It is broad enough to include things like.... assaults designed to change the purpose of government."
Damn, that's scary! Does my recent verbal assault against the ATA on InstaPundit count? I'm certainly trying to change the purpose of our government. I want them to stick to the core job of protecting me from the bad guys and to keep the hell out of my personal life. Unfortunately, the Feds are obviously incapable of either.
It's obvious you took a document about Windows and used a find/replace to change it to Linux.
The most obvious is the "crashes constantly" statement. What utter crap. Windows crashes constantly, usually for no apparent reason. The only times I've crashed my Linux box (SuSE 7.1) is when I am playing around with low level system configurations. I'm still learning Linux, so sometimes I do stupid things and don't know the proper way to recover (I'm getting better, though!).
Seek help. Your drug usage is destroying your brain cells.
He doesn't want a national I.D. He probably doesn't think it would help this nation security. None of that matters to him one bit. All that matters is he would make a shitload of money. He would sell his own mother into prostitution if it would make him fractionally richer.
How much is a enough Larry? Aren't you fucking rich enough? What next? Will you sell the Bill of Rights to the highest bidder, with an Oracle database conducting the auction?
which is not likely to be the
same Hebrew that is spoken today
You obviously don't know a thing about the Torah. There are very strict rules when making a copy that guarantees that it is the same as the book made yesterday and as the one made in another era.
What the Torah says now is what the Torah has always said.
What kind of corporate stooge are you, vain enough to rewrite a holy book so that it conforms to your self-serving values?
You must be referring to that corporation known as Christianity. It was Christian scholars who misstranslated from the original Hebrew and mistakenly used "kill" instead of "murder". The Old Testimate of the Christian bible is a rewrite of portions of the Torah. It is incomplete and incorrect.
You don't get it. If the Constitution is a casualty, then the terrorists have won. Their aim is to destroy this country. The Constitution IS this country. It's the only thing that makes us different from any other country in the world.
Constitution. Whenever a tragedy likes this occurs, the government always announces a get tough on terrorists policy that will have no effect on the psychopaths who do this, but will severely limit our rights.
The huge loss of life is bad enough. The subsequent loss of what truly represents what this country stands for will be intolerable.
I must retract my statement about no messages in the project mail list. I guess they were clogged inside of @Home as 14 messages discussing this showed up at once late this evening.
I'm part of the legOS project on Sourceforge (though certainly not amongst the more active members). This is the first time I've heard of anybody suing anyone over the name legOS. I'm sure I would have seen something on our mail list by now, if the corporation had a problem.
The Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention set is the coolest toy ever created. Th legOS project has no intention of diluting the trademark of the Lego corporation. Our documents clearly state we are not part of, nor sanctioned by the Lego corporation.
All we want to do is take a fun toy, and have a hell of a lot of fun with it. Being hackers (not crackers), fun involves reverse engineering and coding in C and assembly language.
We wanted this case to go to trial. We wanted a precedence that says you can't be spied on. In the next case, judges won't have a vested interest, so they won't necessarily care enough to give privacy more importance the government/employer power.
what's the difference in reading a fantasy novel and watching a TV show?
If you don't know the difference, then you didn't learn a thing in school. Reading stimulates the brain, even if it is reading for pleasure.
How about picking out an actual, educational book at the library and telling the kid they have to write a book report on it?
Which would have the exact opposite effect desired. You want the kid to realize reading is fun. You want the kid to enjoy reading. Your method would make it the same old, boring chore they are already avoiding in school.
instead of hoping the latest book series like Goosebumps or Harry Potter would come along so they wouldn't have to exert any effort.
What the hell does reading a book for fun have to do with parenting? Absolutely nothing. So why did you bring it up? I can only assume you did so because you are either an idiot or a lunatic.
I am very generous to my daughter when it comes to buying books. I pay for it if it's a real book. She pays for it when it's a Sailor Moon graphic novel since I don't consider that a real book.
I must be doing something right, she scored in the 98 percentile on the latest Stanford Achievement Test.
