Michael Moore made a Doctored Documentary. Most of it was fiction. He staged the bank incident, he took clips out of context. He has an agenda, face it!
The NRA conference (not rally!) was planned there a year in advance, so it went on. Moore took sound bites from other speeches and plugged them in to fit his script. It was not a documentary, was not factual, was not even well made.
I am a gun owner, a Veteran, and NOT a member of the NRA. I am protective of my God Given rights (as enumerated in the Bill of Rights), But I do not belong to the NRA for personal reasons.
I do however belong to Gun Owners of America, support the 2nd Ammendment Foundation and am a proud Gentile member of JPFO (Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership).
Guns are not the problem, People are the problem.
The most heavily armed country in the free world is Switzerland! Average of One FULLY AUTOMATIC Battle rifle with Ammo, per houshold.
why not spend the $50 or so you are going to pay for a software firewall and buy a 2 port appliance from linksys, belkin, netgear,or dlink...
I quit using Symantec and/or Mcafee about 3 years ago, never looked back, never had a problem. Vexira from centralcommand is good, along with Panda, never had a leak with either of them, but the years I was forced to use the "corporate standard" my office PC was nailed by every passing virus. Interesting that the "cheap stuff" I was using on the home PC was updated as fast or faster than the Symantec solution that the enterprise had.
Instead of sending troops to bomb the sun into submission and set up a democracy, he will be sending ALL of the UN to do a fact-finding study on the possibility of opening dialogue with the inhabitants. Along with the fact finding, he has authorized NASA to use a shuttle to send Chirac, Schroedder, and Hans Blix to start onsite inspections.
If that doesn't work, I'm sure Martin Sheen, Michael Moore, Barbara Streisand, et al will be sent there to show the sun the errors in its ways.
The whole Liberal left has empathy with solar power, they should be able to convince the sun to moderate the outrageous outbursts and learn to just get along.
This is the Kinder, Gentler, President; he has been chastised by the best minds of Hollywood, so I know he will do the correct thing!
The best officers I served with were the ones that let the Sergeants do their job.
The Sergeant's job is to accomplish the mission, take care of the troops and keep the Captain looking good. When a captain learned that, the unit functioned like a well oiled machine, and esprit de corps was at a peak.
The Sergeants may not have the Master's degrees, but they have just as high IQs as their "superior officers" and the experience that the Officer will never be able to obtain. The Smart Officer leads these men and women toward the objective by asking their advice.
When the Captain thought that he was better, smarter, or more important than his Sergeants, the unit functioned like a typical corporation. Morale sucked, efficiency went out the window as the Captain commanded the unit instead of leading. Micromanagement is bad in Business, but it is deadly in combat.
Routable: accessable from the internet. Private IP schemes on your linksys are not routable past the linksys. Sure you could setup multiple soho routers and have a bunch of nested NATs, but that is not the same as having a whole class A subnet that is accessible from anywhere!
Do a scan on MITs net and see what all is there - just a few more that 3 machines!
More to the point, if you are good enough to work at the MIT NOC, you are truly a geek's geek.
Why use a class A subnet scheme at home? Is that a new status symbol? Sounds something like the spoilers and ground effects on the underpowered sub-compact cars I see limping down the interstate.
Linux WILL stop you (or me) because I do not log in with root permissions as a default. However I can install software without root permission. So for you to "control" my system, you would have to send me some software that I install as an unprivileged user that will install a root kit on my box.
That would be a major task for you to convince me to install said software.
However, all I would have to do is miss a close click on a IE popup and malware could be installed. This happens daily at the college with locked down Win2k. No unzip programs, No rights to install anything. Can not even add a shortcut to the desktop on the machines, but spyware keeps popping up. Thank RMS that they have one lab that has Linux and some BSD installed.
Now tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I don't watch the gang of MCSEs running around updating and "de-spyboting" the Win2K and XP boxes while I surf the same sites using Konqueror. Tell me this and I will know you are not just a MS Fanboy, but a fool and a liar.
