seems everyone agrees with playing out the melodrama of the Net-aware teen who doesn't go to school. If you've got drug pushers you run a raid then leave the place alone. What hypocrisy.
Sometimes I get the feeling every politician being somewhat socially conscious wants to be the director, writer, and producer of his/her own live soap opera.
Blow up Alaska to bring it into the economy. While I agree nuclear physics will in one way or another get us off this rock and maybe you'll really see what Alpha Centuari looks like- people used to think Venus was full of plant life and marvelous landscapes- I'm appalled that sensationalism is what still convinces some people that an item is useful. This inability to come with an elegant simple solution to a problem is disturbing. But of course that explains why there are more sub atomic particles than elements. Why we spend billions of dollars to find the tiniest thing that will confuse people enough to accept a theory for the next thousand years. Anybody who has ever studied complexity, sociology, and chaos theory would see a certain arbitrary man-made quality to the new zoology we know as particle physics.
Or that other crackpot science: Genetics. It isn't the technology that bothers me as much as the people involved. From some of the things I hear them say, I can't help comparing geneticists to script-kiddies. I mean what is the Human Genome Project, but a worldwide port scan of human DNA?
Reminds me of the "I just wanna make some money with puters without learning a whole lot" sysadmins I run into sometimes.
In fact, it is the same high-technology enchantment that convinces him of salvation that is also the enchantment of those who would rather blow up people.
It's sad people can be so blinded by hype. So many believe that enrichment of the sciences means enrichment of people.
Now some people might say, "Let them read textbooks."
I'm not talking about talk-show addicted morons who can't bother to take a walk to the library. Nor am I saying that some minority is disadvantaged when it comes to computers. There was an article on that a few weeks ago on/.. However, you can't empower people with science until you give them the access.
Invention is only half of it. Science, technology, computers, the Internet, space... all these things are put out of reach of the average person. One day Reno's going to ban encryption. Another some newscaster is going to report on "virtual gangs" as if the Internet were the embodiment of evil.
The closest anyone ever gets to technology is becoming dependent on a product that their boss tells them to use because they won't ever search the net in fear that the word root bio in biotechnology will bring up some porn star's career profile. And worst of all Reno, the media, and Co. will tell you that technology is making the world a better place.
Reminds me of, "There were probably millions of shoes produced while half of Oceania went barefoot."
Blow up Alaska to bring it into the economy. While I agree nuclear physics will in one way or another get us off this rock and maybe you'll really see what Alpha Centuari looks like- people used to think Venus was full of plant life and marvelous landscapes- I'm appalled that sensationalism is what still convinces some people that an item is useful. This inability to come with an elegant simple solution to a problem is disturbing. But of course that explains why there are more sub atomic particles than elements. Why we spend billions of dollars to find the tiniest thing that will confuse people enough to accept a theory for the next thousand years. Anybody who has ever studied complexity, sociology, and chaos theory would see a certain arbitrary man-made quality to the new zoology we know as particle physics. Or that other crackpot science: Genetics. It isn't the technology that bothers me as much as the people involved. From some of the things I hear them say, I can't help comparing geneticists to script-kiddies. I mean what is the Human Genome Project, but a worldwide port scan of human DNA? Reminds me of the "I just wanna make some money with puters without learning a whole lot" sysadmins I run into sometimes. In fact, it is the same high-technology enchantment that convinces him of salvation that is also the enchantment of those who would rather blow up people. It's sad people can be so blinded by hype. So many believe that enrichment of the sciences means enrichment of people. Now some people might say, "Let them read textbooks." I'm not talking talk-show addicted morons who can't bother to take a walk to the library. Nor am I saying that some minority is disadvantaged when it comes to computers. There was an article on that a few weeks ago. However, you can't empower people with science until you give them the access. Invention is only half of it. Science, technology, computers, the Internet, space... all these things are put out of reach of the average person. One day Reno's going to ban encryption. Another some newscaster is going to report on "virtual gangs" as if the Internet were the embodiment of evil. The closest anyone ever gets to technology is becoming dependent on a product that their boss tells them to use because they won't ever search the net in fear that the word root bio in biotechnology will bring up some porn star's career profile. And worst of all Reno, the media, and Co. will tell you that technology is making the world a better place. Reminds me of, "There were probably millions of shoes produced while half of Oceania went barefoot."
