It would crack me up if their server didn't survive y2k.:)
But seriously, there is too much betting and gambling everywhere. The Montreal casino brings in something in the range of 300 million dollars a year (or is it per quarter?) to the government that runs it. Gambling's primary purpose is as a 'voluntary tax' in places where its government run, or just pure profit to privately owned gambling areas. They know you have little chance of winning. Lottery is a huge gamble that every week pulls in millions for nearly every government that runs it. The bigger the jack pot, the more suckers that put their money in.
Put a loony (canadian dollar) in a bottle every morning. After a while you'll have one the lottery, because you'll have hundreds of dollars in loonies stocked up.
Otherwise you're just throwing that money out.
As for gambling on problems at y2k? Aliens landing? Armageddon? Heheheheh. You realise people will just look at the odds and hedge their bets? Who's that/. reader who's sig jokes about the number of suckers born each minute?:)
Ha ha ha...read the article. Written by an assistant professor at UBC? Jeesh. Slashdot, according to the article, is part of a greater cult of open source users, where good is mutually exclusive with mircosoft. That guy's probably got a doctorate too though. But its in Business Administration. Sometimes I wonder how people get their degrees. The article would make an interesting/. discussion in itself. Then again, the article was written for Conrad Black's media empire, Southam. Southam is to media as Microsoft is to software.
It should be pointed out that PhDs are given out for a new contribution to the field in which you are in.
The only difference between Dr. Torvalds and other Drs is that Dr. Torvalds did not apply for his PhD, but still went through _all_ the work any other graduate student would go through.
And he did it in a lot less then the normally allocated seven years, too. Linus fully deserves this.
(Now he just has to write a book - if he hasn't already.:))
Anyone remember the Hunt for the Red October? And its send-back to the authour for rework?
That book offers a lot of insights in to who is really in charge in the US.
In Canada, we have CSIS. Noone ever seems to have even heard of CSIS. (Canadian Security Intelligence Service), and they keep getting in trouble with the mounties. A couple of years back, they were informed by the RCMP that they did not, in fact, have the authority to use wire-taps without a warrant and permssion from the RCMP.
The RCMP, on the other hand, afaik, does do internal spying, to make sure no one is doing spying on our country. (Like Canada has any military secrets, anyhow.)
The NSA, from what I gather, is a bunch of laptop toting geeks who are endlessly obsessed with breaking codes, tracking technology in foreign countries, know who's doing what, when, and how, and reading slashdot. They are secretive, but I can't think of a government agency, of this nature, in any country (KGB anyone?) that actually tells the country what they're doing.
Its not in the government's best interest to spy on its own citizens and not tell them anything that they are doing. The populous is a gigantic mind that has been taken by social darwinism, and has an interest in protecting itself. It builds itself a government to protect it and choose what to do to get to that end. The NSA is just a reaction to this. It is there to figure out who is doing what, when, and how, that could possibly jeapordise the safety or survival of the populous. It is _not_ there just to see if they can break code. To them, seeing someone using stronger encryption sends a flag to them saying 'I wonder if this person has something to hide" and they want to make sure they don't.
My laptop runs (debian) linux very happily. It installed more flawlessly then my desktop the year before.
Its an obscure model of a company I'd never heard of before - and haven't seen since.
Dtk/486. No network problems. The only thing was the mouse.:)
But I'm trying to picture these cabs running KDE, who's kfm seems to be allergic to slashdot (both computers I've used KDE on have trouble loggin in to slashdot on the first attempt.).....how can you live without slashdot when you're in a cab?
Sorry to say - the moon already _is_ owned. At least according to a story on As it Happens heard on CBC and APR. I heard the story on the show about two years ago, and proceeded to find a link to the people that claim lunar possession. According to what the show said, there was a treaty signed between countries that no country could declare ownership of the moon. But nowhere did it say that no individual could. The person who noticed this said at the time that he was going to sue NASA for leaving a mess on his propriety. And they're selling 18000 acre proprieties for 30 bucks.
