Most simple solution of all: #4 Forbid political advertisements in any form
Extremely radical and tough to enforce, but that would leave only discussion and content.
Re:Why stop looking at some arbitrary point?
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Why isn't this guy/gal modded up? Because the post cuts right into the heart of discussed book: Democrats fighting the superiorly organised Republican machine through net-roots? Whatever they do, it's going to be fighting the symptoms, not the causes, of everything that's not going right in the US of A. And that's the 2-party system that caters to money.
The whole political encouragement/empowerment system that's currently in place favors money, and the larger the sum the better. Money, and looking slightly better than the other side. Because both parties have become quagmired in the quest for money (money equates campaign funds, and hey, while you're at it, why not help yourself for your hard work?), compromising and sacrificing more and more on their path. Republicans for slimmer central government? Not really; cutting programs costs them elections. Democrats doing better in terms of social justice? Anyone taking a stand on fighting wars for oil? HA.
The thing that wins elections is campaign funds. Whatever either party promises, it will be what they think the majority wants to hear. The real difference is in terms of which company pledges to whom. Right now Republicans score better in terms of being blatant enough about giving tax-cuts and benefits to the campaign-financiers, with Democrats scrambling to save the 'ruins of their party'.
That it's a problem for America that there is a 2-party system with an entrenched political elite was recognised 150 years ago. Yet the system is still in place, acerbated by being more firmly entrenched in plutarchic politics than ever.
I don't want to hear how the 'good guys can win from the bad guys', I want to hear a way of breaking out of this mess. The current system is obviously not sustainable, while several countries seem to manage a lot better corruption-wise with a multi-party system. That, to me, is a lot more interesting than mere battle-tactics.
Re:Right and left are false dichotomies
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Err..dems to the left? If you're standing in Europe, democrats come across right wing, and republicans extremist right-wing. How about having some semi-sane party in power, or someone like the Greens?
Re:A bit inaccurate...
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Funny you should say that. Mafia can be seen as an alternate form of government; a direct competitor to 'official' government so you will. They have their own hierarchy, forms of organisation, and benefits. Many organised criminal gangs the world over offer protection from crime to locals in return for a certain form of taxation (such as cooperation with the main source of income).
Large-scale criminal organisations often actively compete with government over being sole authority over right and wrong in a region. A certain mafia-esque crime organisation in Northern Italy offered/offers insurance in case of injury/death while working, and regular payrolls for it's 'civil servants'.
Funny, Eastern European companies used to be the ones excelling at writing viruses as well.:)
(And indeed, some of the viruswriters have gone off to form their own anti-virus companies)
Actually that's bollocks. Government incentives are as much part of fascism, communism, communitarianism, interventionism, paternalism, and (right-wing) protectionalism as it is of socialism. In fact, it only isn't part of pure liberalism (aka libertarianism in the US).
You're abusing the word socialism, like everyone else using the word, since it has no single clear-cut use any more (due to previous abuses).
It makes you wonder what the release-titles of the PS3 will be like, if they didn't have a decent compiler untill now. And 'the PS3 is due out in 2006.'
This is worrying indeed. Google sued..Google lost stock value (1.9 % out of 5.2% risen this year). This means that by defying the DoJ, they're hurting their stockvalue. A public company has the obligation to maximise value to their stockholders, which means it's directly against Google's interest to defy the DoJ. So ironically while this might be the idealistic course of action for Google, and perhaps the trade-secret aspect can be defended, from a buisness perspective Google will be encouraged not to repeat performance in the future if the trade-secret aspect *can't* be defended.
If you're looking at porn on the internet, then you're either doing it with full knowledge of your circumstances, someone has subverted your computer, or you're doing foolish image searches.
If it had a touch screen ala the DS, it could emulate the mouse, and suddenly you could play Starcraft via WINE on a handheld (/very wishfull thinking).
Wow, that took me back a bit in time. I sure do remember McAfee missing half the infections of a particular TravellerJack virus. But also how almost none of the big vendors knew how to remove the Form-virus from my bootsector. None, except...MSAV. Aka Microsoft Anti-Virus, which was huuuuugely outdated on my DOS 6.2 install.
What if we encrypted our virus with a random encryption, and only the decrypter could be scanned for? Well, if we did that, we'd be doing what viruswriters were doing late eighties/early nineties. What ever came of it? Anti-virus writers outsmarted the viruswriters, by actually scanning for the decoding pieces or patterns in the code that indicated certain types of encryption.
