try comparing Naziism with Soviet Communism. The difference is significant.
Uhm, the only real difference I see is that Nazis are nearly universally despised today while Stalin is getting worshipped more and more in Russia, with an approval from their government.
Soviets were _slightly_ more evil: higher numbers of dead/repressed. Nazis were mostly your run-of-the-mill "our race/tribe is good, everyone else is bad" like a thousand other groups in the history, and at least didn't mass-murder the very group they claimed they wanted to empower (dissidents aside) -- while Soviets repressed the "working class" just as badly. That makes Nazis a notch less despicable in my book, but only a notch.
Also, you claim Nazis were "not socialist". Hmm... let's see... where does the name "National Socialism" come from? I initially had trouble comprehending that, but then I watched "Triumph of the Will" while actually reading the subtitles -- try it, the great music makes it easier to slog through the propaganda. It's like: "Let's all work together, arm to arm, everyone doing their part, soldiers, workers, doctors alike. We are all as good, we're powerful, we're Germans, in unity." (not mentioning that those not in unity had a little accident). Equalizing people, making them all cogs working together in one machine, managing it so those who take a part in it have their needs fulfilled -- it _is_ socialism. Just a different flavour than the communist one.
I agree with the GP: in totalitarian regimes, the difference between far left and far right is just flavour. And looking at, say, parties in Poland (especially those several years ago), not just in totalitarian ones. Polish ultra-right parties were just as socialist as ultra-left ones, differing mostly by religion and nationalism.
Uhm, wrong. Any disturbance spreads with nearly the speed of light, and our universe is so damn chaotic the lines in the phase space diverge catastrophally nearly outright.
If you would like to lobby that (n>2) consenting adults should have the same legal rights as (n=2) consenting adults, by all means -- go for it! There are probably [small] groups out there lobbying for it.
Of course, they want one man:multiple women, but in order to give equal rights to both sexes you'd have to allow polyandry as well. And allowing 1:4 and 4:1 but not 2:2 would be unfair as well...
Sorry, but the "right" and "left" lost their meaning in late 20th century. What you have in the US are two neocon parties, both authoritative, one with a populist theme and the other with a religious one. Neither is more "rightist" or "leftist" beyond the surface.
Both are strongly anti-personal rights. Dems do promote one particular alternative sexual variant they randomly picked among all the others -- just because it happened to be politically correct these days. How is homosexuality different from sex with adolescents, zoophilia, group marriage or such? And why they insist on people being not allowed to defend themselves? Or why they are against free speech even more than Repugnicants? Or the right to privacy -- Bush did illegally wiretap but at least tried to hide it, while Obama dares to claim it's the "right thing to do".
The US is going down the shitter very, very fast. And you can't even stop that by voting as there's not even a "lesser evil" anymore: there's just a populist-colored big evil and a religion-colored big evil.
XP can do IPv6. It can't do DNS over IPv6 (but that needs v4 connectivity just to the next router), and you need two sockets instead of one to listen. Neither of these is a blocking issue.
How do you store a marker on a computer without software? Does it leave a physical marker other than a magnetic charge on the disk?
"Software" means a "string of bits", not a "program". This is the definition I was taught, and it is the most popular one.
As for example the Wikipedia article mentions, there is also a rare narrower definition which says what you meant. It has gained some popularity recently, but it suffers from being badly imprecise: what about PostScript? What about Perl's POD? What about PHP which can range from 100% HTML to 100% code? What about Windows metafiles? What about PDF? What about a "picture" file that causes a buffer overflow to pass some shellcode?
EAX and similar hardware-accelerated sound processing.
It was working in XP, yet with Vista Microsoft not only removed any relevant APIs, but also refused to certify any drivers which did have support for that.
DRM is irrelevant unless you have DRM-encumbered media.
To have working DRM, you need to remove system capabilities. That's why the sound card driver model has been crippled in Vista/7, removing all paths that could be used to avoid DRM.
Every single licensed software DVD player on the planet requires a DVD region code to be set on the drive.
