What you have seen? Which of the two do you use? Neither? Speculation is one thing. Making an argument is another. I've seen much the opposite. Granted, there have been issues, and SP2 threw in some additional kinks, but the ones complaining the loudest appear to be those that don't even use Windows!
I'm one of those admins that didn't upgrade to XP and won't until forced to do so.
From personal experience I have to patch XP systems weekly at the very least - depends on how often MS releases a "Critical Update". Being one divisional network leg of a larger corporation I have to load a default XP system on a separate lan segment and upgrade it there before letting it out on the rest of the network - why? - because if I don't then some visiting infected machine will own it within seconds.
The Win2k systems just keep on running without intervention.
Above and beyond all that I'd rather be herding pengiuns and tigers.;-)
I acknowledge your experience but point you to the comparison that we have many things in common with Germany in the early 30's. One good reference is Berlin Diaries: Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer and his other book: Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich.
And yes, I do realize my "Godwin" in the above post.;-)
The judgements of other countries have no bearing on the US judicial system (one recent US Supreme Court decision notwithstanding), just as judgements of the US judicial system have no bearing on other countries.
The US judicial system is tasked with upholding the laws of the US.
This was exactly my point. Rather than take the French ruling as an indicator that perhaps people don't think they should be punished severely for file swapping our current Big-Business government will happily ignore it as irrelevant data and jam more DRM and legal punishments down on us so they can retain their corporate profits.
As for the war, I'm not exactly sure how that ties in with file sharing.
That was a reference to an example where a large number of other countries disagree with and even condemn our actions yet we still push forward because we're the "Greatest nation in the world and everyone should follow us!"
And, as for iron curtains, I had the opportunity to spend a little time in a few former Soviet satellites. I assure you that you're spouting iron curtains out your ass.
I acknowledge your experience but point you to the comparison that we have many things in common with Germany in the early 30's. One good reference is Berlin Diaries: Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer and his other book: Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich.
I'm currently reading both and the comparison to current politics and our environment in the US is stunning. Iron curtain policy in our country is not that far a step away from that.
I propose that we put comparisons to the iron curtain on the same level as comparisons to Nazis - as soon as you use it, you lose!
If you don't agree with me that's fine but to automatically prevent me from expressing my viewpoint is a clear path to the very iron curtains you claim are fiction in the US. I never said that they existed in the same form as the old ones in Soviet Russia and the like. What I did say is that similar things are being constructed. They're in the very early stages but they are there.
seriously though, i think it's refreshing to hear people in authority looking at the situation from this perspective instead of blindly following.
change always has to start somewhere, at some level.
That won't fly here in the US. Unfortunately it's all too easy for the judicial system and those in power to ignore the judgements of other countries as you can see by a certain war our administration is conducting at the moment.
You can almost certainly expect the DRM hammer to come down in this country right along with the iron curtain that our government is building as we speak...
I'm going to play Devil's Advocate here and suggest something.
Why don't these people just paint a few layers of metal paint over their walls then paint over the last layer with normal paint?
Is it that there's not enough metal in the paint itself to make it worthwhile or is it harder to get?
Inquiring paranoids want to know...;-)
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It was a joke.. Ever looked at Area 51, or biological weapons research facilities, or other classified regions in Google Maps? They're often grayed out...
I find this odd. I mean if they're supposed to be public entities then why bother greying them out completely? I understand maybe not providing resolution enough to see details but why grey them out?
Someone suggested to me it was because of fear of terrorist attack. I find that hard to believe as these places can easily be located through other means and it's not like something nuclear has to be placed that close.
As a semi on-topic idea - wouldn't it be effective to cover the tops of those places with metal so all the cameras get is a reflection of themselves or the sun? Stupid, I know, but still a fun idea.
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*** STOP: 0x0000001E(0xC0000005,0x8016A950,0x00000001,0x0000 0086)
KMO DE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED*** Address 8016a950 has base at 80100000 - ntoskrnl.exe
Yeah like any Slashdotter would be using Windows to store their brain.;-)
Pinback: All right, bomb. Prepare to receive new orders. Bomb#20: You are false data. Pinback: Hmmm? Bomb #20: Therefore I shall ignore you. Pinback: Hello... bomb? Bomb #20: False data can act only as a distraction. Therefore, I shall refuse to perceive. Pinback: Hey, bomb? Bomb #20: The only thing that exists is myself. Pinback: Snap out of it, bomb.