And you have to admit, Linux is the OS of choice for 13 year old script kiddies. Neither OS is the OS of choice. Divide usage by publicity and the number is about the same for both. As for using phrases like Cracker's OS, puhlease... you call that journalism.
That's it except it's a BBS on Apache. No need to log onto the Internet to USE the Internet. Or just replace the damned thing. Slashdot for Newsgroups anyone?
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Remember: You elected the people that are listening to your letters.
Not by a long shot. I had the pleasure of voting for the minority. It's all a matter of coincidence and timing.
I can't wait for the day that people can have an intelligent argument without resorting to name-calling.
I can't wait 'til people look around.
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Ever hear the phrase, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"?
Boy, how original. Trite, my friend, trite. The commie's dead. Get over it. Of course you probably watched the search for his son's plane too, like a good American.
Frankly, the entire global MEDIA should be ashamed of that particular INVASION OF PRIVACY. So should most Americans. I actually had respect for him and Sen. Kennedy's attempt to handle the MEDIA and all you VOYEURS.
I'm sorry if my concepts have a little more depth than yours, I must be dangerous.
.It honestly sounds like most of you people would prefer that law enforcement have *no* ability to collect evidence. No wire-taps, no search warrants, no security cameras.
YES.
I don't think I have *ever* read a Slashdot article with this number of posts and NOT A SINGLE FACT OR STATISTIC backing ANY of your objections up. No numbers, no statistical trend showing the number of illegal or unnecessary wiretaps, nothing. You are all simply feeding on each other's fears and magnifying them to a horrible frenzy.
I do believe it has been covered quite well especially here and earlier articles. Besides what are statistics worth anyway. Sorry, but I don't want to live in your little Utopia. In the middle of NOWHERE.
I am also extremely displeased by the high degree of bias in these "Your Rights Online" pieces. The "author" bringing the stories to us also brings his editorial along, complete with conspiracy theories and the invariable "Big Brother" tie-in. To privacy activists, this is pure adrenalin, hence the high number of very vocal anti-government and anti-law-enforcement posts.
Like the bias of gov't talking about terrorists to scare the morons into a frenzy.
Now, before you folks unleash your fury on my "naive" and "ignorant" ass, let me just say that I obviously don't want to see these types of things abused, but we DO already have oversight in place to see that this doesn't happen. If you feel that judges are being "tricked" into allowing wiretaps, or that these judges are "in" on the conspiracy with the cops to violate your personal privacy for their own kicks, THIS is what you should be working to fight.
Ahem... people can't be in a million places at once. besides what are you suggesting? Should we bribe jufges to be good Americans.
Sounds like watching an old episode of Superman on one TV and McCarthy trials on the other.
Don't hinder law enforcement's abilities to conduct investigations in a LAWFUL and DISCRETE manner just because there exists the POSSIBILITY that these abilities will be misused.
It's their responsibility to prove guilt not mine. I like erring on the side of caution. Pun intended.
Do you folks think that people in charges of these law enforcement organizations and the people appointed to act as judge are all complete IDIOTS?
As an individual speaking for hisself, like a good individual should, I believe that given the BIAS of the Feds against the Internet, they don'tr use it often. They would quickly realize how futile their actions are.
I'm perfectly willing to concede the fact that a small number of these people are, in fact, stupid people, but that does *not* mean that these organizations are collectively out to ruin your lives and your privacy for their own kicks.
What the fuck! What is up with all this crap about privacy to avoid shame or snooping for kicks? Breaching privacy IS A LUCRATIVE business. These people are fully aware that there are privacy activists out there that would have a field day if they fuck up, with a result of them being out of a job.
The same way basketball stars can continue to play after using drugs. Mind you I don't buy most drug charges, but there are rules to playing games.
PLEASE don't read and take things at face value.
I didn't. Pedophiles do not own the Internet.
THINK FOR YOURSELF and don't just jump on the frightened privacy bandwagon until you make an informed decision on your own.
Welcome back to the show... If you're just joining us, Hoover, Nixon, John "the common Pilgrim" Calvin, the Inquisition, Gulags, and Stalin were real people. It maybe hard to believe but they DID EXIST.
The government is NOT OUT TO GET YOU.
