Ambient paranoia usually does not last for very long for the majority of the population, and in time they will get frustrated with having their privacy, security, and freedoms hindered without any new perceived threats to them.
What about 3D games? There are plenty of other things you can do with your time. You still choose to run Windows.
You are backwards. I choose to play games. Windows is a side effect of that. The ones to blame are video card manufacturers and their shotty closed drivers and the game manufacturers who just don't give a fuck.
But, and sadly I do understand, many of the youths of today do not appreciate good fidelity in music, hell I'd dare say that most of today's generations doesn't know what good sound CAN sound like...
You mean the high fidelity of vinyl? hah
The high quality lossless audio is pretty much hawked by the youths as you call them, since it wasn't really available until recently.
Sure, it's brutal but those that want to try and play patt-a-cake with the industrialized nations need to be on notice that they are risking their entire nations population. That seems to be the only sort of thing that could get through to these people.
So you want to threaten genocide? This is easilly the most stupid comment I've ever seen on slashdot.
no, if a kid learns how to hack a kernel, it would help *your* community
Linux does not make parched sahel more productive, will not fetch clean water and will probably not ward off infectious diseases (okay maybe it's less prone to viruses).
Just now got to my messages...
It would help *their* community as well. As a sibling post mentioned, once the 'weird foreigners' leave, they can't provide much support. So if you even get a couple kernel hackers out of it, they can do translations, maintenance, and support for their community. This in turn will give them the ability to look up information on agriculter and health and what-not for a long time come. You seriously think Microsoft/Apple would support them after the 1year mark?
Just because the founders were unsuccessful in abolishing slavery at the signing of the Constitution doesn't mean they supported slavery...
So I guess them owning slaves means they didn't support slavery?
I agree with most of your points, the GP is an asshat but be clear, they participated in these actions and most likely agreed with them. It was just part of their time and ways so it's hard to blame them for it but nonetheless, they did.
The Bush Administration did not fabricate evidence, they merely ignored the evidence that did not support their agenda. This is not lying.
A lie of ommission is still a lie.
This is the nature of intelligence.
No, the nature of intelligence is to find out which ones are correct and which ones are false by INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS. The nature of intelligence is NOT filtering out intelligence reports that do not support your agenda by someone totally not qualified to do so.
It might not be useful to you, but to some kids who now have word processors, spreadsheets, the ability to send and receive email and chat and so forth, it would be absolutely fanstastic.
The goal of the project was to help jumpstart Computer Literacy, not just give them a word processor and spreadsheet.
For these laptops to actually have a deep affect and teach a lot, they need to be able to get into the deep parts of the OS. If a kid learns how to type up a report, that might help himself, but if a kid learns how to hack a kernel, it would help his community.
This article is quite likely about some reactionist asshole who read some news article about "nanotechnology mini-robots being injected into the blood and fixing a heart!"...
From the summary:
They point out that there are more than 100 nanotechnology products and that nanoparticles can penetrate cells and tissues, migrate through the body and brain and cause biochemical damage.
This is absolutely the domain of the FDA. They regulate shit that has to do with the body. Yes, this is quite broad. However, the nanotech they are talking about is nano-bio-tech which is the domain of the FDA and in my opinion, should definetly be regulated.
about the sentence "Microsoft Flirts with Open Source" is that it's like the 5 year old's love:
In the kindergarden little boys try to get the attention of little girls by being rude and abusive towards the little girl.
Now a bit seriously, I'm not saying that MS is like a 5 year old - although you could find a lot of examples like that, but the flirting part doesn't hold up either.
Did you just make an argument and then kill it all in one post? Nice job.
Since when can.avi.mp3 etc etc contain virusses or malware?
Since the people making the media players haven't figured out how to properly code. It is definetly possible to get infected or compromized via a media file. Look at the whole Microsoft image rendering problem a few months ago. One look at a specially crafted image on a website and you're compromized.