It is the responsibility of the software developers to create secure software, just as it is the responsibility of any tool manufacturer to create safe tools, or of Ford to make safe SUVs. Ford and Firestone created unsafe conditions, and look what happened. Microsoft creates unsafe conditions, and you pay them more to pretend to fix them.... Only in America!
Ahh.. opinion is protected from libel suits.
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Whilst we appreciate the compliment of being treated as an authority, we can return it only by observing that SCO has become a nest of liars and thieves compared to which IBM at its historic worst looked positively angelic. --ESR]
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He Observes that SCO......Same as he thinks that.
I think McBride is an egotistical ass.
That is my opinion, I have a right to it.
Now if I claim that I researched school records and police records and positively state that he is a reformed felon, a highschool dropout, and an unreformed bigamist; then I would be guilty of libel.
"In a civil trial the standard of proof is said to be on the balance of probabilities.
So, a judgment is made for plantiff if, on the balance of probabilities, it is more likely than not that the plaintiff's story is true."
Yes AC got it right! The term in US civil cases is "preponderance of evidence" which the textbooks equate to mean that all it takes is 51% of the evidence to prove who is the winner.
In criminal cases, the rule is "beyond a reasonable doubt". That means if anyone of the jury ( being composed of 12 theoretically "reasonable persons") has a doubt, then the defendant is innocent.
That is one story of why OJ walked free, but payed a civil settlement! There was just enough doubt to his guilt, therefore he was judged innocent. But there was enough evidence to make him pay in civil court for unlawfull death.
" Openfiler will become a stand-alone Linux distribution."
Right now it is sitting on top RH. They are planning on a stand alone version, as soon as they incorporate all of the legitimate user requested features and squash any bugs.
If there is no interest, then they will move on to something else. If there is great interest, then they will continue developing.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
I ssh in daily from public machines time to my home RH boxes. Putty is a great product, lets me jump on the "locked down" W2K machines at the College Computer lab to do whatever I want to do. They have to allow floppy access, so they can't stop it. I can open a quick "hole" by allowing anon ftp uploads ( if I don't want to give a buddy an account) then close it. Or I can chmod some files in the/pub dir for a set time limit to give somone a window of opportunity to download them, then chmod them back!
I don't worship icons, so the command line does not frighten me.
"...if the water flows in both directions, half the time it will be undoing the charging effect."
Discharging? Or would it be producing a low frequency Alternating Current? AC current reverses it self 60 or 50 times a second, depending on your continent.
But why wory about the Sea? What about all of the rivers that flow into them?
I live in Western Pennsylvania, and there are flood control dams every few miles along the Allegheny and Ohio rivers. They are only a few feet high, but they have a positive flow potential that would force water through these devices.
I also know of a nice water powered blacksmith shop near Lahr, Germany that has been using the potential energy stored in water to power trip hammers since the 11th century.
Water wheels and mills were all the rage before electricity. Maybe it is now time for the return of the old mill pond and the local electric cooperative.
Actually we hardass OSS fanboys refuse to use crippled hardware like Win Modems and Win Printers.
So the whole premise for this kluge software is Moot!
The users that buy winmodems get Windows "free" with their system. They will not try OSS, because it requires thinking outside of the comfortable box. The Linux/*BSD community tends to know enough to build their own boxes or if time constrained, they order them with fully functioning components.
Freedom requires a bit of effort - Slavery just requires apathy.
Why are all of the AC fanboy MS trolls posting today?
Must be all the *NIX Admins with mod points are off enjoying a good game on the TV and all the MCSEs are stuck at work patching the latest feature and waiting for reboots, so they come here to whine.
Me? I'm not a sport's fan, the SO is PMSing, and there is noting to tweak on my servers, so I read SlashDot.
But why would communists dirty their hands funding anyone? All good commies do it solely for the glorious revolution. They don't believe in the capitalist system!
Now we have the filthy capitalist swine making an imoral profit from Free Stuff! Just look at Redhat, making a profit. Look at Suse, look at Mandrake... ok Scratch Mandrake they may have to learn what a the profit model looks like. I guess you think that we should have the filthy capitalist swine making an imoral profit from only Proprietary Stuff! What is the difference?