How do you know I'm not a criminal or a terrorist or a Jehovah's witness for Christ's sake? Oh YEAH NEWS FLASH Russia's after Jehovah's witnesses again. And no I'm not one. You call yourself informed? Moron.
If you don't like how your local law enforcement is behaving, you have two options: 1) Write a letter to your local government and media and express your concerns;
I do. It's like high school. Selective listening.
2) MOVE OUT.
China here I come. Or Oblivia. Who's in power there now?
You people need to be working *WITH* your government to address your concerns, not *AGAINST* them.
YEAH, sure. When Clinton puts some moron kid on stage for taking a violent game and showing it to his mother, I feel secure I'm being heard.
Besides... Completely denying the law enforcement agencies these monitoring tools is no more or less restrictive and comprimising than the lack of privacy issues you people are so worried about.
They're servicing me, not me them. Geez. wake up.
It isn't about restriction you idiot. It isn't abvout tallying up inconveniences to find out who's unfair. This isn't a juvenile game of keeping score.
It's about personal security. Why should I have to depend on the Feds. How can I possibly feel secure with my life in some other person's hands?
In the words of a spiritual leader I greatly respect, "I have achieved more by not being dependent on others. I have achieved nothing by aquiring others to do my work."
Privacy is a matter of respect. Any sign of an to consider me as less than an equal in terms of opportunity and as an individual I take as a THREAT.
Every collectivist totalitarian state uses fear and shame to bring people down.
Second the government is not above me. We are above government. And we and the government are below the law. Read the constitution again.
I expect some respect from my government. I'll say it again, I am not above the law. I am above the government.
Wake up.
If it helps society in some small way,
YOu're thepert tell me how. Fucking parrot. By the way YOU WANT TO CONTRIBUTE to this knee-jerk TV addicted self-destructive society?
And they're bored enough to listen to me...
Get out in the real world once in a while. Every state has laws against sexual behaviour of almost any kind... You'd probably be under house arrest by morning. They haven't been able to track people so closely until now.
Of course, maybe you need to see for yourself.
Think about it: In Canada a parent takes an innocent picture of their child running happily naked through the house and then gets arrested because the developer thought the picture erotic. Who's really the pedophile here? Hint: not the parent. I mean it's like calling perverts all those painters who painted the Madonna and children running around her.
Wake up. Please wake up. BIg Brother isn't the gov't. It's your next door neighbor.
How convenient it is...
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The damned constitution.
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That's what. Having immgrated from a Communist country where you lost your TEACHING job if YOU didn't join the PARTY, I'd be one to fight this.
Now I'm really sorry if bringing up the subject makes you feel guilty or annoys you (Hence: "What makes you think..."). Tough.
1. I prefer to stand up for myself than whine about the possible futility of any effort. I'm not afraid of disappointment, unlike yourself.
2. I hope to die before I live in a country where the government tells you the ruling figure is your grandfather. Ask my own father about how he cried as a teenager when Stalin died.
3. And hey people die anyway, might as well skip the part about throwing up every morning because of consequences of being a coward.
Perhaps have it finished before we end up having to rent Microsoft C++ 2005 because we ignored our customers. The only reason the PC is threatened by NCs is because we let Microsoft scare the hell out of new users. It is really our own fault.
Ahem... The Server, Workstation, or Custom installations.
It hink Debian will do a better job a bout it. Since they allow you to pick a purpose for the computer, you can then know precisely what not to install.
Imagine that... A user asks not what his/her/its/their computer can do, but ask what he/she/it/they want to do with his/her/its/their computer.
This looks like a job for SLASHDOT... Seriously...
Either the graph is backwards or journalismology, the study of hype and fluff in published science, is prevaling here.
Actually it's worse rarity IS VERTICAL NOT HORIZONTAL.
Put differently however...
We should have two statistics:
One for situations where there's a constant change that affects the system and indirectly itself.
Use the new curve here.
For example: Number of hours of studying and test scores.
Small to high shouldn't be too steep in the beginning, but if you study for a very long time, there should be a quick drop because you don't actually understand the material and are attempting to memorise it.
Which proves something I've known for a while: Computer Newbies Are Not Stupid. Give them some information and they get better. Spoonfeed them and they're helpless!
The old curve should still apply to where a hundred rocks land if dropped from a height. There's no interaction between the objects themselves.
