9\11 happened because of internal US partisan politics
Sorry to take your quote slightly out of context, but I've got to respond to this.
9/11 happened because there are people who like to kill civilians during peacetime as a method of getting their message out, and because those people made use of their resources more effectively than the US made use of its. Partisan politics alone does not a terrorist attack make. One of the key components is a "terrorist" and an "attacker". Frankly, they're murderers, and the argument that US affairs spawned 9/11 makes as much sense as saying JFK should've changed his policies so that assassins wouldn't get mad.
Whatever the internal politics of the US, they were there to defend against the most imminent threats to national security at the time. The OP is saying that the same pursuit of what's-worrisome-today leads to the vicious cycle of never being able to respond to the next enemy. All politicians would love to be able to tell the military to return and train for the next enemy. The problem is a) we don't know who, what, or how they have to fight next, and b) they're still fighting the old enemies.
If I had been president in early 2001, and I needed to trim the budget, I'm sure antiterrorism funding would be somewhere on my list. When was the last time the US had a terrorist (non-wartime, non-enemy state) attack on US soil with any significant casualties? (I'm pretty sure the answer's "never.") When was the last time Middle Easterns did much of anything to concern the US as far as national security? Sure, there was the old WTC bombing, the USS Cole bombing, and so forth, but those were relatively minor. 9/11 was a surprise; that's what made it so effective. I'm sure the NSA briefing was one of many, and some fanatic half a continent away wouldn't've attracted too much attention.
And you seem to implicitly fault the President for being on vacation. It annoys me no end when anybody does that. You try being the leader of a country as powerful and involved as the US, 24 hours a day, for a few months, and tell me if you don't need a vacation after a few months. The well-being of the nation may depend on the leader not being stressed to the point of uselessness.
You may as well blame the Wright brothers for inventing the airplane as blame US politics for causing the catastrophe.
D3D relies heavily on a lot of the rest of the Win32 API...you might as well have said, "why doesn't somebody just port Windows to Linux so we can forget about all this bullshit?"
Replace "Linux" with "an open-source version". The question then simplifies to "Why doesn't someone either port DirectX or add support for Microsoft's downloadable DirectX to ReactOS, which is working towards a Win32 API anyway?"
Speaking of MS's own DirectX implementation, can't that be run under Linux in a Captive-like manner? It ought to simplify porting if developers know they can use the same DirectX DLLs under Linux.
Would you have rather seen Halo on Linux instead of on the Xbox?
I'm not bashing PC gaming, I'm just saying that Halo is the kind of game which needed a release for a console with more than 2 controllers. The use Halo would've gotten on Linux was minimal compared to what it got on the Xbox.
Sure, Halo on Linux would've been a good thing (I myself would've had use for it, once, to make a live CD with proper 3D drivers and renderers on a machine with NT 4...long story). But if you had to choose between the port for Xbox and Linux, I'm sure the overwhelming choice of Halo fans, even of those on Slashdot, would be Xbox.
I still don't understand why people come to Slashdot to complain about how they dislike the place and prefer $OTHER_WEBSITE, why people respond to things to say that no one cares, etc.
If you don't care, then why exactly are you reading and replying!?
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1) Idokorro is definitely not Free, and quite expensive too. BlackBerry SSH starting at $195!? He's probably buying his phone for less than that. (Their Mobile Admin software [$1 995] looks pretty interesting, though: Active Directory, Novell administration, SSH, etc. from a BlackBerry.)
2) He can find clients; his question asks which services have Port 22 access, or which have people used successfully for SSH.
Or just go to this website or any of the other myriad barcode CGIs and print them out.
I even used to have a little barcode generator program for my graphing calculator. Pity that the pixel size was too big for the generated barcodes to be scannable directly from the screen.
"Hey, DiscoOnTheSide... know where I can get a hooker?" "The red light district."
That's one thing...and the existence of a red-light district removes a lot of liability from you.
But suppose you're the guy that everyone knows is the person to ask about hookers, and you keep a notebook that they write their addresses in. And you keep track of who's available tonight in that notebook, and you give that information freely. If it weren't for you, prostitution would be a lot lower, and through the regular arguments against prostitution (which I won't get into here), you are quite responsible for aiding this crime.
Your example is like asking some random guy on IRC for a.torrent of a specific file. That's nothing close to being a website that lists.torrents for all to see.
I'm very sorry but unfortunately for you we live in a place where supposedly we have freedom of speech. It doesn't matter if maybe it's in the public interest for the government to consider some forms of expression illegal. THAT'S NOT IN THE GOVERNMENT'S JURISDICTION.
