Hello? Did you read GP post? He said a Middle Easterner is more likely to be a terrorist than you are.
What I think he is implying is that the majority of recent terrorist attacks were done by Middle Eastern men. Just because there have been several white terrorists, it is far outweighed by the hundereds of Middle Eastern terrorists.
Keep the common sense alive, brother!
I think you're the one that needs to keep common sense alive. But hey, if you don't mind getting your taxes hiked to pay for tens of thousands more airport staff (to thoughroughly check each person) then go lobby for it. But before that happens don't expect racial profiling to go away.
Sorry, but I'm just wondering, how are the airport authorites suppose to know that your friend is "chill"? Look, I know that I'm going to get modded as troll for this, but people really gotta wake up and smell the not-so-politically-correct coffee. Why do you think police often stop black males? It's called statistics. Statistically speaking most of the terrorist attacks recently have been conducted by Mideastern males. What do you want the police to do? What would you do? Stop everyone just to be politically correct? Sorry but people really don't have those kind of resources.
Wow, nice to see someone stand up for the USA. It gets kind of irritating to constantly see US bashing here on Slashdot (with rarely any backing to their bogus criticism). Thanks.
Disclaimer: I am Canadian but have a lot of respect for the US.
I really don't get it. All of the "average" users that I spoke to don't even know what a USB port is. You think they give a shit what Operating System they are running? All they want is a web browser and an email client. Pretty simple. The power users will have to deal with config files, shells, ect but the majority of users will just use their system for browsing the web and reading emails.
Also, IMHO a big misconception is that people get "confused" when they have a choice. There are hundreds of car models and dozens that can serve the same purpose. But do you see people being confused by having a choice between Dodge Caravan, Toyota Sienna, etc? No, they pick them for their looks and price as well as features. So show them Gnome and KDE and let them choose. Why is choice considered such a bad thing?
Yeah I just wish that more portable music players would support Ogg. I have a Creative Muvo TX-FM player which does not support Ogg. Furthermore, I went searching for a player that does support Ogg but was disappointed with what I found. Does anyone know of any good music players that support Ogg?
Hmm my only concern is that the article seems to point out that:
CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper explained that the ruling did not represent a new position on terrorism, but was meant to emphasize that the US Muslim community rejects terrorism and extremism. Hooper said the fatwa was prompted by the July bombings in London.... the fatwa was particularly "authoritative", as it was the first time Muslim religious scholars in the US had issued such a ruling based on the teachings of the Koran.
So, my only concern is why is this the "first time that Muslim religious scholars in the US had issued such a ruling based on the teachings of the Koran". I mean why wasn't this issued after the 9/11 attacks? 2,752 people died while the London bombings where 53+.
While I don't think that US deserves better treatment than the UK I am just wondering why a fatwa wasn't issued a long time ago. Look at constant terrorist attacks in Iraq!
P.S. If there were fatwa issued before hand then I apologized as the article did not mention this.
I think the real reason why Japan does not allow immigrants in is for safety concerns. While I'm not trying to be racists, countries that are "multicultural" tend to have higher crime rates. Take a look at this. As you can see:
In 1990 larceny formed 65.1 percent of the total crimes with negligent homicide or injury as 26.2 percent of crimes. Although Japan has far fewer people than the U.S., comparisons are still possible. Japan has aground 1.3 robberies per 100,000 people. By comparison, the U.S. has 233 per 100,000 people (England has 65.8 and West Germany 48.6).
The Japanese murder rate is about 1.1 per 100,000 people; West German has a rate of 3.9, Britain a rate of 9.1, and the U.S. 8.7 per 100,000 people.
No one ever got elected by saving money. This saved money will only be spent elsewhere.
I just wanted to expand on that by saying that governments are quite inefficient (as everyone already knows). The thing is each department has a budget and in order to insure that next year that department will a similar amount each department spends just a little more than they were given. Even though that money _could_ be used elsewhere and for better causes these people end up blowing the money off on upgrades and software which they don't need.
I work at a hospital in Toronto, Canada and even though they keep complaining that money is an issue we are planning on upgrading to Windows XP Pro (from Windows 2000) and Office 2003 (from Office XP). There was a previous article up on/. about how most businesses have not upgraded from 2000 and lots of good discussion about how there really is no need. However, these "strapped for cash" hospitals decide that they need to upgrade all of their machines (even though we just recently finished upgrading to 2000). The sad thing is that they didn't _even_ consider any alternatives (Linux, OS X, OpenOffice). We are finally making some strides by using Plone for our Intranet and BEE for our Business Intelligence Management software, both of which are Open Source, but the fact still stands that they blow money off like crazy.
