Dude `ps aux|wc -l` isn't going to give the number of processes your current user is running! My process list is always at up over 130, but 100 procs for one user (even a multi desktop user) is fine.
Besides if it bothers you that much, just freakin' set it to 256 or 512 or something instead of whining like a little baby.
Also of note is that the first part (/etc/limits) limits per login, and the second part limits per user... so you can tweak the settings.
Seriously though, as a person who runs an assload of shit on one desktop, and then runs multiple desktops via vnc, 100 is more than enough. Like I said though bump it up, it'll still catch forkbombs.
Yeah no kidding! I hate all these stupid modern conveniences. Lousy automated Video Home System recording devices with their timers and programmability. Next you'll be able to connect to your video recording device via web browser and schedule shows you forgot to program before leaving the house in a mad rush. Oh haha won't the teens have fun programming it to record random channels. Clearly it's better to not have such a convenience.
And this whole business of home automation. What the hell is wrong with people these days? I mean in my day we used to break a hole in the wall and snip the electrical wires whenever we needed to turn off the lights. Of course we'd promptly seal the hole back up, because when we wanted to turn them back on it felt like to was too easy to simply have to reconnect and solder them together. It felt much better to have to break a hole in the wall and patch it back up again.
Some people thought we were weird, especially after the invention of the "switch" but I knew that the damn kids would stay up late at night turning the lights on and off. THOSE BASTARDS!!! I don't know how they got in the house anyway, since we never had doors, we just broke holes in the walls and patched them back up immediately.
No offense man, but home automation is cool stuff. Get with the times gramps.
how does minimo sound homosexual? (not that there's anything wrong with it if it does). If it bothers you just deepen your voice and say it like you're sharpening an axe or something.
It's totally in how you say it. For example, right now I'm prancing around saying "Mantorp!" in a really high pitched girly voice. How do you like that?
Which sounds "gay" now huh? [Deep Axe Murderer Voice] MiniMo@$*&! or [Prancy Girl Voice] Mantorp!
Yeah I thought so.
And just so you know. Homosexuals everywhere are offended by your use of the word gay. I could see if they named it "HomoMo" or "AnalMo" or maybe even "SuperFlamingMo" but MiniMo? No way...
And while we're on the topic, are you really so insecure about a simple word like "MiniMo" that you might think twice about using a superior browser to one that's total crap yet has a name like "SteakKnife Gun Browser?"
Maybe we should all join hands and prance around saying Mantorp, because you know what... I BET IT'S MORE FITTING!
I actually did read the title, and I knew he was poking fun at something, but I couldn't see anything, and so decided I would just respond anyway.
It annoys me a little bit at all the extreme nit-picking that goes on here at slashdot. Sometimes mistakes happen, get over it! Hell I didn't even notice the spelling error even though I read the parent post, and the post text multiple times.
Uhh... duh, they do it all the time. Increasing clock speed is the standard method. But this time there's additional things that could be done, ie tuning compilers to take better advantage of having more than one processor available.
sudo has nothing to do with Linux. When we're talking about Linux here we're talking about the operating system Kernel. Technically it's wrong to refer to the Linux operating system, especially if you're a Gnu / Stallman fan. But even if you're not, one thing is clear... sudo is not a part of Linux.
In case anyone else is wondering, like I was, how this can be done in only a few states... the basic idea is that services that don't comply with the law would be fined for only the members belonging to those states.
This is probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Regardless of that, I think this is another strong case of FUD spreading./ editors. The proposed bills are different in all 4 states, and I couldn't find much information on them. If the poster really did manage to read them it might have been nice to provide links. Anyway from what I can decipher from TFA it in no way seems as if slashdot would need to include warnings in the profile pages.
It clearly states that it applies to social referral services. I admit that what the poster suggested could be true depending on the definition, however it really seems like nothing but sensationalism. The article itself points out that the law is meant to apply to companies like friendster.com, and orkut.com.
Consistency is definitely good, but it's one of those short term benefits. If you want to keep on top of things you've got to be able to progress and evolve.
Take Windows for example... people certainly complain that the interface changes, but think about it. Does it really? It hasn't changed much since 3.1. If you used 3.1, you can use XP. You might be dazzled by the blue window colors, but basically everything is still the same.
