This, of course, from the same company that used to let you drag the whole OS to the trash bin and delete it...
And if they didn't let you do that, you'd be complaining that they restrict what you can do, and doesn't every man have a fundamental right to delete his OS if he sees fit, blah blah blah.
Yeah, and we all know how reliable and accurate AP reporters are.
You say that like AP reporters have a tabloid-like reputation that everybody knows about. Says Wired:
For his part, Ted Bridis, a veteran reporter for the Associated Press, says he stands by his story from last week that reported the link between the FBI and Network Associates.
Bridis wrote in an e-mail message Monday afternoon, "I stand by my reporting for the AP. This information came from a senior company officer. I won't identify this person in this post because I've been unable to reach this person by phone or e-mail since the flap erupted."
"I can't resolve what McAfee told me last week and today's contradictory statement except to note the critical public response against McAfee that emerged over the holiday weekend," Bridis added.
We should never give any money to any organization that helps anybody but women and children. Let's immediately cut all government funding and donations to art, science, politics, education...everything.
So, you don't have any worldly possessions -- you live in a cardboard box and use the Internet thanks to the generosity of passing laptop-and-802.11b-bearing strangers. You are a model to all of us!
What are you talking about? Anthrax has a documented existence of thousands of years -- presumably it has been around much longer -- having been a problem for the ancients right up until Louis Pasteur developed a vaccine in the 1870s. The microorganism was isolated by Dr. Robert Koch in 1876, who named it Bacillus anthracis after its accepted name of anthrax, from Middle English antrax carbuncle, from Latin anthrax, from Greek, coal, carbuncle. [1] It wasn't until WWI that the US started exploring the use of anthrax as a biological weapon. [2] All that we did was make it more portable. But to say that we developed something new and decided to call it anthrax? That's just silly.
Excuse me but that is just plain bullshit.
It is actually quite normal for planes to crash every now and then, therefore it is most likely to be an accident.
1. We're threatened with further attacks.
2. Two weeks later, a plane crashes.
I know that we're not supposed to jump to conclusions, but none of us can help it at this point. Airplane crash == terrorist attack. In fact, I'd be leaping to conclusions if I decided this were mechanical failure. The odds of this being terrorist-related are overwhelming.
Winning the land battle in Afghanistan does nothing to make us safer. This we now know for certain.
Hehe.... God, how people like you make me hope that America gets Nuked to high hell, becomes poisonous as shit with Anthrax and other biological agents and the government comes crashing down on everyone so you have to leave as a political asylum seaker. Then when you come to my country looking for refuge, we can lock you up in a detention camp or send you to Indonesia!!
In my original post, I was unclear: I think Michael should find a country that better suits him because he seems to havp1ow our liberties might be preserved, and has little patience for those who disagree with him. I suspect that America is not the place for him.
Ah, I understand. Without passing judgement on Michael, I can certainly understand your perspective: some people definitely have no idea of how to actually go about effecting change in a democratic society, only how to go about complaining loudly to nobody in particular about non-specific problems, omitting solutions or even true descriptions of problems, and never to the people that should be talked to. Some of these people would be better off in a society in which their mutterings could either make a difference, or where they'd be executed for them, and would thusly cease them.:)
most of the freedom-smashing sections are specifically against aliens and non-residents.
And that's the worst part. We are a country that consists almost entirely of aliens -- very few of us have lived here for more than a few generations. I know few people that can't immediately tell me which great-grandfather came here, and from what country. One of the things that makes America great (and is the basis of our country, historically-speaking) is the opportunity that we present to people coming here to seek a better life.
So now we think it's OK to hold an alien for seven days before charging them with a crime. This will be the worst on migrant latino workers, the people that make this country run on a day to day basis, the most trod-upon class of Americans. (Yes, I called them Americans.) Sure, this has been passed in the name of fighting terrorism, but I guarantee that the INS is going to seize this opportunity to harass migrants, knowing that they can now threaten to throw them in prison for seven days before deciding that they're not going to charge them, given that they are here legally after all.
People saying that this law doesn't affect them are probably right. Because Slashdot users (I'd best cash on this) consist primarily of white males between the ages of 16 and 40 that were born and raised in the United States in middle-class families. So they don't give a damn about Mexicans, or poor laborers, or, gods help them, people of Indian or Pakastani descent. They're just looking at this bill and saying "hey, it doens't affect me."
I'll spare you the tired speech of "first they came for my guns, but I didn't have any, then they came for my..." etc. Our freedoms are being chipped away at. This bill is just the start, mark my words.