(Yeah, I know. Its most likely a scam. But I just had to point it out.:) )
problem with/dev/random is they want it portable to all OSs. Windows and Macintosh have no equivalent of/dev/random (though for some reason its always been void on my computer...but then again, I never worked very hard to configure my computer and set everythign upproperly:)). If all OSs had a standard decent randomiser then it could be changed.
Though it seems to me that web-radio is a good source of randomness, especially considering internet latency sometimes, and occasional static.
sort-of offtopic In Montreal early this summer, a 15 year old was arrested and charged with felony or misdimeanor(sp??) for commenting about a bomb under a hydro pylon (high-tension cables) on an irc channel. someone else on the channel called the mounties who came to his door step within the week.
As for software piracy, I have no problem whatsoever pirating a piece of software to test it. If I like it, I buy it. If I don't like it, I delete it. And I don't wait around for months deciding either.
But I refuse to buy anything (and at home even use anything) by microsoft, since i switched to linux early last year. Any company who has US$400billion of assets and whose president and ceo has $60billion doesn't deserve my money, especially when they can't even make decent software.
yeah, cdlu is a good nickname. I'm glad you think so.
It's amazing how people so young thing they know everything. I do not profess to know everything. I am merely stating my point of view, after contemplating it for most of my life to date. (Admittedly I have not lived long.) Ever since I had an argument with my grade 2 teacher over who the chosen people really, were, I've been thinking constantly about religion. There are many religions and faiths and belief systems I respect and agree with, but don't subscribe to. Namely Buddhism (sp?) and Paganism.
Ever thought of trying to keep an open mind to ALL beliefs? Yes. Indeed I do keep as open a mind as I can to "ALL beliefs". But the believe I tend to agree with is the one that is based on something tangible I can work with. I don't consider a misinterpreted 2000 year old text to be my life saviour, though I find the original Hebrew scriptures, (through recent translations) to be much more tolerable then the way people tell me I should read it.
On the first day there was the heaven and the earth. Makes sense doesn't it? Its an outdated philosophy, but one that still works. Each step in Genesis is an evolutionary step. (in the order of a billion years a day). Note how humans came in last, on the 6th day. Late arrivals.
What drives me crazy is people telling me what I should believe. I have turned on my family by dissociating myself from my mixed heritage of catholic brainwashing and jewish brainwashing, as so much of 'modern' religion is merely being the best at brainwashing.
Might make you a better person... Suggestion for you, go out and look at yourself from the outside. See what you are from someone else's perspective. You may learn a lot. Or you may be a typical ignoramus and not see anything beyond the tip of your nose.
Why are you posting anonymously, anyhow? Are you afraid to identify yourself? Glad to know we all live in an assortment of free countries.
That big-john catholic dude they call the pope has been spending the last few weeks trying to impress on his billion or so subjects that heaven and hell are states of the mind, not places. I don't like it. I had a religious upbringing, was bar mitzvahed five years ago, and saw the absurdity of theism have since ceased having anything to do with any organised religion.
Wake up and smell the coffee. (Even if you don't like it.)
I encountered a bunch of DLMoody worshippers at his grave site in the middle of campus last year, and me and a dozen atheist||satanist friends took them on. They took the bible at face value, because, as one of them said, "My momma believed it. And Ah believe it."
These people say that man was created in god's image but they were created in their parents image. But they don't see the (il)logic to their statement. If I am created in my parents image, I should look exactly (bitwise and?) like my parents. And they should in turn look like their parents, and we should all be perfectly identical. Evolution (selective breeding, anyone?) is demonstrated in our generations. Language evolves, _computers_ evolve. (Yeah, they've been around forever....)
At school we were required to sing god-fearing hymns and christian drivel at our weekly campus meetings. When I protested publicly, I was told to stuff it, or to suck it up, by the faculty.
To anyone whose interested, I've published a socialist-atheist rant in a publication at my school. It may (or may not) contribute to this discussion.