Fact is, people don't like change, and people complain. What the KDE people are trying to do, are create a really awesome system. They're experimenting and trying things out. Let them! It's not like they're making any wild changes that totally blow your mind. After 10 or 15 minutes of using a new release you should be fine.
Come on, you can set aside 15 minutes to have fun and play around with a new system. Exploring rules!
Something tells me you might be the kind of person that would complain regardless: "Hey this is exactly the same as the last version, there's nothing new to explore here, this is stupid I'm not using it anymore!"
One thing I thought of recently: I wonder what would happen if instead of shelling out $200+ for a new copy of Windows, people donated that money to the Linux Fund.
I think a part of the problem with OpenSource is that people are really quick to code the fun parts of the programs, but some of the not so fun parts (that add up to a really polished feel) get left behind. If there was more paid development (ie. "This is your job monkey boy. Do it and you get a banana.") Maybe some of the things you're looking for wouldn't take so long to implement.
I myself am an OpenSource developer, and I know from experience how easy it is to start over, because no one's paying you... you get to do it your way, and that's why it's so fun.
On the other hand, if someone was paying me to fix/imlement some of the things that I'm not so inclined to do, I might actually do them.
Just thing what Linux could be if it had another billion or so dollars a year backing its development.
I know it's not possible... people don't really spend money on Windows anymore, it just comes on their computer and they absorb the cost other ways (most of the time). But it's still a nice thought.
Anyway, I'm sorry if I accused you of being a green-backed n00b, or some such similar thing. I can totally get where you're coming from. I can see how for some people recompiling their video player to gain support for the latest codec isn't exactly a vision of a picnic in the woods with naked wood sprites.
Then again... for some of us, that's exactly what it is:o).
Well you've obviously been around the block enough to get annoyed all to hell and back.
With one of the source based distros (Gentoo being the most popular), or one of the BSD operating systems the packaging is done for you, and recompiling / upgrading is as easy as clicking a menu in a GUI (if you wish).
At any rate, since you're a seasoned veteran, I'd have thought you'd have enough money to purchase a mac by now:o). You clearly want to have your cake and eat it too. So why not do it?!
I actually disagree that compile-it-yourself isn't the way to go, and that prepackaging is where we should be going. I just don't think prepackaged binaries lend themselves well to any Unix class OS.
You're totally dependant on the settings that the packager deems worthy. I think the BSD ports system is the way to go. It's way easier to maintain a BSD system (which you probably know), and in the process you get a system that's totally customized to suit your needs, not someone elses.
Anyway... of all the things you listed as requirements for your dream OS, seems to me like OSX is the only thing going that fulfills them all.
I totally understand where you're coming from... but it's really easy to see you're just not willing to change your mindset away from that of the typical Windows way of doing things.
First of all, recompiling apps is generally just as easy as installing most windows apps! And it's not like it takes that much longer.
If you want to use Linux, you should drop all your preconceived ideas of how an operating system should work... and what's easy, or good.
Recompiling is totally where it's at. It doesn't mean you have to spend 8 hours in your basement looking through source code. It means you hit a button, watch it compile and install for a few minutes, then run your shiny new program.
Regardless of what operating system you use, it's going to take work to maintain. It's all about where you want to put that effort.
You certainly don't need to upgrade your OS to get a better player... just upgrade that specific app!
Also, it's not the video player you need to be worrying about. And btw mplayer has no such dependencies as GTK or any other graphical toolkit (you can even use it without x windows!).
Even then if you're having problems you just need to upgrade that specific component. For example, if you're trying to play a divx5 movie and you've only got divx4 support installed, just upgrade that specific component (ffmpeg), recompile mplayer, and boom you're done.
Also of note is that if you ask any number of people from the Linux community, I think you'll find the general consensus is that playing video on a Linux box is way better, easier, more convenient, and stable than on windows. There are almost always zero problems with the default install of every single major distro, whereas with windows you have to install codec packs and a bunch of other crap.
Ever watch a newbie try and figure out how to play a divx movie? Windows media player can't download the codec automatically so the program just plays sound and no video. It's hilarious!
What I'm saying is, you're totally spreading FUD and you know it. ESPECIALLY in this area, Linux is leaps and bounds ahead of windows.