And if he hates this country so much, I would like "michael" to find one that better suits him.
Ah, yes, "love it or leave it."
Perhaps you're unfamiliar with our democracy, Tristan. In our country, we don't abandon it in times of trouble (ie, when bills like this are passed), but instead point out the problems publically and attempt to get them remedied.
Thank you! I knew it was there somewhere, but after about 10 minutes of searching, I gave up. It never would have occurred to me to look under mouse options -- I was looking for UI and directory options.
I upgraded my girlfriend's system from RH7.0 to Mandrake 8.1 this weekend, hoping that *this* would be the time when she'd take to it. Something is wrong every time. Last time I got burned on StarOffice ("Why does this look nothing like the rest of my system?" [she had Gnome as her desktop, StarOffice insists on looking like KDE] "Why is this sooo slow?" "Why won't my modem work?" "Why do I have to know a password to use my own computer?" Etc.)
Mandrake has made some great steps in the right direction. No login required -- fantastic! No root password required -- even better! She's using Gnome -- I can't disable that incredibly-annoying single-click thing that KDE has going on with 2.X, unfortunately. (KDE is definitely easier for new Linux users than any other WM.) The installer is really nice, something that she could have used herself, I'm sure. The control panel that comes with it lets her change her own monitor settings, something that I didn't even know existed in any Linux distribution. The games that come with it are fantastic, notably Ambrosia's contributions. Tux Racer, mysteriously, has simply not functioned on any of the 3 nice new systems that I've tried it on.
But there's still enough problems that she's not going to adopt it as a serious OS.
"Why are all of the fonts so ugly?" Seriously, fonts look like absolute ass on X, to the point where they're difficult to read. She won't do her school work in Linux on this basis alone.
"How do I get to my [floppy|zip|My Documents folder in Windows]?" Sure, it's easy to do this from the desktop now, but what about Save and Open dialogues in KWord or Abiword? Can't do it. She has to go through/mnt/, which is absolutely baffling to any normal user.
"Why can't I save this as a Word file?" Neither KWord nor Abiword can save Word files. WTF? KWord is so shockingly weak in this department that it can't even save as RTF -- the only common file format is HTML. What planet are these developers from? Consequently, KWord is without value to her, and Abiword is pretty close.
This is all that we've come across so far, though I'm afraid that we won't see her using it enough to find any more. Until native Word-file (all formats!) handling exists, the fonts are made readable, and applications use some WM hooks to handle dialog boxes as neatly as the WMs handle mounted file systems, she's likely doomed to be a games-only user. Which is a lot better than nothing!
We're sorry, but tonight's "Linux" will not be aired. Normally you would find 2.4.12 or 2.4.13-pre2 on Sunday nights, but not this evening. Now that Linux is fully preemptible, NBC will be airing a four-hour music-and-ice-skating tribute to Bill Gates.
We apologize for any inconvenience, and for the reduced uptime. Enjoy the show.
I have no idea of where my supermarket cards came from. You know how when you sign up, they give you a few? I've gotten friends to give me all of my cards. Whenever, in conversation, topic turns to shopping, I explain why these are Bad Things(tm), and suggest that card-swapping would help. We always swap cards, and they're always eager to do so with others. It's not just me -- my whole family actually does this, and many of my friends now. And some people that I tell about this say that they already know about it, which makes me feel a bit like going to a strange town and finding out that there's already a fight club.
Anyhow, yes, trade away! Destroy their databases and go buy some ethnic food. It'll be fun.
It's neither the wireless aspect nor the Internet connection that's of interest to me, it's the BBS-like community that has come to exist around the network. I have no idea if anybody would want to use this lacking an Internet connection, but the community network aspect is fantastic. If this weren't hooked up to the Internet, concerns of security problems would drop tremendously, no doubt making adoption even simpler.
I guess I miss the old BBS community. Heck, I know that I miss it. Security was definitely a concern, but I knew just about everybody using my BBS. Or if I didn't know them, I'd get to know them at one of our monthly get-togethers. I've tried to move towards recreating the old community with cvillenews.com and a free community mailing list server, which is a start. But the concept of closing these off to the Internet at large and localizing them is fascinating to me.
Has anybody else set up an isolated metropolitan network? Any success?
The author did back it up. He got together with his neighbors and had some beer. He's got each neighbor working with each neighbor next door to assure access. They're talking on IRC.
I don't know about you, but that's way ahead of my relationship with my neighbors.
Slashdot Mirror
Their page could also use some testing since it doesn't render in my browser.
