repository.ubuntu.hp.com With all the required drivers for hardware along with setup scripts. Just aim HPuntu at HP's repository and it does the rest. They could even provoide the i386 and 64 binaries on a DVD for a apt-cd repo.
Why the hell would I use TGP's for porn when I can download hours of fap-happy vids? Our favorite trackers have terabytes of porn tracked and available.
I wanna "do X system behavior in a non-linux OS" in Linux!!
Go run the system you need to do maintenance in that system. If there's a tool to do it in Linux, all the better. Instead, go bug the software manufacturer about no tools to do X behavior in Linux.
We can fix the open source stuff if it was at fault.
We could even fix Flash if it was Open Source.
But the cold hard truth is Flash is closed source and proprietary means ONLY the creator can make changes that would increase stability. That's also the same reason why kernel debuggers wont touch a listing from a tainted kernel.
---Here is one I found recently. Someone was looking for a NTFS Defrag program for Linux. Most of the posts were bashing NTFS and either telling to reformat his drive to ext2 or FAT32. There was one lonely kinda un moderated post in the middle of the fray that gave a link to an app but warned that is really isn't working well yet and you probably shouldn't use it.
That's because since forever, MS has been changing the NTFS format to keep the Open sourcers away.
We finally developed a read-only driver that can then use the ntfs-windows driver to make read/write.
If you need defrag on NTFS, use a windows tool. And if you dont have windows, convert to fat32 or Ext3. Both can be read by Windows anyways.
It is that great. In about 20 minutes from a clean install I can have it on par with an Ubuntu install in terms of functionality.
The desktop environment isn't nearly as ugly and messy as Gnome and KDE are. They can reach OS X's level with a fair amount of work though.
I have a mirror of the repository that Ubuntu uses. I can netboot any machine, install, and get any program I can imagine. I doubt that Apple runs a repository in the same scope. I also have freedom to do what I want with my repository, including sharing mirrors with friends.
Apple is suing a company for buying licenses on Amazon and re-selling them under first-sale doctrine. Can you say "No Rights"?
It comes with what's necessary to get started, and has damn near every open source app available to it. It's also got a lot of stuff that it's unlikely Linux will ever have.
If one wants a true open-source experience, one needs an open source desktop on the Linux kernel. That's where most of the work is being done, and the most current. Also, what important thing does OSX have that Linux does not? I have Expose, CubeDesktop, and plenty others via compiz. I've also got darn near every server I'll ever need.
And Apple didnt have a usable SMB server, so they use Samba. Same with print services, so they use CUPS. Frankly, I'm glad they like using OSS. It's just the rest of the code looks like glue.
Nice bald-faced lie. It played all but my OGGs out of the box, and I've been meaning to replace those with AAC rips (for a couple years now, suffice it to say they aren't that important.) And video is almost entirely accounted for by VLC, Perian, and the free version of Flip4Mac.
It's annoying that most file formats will not play under default system. Even Ubuntu Gnome searches the repo's for acceptable codecs and offers to install them. I'd figure the price one pays for Apple hardware and each software version they would at least offer install of VLC or ffmpeg with a player. It just seems kind of unfinished.
No it's not. Just because it was too hard for you to figure out and make intelligent comments regarding what you encountered does not make it crap.
Linux already can use more hardware than OSX. Both run a similar kernel and have a similar underbelly. Both can run X and ssh. The difference is in the GUI. Ubuntu is a WiP that runs better in certain places and worse in certain places. OSX (aqua?) has major slowdowns on big file xfers, and has no simple ways to change settings they want. Although the 1 button mouse is the Apple thing, X was meant to be used with 3 buttons.
OSX is quality, but Ubuntu gets out of the way for me and offers insightful suggestions what would help me do stuff (get X package for X feature) rather than the Apple way of just not doing it. And that wifi driver costing more money shows Apple's mentality.
Back in KDE2, I loved it. Used it all the time. I couldnt stand GTK1 apps, like Gnome.
Fast forward to 2 weeks ago. I downloaded Kubuntu and tried it on a desktop that uses 100% linux-happy hardware. It felt worse than Vista in terms of bloat and yuck. I cant precisely describe it, but that feeling of "waaaay overboard" came to mind.