And let me be the first to say that there's many areas where Windows is leaps and bounds ahead of other operating systems, so I'm not just being a fanboy here.
All of you people who are balking at the 40:1 ration need to grow up. No offense to you or your little piddly-ass companies, but this is an article about Cisco.
Every company is different, and I guarantee you most of the people at Cisco are doing a hell of a lot more interesting things that answering email, writing word documents, and scheduling meetings.
You really have to consider all the factors involved, of which we don't have many, so if the IT manager at Cisco says he need 1 support person for every 40 machines, he's probably not lying.
Maybe instead of merely slamming his numbers you could try to extrapolate and learn from.
That could be true, I admit. I was just saying that we don't know a lot about the case. Maybe this is one of those times where the parents should have known... but then again, life is a pretty random place sometimes.
The computer analogy is a good one, especially if your computer is functioning correctly... what you get out is what you put in, but what if you've got a bad capacitor, or what there's a bug in the CPU that makes it spit out incorrect floating point numbers. But that could never happen right?
It can, does, and has! And what happens when it does? You get totally unpredictable results. Maybe the kid goes off and paints pictures of bunnys and vows never to wear shoes. Or maybe the kid stabs his kid bother in the eye 14 times and drinks the resulting slush through a straw.
All in all, my only point was not that we shouldn't hold parents accountable... just that we all use this "parental upbringing" as an excuse to make ourselves feel better about our world. You know "that'll never happen to me." mentality.
Well you know what, it might, and it might happen due to no fault of your own. People should be ready to face that possibility. This is part of the problem of our society, we don't account for all potentialities and in the process we continue to create a society based on something other than reality.
It's like we're writing an operating system for a certain architecture but there's this one instruction we don't like. So we just pretend it's not there. Then when the randomness of life comes along and some process actually uses that instruction we all freak out and blame the programmer.
We can't really fix the problem until we fully define it.
Since someone already replied to this and said basically what I wanted to say I decided to respond to another post that said something similar to yours... I do want to let you know that there is TONS of proof regarding this. In fact if you do your research you'll find most of the determining factors in the serial killer mind are unrelated to family upbringing (despite several of the notorious north american killers fitting that category).
Their motives almost never are traced back to child hood abuse, or traumatic experiences. Almost all of the time it's a genetic defect, mental disease, whatever... an interesting bit in the/dev/random of life. If you want proof, simply do research. But I think if you really wanted proof, and not just to feel better about the world, you would already have proof.
Actually there are TONS. First of all there are hundreds (probably thousands) of active serial killers in the US alone right now, 99% of which you will never hear about. Second of all you have to remember that you're getting most of your information about serial killers from sensationalized media, which couldn't portray a picture farther from the truth.
Think about it. What the media wants you to know is that they caught a serial killer whose life was all fucked up because he had a hard life. The media wants a story that makes sense, that people can revel in, but not feel TOO bad about, and mostly that they can understand.
How many of the stories that have almost no explanation do you think make it to the 6 'o clock news? Very few. But there are a lot. Like I said, go spend some time in a mental institute, or at least talk to someone who has.
And just so you know, off the top of my head here are a couple examples of killers whose lives don't follow the typical media portayed serial killer "norm":
Philip Badowski: killed his parents because God told him to. No signs of abuse, and by all accounts a normal childhood. Supposedly his parents scolded him for some thing he did wrong and on the "spur of the moment" he did what God told him to do.
Lucian Staniak: One of Poland's most notorial serial killers. Had a fine childhood, although was apparently traumatized by the death of his family... still not a victim of abuse, and he was eventually found to be schizophrenic.
That's actually the most common tie to most serial killers, not any environment factors such as parents... mental disease.
I understand that you want to believe as a parent you can produce a "good" child just be being a "good" parent, but that's not always the case. Most of the time you don't have a choice if your kid has down-syndrome, or schizophrenia... these things just happen.
And just so you know, I do agree with you, parents SHOULD be accountable for their kids, especially while they're not within the age of majority, but despite that you simply can't make blanket judgements like "they didn't do everything right, or their child wouldn't have become a serial killer."
People are so quick to blame the parents, and in most cases I think that this is true, we need to place blame on parents... especially for smaller things.
