a Mac Mini with a single-core Intel chip and the minimum of RAM -- 512 MB. It cost me AU$949. Since plugging it in, I have barely used my $3000 Windows desktop... All this time later, I have almost exclusively switched to the Mac."
ill bet a swich to linux and you could bring that down to 400 au dollars
But they're already nuts. That's why they're conspiracy theorists.
so watergate was just a made up thing and nixion never really had a breakin at watergate...i knew those nutty dems was making up history as they went .
i used uinux in the older days , switched to Linux 10 years ago and now use ubuntu . never had any problems with "are you legit ? or are you stealing from us ? i would never want a company to treat me like i was a illegal alien . one like that doesnt get my money
the idea here is not profit for greed or pay a ceo millions but to have a job that pays the bills , offers productivity , reward for work and the real face of what socialism will look like as we evolve toward that model . The big corps will not be able to compete and will through evolutionary business practeces cease to exists . True socialism is without a central control head and this gives one an idea how even a country could govern in a true social environment
this release of an operating system in terms of quality , bugs removed and security is the best for the computer enviroment since microsoft launched windows 98
Some may argue that the Police State is not simply in the process of arriving, but that it has already been with us for some time. Certainly the events of September 11, 2001 have done nothing to retard the process. There are many small developments, each one seemingly innocuous in itself, which are helping the police forces of the world to increase their grip on the activities of people.The introduction of identity cards has been the subject of much recent discussion but so far many of the various governments involved appear to have shelved the matter. Temporarily shelved at least, or until the various propaganda machines have had time to do their work. The introduction of driver's licences bearing the owner's photograph has provided the state with a perfectly acceptable substitute for a temporary form of ID card. Nobody is making much fuss about a photo on their driving permit, having long become accustomed to requiring a licence to drive.
The original purpose of the driving licence was to ensure that the applicant had the mental and physical competence to drive a vehicle. All states rapidly turning this into a method of controlling a part of their population, and soon we began to hear the government refrain that "driving is a privilege and not a right." A refrain which has been unquestioningly accepted by the majority of the population. This underlying theory is present in states as varied in their political philosophies as the USA, Canada, England and China.
The use of face-recognition technology though has shed new light on one police practice, a practice which most likely has surprised many people. With digital photographs in common use, it is very easy for the forces of law and order to scan, on a routine basis, the databank containing the province or state's drivers' license photographs to find look-alikes for criminal photo lineups. Whatever your description, if it matches the facial characteristics - or even a composite - of a suspect, your photograph could be among those laid out alongside the photo of an alleged armed robber or murderer for a witness or victim to identify. Ever wonder how many police line-ups you may have been in? I'll bet you thought too that the new provincial health cards and driver's licences, with their nice coloured photographs, were in colour because they look less like the old grainy black and white ones that made us all look like shifty criminals.
All this occurred to me recently, when I had my photo taken for my latest driver's licence. Being a wearer of orthochromic lenses, which turn dark when exposed to light of any kind, I was asked to remove them before my photo was taken. When I asked why, I was informed that the police don't like photos of individuals with dark glasses! So now my health card and driver's licence each bear a photograph of an old white haired individual blinking at the camera. Of course, in real life I do not look like that because I wear my glasses continuously. But this isn't a problem for the police because their photo recognition equipment is much more interested in the shape of my face than its adornments. The polls taken following the WTC incident showed that there is considerable public support for many of these so-called anti-terrorism measures, support accompanied by cries from many for even harsher measures to restrain liberty; including, unthinkingly, their own. Even in the USA, well known people, notably Oracle's Larry Ellison and Harvard's Allen Dershowitz, have proposed a US national ID card. Ellison having even offered to manufacture them himself, presumably as an act of charity and patriotism. Closer to home, Quebec's Minister of Health, under the cover of wanting to reduce fraud, has been again touting a health card with a chip, to counter so-called violations of his system. Since they introduced photographs on the Health card a few years ago, some reduction of fraud has taken place, but it has not been eliminated as reports in the French press showed recently.
The Police Federation in the UK says
for the communists in china ? the email address of say the chairmen or the rest of any of the gang ? i mean i email folks directly when i get pissed off . may not do any good on there end but it helps my anger issues
why a pr for microsoft ? this mole planted by microsoft to wander into our enclosuer and lie to us about microsoft isn't doing anything...when there actions prove outherwise . trying to soften there tone with there losses in european courts , there sucking up anywhere they can suck
i know a geek squad geek and he has better hacker software than any hacker in Russia , china or any other country they are . if i was a betting man and there is on line stuff . i bet the software they have is better than any home brew thats out here .
the quality had gone down hill since fedora core 3 . the community of debian and all her off spring will fill the void . i think Linux needs to exist in different forms . They were getting overambitious with the project .
because its Microsoft. this animal hasn't changed sine its glory days like the way it did vendors and Netscape , it still goes ahead and keeps on with the cheating and dirty tricks . courts and law is going to get them because of the viable alternatives out there like linux and os x . Microsoft is starting its hedgomany as Linux and social collaboration spreads.we may be seeing the begining of the end of the windows dynasty
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a Mac Mini with a single-core Intel chip and the minimum of RAM -- 512 MB. It cost me AU$949. Since plugging it in, I have barely used my $3000 Windows desktop... All this time later, I have almost exclusively switched to the Mac." ill bet a swich to linux and you could bring that down to 400 au dollars
they have never watched stargate sg1 and i dont know about this meco but i have dated a lot of black holes in my day .
take about 2 mins
mcbride and extort.......er i mean earn last year from sco?