Not trying to nitpick, but how many truly positive monumental advances in the human condition were made by a government entity? Mass production? The Industrial Revolution? The cure for Polio?
To paraphrase the parent post:
The Government sector is not about bettering mankind, its about power and many public sector bureaucrats are not averse to using very dubious, and in many cases downright criminal methods to achieve their aims.
A benevolent Gov't may sponser and fund the private sector if the advances are in the interest of the Gov't. Remember that just 100 years ago, every government on this earth knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Horseless carriages and the Aeroplane were nothing more than rich man's toys. The Railroad was all that was needed to tame the wild frontiers, and even that was private enterprise.
Try remote Admin of *NIX servers from locked down Windows2K boxes. I can't even use the floppy, so putty is out. But since it lets me surf, I can go to port 10000 and work on the system.
Usermin is also great, allows my users to get their email via web.
Been using it for almost 2 years, it is the first thing I add on to any server I build.
Can someone show me just where in the Bill of Rights it talks about Corporations?
In all the law and criminal justice classes I have been taking these past 2 years, I always got the impression that the Constitution and, more specifically, the Bill of Rights defined:
the limits that the Government can infringe on the Pre-existing rights of Human Beings
Corporations are entities created by governments, and therefore have only the rights granted to them by those governments.
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Michael Moore made a Doctored Documentary. Most of it was fiction. He staged the bank incident, he took clips out of context. He has an agenda, face it!
The NRA conference (not rally!) was planned there a year in advance, so it went on. Moore took sound bites from other speeches and plugged them in to fit his script. It was not a documentary, was not factual, was not even well made.
I am a gun owner, a Veteran, and NOT a member of the NRA. I am protective of my God Given rights (as enumerated in the Bill of Rights), But I do not belong to the NRA for personal reasons.
I do however belong to Gun Owners of America, support the 2nd Ammendment Foundation and am a proud Gentile member of JPFO (Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership).
Guns are not the problem, People are the problem. The most heavily armed country in the free world is Switzerland! Average of One FULLY AUTOMATIC Battle rifle with Ammo, per houshold.
avg for a free antivirus.
why not spend the $50 or so you are going to pay for a software firewall and buy a 2 port appliance from linksys, belkin, netgear,or dlink...
I quit using Symantec and/or Mcafee about 3 years ago, never looked back, never had a problem. Vexira from centralcommand is good, along with Panda, never had a leak with either of them, but the years I was forced to use the "corporate standard" my office PC was nailed by every passing virus.
Interesting that the "cheap stuff" I was using on the home PC was updated as fast or faster than the Symantec solution that the enterprise had.
You nailed it!
What next, do they block the RNC or the DNC depending on the political persuasion of the CEO?
I wonder if they do block the libertarian party, anyone know?
One more reason not to use any symantic product (not that I need an excuse!)
Bolster their claims of a customer base by going here and registering as a bogus customer. /. a database?
Can we
Well Bush learned his lesson:
Instead of sending troops to bomb the sun into submission and set up a democracy, he will be sending ALL of the UN to do a fact-finding study on the possibility of opening dialogue with the inhabitants. Along with the fact finding, he has authorized NASA to use a shuttle to send Chirac, Schroedder, and Hans Blix to start onsite inspections.
If that doesn't work, I'm sure Martin Sheen, Michael Moore, Barbara Streisand, et al will be sent there to show the sun the errors in its ways.
The whole Liberal left has empathy with solar power, they should be able to convince the sun to moderate the outrageous outbursts and learn to just get along.
This is the Kinder, Gentler, President; he has been chastised by the best minds of Hollywood, so I know he will do the correct thing!
The best officers I served with were the ones that let the Sergeants do their job.
The Sergeant's job is to accomplish the mission, take care of the troops and keep the Captain looking good. When a captain learned that, the unit functioned like a well oiled machine, and esprit de corps was at a peak.
The Sergeants may not have the Master's degrees, but they have just as high IQs as their "superior officers" and the experience that the Officer will never be able to obtain. The Smart Officer leads these men and women toward the objective by asking their advice.