So what's my point? Well nothing really, just wanted to take some frustration out about how inefficient government is.
Well Linux is hard to set up, but so is Windows. Would you expect the average computer user to know how to install Windows?
The point here is that if Dell configured the computer for you then it would be a lot easier for the average user. If everything is configured already, the user gets a box that "Just Works". It has all the software they would probably ever need and so they never have to bother installing anything.
MS Office opens up faster because Windows preloads Office libraries into the RAM. Thus, at work, Word opens up in 2-3 seconds while OpenOffice.org can take about 10 seconds.
The real test is to have all the libraries cleaned from the RAM and then run the test.
The problem with being general is you're not going to be employable when you get out of University. And you can always teach general stuff to yourself (ie, read Science articles or watch Discovery channel). The key to a good career, IMHO, is a nice specialist degree. For example, in my University we have several specialist programs in CS as well as a "Comprehensive Option" which is basically a lot of math with some CS and other courses. A well rounded degree.
IMHO (and in friend's who are interviewers at their software companies), this is the most useless degree you can get because, as those people who were hiring said, they didn't know anything about computers. They knew math, but how does that land you a CS job? Thats why I suggest the Software Engineering Specialist (which I'm taking), since it's focus on CS and you have a nice grasp of the subject when you get the degree.
The point is, you should not get a degree in CS if you like Math, go get a Math degree. But if your going for CS and hope to land yourself a job then you should specialize in one field or another but you definately shouldn't take a general course.
As far as I know (from Chinese friends) the written language in China is Vernacular Chinese (or just Chinese) and Cantonese is a spoke language (and only one of many in China, however it seems to be a popular one even though the official language is Mandarin). You see in China they have the same written language but different pronunciations (think Jamaican (patwan) and American) depending on the region. So my friend from one region can't understand another one who speaks in Cantonese (and came from Hong Kong).
The current figures from Netcraft match quite nicely with the Google figures. The current Netcraft figures show Apache at 68.43% and IIS at 20.86%.
So statistically speaking if you take a sample via the search engines you should expect to get results that are similar to Netcraft's. But doing a sample with MSN Search you get a bias toward IIS, thats what this is about.
Excellent point! Also the amount of waste generated by nuclear power plants is tiny compared to other forms of power generation (ie coal and such). To quote from here:
In 1997, in the 20 countries which account for most of the world's nuclear power generation, spent fuel storage capacity at the reactors was 148,000 tonnes, with 59% of this utilised. Away-from-reactor storage capacity was 78,000 tonnes, with 44% utilised. Annual arisings are about 12,000 tonnes. Final disposal is therefore not urgent.
That means in general for most of the world in 1997 we had 121,640 tonnes of nuclear waste. That's like what? 50 or so years of operation! Come on, even the article states that "Final disposal is therefore not urgent." So we don't have to worry about it yet while with coal we do (ie just pump it into the atmosphere). So in general I think that nuclear power is our best possible solution right now and we should put more money into developing pebble bed reactors to alleviate any concern of melt downs.
Add an effecient system that deals with moving hazards off the road quickly
Sadly I've seen many times when there was no hazard on the road at all. The whole accident happened in the other lane and I was still sitting in huge traffic jam because guess what? People were slowing down to look at the accident (this has happened many times). I think cities should make an "accident news" channel and websites where people can go and look at all of the accidents that happened with lots of pictures so they don't slow down to look at it while driving!
Once I was driving and there was an accident between a bus and a taxi cab (nothing serious) and it was in the center lane. So I'm driving and all of the sudden the guy in front of me hits the brakes! so he can look at the accident! He caught me off guard but I was able to stop. Seriously, this is a big problem and should be incorperated into the solution.
I think it's out of principle. I think Microsoft would rather get sued and pay a lot of money then use an Open Source picture formats. It was a wonder that they are actually going to support PNG in IE7 (but this is probably due to a lots of demand by web designers). But in general M$ would like to stay as far away from the Open Source "communists".
Thats why I use the Shredder. It comes with KGpg and essentially wipes out the file completely. And then again, a hacker really isn't going to go to that much effort. Even if you don't have a Shredder tool it's better than leaving the bloody plain text file on your desktop! (Furthermore, as far as I know when you rm something in Linux it's gone forever so no problem there, but I use the Shredder just in case)
That "Info Display Panel" thing looks exactly like whats been around on KDE and GNOME for at least a year (most likely a lot longer) via karamba (for KDE not sure what it's called for GNOME). Here are somelinks
Second mistake, telling a user to put their passwords in a plaintext file on the desktop.