As for the obviousness, BLAME IT ON NETWORK TV. All the mindnumbing leading brand detergent and pharmaceutical commercials are responsible for giving people a false sense of completion as far as statistical studies are concerned.
Sounds like someone fell for the Freedom of choice ads car dealers have been pushing lately, again.
Please show me how it stops competition programmers and business.
Closed Source is as ridiculous toward competitive efforts as Security through Obscurity.
One of the projects I'm working on constantly needs to be made incompatible, artificially low-yield and low-performance because of fucking pen and paper calculation patents.
There's plenty of COMPETING LINUX DISTROS, or haven't you noticed. I don't see too many COMPETING BSD DISTRIBUTIONS.
So, now that the advertising clause is gone, does this mean that FreeBSD can simply tack the GPL onto the existing license?
As a devout follower of GPL, I am ashamed at such a shallow suggestion. It's something only Micros~1 would do.
I see the BSD as a Title Deed. It really means that YOU pay or download to OWN Software.
However, that's like going au natureil in your own home on Main Street Anytown, Bible Belt USA. I have nothing against nudists, but that ain't the place to do it, because of the likelihood of being shot by a member of their local upright citizen's brigade.
I would however say that software is not a physical entity but an item that can be easily replaced. Therefore it should be distributed.
We need to make sure everyone clearly understands what the words open source, BSD, and Free Software mean AND the differences.
I for one do believe in protecting future generations' access to code no matter how easy or difficult it is to understand or create.
There's a lot of truth in saying that all hell breaks loose when a society runs out of possibilities not because it can't physically create anything, but because it stifles itself from being able to prosper.
And don't tell me it's easier to stifle information using the GPL. Puhlease.
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seems everyone agrees with playing out the melodrama of the Net-aware teen who doesn't go to school. If you've got drug pushers you run a raid then leave the place alone. What hypocrisy.
Sometimes I get the feeling every politician being somewhat socially conscious wants to be the director, writer, and producer of his/her own live soap opera.
Blow up Alaska to bring it into the economy. While I agree nuclear physics will in one way or another get us off this rock and maybe you'll really see what Alpha Centuari looks like- people used to think Venus was full of plant life and marvelous landscapes- I'm appalled that sensationalism is what still convinces some people that an item is useful. This inability to come with an elegant simple solution to a problem is disturbing. But of
/.. However, you can't empower people with science until you give them the access.
course that explains why there are more sub atomic particles than elements. Why we spend billions of dollars to find the tiniest thing that will confuse people enough to accept a theory for the next thousand years. Anybody who has ever studied complexity, sociology, and chaos theory would see a certain arbitrary man-made quality to the new zoology we know as particle physics.
Or that other crackpot science: Genetics. It isn't
the technology that bothers me as much as the people involved. From some of the things I hear them say, I can't help comparing geneticists to script-kiddies. I mean what is the Human Genome Project, but a worldwide port scan of human DNA?
Reminds me of the "I just wanna make some money with puters without learning a whole lot" sysadmins I run into sometimes.
In fact, it is the same high-technology enchantment that convinces him of salvation that is also the enchantment of those who would rather blow up people.
It's sad people can be so blinded by hype. So many believe that enrichment of the sciences means enrichment of people.
Now some people might say, "Let them read textbooks."
I'm not talking about talk-show addicted morons who can't bother to take a walk to the library. Nor am I saying that some minority is disadvantaged when it comes to computers. There was an article on that a few weeks ago on
Invention is only half of it. Science, technology, computers, the Internet, space... all these things are put out of reach of the average person. One day Reno's going to ban encryption. Another some newscaster is going to report on "virtual gangs" as if the Internet were the embodiment of evil.
The closest anyone ever gets to technology is becoming dependent on a product that their boss tells them to use because they won't ever search the net in fear that the word root bio in biotechnology will bring up some porn star's career profile. And worst of all Reno, the media, and Co. will tell you that technology is making the world a better place.
Reminds me of, "There were probably millions of shoes produced while half of Oceania went barefoot."
