True. Ever since I dug around for information on how the USA are trying to monitor everything they can I wanted to encrypt as much of my mail as possible. But I haven't. Mostly because I know exactly zero persons who use encryption. Mail encryption is nice, unless you're the only one using it.
How any person could welcome self-enslavement so long as he has the satisfaction of knowing that his neighbor is enslaved as well is beyond me.
No problem, as long as they have an ideology they believe in and/or a charismatic leader. Those two turned normal people into sadistic killing machines over here in no time flat. The people over here were no more aggressive than everyone else, but with an ideology that offered easy answers to complex problems, lots of complex problems to choose from and a little guy who was one hell of an orator it was no problem to set half of the world on fire.
Here is Germany, the time was the 1930s and -40s.
I share these views, at least in part. As a European I cannot see why the USA still call themselves the "land of the free". With something like the Patriot Act in effect I wouldn't call a country free anymore. Maybe your threshold is lower, by for me the USA have crossed the line between an acceptably free country and one that isn't.
But maybe America is not about freedom anymore but instead about keeping it's role as the world's only superpower, which is slowly withering away with Europe and China gaining strength and self-confidence.
Concerning "Proud not to be an American": I'm not proud, but I'm happy. Wouldn't want to live over there now.
That means that China is spying on the Chinese, while the USA are spying on everyone else. I see, of course what the USA do is way better, no one outside the States should be allowed to have privacy.
1000M routers? That's 1,000 * 1,000,000 = 1,000,000,000 routers. Who needs one billion routers to let IPv4 and IPv9 have a duel? And who picks the weapons anyway?
I have already pointed out befroe on/. that we need IP addresses if 1 MB length. Then we can assign an IP to every single component in aa device, put the IPs into virtual groups, which have their own IPs, and assign every IP address its own IP address just to be sure.
We could even assign every piece of IP (Intellectual Property) an IP (Internet Protocol) address* and then have debates on whether this new IP is my IP, which IP it has and whether it clashes with someone else's IP - or their IP or their IP's IP.
* We should not forget that sometimes "IP address" is colloquially shortened to "IP".
You can even tell apart *nix newbies with MS-DOS experience from those without:
Those with will find out about mc and immediately abandon programs like vi, emacs and Konqueror/Nautilus.
But still that post included references to the Windows/Linux Holy Wars, usual/. behavior and LoTR. That makes it pretty geeky. And completely incomprehensible to the geek-impaired.
OTOH, if it doesn't work, it's not easy to get it to work. I have to boot into Windows every time I want to access my MP3 player, which acts as a generic USB mass storage device. I can't get my Linux (2.4) to connect to the thing and I'm not experienced enough to casually build a new kernel. At least not without major headaches. Which means that for now I'm stuck with a device that Just Doesn't Work (TM).
*bzzzt* Wrong.
MinGW also has g** and offers addon packages that give you bash, (auto)make etc. Except for automake (which only runs inside bash) they all run in CMD just fine and they don't require Cygwin at all.
Or you just compile everything with the -mno-cygwin parameter, which eliminates the need for Cygwin as well.
Yes. Every single Windows program out there is a trojan, infected with virii, who in turn are infected with other virii. It's completely impossible to boot a Windows box without immediately seeing it crash because of the virus that came with the antivirus program. Of course, before crashing Windows sends your bank account information to the folks at Microsoft who then empty your account.
Just as every single Linux program has to be grabbed off some CVS server, requires the full sources for the kernel, KDE, Gnome, X and zlib, only compiles with one specific version of gcc and is in no way to be considered stable.
Yes, Windows is dumb. Windows requires you to run a lot of third-party programs. No, they usually don't make any trouble.
From your description it sounds as if Windows would autodetect OpenOffice and - once it finds OO - immediately headcrash the system HDD. But Windows works quite well with non-Microsoft apps.