Also, they're ugly.
Waldo Jaquith
This, of course, from the same company that used to let you drag the whole OS to the trash bin and delete it...
And if they didn't let you do that, you'd be complaining that they restrict what you can do, and doesn't every man have a fundamental right to delete his OS if he sees fit, blah blah blah.
-Waldo Jaquith
You say that like AP reporters have a tabloid-like reputation that everybody knows about. Says Wired:
-Waldo Jaquith
Ted Brindis, the AP reporter that originally broke the story about McAfee ignoring Magic Lantern stands by his piece, Wired reports.
-Waldo Jaquith
We should never give any money to any organization that helps anybody but women and children. Let's immediately cut all government funding and donations to art, science, politics, education...everything.
So, you don't have any worldly possessions -- you live in a cardboard box and use the Internet thanks to the generosity of passing laptop-and-802.11b-bearing strangers. You are a model to all of us!
-Waldo Jaquith
There's always good stuff at http://abcnews.go.com/robots.txt and http://www.cnn.com/robots.txt. I check that every so often just because I get such a kick out of viewing their logs and such.
-Waldo Jaquith
What are you talking about? Anthrax has a documented existence of thousands of years -- presumably it has been around much longer -- having been a problem for the ancients right up until Louis Pasteur developed a vaccine in the 1870s. The microorganism was isolated by Dr. Robert Koch in 1876, who named it Bacillus anthracis after its accepted name of anthrax, from Middle English antrax carbuncle, from Latin anthrax, from Greek, coal, carbuncle. [1] It wasn't until WWI that the US started exploring the use of anthrax as a biological weapon. [2] All that we did was make it more portable. But to say that we developed something new and decided to call it anthrax? That's just silly.
n ary&va=anthrax
-Waldo Jaquith
[1] http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictio
[2] http://www.defencejournal.com/dec98/anthrax.htm
Excuse me but that is just plain bullshit.
It is actually quite normal for planes to crash every now and then, therefore it is most likely to be an accident.
1. We're threatened with further attacks.
2. Two weeks later, a plane crashes.
You do the math, bucko.
-Waldo
I know that we're not supposed to jump to conclusions, but none of us can help it at this point. Airplane crash == terrorist attack. In fact, I'd be leaping to conclusions if I decided this were mechanical failure. The odds of this being terrorist-related are overwhelming.
Winning the land battle in Afghanistan does nothing to make us safer. This we now know for certain.
-Waldo Jaquith
This was flight 587, headed to the Dominican Republic.
-Waldo Jaquith
satan oscillate my metallic sonatas
My more excellent palendromes, read "I Love Me, Vol I."
-Waldo Jaquith
Keep in mind, as usual, that a "news" story whose sole source is an executive with an agenda to push is unlikely to portray the situation accurately.
$sarcastic_slashdot_comment
-Waldo Jaquith
Hehe.... God, how people like you make me hope that America gets Nuked to high hell, becomes poisonous as shit with Anthrax and other biological agents and the government comes crashing down on everyone so you have to leave as a political asylum seaker. Then when you come to my country looking for refuge, we can lock you up in a detention camp or send you to Indonesia!!
[...]
All we need is love.
You lost me.
-Waldo Jaquith
In my original post, I was unclear: I think Michael should find a country that better suits him because he seems to havp1ow our liberties might be preserved, and has little patience for those who disagree with him. I suspect that America is not the place for him.
:)
Ah, I understand. Without passing judgement on Michael, I can certainly understand your perspective: some people definitely have no idea of how to actually go about effecting change in a democratic society, only how to go about complaining loudly to nobody in particular about non-specific problems, omitting solutions or even true descriptions of problems, and never to the people that should be talked to. Some of these people would be better off in a society in which their mutterings could either make a difference, or where they'd be executed for them, and would thusly cease them.
-Waldo Jaquith
Consider these two statements by Ashcroft (I'm not going to dig up citations, but I'm sure we all remember these):
* We'll have to limit our civil liberties for awhile to fight terrorism.
* The war on terrorism may never end.
You do the math.
-Waldo Jaquith
most of the freedom-smashing sections are specifically against aliens and non-residents.
And that's the worst part. We are a country that consists almost entirely of aliens -- very few of us have lived here for more than a few generations. I know few people that can't immediately tell me which great-grandfather came here, and from what country. One of the things that makes America great (and is the basis of our country, historically-speaking) is the opportunity that we present to people coming here to seek a better life.
