We see evolution every day. Actually, there are very simple ways to prove it. Have you seen a Black woman have a white kid? People look like their fathers. All of Latin America is a living proof of evolution. We are the result of a mix of cultures. We are a new kind, just less than 500 years old, product of genetic evolution.
Exactly. That, and the fact that the deads of Iraqis is WAY higher. And also we should count how many people die in Iraq every year because of hunger, diseases, lack of medical care, lack of vaccines, etc. And if we take into account the fact that this is because the U.S.A has been living at the expenses of 3rd world countries for 2 hundred years, from slavery to gun trading, from controlled dictatorships to the FMI, the US got rich at the expenses of the rest of the world. And each dollar those dead soldiers and the rest of the USA population spent over the years, was one less dollar in Iraq, and one more kid dying of causes that could be prevented. So those soldiers were killing people in Iraq before they went to war. And so did the rest of the population. For 2 hundred years. They are also in a big part responsible for the lack of funding for education, what eventually leads to an uneducated, easily controlled population. And that, and the help of the USA Government, lead eventually to Saddam Hussein.
How many deaths could we prevent in Iraq with the money spent just in the funeral of a soldier of the USA? Consider THIS: A typical funeral in the USA costs u$s 6000. An Iraqi father earns around u$s 150 a month. So an Iraqi family could live for MORE THAN 3 YEARS with just the cost of burying one soldier.
Actually, REAL coders don't use Emacs under X. You run the console version, which is the real Emacs. Maybe Emacs inside an x-term, but not the shitty X version. alias emacs='emacs -nw'. There. Fixed.
Agreed. I Think it actually is a change you do out of necessity. When you find the need to edit at the same time +5 php files, php.ini, httpd.conf, a few very complex SQL sentences, and at the same time test those SQLs, those PHPs, restart services, and tail a few logfiles, all while checking e-mail, Emacs comes as a natural solution.
Oh, don't worry. You have plenty of other things to judge you that are way more bizarre than a guy sitting to piss. You choosed Bush as your president for instance =).
There is something very weird about the USA. You are a completely ANAL society. You like asses, admit it. A little bit too much. No, not true for the rest of the world. Maybe in the last couple of years this is starting to get more widespread. But usually, TITS were what man looked for first in women (which is logical, since we all have an ass). In the USA, ASS, ASS, ASS. Look at the way you talk:
Your more usual words are "Shit" and "Fuck you". All your insults are ass-related, while it's usually not so in the rest of the world. In Spanish, for example: "Carajo" (Dick), "Coño" (Vagina), are far more common.
But even when you seem to insult ass-related all the time, you censor anything relating to body functions. For example: Number 1 or Number 2... What is that shit???. And the parent post also bring plenty of examples: "Much less messy, much less noise, slightly faster" He is worried about the noise?, What mess is he talking about?. It's just PISS!.
It's common for the human being to try to separate itself from certain things that remember him that once he was an animal, and then, at the same time, find pleasure in certain primitive sensations. But in the USA you seem to be doing this in a pretty twisted way.
Tolerance? I think you are missing some information.
RCTV are the bad guys here! RCTV tried to overthrow Chavez government, allied with the big oil and oil-related companies.
Regardless of that, he is not revoking their license, it just naturally expired, and he refuses to renew it.
If the CNN backed up by some big corporations and economic groups tried to hit the white house, creating a state of general agitation in the USA, you would be calling them "Unamerican" and the FBI would shut down the place immediately.
That's exactly what happened in Venezuela, and what Chavez did was absolutely WRIGHT.
I really hate this. Digital video streaming was a new exciting technology, once. DSL technologies where new and exiting, once.
This is just video over some DSL-like tech. So, Editors: PLEASE!, The article title was "AT&T launches TV service", why do you have to change it so that it looks as new tech?. It's just some company launching a service, not a new technology.
We can stream voice and video over IP, and we can setup an IP network over lots of technologies.
So when company X uses Y to transmit Z, and Y and Z existed before, and Y has been used to transmit information, we are not talking about new technology, just new services. Cut the Hype.
