It seems that the original source is from a humor site, www.bobolhando.com.br. That domain's translation would be "fools looking". In other words, it seems that it is all fake, and the whole world reproduced it, no questions asked.
Indeed there seems to be no way to confirm or deny this story which has gone around the world... for a few months now. I'm in the state of Sao Paulo. I did several Google searches to find anything at all about the origin of this story. The city or town is not mentioned, only the name of the pastor. Couldn't find his name anywhere other than news stories - which are everywhere, seems like it makes for good scary shock-content news snippets. Didn't find that name in phone books. Of course it's common for people here to have no website, internet commenters or mentions, or listed phone in their name. And to say off-the-wall, insane things to fools in evangelical churches too. But the name or town for this temple/church/whatever seems to be mentioned nowhere. There is just a somewhat uncommon pastor's name, somewhere in the most populous state in Brazil. I could start searching credit records for the name, but that'll cost me money.
It says "campaign for trains". That means write your representatives. There simply are no modern trains in the US, and there won't be unless the public asks for them.
Fastest current US train lines seem to be the Northeast Acela trains, which do 125mph, and are still getting implemented. Meager by modern train standards - but still faster than driving. http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/03/amtrak-spending-466-million-on-new-electric-trains/ It's a national embarrassment that China, still a developing and mostly chaotic country, already has 2,197 km (1365 mi) of rail lines with top speeds of 350 km/h (220 mph).
Print posters with a naked-body-scan-image. Write on top "You on vacation - at the airport". Or "Welcome to USA - #1 in Virtual Strip Search Porn!" - "Airport Strip Search Porn - No-Pay Sex Job Opportunities! " Make hundreds of copies. Wheat Paste.
"...what are you going to do about it"
I will do nothing:(
Gather 100 willing, buy any cheap tickets on the same day. Have talk with civil rights lawyer beforehand. When scanning body, drop pants and just stand there. All 100 get arrested. Local authorities and media frenzy. Upon release, tell media it was a form of naked democratic protest - you wanted people to know what agents see.
It lives in the mbr and sets a boot flag that lowers the load integrity threshold like users have been doing to run/test utilities that don't pay to get signed.
As long as they keep the cost and complexity of getting a signature so high this will always become a problem. Chinese drivers will publish without signatures, users will *want* to run unsigned code, and there goes your security scheme.
We can't afford the cost to administrate secrets. With all the current data gathering and monitoring techniques, the only people who can afford the cost of keeping actual secrets are professional sleuths or top level government and corporate people. They hold secrets on and from each other, but mostly from us. It seems the game is inverted now - by fighting to protect our right to illusory privacy, in practice we mosly protect their right to keep secrets from us.
True. It's time to write your congressman and senators and mayor about trains, campaign for better trains and tracks, more than actually using them, which is currently only really practical in relatively short trips in some areas, like perhaps around nyc.
Welcome to Eleven Thousandth Slash Dot Dot Org's and Cambridge International Language Forum! We shall henceforth debate the propriety of linguistic terms to be used by ourselves, and other participants of the public at large, within the realm of our debate on all matters relating to the technical world - including those of impact in non-technically-literate circles of society. We will here discuss the proper use of verbs and nouns, adverbs and adjectives, phrasal verbs and colloquial terms, and vote on their acceptability to be assembled into a properly approved vocabulary for use on this most honourable forum in all of geekdom, Slashdot! Our first items approved on the agenda today -
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Virii is in fact an INCORRECT pluralization of "virus", however, some retard keeps resubmitting it as the plural form.
1 4m k00l, 1 c4n wr173 l33tz0r 'virii' 1n v15u4l b451c 5cr1p7.. ph33r m3h.
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And once they've developed nuclear weapons, they'll lose any credibility,
And gain nuclear weapons, which are the new, developed-nation-certified, brand of credibility. Then, they'll likely also get proper, developed-nation-grade, press manipulation and marketing, to convince everyone that military weapons of all grades are the ultimate way to keep the peace, to maintain the balance of power.
