PATRIOT is actually an acronym for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism".
As for the use of 'Patriot', who won't vote against something called the USA PATRIOT Act? And no one would support the 'Big Brother Act'. It is nothing more than a classic example of political double-speak. The 'Clear Skies Initiative' gave polluters less stringent regulation but wouldn't be called the 'Big Business got Bush into Office so Now He's a Gonna' Reward 'em Initiative", the 'No Child Left Behind Act' screws over children and school systems but isn't called the "Republicans don't Value Quality Public Education and this is Just an Excuse to Get Vouchers for Our Kids to go to Rich Public Schools Act" and "Operation Iraqi Freedom" wasn't called "Operation Iraqi Military Ocupation" or better yet "Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.)"
Very true, for whatever reason Iowa does seem to have a lot of warez. Maybe its because we're in Iowa and its relatively isolated from any high-tech centers. However with the recent court ruling on the 1 billion dollar spam case I'm thinking we might not want to take up spamming. Try a slashdot search on iowa, we apparently also had anti-spyware legislation proposed.
When you install mandrake or suse, do you learn anything? No, you just click next, next, next until you are done. With gentoo you are forced to use command line which some say is too hard. But it really isn't, with the Gentoo Handbook the installation is all laid out for you and by actually installing it by hand and reading an entire manual to make sure you don't screw up you learn a lot and get a ton of command line expierence. Hopefully Gentoo continues to be innovative so its GUI installer doesn't end up like the rest.
Will it hurt that a 3rd party watches over votes? No, after Florida in 2000 it is a good idea. The problem is that before in Florida chads could be counted, now all they can see is certain votes being directed to/dev/null. Actually, that would be lucky, but alas, the voting machines run Windows. Now only if they could get rid of the Diebold voting machines.
I remeber seeing a documentary about this on PBS some while back. It basically covered how with the overcrowded russian prision system the disease spead like wildfire. It also said a lot of the inmates in these prisions were released before they finished their medication and this created many of the drug resistant strands of TB. But this covers more than TB, in a world where the miracle antibiotic gets rid of everything people usually don't finish all of their medication has this leaves some of the disease behind. We are then left with drug resistent diseases.
Has anyone really ever had a problem with these types of phones interfering with their wi-fi network?" I've never actually tried these phones. My 2.4 ghz phone right now is terrible though. If someone calls me and my phone is within 10-15 feet of my laptop it will just kill the wi-fi signal (no very good when you have 695mb of a 700mb linux iso). I would like to see how these phones would work, they could possibly operate on a very high 2.4ghz frequency but I still question how effective this would be. Here is a good little article on the issue.
Yeh, but that's Microsoft. Anything that can possibly help with security for Windows is front page news. This however, isn't. Mandrake switched to X.org. Who cares? Nearly every major distro has switched already and it doesn't make slashdot. X.org isn't at all different from Xfree except a license agreement.
Why not just encrypt your message with 4096 bit RSA, and then use hping2 to insert your message into the body of an ICMP or TCP packet? That way it would fit right in with the rest of TCP traffic coming from your connection.
This is the kind of gross misuse of copyrights that is appalling. A little digging around on the Google and we can see that author of this song is Woody Gurthrie who lived from 1912-1967. Now assuming Woody Gurthrie wrote this song on the year of his death under the original copyright laws this work would have passed into public domain by 1999. But due to lobbying efforts of the music and movie industry this period has been extended to before the Great Depression! This isn't all that important though because it is still copyrighted regardless of former laws. However, what is important is that this song on JibJab isn't the exact song by Woody Gurthrie that was copyrighted, it is cleary a derivative work that is based on a copyrighted work but which adds a creative element that goes far beyond what Woody Gurthrie ever did. This is an issues talked about extensivly throughout the book Freeculture by Lawrence Lessig which is freely downloadable at his site. One example given in the book is how many great works where based on copyrighted works before them that had not yet entered public domain such as Disney movies or Japanese comics. The general idea is that although new works are based on older copyrighted ones it doesn't hurt the original copyright holder and serves to stimulate the growth of culture. For more information check out FreeCulture.org
You know, I would like to see this pass, I would even like to see the Betamax decision overturned. Why you might ask? Because of the wakeup call it will create.
Yeh, like the wakeup call we got in the 2000 election with Florida. I mean it was bad, but look at the results, now we have high-quality electronic voting machines so now if we get screwed over we won't have to spends weeks counting chads, we'll know the second your votes goes to/dev/null. Or how about that other thing, The Patriot Act. I swear, my town has been in constant riot/protest. Its just amazing how concerned the citizens are freedoms.
"by standardizing legislation around the world to make it easier to prosecute spammers."
But doesn't a large portion of spam come from compromised Windows machines with broadband? Although lots of spam comes from Russian and Chinese servers I don't see how the UN's approach will be able to handle desktop computers in the US. If Grandma gets a worm that turn her computer into a spam machine are we going to prosecute her in The Hague?
I like the quote "SuSE didn't recognize the sound cards on two of three PCs until after a reboot". God forbid we can't listen to music in the installer, of course even if the sound did work he would have probaby had to use the evil-linux-command-line-of-death to mount a partition and listen to music.
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PATRIOT is actually an acronym for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism".
As for the use of 'Patriot', who won't vote against something called the USA PATRIOT Act? And no one would support the 'Big Brother Act'. It is nothing more than a classic example of political double-speak. The 'Clear Skies Initiative' gave polluters less stringent regulation but wouldn't be called the 'Big Business got Bush into Office so Now He's a Gonna' Reward 'em Initiative", the 'No Child Left Behind Act' screws over children and school systems but isn't called the "Republicans don't Value Quality Public Education and this is Just an Excuse to Get Vouchers for Our Kids to go to Rich Public Schools Act" and "Operation Iraqi Freedom" wasn't called "Operation Iraqi Military Ocupation" or better yet "Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.)"
gave me 25MB of space, the video is 22. Good thing they don't charge or apparently keep track of bandwidth :)
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Very true, for whatever reason Iowa does seem to have a lot of warez. Maybe its because we're in Iowa and its relatively isolated from any high-tech centers. However with the recent court ruling on the 1 billion dollar spam case I'm thinking we might not want to take up spamming. Try a slashdot search on iowa, we apparently also had anti-spyware legislation proposed.
