying half the perimetre of earth to release them?
However, as a USian I do feel it to be to our advantage to continue to maintain a military force at least large enough to face little challenge from any other nation/multi-national force. The golden rule is nice and all, but lets be honest; the man with the guns simply takes the gold.
With this kind of thinking don't expect people to like you, the man with the guns is the bad one and other people are justified to try to harm him. It is like saying that a neighbor of yours is trespassing your property because he has enough wealth and power to not care about the law enforcement. How would you feel if this neighbor had your house surounded by canons aiming it, and the moment you touch the kitchen knife shoot the place to hell because you are a propable threat to him
At this time, the US goverment is paying hundreds of thousands of soldiers that are fighting somewhere in the other side of the planet. This is certainly not a defense budget, it is more of a "We have the guns and we take the black gold".
Actually cutting the US defense budget and routing the billions... Maybe the US like to call it a "defense" budget but it has nothing to do with defense. It should be an offense budget since this is their strategy in foreign politics. Most of those inventions are used to invade other countries or defend the friendly/cooperative regimes in the other side of the planet. The later is even more of an offensive strategy since meddling with other countries' affairs creates more foreign enemies and results in more excuses to invade an other country. If the US weren't so dominant over the world they wouldn't have so many enemies and could do with a smaller "defense" budget.
It is how all debian based distros start/stop/restart their services (it's common in other BSD like distros). It's basic knowledge, just like elementary school is to your education
You should know it as you should read the faqs of the distros that you're installing. Check http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-customizing.en.ht ml#s-booting and http://ubuntuguide.org/.
WTF are talking about.
/etc/init.d/postgresql start|stop|restart
apt-get install postgresql postgresql-client
nothing more is needed to get it started, but anyway, you should know
that Linux machine must have had some hardware flaw. Bad memory comes to mind...
most cases I run to is not bad hardware, it's propably some software flaw... which always comes down to bad tech support services... which is why those guys should read more slashdot... :-)
I haven't installed a Microsoft product on one of my systems in a long time, but Windows used to arbitrarily refuse to install on a system that had a partition type it didn't recognize
Well I have a dual boot system now, didn't have any trouble setting both OSs. Of course I first installed windows (just because it clears everything from the boot sector during installation, very annoying), then installed fedora with no prob at all.
I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to add some code to Windows Vista that refuses to boot if there's a "Non-Trusted" operating system on the same system.
The hell with it then, although I doubt it. Microsoft is being flamed all the time for its marketing policies. There are already countries, municipalities, academic/educational institutes that are considering an alternative based on linux, this trend will get a boost in that case.
Anyway, I'm not realy sure why I need windows installed in my system anymore. I found out that I do all my work in linux, especially after the release of OOo Writer 2.0Beta. It seems that alternatives to MS products are keep coming. And by the time Vista will be released I'd have to upgrade all my hardware to install it so maybe I'll just pass. I prefer to give my money to PS3 if I need a new gaming expirience.
What does `copied' mean? From the perspective of a storage device, the data being read and put on a CD, which is then duplicated a million times, is exactly the same as the data being read, decoded, passed through a DAC and fed into someone's ears. It seems that these constraints are either unenforceable or just plain silly.
Think that everything from the storage device through to the speakers or headphones must support hardware DRM. If any device in the sequence isn't DRM compatible it will not play. So, you can only copy it by air (place a recorder near the speaker).
Until you want to play WOW2...
So Vista will not let me install linux on the same box???
Well, first of all, they didn't fail to hide the data. The data were publically available on purpose, so other scientists can make observations of their own. And secondary, Ortiz's team didn't have an idea if the same observations were made by Brown's team, because those _were_ hidden from the public.
In this case, anyway, there isn't any stolen data. Brown's log confirms that the data from the telescope were publically available and could be reached by using the common web searching methods everyone in this planet use. So they had something but others got there first, pity.
I wish I could help you more. Anyway, I never use svgalib, I had found out that it was buggy (in much older kernels, like 2.2), that or the apps that were using it. It seems totally useless to me. And another thing, don't mess linux headers with glibc headers. /usr/src/linux/include and /usr/include/linux shouldn't be the same http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Kernel/usr-src-linux-sym link.html. That is unless you compiled glibc yourself, but that is something you shouldn't do in an already unstable system. Well if you did, I would suggest to go back to the package provided by your distro.
Some things to be noted:
And why are you forced to use 2.6. Your distro doesn't provide a package, so what? Have you tried to download and install 2.4.31 by yourself? What is exactly that you fear it will break in your distribution by installing a 2.4 kernel? You can have both 2.4 and 2.6 installed in a system anyway. Compile your kernel and configure lilo/grub, what's stoping you?
PS.
You said that your 2.6 kernel is unstable, but didn't mention the symptom. Why is it unstable? it hangs up and reboots? X just freezes? filesystem data corruption? Are you sure it's something that can't be fixed? Have you found others with the very same exact problem? Are you sure it isn't something you did wrong?
I have very good reasons to believe that MP3/Ogg skips are not a kernel problem, but a set up problem.