I'm kinda getting sick of hearing about this and fiber to the curb every few months when it is no closer to wide scale roll out than it was 10 years ago when I first started hearing such ideas.
Verizon is already doing a large scale rollout of FTTP. In fact, I've had it for about 4 months now and it is quite amazing. And I would be supprised of other telcos aren't following suit shortly.
I sort of understand your argument. However, I'm an individual not-for-profit user and don't have hundreds of dollars per month to throw at business class Internet service.
But in the meantime, the 3,000 viruses/rootkits/zombie loads that your roommate/wife/son managed to infect your computer with won't be sending me any more offers for breast enlargement cream.
Not sure if you noticed, but blocking port 25 doesn't seem to be helping much. All it does is restrict me from recieving email to my personal mail server, not sending it. If you noticed, you can always sent out on 25(generation of spam) but they block incoming 25. So there's no way this will combat spam.
I'm sorry - but I'm having a hard time feeling sorry for you not being able to operate a vanity-domain mail server because you're in a mood...
There are plenty of reasons other then vanity to operate your own mail server. Let's see, learning, saving of money, personal control, privacy, geek ego stroking... And I'm sure there's plenty more.
That's like renting someone a baseball bat that is perminantly chained down to a table at the store just because someone might use it to hurt another.
In closing, I would like to point out that I've never *seen* Fox News
Then why the hell are you arguing for it? I recommend you go watch some clips on youtube.com or something. That'll give you a jist.
The point I've been trying to make is that you can't trust a news service or any information source just because it doesn't agree with your and your worldview.
News is not supposed to lead it's audience. It's supposed to lay out the facts of the day. When they start laying down opinion like it was fact, that's when they loose trust.
Slashdot Mirror
Get a real mans resolution. heh
So in other words, give up my main form of entertainment. Maybe you have some other entertainment that you like to use/do, but not me.
What we need is the game developers and video card manufacturers to step up to the plate. In the mean time, I'm stuck with windows at home for games.
And at work, I'm stuck with specialty business apps that are only made for windows and there is no other replacement in the open source world.
The high quality lossless audio is pretty much hawked by the youths as you call them, since it wasn't really available until recently.
It's not that easy. What about all the software that only supports windows? What about 3d games?
All of that combined means that I have to have a windows box. Required to at work and if I want to play any half decent games, I have to at home also.
It would help *their* community as well. As a sibling post mentioned, once the 'weird foreigners' leave, they can't provide much support. So if you even get a couple kernel hackers out of it, they can do translations, maintenance, and support for their community. This in turn will give them the ability to look up information on agriculter and health and what-not for a long time come. You seriously think Microsoft/Apple would support them after the 1year mark?
I agree with most of your points, the GP is an asshat but be clear, they participated in these actions and most likely agreed with them. It was just part of their time and ways so it's hard to blame them for it but nonetheless, they did.
...the source would consequently need to be really big, or really close... enough so that we should have seen it already.
The source?
If it's daytime: go outside and look up.
If it's night time: wait until daytime and see above.
It might not be useful to you, but to some kids who now have word processors, spreadsheets, the ability to send and receive email and chat and so forth, it would be absolutely fanstastic.
The goal of the project was to help jumpstart Computer Literacy, not just give them a word processor and spreadsheet.
For these laptops to actually have a deep affect and teach a lot, they need to be able to get into the deep parts of the OS. If a kid learns how to type up a report, that might help himself, but if a kid learns how to hack a kernel, it would help his community.
Grey goo!
Since when can .avi .mp3 etc etc contain virusses or malware?
Since the people making the media players haven't figured out how to properly code. It is definetly possible to get infected or compromized via a media file. Look at the whole Microsoft image rendering problem a few months ago. One look at a specially crafted image on a website and you're compromized.
bad press
Went away already.
cd recall
So they could remove the rootkit. However, their key software is still on their disks.
and class action lawsuits
Oh yeah, those are going great...
That's like renting someone a baseball bat that is perminantly chained down to a table at the store just because someone might use it to hurt another.