When you install mandrake or suse, do you learn anything? No, you just click next, next, next until you are done. With gentoo you are forced to use command line which some say is too hard. But it really isn't, with the Gentoo Handbook the installation is all laid out for you and by actually installing it by hand and reading an entire manual to make sure you don't screw up you learn a lot and get a ton of command line expierence. Hopefully Gentoo continues to be innovative so its GUI installer doesn't end up like the rest.
Will it hurt that a 3rd party watches over votes? No, after Florida in 2000 it is a good idea. The problem is that before in Florida chads could be counted, now all they can see is certain votes being directed to /dev/null. Actually, that would be lucky, but alas, the voting machines run Windows. Now only if they could get rid of the Diebold voting machines.
I remeber seeing a documentary about this on PBS some while back. It basically covered how with the overcrowded russian prision system the disease spead like wildfire. It also said a lot of the inmates in these prisions were released before they finished their medication and this created many of the drug resistant strands of TB. But this covers more than TB, in a world where the miracle antibiotic gets rid of everything people usually don't finish all of their medication has this leaves some of the disease behind. We are then left with drug resistent diseases.
We get to execute SCO?!...
Oh, never mind, i just read the title wrong.
Can they move the buildings?
Nah, just use
'emerge --inject win-update/winxp.sp2'
It will do the same thing.
Has anyone really ever had a problem with these types of phones interfering with their wi-fi network?"
I've never actually tried these phones. My 2.4 ghz phone right now is terrible though. If someone calls me and my phone is within 10-15 feet of my laptop it will just kill the wi-fi signal (no very good when you have 695mb of a 700mb linux iso). I would like to see how these phones would work, they could possibly operate on a very high 2.4ghz frequency but I still question how effective this would be. Here is a good little article
on the issue.
Yeh, but that's Microsoft. Anything that can possibly help with security for Windows is front page news. This however, isn't. Mandrake switched to X.org. Who cares? Nearly every major distro has switched already and it doesn't make slashdot. X.org isn't at all different from Xfree except a license agreement.
Why not just encrypt your message with 4096 bit RSA, and then use hping2 to insert your message into the body of an ICMP or TCP packet? That way it would fit right in with the rest of TCP traffic coming from your connection.
Imagine using CLI with voice recognition.
. .. DOLLAR...SIGN...CAPITAL...PATH...COLON...FORWARD.. .SLASH...U.S.R...FORWARD...SLASH...B.I.N"
"L.S...SPACE...FORWARD SLASH...D.E.V...SPACE...PIPE...SPACE...LESS"
Or worse yet, adding something to $PATH
"EXPORT...SPACE...CAPITAL...PATH...EQUAL...SIGN
That just would be a pain
This is the kind of gross misuse of copyrights that is appalling. A little digging around on the Google and we can see that author of this song is Woody Gurthrie who lived from 1912-1967. Now assuming Woody Gurthrie wrote this song on the year of his death under the original copyright laws this work would have passed into public domain by 1999. But due to lobbying efforts of the music and movie industry this period has been extended to before the Great Depression! This isn't all that important though because it is still copyrighted regardless of former laws. However, what is important is that this song on JibJab isn't the exact song by Woody Gurthrie that was copyrighted, it is cleary a derivative work that is based on a copyrighted work but which adds a creative element that goes far beyond what Woody Gurthrie ever did. This is an issues talked about extensivly throughout the book Freeculture by Lawrence Lessig which is freely downloadable at his site. One example given in the book is how many great works where based on copyrighted works before them that had not yet entered public domain such as Disney movies or Japanese comics. The general idea is that although new works are based on older copyrighted ones it doesn't hurt the original copyright holder and serves to stimulate the growth of culture. For more information check out FreeCulture.org
Could any kind and generous slashdotter save me from yahoo mail with a gmail invite?
You know, I would like to see this pass, I would even like to see the Betamax decision overturned. Why you might ask? Because of the wakeup call it will create.
/dev/null. Or how about that other thing, The Patriot Act. I swear, my town has been in constant riot/protest. Its just amazing how concerned the citizens are freedoms.
Yeh, like the wakeup call we got in the 2000 election with Florida. I mean it was bad, but look at the results, now we have high-quality electronic voting machines so now if we get screwed over we won't have to spends weeks counting chads, we'll know the second your votes goes to
How do we know that NASA didn't just make them to last 250 days and said 90, and then when they lasted over 90 days they will be geniuses?
"by standardizing legislation around the world to make it easier to prosecute spammers."
But doesn't a large portion of spam come from compromised Windows machines with broadband? Although lots of spam comes from Russian and Chinese servers I don't see how the UN's approach will be able to handle desktop computers in the US. If Grandma gets a worm that turn her computer into a spam machine are we going to prosecute her in The Hague?
I like the quote "SuSE didn't recognize the sound cards on two of three PCs until after a reboot". God forbid we can't listen to music in the installer, of course even if the sound did work he would have probaby had to use the evil-linux-command-line-of-death to mount a partition and listen to music.
...cars hanging around your house a lot its time to led line the walls.
EPA estimates of mileage vary from real-life experience
I've noticed this with my hummer. Its EPA highway mileage was 1.5 mpg but with a nice tail wind I can get it up to 1.7!