Blow up Alaska to bring it into the economy. While I agree nuclear physics will in one way or another get us off this rock and maybe you'll really see what Alpha Centuari looks like- people used to think Venus was full of plant life and marvelous landscapes- I'm appalled that sensationalism is what still convinces some people that an item is useful. This inability to come with an elegant simple solution to a problem is disturbing. But of course that explains why there are more sub atomic particles than elements. Why we spend billions of dollars to find the tiniest thing that will confuse people enough to accept a theory for the next thousand years. Anybody who has ever studied complexity, sociology, and chaos theory would see a certain arbitrary man-made quality to the new zoology we know as particle physics. Or that other crackpot science: Genetics. It isn't the technology that bothers me as much as the people involved. From some of the things I hear them say, I can't help comparing geneticists to script-kiddies. I mean what is the Human Genome Project, but a worldwide port scan of human DNA? Reminds me of the "I just wanna make some money with puters without learning a whole lot" sysadmins I run into sometimes. In fact, it is the same high-technology enchantment that convinces him of salvation that is also the enchantment of those who would rather blow up people. It's sad people can be so blinded by hype. So many believe that enrichment of the sciences means enrichment of people. Now some people might say, "Let them read textbooks." I'm not talking talk-show addicted morons who can't bother to take a walk to the library. Nor am I saying that some minority is disadvantaged when it comes to computers. There was an article on that a few weeks ago. However, you can't empower people with science until you give them the access. Invention is only half of it. Science, technology, computers, the Internet, space... all these things are put out of reach of the average person. One day Reno's going to ban encryption. Another some newscaster is going to report on "virtual gangs" as if the Internet were the embodiment of evil. The closest anyone ever gets to technology is becoming dependent on a product that their boss tells them to use because they won't ever search the net in fear that the word root bio in biotechnology will bring up some porn star's career profile. And worst of all Reno, the media, and Co. will tell you that technology is making the world a better place. Reminds me of, "There were probably millions of shoes produced while half of Oceania went barefoot."
And you have to admit, Linux is the OS of choice for 13 year old script kiddies. Neither OS is the OS of choice. Divide usage by publicity and the number is about the same for both. As for using phrases like Cracker's OS, puhlease... you call that journalism.
That's it except it's a BBS on Apache. No need to log onto the Internet to USE the Internet. Or just replace the damned thing. Slashdot for Newsgroups anyone?
Remember: You elected the people that are listening to your letters.
Not by a long shot. I had the pleasure of voting for the minority. It's all a matter of coincidence and timing.
I can't wait for the day that people can have an intelligent argument without resorting to name-calling.
I can't wait 'til people look around.
Ever hear the phrase, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"?
Boy, how original. Trite, my friend, trite. The commie's dead. Get over it. Of course you probably watched the search for his son's plane too, like a good American.
Frankly, the entire global MEDIA should be ashamed of that particular INVASION OF PRIVACY. So should most Americans. I actually had respect for him and Sen. Kennedy's attempt to handle the MEDIA and all you VOYEURS.
I'm sorry if my concepts have a little more depth than yours, I must be dangerous.
.It honestly sounds like most of you people would prefer that law enforcement have *no* ability to collect evidence. No wire-taps, no search warrants, no security cameras.
YES.
I don't think I have *ever* read a Slashdot article with this number of posts and NOT A SINGLE FACT OR STATISTIC backing ANY of your objections up. No numbers, no statistical trend showing the number of illegal or unnecessary wiretaps, nothing. You are all simply feeding on each other's fears and magnifying them to a horrible frenzy.
I do believe it has been covered quite well especially here and earlier articles. Besides what are statistics worth anyway. Sorry, but I don't want to live in your little Utopia. In the middle of NOWHERE.
I am also extremely displeased by the high degree of bias in these "Your Rights Online" pieces. The "author" bringing the stories to us also brings his editorial along, complete with conspiracy theories and the invariable "Big Brother" tie-in. To privacy activists, this is pure adrenalin, hence the high number of very vocal anti-government and anti-law-enforcement posts.
Like the bias of gov't talking about terrorists to scare the morons into a frenzy.
Now, before you folks unleash your fury on my "naive" and "ignorant" ass, let me just say that I obviously don't want to see these types of things abused, but we DO already have oversight in place to see that this doesn't happen. If you feel that judges are being "tricked" into allowing wiretaps, or that these judges are "in" on the conspiracy with the cops to violate your personal privacy for their own kicks, THIS is what you should be working to fight.