Gnome is clean and crisp, and doesnt get in the way. Ubuntu "approved apps" just work with no fiddling and gunk. That's they they're approved.. for the user experience. One can always download QT and other lib based programs. They just dont have the same feel.
Ubuntu with Gnome feels like a Mac, without the "We dont allow you to do what we dont want you to do" stuffy mac experience. I can get work done and be happy.
Thats right. Ubuntu works fine. Firefox works fine. Gnome/X works fine. Compiz works fine. Pretty much every app works fine. Bugs are addressed quickly on ubuntu's website. ADOBE makes a crap version of Flash for Linux.
Specifically, I thought they were going to unite their libs so that gnome and kde would be cosmetic changes of the overall GUI subsystem sitting atop X.
Some things like DCOM have already been united and shared.. It just takes a few dedicated individuals to do so.
I personally would love united libs that any gui can use while knowing that every "frozen" feature will be as such for any major versions. Let everybody use it, from GNOME, KDE, Xfce, and any other manager.
The setup costs of a book is mainly the time of the authors and editors, probably in the region of $100,000 (conservatively). Those setup costs are shared between units sold. The unit production cost is not the final arbiter of either cost or value, so should not be the final arbiter of price.
I would argue that point. I could understand 100K$ from an author who does nothing but write, however, I know colleagues that write books in their spare time. Other than their time, they spend money approaching 0$ to make that book. With a thorough understanding of Latex, one could even do the typesetting locally, and send the book to a good publishing firm like lulu.com for small runs.
Have you heard of royalties? The author is paid by number of units sold.
This isn't all that different to physical goods. A farmer may grow a crop of excellent apples, but he isn't paid simply for growing them -- he needs to sell them.
I wouldn't go there if I were you. According to companies like Monsanto, sharing seed stock (from the apples) breaches the bag agreements and they could come down on you like a ton of bricks. Their argument goes that you could illegally create THEIR product for free. But aside that point... the farmer realizes there will be a demand for apples, but is guaranteed no sales. And depending on how he does, he will either invest in apples more, or will exit the market or go divest to different crop.
I dont pay the farmer "lifetime+50 years" of sustenance for that bag of apples. Why's it different for artsy types?
Let's look at this logically. You don't believe in royalties. Fine. What's the alternative? That someone pays upfront. Why would someone pay $100,000 up front? Because they expect to get that money back. Where from? Sales. But you're claiming those sales are valueless, because the author has already been paid.
Now I must be thick, because I missing the point in your model which explains why someone's going to stump up $100,000 dollars for something of zero value.
That's the thing. I dont need to come up with a workable solution. I do know where it breaks down. As of right now, I can download nearly every movie in the theaters. I can also download any amount of music, including complete discographies. I can also download season of shows in one fell swoop. I can collect every OS out there like they're going out of style, proprietary or not. I can get any amount of commercial and industrial apps to run darn near every process. I also have access to the internal tools used by semiconductor companies to re-flash devices, along with the firmware code for most of these devices.
The question isnt to ask me "what do we put in place", but "what went wrong with our copyright". Dont get me wrong, but I do believe that we need to encourage the arts and sciences as stated in our Constitution. How exactly we do that is another story altogether. If you happen to think, at least in terms of copyright, that 150+ years is acceptable, there's nothing you can do to change my mind about that.
We also see problems where certain companies snatch up patents and sit on them so that nobody can utilize them. That should not happen. As the Constitution says, we need to encourage, not hinder. IIRC, the Wright brothers literally stalled flight in our country until the Government took it under eminent domain (patents ARE property, as they say). WW1 started real flight in our country.
---It could be the ability of one or more of our 5 senses to work together and provide info, faster than we can rationalize it, or maybe there are other senses at work, maybe we do possess a "radar like", which somehow, works for us, but which we aren't always aware consciously.
Im going into EE, so I'd like to think im rather logical and level headed (if not weird thinking, but always logically).