But in cases where such an extreme act has occurred I don't think that parental upbringing is the totality of what's going on. Sometimes parents do everything right and still end up with a serial killer.
There's a thing called free will, plus the randomness of genetics. You can't always blame the parents. Just wait till your kid shoots someone and see how you feel about being put on trial for the murder even though you had nothing to do with it and you were a model parent.
And just so you know, if you ever spend any time in a mental institute for children you'll know what I mean. This happens a lot, sometimes it's the parents fault, sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's them having been born into a society that just doesn't support them, and other times it's just a crossed wire in their brain... maybe one that didn't short circuit in day 43 of year 15. Who knows, but the point is -- you shouldn't be so quick to judge!
Actually, there's a patch in the works allowing for Linux kernel upgrades without rebooting.
And just so you know, FreeBSD has had this ability for a long time.
Why wouldn't you just make a regular VoIP call to 911? Why would an emergency call need to have its packets classified any differently than any other phone call?
Here in Canada Primus is already offering VoIP service with 911 available in all areas.
Also, the VoIP hardware devices themselves perform QoS a both ends to ensure that the rest of your network traffic doesn't get in the way. Yes IPv6 has the ability to allow different priority of packets, as well as different modes such as isochronous (which will be useful for media streaming). But seriously, it's not really needed. As long as the hardware does QoS, the packets will just get routed along the way, and as long as your (and the servers) connections are fast enough... 911 is certainly no dillemma with VoIP.
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Dude `ps aux|wc -l` isn't going to give the number of processes your current user is running! My process list is always at up over 130, but 100 procs for one user (even a multi desktop user) is fine.
Besides if it bothers you that much, just freakin' set it to 256 or 512 or something instead of whining like a little baby.
Also of note is that the first part (/etc/limits) limits per login, and the second part limits per user... so you can tweak the settings.
Seriously though, as a person who runs an assload of shit on one desktop, and then runs multiple desktops via vnc, 100 is more than enough. Like I said though bump it up, it'll still catch forkbombs.
Try `ps aux | grep username | wc -l`
In /etc/limits:
/etc/security/limits.conf
# max procs to 100, prevent fork bombings
* U 100
In
# mac procs to 100, prevent fork bombings
* hard nproc 100
I tested on Gentoo Linux with the following fork bomb:
_(){ _&__&};__(){ _&__&};__
Works good.
What are you talking about? It's a well known fact that ATI drivers for Linux suck.
nVidia is the only way to go.
Yeah no kidding! I hate all these stupid modern conveniences. Lousy automated Video Home System recording devices with their timers and programmability. Next you'll be able to connect to your video recording device via web browser and schedule shows you forgot to program before leaving the house in a mad rush. Oh haha won't the teens have fun programming it to record random channels. Clearly it's better to not have such a convenience. And this whole business of home automation. What the hell is wrong with people these days? I mean in my day we used to break a hole in the wall and snip the electrical wires whenever we needed to turn off the lights. Of course we'd promptly seal the hole back up, because when we wanted to turn them back on it felt like to was too easy to simply have to reconnect and solder them together. It felt much better to have to break a hole in the wall and patch it back up again. Some people thought we were weird, especially after the invention of the "switch" but I knew that the damn kids would stay up late at night turning the lights on and off. THOSE BASTARDS!!! I don't know how they got in the house anyway, since we never had doors, we just broke holes in the walls and patched them back up immediately. No offense man, but home automation is cool stuff. Get with the times gramps.
how does minimo sound homosexual? (not that there's anything wrong with it if it does). If it bothers you just deepen your voice and say it like you're sharpening an axe or something.
It's totally in how you say it. For example, right now I'm prancing around saying "Mantorp!" in a really high pitched girly voice. How do you like that?
Which sounds "gay" now huh? [Deep Axe Murderer Voice] MiniMo@$*&! or [Prancy Girl Voice] Mantorp!
Yeah I thought so.
And just so you know. Homosexuals everywhere are offended by your use of the word gay. I could see if they named it "HomoMo" or "AnalMo" or maybe even "SuperFlamingMo" but MiniMo? No way...
And while we're on the topic, are you really so insecure about a simple word like "MiniMo" that you might think twice about using a superior browser to one that's total crap yet has a name like "SteakKnife Gun Browser?"