Now we're slightly further down the road, and we moved from encrypted to oligomorphic (weak polymorphism) to polymorhpic to metamorphic code. Metamorphic code is code that completely changes from generation to generation (read up on the MetaPHOR virus and metamorphism for more details). And yet..anti-virus writers still manage to detect these (with great difficulty however), and have been for quite a while. Metamorphic viruses are incredibly complex however, so you won't see them in the wild often because they're hard to create, and there's hardly any niche for viruses any more. Either your malware is a worm that understands open ports and/or mailing itself to others, or it's a internet-unaware virus that remains stuck on the hard disk.
Grand-grand-parent's post thus adds little to the discussion. What he speaks of is 1.5 decennia old, and has NOTHING to do with the current article: a well-known anti-virus vendor allowing malicious code-execution through a buffer-overflow. Mods: please mod his pointlessly bolded post 'overrated'. A '5' is dissapointingly high for this geek crowd.
A friend of mine has built a server by nailing all the components onto a simple piece of wooden plank. The server is also called 'plank'. He said: "Who needs a metal case anyway?". So we replied: "Those that care about electromagnetism damaging our components."
Return of the virusses that activate when scanned over. Last time this happened was in..what? The eighties? I always wondered how it was possible for code to become active when scanned over, but now that I do, I really have to frown at this.
The majority of Americans don't like extremists--and they HATE poor losers.
This is exactly how the Republicans win: they claim victory before anyone else and before results are in, then call the other side 'poor losers' when they attest it.
Now you're assuming the French haven't got highly comparable anti-discrimination laws in place...which they do. And still there's the same institutional racism as in the US. This is not a problem that will suddenly dissapear with the right laws in place. Au contraire.
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Not to mention they used the NES version of Bard's Tale. The Amiga version and the PC version had better looking graphics.
Ok, so maybe the PC version had EGA colours, who needs colours anyway?
Most simple solution of all:
#4 Forbid political advertisements in any form
Extremely radical and tough to enforce, but that would leave only discussion and content.
Why isn't this guy/gal modded up? Because the post cuts right into the heart of discussed book: Democrats fighting the superiorly organised Republican machine through net-roots? Whatever they do, it's going to be fighting the symptoms, not the causes, of everything that's not going right in the US of A. And that's the 2-party system that caters to money.
The whole political encouragement/empowerment system that's currently in place favors money, and the larger the sum the better. Money, and looking slightly better than the other side. Because both parties have become quagmired in the quest for money (money equates campaign funds, and hey, while you're at it, why not help yourself for your hard work?), compromising and sacrificing more and more on their path. Republicans for slimmer central government? Not really; cutting programs costs them elections. Democrats doing better in terms of social justice? Anyone taking a stand on fighting wars for oil? HA.
The thing that wins elections is campaign funds. Whatever either party promises, it will be what they think the majority wants to hear. The real difference is in terms of which company pledges to whom. Right now Republicans score better in terms of being blatant enough about giving tax-cuts and benefits to the campaign-financiers, with Democrats scrambling to save the 'ruins of their party'.
That it's a problem for America that there is a 2-party system with an entrenched political elite was recognised 150 years ago. Yet the system is still in place, acerbated by being more firmly entrenched in plutarchic politics than ever.
I don't want to hear how the 'good guys can win from the bad guys', I want to hear a way of breaking out of this mess. The current system is obviously not sustainable, while several countries seem to manage a lot better corruption-wise with a multi-party system. That, to me, is a lot more interesting than mere battle-tactics.
Err..dems to the left? If you're standing in Europe, democrats come across right wing, and republicans extremist right-wing. How about having some semi-sane party in power, or someone like the Greens?
Funny you should say that. Mafia can be seen as an alternate form of government; a direct competitor to 'official' government so you will. They have their own hierarchy, forms of organisation, and benefits. Many organised criminal gangs the world over offer protection from crime to locals in return for a certain form of taxation (such as cooperation with the main source of income).
Large-scale criminal organisations often actively compete with government over being sole authority over right and wrong in a region. A certain mafia-esque crime organisation in Northern Italy offered/offers insurance in case of injury/death while working, and regular payrolls for it's 'civil servants'.
Funny, Eastern European companies used to be the ones excelling at writing viruses as well. :)
(And indeed, some of the viruswriters have gone off to form their own anti-virus companies)
Actually, to be pedantic, the way he states it is 'people think x is y, but z is y.'