Well, when I was younger, perhaps 14 or 15, we went to a small town bordering on the Ohio River on the Kentucky side. My dad had problems at his work and we were looking at moving and have him work at a chemical company. Like any family that might move, we go look at houses. There was this one house that was about 80 years old and belonged prior to a fishmonger. After entering, I got creeped out. It wasn't a "this place smells".. It was a "a murder happened here" feeling. Something wasn't right. I walked through 12 homes prior. This place was just different, as if it happened recently, or was still strong in the house.
I only felt that in one other place, and that was where a murder did take place. Something was there too, but not nearly as strong. That house felt like a beacon of despair.
---I believe that our biggest drawback is in the way we are educated from childhood, we do not develop any of our instincts and thus, in a way, suppress them, instead of acknowledging them. How many stories about very young children who can see ghosts, etc... Why so young? I say because they are more instinctive, their minds are more receptive.
And what of the stories of remembering past memories? Some of the recent reincarnation stories have been recorded and fact checked. And I just cannot accept that when someone dies, they just end up in the dirt as worm food. I mean, where does that knowledge and memories go? I just think that our technology cannot perceive something that could happen on the quantum level of such massive scale.
---Bottom line, this type of knowledge, the powers of the mind, instinct, mind reader, clearvoyance, etc.. well, it cannot be dismissed, it does exist.
Many of these things could be described in scientific terms as of now. And I'm not apt to dismiss those findings either, but work should be done to determine if some of these are illusions of sorts on the mind, or if they have a real measurable effect. After all, science is the investigation of measurable data. Cant measure? Cant test. So far though, clair* tests show no usable data.
---Let's not forget how we only use about 5% to 10% of our brain, so, who knows what else we can do with the rest of it.
Absolutely NOT true. Go look at a fMRI that has been placed on the net. Different parts of the brain activate at different times, but memory almost always make the fMRI go "Christmas tree" on us. It's more like a rolling 90~95%.
To study a concept, follow it no matter where it goes. That's the job of a scientist. Keep our eyes open and prove every concept.
Agreed.
Well, unless it goes into the Bible; then we pretend there's no proven validity to it, call it quaint and decide our line of thinking no longer has value. The Bible is such a show-stopper.
The bible has 2 purposes: explaining the history of God and the Jews, and Explaining the Sacrifice of Jesus. Those are religously significant, but not scientifically so. And for all understandable reasons, if we could ask an oracle if the story of Jesus was true and found out it wasnt, what would fill the void of loss of Christianity?
I would rather they live in ignorance (and come to on their own terms) than have the void of a top 3 religion go poof.
Yeah, this is why I have such bad 'karma' on this site. Almost no one reads me, my input is disturbing.
That's because you do not play the slashdot game correctly. One cannot talk good about something unless it is open source, free, or cool. Religion has none of the 3, and is popular whipping boy for the atheists.
Equally disturbing:
1. "Let there be light" identified the start of this reality. 2. "The Earth is suspended from nothing" tells us that unlike the other ancients, the Earth sits on nothing. 3, It talks about the "land being split" in the continental divides. (Is that Plate tectonics? I'm not a specialist.) 4. It was right about the lost Hittite capital. 5. It was right about the last Babylonian administration. 6. While it doesn't list all 5,000,000+ species of animal, it does call out the stages of plant development, and that matches the fossil record.
First, what does the original translation say? What translation are you going by? NIV? King James? Also, might I remind you, in observance of #2 that the Greeks were able to determine the circumference of the Earth. A few sayings from the bible aren't willing to convince me... or shall we dredge up Exodus on how we should treat our neighbors after they wrong somebody?
So why is it so absurd to believe that the rest of it's true? More than 100 civilizations have a 'great flood' mentioned in their history. Think that was just a really, really good rumor? YouTube viral video?
It's fairly commonly accepted that the great flood of Noah was a stolen story from the times of Gilgamesh. I also saw no such youtube video. You ought to explain yourself more here, as I have no clue and no link from you.
Meanwhile, the "Tree of Life" talks about all animals slowly evolving over time, starting at, let's say, amoebas and ending with man. Except the fossil record shows all life 'sprung' into existance (cosmologically speaking) in the Pre-Cambrian era: all the phylum, vertebrates and invertebrates.
The "Tree of Life" was simply a sketch in "Origin of Species". Flawed though it is, is it better to cling to that, and ignore the proven truths of the Bible? That's no longer ignorant, it's hiding from the truth.