(a few notes about my article. 1) as an experiment, we GPLed the magazine.:) 2) Its written for the school. 3) East Hall is a dorm 4) Franklin is the county the school was in. 5) There's probably at least a couple of readers who can immediately identify my old school from this article and post.:) )
Select models of Dell OptiPlex® Desktops, PrecisionTM WorkStations, and PowerEdge® Servers are certified by Red Hat® Linux 6.0 and can be custom configured for quick and easy deployment.
from the dell site from the last poster...
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ick sorry...
you'll have to use the IP
i'd forgotten the vhost was changed:) http://204.252.20.9/win2ktest-linuxppc-tracero ute.txt
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I started logging traceroute info to both sites at www.geecs.org/win2ktest-linu xppc-traceroute.txt I'm going to fix up the script a bit, so it should be up in a few minutes. Its VERY basic, the script is at the top of the file. its an 8 line or 9 line c shell loop:)
I second that. I lived four years in the US, and found the US to be full of the most ignorant and self-centred people I have ever met. Any wonder Canada's been number one overall on the UN country's list for 6 straight years?
Calling it a benefactor is a lower rating then calling it a symbiote.
Symbioses (like I can spell) is mutual benefit - two-way benefactors. Not only is linux a benefactor to rh (by linux, am referring to oscommunity), but rh is a benefactor to linux - both are benficiaries.
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I'm hedging my bets on CP/M :) :)
VIC-20 takes 2nd
TI-99/4a takes 3rd
iirc none of those systems were date dependant - so they actually _will_ survive
It would crack me up if their server didn't survive y2k. :)
/. reader who's sig jokes about the number of suckers born each minute? :)
But seriously, there is too much betting and gambling everywhere. The Montreal casino brings in something in the range of 300 million dollars a year (or is it per quarter?) to the government that runs it. Gambling's primary purpose is as a 'voluntary tax' in places where its government run, or just pure profit to privately owned gambling areas. They know you have little chance of winning. Lottery is a huge gamble that every week pulls in millions for nearly every government that runs it. The bigger the jack pot, the more suckers that put their money in.
Put a loony (canadian dollar) in a bottle every morning. After a while you'll have one the lottery, because you'll have hundreds of dollars in loonies stocked up.
Otherwise you're just throwing that money out.
As for gambling on problems at y2k? Aliens landing? Armageddon? Heheheheh. You realise people will just look at the odds and hedge their bets?
Who's that
He's not. off the hook - he's busted. Slashdot called him on it. :)
Ha ha ha...read the article. Written by an assistant professor at UBC? Jeesh. Slashdot, according to the article, is part of a greater cult of open source users, where good is mutually exclusive with mircosoft. That guy's probably got a doctorate too though. But its in Business Administration. Sometimes I wonder how people get their degrees. The article would make an interesting /. discussion in itself. Then again, the article was written for Conrad Black's media empire, Southam. Southam is to media as Microsoft is to software.
It should be pointed out that PhDs are given out for a new contribution to the field in which you are in.
:))
The only difference between Dr. Torvalds and other Drs is that Dr. Torvalds did not apply for his PhD, but still went through _all_ the work any other graduate student would go through.
And he did it in a lot less then the normally allocated seven years, too. Linus fully deserves this.
(Now he just has to write a book - if he hasn't already.
Anyone remember the Hunt for the Red October? And its send-back to the authour for rework?
That book offers a lot of insights in to who is really in charge in the US.
In Canada, we have CSIS. Noone ever seems to have even heard of CSIS. (Canadian Security Intelligence Service), and they keep getting in trouble with the mounties. A couple of years back, they were informed by the RCMP that they did not, in fact, have the authority to use wire-taps without a warrant and permssion from the RCMP.
The RCMP, on the other hand, afaik, does do internal spying, to make sure no one is doing spying on our country. (Like Canada has any military secrets, anyhow.)
The NSA, from what I gather, is a bunch of laptop toting geeks who are endlessly obsessed with breaking codes, tracking technology in foreign countries, know who's doing what, when, and how, and reading slashdot.
They are secretive, but I can't think of a government agency, of this nature, in any country (KGB anyone?) that actually tells the country what they're doing.