Endless Forwards(tm) are the second most irritating thing in email (junk email being #1). I have told all my family and friends that:
1. I do not wish them to forward me the latest funny joke they received because I've already heard it.
2. I don't need to know about the (fake) email tax (yet again).
3. The modem infecting virus is a hoax.
Not all of them "get it". After repeated warnings from me without result, I completely filtered all email from my sister. I got tired of receiving a dozen emails a day from her with the subject of "fwd: fwd: fwd: fwd: fwd: blah". She remained in email pergatory for about six months.
When finally I turned off the filter, I warned her that if she forwarded me a single piece of junk ever again, I would turn on a mail bomb perl script that would send her back 100 emails of random words for each email she sent me. It seems to be working, for the moment.
Generally, when I see a list of receipients longer than the phone book, I delete the message. Obviously, they've never heard of BCC. Also, if there is FWD: in the subject, I delete it unless the message is from specific persons who respect my rules and only forward things of importance (all of two people).
I'll be setting up a personal mail server in the next few months. When I do, my filtering will be much more refined and automated with the use of a few specialize perl scripts.
The Harry Potter books are doing something previously thought impossible. They are pulling kids away from the idiot box (t.v.) and getting them to read in droves. This, in itself, deserves special recognition. Although I am a hard science fiction fan, I enjoyed the Harry Potter books and have no problem with the Hugo being awarded for this book.
They came up with a simple solution to the requirement that they install filtering software on the computers. When you fire up the browser it asks if you want filtered or unfiltered access. Meets the legal requirements and doesn't interfere with internet access (the law doesn't say anything about requiring people to use it, just that it must be installed on the computer).
For the hell of it, I checked a few non-porn sites to see if they were blocked. Slashdot wasn't, but Peacefire was.
I used Forth many years ago. When you wanted a development system ported quickly, it was an excellent choice. The downside of Forth is when you started developing large programs. It's simply not a good choice because it is such a read only language.
The part I hated the most about Forth was the fanatism of its followers. I remember one argument where the zealot insisted an optimized Forth program is faster than assembly language. That is an outrageous statement completely unsupported by the facts, yet he would not relent even after I proved otherwise.
I've since learned not to argue with religious fanatics.
What's the minimum recommended hardware to run a linux based mail server (sendmail)? It would be ultra low volume, about 6 people, tops. If I had the requirement to run Apache (also low volume), now what do I need?
We fought all these years to hear the message from the other side, and all they have to tell us is "Drink Coca Cola?"
Excellent essay. I would have moded you up, but you were already at 5 points. I showed this to my wife who grew up under communism (not Russia). She agrees, an excellent article. The above quote sums up everything perfectly.
You idiots need to learn something. You can not be forced to give up a Constitutional right.
I learned this a long time ago. My boss told me I would be fired if I discussed salaries with other employees. I told him what I did on my own free time was none of his business. I also told him I would continue to discuss the salaries with other employees and there wasn't anything he could do about it. Want to know what the company did to me for violating the policy? Absolutely nothing, because they knew they would be open to a lawsuit.
As for a nondisclosure. I already mentioned you could be fired for revealing trade secrets. That's what a nondisclosure covers.
and if you're the boss, tell your employees that speaking to the press is voluntary resignation (e.g. nobody does it except you)
In this country, we have something called the Constitution - perhaps you have heard of it. You can not be fired for talking to the press. The exception would be if you revealed trade secrets.
Why does fencing (sword fighting in general) look so great in movies but is so boring as a sport. Very simple, in the movies, everything is exaggerated - big sweeping moves. Grandious flourishing of the weapon. You broadcast all your moves to make it look good. In the sport, you make your attack with the absolute minimal amount of movement necessary.
I was taught stage fencing. Now I'm completely incapable of engaging in sport fencing.
> He broke the law. If you want to change the law, lobby Congress.
A judge can rule the law violated the Constitution and nullify that law. There are many other ways for a judge to throw out the case. I'm sure his attorneys will know what to do.