I agree. But there is an easy work around. I keep all my passwords in plain text as well but I encrypt the text file via KGpg which has a 4096 bit length key using the DSA & ElGamal algo, so I feel pretty secure with it. If I need to view the file or modify it I just unecrypt it with one super secure password and viola, no need to memorize any other passwords. Also, no doubt there are similar encrypting tools for Windows as well.
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What I think he is implying is that the majority of recent terrorist attacks were done by Middle Eastern men. Just because there have been several white terrorists, it is far outweighed by the hundereds of Middle Eastern terrorists.
Keep the common sense alive, brother!
I think you're the one that needs to keep common sense alive. But hey, if you don't mind getting your taxes hiked to pay for tens of thousands more airport staff (to thoughroughly check each person) then go lobby for it. But before that happens don't expect racial profiling to go away.
Sorry, but I'm just wondering, how are the airport authorites suppose to know that your friend is "chill"? Look, I know that I'm going to get modded as troll for this, but people really gotta wake up and smell the not-so-politically-correct coffee. Why do you think police often stop black males? It's called statistics. Statistically speaking most of the terrorist attacks recently have been conducted by Mideastern males. What do you want the police to do? What would you do? Stop everyone just to be politically correct? Sorry but people really don't have those kind of resources.
Wow, nice to see someone stand up for the USA. It gets kind of irritating to constantly see US bashing here on Slashdot (with rarely any backing to their bogus criticism). Thanks.
Disclaimer: I am Canadian but have a lot of respect for the US.
I really don't get it. All of the "average" users that I spoke to don't even know what a USB port is. You think they give a shit what Operating System they are running? All they want is a web browser and an email client. Pretty simple. The power users will have to deal with config files, shells, ect but the majority of users will just use their system for browsing the web and reading emails.
Also, IMHO a big misconception is that people get "confused" when they have a choice. There are hundreds of car models and dozens that can serve the same purpose. But do you see people being confused by having a choice between Dodge Caravan, Toyota Sienna, etc? No, they pick them for their looks and price as well as features. So show them Gnome and KDE and let them choose. Why is choice considered such a bad thing?
Yeah I just wish that more portable music players would support Ogg. I have a Creative Muvo TX-FM player which does not support Ogg. Furthermore, I went searching for a player that does support Ogg but was disappointed with what I found. Does anyone know of any good music players that support Ogg?
IMHO it would be much better to just read the terrorists mind then interrogating him/her (as interrogation is never pleasant and takes a long time!).
Hmm my only concern is that the article seems to point out that:
CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper explained that the ruling did not represent a new position on terrorism, but was meant to emphasize that the US Muslim community rejects terrorism and extremism. Hooper said the fatwa was prompted by the July bombings in London.... the fatwa was particularly "authoritative", as it was the first time Muslim religious scholars in the US had issued such a ruling based on the teachings of the Koran.
So, my only concern is why is this the "first time that Muslim religious scholars in the US had issued such a ruling based on the teachings of the Koran". I mean why wasn't this issued after the 9/11 attacks? 2,752 people died while the London bombings where 53+.
While I don't think that US deserves better treatment than the UK I am just wondering why a fatwa wasn't issued a long time ago. Look at constant terrorist attacks in Iraq!
P.S. If there were fatwa issued before hand then I apologized as the article did not mention this.
I think the real reason why Japan does not allow immigrants in is for safety concerns. While I'm not trying to be racists, countries that are "multicultural" tend to have higher crime rates. Take a look at this. As you can see:
In 1990 larceny formed 65.1 percent of the total crimes with negligent homicide or injury as 26.2 percent of crimes. Although Japan has far fewer people than the U.S., comparisons are still possible. Japan has aground 1.3 robberies per 100,000 people. By comparison, the U.S. has 233 per 100,000 people (England has 65.8 and West Germany 48.6).
The Japanese murder rate is about 1.1 per 100,000 people; West German has a rate of 3.9, Britain a rate of 9.1, and the U.S. 8.7 per 100,000 people.
I just wanted to expand on that by saying that governments are quite inefficient (as everyone already knows). The thing is each department has a budget and in order to insure that next year that department will a similar amount each department spends just a little more than they were given. Even though that money _could_ be used elsewhere and for better causes these people end up blowing the money off on upgrades and software which they don't need.