Proof? You either believe the bible, or you dont. Dont make this some sort of bible thumping session. That's why nobody likes to hear from you. Better yet, only use the original languages the native peoples used: Roman, Greek, Aramaic. That would be fairly impressive IF you found real references of such, not a re-re-re-re-re-retranslation.
Then I assume that you are not familiar with RBAC systems like SELinux built in the kernel. In a "dangerous" environment where 1 minute of downtime is equal to 100k$'s, lockdown is the only way to go. Running as root or equivalent should never be allowed, period.
We can lock even root down to console-only access and have the user-servers loaded up from netboot and nsf mounted drives from the user-server. Roles based upon who the user is will grant access to what they need to do, and nothing more. All actions will be logged, and all critical decisions will be logged to a recording server. Why wouldn't we want to have users use dumb terminals? 2 commands can kill their session and lock them out.
Viruses will not exist, as we can literally prevent the user from executing anything, even in their home environment. Root, with other than console access, is yet another user.
Amd im an EE student that was going into computer and network engineering.
There's a way to introduce engineering methods in IT. I just treat each network as its own system and hook those systems together like black boxes. As long as we diagram the traces (read network connections), we can follow trouble patterns and diagnose problems quickly. We can then map virtual networks above as we would have a 2 layer circuit board. Since we know what goes where, we can easily see why a level 2 network connection would go down.
As for computer security, I see no reason why we need "anti-virus", or any anti-ware at all. Windows can be locked down so that only approved binaries run. Second, scripts can be made that allow read/write to external and plug-in storage. We also control the hardware, so we can do other tricks, such as giving Linux to those that have no reason to use Windows. There, we can disable many functions to a minimum. If a user has no need for 3d graphics, we disable it. If they have no reason to use a webbrowser, they do not have one.
It IS those damned IT guys that insist on keeping everything the same regardless of true consequences. I figure thats why they're paid to be IT: determine true needs per computer/compartment.
Like I commented on his thread, I do the same thing with my security camera recording point. All of it's over wifi with 1 sending, the other receiving.
It's completely 1 way. Radio-direction-finding proves I'm not emanating signal on that rf card.
Slashdot Mirror
Simple enough.
repository.ubuntu.hp.com With all the required drivers for hardware along with setup scripts. Just aim HPuntu at HP's repository and it does the rest. They could even provoide the i386 and 64 binaries on a DVD for a apt-cd repo.
Dont repeat what Ubuntu does. Add to it.
But in the Linux wars, we all win.
The bazaar is selling the steeple from the cathedral on eBay
---Could we please stop referring to programming as "innovating"? Not every single piece of code anyone writes is a breakthrough.
Bittorrent is. I still have the first torrent from my rusty python script.
100MB porn vid.
Wow... A usenet crosspost troll in real life!
+5 Real Ultimate Powah
I torrent my porn.
Why the hell would I use TGP's for porn when I can download hours of fap-happy vids? Our favorite trackers have terabytes of porn tracked and available.
I wanna defrag a AIX partition in Linux!!
I wanna defrag a Solaris partition in Linux!!
I wanna "do X system behavior in a non-linux OS" in Linux!!
Go run the system you need to do maintenance in that system. If there's a tool to do it in Linux, all the better. Instead, go bug the software manufacturer about no tools to do X behavior in Linux.
Do you get the drift?
We can fix the open source stuff if it was at fault.
We could even fix Flash if it was Open Source.
But the cold hard truth is Flash is closed source and proprietary means ONLY the creator can make changes that would increase stability. That's also the same reason why kernel debuggers wont touch a listing from a tainted kernel.
---Here is one I found recently. Someone was looking for a NTFS Defrag program for Linux. Most of the posts were bashing NTFS and either telling to reformat his drive to ext2 or FAT32. There was one lonely kinda un moderated post in the middle of the fray that gave a link to an app but warned that is really isn't working well yet and you probably shouldn't use it.
That's because since forever, MS has been changing the NTFS format to keep the Open sourcers away.
We finally developed a read-only driver that can then use the ntfs-windows driver to make read/write.