And that makes mplayer so superior:p
These folks seemed to think my computer belongs to the MPAA. Again, the DRM does nothing unless the owner of the copyright has DRM-encumbered their media. You're complaining about the wrong people.
1. Crippling sound cards. 2. Burning lots of processing power for HDCP. 3. Monitors proportions: 4:3 -> 16:10 -> 16:9. Low screens are useless for anything but watching cinema-format movies. You do suffer from these even if you don't do anything DRM-encumbered.
If you have a working Treacherous Computing setup that you believe isn't breached, what would you want the technique in the article for? With working TC, you have all of that and more. Without TC, it can be worked around with a simple kernel patch.
But if you want to write a 300 page Ph.D. thesis or work with an array of more than 65K points, you'll need to explore other options... unless you like the M in S&M.
You mean, there are people who write their Ph.D.s on something other than TeX? Perhaps in Psychology...
Of course, I'm running Linux, so Norton doesn't do me a lot of good for any of my machines.
If you ran Windows, Norton wouldn't be any more useful. It's worse than most cases of virus infestation.
But there are a few AV scanners for Linux (I run ClamAV).
Why would you care for Windows malware? ClamAV is useful for Samba and some mail servers, but for a client machine, I can't think of any reason to use it.
Uhm, netcat is an _easier_ tool for browsing than telnet. Well, perhaps bytes containing 255 are not supposed to happen except for some Windows-running Icelandic sites, but it still doesn't mean you should use telnet for anything else than the TELNET protocol -- ie, real telnet servers and most MUDs.
We learned it damn well that opting out means just "hey, there's someone who not only doesn't have ads blocked but also doesn't ignore them!". In other words, you can be damn sure other sites in that advertising network will try to advertise to you more aggressively.
When I was in early high school, I attended a workshop for bright kids where each of us wrote a compiler. During a week. Not knowing anything about writing compilers beforehand, just being teached the basics of yacc and stuff on the go. Of course, these compilers had hardly any optimization, but they produced working code.
Stallman didn't have yacc, but he was an experienced programmer with full access to relevant books -- all the theory relevant was already widely known by then. And coding a LALR parser is hardly more complex than, say, coding AVL trees.
Writing a good optimizing compiler is a task for a team of great coders for years, but one that just works is a simple deal.
Thus, GCC is just a yet another tool in the GNU collection, not something revolutionary like the GPL.
A great part of the work for the Dark Side was done by a single individual as well. Please read about the big campaign led by our beloved Bill and his "Open Letter to Hobbyists".
This is the "specialized-vs-generic advantage" I mentioned. You do waste a lot less power, but you still do waste it for no gain whatsoever.
A parable: a crazy dictator ordered his workers to make a huge earth mound and then to level it, with nothing but shovels. Another dictator ordered his troops to make a mound of the same size and then level it, but this time he granted them heavy machinery. Which dictator uses his people better?
In other words, the HDCP hardware decryptor is more powerful than the main CPU. Even with the specialized-vs-generic advantage, just think about the power wasted encrypting/decrypting it for no reason but letting the cartel control the market market and the complexity of the electronics you have to buy with your own money.
Every HDCP device should be slapped with a huge carbon and recycling tax -- with an extra punitive rate, since the waste is introduced intentionally.
Of course, a properly mastered CD will be helluva better than any vinyl, but thanks to douches involved in the loudness war, all currently sold CDs are of dog shit quality that makes it even worse than pops of vinyl.
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try comparing Naziism with Soviet Communism. The difference is significant.
Uhm, the only real difference I see is that Nazis are nearly universally despised today while Stalin is getting worshipped more and more in Russia, with an approval from their government.
Soviets were _slightly_ more evil: higher numbers of dead/repressed. Nazis were mostly your run-of-the-mill "our race/tribe is good, everyone else is bad" like a thousand other groups in the history, and at least didn't mass-murder the very group they claimed they wanted to empower (dissidents aside) -- while Soviets repressed the "working class" just as badly. That makes Nazis a notch less despicable in my book, but only a notch.
