You DO intend to padlock them from the outside, yes?
Then all we'll need is some wire cutters to clip off their communications, and we're done with them.
uhm, i seriously doubt this can be done in any sort of meaningful manner. and yes I have heard of networked computers and clusters... there is simply too much information... dont believe me? i just did a very quick search on google and came up with the following article:
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Foreign_and_local/?f=cs e_canada_sigint.overview.txt
and to quote:
"In any case, the volume of Canadian domestic communications is far
too great for any Canadian intelligence agency, or even the
enormous NSA, to monitor more than a fraction of it, even if
Canadian communications were at the top of the monitoring priority
list."
I'm still thinking the possibility for a 'supernetwork' is viable. After all, it just takes money. The US is what, 12 TRILLION dollars in debt right now? How much of that budget is buried under 'National Security, Eyes Only'? Where would that money come from? Do you REALLY think the government spends $3000 for a hammer, 5-15,000 for a toilet seat? And if the budget for these departemts is classified for 'National Security', you may never KNOW what kind of computing power the government has.
I say we take some of that massive intelligence apparatus and turn it on the Federalist Society. They're a bigger threat to our country than Al-Qaida. The terrorists might be able to do some damage to an airport or chemical plant, but the neo-cons are undermining our freedom, our government and the very foundation of this nation.
It's time for those in law enforcement, the military and the Justice Department to start remembering that they took an oath to protect and preserve the Constitution, not the Republican party. The people threatening a building can't undermine the Constitution, it takes Dick Cheney to do that. They don't seem very worried about this fall, perhaps they feel they have the elections rigged well enough they can't lose.
And after all these bozos are in jail I say we take a paddy wagon down K Street and round up every one of those sonsabitches.
There is no way that the NSA is listening in on *every* communication. What the article suggests, if anything, is that the program is not targeted at specific individuals, but rather that they are looking for certain patterns of communication, or certain networks of communication, and then listening in on individual communications within the networks that stand out.
Never heard of networked computers before? Howbout the Beuwolf cluster? Linux-derived. And the NSA has made SIGNIFICANT contributions to Linux's codebase. A sufficiently sized cluster CAN do this, it just takes programming. Were you implying that the Feds don't HAVE programmers? Remember 'Carnivore'? Or were you thinking of ONE computer PER CALL, with 4 operators on it (1 every 8 hours for the 168 hours in the week)? Automation is a lovely thing; you might wish to check it out someday. The task in mind (monitor EVERY conversation, flag the ones that are 'interesting') lends itself quite well to heavy networked automation.
Besides, the easy way to watch DVDs on crippled OS's like Windows is to...put the disk in the drive, select the player you want to use and just watch it, just like you would under Linux or OS X.
Seriously, you can make it sound as bad as you want, but the truth is I've never had a single problem with watching DVDs on a PC and I don't know that any of my friends have, either.
You're not watching them on Vista yet. Vista isn't out yet. When it is, howbout telling us what your DVD watching experience is like then, as compared to now?
I've heard reports that HURD has been seen in the wild. It boots (sort of), gives you a nifty text screen, then goes away. I'll stick with a Linux kernel on my systems here, thankyouverymuch...
As for Vista, from what I hear, they'll finally move the video routines from the kernel & put them in a driver 'just like Linux', and fix it so that you don't need to be Administrator to run half the programs on it that you need to be when you're running XP. This is a step in the right direction. Yes, it's a return to MSDOS's Unix roots (they cribbed the directory system from Unix Back In The Day), picking up the bits that they forgot to incorporate Way Back When for file ownership and other necessary things for multi user systems. Let's face it, back in the MSDOS 3.x days, all they wanted was to be able to put in your Lotus floppy, boot up, go to work, then save it all off, pull the floppy, and red-switch it off. End users didn't give a damn what was on the floppy as long as they could use their Lotus. Those were non-networked single user single application machines that didn't NEED all the stuff endusers are demanding these days. And Microsoft is still playing catch-up in a lot of these areas, trying their best to keep their vendors locked in. Do you really believe that Firefox will work on Vista without some serious work? IE has been so tightly imbedded into Windows since Win98 that there have been several lawsuits over it with the end result that Microsoft just pays the fine & goes on; it's cheaper to pay the fine to get lock in than it would be to open things up and allow competition. Lost sales mean lost dividends for the stockholders. Microsoft will do whatever it takes to keep profits and dividends up or face a stockholder rebellion to put a board of directors in place that WILL keep profits up. It's a marketting company, not a technology company, plain and simple.
You are. Number 1 was played by Marjorie Monaghan.
Michelle Forbes played Ensign Ro on Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as various other parts over the years, including a part in 'Escape from LA'.
Not likely. It's not in Microsoft's interest to push anything but their own formats. Vendor lockin creates guaranteed profits, and in a market driven company like Microsoft, profits are EVERYTHING
Microsoft is merely responding to what people want to see in a browser these days. Let's face it, if people weren't using Opera or Firefox, IE7 wouldn't have tabs and the other nifty features it's reputed to be incorporating.
It's better than IE, which is about all that can be said for it anymore. If Microsoft is actually improving IE as a result, IE might actually come out to be a faster, better browser. As absurd as that sounds right now, if Firefox keeps adding to the bloat, and if MS keeps slowly securing and improving IE, I might some day recommend IE over Firefox.
