Exactly, I would have understood if the guy had picked Metallica but not Bowie. What's more, Bowie must be one of the few famous musicians who know a lot about IT (I read he spends huge amounts of time on the net, hey I wouldn't be too surprised if he read Slashdot!).
On the one hand you hear people rightly bashing Microsoft, but on the other people credulously believe that M$ loses money on every XBox therefore we should all buy some. Yeah, right, and you want to lick Steve Ballmer's shoes with that ?
No, it's not that they like the coffee there, it sucks and anybody who tasted real coffee can understand that. The reason is that most people are sheep, just follow where other idiots are so that they look "so cool". Wow. Drinking piss and happy with that, way to go guys ! LOL
Well, no. Comparing wxWindows to Qt is ridiculous, Qt is much more than a GUI library, it includes lots of modules (which you can disable selectively). Among other things you have : XML, OpenGL, network, database,...
wxWindows is cool but it's not intended for the same market. wxWindows lacks many things (it has a very weak unicode support for example) that make it inappropriate for serious development.
Thanks for the link, definitely cool stuff !
I agree with you that it shouldn't be too hard to code it myself but I cannot find any free reference available and you have to pay $100 or so to get the official one...
Would that be the beginning of a solution ? I haven't seen any BT site on freenet but I wouldn't be surprised to see some soon... Try to shut down the sites in question then...
I'm a big fan of ImageMagick, use it mostyly on Windows and haven't encountered any install problem some earlier post related, if you know how to press a "next" button that's well enough...
Now one thing I've been looking for is something to let me read RAW (headerless) CCIT G.4 (fax-type encoding),ImageMagick doesn't support it and the few free tools I found didn't work quite well. Anybody got recommendations ?
The law was written the way it was to keep the people in government from abusing its power, and it was done with great insite and forthought. It is not a principal that changes with the times, it is what should be a universal right. While the world is changing such that its easier for the public to use Free Speech in a dangerous way, its also changing such that abusers in government can abuse censorship more easily. If the govermnet can just say: "Sorry, what you are saying threatens national security" then where does the line get drawn and by whom? If the line is subjective, it WILL be abused or misused! Do you want a for instance that isnt too far fetched?
Here, lets say I was speaking up about the fact that there is public information available that would allow terrorist attacks on our country by means of cutting our data communcations. Simply by saying this publicly I could reasonably be causing a risk to national security. My statement might cause a terrorist to become aware that the information is available,and cause him/her to go looking where they otherwise wouldnt have. The government with the power to shut me up might censor me to avoid this risk. By doing so, however, they might put the country more at risk because now the problem will not get the attention, and may not get fixed before someone wishing to do harm stumbles on it by themselves.
What if Im a person with communist ideas? May I speak about them? Speaking about them might insite some group of people to riot or attack some US interest. Am I a risk to national security. What if I speak up against war? Am I a risk to national security. What if I speak publicly and ask the postal service to strike, and that causes a national mail crisis. Am I a risk to national security?
Maybe you havent been paying attention to the news. Have you heard about Hong Kong, and how the Chinese Govt. wants to instate their "Subversion, and National Security laws" in HK just like there is in main land China? Do you think our country would be better with if we were reduced to the pittiful lack of free speach rights they have in China? Have you heard of the Great Firewall of China that protects Chinese "National Security" ?
It will never be the right of the government to say who has the right to speak. Not on the basis of their 6th grade education. Not on the basis of National Security, not on the basis of "subversion", not on the basis of "Lewdness", not on the basis of "Morality". Any line drawn on the basis of an unclear or subjective measure will necessarily result in abuse and the eventual erosion of the most wonderful freedom available. (for those of you who are dense:) thats free speech)
Well you cannot keep information like this secure forever. Someone will always get it. The question is : will we allow the US government to to deprive us of our liberties to the extent that the gov't really can keep this information for ourselves, and only let it out when it's in their interest for a building to get bombed, or do we fight to keep information free?
People who claim this information is a security risk are looking at things the wrong way round...
It is easy enough for anybody to find out anything that they want about the US, but it is not due to ease of access. It is that we are a hetergenous society. Anybody can move easily here and simply look. This article, and some of people act like this info is difficult to obtain. It isn't. Want to locate fiber optics? Follow the rail system, the high tension power lines, and the highways. The installation involved obtaining ROWs which were almost always easier to follow other ROWs. As to finding out a set of central offices, simply get a job at a rboc or a power company. Once inside the company, the info is freely available.
For those who think this is bad, look at the old soviet union. Even for all their hard security (which seems to be the direction that we are headed), we knew most of their soft spots. So even if we truely implement the same society that Soviet Union had, we would still be a main target. Any time you have fixed assets, it is a target. period.
He's able to leverage the data so that he can see gains (I'm thinking an entire career) while the folks that have lots to lose (banks, utilities, transportation, US gov) pay for him to help show their achilies heels and bottlenecks.
If 25 telcos happen to be sharing the same 'pipe' of fibre, it may not be a terrorist that breaks that connection... regardless of who severs that line, it ain't good for the telcos -- and the telcos should be using his data to reduce risks.
Insurance companies and actuaries for corporations and governments love this kind of stuff, as do operations research people. Tell me how much it'll cost to reduce risk to this level, or: I have $10,000,000 -- how can I spend it to ensure that the worst case scenario isn't as bad.
Hopefully the information doesn't become classified; hopefully, it's used over the next few years to sure up the bottlenecks and other weak points, making the infrastructure far more robust in the following years.