I couple of years ago I needed to register some Microsoft software online. It asked for the usual name, company, address, and phone number. I entered my company's information - except it wouldn't let me continue unless I also entered my residentual address and phone number, too. I entered "none of your fscking business" and othersimilar phrases in all the places I did not wish to provide data. I had no feelings of guilt since I was doing this strictly for work and my personal life did not enter the picture. I rather wish they had complained so I could have given them more detailed instructions on what they could do with their information demands (some of my suggestions would probably be fatal!).
Then explain why the instructions for something I installed on Linux said to create a link to the shared library: "ln -s foo foo12". What happens when another app requires something similiar: "ln -s foo foo20"? Now you have dll hell on Linux.
The problem is going to get worse - I guarantee it. Shared libraries/DLLs are a bad idea.
I realize this problems is the result of lazy programming. Unfortunately, lazy programmers exist on all platforms.
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How much crack have you smoked today?
It's obvious you took a document about Windows and used a find/replace to change it to Linux.
The most obvious is the "crashes constantly" statement. What utter crap. Windows crashes constantly, usually for no apparent reason. The only times I've crashed my Linux box (SuSE 7.1) is when I am playing around with low level system configurations. I'm still learning Linux, so sometimes I do stupid things and don't know the proper way to recover (I'm getting better, though!).
Seek help. Your drug usage is destroying your brain cells.
He doesn't want a national I.D. He probably doesn't think it would help this nation security. None of that matters to him one bit. All that matters is he would make a shitload of money. He would sell his own mother into prostitution if it would make him fractionally richer.
How much is a enough Larry? Aren't you fucking rich enough? What next? Will you sell the Bill of Rights to the highest bidder, with an Oracle database conducting the auction?
What the Torah says now is what the Torah has always said.
You must be referring to that corporation known as Christianity. It was Christian scholars who misstranslated from the original Hebrew and mistakenly used "kill" instead of "murder". The Old Testimate of the Christian bible is a rewrite of portions of the Torah. It is incomplete and incorrect.You don't get it. If the Constitution is a casualty, then the terrorists have won. Their aim is to destroy this country. The Constitution IS this country. It's the only thing that makes us different from any other country in the world.
Constitution. Whenever a tragedy likes this occurs, the government always announces a get tough on terrorists policy that will have no effect on the psychopaths who do this, but will severely limit our rights.
The huge loss of life is bad enough. The subsequent loss of what truly represents what this country stands for will be intolerable.
I must retract my statement about no messages in the project mail list. I guess they were clogged inside of @Home as 14 messages discussing this showed up at once late this evening.
I'm part of the legOS project on Sourceforge (though certainly not amongst the more active members). This is the first time I've heard of anybody suing anyone over the name legOS. I'm sure I would have seen something on our mail list by now, if the corporation had a problem.
The Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention set is the coolest toy ever created. Th legOS project has no intention of diluting the trademark of the Lego corporation. Our documents clearly state we are not part of, nor sanctioned by the Lego corporation.
All we want to do is take a fun toy, and have a hell of a lot of fun with it. Being hackers (not crackers), fun involves reverse engineering and coding in C and assembly language.
We wanted this case to go to trial. We wanted a precedence that says you can't be spied on. In the next case, judges won't have a vested interest, so they won't necessarily care enough to give privacy more importance the government/employer power.
What the hell does reading a book for fun have to do with parenting? Absolutely nothing. So why did you bring it up? I can only assume you did so because you are either an idiot or a lunatic.
I am very generous to my daughter when it comes to buying books. I pay for it if it's a real book. She pays for it when it's a Sailor Moon graphic novel since I don't consider that a real book.
I must be doing something right, she scored in the 98 percentile on the latest Stanford Achievement Test.
Endless Forwards(tm) are the second most irritating thing in email (junk email being #1). I have told all my family and friends that:
1. I do not wish them to forward me the latest funny joke they received because I've already heard it.2. I don't need to know about the (fake) email tax (yet again).
3. The modem infecting virus is a hoax.
Not all of them "get it". After repeated warnings from me without result, I completely filtered all email from my sister. I got tired of receiving a dozen emails a day from her with the subject of "fwd: fwd: fwd: fwd: fwd: blah". She remained in email pergatory for about six months.
