"Quite frankly, nobody should ever depend on the kernel having zero holes," Torvalds wrote. "We do our best, but if you want real security, you should have other shields in place."
should be just as strict as it is for drug-trafficking while in college:
Expulsion and the permanent blacklisting of all federal higher education aid.
Ask yourself if I sound out of line, just for sending a little spam. Then ask yourself if it's out of line to bar someone from financial aid for life for selling a dime bag.
Should more TLDs been available in the early days of the web? Sure. Is it too late? I don't think so.
A.xxx or.adult TLD would correct a lot of these problems. Naturally, the remaining problem is enforcement. Which would require *gasp* job creation. What a sin.
One could make the argument that all software patents are patenting an "idea", but you could easily counter-point this with how software is stored, physically, on some device.
Without that storage, the software is an idea, but once it's on a harddrive|flashdrive|internets, it's more physical, right?
But if you're going to patent software, why not patent literature?
This is attrocious. It's one thing to want to protect copyright laws, or intellectual property, or whatever, but when you start making up new technologies that will cause everyone to buy a new DVD player, you have crossed the plane from "being in the interest of the artists" to "being a fucking asshole and ripping people off."
"Oh, I've been to another planet. You Earthlings are so fucked." And where the hell did he get the 1 in 455 figure from? It doesn't explain any of it in the article.
The same reason people type fuck as f*ck: non-phonetic, non-mathematic cryptography.
If you have a tool that scrapes employees typing logs, would you grep for porn or for pr0n? Knowing now what we know, you'd use pr0n, because it's so popular on the internet, but ten years ago...?
Probably has something to do with terrorism and the Patriot act and "I SWEAR TO GOD WE'RE NOT INFRINGING ON YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS" or some other similar bullshit.
Is it hard to believe that the reason Microsoft is so terribly lacking in the browser and kernel departments is that they never investigate the competition? What kind of military general would you be if you had no idea what weapons your opponent had?
When you establish filters in Outlook (and probably Outlook Express...but I haven't used it in ages), the messages are delivered into the Inbox first, and then moved into the subdirectories that you have for filtered mail.
It's a minor difference, but when you have a large amount of email (I'm a subscriber to debian-user), and/or a large number of filters (I have seven), you notice a large improvement in speed.
Gee, I dunno. Are humans actually so dumb that they're the only species on the planet to drink the breast milk of another species?
Did you hear the one about the couple in Florida who called the police to report their marijuana was stolen? They were intending on selling it.
And I've seen plenty of adults walk into glass doors.
The notion that we should continue to develop technology at the expense of raping the planet is absurd. Otoh, it sure beats the hell out of drilling for oil in Alaska...
Your post makes excellent points, and I hope it as modded up as so. My initial statement was not in reference to hate speech in general, nor was it specifically talking about the use of such words in online gaming (or slashdot).
What I take great offense to is when someone goes on a literary witch hunt against classic novels because a character uses "nigger" in dialogue. Such censorship all for the sake of "political correctness" is abhorrant and should be laughed out of a court of law.
And it's not partisanship. Both parties (moral majority and PMRC, for example) are guilty of these types of actions. It needs to stop. It's a word.
Furthermore, it's a synonym. I'm against the censorship of dialogue such as in the same fashion that I'm against the notion that "poo" is somehow more proper for "shit". The definition for each is digested food that smells really bad and comes out of your (ass|butt|anus|hole|chocolate railroad).
A word is a word. I'm a whole hell of a lot of ethnicities (Irish, Native American, German, Romanian, Polish).
When someone calls me a nazi, a dumb pollock (sp?), or an Indian (hint: Native Americans are not from India, idiots.) I do not get offended. Because they're words.
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Gates doesn't (didn't) code anything himself. The two do not compare.
Bingo.
Expulsion and the permanent blacklisting of all federal higher education aid.
Ask yourself if I sound out of line, just for sending a little spam. Then ask yourself if it's out of line to bar someone from financial aid for life for selling a dime bag.
You know, kinda like bittorrent?
Too bad Opera isn't as fast, nor as standards-compliant as Mozilla/Firefox.
None.
Should more TLDs been available in the early days of the web? Sure. Is it too late? I don't think so.
A .xxx or .adult TLD would correct a lot of these problems.
Naturally, the remaining problem is enforcement. Which would require *gasp* job creation. What a sin.
Yes, now if we can just find a capitalist society whose leaders actually understand the fundamentals of the system...
If you know of one, let me know.
One could make the argument that all software patents are patenting an "idea", but you could easily counter-point this with how software is stored, physically, on some device.
Without that storage, the software is an idea, but once it's on a harddrive|flashdrive|internets, it's more physical, right?
But if you're going to patent software, why not patent literature?
Then this falls a bit short of the "killer p2p app" moniker that it *almost* deserves.
I know it's not exactly a re-post, but I figured I'd link the original discussion.
s/pirate/communistu namerican
s/pirate/terrorist
s/pirate/
How did you manage to even make your post?
There is no such thing as a "truely" (as you so succinctly put it) interface.
Except for the command line.
"Oh, I've been to another planet. You Earthlings are so fucked." And where the hell did he get the 1 in 455 figure from? It doesn't explain any of it in the article.
Intergalactic FUD?
You betcha.
If you have a tool that scrapes employees typing logs, would you grep for porn or for pr0n? Knowing now what we know, you'd use pr0n, because it's so popular on the internet, but ten years ago...?
Probably has something to do with terrorism and the Patriot act and "I SWEAR TO GOD WE'RE NOT INFRINGING ON YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS" or some other similar bullshit.
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Know thy enemy.
Is it hard to believe that the reason Microsoft is so terribly lacking in the browser and kernel departments is that they never investigate the competition?
What kind of military general would you be if you had no idea what weapons your opponent had?
(yes, i'm talking about myself.)
When you establish filters in Outlook (and probably Outlook Express...but I haven't used it in ages), the messages are delivered into the Inbox first, and then moved into the subdirectories that you have for filtered mail.
It's a minor difference, but when you have a large amount of email (I'm a subscriber to debian-user), and/or a large number of filters (I have seven), you notice a large improvement in speed.
Oh, and don't forget adaptive spam filters.
Did you hear the one about the couple in Florida who called the police to report their marijuana was stolen? They were intending on selling it.
And I've seen plenty of adults walk into glass doors.
The notion that we should continue to develop technology at the expense of raping the planet is absurd.
Otoh, it sure beats the hell out of drilling for oil in Alaska...
What I take great offense to is when someone goes on a literary witch hunt against classic novels because a character uses "nigger" in dialogue. Such censorship all for the sake of "political correctness" is abhorrant and should be laughed out of a court of law.
And it's not partisanship. Both parties (moral majority and PMRC, for example) are guilty of these types of actions. It needs to stop. It's a word.
Furthermore, it's a synonym. I'm against the censorship of dialogue such as in the same fashion that I'm against the notion that "poo" is somehow more proper for "shit". The definition for each is digested food that smells really bad and comes out of your (ass|butt|anus|hole|chocolate railroad).
Good point, but it never was India.
When someone calls me a nazi, a dumb pollock (sp?), or an Indian (hint: Native Americans are not from India, idiots.) I do not get offended. Because they're words.
[Insert something about twigs and rocks]