If you need defrag on NTFS, use a windows tool. And if you dont have windows, convert to fat32 or Ext3. Both can be read by Windows anyways.
I have a mirror of the repository that Ubuntu uses. I can netboot any machine, install, and get any program I can imagine. I doubt that Apple runs a repository in the same scope. I also have freedom to do what I want with my repository, including sharing mirrors with friends.
Apple is suing a company for buying licenses on Amazon and re-selling them under first-sale doctrine. Can you say "No Rights"?
If one wants a true open-source experience, one needs an open source desktop on the Linux kernel. That's where most of the work is being done, and the most current. Also, what important thing does OSX have that Linux does not? I have Expose, CubeDesktop, and plenty others via compiz. I've also got darn near every server I'll ever need.
And Apple didnt have a usable SMB server, so they use Samba. Same with print services, so they use CUPS. Frankly, I'm glad they like using OSS. It's just the rest of the code looks like glue.
It's annoying that most file formats will not play under default system. Even Ubuntu Gnome searches the repo's for acceptable codecs and offers to install them. I'd figure the price one pays for Apple hardware and each software version they would at least offer install of VLC or ffmpeg with a player. It just seems kind of unfinished.
Linux already can use more hardware than OSX. Both run a similar kernel and have a similar underbelly. Both can run X and ssh. The difference is in the GUI. Ubuntu is a WiP that runs better in certain places and worse in certain places. OSX (aqua?) has major slowdowns on big file xfers, and has no simple ways to change settings they want. Although the 1 button mouse is the Apple thing, X was meant to be used with 3 buttons.
OSX is quality, but Ubuntu gets out of the way for me and offers insightful suggestions what would help me do stuff (get X package for X feature) rather than the Apple way of just not doing it. And that wifi driver costing more money shows Apple's mentality.
Back in KDE2, I loved it. Used it all the time. I couldnt stand GTK1 apps, like Gnome.
Fast forward to 2 weeks ago. I downloaded Kubuntu and tried it on a desktop that uses 100% linux-happy hardware. It felt worse than Vista in terms of bloat and yuck. I cant precisely describe it, but that feeling of "waaaay overboard" came to mind.
Gnome is clean and crisp, and doesnt get in the way. Ubuntu "approved apps" just work with no fiddling and gunk. That's they they're approved.. for the user experience. One can always download QT and other lib based programs. They just dont have the same feel.
Ubuntu with Gnome feels like a Mac, without the "We dont allow you to do what we dont want you to do" stuffy mac experience. I can get work done and be happy.
Thats right.
Ubuntu works fine.
Firefox works fine.
Gnome/X works fine.
Compiz works fine.
Pretty much every app works fine.
Bugs are addressed quickly on ubuntu's website.
ADOBE makes a crap version of Flash for Linux.
It's Ubuntu's fault Flash crashes. Nuh-huh
Try: The proprietary software dealer.
Specifically, I thought they were going to unite their libs so that gnome and kde would be cosmetic changes of the overall GUI subsystem sitting atop X.
Some things like DCOM have already been united and shared.. It just takes a few dedicated individuals to do so.
I personally would love united libs that any gui can use while knowing that every "frozen" feature will be as such for any major versions. Let everybody use it, from GNOME, KDE, Xfce, and any other manager.
Are you serious?
Flash is one of the first things I DISABLE on a browser. I have it installed, only as a last resort kind of stuff.
If some casual site wants flash, I leave the site. And those flash ads just dont work. That's a plus in my book.
I thought you were going to say that Vista was causing the iPod metal shell to become highly charged and was responsible for electrocutions.
After all, Vista kills babies!
Err.. I had a Hewlett Crapard and a Hell.. Dell.
I ended up getting a T61 for home usage and I love it. 5 year warranty and works perfect with Linux.
Try working on This if you could port it to FUSE.
I'd be willing to pay 50$ for a working beta.
I would argue that point. I could understand 100K$ from an author who does nothing but write, however, I know colleagues that write books in their spare time. Other than their time, they spend money approaching 0$ to make that book. With a thorough understanding of Latex, one could even do the typesetting locally, and send the book to a good publishing firm like lulu.com for small runs.