I have a Sony VGN-FS215B with Ubuntu 5.04 running 2.6.12. I use the ALSA driver (Intel HDA) for my sound card, works ok. For making the touchpad work right I had to change xorg.conf to use the correct event device (/dev/input/event3 instead of /dev/psaux). 'cat /proc/bus/input/devices' should give you a clue for which is the right device for your touchpad (You need to enable CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV). For much more information on this have a look at http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/ and for every other possible issues http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/sony.html.
Sorry for my poor english, I didn't mean 2.5 was stable, I was refering to the process of having the most expiremental features added on 2.5 and keep 2.4 as stable as possible. And 2.4 is not a legacy branch, it's still being developed and most things of 2.6 (like new hardware support) are being backported to 2.4
In my company we have Debian for our servers running with 2.4 kernels. I also use Debian and Ubuntu for my desktop PCs with 2.6 kernels (so far without any stability issue). Both 2.4 kai 2.6 kernels are fully supported by my distros, non of those distros have a policy that forced me to upgrade to 2.6.
Most of the nice things of 2.6 are backported to the 2.4 series. So there isn't any reason for a distro to stop supporting 2.4 or be flamed for supporting it.
Actually most of the linux servers out there are still running on 2.4, and 2.6 is recommended mostly for desktop workstations. Switching to 2.6 is not the only option, since both can be supported. I can think of a reason for a distro to be flamed if it _does stop_ supporting 2.4, but not in the other way around.
When you say that distros are flamed for not switching, flamed by who? Maybe from people like you, eager to upgrade everything to the last version because they think that this is always the right thing to do.
Maybe you should stop blaming linus for the way he chooses to develop _his_ project, and start complaining to your distro maintainers for quiting on 2.4 and shiping with an unstable 2.6.
The kernel is, for me, no longer stable with 2.6, and the obvious change to attribute this to is Linus' not branching off a 2.7 for development.
My system worked perfectly with 2.4. It doesn't with 2.6. That's why I have a problem.
You are stack with the old process, you need to understand that 2.6 vanilla aren't considered stable, in the same way 2.4 and 2.5 were. Now, why do you want so much to upgrade to 2.6 if you are so happy with 2.4 kernel? I really can't see what is your point.
That's because computer programming is more close to mathematical thought. There are no semantics, just very specific instructions that the CPU must follow to complete a task and solve a problem. If you mistype an instruction, or make a syntax error, the compiler will notice it for you. And of course the API reference is just in the next/side screen :)
Maybe you have noticed that students that are good at maths are rarely good at literature class too. The human brain is built in a way that some particular skills are exercised more easily and those are different from human to human.
Do you know how much a certificate costs? When someone writes a small plugin and shares with the rest of the world for nothing, what reasons does he have to sign it.
If you want to install a plugin, just make sure you trust the provider. I think it's better to install plugins only from the official mozilla web site, just as a precaution.
The original poster is correct - the Muslims had invaded the Holy Lands by force
I did said recapture.
Europe foresaw the danger coming from the east and acted. The holyness given to this war was just an excuse to recruit soldiers (else nobody would fight outside europe, people didn't give shit for what was happening thousands of miles away). The crusades made use of sword in their way even in places that were still christian, mostly looting to sustain supplies for their troops (they were anything but gentle).
The Crusades were used by politic interests, in the Fourth Crusade French and Venetians captured Constantinople (today known as Instanbul) practicly destroying temporarly the Byzantine Empire (which was christian) and gave the Turks the chance to conquer even more land.
The Crusades were launched to restore the right of pilgrimage and protect the Holy sites of Jerusalem.
Your history knowledge seems to be highschool based. Don't be that naive, there is no war that's made for holy or justice purpose. Everything is done for power and money, look what is happening in Iraq and Afganistan, this is just another Crusade.
...so many comments for just a lousy FUD.
There is no problem with URL arguments. Why shouldn't you be able to include a part of code from another server (when you know exactly what that is)?
However, who ever writes code like require($some_variable); with global_vars on or with $some_variable acquired from user interaction, should be slapped.
All you need to do is find someone outside China to setup a proxy for you.
Some of the comments on this article argue that this is not a good solution since they replace a non pollutive vehicle with one more pollutive. I can't believe that most of those comments are voted as insightful, where in fact they show ignorance and very narrow thinking.
In the modern world the need for everyday transportation increases rapidly, and so is the pace of living in large cities. People just have to move fast and the transition to more efficient transportation is inevitable.
The high population and poverty in China forced people to develope a better, smarter approach to solve this problem. Nevertheless, this model seems to work fine in China and stands as an example for the rest of world to mimic.
Another thing I noticed is that some people are wondering why in China and not in the US. For their information, US is the biggest polluter in the world. Bush has not attended to big environmental summits because any result would hurt US economy. As another /.er mentioned here: I soon realized that here in America nobody would ride one of these because of the social implications. Your either such a lazy fat bastard that you need a motor on your bike or your too weak and pathetic to just ride a normal bike or your a broke looser who can't afford a motorcycle or car.
So this means that Bush, his associates AND his security people cannot use a cell phone while moving outside the white house?