read today that microsoft said they were coming after linux , ibm and google and wipe the earth with them in the enterprise ...hmmmmm
But they're already nuts. That's why they're conspiracy theorists. so watergate was just a made up thing and nixion never really had a breakin at watergate ...i knew those nutty dems was making up history as they went .
just like simon says . i gave that game up in my childhood ...
by robots in the 1990.s its conclusion was why so many deaths was the people got ine the way . how long will it be when we all get in the way ?
ill download my antivirus updates ...maybe if this windows is in the wild it will be detected before i get it
i used uinux in the older days , switched to Linux 10 years ago and now use ubuntu . never had any problems with "are you legit ? or are you stealing from us ? i would never want a company to treat me like i was a illegal alien . one like that doesnt get my money
the idea here is not profit for greed or pay a ceo millions but to have a job that pays the bills , offers productivity , reward for work and the real face of what socialism will look like as we evolve toward that model . The big corps will not be able to compete and will through evolutionary business practeces cease to exists . True socialism is without a central control head and this gives one an idea how even a country could govern in a true social environment
this release of an operating system in terms of quality , bugs removed and security is the best for the computer enviroment since microsoft launched windows 98
drm is evil and should be eliminated to the fiery pits hell where beta max burn th for ever n ever
must be a slow news day at slashdot ...yawn
maybe the boys at wired need to read slashdot
i think it sounds more like to the mases about breaking enemy code in an old ww2 movie or documentry . needs a new title
Some may argue that the Police State is not simply in the process of arriving, but that it has already been with us for some time. Certainly the events of September 11, 2001 have done nothing to retard the process. There are many small developments, each one seemingly innocuous in itself, which are helping the police forces of the world to increase their grip on the activities of people.The introduction of identity cards has been the subject of much recent discussion but so far many of the various governments involved appear to have shelved the matter. Temporarily shelved at least, or until the various propaganda machines have had time to do their work. The introduction of driver's licences bearing the owner's photograph has provided the state with a perfectly acceptable substitute for a temporary form of ID card. Nobody is making much fuss about a photo on their driving permit, having long become accustomed to requiring a licence to drive. The original purpose of the driving licence was to ensure that the applicant had the mental and physical competence to drive a vehicle. All states rapidly turning this into a method of controlling a part of their population, and soon we began to hear the government refrain that "driving is a privilege and not a right." A refrain which has been unquestioningly accepted by the majority of the population. This underlying theory is present in states as varied in their political philosophies as the USA, Canada, England and China. The use of face-recognition technology though has shed new light on one police practice, a practice which most likely has surprised many people. With digital photographs in common use, it is very easy for the forces of law and order to scan, on a routine basis, the databank containing the province or state's drivers' license photographs to find look-alikes for criminal photo lineups. Whatever your description, if it matches the facial characteristics - or even a composite - of a suspect, your photograph could be among those laid out alongside the photo of an alleged armed robber or murderer for a witness or victim to identify. Ever wonder how many police line-ups you may have been in? I'll bet you thought too that the new provincial health cards and driver's licences, with their nice coloured photographs, were in colour because they look less like the old grainy black and white ones that made us all look like shifty criminals. All this occurred to me recently, when I had my photo taken for my latest driver's licence. Being a wearer of orthochromic lenses, which turn dark when exposed to light of any kind, I was asked to remove them before my photo was taken. When I asked why, I was informed that the police don't like photos of individuals with dark glasses! So now my health card and driver's licence each bear a photograph of an old white haired individual blinking at the camera. Of course, in real life I do not look like that because I wear my glasses continuously. But this isn't a problem for the police because their photo recognition equipment is much more interested in the shape of my face than its adornments. The polls taken following the WTC incident showed that there is considerable public support for many of these so-called anti-terrorism measures, support accompanied by cries from many for even harsher measures to restrain liberty; including, unthinkingly, their own. Even in the USA, well known people, notably Oracle's Larry Ellison and Harvard's Allen Dershowitz, have proposed a US national ID card. Ellison having even offered to manufacture them himself, presumably as an act of charity and patriotism. Closer to home, Quebec's Minister of Health, under the cover of wanting to reduce fraud, has been again touting a health card with a chip, to counter so-called violations of his system. Since they introduced photographs on the Health card a few years ago, some reduction of fraud has taken place, but it has not been eliminated as reports in the French press showed recently. The Police Federation in the UK says
for the communists in china ? the email address of say the chairmen or the rest of any of the gang ? i mean i email folks directly when i get pissed off . may not do any good on there end but it helps my anger issues
how can they defend themselfs in europe when they cant defend themselfs at home? my how the patents crumble when you are a monoply
why a pr for microsoft ? this mole planted by microsoft to wander into our enclosuer and lie to us about microsoft isn't doing anything ...when there actions prove outherwise . trying to soften there tone with there losses in european courts , there sucking up anywhere they can suck
"One person dead is a tragedy . 10,000 dead is a statistic" ............Stalin
i know a geek squad geek and he has better hacker software than any hacker in Russia , china or any other country they are . if i was a betting man and there is on line stuff . i bet the software they have is better than any home brew thats out here .
the quality had gone down hill since fedora core 3 . the community of debian and all her off spring will fill the void . i think Linux needs to exist in different forms . They were getting overambitious with the project .
...so you wont end up swiming with the fishs
because its Microsoft. this animal hasn't changed sine its glory days like the way it did vendors and Netscape , it still goes ahead and keeps on with the cheating and dirty tricks . courts and law is going to get them because of the viable alternatives out there like linux and os x . Microsoft is starting its hedgomany as Linux and social collaboration spreads .we may be seeing the begining of the end of the windows dynasty