Microsoft has to improve IE or lose more marketshare in the browser market. By letting IE stagnate for so long, they've allowed alternatives to crop up, and not just in the browser department alone. If enough people start checking those alternatives, they just might decide they don't need Windows, which will seriously affect their sales.
Microsoft is a marketting company, not a technology company. It thrives on product, not technology. By making their product appear to be indispensible, they keep in business. It is not now, nor has it ever been, in Microsoft's best interests to allow any alternatives.
Fundies are just as dangerous, as this article shows.
The difference is termininology - muslim extremists, christian fundamentalists.. in fact there's little difference - both prepared to kill for their beliefs.
Actually, to be a bit more precise, they're prepared to kill YOU for your beliefs.
> Think about it; in what other field do we "educate" "users"?
Other than prenatal care, disaster response, home safety, poison control, vehicular operation, wildfire control, diabetes management, power tools, gun storage, and how to program your VCR? Can't think of any offhand...
Reputedly, in the US, you're supposed to be trained to drive a motor vehicle. Living in Cleveland for 25 years makes me rather doubt it though...
Set up an apt repository on your in-house server for updates to the work stations, tweak the packages needed to run an automatic update at, say 0400, for the workstation, reburn the install CD, done. Just put the updates into the proper directory, run the repository update script, and it Just Works.
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You DO intend to padlock them from the outside, yes? Then all we'll need is some wire cutters to clip off their communications, and we're done with them.
Jack's just pissed that nobody gives him any Hot Coffee(tm) anymore.
What, he was talking to the President?
Save me a spot in the chow line at Gitmo, willya?
You're not watching them on Vista yet. Vista isn't out yet. When it is, howbout telling us what your DVD watching experience is like then, as compared to now?
As for Vista, from what I hear, they'll finally move the video routines from the kernel & put them in a driver 'just like Linux', and fix it so that you don't need to be Administrator to run half the programs on it that you need to be when you're running XP. This is a step in the right direction. Yes, it's a return to MSDOS's Unix roots (they cribbed the directory system from Unix Back In The Day), picking up the bits that they forgot to incorporate Way Back When for file ownership and other necessary things for multi user systems. Let's face it, back in the MSDOS 3.x days, all they wanted was to be able to put in your Lotus floppy, boot up, go to work, then save it all off, pull the floppy, and red-switch it off. End users didn't give a damn what was on the floppy as long as they could use their Lotus. Those were non-networked single user single application machines that didn't NEED all the stuff endusers are demanding these days. And Microsoft is still playing catch-up in a lot of these areas, trying their best to keep their vendors locked in. Do you really believe that Firefox will work on Vista without some serious work? IE has been so tightly imbedded into Windows since Win98 that there have been several lawsuits over it with the end result that Microsoft just pays the fine & goes on; it's cheaper to pay the fine to get lock in than it would be to open things up and allow competition. Lost sales mean lost dividends for the stockholders. Microsoft will do whatever it takes to keep profits and dividends up or face a stockholder rebellion to put a board of directors in place that WILL keep profits up. It's a marketting company, not a technology company, plain and simple.
But will he want Hot Coffee(tm)?
Michelle Forbes played Ensign Ro on Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as various other parts over the years, including a part in 'Escape from LA'.
Ah, contraire. IE is losing marketshare to Firefox. There is the fight to get that marketshare back.
Not likely. It's not in Microsoft's interest to push anything but their own formats. Vendor lockin creates guaranteed profits, and in a market driven company like Microsoft, profits are EVERYTHING
Microsoft is merely responding to what people want to see in a browser these days. Let's face it, if people weren't using Opera or Firefox, IE7 wouldn't have tabs and the other nifty features it's reputed to be incorporating.
Microsoft has to improve IE or lose more marketshare in the browser market. By letting IE stagnate for so long, they've allowed alternatives to crop up, and not just in the browser department alone. If enough people start checking those alternatives, they just might decide they don't need Windows, which will seriously affect their sales.
Microsoft is a marketting company, not a technology company. It thrives on product, not technology. By making their product appear to be indispensible, they keep in business. It is not now, nor has it ever been, in Microsoft's best interests to allow any alternatives.
Actually, to be a bit more precise, they're prepared to kill YOU for your beliefs.
Walt had too many bong hits in his formative years?
Course not. How else would Sony infect my machine????????
Using:
firefox-1.5-1.1.fc4.nr
mozilla-nspr-devel-1.7.12-1.5.1
mozilla-nspr-1.7.12-1.5.1
openvrml-mozilla-plugin-0.15.10-1
mozilla-flash-7.0.25-1.1.fc2.dag
mozilla-nss-1.7.12-1.5.1
mozilla-devel-1.7.12-1.5.1
mozilla-1.7.12-1.5.1
mozilla-nss-devel-1.7.12-1.5.1
OS is Fedora Core 4 with the usual updates...
Wouldn't it be cool, though, if it were driven by porn?
Reputedly, in the US, you're supposed to be trained to drive a motor vehicle. Living in Cleveland for 25 years makes me rather doubt it though...
That's just the algea eating all the shit...
I understand apt & synaptic. I'm wondering about the availability of adminmenu as an administration tool for setting up hardware & stuff.
I use Ubuntu on my notebook, and coming from a RedHat/Fedora background, sometimes .deb files trip me up.
Set up an apt repository on your in-house server for updates to the work stations, tweak the packages needed to run an automatic update at, say 0400, for the workstation, reburn the install CD, done. Just put the updates into the proper directory, run the repository update script, and it Just Works.