On the other hand, you sir are obviously an expert on the subject. Why don't you share your profound insight into what exactly nanotechnology is or is not.
I think he was trying to illustrate the fact that if a contract specifying something illegal, then that part of the contract (or the whole contract, in many areas) is considered invalid. If Microsoft comes out with a clickthru license that says (buried somewhere in the 47th paragraph) "... and licenscee agrees to kick any puppy dogs in the vicinity and to knife babies..." do you really think that would be enforcable (even if it was "in black and white" in the contract and the user did click 'YES' to the agreement.)
thank you for writing the truth. People who want the nanny state should be allowed to set up a collective or whatever elsewhere, preferabbly somewhere isolated like the Faukland Islands. They can set up their little society where Daddy / Gubmit will make sure nothing bad ever happens and no one thinks unapproved thoughts.
It is from a certain Larry Troll, malda@slashdot.org.
Yet more evidence that malda himself is one of the Prime Trollers on slashdot, of course under a variety of accounts either created or aquired by him. Malda's probably one of the best, most subtle trolls operating today.
I'm sure these countries find it next to impossible to obtain so called 'strong' crypto. After all, it would require the intense coordination of the particular country's intelligence / security agencies, involving perhaps more than one person. They'd almost have to send an agent into the US (cleverly disguised as a tourist or something), walk up to any public web terminal (cafe, etc) and download all the lastest techniques / tools into their ultra-secret 'floppy disk' from any number of the hundreds of sources of cryptographic tools in the US. The next question is getting said disk out of the country; given the intense scrutiny of all digital media at all border control points, we can plainly see that the current campaign to control cryptography is completely effective in achieving its stated purpose (keeping strong crypto within US borders.) Good work men, keep it up! You're almost as succesful as the gentle souls who brought us the War on Drugs!
So what's the big deal? So what if everyone has a national ID number? Imagine how difficult life would be without it. In fact, it's so useful, I think they should just tattoo it on our arm, or perhaps forehead. Then everyone will know your number just by looking at you!
Deja(news) used to have a pay usenet site that was essentially as you describe. Why is it not around any longer? The problem, in a nutshell, is that a lot more people said they would pay for such a service than actually plunked down any money. (I think they called it "Personal Newsreader" service.)
But then again, a case could be made that Deja(news) didn't promote it at all, hence it was doomed to failure from the start. But what do I know, I've only worked at Deja.com for less than a year.
Corinth is in Greece, at the top of the Peleponnesus. (Ever hear the expression "loose as a Corinthian's arsehole?") Greece is completely separate country from Turkey, with its own language, culture and everything. In fact, they've been out from under the thumb of Ottoman domination for more than a hundred years! So show a little respect.
but rather that they are changing the content of the original messages (most of which originate outside of Deja), which basically will imply to most people reading using Deja that the original poster included the link.
Unless you're a complete blithering idiot (I'm not ruling it out in your case) you can clearly see the orange triangle marking off the links as special. (Not to mention the fact that its a link to a deja.com page should tip you off that the original poster did not make it.) They're not changing the content of any messages! Or did you not actually stop and consider the facts before posting?
People are not going to be confused and think you put random Deja.com product pages in all your usenet articles.
1) you did know (or should have known) your posts were going to be distributed and archived around the world when you posted to Usenet.
2) Deja is not modifying the text of anyone's articles in any way. All they are doing is putting hypertext links on text that would not otherwise be linked. They are not taking away, they are only adding. Everyone understands that Usenet is originally a plain text forum, and any HTML markup in and around messages is clearly understood (by someone who has more than 3 brain cells) to be part of Deja, and not the original author. (For instance, a link to reply to the author via email.) Anyway, the links are clearly marked with the little triangle.
It seems to have the potential to be quite helpful to me...though the algorithm isn't perfect... in the example in this story, a generic post about 'modems' went directly to a particular IBM modem. Why? Why not "Top 25" modems?
I imagine they would take an interest in the clone army I am growing in my underground lair, if only they knew. You see, I probably shouldn't talk about it in my email as much as I do... that's prolly how they'll find me. Maybe I should look into one of these "PGP" thingies I keep hearing about.