When the Captain thought that he was better, smarter, or more important than his Sergeants, the unit functioned like a typical corporation. Morale sucked, efficiency went out the window as the Captain commanded the unit instead of leading. Micromanagement is bad in Business, but it is deadly in combat.
Routable: accessable from the internet. Private IP schemes on your linksys are not routable past the linksys.
Sure you could setup multiple soho routers and have a bunch of nested NATs, but that is not the same as having a whole class A subnet that is accessible from anywhere!
Do a scan on MITs net and see what all is there - just a few more that 3 machines!
More to the point, if you are good enough to work at the MIT NOC, you are truly a geek's geek.
Why use a class A subnet scheme at home? Is that a new status symbol? Sounds something like the spoilers and ground effects on the underpowered sub-compact cars I see limping down the interstate.
Kind of, The site www.msdn.microsoft.com is running Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on Windows Server 2003.
Their up time average is an astounding 18 days! Max was 112 days. Looks like they are finally learning something!
Now if you could just install service packs and sucurity patches without rebooting. When they get to that point, Server 2003 will be Enterprise Ready!
Netcraft uptime
So send me some spyware!
Linux WILL stop you (or me) because I do not log in with root permissions as a default. However I can install software without root permission. So for you to "control" my system, you would have to send me some software that I install as an unprivileged user that will install a root kit on my box.
That would be a major task for you to convince me to install said software.
However, all I would have to do is miss a close click on a IE popup and malware could be installed. This happens daily at the college with locked down Win2k. No unzip programs, No rights to install anything. Can not even add a shortcut to the desktop on the machines, but spyware keeps popping up.
Thank RMS that they have one lab that has Linux and some BSD installed.
Now tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I don't watch the gang of MCSEs running around updating and "de-spyboting" the Win2K and XP boxes while I surf the same sites using Konqueror. Tell me this and I will know you are not just a MS Fanboy, but a fool and a liar.
It is the responsibility of the software developers to create secure software, just as it is the responsibility of any tool manufacturer to create safe tools, or of Ford to make safe SUVs. Ford and Firestone created unsafe conditions, and look what happened. Microsoft creates unsafe conditions, and you pay them more to pretend to fix them.... Only in America!
Ahh.. opinion is protected from libel suits.
-------------
Whilst we appreciate the compliment of being treated as an authority, we can return it only by observing that SCO has become a nest of liars and thieves compared to which IBM at its historic worst looked positively angelic. --ESR]
------------
He Observes that SCO......Same as he thinks that.
I think McBride is an egotistical ass.
That is my opinion, I have a right to it.
Now if I claim that I researched school records and police records and positively state that he is a reformed felon, a highschool dropout, and an unreformed bigamist; then I would be guilty of libel.
"In a civil trial the standard of proof is said to be on the balance of probabilities.
So, a judgment is made for plantiff if, on the balance of probabilities, it is more likely than not that the plaintiff's story is true."
Yes AC got it right! The term in US civil cases is "preponderance of evidence" which the textbooks equate to mean that all it takes is 51% of the evidence to prove who is the winner.
In criminal cases, the rule is "beyond a reasonable doubt". That means if anyone of the jury ( being composed of 12 theoretically "reasonable persons") has a doubt, then the defendant is innocent.
That is one story of why OJ walked free, but payed a civil settlement!
There was just enough doubt to his guilt, therefore he was judged innocent. But there was enough evidence to make him pay in civil court for unlawfull death.
" Openfiler will become a stand-alone Linux distribution."
Right now it is sitting on top RH. They are planning on a stand alone version, as soon as they incorporate all of the legitimate user requested features and squash any bugs.
If there is no interest, then they will move on to something else. If there is great interest, then they will continue developing.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Doesn't mean that I can't do things on the box. I just can't remotely screw the security on the box.
And Guess what? The Users can work on the box just fine. Maybe you should try SELinux before you shoot your mouth off and look like a total ass.
Sometimes it is better to say nothing and be thought a fool, than to post AC and remove all doubt!
Maybe Joe user would like to log in remotely?
/pub dir for a set time limit to give somone a window of opportunity to download them, then chmod them back!