The government's jurisdiction is the public interest and nothing else. The only legitimate purpose of government is to preserve the public interest: to act as the authorized enforcer of laws that work for the public good.
The government is not bound to enforce freedom of speech. That's a corollary that happens to be in the public interest most of the time. You may note that private property has no restrictions on curtailing speech: it is only Congress (and by extension most government agencies) that cannot infringe on this right. This is a civil matter between the MPAA and Loki. It is generally considered in the public interest that the courts help rightholders to maintain their exclusive rights. "Freedom of speech in our free country" is a lame excuse that can be used to theoretically invalidate almost every law.
Can you tell me exactly on what grounds should the government condone facilitating copyright infringement?
Agreed. "Single signon"? The last time I used Passport was to join my Bungie.net account and my Xbox Live Gamertag, to see my Halo 2 statistics.
Two existing accounts need a third account to link them. "Single signon" becomes a bit of a misnomer....
Incidentally, Bungie.net should allow you to sign in with your Gamertag alone. It seems that the Player Stats URL doesn't require a Bungie.net account, but they don't tell you that. There should be no need for me to create two additional accounts in order to access information about the first.
At least we should be able to register for Xbox Live with our Passport.
They're not just "knowing about" copyright infringement. I'm pretty sure 95% of the Internet population knows someone who's infringing copyright.
They're facilitating copyright infringement; they're acting as a distribution center for a list of unauthorized.torrents. Since Google would have to go to extraordinary lengths to sort the legal.torrents from the illegal, they have a defense. Loki is designed to list mainly illegal torrents.
Since people like the "war on drugs" analogy, here's a parallel: is a person who keeps track of illegal drug manufacture and readily gives the info to anyone who asks legally innocent? Knowing about illegal activity is one thing. Telling others how to participate is completely different.
I'm missing your logic. You're arguing that pointing people to illegal things isn't illegal?
In that case, there's nothing wrong with, e.g., a high-ranking Air Force guy blogging nuclear launch codes and the location of the missile silo, is there? He's only pointing people to nuclear war; he's not doing the unauthorized launch himself....
(We're already below the margin of error for most polls and quite a few research studies)
The actual number of GTA murderers doesn't matter. If one thousandth of one percent of Americans were murderers (about 3000, which seems reasonable), and one hundredth of one percent of GTA players were murderers (about 1000 of those 3000), that would be a factor of ten between likelihood, and account for 1/3 of all murders. That ratio would be very significant.
Whatever the case may be with prices and design and requirements, the simple fact is that most consumer printers are PCL, and very few are PostScript. Therefore applications should support PCL as the de-facto standard, and allow for a convertor from PCL to PostScript (or a separate renderer) for the few cases that require this.
You are Linux. You are a small, free OS that has only a few percent of the market. You don't control how the printing industry designs their products; you obey their decisions.
Do you seriously think the government can just say, "OK, we're going to decriminalize this now since it's so easy to commit the erstwhile crime. Instead, we're going to talk to the industry about changing their methods."?
Sure, changing the methods would be a good thing, but the government is charged with enforcing property rights. They can't just stop jailing people because it's too easy to commit the crime.
Replacing jailing with an industry change is somewhat like the government hypothetically planning, because it's so easy to rape people and jailtime hasn't decreased the prevalence of rape, to decriminalize rape and instead give women free chastity belts. Sure, there are things that the victim can do to make both rape and warezing more difficult/rare. But unless they demonstrate negligence, they're still the victim of a crime, and the criminal deserves punishment.
Winzip doesn't lock out after lack of use. My Pentium I box that I booted up recently has Winzip (an old version, admittedly) on it. It counts up "days in trial" to 30, and then "days used" past 1000.
Does anybody other than possibly corporate users actually pay for WinZip? I would assume somebody does, since the company hasn't filed for bankruptcy yet, but I haven't heard of anyone paying for it.
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9\11 happened because of internal US partisan politics
Sorry to take your quote slightly out of context, but I've got to respond to this.
9/11 happened because there are people who like to kill civilians during peacetime as a method of getting their message out, and because those people made use of their resources more effectively than the US made use of its. Partisan politics alone does not a terrorist attack make. One of the key components is a "terrorist" and an "attacker". Frankly, they're murderers, and the argument that US affairs spawned 9/11 makes as much sense as saying JFK should've changed his policies so that assassins wouldn't get mad.