If I were a US voter, I'd start making efforts to ensure third parties stand a realistic chance in the near future.
Oh who am I kidding, I'd relocate to another country.
Actually that's bollocks. Government incentives are as much part of fascism, communism, communitarianism, interventionism, paternalism, and (right-wing) protectionalism as it is of socialism. In fact, it only isn't part of pure liberalism (aka libertarianism in the US).
You're abusing the word socialism, like everyone else using the word, since it has no single clear-cut use any more (due to previous abuses).
Indeed it is. Amazing so more haven't spotted the flash vid yet. (Now taken down btw)
It makes you wonder what the release-titles of the PS3 will be like, if they didn't have a decent compiler untill now. And 'the PS3 is due out in 2006.'
What's worse? The mere use of the word blogging in this context.
This is worrying indeed. Google sued..Google lost stock value (1.9 % out of 5.2% risen this year). This means that by defying the DoJ, they're hurting their stockvalue. A public company has the obligation to maximise value to their stockholders, which means it's directly against Google's interest to defy the DoJ. So ironically while this might be the idealistic course of action for Google, and perhaps the trade-secret aspect can be defended, from a buisness perspective Google will be encouraged not to repeat performance in the future if the trade-secret aspect *can't* be defended.
If you're looking at porn on the internet, then you're either doing it with full knowledge of your circumstances, someone has subverted your computer, or you're doing foolish image searches.
..or you did a random search query on Altavista.
If it had a touch screen ala the DS, it could emulate the mouse, and suddenly you could play Starcraft via WINE on a handheld (/very wishfull thinking).
I'd buy one then.
Wow, that took me back a bit in time. I sure do remember McAfee missing half the infections of a particular TravellerJack virus. But also how almost none of the big vendors knew how to remove the Form-virus from my bootsector. None, except...MSAV. Aka Microsoft Anti-Virus, which was huuuuugely outdated on my DOS 6.2 install.
What if we encrypted our virus with a random encryption, and only the decrypter could be scanned for? Well, if we did that, we'd be doing what viruswriters were doing late eighties/early nineties. What ever came of it? Anti-virus writers outsmarted the viruswriters, by actually scanning for the decoding pieces or patterns in the code that indicated certain types of encryption.
Now we're slightly further down the road, and we moved from encrypted to oligomorphic (weak polymorphism) to polymorhpic to metamorphic code. Metamorphic code is code that completely changes from generation to generation (read up on the MetaPHOR virus and metamorphism for more details). And yet..anti-virus writers still manage to detect these (with great difficulty however), and have been for quite a while. Metamorphic viruses are incredibly complex however, so you won't see them in the wild often because they're hard to create, and there's hardly any niche for viruses any more. Either your malware is a worm that understands open ports and/or mailing itself to others, or it's a internet-unaware virus that remains stuck on the hard disk.
Grand-grand-parent's post thus adds little to the discussion. What he speaks of is 1.5 decennia old, and has NOTHING to do with the current article: a well-known anti-virus vendor allowing malicious code-execution through a buffer-overflow. Mods: please mod his pointlessly bolded post 'overrated'. A '5' is dissapointingly high for this geek crowd.
A friend of mine has built a server by nailing all the components onto a simple piece of wooden plank. The server is also called 'plank'. He said: "Who needs a metal case anyway?". So we replied: "Those that care about electromagnetism damaging our components."
So now he has chicken-mesh over it.
Return of the virusses that activate when scanned over. Last time this happened was in..what? The eighties? I always wondered how it was possible for code to become active when scanned over, but now that I do, I really have to frown at this.
P2P file sharing is the right thing to do...it's socialist.
You know the shortest way to sort out this whole Diebold mess is to actually temper with the machines in certain states.
:)
And make the Libertarians win the next election in those states, followed closely by the Green Party.
Wanna see how fast the system will be fixed then by both Republicans and Democrats?
The majority of Americans don't like extremists--and they HATE poor losers.
This is exactly how the Republicans win: they claim victory before anyone else and before results are in, then call the other side 'poor losers' when they attest it.Now you're assuming the French haven't got highly comparable anti-discrimination laws in place...which they do. And still there's the same institutional racism as in the US. This is not a problem that will suddenly dissapear with the right laws in place. Au contraire.
Ah, now that actually makes a lot of sense. Interesting similarities btw.
Wish I had modpoints :D