Also, you claim Nazis were "not socialist". Hmm... let's see... where does the name "National Socialism" come from? I initially had trouble comprehending that, but then I watched "Triumph of the Will" while actually reading the subtitles -- try it, the great music makes it easier to slog through the propaganda. It's like: "Let's all work together, arm to arm, everyone doing their part, soldiers, workers, doctors alike. We are all as good, we're powerful, we're Germans, in unity." (not mentioning that those not in unity had a little accident). Equalizing people, making them all cogs working together in one machine, managing it so those who take a part in it have their needs fulfilled -- it _is_ socialism. Just a different flavour than the communist one.
I agree with the GP: in totalitarian regimes, the difference between far left and far right is just flavour. And looking at, say, parties in Poland (especially those several years ago), not just in totalitarian ones. Polish ultra-right parties were just as socialist as ultra-left ones, differing mostly by religion and nationalism.
Uhm, wrong. Any disturbance spreads with nearly the speed of light, and our universe is so damn chaotic the lines in the phase space diverge catastrophally nearly outright.
If you would like to lobby that (n>2) consenting adults should have the same legal rights as (n=2) consenting adults, by all means -- go for it! There are probably [small] groups out there lobbying for it.
"small"? Let's see... Muslims: 1.6B. Mormons: 14M.
Supporters of gay marriage: ~400M worldwide.
Of course, they want one man:multiple women, but in order to give equal rights to both sexes you'd have to allow polyandry as well. And allowing 1:4 and 4:1 but not 2:2 would be unfair as well...
Sorry, but the "right" and "left" lost their meaning in late 20th century. What you have in the US are two neocon parties, both authoritative, one with a populist theme and the other with a religious one. Neither is more "rightist" or "leftist" beyond the surface.
Both are strongly anti-personal rights. Dems do promote one particular alternative sexual variant they randomly picked among all the others -- just because it happened to be politically correct these days. How is homosexuality different from sex with adolescents, zoophilia, group marriage or such? And why they insist on people being not allowed to defend themselves? Or why they are against free speech even more than Repugnicants? Or the right to privacy -- Bush did illegally wiretap but at least tried to hide it, while Obama dares to claim it's the "right thing to do".
The US is going down the shitter very, very fast. And you can't even stop that by voting as there's not even a "lesser evil" anymore: there's just a populist-colored big evil and a religion-colored big evil.
XP can do IPv6. It can't do DNS over IPv6 (but that needs v4 connectivity just to the next router), and you need two sockets instead of one to listen. Neither of these is a blocking issue.
And what if you wanted, say, to ssh into the phone?
This may be a weird idea for dumbphones, but things like n900 are just subnotebooks with phone capability.
How do you store a marker on a computer without software? Does it leave a physical marker other than a magnetic charge on the disk?
"Software" means a "string of bits", not a "program". This is the definition I was taught, and it is the most popular one.
As for example the Wikipedia article mentions, there is also a rare narrower definition which says what you meant. It has gained some popularity recently, but it suffers from being badly imprecise: what about PostScript? What about Perl's POD? What about PHP which can range from 100% HTML to 100% code? What about Windows metafiles? What about PDF? What about a "picture" file that causes a buffer overflow to pass some shellcode?
1. Crippling sound cards.
How ?
EAX and similar hardware-accelerated sound processing.
It was working in XP, yet with Vista Microsoft not only removed any relevant APIs, but also refused to certify any drivers which did have support for that.
With DRM nothing, but everything with "These folks seemed to think my computer belongs to the MPAA.".
DRM is irrelevant unless you have DRM-encumbered media.
To have working DRM, you need to remove system capabilities. That's why the sound card driver model has been crippled in Vista/7, removing all paths that could be used to avoid DRM.
Every single licensed software DVD player on the planet requires a DVD region code to be set on the drive.
And that makes mplayer so superior :p
These folks seemed to think my computer belongs to the MPAA.
Again, the DRM does nothing unless the owner of the copyright has DRM-encumbered their media. You're complaining about the wrong people.