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But I'm sure you don't mind paying for watching Fox News bullshit, am I right ?
Exactly, I would have understood if the guy had picked Metallica but not Bowie. What's more, Bowie must be one of the few famous musicians who know a lot about IT (I read he spends huge amounts of time on the net, hey I wouldn't be too surprised if he read Slashdot!).
No, thanks !
I've beggun downloading it - not that fast so far but if more people join in that could get interesting.
Thanks dude !
On the one hand you hear people rightly bashing Microsoft, but on the other people credulously believe that M$ loses money on every XBox therefore we should all buy some. Yeah, right, and you want to lick Steve Ballmer's shoes with that ?
No, it's not that they like the coffee there, it sucks and anybody who tasted real coffee can understand that. The reason is that most people are sheep, just follow where other idiots are so that they look "so cool". Wow. Drinking piss and happy with that, way to go guys ! LOL
Well, no. Comparing wxWindows to Qt is ridiculous, Qt is much more than a GUI library, it includes lots of modules (which you can disable selectively). Among other things you have : XML, OpenGL, network, database, ...
wxWindows is cool but it's not intended for the same market. wxWindows lacks many things (it has a very weak unicode support for example) that make it inappropriate for serious development.
Thanks for the link, definitely cool stuff ! I agree with you that it shouldn't be too hard to code it myself but I cannot find any free reference available and you have to pay $100 or so to get the official one...
Darn, I duped myself. Thought my first post didn't go through...
Wouldn't that be a cool option ? They can always try the site in question if it's on Freenet...
Anybody's seen that kind of site yet
?
Would that be the beginning of a solution ?
I haven't seen any BT site on freenet but I wouldn't be surprised to see some soon... Try to shut down the sites in question then...
I'm a big fan of ImageMagick, use it mostyly on Windows and haven't encountered any install problem some earlier post related, if you know how to press a "next" button that's well enough...
Now one thing I've been looking for is something to let me read RAW (headerless) CCIT G.4 (fax-type encoding),ImageMagick doesn't support it and the few free tools I found didn't work quite well. Anybody got recommendations ?
Here, lets say I was speaking up about the fact that there is public information available that would allow terrorist attacks on our country by means of cutting our data communcations. Simply by saying this publicly I could reasonably be causing a risk to national security. My statement might cause a terrorist to become aware that the information is available,and cause him/her to go looking where they otherwise wouldnt have. The government with the power to shut me up might censor me to avoid this risk. By doing so, however, they might put the country more at risk because now the problem will not get the attention, and may not get fixed before someone wishing to do harm stumbles on it by themselves.
What if Im a person with communist ideas? May I speak about them? Speaking about them might insite some group of people to riot or attack some US interest. Am I a risk to national security. What if I speak up against war? Am I a risk to national security. What if I speak publicly and ask the postal service to strike, and that causes a national mail crisis. Am I a risk to national security?
Maybe you havent been paying attention to the news. Have you heard about Hong Kong, and how the Chinese Govt. wants to instate their "Subversion, and National Security laws" in HK just like there is in main land China? Do you think our country would be better with if we were reduced to the pittiful lack of free speach rights they have in China? Have you heard of the Great Firewall of China that protects Chinese "National Security" ? It will never be the right of the government to say who has the right to speak. Not on the basis of their 6th grade education. Not on the basis of National Security, not on the basis of "subversion", not on the basis of "Lewdness", not on the basis of "Morality". Any line drawn on the basis of an unclear or subjective measure will necessarily result in abuse and the eventual erosion of the most wonderful freedom available. (for those of you who are dense :) thats free speech)
Well you cannot keep information like this secure forever. Someone will always get it. The question is : will we allow the US government to to deprive us of our liberties to the extent that the gov't really can keep this information for ourselves, and only let it out when it's in their interest for a building to get bombed, or do we fight to keep information free?
People who claim this information is a security risk are looking at things the wrong way round...
It is easy enough for anybody to find out anything that they want about the US, but it is not due to ease of access. It is that we are a hetergenous society. Anybody can move easily here and simply look. This article, and some of people act like this info is difficult to obtain. It isn't. Want to locate fiber optics? Follow the rail system, the high tension power lines, and the highways. The installation involved obtaining ROWs which were almost always easier to follow other ROWs. As to finding out a set of central offices, simply get a job at a rboc or a power company. Once inside the company, the info is freely available.
For those who think this is bad, look at the old soviet union. Even for all their hard security (which seems to be the direction that we are headed), we knew most of their soft spots. So even if we truely implement the same society that Soviet Union had, we would still be a main target. Any time you have fixed assets, it is a target. period.
He's able to leverage the data so that he can see gains (I'm thinking an entire career) while the folks that have lots to lose (banks, utilities, transportation, US gov) pay for him to help show their achilies heels and bottlenecks. If 25 telcos happen to be sharing the same 'pipe' of fibre, it may not be a terrorist that breaks that connection... regardless of who severs that line, it ain't good for the telcos -- and the telcos should be using his data to reduce risks. Insurance companies and actuaries for corporations and governments love this kind of stuff, as do operations research people. Tell me how much it'll cost to reduce risk to this level, or: I have $10,000,000 -- how can I spend it to ensure that the worst case scenario isn't as bad. Hopefully the information doesn't become classified; hopefully, it's used over the next few years to sure up the bottlenecks and other weak points, making the infrastructure far more robust in the following years.