The "civil libertarians" are overreacting, period. And I think "citizenship" should mean something and not be so easy to fake and falsify.
The re-education teams will be to your house too eventually. After all - you can't possibly reflect the same views as the current people in power at any given moment. Eventually you too will be a "terrorist" or a "threat".
Be careful what you wish for sir. Being a "Good Citizen" eventually means turning on your friends and family if it is required to keep the country safe.
Oh and here's one more thought - your family must do the same to be "Good Citizens".
no it wont. george Bush cant run for a third term. no matter how badly his puppet mastres want him to.
Am I the only one paranoid enough to see that under the population control that is being installed we may not have another chance at voting?
I hate to wear tinfoil but honestly - this election was bought and as long as they keep paying for elections the next one will be bought as well.
Furthermore because our current crop of nastiness that is in power and holds all the cards it wouldn't be too hard for them to come up with a consitutional ammendment suspending the vote "in times of need" then using the "terrorist threat" to fill that need.
Think it can't happen? We're already following in the footsteps of other fascist dictators in the world. It wouldn't take much for the US to become the largest "Bananna Republic" in the world - politically speaking that is.
The DMCA would be the least of our problems at that point. But honestly if you want to fight the DMCA fight the existing crop of government. The DMCA is just a symptom of a very sick country...
Here is what I know is in the movie. Please correct me if I am wrong:
1) Too many slightly overweight characters 2) All the women are plain-janes except maybe one 3) Stiff, fake-sounding dialog. 4) Tedious and gratuitous use of special effects. 5) Boring plot
And you want to tell us where your fan film is?
I have the greatest respect for these people - at least they got out there and did something rather than troll-posting on Slashdot.
Yes, they are leaving us behind. When shall we hear of GMs, Chevys, Fords and other American companies making news as firsts in their respective fields? As our CEOs, CFOs and their cronies struggle with corruption allegations, the Japanese and Russians are slowly dominating us. One can hardly find an American music/video system now...next will be the automobile. We may fall just like the once great Romans did. Remember the Roman Empire?
If we can't stand on our own then we deserve to fall.
Don't like it? Get involved and change it. I voted, not that it mattered this time, did you?
I point out things that I find insane with our country to people on a regular basis. If more people did that then more people would think about what's wrong with this country not just who's going to be the next winner on Survivor.
I'll agree with this wholeheartedly. Besides the developers you've already mentioned there are plenty of Suits that push for insane deadlines so they can show a good side to the customer then beat their people so to speak when they don't make those insane deadlines.
This not only happens in the I/T department but in Engineering as well.
If the Suits made realistic schedules not only would the world move along at a more comfortable pace most likely but people would get the delivery times they were quoted.
That the EU has the right to demand 5% of GLOBAL revenue, rather than European revenue, especially as the agreement they reached isn't even applicable outside of Europe.
Question for our US cousins, will this 5% be taken out of Microsoft before or after they pay US tazes? And how does it feel to be subsidising European justice?
As one of those "crass Americans" I can say with some certainty that I have no problem with this. After all we shove our laws down the world's throat. It's more than past time that we end up on the receiving end. Karmically speaking that is.
The question you should ask yourself, and Debian should be (and probably already has) asking themselves, is "Will you still be using Sparc in two years?"
According to this proposal, Sarge would still support Sparc, but the next release wouldn't. I'd bet dollars to donuts that you'd get at least two years of use out of Sarge before wanting or needing to upgrade.
Seeing as I have currenlty used Debian on Sparc for about 6 years now or more I can easily see it remaining in use for another two years at least.
Also with the mad discard of "not Windows" boxes by Suits I find more and more useful Sparc hardware cheaply available. Several of my friends now have E3000 boxes that they paid little or nothing for. A good portion of those run Debian. I myself am working on getting an E450 from my workplace as soon as it is retired.
So, please tell Debian why Sparc will still be important to you in two years.
These guys offer open access to the Cray machines they have online. You have to get permission from them to do certain things but that's still a small price to get access to a cray.
Not exactly the same thing as the article but definitely a way for the average joe to learn about supercomputers without building one himself.
If your rescue tools are good enough for it, why not use it for daily work too? Just install a base system on it, copy some config that you already have collected at boot and apt-get or yum the whole shebang over the network.
yoou need some magic to make sure the users files are not hosed in the process.