As the old saying goes, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get you. Yes, this tool Carnivore could be a great boon to legtimate law-enforcement. And the surveillence infrastructure it provides could also be used for a wide range of aconstitutional[1] activities. There really just no way of knowing whats really going on, given the secretive nature of the beast. So, you're willing to just trust the FBI in all matters? Then why bother with search warrants at all? Just let the nice policeman come and take you away because some computer printout listed you as a possible subversive. I'm sure the kindly old judge will sort it all out for the best.
A little Citizen Oversight is always a good thing in a democracy... by the way, it'd be nice if we actually had a democracy.
[1] aconstitutional -- something that might sound legal given current statutes / administrative rules / judicial interpretation, but which undoubtedly goes against the spirit of the Constitution in general and probably also the widely-ignored 4th amendment.
But driving while sleepy isn't illegal. We don't pull you over and ticket you if you're caught yawning.
Actually it *is* illegal in most areas to drive when you are not 'fully awake' (the legal terminology varies.) Granted, it's not enforced very much; I suspect because it would be so difficult to prove in court. People have a way of becoming fully awake when those flashing blue and red lights are behind you! You can't as easily become 'un-drunk' if pulled over.
If you had followed these steps posted above that will not happen. Basically, the way to avoid Debian overwriting your self-compiled packages is to put them all in/usr/local which no Debian package will ever touch.
Well, I don't have time to translate the whole thing right now, but it's about the exploitation of resources (primarily the forest) by those naughty ole Englishmen after they took over Quebec. Why it is posted to an article about Galileo (the space probe, not the scientist) I have no idea.
Thanks for replying, but the window mananger is not the problem. (I already do this, I have a quake login and its.xsession just runs quake3.)
The problem is that I would like to be able to press Ctrl-Alt-F? and switch out of fullscreen 3D mode (leaving it running, not exiting) and be able to switch back. Currently, you can switch out, and the keyboard focus goes to the new console, but the screen becomes all hosed and you have to reboot to get it back to a good state.
My real question is whether this particular bug (or lack of a feature) is solved in Xfree85 4.0. Basically, if you are in fullscreen-3d-under-X mode, like when playing quake, it is impossible to switch to another console or X session without hosing the display. You have to exit the app. (This is with a Voodoo 3 and X 3.3.6 / Mesa 3.1)
It would be great if this problem was solved because you could easily switch in and out of different apps including 3D / OpenGL apps.
I'm pretty sure this is because of the way top counts shared memory between processes (which X uses heavily.) So, if you have 3 processes all sharing the same 10 mb chunk of memory, top will report 30 mb in use. There may be some way to turn off this behavior. Perhaps an expert can comment?
I know you're prolly trying to be 'witty', but Slashdot being down is probably a combination of Slash code problems, MySQL problems, or other human error, not as a result of any instability in Debian. It's actually pretty much rock solid in my experience.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.webstandards.org/wfw/ieah.html
I think he was trying to illustrate the fact that if a contract specifying something illegal, then that part of the contract (or the whole contract, in many areas) is considered invalid. If Microsoft comes out with a clickthru license that says (buried somewhere in the 47th paragraph) "... and licenscee agrees to kick any puppy dogs in the vicinity and to knife babies ..." do you really think that would be enforcable (even if it was "in black and white" in the contract and the user did click 'YES' to the agreement.)
thank you for writing the truth. People who want the nanny state should be allowed to set up a collective or whatever elsewhere, preferabbly somewhere isolated like the Faukland Islands. They can set up their little society where Daddy / Gubmit will make sure nothing bad ever happens and no one thinks unapproved thoughts.
Yet more evidence that malda himself is one of the Prime Trollers on slashdot, of course under a variety of accounts either created or aquired by him. Malda's probably one of the best, most subtle trolls operating today.
I'm sure these countries find it next to impossible to obtain so called 'strong' crypto. After all, it would require the intense coordination of the particular country's intelligence / security agencies, involving perhaps more than one person. They'd almost have to send an agent into the US (cleverly disguised as a tourist or something), walk up to any public web terminal (cafe, etc) and download all the lastest techniques / tools into their ultra-secret 'floppy disk' from any number of the hundreds of sources of cryptographic tools in the US. The next question is getting said disk out of the country; given the intense scrutiny of all digital media at all border control points, we can plainly see that the current campaign to control cryptography is completely effective in achieving its stated purpose (keeping strong crypto within US borders.) Good work men, keep it up! You're almost as succesful as the gentle souls who brought us the War on Drugs!