Come on people, start using your brains please!, just a little!, half the posters have been asking the same 2 stupid questions, or even worse, posting the same 2 stupid questions with question mark removed, as if they were facts.
We should put a CAPTCHA system on slashdot:
When you want to post, You get to type-in a CAPTCHA. The Image for this is generated in this way:
- The links to the article/s actually link to a page with a javascript wrapper that loads the article text, but replaces certain words with the graphical representation of that word, in the form of a CAPTCHA.
- This words form a phrase that the user must type in if he wants to post. There are different combinations of phrases selected from the article, and each poster gets one randomly.
This technology should be called CAPSSAA (for Completely Automated Public Stupidity test to tell Slashdoters and Assholes Apart)
The dying skill is actually _having_ any skills. Most companys want people that will go to college to learn windows and visual basic, install NT or Ubuntu, go next->next->done, follow some stupid howto to install webinterfaces to manage everything, and sit on their asses all day, producing nice colorful documents about their activities.
When things go wrong, their standard procedure is restart->restart->google->forums->reinstall.
_Real_ Coders and _Real_ Sysadmins seem to be obsolete in most places, and that just pisses me off incredibly.
I don't like brands, i prefer to build clones myself, even for servers.
For some crappy services, like a small router, or some backup DNS/Mailserver you just pick some cheap motherboard, and most tend to NOT have an option to just boot even when no keyboard is plugged. Now it doesn't happend that often, but I used to fix this by using a crafted keyboard DIN or mini-DIN conector with no actual cable or keyboard attached to it.
Please explain to me how it's Ilegal for me to put my FM radio on 99.5Mhz and just listen?? 2.4 Ghz is PUBLIC, so i can freely transmit and receive in that frequency using a valid, authorized device. It's exactly the same.
So, in the physical level of the network, it's OK to do it.
802.11 is an open standard that anyone can use. And the Internet is an ad-hoc network, where various routers and gateways connect to each other. Using 802.11, you BROADCAST, that is, advertise, that you are transmiting on a publicly available frequency.
Then, once connected, there is another public service that says Hello!, i'm a DHCP server, please take this IP address, no, it doesn't matter who you are or what your MAC Address might be, just take this IP, and, oh please, use this gateway to send packets, he does NAT and will route them accordingly to the Internet!.
How is using all of this Ilegal?. If he had cracked a WEP password, or circumvented some security measure, even if the SSID of the network was "ONLY_FOR_CUSTOMERS-GO_AWAY", then you would have a case, but in this situation there is no reason to punish him. No ilegal activities.
I haven't used windows since NT3.51, but AFAIK flash for 64bits windows doesn't exist either.
It's true that the Unix concept of doing things might be harder for certain people, but actually that's because for a Desktop luser it's over featured.
That is: Doing things that are not ready out of the box, or that hasn't been thought of by the developer (read m$, apple) are also hard on other platforms.
Windows is ready to do a certain amount of things, and that feature set has been locked down. Any other thing you might want to do will most probably break your warranty, you may be violating copyrights, you may be circumventing the DMCA, and:
a) is deeply hidden into the registry b) you need to code in order to get it done c) you have to pay for proprietary third party solutions d) there is no documentation, and no source code. You are on your own for a nice reverse engineering and blind testing session. e) you may break your system for no particular reason, there will be no explanation as to why it broke, and the only solution will be reinstalling.
In the Unix world, this limitations doesn't exist. Those features that work out of the box work just as well as with any other OS, and actually better since they tend to be more flexible and robust. If you want to do something that the product wasn't intentionally designed for, it's ok!, you have the source, the tools, the docs, the forums, no legal problems, everything is pretty transparent, you can script and modify, anything you may need to download in order to get your job done is probably 100% free software, if you make a mistake, it's easy to roll back, and usually everything can be fixed. It actually needs a bad rm -rf as root or a truly horrible dependency hell to render a Unix system unusable beyond all hopes of recovery, and it's pretty hard (or you have to be pretty stupid) to get into those situations.
If you know what you are doing, go the Slackware way, if you don't, go the Ubuntu way.
