Doing enduser phone support for linux is a lot easier if you know that everyone who calls has the same setup. I'm sure some resourcefull OEM could modify apt to report what specific packages a particular user has installed. SSH also makes it possible for them to do remote repairs.
As for compiling... almost every package I've compiled (a lot) (except GIS GRASS, which isn't exactly popular) was compiled with:
./configure
make
su root
make install
That said, I'm considering switching to deb for some of my machines now that I've learned the joy of apt-get (when I tried deb before I only knew about dselect)
Accidentally lean on a motorcycle or bicycle and you'll turn too. It's using gyroscopic progression to turn, just like a bike. When it's stationary I don't know how you'd do that though, unless it's got a flywheel spinning the same direction as the wheel does when it's moving forward (dual-use for regenerative brakeing too, perhaps).
I'd not actually mind that someone knows that I bought some Irish Spring...maybe I actually want them to know that I like the product.
You must certainly be an opressor of the hyperimmune!!! Down with the opressors of the hyperimmune!!!
We shall scan their houses for RFID tags for Irish Spring, Bounce, and "Uekanuba Elderly Cat", round them up, and shame them for the enemies of the glorious revolutionary peoples immune liberation that they are!!
But seriously, folks
Anything the store will know about you can already be gained by combining information from an ATM/Credit Card and the bar code scanner...
You can opt out of these by paying cash, not carrying a cell phone, and not collecting points/miles/whatever, and the information gathering ends the moment you walk out the door. With RFID tags there is no opt-out, no informed consent, and no off switch.
The quote you use claiming "Ayn Rand actually denies Singer's definition entirely" is not in reference to Singer's theory of the Obligation to Assist. You are clearly not focusing on logical consistancy.
Seeing that you have chosen the path of a troll, I will not waste my time writing anything more on ethical issues in this thread.
Most people will tend to upgrade about once a year
Gee, I upgrade about once every 3.5 - 4 years... That Radeon 9700 I bought last January is still pretty sweet, and I expect it'll last a few years too.
Consequential Ethical theories are those theories that consider the expected
consequences of an act, not the intent. It includes:
Ethical Egoism: which states that an act is ethical if it maximizes the benefit for
the one doing the act
Act Utilitarianism: which states that an
act is ethical if it maximizes the benefit to the maximum amount of
people
Rule Utilitarianism: under which rules are created which
usually maximize the benefit to the maximum amount of people. An act which is
contrary to these rules is considered unethical.
Deontological Ethical theories are those which consider the intent and duty of the
actor.
As an example, Sex between a bachelor and a bachelorette, while
"immoral" to most religions and unethical by Rule Utilitarianism, if done with
mutual respect and prudent caution is ethical by Act Utilitarianism and Ethical
Egoism, and neutral to most deontological theories.
In your article you have
an incomplete description of Singer's obligation to assist. The complete theory is
closer to:
We have an obligation to assist those likely to suffer
greatly or die without our assistance, unless our assistance jeopardizes
something of equal or greater moral value.
Ayn Rand uses an incomplete description of the theory because she is little more than an
apologist for the ethical egoism practiced by the entrenched elite of her time. If you have any
intention to honestly study ethics I'd reccommend that you put aside Ayn Rand's books and
pick up a book on deontological ethics or John Rawls' Theory.
Also, you seem to be referring to religious "morals" as if they are ethical theories in their own right.
Some religious commandments can be trivially justified by Rule Utilitarianism, which is a consequentialist theory.
Some could at one time be justified by Rule Utilitarianism, but now are merely relics. In the absence of
refrigeration and finely controllable stoves, it is Utilitarian to dictate that none shall consume shellfish.
Other religious dictates seem to merely be calls to divine authority, such as the requirement for women
to adopt the name "Kaur". If one should choose to adopt a certain name on religious
grounds, it is their choice, but it is not based on an ethical theory.
Yes, a book has no intrinsic moral value in it's matter, and a wrench which falls has no intent in
it's falling. What does have intrinsic value is people, and what has intent is people's choices.
This is where Kant's Categorical Imperative comes in.
So tell me now how Ethics comes from religion? Ethics does not mean blindly following your leaders. You must examine the issues for yourself. A secular ethics curriculum gives you the tools to do that. It does not require you to give up your faith.
