Reading through all the comments here it shows good sides and bad sides, but the most important thing is how the justice department, and you will handle this.
Commenting on the various things I've read; All the associations with former East block countries under the dictatorship of former USSR aren't helpful. At that time one did get dragged to re-education camp or shot for criticizing the state because for them it was a law, or at least everybody knew it happened. In mine it's still possible to criticize the goverment, and if they started doing this the media and the peolpe would be all over it. And if this does happen in your country then it's already too late. People will already snitch upon others.
People who live in neighbourhoods with an association and rules for keeping the area around the house tidy, or even with very petty rules knew what they were going into. You buy a house there, you agree with the rules there unless they're not on paper and it's mandatory to sign it when buying the property. Don't like the rules? I'm sure there are meetings organised where this can be discussed with reasonable arguments, else in worst case these rules can be dealt with through court.
CCTV cameras that actually help prevent (serious) crime and lower it are arguable a good thing. If there's cameras around and the crime statistics don't go down and are used for petty stuff then it's bad and you need to take action to get them removed. Do it through media, petitions, whatever, but they won't go away if nobody does anything.
This is about eye witness reports. Unless there's actual legal proof anything that has been reported falsy or out of spite can be dismissed and should be dismissed by justice, even punished by fees for individuals or removal from the group of selected "officials". Thus, as I said, it all depends on how the people in charge will handle this source of information. They can react to every petty thing and fine indiscriminately, which would (hopefully) end with a lot of people fighting their case (in court) and they having to re-evaluate their methods. It could also lead to people being more aware of their behaviour and act more responsible by not making a mess of public places, not bothering the neighbours late at night, in general, act less selfish and be a burden on fellow humans. There will always be those that keep going on anyway, but that's what the justice department and laws are for, to deal with the hard cases and they will know who they are when there's a stack of complaints about them.
As with any system, if this starts to get abussed, fight it (again, maybe even in court), but do something about it. If you don't things will not get easier and you will burden the next generation with your leniency, leaving it up to then to clean up the mess, or making it worse as they don't know any better. It is YOUR responsibility to keep the government in check, not some individual or small group of individuals.
*legal disclaimer* Not previewed, too long to check for typos:-P, and this is my opinion at this time, it may change without notice. Distibuted under Creative Commons license.
I use screen in combination with X11vnc to keep a desktop open to the media server.
If for whatever reason I lose the connection, I can start ssvnc again and get the desktop back.
I'm not using 2 connections, but I do have my fiber connection connected to two failover firewalls on OpenBSD 4.3 with PF.
Carp provides IP failover, PFsync ensures connections are synced on both machines. I can kick down the active firewall and the other ones takes over at once without dropping any internal or external connections. (if only it would also mirror ssh sessions to itself:-) )
The one thing I'm working out now is getting a connection running between them so all the internal nics (regular lan, dmz, wireless) can be active independantly of which firewall has the active connection to the internet. When I've got that I'll put up the basic configuration on my website.
Makes you wonder, on the one hand they engage in strangling the privacy of the people which includes the internet, and then they want to be thought of as hip by using that same medium to promote themselves..?
..from New York to Philadelphia. One of them keeps throwing pieces of bananas out the window and after a while the second man asks why he does this.
Why, it keeps the elephants away.
-But there are no elephants here.
See how good this works?
That's not just Ubuntu or any other *nix OS, anything but the basic task, including troubleshooting has to be done in the CLI on Windows too.
Blaming use of the CLI is just a moot point.
Just killing thousands of people seems to be a bit of a pointless exercise in itself.
Unless there's more to this than meets the casual eye, see the link in my sig for the movie Zeitgeist.
Rallying the support of people to start a war and make a profit might just be worth a "few" lives for some people.
I think I had that, driver's education before speaking.:-)
In the few times I had a conversation -handsfree of course- I forgot sometimes what we were talking about because I wasn't paying attention to the call.
I keep my attention on the road while driving, there's no other choice since there's a load of retards on it as well.
First thing I thought about while reading that story on Fox news was the movie Idiocracy. It's becoming more of a reality (horror) movie than a comedy/scifi/adventure movie.
Didn't know there was a patch for FreeBSD 6 stable. Just last night I grabbed a spare disk to install FreeBSD 6 and Wine to see if a few games I like would run. Unreal Tournament did crash a few times, so I'll try this patch.
And this is a better conclusion than the article.
Run a few tests which show only a little diffrence between each cpu and then say we can see what difference dual or quad and sizes in cache bring?
Definitely not enough in depth for my taste in comparisons.
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Reading through all the comments here it shows good sides and bad sides, but the most important thing is how the justice department, and you will handle this.
Commenting on the various things I've read;
All the associations with former East block countries under the dictatorship of former USSR aren't helpful.
At that time one did get dragged to re-education camp or shot for criticizing the state because for them it was a law, or at least everybody knew it happened. In mine it's still possible to criticize the goverment, and if they started doing this the media and the peolpe would be all over it. And if this does happen in your country then it's already too late. People will already snitch upon others.