Maybe we should all join hands and prance around saying Mantorp, because you know what... I BET IT'S MORE FITTING!
I actually did read the title, and I knew he was poking fun at something, but I couldn't see anything, and so decided I would just respond anyway.
It annoys me a little bit at all the extreme nit-picking that goes on here at slashdot. Sometimes mistakes happen, get over it! Hell I didn't even notice the spelling error even though I read the parent post, and the post text multiple times.
Anyway sclaes, that's funny stuff. Definitely +5 worthy.
Uhh... duh, they do it all the time. Increasing clock speed is the standard method. But this time there's additional things that could be done, ie tuning compilers to take better advantage of having more than one processor available.
sudo has nothing to do with Linux. When we're talking about Linux here we're talking about the operating system Kernel. Technically it's wrong to refer to the Linux operating system, especially if you're a Gnu / Stallman fan. But even if you're not, one thing is clear... sudo is not a part of Linux.
In case anyone else is wondering, like I was, how this can be done in only a few states... the basic idea is that services that don't comply with the law would be fined for only the members belonging to those states.
./ editors. The proposed bills are different in all 4 states, and I couldn't find much information on them. If the poster really did manage to read them it might have been nice to provide links. Anyway from what I can decipher from TFA it in no way seems as if slashdot would need to include warnings in the profile pages.
./ editors... grow up a little bit.
This is probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Regardless of that, I think this is another strong case of FUD spreading
It clearly states that it applies to social referral services. I admit that what the poster suggested could be true depending on the definition, however it really seems like nothing but sensationalism. The article itself points out that the law is meant to apply to companies like friendster.com, and orkut.com.
Please
Consistency is definitely good, but it's one of those short term benefits. If you want to keep on top of things you've got to be able to progress and evolve.
Take Windows for example... people certainly complain that the interface changes, but think about it. Does it really? It hasn't changed much since 3.1. If you used 3.1, you can use XP. You might be dazzled by the blue window colors, but basically everything is still the same.
Fact is, people don't like change, and people complain. What the KDE people are trying to do, are create a really awesome system. They're experimenting and trying things out. Let them! It's not like they're making any wild changes that totally blow your mind. After 10 or 15 minutes of using a new release you should be fine.
Come on, you can set aside 15 minutes to have fun and play around with a new system. Exploring rules!
Something tells me you might be the kind of person that would complain regardless: "Hey this is exactly the same as the last version, there's nothing new to explore here, this is stupid I'm not using it anymore!"
You make a lot of good points.
:o).
One thing I thought of recently: I wonder what would happen if instead of shelling out $200+ for a new copy of Windows, people donated that money to the Linux Fund.
I think a part of the problem with OpenSource is that people are really quick to code the fun parts of the programs, but some of the not so fun parts (that add up to a really polished feel) get left behind. If there was more paid development (ie. "This is your job monkey boy. Do it and you get a banana.") Maybe some of the things you're looking for wouldn't take so long to implement.
I myself am an OpenSource developer, and I know from experience how easy it is to start over, because no one's paying you... you get to do it your way, and that's why it's so fun.
On the other hand, if someone was paying me to fix/imlement some of the things that I'm not so inclined to do, I might actually do them.
Just thing what Linux could be if it had another billion or so dollars a year backing its development.
I know it's not possible... people don't really spend money on Windows anymore, it just comes on their computer and they absorb the cost other ways (most of the time). But it's still a nice thought.
Anyway, I'm sorry if I accused you of being a green-backed n00b, or some such similar thing. I can totally get where you're coming from. I can see how for some people recompiling their video player to gain support for the latest codec isn't exactly a vision of a picnic in the woods with naked wood sprites.
Then again... for some of us, that's exactly what it is
Well you've obviously been around the block enough to get annoyed all to hell and back. With one of the source based distros (Gentoo being the most popular), or one of the BSD operating systems the packaging is done for you, and recompiling / upgrading is as easy as clicking a menu in a GUI (if you wish). At any rate, since you're a seasoned veteran, I'd have thought you'd have enough money to purchase a mac by now :o). You clearly want to have your cake and eat it too. So why not do it?!