When finally I turned off the filter, I warned her that if she forwarded me a single piece of junk ever again, I would turn on a mail bomb perl script that would send her back 100 emails of random words for each email she sent me. It seems to be working, for the moment.
Generally, when I see a list of receipients longer than the phone book, I delete the message. Obviously, they've never heard of BCC. Also, if there is FWD: in the subject, I delete it unless the message is from specific persons who respect my rules and only forward things of importance (all of two people).
I'll be setting up a personal mail server in the next few months. When I do, my filtering will be much more refined and automated with the use of a few specialize perl scripts.
The Harry Potter books are doing something previously thought impossible. They are pulling kids away from the idiot box (t.v.) and getting them to read in droves. This, in itself, deserves special recognition. Although I am a hard science fiction fan, I enjoyed the Harry Potter books and have no problem with the Hugo being awarded for this book.
They came up with a simple solution to the requirement that they install filtering software on the computers. When you fire up the browser it asks if you want filtered or unfiltered access. Meets the legal requirements and doesn't interfere with internet access (the law doesn't say anything about requiring people to use it, just that it must be installed on the computer).
For the hell of it, I checked a few non-porn sites to see if they were blocked. Slashdot wasn't, but Peacefire was.
The judge who made this ruling fornicates with sheep and is addictged to drugs.
Go ahead, sue me.
I used Forth many years ago. When you wanted a development system ported quickly, it was an excellent choice. The downside of Forth is when you started developing large programs. It's simply not a good choice because it is such a read only language.
The part I hated the most about Forth was the fanatism of its followers. I remember one argument where the zealot insisted an optimized Forth program is faster than assembly language. That is an outrageous statement completely unsupported by the facts, yet he would not relent even after I proved otherwise.
I've since learned not to argue with religious fanatics.
What's the minimum recommended hardware to run a linux based mail server (sendmail)? It would be ultra low volume, about 6 people, tops. If I had the requirement to run Apache (also low volume), now what do I need?
Too bad it's been slashdotted.
You idiots need to learn something. You can not be forced to give up a Constitutional right.
I learned this a long time ago. My boss told me I would be fired if I discussed salaries with other employees. I told him what I did on my own free time was none of his business. I also told him I would continue to discuss the salaries with other employees and there wasn't anything he could do about it. Want to know what the company did to me for violating the policy? Absolutely nothing, because they knew they would be open to a lawsuit.
As for a nondisclosure. I already mentioned you could be fired for revealing trade secrets. That's what a nondisclosure covers.
Next time, read what I posted before flaming me.
Why does fencing (sword fighting in general) look so great in movies but is so boring as a sport. Very simple, in the movies, everything is exaggerated - big sweeping moves. Grandious flourishing of the weapon. You broadcast all your moves to make it look good. In the sport, you make your attack with the absolute minimal amount of movement necessary.
I was taught stage fencing. Now I'm completely incapable of engaging in sport fencing.
> He broke the law. If you want to change the law, lobby Congress.
A judge can rule the law violated the Constitution and nullify that law. There are many other ways for a judge to throw out the case. I'm sure his attorneys will know what to do.
Prove it. Post your real name, address, phone number, social security number, and mother's maiden name. After all, all information should be free.
I couple of years ago I needed to register some Microsoft software online. It asked for the usual name, company, address, and phone number. I entered my company's information - except it wouldn't let me continue unless I also entered my residentual address and phone number, too. I entered "none of your fscking business" and othersimilar phrases in all the places I did not wish to provide data. I had no feelings of guilt since I was doing this strictly for work and my personal life did not enter the picture. I rather wish they had complained so I could have given them more detailed instructions on what they could do with their information demands (some of my suggestions would probably be fatal!).
Then explain why the instructions for something I installed on Linux said to create a link to the shared library: "ln -s foo foo12". What happens when another app requires something similiar: "ln -s foo foo20"? Now you have dll hell on Linux.
The problem is going to get worse - I guarantee it. Shared libraries/DLLs are a bad idea.
I realize this problems is the result of lazy programming. Unfortunately, lazy programmers exist on all platforms.