People who live in neighbourhoods with an association and rules for keeping the area around the house tidy, or even with very petty rules knew what they were going into. You buy a house there, you agree with the rules there unless they're not on paper and it's mandatory to sign it when buying the property.
Don't like the rules? I'm sure there are meetings organised where this can be discussed with reasonable arguments, else in worst case these rules can be dealt with through court.
CCTV cameras that actually help prevent (serious) crime and lower it are arguable a good thing. If there's cameras around and the crime statistics don't go down and are used for petty stuff then it's bad and you need to take action to get them removed. Do it through media, petitions, whatever, but they won't go away if nobody does anything.
This is about eye witness reports. Unless there's actual legal proof anything that has been reported falsy or out of spite can be dismissed and should be dismissed by justice, even punished by fees for individuals or removal from the group of selected "officials".
Thus, as I said, it all depends on how the people in charge will handle this source of information. They can react to every petty thing and fine indiscriminately, which would (hopefully) end with a lot of people fighting their case (in court) and they having to re-evaluate their methods.
It could also lead to people being more aware of their behaviour and act more responsible by not making a mess of public places, not bothering the neighbours late at night, in general, act less selfish and be a burden on fellow humans.
There will always be those that keep going on anyway, but that's what the justice department and laws are for, to deal with the hard cases and they will know who they are when there's a stack of complaints about them.
As with any system, if this starts to get abussed, fight it (again, maybe even in court), but do something about it. If you don't things will not get easier and you will burden the next generation with your leniency, leaving it up to then to clean up the mess, or making it worse as they don't know any better.
It is YOUR responsibility to keep the government in check, not some individual or small group of individuals.
*legal disclaimer* :-P, and this is my opinion at this time, it may change without notice. Distibuted under Creative Commons license.
Not previewed, too long to check for typos
That's it! He should store it in the ./ comments!
Careful, not everyone who has Tourette syndrome is a Perl programmer.
This might be Microsoft's way to help combat global warming, by freezing Hell. :-)
Either way, it just means you're certified, right?
..or was that certifiable..?
I use screen in combination with X11vnc to keep a desktop open to the media server.
If for whatever reason I lose the connection, I can start ssvnc again and get the desktop back.
I'm not using 2 connections, but I do have my fiber connection connected to two failover firewalls on OpenBSD 4.3 with PF. :-) )
Carp provides IP failover, PFsync ensures connections are synced on both machines. I can kick down the active firewall and the other ones takes over at once without dropping any internal or external connections. (if only it would also mirror ssh sessions to itself
The one thing I'm working out now is getting a connection running between them so all the internal nics (regular lan, dmz, wireless) can be active independantly of which firewall has the active connection to the internet. When I've got that I'll put up the basic configuration on my website.
Politicians == terrorists.
I don't fear my Islamic neighbour, but I do fear what the government is doing to me.
Circumventing a law isn't illegal, breaking it is.
Its when you eat your cake and still want it you've got problems.
And don't look at me for sympathy because everyone knows the cake is a lie.
Makes you wonder, on the one hand they engage in strangling the privacy of the people which includes the internet, and then they want to be thought of as hip by using that same medium to promote themselves..?
Not really, it wasn't the right setup to be really funny. (me being FreeBSD user know about this :-P)
Actually, I learned today that BSD is very much alive and fast to boot.
Force10 uses a version of NetBSD for their 10GB+ switches/routers.
..from New York to Philadelphia. One of them keeps throwing pieces of bananas out the window and after a while the second man asks why he does this.
:-)
Why, it keeps the elephants away.
-But there are no elephants here.
See how good this works?
Get the point?
That's not just Ubuntu or any other *nix OS, anything but the basic task, including troubleshooting has to be done in the CLI on Windows too.
Blaming use of the CLI is just a moot point.
Except you don't see animals using other animals to kill their enemies while hiding in safety.
Just killing thousands of people seems to be a bit of a pointless exercise in itself.
Unless there's more to this than meets the casual eye, see the link in my sig for the movie Zeitgeist. Rallying the support of people to start a war and make a profit might just be worth a "few" lives for some people.
I think I had that, driver's education before speaking. :-)
In the few times I had a conversation -handsfree of course- I forgot sometimes what we were talking about because I wasn't paying attention to the call.
I keep my attention on the road while driving, there's no other choice since there's a load of retards on it as well.
First thing I thought about while reading that story on Fox news was the movie Idiocracy. It's becoming more of a reality (horror) movie than a comedy/scifi/adventure movie.
Damn.
My take on this; "Ah crap!"
How about option e); Think of the children.
If there ever was a good reason to use this abused incentive, this is it.
Didn't know there was a patch for FreeBSD 6 stable. Just last night I grabbed a spare disk to install FreeBSD 6 and Wine to see if a few games I like would run. Unreal Tournament did crash a few times, so I'll try this patch.
I hope you've got asbestos underwear, calling BSD and Solaris Linux clones. :-)
And this is a better conclusion than the article.
Run a few tests which show only a little diffrence between each cpu and then say we can see what difference dual or quad and sizes in cache bring?
Definitely not enough in depth for my taste in comparisons.
Well, we were waiting until she was older before telling, but she's actually an adopted sister.