So now we think it's OK to hold an alien for seven days before charging them with a crime. This will be the worst on migrant latino workers, the people that make this country run on a day to day basis, the most trod-upon class of Americans. (Yes, I called them Americans.) Sure, this has been passed in the name of fighting terrorism, but I guarantee that the INS is going to seize this opportunity to harass migrants, knowing that they can now threaten to throw them in prison for seven days before deciding that they're not going to charge them, given that they are here legally after all.
People saying that this law doesn't affect them are probably right. Because Slashdot users (I'd best cash on this) consist primarily of white males between the ages of 16 and 40 that were born and raised in the United States in middle-class families. So they don't give a damn about Mexicans, or poor laborers, or, gods help them, people of Indian or Pakastani descent. They're just looking at this bill and saying "hey, it doens't affect me."
I'll spare you the tired speech of "first they came for my guns, but I didn't have any, then they came for my..." etc. Our freedoms are being chipped away at. This bill is just the start, mark my words.
-Waldo Jaquith
And if he hates this country so much, I would like "michael" to find one that better suits him.
Ah, yes, "love it or leave it."
Perhaps you're unfamiliar with our democracy, Tristan. In our country, we don't abandon it in times of trouble (ie, when bills like this are passed), but instead point out the problems publically and attempt to get them remedied.
-Waldo Jaquith
Thank you! I knew it was there somewhere, but after about 10 minutes of searching, I gave up. It never would have occurred to me to look under mouse options -- I was looking for UI and directory options.
-Waldo
Mandrake has made some great steps in the right direction. No login required -- fantastic! No root password required -- even better! She's using Gnome -- I can't disable that incredibly-annoying single-click thing that KDE has going on with 2.X, unfortunately. (KDE is definitely easier for new Linux users than any other WM.) The installer is really nice, something that she could have used herself, I'm sure. The control panel that comes with it lets her change her own monitor settings, something that I didn't even know existed in any Linux distribution. The games that come with it are fantastic, notably Ambrosia's contributions. Tux Racer, mysteriously, has simply not functioned on any of the 3 nice new systems that I've tried it on.
But there's still enough problems that she's not going to adopt it as a serious OS.
This is all that we've come across so far, though I'm afraid that we won't see her using it enough to find any more. Until native Word-file (all formats!) handling exists, the fonts are made readable, and applications use some WM hooks to handle dialog boxes as neatly as the WMs handle mounted file systems, she's likely doomed to be a games-only user. Which is a lot better than nothing!
-Waldo
We're sorry, but tonight's "Linux" will not be aired. Normally you would find 2.4.12 or 2.4.13-pre2 on Sunday nights, but not this evening. Now that Linux is fully preemptible, NBC will be airing a four-hour music-and-ice-skating tribute to Bill Gates.
We apologize for any inconvenience, and for the reduced uptime. Enjoy the show.
I have no idea of where my supermarket cards came from. You know how when you sign up, they give you a few? I've gotten friends to give me all of my cards. Whenever, in conversation, topic turns to shopping, I explain why these are Bad Things(tm), and suggest that card-swapping would help. We always swap cards, and they're always eager to do so with others. It's not just me -- my whole family actually does this, and many of my friends now. And some people that I tell about this say that they already know about it, which makes me feel a bit like going to a strange town and finding out that there's already a fight club.
Anyhow, yes, trade away! Destroy their databases and go buy some ethnic food. It'll be fun.
-Waldo
It's neither the wireless aspect nor the Internet connection that's of interest to me, it's the BBS-like community that has come to exist around the network. I have no idea if anybody would want to use this lacking an Internet connection, but the community network aspect is fantastic. If this weren't hooked up to the Internet, concerns of security problems would drop tremendously, no doubt making adoption even simpler.
I guess I miss the old BBS community. Heck, I know that I miss it. Security was definitely a concern, but I knew just about everybody using my BBS. Or if I didn't know them, I'd get to know them at one of our monthly get-togethers. I've tried to move towards recreating the old community with cvillenews.com and a free community mailing list server, which is a start. But the concept of closing these off to the Internet at large and localizing them is fascinating to me.
Has anybody else set up an isolated metropolitan network? Any success?
-Waldo
Ahem, would you care to back this up?
The author did back it up. He got together with his neighbors and had some beer. He's got each neighbor working with each neighbor next door to assure access. They're talking on IRC.
I don't know about you, but that's way ahead of my relationship with my neighbors.
-Waldo
To be fair, I haven't clicked on any links yet, but based on the abstract, I don't know what the hell this story is about.
-1 Vague
:)
-Waldo
"...a two-assed monkey!"