Its not in the government's best interest to spy on its own citizens and not tell them anything that they are doing. The populous is a gigantic mind that has been taken by social darwinism, and has an interest in protecting itself. It builds itself a government to protect it and choose what to do to get to that end. The NSA is just a reaction to this. It is there to figure out who is doing what, when, and how, that could possibly jeapordise the safety or survival of the populous. It is _not_ there just to see if they can break code.
To them, seeing someone using stronger encryption sends a flag to them saying 'I wonder if this person has something to hide" and they want to make sure they don't.
Just my $0.02 (add GST if in Canada)
Well, actually... :)
:)
... no wait....... :)
My laptop runs (debian) linux very happily. It installed more flawlessly then my desktop the year before.
Its an obscure model of a company I'd never heard of before - and haven't seen since.
Dtk/486. No network problems. The only thing was the mouse.
But I'm trying to picture these cabs running KDE, who's kfm seems to be allergic to slashdot (both computers I've used KDE on have trouble loggin in to slashdot on the first attempt.).....how can you live without slashdot when you're in a cab?
Front plate on the cab:
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Sorry to say - the moon already _is_ owned. At least
:) )
according to a story on As it Happens heard on CBC and APR. I heard the story on the
show about two years ago, and proceeded to find a link to the people
that claim lunar possession.
According to what the show said, there was a treaty signed between countries that no country could declare ownership of the moon. But nowhere did it say that no individual could.
The person who noticed this said at the time that he was going to sue NASA for leaving a mess on his propriety. And they're selling 18000 acre proprieties for 30 bucks.
(Yeah, I know. Its most likely a scam. But I just had to point it out.
*sniff* *sniff*
:)
conflict of interest smelled here....
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Ah well. You make the law, you can break it, I suppose.
problem with /dev/random is they want it portable to all OSs. Windows and Macintosh have no equivalent of /dev/random (though for some reason its always been void on my computer...but then again, I never worked very hard to configure my computer and set everythign upproperly :)). If all OSs had a standard decent randomiser then it could be changed.
Though it seems to me that web-radio is a good source of randomness, especially considering internet latency sometimes, and occasional static.
just my 2 cents (add tvq and gst if in qc)
sort-of offtopic
In Montreal early this summer, a 15 year old was arrested and charged with felony or misdimeanor(sp??) for commenting about a bomb under a hydro pylon (high-tension cables) on an irc channel. someone else on the channel called the mounties who came to his door step within the week.
As for software piracy, I have no problem whatsoever pirating a piece of software to test it. If I like it, I buy it. If I don't like it, I delete it. And I don't wait around for months deciding either.
But I refuse to buy anything (and at home even use anything) by microsoft, since i switched to linux early last year. Any company who has US$400billion of assets and whose president and ceo has $60billion doesn't deserve my money, especially when they can't even make decent software.
yeah, cdlu is a good nickname.
I'm glad you think so.
It's amazing how people so young thing they know everything.
I do not profess to know everything. I am merely stating my point of view, after contemplating it for most of my life to date. (Admittedly I have not lived long.) Ever since I had an argument with my grade 2 teacher over who the chosen people really, were, I've been thinking constantly about religion. There are many religions and faiths and belief systems I respect and agree with, but don't subscribe to. Namely Buddhism (sp?) and Paganism.
Ever thought of trying to keep an open mind to ALL beliefs?
Yes. Indeed I do keep as open a mind as I can to "ALL beliefs". But the believe I tend to agree with is the one that is based on something tangible I can work with. I don't consider a misinterpreted 2000 year old text to be my life saviour, though I find the original Hebrew scriptures, (through recent translations) to be much more tolerable then the way people tell me I should read it.
On the first day there was the heaven and the earth. Makes sense doesn't it? Its an outdated philosophy, but one that still works. Each step in Genesis is an evolutionary step. (in the order of a billion years a day). Note how humans came in last, on the 6th day. Late arrivals.
What drives me crazy is people telling me what I should believe. I have turned on my family by dissociating myself from my mixed heritage of catholic brainwashing and jewish brainwashing, as so much of 'modern' religion is merely being the best at brainwashing.