Thing is: Many experienced Win users work under the assumption that their OS is inherently dumb and that everything of interest has to be done via third-party apps. So they use third-party apps. As someone who has been with Windows since 3.11 I can't really see why the OS (or something integrated with it) should do stuff like spreadsheets or compiling. That's clearly in the domain of applications and applications that come with the OS are likely to be screwed up in some way. Except Notepad.
My point: Windows is no less capable of running everything of interest via third-party apps than *NIX is. In fact, the huge number of good Freeware apps for Windows comes from the fact that, well, Windows is dumb.
And most of them are stable, unless the box on which you try to run them is in a really bad shape. My Windows has about twenty icons in the tray at all times and it's perfectly stable. Neither my Winamp nor my Apache nor the third-party driver for my graphics card are behaving like a jet engine strapped to a car. That happened with Win9x, but the NT-based Windowses should be stable enough to run programs written for them.
Yes, Windows is not as secure as Linux. At least if you don't know or care about making it.
I have just applied for a patent on looking at the sky when it's the sky changing colors once certain time thresholds (called "dawn" and "dusk") are met.
I believe that this innovative... er... innovation is you know... innovative.
Why? I can clearly see many brains suffering damage from prolonged exposure to Windows. Machines running Windows should be classified as violations of the Geneva Protocol, fast or not.
That's what they said when we were about to invade Poland.
When compared to the stuff we did in the past, keeping an American company from selling their stuff in America seems pretty normal.
Ah, I can see the strategy here: No country the States are having trouble with is allowed to run the game. Since they cannot run the game and wars are getting replaced by it, the States automatically win every single war by default.
Clever.
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Then the government just filters out anything that looks like 1337 sp33k and has a few words with the people who use it. Great way to go unnoticed.
We're talking about the Motion Picture Association of America. America. They probably can't tell apart China, Japan and New Zealand.
And the US could wipe China off the map with one tenth of their conventional forces.
Two tenths. Don't forget about Friendly Fire.
True. Ever since I dug around for information on how the USA are trying to monitor everything they can I wanted to encrypt as much of my mail as possible. But I haven't. Mostly because I know exactly zero persons who use encryption. Mail encryption is nice, unless you're the only one using it.
How any person could welcome self-enslavement so long as he has the satisfaction of knowing that his neighbor is enslaved as well is beyond me.
No problem, as long as they have an ideology they believe in and/or a charismatic leader. Those two turned normal people into sadistic killing machines over here in no time flat. The people over here were no more aggressive than everyone else, but with an ideology that offered easy answers to complex problems, lots of complex problems to choose from and a little guy who was one hell of an orator it was no problem to set half of the world on fire.
Here is Germany, the time was the 1930s and -40s.
I share these views, at least in part. As a European I cannot see why the USA still call themselves the "land of the free". With something like the Patriot Act in effect I wouldn't call a country free anymore. Maybe your threshold is lower, by for me the USA have crossed the line between an acceptably free country and one that isn't.
But maybe America is not about freedom anymore but instead about keeping it's role as the world's only superpower, which is slowly withering away with Europe and China gaining strength and self-confidence.
Concerning "Proud not to be an American": I'm not proud, but I'm happy. Wouldn't want to live over there now.
That means that China is spying on the Chinese, while the USA are spying on everyone else. I see, of course what the USA do is way better, no one outside the States should be allowed to have privacy.
[...]IPv4/IPv9 duel-used 1000M routers,[...]
1000M routers? That's 1,000 * 1,000,000 = 1,000,000,000 routers. Who needs one billion routers to let IPv4 and IPv9 have a duel? And who picks the weapons anyway?
I have already pointed out befroe on /. that we need IP addresses if 1 MB length. Then we can assign an IP to every single component in aa device, put the IPs into virtual groups, which have their own IPs, and assign every IP address its own IP address just to be sure.
We could even assign every piece of IP (Intellectual Property) an IP (Internet Protocol) address* and then have debates on whether this new IP is my IP, which IP it has and whether it clashes with someone else's IP - or their IP or their IP's IP.