Whatever the internal politics of the US, they were there to defend against the most imminent threats to national security at the time. The OP is saying that the same pursuit of what's-worrisome-today leads to the vicious cycle of never being able to respond to the next enemy. All politicians would love to be able to tell the military to return and train for the next enemy. The problem is a) we don't know who, what, or how they have to fight next, and b) they're still fighting the old enemies.
If I had been president in early 2001, and I needed to trim the budget, I'm sure antiterrorism funding would be somewhere on my list. When was the last time the US had a terrorist (non-wartime, non-enemy state) attack on US soil with any significant casualties? (I'm pretty sure the answer's "never.") When was the last time Middle Easterns did much of anything to concern the US as far as national security? Sure, there was the old WTC bombing, the USS Cole bombing, and so forth, but those were relatively minor. 9/11 was a surprise; that's what made it so effective. I'm sure the NSA briefing was one of many, and some fanatic half a continent away wouldn't've attracted too much attention.
And you seem to implicitly fault the President for being on vacation. It annoys me no end when anybody does that. You try being the leader of a country as powerful and involved as the US, 24 hours a day, for a few months, and tell me if you don't need a vacation after a few months. The well-being of the nation may depend on the leader not being stressed to the point of uselessness.
You may as well blame the Wright brothers for inventing the airplane as blame US politics for causing the catastrophe.
Congratulations, Mr. Molyneux. You now join the honorable ranks of Bill Gates, Elton John, and Pelé.
:-)
Isn't it great to know you're as good as those three?
D3D relies heavily on a lot of the rest of the Win32 API ... you might as well have said, "why doesn't somebody just port Windows to Linux so we can forget about all this bullshit?"
Replace "Linux" with "an open-source version". The question then simplifies to "Why doesn't someone either port DirectX or add support for Microsoft's downloadable DirectX to ReactOS, which is working towards a Win32 API anyway?"
Speaking of MS's own DirectX implementation, can't that be run under Linux in a Captive-like manner? It ought to simplify porting if developers know they can use the same DirectX DLLs under Linux.
Would you have rather seen Halo on Linux instead of on the Xbox?
I'm not bashing PC gaming, I'm just saying that Halo is the kind of game which needed a release for a console with more than 2 controllers. The use Halo would've gotten on Linux was minimal compared to what it got on the Xbox.
Sure, Halo on Linux would've been a good thing (I myself would've had use for it, once, to make a live CD with proper 3D drivers and renderers on a machine with NT 4...long story). But if you had to choose between the port for Xbox and Linux, I'm sure the overwhelming choice of Halo fans, even of those on Slashdot, would be Xbox.
That comment is as insightful as it is funny.
I still don't understand why people come to Slashdot to complain about how they dislike the place and prefer $OTHER_WEBSITE, why people respond to things to say that no one cares, etc.
If you don't care, then why exactly are you reading and replying!?
$1.79 per peak request per second.
Is that before or after sales tax?
1) Idokorro is definitely not Free, and quite expensive too. BlackBerry SSH starting at $195!? He's probably buying his phone for less than that. (Their Mobile Admin software [$1 995] looks pretty interesting, though: Active Directory, Novell administration, SSH, etc. from a BlackBerry.)
2) He can find clients; his question asks which services have Port 22 access, or which have people used successfully for SSH.
Aren't you interested in enlargement or buying a Rolex lookalike?
That joke is old. I knew something like it was coming when I got to the phrase "127.0.0.1" in the parent.
This is one of those cases where "Redundant" is valid for the first such post in a thread.
Incidentally, the parent is old, too, but it's slightly more funny and relevant.
And two Wrights made an airplane.
Or just go to this website or any of the other myriad barcode CGIs and print them out.
I even used to have a little barcode generator program for my graphing calculator. Pity that the pixel size was too big for the generated barcodes to be scannable directly from the screen.
Nothing is classified in the civilian world, well... before the DMCA was passed, nothing was classified.
Ahem. What was the purpose of copyrights/patents/trade secrets/etc.?
Yes, there is information in the civilian world whose transfer to unauthorized sources is illegal (well, at least a civil offense).
"Hey, DiscoOnTheSide... know where I can get a hooker?"
.torrent of a specific file. That's nothing close to being a website that lists .torrents for all to see.
"The red light district."
That's one thing...and the existence of a red-light district removes a lot of liability from you.
But suppose you're the guy that everyone knows is the person to ask about hookers, and you keep a notebook that they write their addresses in. And you keep track of who's available tonight in that notebook, and you give that information freely. If it weren't for you, prostitution would be a lot lower, and through the regular arguments against prostitution (which I won't get into here), you are quite responsible for aiding this crime.