Ahem... people can't be in a million places at once. besides what are you suggesting? Should we bribe jufges to be good Americans.
Sounds like watching an old episode of Superman on one TV and McCarthy trials on the other.
Don't hinder law enforcement's abilities to conduct investigations in a LAWFUL and DISCRETE manner just because there exists the POSSIBILITY that these abilities will be misused.
It's their responsibility to prove guilt not mine. I like erring on the side of caution. Pun intended.
Do you folks think that people in charges of these law enforcement organizations and the people appointed to act as judge are all complete IDIOTS?
As an individual speaking for hisself, like a good individual should, I believe that given the BIAS of the Feds against the Internet, they don'tr use it often. They would quickly realize how futile their actions are.
I'm perfectly willing to concede the fact that a small number of these people are, in fact, stupid people, but that does *not* mean that these organizations are collectively out to ruin your lives and your privacy for their own kicks.
What the fuck! What is up with all this crap about privacy to avoid shame or snooping for kicks? Breaching privacy IS A LUCRATIVE business.
These people are fully aware that there are privacy activists out there that would have a field day if they fuck up, with a result of them being out of a job.
The same way basketball stars can continue to play after using drugs. Mind you I don't buy most drug charges, but there are rules to playing games.
PLEASE don't read and take things at face value.
I didn't. Pedophiles do not own the Internet.
THINK FOR YOURSELF and don't just jump on the frightened privacy bandwagon until you make an informed decision on your own.
Welcome back to the show... If you're just joining us, Hoover, Nixon, John "the common Pilgrim" Calvin, the Inquisition, Gulags, and Stalin were real people. It maybe hard to believe but they DID EXIST.
The government is NOT OUT TO GET YOU.
How do you know I'm not a criminal or a terrorist or a Jehovah's witness for Christ's sake? Oh YEAH NEWS FLASH Russia's after Jehovah's witnesses again. And no I'm not one. You call yourself informed? Moron.
If you don't like how your local law enforcement is behaving, you have two options: 1) Write a letter to your local government and media and express your concerns;
I do. It's like high school. Selective listening.
2) MOVE OUT.
China here I come. Or Oblivia. Who's in power there now?
You people need to be working *WITH* your government to address your concerns, not *AGAINST* them.
YEAH, sure. When Clinton puts some moron kid on stage for taking a violent game and showing it to his mother, I feel secure I'm being heard.
Besides... Completely denying the law enforcement agencies these monitoring tools is no more or less restrictive and comprimising than the lack of privacy issues you people are so worried about.
They're servicing me, not me them. Geez. wake up.
It isn't about restriction you idiot. It isn't abvout tallying up inconveniences to find out who's unfair. This isn't a juvenile game of keeping score.
It's about personal security. Why should I have to depend on the Feds. How can I possibly feel secure with my life in some other person's hands?
In the words of a spiritual leader I greatly respect, "I have achieved more by not being dependent on others. I have achieved nothing by aquiring others to do my work."
Privacy is a matter of respect. Any sign of an to consider me as less than an equal in terms of opportunity and as an individual I take as a THREAT.
Every collectivist totalitarian state uses fear and shame to bring people down.
Second the government is not above me. We are above government. And we and the government are below the law. Read the constitution again.
I expect some respect from my government. I'll say it again, I am not above the law. I am above the government.
Wake up.
If it helps society in some small way,
YOu're thepert tell me how. Fucking parrot. By the way YOU WANT TO CONTRIBUTE to this knee-jerk TV addicted self-destructive society?
And they're bored enough to listen to me...
Get out in the real world once in a while. Every state has laws against sexual behaviour of almost any kind... You'd probably be under house arrest by morning. They haven't been able to track people so closely until now.
Of course, maybe you need to see for yourself.
Think about it: In Canada a parent takes an innocent picture of their child running happily naked through the house and then gets arrested because the developer thought the picture erotic. Who's really the pedophile here? Hint: not the parent. I mean it's like calling perverts all those painters who painted the Madonna and children running around her.
Wake up. Please wake up. BIg Brother isn't the gov't. It's your next door neighbor.
not to give a damn.
That's what. Having immgrated from a Communist country where you lost your TEACHING job if YOU didn't join the PARTY, I'd be one to fight this.
Now I'm really sorry if bringing up the subject makes you feel guilty or annoys you (Hence: "What makes you think..."). Tough.