* We should not forget that sometimes "IP address" is colloquially shortened to "IP".
Well, there are many people in China...
You can even tell apart *nix newbies with MS-DOS experience from those without:
Those with will find out about mc and immediately abandon programs like vi, emacs and Konqueror/Nautilus.
The PowerToys: Proof that Microsoft can indeed make some really good software.
But still that post included references to the Windows/Linux Holy Wars, usual /. behavior and LoTR. That makes it pretty geeky. And completely incomprehensible to the geek-impaired.
OTOH, if it doesn't work, it's not easy to get it to work. I have to boot into Windows every time I want to access my MP3 player, which acts as a generic USB mass storage device. I can't get my Linux (2.4) to connect to the thing and I'm not experienced enough to casually build a new kernel. At least not without major headaches. Which means that for now I'm stuck with a device that Just Doesn't Work (TM).
*bzzzt* Wrong.
MinGW also has g** and offers addon packages that give you bash, (auto)make etc. Except for automake (which only runs inside bash) they all run in CMD just fine and they don't require Cygwin at all.
Or you just compile everything with the -mno-cygwin parameter, which eliminates the need for Cygwin as well.
Yes. Every single Windows program out there is a trojan, infected with virii, who in turn are infected with other virii. It's completely impossible to boot a Windows box without immediately seeing it crash because of the virus that came with the antivirus program. Of course, before crashing Windows sends your bank account information to the folks at Microsoft who then empty your account.
Just as every single Linux program has to be grabbed off some CVS server, requires the full sources for the kernel, KDE, Gnome, X and zlib, only compiles with one specific version of gcc and is in no way to be considered stable.
Yes, Windows is dumb. Windows requires you to run a lot of third-party programs. No, they usually don't make any trouble.
From your description it sounds as if Windows would autodetect OpenOffice and - once it finds OO - immediately headcrash the system HDD. But Windows works quite well with non-Microsoft apps.
Thing is: Many experienced Win users work under the assumption that their OS is inherently dumb and that everything of interest has to be done via third-party apps. So they use third-party apps. As someone who has been with Windows since 3.11 I can't really see why the OS (or something integrated with it) should do stuff like spreadsheets or compiling. That's clearly in the domain of applications and applications that come with the OS are likely to be screwed up in some way. Except Notepad.
My point: Windows is no less capable of running everything of interest via third-party apps than *NIX is. In fact, the huge number of good Freeware apps for Windows comes from the fact that, well, Windows is dumb.
And most of them are stable, unless the box on which you try to run them is in a really bad shape. My Windows has about twenty icons in the tray at all times and it's perfectly stable. Neither my Winamp nor my Apache nor the third-party driver for my graphics card are behaving like a jet engine strapped to a car. That happened with Win9x, but the NT-based Windowses should be stable enough to run programs written for them.
Yes, Windows is not as secure as Linux. At least if you don't know or care about making it.
I have just applied for a patent on looking at the sky when it's the sky changing colors once certain time thresholds (called "dawn" and "dusk") are met.
I believe that this innovative... er... innovation is you know... innovative.
Yeah, and I've heard that Longhorn will involve an innovative new technology called "Installing From the Command Line", patents pending.
"Okay, hands up, everyone! I've got a Thinkpad and I'm going to use it if you force me to!"
I think someone once fried an egg and some bacon on an Athlon... No kidding.
One of the coolest things I've ever seen. No pun intended.
Why? I can clearly see many brains suffering damage from prolonged exposure to Windows. Machines running Windows should be classified as violations of the Geneva Protocol, fast or not.
That's what they said when we were about to invade Poland.
When compared to the stuff we did in the past, keeping an American company from selling their stuff in America seems pretty normal.
Plus, I find breaking stuff so damn funny.
I bet that will show up as a reason the next time the USA attack someone...
Ah, I can see the strategy here: No country the States are having trouble with is allowed to run the game. Since they cannot run the game and wars are getting replaced by it, the States automatically win every single war by default.
Clever.