I work at a hospital in Toronto, Canada and even though they keep complaining that money is an issue we are planning on upgrading to Windows XP Pro (from Windows 2000) and Office 2003 (from Office XP). There was a previous article up on /. about how most businesses have not upgraded from 2000 and lots of good discussion about how there really is no need. However, these "strapped for cash" hospitals decide that they need to upgrade all of their machines (even though we just recently finished upgrading to 2000). The sad thing is that they didn't _even_ consider any alternatives (Linux, OS X, OpenOffice). We are finally making some strides by using Plone for our Intranet and BEE for our Business Intelligence Management software, both of which are Open Source, but the fact still stands that they blow money off like crazy.
So what's my point? Well nothing really, just wanted to take some frustration out about how inefficient government is.
The point here is that if Dell configured the computer for you then it would be a lot easier for the average user. If everything is configured already, the user gets a box that "Just Works". It has all the software they would probably ever need and so they never have to bother installing anything.
The real test is to have all the libraries cleaned from the RAM and then run the test.
What bugs me is the fact that there is no news about the fix coming out so soon. It seems that news agencies are just giving Firefox a bad image.
IMHO (and in friend's who are interviewers at their software companies), this is the most useless degree you can get because, as those people who were hiring said, they didn't know anything about computers. They knew math, but how does that land you a CS job? Thats why I suggest the Software Engineering Specialist (which I'm taking), since it's focus on CS and you have a nice grasp of the subject when you get the degree.
The point is, you should not get a degree in CS if you like Math, go get a Math degree. But if your going for CS and hope to land yourself a job then you should specialize in one field or another but you definately shouldn't take a general course.
more on Chinese.
Yeah same here. Aren't they a website _supporting_ Firefox?
The current figures from Netcraft match quite nicely with the Google figures. The current Netcraft figures show Apache at 68.43% and IIS at 20.86%.
So statistically speaking if you take a sample via the search engines you should expect to get results that are similar to Netcraft's. But doing a sample with MSN Search you get a bias toward IIS, thats what this is about.
I propose we make an army of penguin robots!
PS. Please give me some Karma :P :(
I got modded as Troll for making a joke
In 1997, in the 20 countries which account for most of the world's nuclear power generation, spent fuel storage capacity at the reactors was 148,000 tonnes, with 59% of this utilised. Away-from-reactor storage capacity was 78,000 tonnes, with 44% utilised. Annual arisings are about 12,000 tonnes. Final disposal is therefore not urgent.
That means in general for most of the world in 1997 we had 121,640 tonnes of nuclear waste. That's like what? 50 or so years of operation! Come on, even the article states that "Final disposal is therefore not urgent." So we don't have to worry about it yet while with coal we do (ie just pump it into the atmosphere). So in general I think that nuclear power is our best possible solution right now and we should put more money into developing pebble bed reactors to alleviate any concern of melt downs.
Sadly I've seen many times when there was no hazard on the road at all. The whole accident happened in the other lane and I was still sitting in huge traffic jam because guess what? People were slowing down to look at the accident (this has happened many times). I think cities should make an "accident news" channel and websites where people can go and look at all of the accidents that happened with lots of pictures so they don't slow down to look at it while driving!
Once I was driving and there was an accident between a bus and a taxi cab (nothing serious) and it was in the center lane. So I'm driving and all of the sudden the guy in front of me hits the brakes! so he can look at the accident! He caught me off guard but I was able to stop. Seriously, this is a big problem and should be incorperated into the solution.
I think it's out of principle. I think Microsoft would rather get sued and pay a lot of money then use an Open Source picture formats. It was a wonder that they are actually going to support PNG in IE7 (but this is probably due to a lots of demand by web designers). But in general M$ would like to stay as far away from the Open Source "communists".
Harley-Davidson is an order of magnitude older than 10 years.
I think he was refering to this
Thats why I use the Shredder. It comes with KGpg and essentially wipes out the file completely. And then again, a hacker really isn't going to go to that much effort. Even if you don't have a Shredder tool it's better than leaving the bloody plain text file on your desktop! (Furthermore, as far as I know when you rm something in Linux it's gone forever so no problem there, but I use the Shredder just in case)
That "Info Display Panel" thing looks exactly like whats been around on KDE and GNOME for at least a year (most likely a lot longer) via karamba (for KDE not sure what it's called for GNOME). Here are some links
I agree. But there is an easy work around. I keep all my passwords in plain text as well but I encrypt the text file via KGpg which has a 4096 bit length key using the DSA & ElGamal algo, so I feel pretty secure with it. If I need to view the file or modify it I just unecrypt it with one super secure password and viola, no need to memorize any other passwords. Also, no doubt there are similar encrypting tools for Windows as well.