I was thinking exactly that. This would bring a new meaning to "portable desktop" since the 40gig iPod has more than enough space to store a whole day-to-day use system. Plug it into a "thin client" and you have instant desktop.
For extra credit play the mp3s on the iPod using XMMS from Linux.;-)
They're highballing. The public will come back with "No, we want no regulation" and the politicians will settle somewhere in the middle, say a special online auction license where you pay a small percentage per year.
Then of course they'll use that as leverage in case they want to lean on sellers of particular items, especially around election time. "Look, my beloved voters, I signed the law that would revoke online auction licenses for people selling {guns,porn}. Vote for me!"
You got this one exactly right unfortunately. As someone else stated though there are plenty of legislators who say the bill will be corrected before being passed but who really believe that will happen.:-(
On a side note - Who fucking modded this as Troll? It's clearly an on-topic and at least interesting post.
But what if the ballistics data isn't good enough? If the round had a surviving RFID tag, it could eventually be tracked back not only to its manufacturer, but to the store that sold it, and in theory to whom.
They already do this with some explosives including gunpowder. Technically they can at least track it back to the manufacturer who supposedly will have sales records that will help narrow down the area to find the suspect in.
It is balance that makes a man, it is balance that makes a company. A CEO does not run a company, she/he runs a part of the decesion making process.
I can agree totally on the balance thing. Too many "Suits" in any industry forget that the balance even exists and act as if they've been handed a magic box that will create anything they want without cost. Thus businesses get sucked dry by "Suits". (Yes, I'm generalizing with the term "Suit" but I greedy-money-grubbing-unethical-pinhead takes up too much browser space.;-)
On a side note I dimly recall something said once that to make a company successful you should populate the board of directors with millionaires who made their first million before the age of 25. Don't know if that's true or not but I recall hearing it somewhere.
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What happens to this site when people start hiding complete movies in 5gig "ISO" torrents.
For instance a complete install of SUSE in DVD form is several gig in size. What's to stop someone from hiding a movie renamed as that?
What you have seen? Which of the two do you use? Neither? Speculation is one thing. Making an argument is another. I've seen much the opposite. Granted, there have been issues, and SP2 threw in some additional kinks, but the ones complaining the loudest appear to be those that don't even use Windows!
;-)
I'm one of those admins that didn't upgrade to XP and won't until forced to do so.
From personal experience I have to patch XP systems weekly at the very least - depends on how often MS releases a "Critical Update". Being one divisional network leg of a larger corporation I have to load a default XP system on a separate lan segment and upgrade it there before letting it out on the rest of the network - why? - because if I don't then some visiting infected machine will own it within seconds.
The Win2k systems just keep on running without intervention.
Above and beyond all that I'd rather be herding pengiuns and tigers.
I acknowledge your experience but point you to the comparison that we have many things in common with Germany in the early 30's. One good reference is Berlin Diaries: Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer and his other book: Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich .
;-)
And yes, I do realize my "Godwin" in the above post.
The judgements of other countries have no bearing on the US judicial system (one recent US Supreme Court decision notwithstanding), just as judgements of the US judicial system have no bearing on other countries.
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The US judicial system is tasked with upholding the laws of the US.
This was exactly my point. Rather than take the French ruling as an indicator that perhaps people don't think they should be punished severely for file swapping our current Big-Business government will happily ignore it as irrelevant data and jam more DRM and legal punishments down on us so they can retain their corporate profits.
As for the war, I'm not exactly sure how that ties in with file sharing.
That was a reference to an example where a large number of other countries disagree with and even condemn our actions yet we still push forward because we're the "Greatest nation in the world and everyone should follow us!"
And, as for iron curtains, I had the opportunity to spend a little time in a few former Soviet satellites. I assure you that you're spouting iron curtains out your ass.
I acknowledge your experience but point you to the comparison that we have many things in common with Germany in the early 30's. One good reference is Berlin Diaries: Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer and his other book: Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich
I'm currently reading both and the comparison to current politics and our environment in the US is stunning. Iron curtain policy in our country is not that far a step away from that.
I propose that we put comparisons to the iron curtain on the same level as comparisons to Nazis - as soon as you use it, you lose!
If you don't agree with me that's fine but to automatically prevent me from expressing my viewpoint is a clear path to the very iron curtains you claim are fiction in the US.