Might make you a better person...
Suggestion for you, go out and look at yourself from the outside. See what you are from someone else's perspective. You may learn a lot. Or you may be a typical ignoramus and not see anything beyond the tip of your nose.
Why are you posting anonymously, anyhow? Are you afraid to identify yourself? Glad to know we all live in an assortment of free countries.
We've already had a our christian-muslim war for the decade (former yugoslavia, funny how many wars seem to brew there).
:)
War, for those of us who weren't satisfied with throwing battries at lego.
Hmm...by that logic we're half man half worm! :)
Humans have 40% identical dna to earthworms.
Heheheh, I like that.
:) 2) Its written for the school. 3) East Hall is a dorm 4) Franklin is the county the school was in. 5) There's probably at least a couple of readers who can immediately identify my old school from this article and post. :) )
That big-john catholic dude they call the pope has been spending the last few weeks trying to impress on his billion or so subjects that heaven and hell are states of the mind, not places. I don't like it. I had a religious upbringing, was bar mitzvahed five years ago, and saw the absurdity of theism have since ceased having anything to do with any organised religion.
Wake up and smell the coffee. (Even if you don't like it.)
I encountered a bunch of DLMoody worshippers at his grave site in the middle of campus last year, and me and a dozen atheist||satanist friends took them on. They took the bible at face value, because, as one of them said, "My momma believed it. And Ah believe it."
These people say that man was created in god's image but they were created in their parents image. But they don't see the (il)logic to their statement. If I am created in my parents image, I should look exactly (bitwise and?) like my parents. And they should in turn look like their parents, and we should all be perfectly identical. Evolution (selective breeding, anyone?) is demonstrated in our generations. Language evolves, _computers_ evolve. (Yeah, they've been around forever....)
At school we were required to sing god-fearing hymns and christian drivel at our weekly campus meetings. When I protested publicly, I was told to stuff it, or to suck it up, by the faculty.
To anyone whose interested, I've published a socialist-atheist rant in a publication at my school. It may (or may not) contribute to this discussion.
(a few notes about my article. 1) as an experiment, we GPLed the magazine.
It was a slasdot poll! Of course its perfectly accurate! :) (j/k)
Select models of Dell OptiPlex® Desktops, PrecisionTM WorkStations, and PowerEdge® Servers are certified by Red Hat® Linux 6.0 and can be custom configured for quick and easy deployment.
from the dell site from the last poster...
ick sorry...
you'll have to use the IP
i'd forgotten the vhost was changed
http://204.252.20.9/win2ktest-linuxppc-tracer
I started logging traceroute info to both sites at www.geecs.org/win2ktest-linu xppc-traceroute.txt :)
I'm going to fix up the script a bit, so it should be up in a few minutes.
Its VERY basic, the script is at the top of the file.
its an 8 line or 9 line c shell loop
I second that.
I lived four years in the US, and found the US to be full of the most ignorant and self-centred people I have ever met.
Any wonder Canada's been number one overall on the UN country's list for 6 straight years?
Sue me. Its the American way.
I suspect that with a little thinking you can make even the shortest response go onto another page.
:)
If this works the way I intend it to, the next line should be a request to move on to the next page.
though there may be a little garbage first. unfourtuately preview doesn`t have the `see here` overflow so you don`t know until you submit.
On the other hand, if it didn`t work, then this whole post will look really dumb.
This should be on page two.
> /usr/games/fortune -m lawyer|less
/usr/share/games/fortunes ; less law
:))
cd
:)
(yeah yeah, offtopic
Calling it a benefactor is a lower rating then calling it a symbiote.
Symbioses (like I can spell) is mutual benefit - two-way benefactors. Not only is linux a benefactor to rh (by linux, am referring to oscommunity), but rh is a benefactor to linux - both are benficiaries.
Who's the twit that changed it to troll? :)
Oddly, all the connections we get from aol are as follows: .proxy.aol.com
a)
or
b) full-ip-address-in-hex.ipt.aol.com