1. Crippling sound cards.
2. Burning lots of processing power for HDCP.
3. Monitors proportions: 4:3 -> 16:10 -> 16:9. Low screens are useless for anything but watching cinema-format movies.
You do suffer from these even if you don't do anything DRM-encumbered.
Trusted Computing is generally not a problem at all so long as you, the user, hold the keys.
You mean, there is an actual case of TC where you do get to hold the keys?
If you have a working Treacherous Computing setup that you believe isn't breached, what would you want the technique in the article for? With working TC, you have all of that and more. Without TC, it can be worked around with a simple kernel patch.
But if you want to write a 300 page Ph.D. thesis or work with an array of more than 65K points, you'll need to explore other options... unless you like the M in S&M.
You mean, there are people who write their Ph.D.s on something other than TeX? Perhaps in Psychology...
Courier is an ugly thing barely adequate for mechanical typewriters. Consolas, on the other hand, is an awesome font for modern uses.
Of course, I'm running Linux, so Norton doesn't do me a lot of good for any of my machines.
If you ran Windows, Norton wouldn't be any more useful. It's worse than most cases of virus infestation.
But there are a few AV scanners for Linux (I run ClamAV).
Why would you care for Windows malware? ClamAV is useful for Samba and some mail servers, but for a client machine, I can't think of any reason to use it.
On the other hand, users of Firefox tend to have such sleazy tracking sites adblocked way.
Uhm, netcat is an _easier_ tool for browsing than telnet. Well, perhaps bytes containing 255 are not supposed to happen except for some Windows-running Icelandic sites, but it still doesn't mean you should use telnet for anything else than the TELNET protocol -- ie, real telnet servers and most MUDs.
netcat doesn't try to interpret data as commands.
Or has Microsoft deprecated Courier in favor of Consolas?
Guess what font I use on my n900. Guess what font I use on my desktop on Debian for all programming tasks.
This font is one of the only two things Microsoft ever did right, the second one being their MS 2.0a mice twelve years ago.
We learned it damn well that opting out means just "hey, there's someone who not only doesn't have ads blocked but also doesn't ignore them!". In other words, you can be damn sure other sites in that advertising network will try to advertise to you more aggressively.
When I was in early high school, I attended a workshop for bright kids where each of us wrote a compiler. During a week. Not knowing anything about writing compilers beforehand, just being teached the basics of yacc and stuff on the go. Of course, these compilers had hardly any optimization, but they produced working code.
Stallman didn't have yacc, but he was an experienced programmer with full access to relevant books -- all the theory relevant was already widely known by then. And coding a LALR parser is hardly more complex than, say, coding AVL trees.
Writing a good optimizing compiler is a task for a team of great coders for years, but one that just works is a simple deal.
Thus, GCC is just a yet another tool in the GNU collection, not something revolutionary like the GPL.
A great part of the work for the Dark Side was done by a single individual as well. Please read about the big campaign led by our beloved Bill and his "Open Letter to Hobbyists".
Sorry, but neither of these two parties deserves nicer name.
This is the "specialized-vs-generic advantage" I mentioned. You do waste a lot less power, but you still do waste it for no gain whatsoever.
A parable: a crazy dictator ordered his workers to make a huge earth mound and then to level it, with nothing but shovels. Another dictator ordered his troops to make a mound of the same size and then level it, but this time he granted them heavy machinery. Which dictator uses his people better?
In other words, the HDCP hardware decryptor is more powerful than the main CPU. Even with the specialized-vs-generic advantage, just think about the power wasted encrypting/decrypting it for no reason but letting the cartel control the market market and the complexity of the electronics you have to buy with your own money.
Every HDCP device should be slapped with a huge carbon and recycling tax -- with an extra punitive rate, since the waste is introduced intentionally.
Why the ":(" ? It's a damn good thing.
Of course, a properly mastered CD will be helluva better than any vinyl, but thanks to douches involved in the loudness war, all currently sold CDs are of dog shit quality that makes it even worse than pops of vinyl.