I wouldn't go there if I were you. According to companies like Monsanto, sharing seed stock (from the apples) breaches the bag agreements and they could come down on you like a ton of bricks. Their argument goes that you could illegally create THEIR product for free. But aside that point... the farmer realizes there will be a demand for apples, but is guaranteed no sales. And depending on how he does, he will either invest in apples more, or will exit the market or go divest to different crop.
I dont pay the farmer "lifetime+50 years" of sustenance for that bag of apples. Why's it different for artsy types?
That's the thing. I dont need to come up with a workable solution. I do know where it breaks down. As of right now, I can download nearly every movie in the theaters. I can also download any amount of music, including complete discographies. I can also download season of shows in one fell swoop. I can collect every OS out there like they're going out of style, proprietary or not. I can get any amount of commercial and industrial apps to run darn near every process. I also have access to the internal tools used by semiconductor companies to re-flash devices, along with the firmware code for most of these devices.
The question isnt to ask me "what do we put in place", but "what went wrong with our copyright". Dont get me wrong, but I do believe that we need to encourage the arts and sciences as stated in our Constitution. How exactly we do that is another story altogether. If you happen to think, at least in terms of copyright, that 150+ years is acceptable, there's nothing you can do to change my mind about that.
We also see problems where certain companies snatch up patents and sit on them so that nobody can utilize them. That should not happen. As the Constitution says, we need to encourage, not hinder. IIRC, the Wright brothers literally stalled flight in our country until the Government took it under eminent domain (patents ARE property, as they say). WW1 started real flight in our country.
You're a religious troll, whether you know it or not.
I was Catholic who went away from the religion because I read that damned book and started asking questions.
And every question I asked either fell into the category:
1: Bad translation
2: Allegory
3: Not Vatican Approved material
According to Catholics, the Genesis story, Soddom story, Noah's story are all allegories to explain yet another fall of Man.
It's a story, nothing more. We dont look at the stories of Greek mythology and explain that the sun IS carried by a chariot of the gods.
---It could be the ability of one or more of our 5 senses to work together and provide info, faster than we can rationalize it, or maybe there are other senses at work, maybe we do possess a "radar like", which somehow, works for us, but which we aren't always aware consciously.
Im going into EE, so I'd like to think im rather logical and level headed (if not weird thinking, but always logically).
Well, when I was younger, perhaps 14 or 15, we went to a small town bordering on the Ohio River on the Kentucky side. My dad had problems at his work and we were looking at moving and have him work at a chemical company. Like any family that might move, we go look at houses. There was this one house that was about 80 years old and belonged prior to a fishmonger. After entering, I got creeped out. It wasn't a "this place smells".. It was a "a murder happened here" feeling. Something wasn't right. I walked through 12 homes prior. This place was just different, as if it happened recently, or was still strong in the house.
I only felt that in one other place, and that was where a murder did take place. Something was there too, but not nearly as strong. That house felt like a beacon of despair.
---I believe that our biggest drawback is in the way we are educated from childhood, we do not develop any of our instincts and thus, in a way, suppress them, instead of acknowledging them. How many stories about very young children who can see ghosts, etc... Why so young? I say because they are more instinctive, their minds are more receptive.
And what of the stories of remembering past memories? Some of the recent reincarnation stories have been recorded and fact checked. And I just cannot accept that when someone dies, they just end up in the dirt as worm food. I mean, where does that knowledge and memories go? I just think that our technology cannot perceive something that could happen on the quantum level of such massive scale.
---Bottom line, this type of knowledge, the powers of the mind, instinct, mind reader, clearvoyance, etc.. well, it cannot be dismissed, it does exist.
Many of these things could be described in scientific terms as of now. And I'm not apt to dismiss those findings either, but work should be done to determine if some of these are illusions of sorts on the mind, or if they have a real measurable effect. After all, science is the investigation of measurable data. Cant measure? Cant test. So far though, clair* tests show no usable data.
---Let's not forget how we only use about 5% to 10% of our brain, so, who knows what else we can do with the rest of it.
Absolutely NOT true. Go look at a fMRI that has been placed on the net. Different parts of the brain activate at different times, but memory almost always make the fMRI go "Christmas tree" on us. It's more like a rolling 90~95%.