Trains don't fall from the sky. They run on electric power. Carry many more people than planes. Stops right in the middle of downtown, origin and destination, no trip to and from the airport needed. Sometimes you can just get on, no papers or checking at all, and buy the ticket later on board. Sometimes there is a restaurant car, or a bar car. You can see the scenery, it is less than a yard away from your window. You have long seats, tables, lots of space, walk around the cars. You can get off at the next town, walk around, and take the next train. There are almost never any accidents. Did I say it's electric?
Socialist countries were just a bullshit power game, capitalist countries are just a bullshit power game. The difference is that in the capitalist countries there is good marketing.
The anal-drug-and-bomb-probing story has been commonly mentioned. It seems these agents wouldn't mind it after all. Soon there will be live pole-dancing naked silhouettes around airports. On-demand-real-airport-agent feel-you-up whisky bars. If this trend keeps up airports will be the new destination for people needing various sexual fantasies fulfilled.
I'm sure that whoever makes those machines is not happy. Whoever was the salesman and just lives off commissions might be ecstatic. Now he gets to propose a whole new line of machines, and a whole new commission, on thousands of machines worth a million bucks each.
I think the importance of writing skills gets well laid out in this story about Brockton High. http://millermps.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/brockton-mass-large-school-reform-that-works [...]All Brockton teachers, including Bob Perkins, the math chairman, incorporate writing lessons.
[...] organize a schoolwide campaign that involved reading and writing lessons into every class in all subjects, including gym.
That's taking it a bit far. Obviously there are numerous disputes about what goes into the kernel or not, as well as dozens of other debates. They all have to get decided one way or another, and it's not always obvious to outsiders what is at stake. It's always smart to give all actual players the benefit of the doubt until you know in detail what is going on to form an unbiased and well-grounded opinion.
Brain Fuck Scheduler, written by Con. I understand there is no marketing effort involved in much of geekdom, but if that is the case, can we call it something less discouraging, even if it's Death Star Linux Kernel Scheduling Accelerator, (this is not cron), by C.Kolvias. This is the first time I read about it that I don't click off to the next topic assuming it's a joke.
I think it's very easy to understand that an OS with little funding, coded by many underpaid or not-paid programmers, with little status and recognition or prestige, would have some problems. I still consider it a minor miracle that it even exists and is usable at all. The US was once a backwater refuge-colony for Britons, and Australia was only a prison. Yes, Linux has much to improve and grow. It will come with more users, which you and me could help with, being coders or not. You can help with more testing and cool-headed participation in forums, and code translation. Or trying to mediate among disputing parties, which also understandably happens a lot, as in any project involving more than a couple of people. We need to understand the competition is closed-source, or Microsoft - not red hat vs debian vs ubuntu vs netbsd vs freebsd vs openbsd. Yes, making agreements and coordinating thousands of disparate parties is hard, but it's the crux of the matter.
i have a dell latitude laptop . its slim lite and compact. in good working order,
has 512mb ram 40gig hard drive bluetooth wifi etc. registerd version of windows xp.
comes with spare battery and external dvd rom.
wifi and network connections works perfect.
asking for R2500 onco
2,500.00 ZAR = 354.032 USD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita Don't know proper calculations, but I believe that with purchasing power counted this 512mb laptop would be roughly the equivalent of USD$1200 in the US market and wages. So yes, most people around the world use very old computers. XP is still the most-used OS, likely partially for that reason.
Isn't it awesome when a new version of your OS performs *better* than the last one on the same hardware?
Yes, it happens all the time, everyone has had it happen once in their life. Maybe we could even say it's a little more often than that, like twice in a lifetime.
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That would seem to be obvious as the next steps.
It seems that the original source is from a humor site, www.bobolhando.com.br. That domain's translation would be "fools looking". In other words, it seems that it is all fake, and the whole world reproduced it, no questions asked.
it is hard to say where this myth originated.