I never said that they existed in the same form as the old ones in Soviet Russia and the like. What I did say is that similar things are being constructed. They're in the very early stages but they are there.
seriously though, i think it's refreshing to hear people in authority looking at the situation from this perspective instead of blindly following.
change always has to start somewhere, at some level.
That won't fly here in the US. Unfortunately it's all too easy for the judicial system and those in power to ignore the judgements of other countries as you can see by a certain war our administration is conducting at the moment.
You can almost certainly expect the DRM hammer to come down in this country right along with the iron curtain that our government is building as we speak...
I'm going to play Devil's Advocate here and suggest something.
;-)
Why don't these people just paint a few layers of metal paint over their walls then paint over the last layer with normal paint?
Is it that there's not enough metal in the paint itself to make it worthwhile or is it harder to get?
Inquiring paranoids want to know...
It was a joke.. Ever looked at Area 51, or biological weapons research facilities, or other classified regions in Google Maps? They're often grayed out...
I find this odd. I mean if they're supposed to be public entities then why bother greying them out completely? I understand maybe not providing resolution enough to see details but why grey them out?
Someone suggested to me it was because of fear of terrorist attack. I find that hard to believe as these places can easily be located through other means and it's not like something nuclear has to be placed that close.
As a semi on-topic idea - wouldn't it be effective to cover the tops of those places with metal so all the cameras get is a reflection of themselves or the sun? Stupid, I know, but still a fun idea.
*** STOP: 0x0000001E(0xC0000005,0x8016A950,0x00000001,0x0000 0086)
;-)
KMO DE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED*** Address 8016a950 has base at 80100000 - ntoskrnl.exe
Yeah like any Slashdotter would be using Windows to store their brain.
The movie Dark Star suddenly came to mind:
Pinback wants the bomb to disarm
Pinback: All right, bomb. Prepare to receive new orders.
Bomb#20: You are false data.
Pinback: Hmmm?
Bomb #20: Therefore I shall ignore you.
Pinback: Hello... bomb?
Bomb #20: False data can act only as a distraction. Therefore, I shall refuse to perceive.
Pinback: Hey, bomb?
Bomb #20: The only thing that exists is myself.
Pinback: Snap out of it, bomb.
The "civil libertarians" are overreacting, period. And I think "citizenship" should mean something and not be so easy to fake and falsify.
The re-education teams will be to your house too eventually. After all - you can't possibly reflect the same views as the current people in power at any given moment. Eventually you too will be a "terrorist" or a "threat".
Be careful what you wish for sir. Being a "Good Citizen" eventually means turning on your friends and family if it is required to keep the country safe.
Oh and here's one more thought - your family must do the same to be "Good Citizens".
Not exactly "research."
;-)
*shrug* All I did was provide a Google link. I never said the data was any good.
Do you have sources?
I am not claiming that's a fake, I find what you are saying very interesting, but I'd never heard about it!
There seems to be plenty of data but the jury is still out:
Google: cancer+alkaline+PH+balance
no it wont. george Bush cant run for a third term. no matter how badly his puppet mastres want him to.
Am I the only one paranoid enough to see that under the population control that is being installed we may not have another chance at voting?
I hate to wear tinfoil but honestly - this election was bought and as long as they keep paying for elections the next one will be bought as well.
Furthermore because our current crop of nastiness that is in power and holds all the cards it wouldn't be too hard for them to come up with a consitutional ammendment suspending the vote "in times of need" then using the "terrorist threat" to fill that need.
Think it can't happen? We're already following in the footsteps of other fascist dictators in the world. It wouldn't take much for the US to become the largest "Bananna Republic" in the world - politically speaking that is.
The DMCA would be the least of our problems at that point. But honestly if you want to fight the DMCA fight the existing crop of government. The DMCA is just a symptom of a very sick country...
Wasn't that supposed to be funny? (cf. the moderators)
;-)
My mistake - I missed the first line.
A fan movie? Come on.
Here is what I know is in the movie. Please correct me if I am wrong:
1) Too many slightly overweight characters
2) All the women are plain-janes except maybe one
3) Stiff, fake-sounding dialog.
4) Tedious and gratuitous use of special effects.
5) Boring plot
And you want to tell us where your fan film is?
I have the greatest respect for these people - at least they got out there and did something rather than troll-posting on Slashdot.
Yes, they are leaving us behind. When shall we hear of GMs, Chevys, Fords and other American companies making news as firsts in their respective fields? As our CEOs, CFOs and their cronies struggle with corruption allegations, the Japanese and Russians are slowly dominating us. One can hardly find an American music/video system now...next will be the automobile. We may fall just like the once great Romans did. Remember the Roman Empire?