I actually disagree that compile-it-yourself isn't the way to go, and that prepackaging is where we should be going. I just don't think prepackaged binaries lend themselves well to any Unix class OS.
You're totally dependant on the settings that the packager deems worthy. I think the BSD ports system is the way to go. It's way easier to maintain a BSD system (which you probably know), and in the process you get a system that's totally customized to suit your needs, not someone elses.
Anyway... of all the things you listed as requirements for your dream OS, seems to me like OSX is the only thing going that fulfills them all.
I totally understand where you're coming from... but it's really easy to see you're just not willing to change your mindset away from that of the typical Windows way of doing things. First of all, recompiling apps is generally just as easy as installing most windows apps! And it's not like it takes that much longer. If you want to use Linux, you should drop all your preconceived ideas of how an operating system should work... and what's easy, or good. Recompiling is totally where it's at. It doesn't mean you have to spend 8 hours in your basement looking through source code. It means you hit a button, watch it compile and install for a few minutes, then run your shiny new program. Regardless of what operating system you use, it's going to take work to maintain. It's all about where you want to put that effort.
You certainly don't need to upgrade your OS to get a better player... just upgrade that specific app!
Also, it's not the video player you need to be worrying about. And btw mplayer has no such dependencies as GTK or any other graphical toolkit (you can even use it without x windows!).
Even then if you're having problems you just need to upgrade that specific component. For example, if you're trying to play a divx5 movie and you've only got divx4 support installed, just upgrade that specific component (ffmpeg), recompile mplayer, and boom you're done.
Also of note is that if you ask any number of people from the Linux community, I think you'll find the general consensus is that playing video on a Linux box is way better, easier, more convenient, and stable than on windows. There are almost always zero problems with the default install of every single major distro, whereas with windows you have to install codec packs and a bunch of other crap.
Ever watch a newbie try and figure out how to play a divx movie? Windows media player can't download the codec automatically so the program just plays sound and no video. It's hilarious!
What I'm saying is, you're totally spreading FUD and you know it. ESPECIALLY in this area, Linux is leaps and bounds ahead of windows.
And let me be the first to say that there's many areas where Windows is leaps and bounds ahead of other operating systems, so I'm not just being a fanboy here.
I have never had a problem playing windows media, aac, or quicktime files in Linux.
In fact, most the trouble I've had has come from Real Media files.
All of you people who are balking at the 40:1 ration need to grow up. No offense to you or your little piddly-ass companies, but this is an article about Cisco.
Every company is different, and I guarantee you most of the people at Cisco are doing a hell of a lot more interesting things that answering email, writing word documents, and scheduling meetings.
You really have to consider all the factors involved, of which we don't have many, so if the IT manager at Cisco says he need 1 support person for every 40 machines, he's probably not lying.
Maybe instead of merely slamming his numbers you could try to extrapolate and learn from.
That could be true, I admit. I was just saying that we don't know a lot about the case. Maybe this is one of those times where the parents should have known... but then again, life is a pretty random place sometimes.
The computer analogy is a good one, especially if your computer is functioning correctly... what you get out is what you put in, but what if you've got a bad capacitor, or what there's a bug in the CPU that makes it spit out incorrect floating point numbers. But that could never happen right?
It can, does, and has! And what happens when it does? You get totally unpredictable results. Maybe the kid goes off and paints pictures of bunnys and vows never to wear shoes. Or maybe the kid stabs his kid bother in the eye 14 times and drinks the resulting slush through a straw.
All in all, my only point was not that we shouldn't hold parents accountable... just that we all use this "parental upbringing" as an excuse to make ourselves feel better about our world. You know "that'll never happen to me." mentality.
Well you know what, it might, and it might happen due to no fault of your own. People should be ready to face that possibility. This is part of the problem of our society, we don't account for all potentialities and in the process we continue to create a society based on something other than reality.
It's like we're writing an operating system for a certain architecture but there's this one instruction we don't like. So we just pretend it's not there. Then when the randomness of life comes along and some process actually uses that instruction we all freak out and blame the programmer.
We can't really fix the problem until we fully define it.
Since someone already replied to this and said basically what I wanted to say I decided to respond to another post that said something similar to yours... I do want to let you know that there is TONS of proof regarding this. In fact if you do your research you'll find most of the determining factors in the serial killer mind are unrelated to family upbringing (despite several of the notorious north american killers fitting that category).