There are a lot of people who think MBTI and similar things are on the same level as astrology. What does the personality test portend for the future?
oh sure, you'd really have everyone's support then.
Presumably there's supposed to be a comma after warez, so it would be "hide your warez, dudes." Does that make any more sense?
So what's the big deal? So what if everyone has a national ID number? Imagine how difficult life would be without it. In fact, it's so useful, I think they should just tattoo it on our arm, or perhaps forehead. Then everyone will know your number just by looking at you!
But then again, a case could be made that Deja(news) didn't promote it at all, hence it was doomed to failure from the start. But what do I know, I've only worked at Deja.com for less than a year.
Corinth is in Greece, at the top of the Peleponnesus. (Ever hear the expression "loose as a Corinthian's arsehole?") Greece is completely separate country from Turkey, with its own language, culture and everything. In fact, they've been out from under the thumb of Ottoman domination for more than a hundred years! So show a little respect.
Unless you're a complete blithering idiot (I'm not ruling it out in your case) you can clearly see the orange triangle marking off the links as special. (Not to mention the fact that its a link to a deja.com page should tip you off that the original poster did not make it.) They're not changing the content of any messages! Or did you not actually stop and consider the facts before posting?
People are not going to be confused and think you put random Deja.com product pages in all your usenet articles.
2) Deja is not modifying the text of anyone's articles in any way. All they are doing is putting hypertext links on text that would not otherwise be linked. They are not taking away, they are only adding. Everyone understands that Usenet is originally a plain text forum, and any HTML markup in and around messages is clearly understood (by someone who has more than 3 brain cells) to be part of Deja, and not the original author. (For instance, a link to reply to the author via email.) Anyway, the links are clearly marked with the little triangle.
It seems to have the potential to be quite helpful to me ...though the algorithm isn't perfect ... in the example in this story, a generic post about 'modems' went directly to a particular IBM modem. Why? Why not "Top 25" modems?
I imagine they would take an interest in the clone army I am growing in my underground lair, if only they knew. You see, I probably shouldn't talk about it in my email as much as I do... that's prolly how they'll find me. Maybe I should look into one of these "PGP" thingies I keep hearing about.
A little Citizen Oversight is always a good thing in a democracy... by the way, it'd be nice if we actually had a democracy.
[1] aconstitutional -- something that might sound legal given current statutes / administrative rules / judicial interpretation, but which undoubtedly goes against the spirit of the Constitution in general and probably also the widely-ignored 4th amendment.
Actually it *is* illegal in most areas to drive when you are not 'fully awake' (the legal terminology varies.) Granted, it's not enforced very much; I suspect because it would be so difficult to prove in court. People have a way of becoming fully awake when those flashing blue and red lights are behind you! You can't as easily become 'un-drunk' if pulled over.
You did not get the same PHP/database error they got (over and over and over.)
Just picking nits here, that should be /usr/local/X11R6/bin/XFree86.
But thanks for the otherwise incredibly helpful directions!
This guy is almost as cool as Mujahideen.
The problem is that I would like to be able to press Ctrl-Alt-F? and switch out of fullscreen 3D mode (leaving it running, not exiting) and be able to switch back. Currently, you can switch out, and the keyboard focus goes to the new console, but the screen becomes all hosed and you have to reboot to get it back to a good state.
It would be great if this problem was solved because you could easily switch in and out of different apps including 3D / OpenGL apps.
I'm pretty sure this is because of the way top counts shared memory between processes (which X uses heavily.) So, if you have 3 processes all sharing the same 10 mb chunk of memory, top will report 30 mb in use. There may be some way to turn off this behavior. Perhaps an expert can comment?
I know you're prolly trying to be 'witty', but Slashdot being down is probably a combination of Slash code problems, MySQL problems, or other human error, not as a result of any instability in Debian. It's actually pretty much rock solid in my experience.