Here is a metaphor that explains why your post is IMHO wrong:
"Ferraris are not as good as Fords. My sister used to drive a Ford Fiesta with automatic gear, the other day, She tried to use my Ferrari, since she wanted it to be as compact as her Fiesta, she wanted to modify the car's layout to make it easier to park, but she couldn't fully understand all this manual gear stuff. Also, when she tried to modify the layout of the car and broke some parts, and couldn't find any compatible replacements at joe's store."
If you want to make Unix just as easy as windoze or mac, you have to cripple it, froze functionality, and then make an honest comparison.
I use a secure and blind black box as a log server, they can't cover their tracks, once something has been written to the server, they can't modify it. I have an openbsd firewall in front of my machine, it runs from read-only media, also logs to the black box.
I know exactly what happend, you _may_ compromise my machine, but i will notice.
UnixA is NOT a smaller target audience, it is in the Desktop, but not on the server. And let me tell you, servers with a fixed IP address, open well known ports listening, and lots of domains pointing to it are the most common target. I have a fixed IP address, on a Unix machine, and you should just see my logs. Tons of break-in attempts everyday, and my Slackware just resists all of them.
Desktop machines with windows with variable IP addresses are the target of bots. Unix servers with fixed IP addresses are the target of real crackers and wannabes trying to break in 24/7.
Unix is a far more secure platform than Windows; and it has been proved since it's more exposed to heavy attacks all the time.
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Yhea, big mistake ... why just the jews living _in_ concentration camps? All of them are crap.
We see evolution every day. Actually, there are very simple ways to prove it. Have you seen a Black woman have a white kid? People look like their fathers. All of Latin America is a living proof of evolution. We are the result of a mix of cultures. We are a new kind, just less than 500 years old, product of genetic evolution.
Everyone in the western world? I was talking very specifically about the U.S.A, not the whole western world.
And total wealth is not growing because:
1) Many of the resources that the human being uses are non-renewable.
2) The population is growing.
Exactly. That, and the fact that the deads of Iraqis is WAY higher.
And also we should count how many people die in Iraq every year because of hunger, diseases, lack of medical care, lack of vaccines, etc. And if we take into account the fact that this is because the U.S.A has been living at the expenses of 3rd world countries for 2 hundred years, from slavery to gun trading, from controlled dictatorships to the FMI, the US got rich at the expenses of the rest of the world. And each dollar those dead soldiers and the rest of the USA population spent over the years, was one less dollar in Iraq, and one more kid dying of causes that could be prevented. So those soldiers were killing people in Iraq before they went to war. And so did the rest of the population. For 2 hundred years. They are also in a big part responsible for the lack of funding for education, what eventually leads to an uneducated, easily controlled population. And that, and the help of the USA Government, lead eventually to Saddam Hussein.
How many deaths could we prevent in Iraq with the money spent just in the funeral of a soldier of the USA?
Consider THIS: A typical funeral in the USA costs u$s 6000. An Iraqi father earns around u$s 150 a month. So an Iraqi family could live for MORE THAN 3 YEARS with just the cost of burying one soldier.
The killing didn't start with the war.
http://tclab.kaist.ac.kr/~otfried/Mule/
Hope that helps.
Actually, REAL coders don't use Emacs under X. You run the console version, which is the real Emacs. Maybe Emacs inside an x-term, but not the shitty X version. alias emacs='emacs -nw'. There. Fixed.
Agreed. I Think it actually is a change you do out of necessity. When you find the need to edit at the same time +5 php files, php.ini, httpd.conf, a few very complex SQL sentences, and at the same time test those SQLs, those PHPs, restart services, and tail a few logfiles, all while checking e-mail, Emacs comes as a natural solution.
Icon factories. That just made my day.
... i wish i could C-c b bathroom, that way i would really have no need to live my Emacs session ever.
I keep bashing all this eclipseholics that call themselves coders. Icon factories is the BEST definition EVER for this stupid IDEs.
I barely get out of Emacs for anything
Oh, don't worry. You have plenty of other things to judge you that are way more bizarre than a guy sitting to piss. You choosed Bush as your president for instance =).