Indeed there seems to be no way to confirm or deny this story which has gone around the world... for a few months now. I'm in the state of Sao Paulo. I did several Google searches to find anything at all about the origin of this story. The city or town is not mentioned, only the name of the pastor. Couldn't find his name anywhere other than news stories - which are everywhere, seems like it makes for good scary shock-content news snippets. Didn't find that name in phone books. Of course it's common for people here to have no website, internet commenters or mentions, or listed phone in their name. And to say off-the-wall, insane things to fools in evangelical churches too. But the name or town for this temple/church/whatever seems to be mentioned nowhere. There is just a somewhat uncommon pastor's name, somewhere in the most populous state in Brazil. I could start searching credit records for the name, but that'll cost me money.
It says "campaign for trains". That means write your representatives. There simply are no modern trains in the US, and there won't be unless the public asks for them.
Fastest current US train lines seem to be the Northeast Acela trains, which do 125mph, and are still getting implemented. Meager by modern train standards - but still faster than driving. http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/03/amtrak-spending-466-million-on-new-electric-trains/ It's a national embarrassment that China, still a developing and mostly chaotic country, already has 2,197 km (1365 mi) of rail lines with top speeds of 350 km/h (220 mph).
Print posters with a naked-body-scan-image. Write on top "You on vacation - at the airport". Or "Welcome to USA - #1 in Virtual Strip Search Porn!" - "Airport Strip Search Porn - No-Pay Sex Job Opportunities! " Make hundreds of copies. Wheat Paste.
"...what are you going to do about it" I will do nothing :(
Gather 100 willing, buy any cheap tickets on the same day. Have talk with civil rights lawyer beforehand. When scanning body, drop pants and just stand there. All 100 get arrested. Local authorities and media frenzy. Upon release, tell media it was a form of naked democratic protest - you wanted people to know what agents see.
It lives in the mbr and sets a boot flag that lowers the load integrity threshold like users have been doing to run/test utilities that don't pay to get signed.
As long as they keep the cost and complexity of getting a signature so high this will always become a problem. Chinese drivers will publish without signatures, users will *want* to run unsigned code, and there goes your security scheme.
We can't afford the cost to administrate secrets. With all the current data gathering and monitoring techniques, the only people who can afford the cost of keeping actual secrets are professional sleuths or top level government and corporate people. They hold secrets on and from each other, but mostly from us. It seems the game is inverted now - by fighting to protect our right to illusory privacy, in practice we mosly protect their right to keep secrets from us.
True. It's time to write your congressman and senators and mayor about trains, campaign for better trains and tracks, more than actually using them, which is currently only really practical in relatively short trips in some areas, like perhaps around nyc.
Welcome to Eleven Thousandth Slash Dot Dot Org's and Cambridge International Language Forum! We shall henceforth debate the propriety of linguistic terms to be used by ourselves, and other participants of the public at large, within the realm of our debate on all matters relating to the technical world - including those of impact in non-technically-literate circles of society. We will here discuss the proper use of verbs and nouns, adverbs and adjectives, phrasal verbs and colloquial terms, and vote on their acceptability to be assembled into a properly approved vocabulary for use on this most honourable forum in all of geekdom, Slashdot! Our first items approved on the agenda today -
Acceptable vocabulary for use within Slashdot fora
boxen, facetious plural of box (by analogy to oxen as the plural form of ox), particularly in computer hacker slang with respect to the term 'box' for a computer
Non-acceptable vocabulary for use within Slashdot fora
Virii is in fact an INCORRECT pluralization of "virus", however, some retard keeps resubmitting it as the plural form. 1 4m k00l, 1 c4n wr173 l33tz0r 'virii' 1n v15u4l b451c 5cr1p7.. ph33r m3h.
Further submissions for today's Slashdot Approved Vocabulary vote?
That's the best use I can visualize for virii and rootkits
And once they've developed nuclear weapons, they'll lose any credibility,
And gain nuclear weapons, which are the new, developed-nation-certified, brand of credibility. Then, they'll likely also get proper, developed-nation-grade, press manipulation and marketing, to convince everyone that military weapons of all grades are the ultimate way to keep the peace, to maintain the balance of power.