/dev/random of life. If you want proof, simply do research. But I think if you really wanted proof, and not just to feel better about the world, you would already have proof.
Their motives almost never are traced back to child hood abuse, or traumatic experiences. Almost all of the time it's a genetic defect, mental disease, whatever... an interesting bit in the
And please, see my other reply.
Actually there are TONS. First of all there are hundreds (probably thousands) of active serial killers in the US alone right now, 99% of which you will never hear about. Second of all you have to remember that you're getting most of your information about serial killers from sensationalized media, which couldn't portray a picture farther from the truth.
Think about it. What the media wants you to know is that they caught a serial killer whose life was all fucked up because he had a hard life. The media wants a story that makes sense, that people can revel in, but not feel TOO bad about, and mostly that they can understand.
How many of the stories that have almost no explanation do you think make it to the 6 'o clock news? Very few. But there are a lot. Like I said, go spend some time in a mental institute, or at least talk to someone who has.
And just so you know, off the top of my head here are a couple examples of killers whose lives don't follow the typical media portayed serial killer "norm":
Philip Badowski: killed his parents because God told him to. No signs of abuse, and by all accounts a normal childhood. Supposedly his parents scolded him for some thing he did wrong and on the "spur of the moment" he did what God told him to do.
Lucian Staniak: One of Poland's most notorial serial killers. Had a fine childhood, although was apparently traumatized by the death of his family... still not a victim of abuse, and he was eventually found to be schizophrenic.
That's actually the most common tie to most serial killers, not any environment factors such as parents... mental disease.
I understand that you want to believe as a parent you can produce a "good" child just be being a "good" parent, but that's not always the case. Most of the time you don't have a choice if your kid has down-syndrome, or schizophrenia... these things just happen.
And just so you know, I do agree with you, parents SHOULD be accountable for their kids, especially while they're not within the age of majority, but despite that you simply can't make blanket judgements like "they didn't do everything right, or their child wouldn't have become a serial killer."
That is the statement that is simply not right.
People are so quick to blame the parents, and in most cases I think that this is true, we need to place blame on parents... especially for smaller things.
But in cases where such an extreme act has occurred I don't think that parental upbringing is the totality of what's going on. Sometimes parents do everything right and still end up with a serial killer.
There's a thing called free will, plus the randomness of genetics. You can't always blame the parents. Just wait till your kid shoots someone and see how you feel about being put on trial for the murder even though you had nothing to do with it and you were a model parent.
And just so you know, if you ever spend any time in a mental institute for children you'll know what I mean. This happens a lot, sometimes it's the parents fault, sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's them having been born into a society that just doesn't support them, and other times it's just a crossed wire in their brain... maybe one that didn't short circuit in day 43 of year 15. Who knows, but the point is -- you shouldn't be so quick to judge!
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That's only the USA. Maybe the parent was a Canuckastanian. Here we actually value some things like consumer rights.
Unconvinced?
See Part 3, Section 30.6 of the Canadian Copyright Act for more information.
That's for computer programs, but there are similar laws for audio recordings as well.
This whole story is stupid. You americans think the whole world revolves around you. Well it doesn't. Of course shutting down SuprNova had no effect.
Actually, there's a patch in the works allowing for Linux kernel upgrades without rebooting. And just so you know, FreeBSD has had this ability for a long time.
Or to be 2.6.x friendly: /sbin/lspci
Why wouldn't you just make a regular VoIP call to 911? Why would an emergency call need to have its packets classified any differently than any other phone call?
Here in Canada Primus is already offering VoIP service with 911 available in all areas.
Also, the VoIP hardware devices themselves perform QoS a both ends to ensure that the rest of your network traffic doesn't get in the way. Yes IPv6 has the ability to allow different priority of packets, as well as different modes such as isochronous (which will be useful for media streaming). But seriously, it's not really needed. As long as the hardware does QoS, the packets will just get routed along the way, and as long as your (and the servers) connections are fast enough... 911 is certainly no dillemma with VoIP.
Doh! I'm always forgetting minor details... a checkbox here, order of magnitude there. At least my name's not Michael Bolton.