Oh, ok, so you won't mind if I rub my Carajo against your sister's little coño, right? =)
Let me get this correctly:
... What is that shit???. And the parent post also bring plenty of examples: "Much less messy, much less noise, slightly faster" He is worried about the noise?, What mess is he talking about?. It's just PISS!.
You sit to piss?
There is something very weird about the USA. You are a completely ANAL society. You like asses, admit it. A little bit too much. No, not true for the rest of the world. Maybe in the last couple of years this is starting to get more widespread. But usually, TITS were what man looked for first in women (which is logical, since we all have an ass). In the USA, ASS, ASS, ASS. Look at the way you talk:
Your more usual words are "Shit" and "Fuck you". All your insults are ass-related, while it's usually not so in the rest of the world. In Spanish, for example: "Carajo" (Dick), "Coño" (Vagina), are far more common.
But even when you seem to insult ass-related all the time, you censor anything relating to body functions. For example: Number 1 or Number 2
It's common for the human being to try to separate itself from certain things that remember him that once he was an animal, and then, at the same time, find pleasure in certain primitive sensations. But in the USA you seem to be doing this in a pretty twisted way.
So you were the submitter!, nice to meet you, Traidor!.
I would understand if Americans biased by the CNN would fall for this kind of bullshit, but in your case, this is treason.
Tolerance? I think you are missing some information.
RCTV are the bad guys here! RCTV tried to overthrow Chavez government, allied with the big oil and oil-related companies.
Regardless of that, he is not revoking their license, it just naturally expired, and he refuses to renew it.
If the CNN backed up by some big corporations and economic groups tried to hit the white house, creating a state of general agitation in the USA, you would be calling them "Unamerican" and the FBI would shut down the place immediately.
That's exactly what happened in Venezuela, and what Chavez did was absolutely WRIGHT.
I really hate this.
Digital video streaming was a new exciting technology, once. DSL technologies where new and exiting, once.
This is just video over some DSL-like tech. So, Editors: PLEASE!, The article title was "AT&T launches TV service", why do you have to change it so that it looks as new tech?. It's just some company launching a service, not a new technology.
We can stream voice and video over IP, and we can setup an IP network over lots of technologies.
So when company X uses Y to transmit Z, and Y and Z existed before, and Y has been used to transmit information, we are not talking about new technology, just new services. Cut the Hype.
Oh man, you just brought my childhood back =)
... oh so many hours wasted ...
Thank you for the good memories
Just a 10k ohm resistor soldered in between ground and +5v
Come on people, start using your brains please!, just a little!, half the posters have been asking the same 2 stupid questions, or even worse, posting the same 2 stupid questions with question mark removed, as if they were facts.
We should put a CAPTCHA system on slashdot:
When you want to post, You get to type-in a CAPTCHA. The Image for this is generated in this way:
- The links to the article/s actually link to a page with a javascript wrapper that loads the article text, but replaces certain words with the graphical representation of that word, in the form of a CAPTCHA.
- This words form a phrase that the user must type in if he wants to post. There are different combinations of phrases selected from the article, and each poster gets one randomly.
This technology should be called CAPSSAA (for Completely Automated Public Stupidity test to tell Slashdoters and Assholes Apart)
The dying skill is actually _having_ any skills.
Most companys want people that will go to college to learn windows and visual basic, install NT or Ubuntu, go next->next->done, follow some stupid howto to install webinterfaces to manage everything, and sit on their asses all day, producing nice colorful documents about their activities.
When things go wrong, their standard procedure is restart->restart->google->forums->reinstall.
_Real_ Coders and _Real_ Sysadmins seem to be obsolete in most places, and that just pisses me off incredibly.
I don't like brands, i prefer to build clones myself, even for servers.
For some crappy services, like a small router, or some backup DNS/Mailserver you just pick some cheap motherboard, and most tend to NOT have an option to just boot even when no keyboard is plugged.
Now it doesn't happend that often, but I used to fix this by using a crafted keyboard DIN or mini-DIN conector with no actual cable or keyboard attached to it.