If we can't stand on our own then we deserve to fall.
Don't like it? Get involved and change it. I voted, not that it mattered this time, did you?
I point out things that I find insane with our country to people on a regular basis. If more people did that then more people would think about what's wrong with this country not just who's going to be the next winner on Survivor.
Correction: 95% of Schedules are Wrong
I'll agree with this wholeheartedly. Besides the developers you've already mentioned there are plenty of Suits that push for insane deadlines so they can show a good side to the customer then beat their people so to speak when they don't make those insane deadlines.
This not only happens in the I/T department but in Engineering as well.
If the Suits made realistic schedules not only would the world move along at a more comfortable pace most likely but people would get the delivery times they were quoted.
That the EU has the right to demand 5% of GLOBAL revenue, rather than European revenue, especially as the agreement they reached isn't even applicable outside of Europe.
Question for our US cousins, will this 5% be taken out of Microsoft before or after they pay US tazes? And how does it feel to be subsidising European justice?
As one of those "crass Americans" I can say with some certainty that I have no problem with this. After all we shove our laws down the world's throat. It's more than past time that we end up on the receiving end. Karmically speaking that is.
The question you should ask yourself, and Debian should be (and probably already has) asking themselves, is "Will you still be using Sparc in two years?"
According to this proposal, Sarge would still support Sparc, but the next release wouldn't. I'd bet dollars to donuts that you'd get at least two years of use out of Sarge before wanting or needing to upgrade.
Seeing as I have currenlty used Debian on Sparc for about 6 years now or more I can easily see it remaining in use for another two years at least.
Also with the mad discard of "not Windows" boxes by Suits I find more and more useful Sparc hardware cheaply available. Several of my friends now have E3000 boxes that they paid little or nothing for. A good portion of those run Debian. I myself am working on getting an E450 from my workplace as soon as it is retired.
So, please tell Debian why Sparc will still be important to you in two years.
I think I'll do just that.
If they drop Sparc I drop them.
Period.
These guys offer open access to the Cray machines they have online. You have to get permission from them to do certain things but that's still a small price to get access to a cray.
Not exactly the same thing as the article but definitely a way for the average joe to learn about supercomputers without building one himself.
If your rescue tools are good enough for it, why not use it for daily work too? Just install a base system on it, copy some config that you already have collected at boot and apt-get or yum the whole shebang over the network. yoou need some magic to make sure the users files are not hosed in the process.
;-)
I was thinking exactly that. This would bring a new meaning to "portable desktop" since the 40gig iPod has more than enough space to store a whole day-to-day use system. Plug it into a "thin client" and you have instant desktop.
For extra credit play the mp3s on the iPod using XMMS from Linux.
They're highballing. The public will come back with "No, we want no regulation" and the politicians will settle somewhere in the middle, say a special online auction license where you pay a small percentage per year.
:-(
Then of course they'll use that as leverage in case they want to lean on sellers of particular items, especially around election time. "Look, my beloved voters, I signed the law that would revoke online auction licenses for people selling {guns,porn}. Vote for me!"
You got this one exactly right unfortunately. As someone else stated though there are plenty of legislators who say the bill will be corrected before being passed but who really believe that will happen.
On a side note - Who fucking modded this as Troll? It's clearly an on-topic and at least interesting post.
But what if the ballistics data isn't good enough? If the round had a surviving RFID tag, it could eventually be tracked back not only to its manufacturer, but to the store that sold it, and in theory to whom.
They already do this with some explosives including gunpowder. Technically they can at least track it back to the manufacturer who supposedly will have sales records that will help narrow down the area to find the suspect in.
The problem is that they don't always work
It is balance that makes a man, it is balance that makes a company. A CEO does not run a company, she/he runs a part of the decesion making process.
;-)
I can agree totally on the balance thing. Too many "Suits" in any industry forget that the balance even exists and act as if they've been handed a magic box that will create anything they want without cost. Thus businesses get sucked dry by "Suits". (Yes, I'm generalizing with the term "Suit" but I greedy-money-grubbing-unethical-pinhead takes up too much browser space.
On a side note I dimly recall something said once that to make a company successful you should populate the board of directors with millionaires who made their first million before the age of 25. Don't know if that's true or not but I recall hearing it somewhere.