I think ethics should be in the school curriculum......without reference to religion where do you think the ideas behind ethics came from? those self-centered people? just a thought
You fail it!
Most of the "Ethics" in organized religion is rule utilitarianism. Most religions do not discus why something is the right thing, or the wrong thing to do. They just say (The Lord, or YHVH, or Allah, or the Bobdivista etc) say do (or dont do) this (eat pork or eat beef or eat any animal or cover your head or cut your hair etc). A secular ethics course teaches students how to decide on their own if something is ethical. If the students decide that the contents of their holy book is to be a heavy factor in their decisions, it is their choice. There is a great deal though that is not discussed in many religions (like hacking or stem-cell research) because the issues were not forseen when the religion was formed.
Oh, so it's wrong for me to figure out what's wrong with a computer and fix it, but it's right for microsoft to lie to millions of people and advertise their OS as secure then bribe judges to be nice to them?
She didn't talk about MS lying about the security of their products. I think this is annother example of why we need ethics in the highschool curriculum. Corporate leaders and marketing droids have no qualms about deception, just as some claim to have no qualms about breaking other peoples' property to show them that security is bad.
One example I saw yesterday was a TV ad for a laser lever where the demonstrators wore no safety glasses while working with it at head level, then at the end saying there were glasses to help you see the line better in bright conditions!!!
If you find a vulnerability or danger in any product, please, report it both to the vendor, and to the appropriate public channels (ie a security mailing list) there is no need to break other peoples' property.
"I believe that with correctly designed curriculum, talking about ethics can really reduce these behaviours," she said, "they need to learn from the first time they use a computer what is appropriate and what is not."
I think ethics should be in the school curriculum, but not just with respect to computers. There are far too many self centred people coming out of schools. And by ethics I do not mean religious dogma; I mean an honest, frank, and thoughtfull discussion of consequential and deontological ethics, without reference to religion.
I'd also like to see First-aid and basic emergency procedures a required part of the curriculum... it really sucks to be the only one at an accident scene who knows first aid when you're one of the casualties.
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Ditto, except a different distro
And yet there it is, on half the desktops where I work. Including the presidents.
Doing enduser phone support for linux is a lot easier if you know that everyone who calls has the same setup. I'm sure some resourcefull OEM could modify apt to report what specific packages a particular user has installed. SSH also makes it possible for them to do remote repairs.
You have to drag the disk to the Trash!
I have. On windows XP.
They Already have... It's called KDE, and provided you use Mozilla for web browsing it does look, work, and play as well as OS X
(sorry Konqueror developers, it still breaks my DOM2 & CSS2 scripts).
Look closely at that URL, there's a goatse re-direct CSS in there.
&target=web-search/redirect.html&url=http://goats
Apt for Redhat (and fedora) is available.
As for compiling... almost every package I've compiled (a lot) (except GIS GRASS, which isn't exactly popular) was compiled with:
./configure
make
su root
make install
That said, I'm considering switching to deb for some of my machines now that I've learned the joy of apt-get (when I tried deb before I only knew about dselect)
Accidentally lean on a motorcycle or bicycle and you'll turn too. It's using gyroscopic progression to turn, just like a bike. When it's stationary I don't know how you'd do that though, unless it's got a flywheel spinning the same direction as the wheel does when it's moving forward (dual-use for regenerative brakeing too, perhaps).
I bet you could make it run off hydrogen fuel cells if you were stunting in a ballard power factory.
That really depends on how you look at it. The way I see it, you always wheelie it.
Let me see... one wheel... rider above wheel... "a high-performance braking system,"
Dental insurance?
Because those segways were selling like hotcakes we thought we'd get in the market too.
You must certainly be an opressor of the hyperimmune!!! Down with the opressors of the hyperimmune!!!
We shall scan their houses for RFID tags for Irish Spring, Bounce, and "Uekanuba Elderly Cat", round them up, and shame them for the enemies of the glorious revolutionary peoples immune liberation that they are!!
But seriously, folks
You can opt out of these by paying cash, not carrying a cell phone, and not collecting points/miles/whatever, and the information gathering ends the moment you walk out the door. With RFID tags there is no opt-out, no informed consent, and no off switch.