Please explain to me how it's Ilegal for me to put my FM radio on 99.5Mhz and just listen??
2.4 Ghz is PUBLIC, so i can freely transmit and receive in that frequency using a valid, authorized device.
It's exactly the same.
So, in the physical level of the network, it's OK to do it.
802.11 is an open standard that anyone can use. And the Internet is an ad-hoc network, where various routers and gateways connect to each other. Using 802.11, you BROADCAST, that is, advertise, that you are transmiting on a publicly available frequency.
Then, once connected, there is another public service that says Hello!, i'm a DHCP server, please take this IP address, no, it doesn't matter who you are or what your MAC Address might be, just take this IP, and, oh please, use this gateway to send packets, he does NAT and will route them accordingly to the Internet!.
How is using all of this Ilegal?. If he had cracked a WEP password, or circumvented some security measure, even if the SSID of the network was "ONLY_FOR_CUSTOMERS-GO_AWAY", then you would have a case, but in this situation there is no reason to punish him. No ilegal activities.
Off course!
...
We need the ethanol for cocaine^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfood production!
Think of the children!
I haven't used windows since NT3.51, but AFAIK flash for 64bits windows doesn't exist either.
It's true that the Unix concept of doing things might be harder for certain people, but actually that's because for a Desktop luser it's over featured.
That is: Doing things that are not ready out of the box, or that hasn't been thought of by the developer (read m$, apple) are also hard on other platforms.
Windows is ready to do a certain amount of things, and that feature set has been locked down. Any other thing you might want to do will most probably break your warranty, you may be violating copyrights, you may be circumventing the DMCA, and:
a) is deeply hidden into the registry
b) you need to code in order to get it done
c) you have to pay for proprietary third party solutions
d) there is no documentation, and no source code. You are on your own for a nice reverse engineering and blind testing session.
e) you may break your system for no particular reason, there will be no explanation as to why it broke, and the only solution will be reinstalling.
In the Unix world, this limitations doesn't exist. Those features that work out of the box work just as well as with any other OS, and actually better since they tend to be more flexible and robust. If you want to do something that the product wasn't intentionally designed for, it's ok!, you have the source, the tools, the docs, the forums, no legal problems, everything is pretty transparent, you can script and modify, anything you may need to download in order to get your job done is probably 100% free software, if you make a mistake, it's easy to roll back, and usually everything can be fixed. It actually needs a bad rm -rf as root or a truly horrible dependency hell to render a Unix system unusable beyond all hopes of recovery, and it's pretty hard (or you have to be pretty stupid) to get into those situations.
If you know what you are doing, go the Slackware way, if you don't, go the Ubuntu way.
Here is a metaphor that explains why your post is IMHO wrong:
"Ferraris are not as good as Fords. My sister used to drive a Ford Fiesta with automatic gear, the other day, She tried to use my Ferrari, since she wanted it to be as compact as her Fiesta, she wanted to modify the car's layout to make it easier to park, but she couldn't fully understand all this manual gear stuff. Also, when she tried to modify the layout of the car and broke some parts, and couldn't find any compatible replacements at joe's store."
If you want to make Unix just as easy as windoze or mac, you have to cripple it, froze functionality, and then make an honest comparison.
I use a secure and blind black box as a log server, they can't cover their tracks, once something has been written to the server, they can't modify it.
I have an openbsd firewall in front of my machine, it runs from read-only media, also logs to the black box.
I know exactly what happend, you _may_ compromise my machine, but i will notice.
UnixA is NOT a smaller target audience, it is in the Desktop, but not on the server.
And let me tell you, servers with a fixed IP address, open well known ports listening, and lots of domains pointing to it are the most common target. I have a fixed IP address, on a Unix machine, and you should just see my logs. Tons of break-in attempts everyday, and my Slackware just resists all of them.
Desktop machines with windows with variable IP addresses are the target of bots. Unix servers with fixed IP addresses are the target of real crackers and wannabes trying to break in 24/7.
Unix is a far more secure platform than Windows; and it has been proved since it's more exposed to heavy attacks all the time.
Is that a bad thing?? =)