1. I prefer to stand up for myself than whine about the possible futility of any effort. I'm not afraid of disappointment, unlike yourself.
2. I hope to die before I live in a country where the government tells you the ruling figure is your grandfather. Ask my own father about how he cried as a teenager when Stalin died.
3. And hey people die anyway, might as well skip the part about throwing up every morning because of consequences of being a coward.
Support is another revenue engine that I won't deal with now...
Money for nothing...
The problem is that the Pc is still scary. We need to combat the the M$'$ easy way out machine.
I still think we need a computer manual.
it.
Apathy is for couch potatoes.
Get the crypto, Unix, build a business on it, and offer Net access to your employees without snooping.
Oh and forget about the damned office you don't need one.
I'd like to see these punks compete with that.
We need some positive reinforcement or something like that.
Perhaps have it finished before we end up having to rent Microsoft C++ 2005 because we ignored our customers. The only reason the PC is threatened by NCs is because we let Microsoft scare the hell out of new users. It is really our own fault.
Lawyers argue that pointing to the HOWTOs from one's book equates to collusion.
"People shouldn't be allowed to get together like that. It's unfair," a Wintel spokesperson said.
Ahem... The Server, Workstation, or Custom installations.
It hink Debian will do a better job a bout it. Since they allow you to pick a purpose for the computer, you can then know precisely what not to install.
Imagine that... A user asks not what his/her/its/their computer can do, but ask what he/she/it/they want to do with his/her/its/their computer.
Not worth it.
Speaking of Anonymous people... Nah.
Seriously...
They're not worth the effort. I use Linux, but even I don't buy the QNX fallout. And I loved Amigas in the old days.
It would be if you were measuring a system that interferes with itself.
This looks like a job for SLASHDOT...
Seriously...
Either the graph is backwards or journalismology, the study of hype and fluff in published science, is prevaling here.
Actually it's worse rarity IS VERTICAL NOT HORIZONTAL.
Put differently however...
We should have two statistics:
One for situations where there's a constant change that affects the system and indirectly itself.
Use the new curve here.
For example: Number of hours of studying and test scores.
Small to high shouldn't be too steep in the beginning, but if you study for a very long time, there should be a quick drop because you don't actually understand the material and are attempting to memorise it.
Which proves something I've known for a while:
Computer Newbies Are Not Stupid. Give them some information and they get better. Spoonfeed them and they're helpless!
The old curve should still apply to where a hundred rocks land if dropped from a height. There's no interaction between the objects themselves.
As for the obviousness, BLAME IT ON NETWORK TV. All the mindnumbing leading brand detergent and pharmaceutical commercials are responsible for giving people a false sense of completion as far as statistical studies are concerned.
My take on it is DUH! or 32DOHS.wav.
Sounds like someone fell for the Freedom of choice ads car dealers have been pushing lately, again.
Please show me how it stops competition programmers and business.
Closed Source is as ridiculous toward competitive efforts as Security through Obscurity.
One of the projects I'm working on constantly needs to be made incompatible, artificially low-yield and low-performance because of fucking pen and paper calculation patents.
There's plenty of COMPETING LINUX DISTROS, or haven't you noticed. I don't see too many COMPETING BSD DISTRIBUTIONS.
So, now that the advertising clause is gone, does this mean that FreeBSD can simply tack the GPL onto the existing license?
As a devout follower of GPL, I am ashamed at such a shallow suggestion. It's something only Micros~1 would do.
I see the BSD as a Title Deed. It really means that YOU pay or download to OWN Software.
However, that's like going au natureil in your own home on Main Street Anytown, Bible Belt USA.
I have nothing against nudists, but that ain't the place to do it, because of the likelihood of being shot by a member of their local upright citizen's brigade.
I would however say that software is not a physical entity but an item that can be easily replaced. Therefore it should be distributed.
We need to make sure everyone clearly understands what the words open source, BSD, and Free Software mean AND the differences.
I for one do believe in protecting future generations' access to code no matter how easy or difficult it is to understand or create.
There's a lot of truth in saying that all hell breaks loose when a society runs out of possibilities not because it can't physically create anything, but because it stifles itself from being able to prosper.
And don't tell me it's easier to stifle information using the GPL. Puhlease.