But not in CCRA's
The quote you use claiming "Ayn Rand actually denies Singer's definition entirely" is not in reference to Singer's theory of the Obligation to Assist. You are clearly not focusing on logical consistancy.
Seeing that you have chosen the path of a troll, I will not waste my time writing anything more on ethical issues in this thread.
Gee, I upgrade about once every 3.5 - 4 years... That Radeon 9700 I bought last January is still pretty sweet, and I expect it'll last a few years too.
Consequential Ethical theories are those theories that consider the expected consequences of an act, not the intent. It includes:
Deontological Ethical theories are those which consider the intent and duty of the actor.
As an example, Sex between a bachelor and a bachelorette, while "immoral" to most religions and unethical by Rule Utilitarianism, if done with mutual respect and prudent caution is ethical by Act Utilitarianism and Ethical Egoism, and neutral to most deontological theories.
In your article you have an incomplete description of Singer's obligation to assist. The complete theory is closer to:
Ayn Rand uses an incomplete description of the theory because she is little more than an apologist for the ethical egoism practiced by the entrenched elite of her time. If you have any intention to honestly study ethics I'd reccommend that you put aside Ayn Rand's books and pick up a book on deontological ethics or John Rawls' Theory.
Also, you seem to be referring to religious "morals" as if they are ethical theories in their own right. Some religious commandments can be trivially justified by Rule Utilitarianism, which is a consequentialist theory. Some could at one time be justified by Rule Utilitarianism, but now are merely relics. In the absence of refrigeration and finely controllable stoves, it is Utilitarian to dictate that none shall consume shellfish. Other religious dictates seem to merely be calls to divine authority, such as the requirement for women to adopt the name "Kaur". If one should choose to adopt a certain name on religious grounds, it is their choice, but it is not based on an ethical theory.
Yes, a book has no intrinsic moral value in it's matter, and a wrench which falls has no intent in it's falling. What does have intrinsic value is people, and what has intent is people's choices. This is where Kant's Categorical Imperative comes in.
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Reciprocity is not the be-all and end-all of ethical theory.
So tell me now how Ethics comes from religion? Ethics does not mean blindly following your leaders. You must examine the issues for yourself. A secular ethics curriculum gives you the tools to do that. It does not require you to give up your faith.
You fail it!
Most of the "Ethics" in organized religion is rule utilitarianism. Most religions do not discus why something is the right thing, or the wrong thing to do. They just say (The Lord, or YHVH, or Allah, or the Bobdivista etc) say do (or dont do) this (eat pork or eat beef or eat any animal or cover your head or cut your hair etc). A secular ethics course teaches students how to decide on their own if something is ethical. If the students decide that the contents of their holy book is to be a heavy factor in their decisions, it is their choice. There is a great deal though that is not discussed in many religions (like hacking or stem-cell research) because the issues were not forseen when the religion was formed.
She didn't talk about MS lying about the security of their products. I think this is annother example of why we need ethics in the highschool curriculum. Corporate leaders and marketing droids have no qualms about deception, just as some claim to have no qualms about breaking other peoples' property to show them that security is bad.
One example I saw yesterday was a TV ad for a laser lever where the demonstrators wore no safety glasses while working with it at head level, then at the end saying there were glasses to help you see the line better in bright conditions!!!
If you find a vulnerability or danger in any product, please, report it both to the vendor, and to the appropriate public channels (ie a security mailing list) there is no need to break other peoples' property.
I think ethics should be in the school curriculum, but not just with respect to computers. There are far too many self centred people coming out of schools. And by ethics I do not mean religious dogma; I mean an honest, frank, and thoughtfull discussion of consequential and deontological ethics, without reference to religion.
I'd also like to see First-aid and basic emergency procedures a required part of the curriculum... it really sucks to be the only one at an accident scene who knows first aid when you're one of the casualties.
number sign bach back back back hash back #include lessthan back ;
int mane back maine back main bracket back ( int argh! see back back a r g c commet back , char star back ** a r g v ) brace back {
print f ( quote back "hello world") semicolon back
] no not that brace the other one back back back back back back back back }