Your example is like asking some random guy on IRC for a
I'm very sorry but unfortunately for you we live in a place where supposedly we have freedom of speech. It doesn't matter if maybe it's in the public interest for the government to consider some forms of expression illegal. THAT'S NOT IN THE GOVERNMENT'S JURISDICTION.
The government's jurisdiction is the public interest and nothing else. The only legitimate purpose of government is to preserve the public interest: to act as the authorized enforcer of laws that work for the public good.
The government is not bound to enforce freedom of speech. That's a corollary that happens to be in the public interest most of the time. You may note that private property has no restrictions on curtailing speech: it is only Congress (and by extension most government agencies) that cannot infringe on this right. This is a civil matter between the MPAA and Loki. It is generally considered in the public interest that the courts help rightholders to maintain their exclusive rights. "Freedom of speech in our free country" is a lame excuse that can be used to theoretically invalidate almost every law.
Can you tell me exactly on what grounds should the government condone facilitating copyright infringement?
Stevyn confirms...the Netcraft joke is dying.
Agreed. "Single signon"? The last time I used Passport was to join my Bungie.net account and my Xbox Live Gamertag, to see my Halo 2 statistics.
Two existing accounts need a third account to link them. "Single signon" becomes a bit of a misnomer....
Incidentally, Bungie.net should allow you to sign in with your Gamertag alone. It seems that the Player Stats URL doesn't require a Bungie.net account, but they don't tell you that. There should be no need for me to create two additional accounts in order to access information about the first.
At least we should be able to register for Xbox Live with our Passport.
They're not just "knowing about" copyright infringement. I'm pretty sure 95% of the Internet population knows someone who's infringing copyright.
.torrents. Since Google would have to go to extraordinary lengths to sort the legal .torrents from the illegal, they have a defense. Loki is designed to list mainly illegal torrents.
They're facilitating copyright infringement; they're acting as a distribution center for a list of unauthorized
Since people like the "war on drugs" analogy, here's a parallel: is a person who keeps track of illegal drug manufacture and readily gives the info to anyone who asks legally innocent? Knowing about illegal activity is one thing. Telling others how to participate is completely different.
I'm missing your logic. You're arguing that pointing people to illegal things isn't illegal?
In that case, there's nothing wrong with, e.g., a high-ranking Air Force guy blogging nuclear launch codes and the location of the missile silo, is there? He's only pointing people to nuclear war; he's not doing the unauthorized launch himself....
(We're already below the margin of error for most polls and quite a few research studies)
The actual number of GTA murderers doesn't matter. If one thousandth of one percent of Americans were murderers (about 3000, which seems reasonable), and one hundredth of one percent of GTA players were murderers (about 1000 of those 3000), that would be a factor of ten between likelihood, and account for 1/3 of all murders. That ratio would be very significant.
Should we need a license to buy peanuts because so many people are allergic?
If you only knew how many times my classmates have tried to sneak peanut butter into my lunches, you wouldn't think that so preposterous.
Whatever the case may be with prices and design and requirements, the simple fact is that most consumer printers are PCL, and very few are PostScript. Therefore applications should support PCL as the de-facto standard, and allow for a convertor from PCL to PostScript (or a separate renderer) for the few cases that require this.
You are Linux. You are a small, free OS that has only a few percent of the market. You don't control how the printing industry designs their products; you obey their decisions.
Do you seriously think the government can just say, "OK, we're going to decriminalize this now since it's so easy to commit the erstwhile crime. Instead, we're going to talk to the industry about changing their methods."?
Sure, changing the methods would be a good thing, but the government is charged with enforcing property rights. They can't just stop jailing people because it's too easy to commit the crime.
Replacing jailing with an industry change is somewhat like the government hypothetically planning, because it's so easy to rape people and jailtime hasn't decreased the prevalence of rape, to decriminalize rape and instead give women free chastity belts. Sure, there are things that the victim can do to make both rape and warezing more difficult/rare. But unless they demonstrate negligence, they're still the victim of a crime, and the criminal deserves punishment.
s/mum/girl-friend/g
The Oedipus text editor!?
SETI@home
But that's spyware! It's spying the skies for aliens....
Keygen!?
Winzip doesn't lock out after lack of use. My Pentium I box that I booted up recently has Winzip (an old version, admittedly) on it. It counts up "days in trial" to 30, and then "days used" past 1000.
Does anybody other than possibly corporate users actually pay for WinZip? I would assume somebody does, since the company hasn't filed for bankruptcy yet, but I haven't heard of anyone paying for it.