I ssh in daily from public machines time to my home RH boxes. Putty is a great product, lets me jump on the "locked down" W2K machines at the College Computer lab to do whatever I want to do. They have to allow floppy access, so they can't stop it.
I can open a quick "hole" by allowing anon ftp uploads ( if I don't want to give a buddy an account) then close it. Or I can chmod some files in the
I don't worship icons, so the command line does not frighten me.
" ...if the water flows in both directions, half the time it will be undoing the charging effect."
Discharging? Or would it be producing a low frequency Alternating Current? AC current reverses it self 60 or 50 times a second, depending on your continent.
But why wory about the Sea? What about all of the rivers that flow into them?
I live in Western Pennsylvania, and there are flood control dams every few miles along the Allegheny and Ohio rivers. They are only a few feet high, but they have a positive flow potential that would force water through these devices.
I also know of a nice water powered blacksmith shop near Lahr, Germany that has been using the potential energy stored in water to power trip hammers since the 11th century.
Water wheels and mills were all the rage before electricity. Maybe it is now time for the return of the old mill pond and the local electric cooperative.
In the future will Canadians be smuggling water over the border to pay American doctors for health care.
Interesting to think how that will all iron out under the future free trade laws.
Actually we hardass OSS fanboys refuse to use crippled hardware like Win Modems and Win Printers.
So the whole premise for this kluge software is Moot!
The users that buy winmodems get Windows "free" with their system. They will not try OSS, because it requires thinking outside of the comfortable box. The Linux/*BSD community tends to know enough to build their own boxes or if time constrained, they order them with fully functioning components.
Freedom requires a bit of effort - Slavery just requires apathy.
Why are all of the AC fanboy MS trolls posting today?
Must be all the *NIX Admins with mod points are off enjoying a good game on the TV and all the MCSEs are stuck at work patching the latest feature and waiting for reboots, so they come here to whine.
Me? I'm not a sport's fan, the SO is PMSing, and there is noting to tweak on my servers, so I read SlashDot.
Where's the facts? Gimme Links, troll!
But why would communists dirty their hands funding anyone? All good commies do it solely for the glorious revolution. They don't believe in the capitalist system!
Now we have the filthy capitalist swine making an imoral profit from Free Stuff!
Just look at Redhat, making a profit. Look at Suse, look at Mandrake... ok Scratch Mandrake they may have to learn what a the profit model looks like.
I guess you think that we should have the filthy capitalist swine making an imoral profit from only Proprietary Stuff! What is the difference?
Yes, I own stock in Redhat!
This old (Jan 2003) article has some relevant points to the Gates humor piece in The Register:
The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science
It's a Marketing feature!
( And unfortunately not limited to MS or even the computer industry!)
The difference between a used car salesman and a corporate wonk like Gates:
The salseman KNOWS when he is lying.
Not trying to nitpick, but how many truly positive monumental advances in the human condition were made by a government entity? Mass production? The Industrial Revolution? The cure for Polio?
To paraphrase the parent post:
The Government sector is not about bettering mankind, its about power and many public sector bureaucrats are not averse to using very dubious, and in many cases downright criminal methods to achieve their aims.
A benevolent Gov't may sponser and fund the private sector if the advances are in the interest of the Gov't. Remember that just 100 years ago, every government on this earth knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Horseless carriages and the Aeroplane were nothing more than rich man's toys. The Railroad was all that was needed to tame the wild frontiers, and even that was private enterprise.
Try remote Admin of *NIX servers from locked down Windows2K boxes. I can't even use the floppy, so putty is out. But since it lets me surf, I can go to port 10000 and work on the system. Usermin is also great, allows my users to get their email via web. Been using it for almost 2 years, it is the first thing I add on to any server I build.
Can someone show me just where in the Bill of Rights it talks about Corporations?
In all the law and criminal justice classes I have been taking these past 2 years, I always got the impression that the Constitution and, more specifically, the Bill of Rights defined:
the limits that the Government can infringe on the Pre-existing rights of Human Beings
Corporations are entities created by governments, and therefore have only the rights granted to them by those governments.
Now point me to a link that proves me wrong --
Send this to the Dave Berry one!