Trains don't fall from the sky. They run on electric power. Carry many more people than planes. Stops right in the middle of downtown, origin and destination, no trip to and from the airport needed. Sometimes you can just get on, no papers or checking at all, and buy the ticket later on board. Sometimes there is a restaurant car, or a bar car. You can see the scenery, it is less than a yard away from your window. You have long seats, tables, lots of space, walk around the cars. You can get off at the next town, walk around, and take the next train. There are almost never any accidents. Did I say it's electric?
Socialist countries were just a bullshit power game, capitalist countries are just a bullshit power game. The difference is that in the capitalist countries there is good marketing.
The anal-drug-and-bomb-probing story has been commonly mentioned. It seems these agents wouldn't mind it after all. Soon there will be live pole-dancing naked silhouettes around airports. On-demand-real-airport-agent feel-you-up whisky bars. If this trend keeps up airports will be the new destination for people needing various sexual fantasies fulfilled.
I'm sure that whoever makes those machines is not happy. Whoever was the salesman and just lives off commissions might be ecstatic. Now he gets to propose a whole new line of machines, and a whole new commission, on thousands of machines worth a million bucks each.
I think the importance of writing skills gets well laid out in this story about Brockton High.
http://millermps.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/brockton-mass-large-school-reform-that-works
[...]All Brockton teachers, including Bob Perkins, the math chairman, incorporate writing lessons. [...] organize a schoolwide campaign that involved reading and writing lessons into every class in all subjects, including gym.
How do we reach a 10% figure?
That's taking it a bit far. Obviously there are numerous disputes about what goes into the kernel or not, as well as dozens of other debates. They all have to get decided one way or another, and it's not always obvious to outsiders what is at stake. It's always smart to give all actual players the benefit of the doubt until you know in detail what is going on to form an unbiased and well-grounded opinion.
Brain Fuck Scheduler, written by Con. I understand there is no marketing effort involved in much of geekdom, but if that is the case, can we call it something less discouraging, even if it's Death Star Linux Kernel Scheduling Accelerator, (this is not cron), by C.Kolvias. This is the first time I read about it that I don't click off to the next topic assuming it's a joke.
I remember using BeOS R5 to access files or CDs that couldn't be opened using any other operating system known to mankind.
Mankind knows quite a few operating systems...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems
Has anyone had any success with daily use of distributed-processing, like Kerrighed, http://www.xtreemos.eu/project, OpenMosix, etc?
I think it's very easy to understand that an OS with little funding, coded by many underpaid or not-paid programmers, with little status and recognition or prestige, would have some problems. I still consider it a minor miracle that it even exists and is usable at all. The US was once a backwater refuge-colony for Britons, and Australia was only a prison. Yes, Linux has much to improve and grow. It will come with more users, which you and me could help with, being coders or not. You can help with more testing and cool-headed participation in forums, and code translation. Or trying to mediate among disputing parties, which also understandably happens a lot, as in any project involving more than a couple of people. We need to understand the competition is closed-source, or Microsoft - not red hat vs debian vs ubuntu vs netbsd vs freebsd vs openbsd. Yes, making agreements and coordinating thousands of disparate parties is hard, but it's the crux of the matter.
http://durban.gumtree.co.za/c-Stuff-for-Sale-computers-software-dell-latitude-d400-laptop-W0QQAdIdZ242437576
i have a dell latitude laptop . its slim lite and compact. in good working order, has 512mb ram 40gig hard drive bluetooth wifi etc. registerd version of windows xp. comes with spare battery and external dvd rom. wifi and network connections works perfect.
asking for R2500 onco
2,500.00 ZAR = 354.032 USD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita
Don't know proper calculations, but I believe that with purchasing power counted this 512mb laptop would be roughly the equivalent of USD$1200 in the US market and wages. So yes, most people around the world use very old computers. XP is still the most-used OS, likely partially for that reason.
Isn't it awesome when a new version of your OS performs *better* than the last one on the same hardware?
Yes, it happens all the time, everyone has had it happen once in their life. Maybe we could even say it's a little more often than that, like twice in a lifetime.