Pascals wager is nullified as long as you have 2 mutually exclusive religions that require complete subservience.
We have at least 2 religions that threaten $bad_place for non-observance.
Therefore, I am going to at least 1 $bad_place.
Since I am going to $bad_place, why do I worship? Fear of going to $bad_place.
Agreed.
The bible has 2 purposes: explaining the history of God and the Jews, and Explaining the Sacrifice of Jesus. Those are religously significant, but not scientifically so. And for all understandable reasons, if we could ask an oracle if the story of Jesus was true and found out it wasnt, what would fill the void of loss of Christianity?
I would rather they live in ignorance (and come to on their own terms) than have the void of a top 3 religion go poof.
That's because you do not play the slashdot game correctly. One cannot talk good about something unless it is open source, free, or cool. Religion has none of the 3, and is popular whipping boy for the atheists.
First, what does the original translation say? What translation are you going by? NIV? King James? Also, might I remind you, in observance of #2 that the Greeks were able to determine the circumference of the Earth. A few sayings from the bible aren't willing to convince me... or shall we dredge up Exodus on how we should treat our neighbors after they wrong somebody?
It's fairly commonly accepted that the great flood of Noah was a stolen story from the times of Gilgamesh. I also saw no such youtube video. You ought to explain yourself more here, as I have no clue and no link from you.
Meanwhile, the "Tree of Life" talks about all animals slowly evolving over time, starting at, let's say, amoebas and ending with man. Except the fossil record shows all life 'sprung' into existance (cosmologically speaking) in the Pre-Cambrian era: all the phylum, vertebrates and invertebrates.
The "Tree of Life" was simply a sketch in "Origin of Species". Flawed though it is, is it better to cling to that, and ignore the proven truths of the Bible? That's no longer ignorant, it's hiding from the truth.
Proof? You either believe the bible, or you dont. Dont make this some sort of bible thumping session. That's why nobody likes to hear from you. Better yet, only use the original languages the native peoples used: Roman, Greek, Aramaic. That would be fairly impressive IF you found real references of such, not a re-re-re-re-re-retranslation.
Then I assume that you are not familiar with RBAC systems like SELinux built in the kernel. In a "dangerous" environment where 1 minute of downtime is equal to 100k$'s, lockdown is the only way to go. Running as root or equivalent should never be allowed, period.
We can lock even root down to console-only access and have the user-servers loaded up from netboot and nsf mounted drives from the user-server. Roles based upon who the user is will grant access to what they need to do, and nothing more. All actions will be logged, and all critical decisions will be logged to a recording server. Why wouldn't we want to have users use dumb terminals? 2 commands can kill their session and lock them out.
Viruses will not exist, as we can literally prevent the user from executing anything, even in their home environment. Root, with other than console access, is yet another user.
Thats the key. Nobody knows about it, nor would casual scanning find it.
And what makes you think that there's no security? Its called a shared secret. And the UDP overflow gunk: I throw away any packets over X size.
Amd im an EE student that was going into computer and network engineering.
There's a way to introduce engineering methods in IT. I just treat each network as its own system and hook those systems together like black boxes. As long as we diagram the traces (read network connections), we can follow trouble patterns and diagnose problems quickly. We can then map virtual networks above as we would have a 2 layer circuit board. Since we know what goes where, we can easily see why a level 2 network connection would go down.
As for computer security, I see no reason why we need "anti-virus", or any anti-ware at all. Windows can be locked down so that only approved binaries run. Second, scripts can be made that allow read/write to external and plug-in storage. We also control the hardware, so we can do other tricks, such as giving Linux to those that have no reason to use Windows. There, we can disable many functions to a minimum. If a user has no need for 3d graphics, we disable it. If they have no reason to use a webbrowser, they do not have one.
It IS those damned IT guys that insist on keeping everything the same regardless of true consequences. I figure thats why they're paid to be IT: determine true needs per computer/compartment.
Obviously not.
Like I commented on his thread, I do the same thing with my security camera recording point. All of it's over wifi with 1 sending, the other receiving.
It's completely 1 way. Radio-direction-finding proves I'm not emanating signal on that rf card.