The interesting thing about attempt to train a replacement is sometimes the replacement has no interest in the technology. They're working for the money. So training them properly becomes nearly impossible. And when they eventually do replace me it will no longer be my problem.:)
I think at this point it will take a revolution. Perhaps a new country will emerge that is based on real freedom, perhaps one that is not even based on capitalism or money at all.
If such a place exists, people will flock to it like no other. If it can take care of those people it could very easily use their talents to improve its environment and create an economy that makes us Americans look like we sit at work browsing the web for 12 hours a day.
Freedom is a very powerful motivator. And so is a loving and a nurturing environment. But here we'll trade it all for money.
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What is interesting and what scares me is if groups of people like the NRA did not exist, I bet our 2nd amendment rights would be taken away.
What does that mean for America?
That we're dumb, IMO. We don't understand what we're doing here. Its like our founding fathers, our parents, who knew what was up, died and left us nothing but a worthless constitution written on hemp.
So naturally we make Cannabis illegal. Just brilliant.
Yeah, no other Windows virus ever had this kind of publicity. Well, except that SQL worm, and code red, and...
It happens every week. Why don't you just set a cron job to automaticly update and reboot your systems before you come into the office? I did this once years ago for a cluster of NT 4 systems, because we couldn't trust them to be stable for more than a day. Told them to email a script when they came back online, so we wouldn't be paged, etc. Computers are smart animals, when trained properly.
I agree and I think our judges don't understand the power they hold. If justice were truely blind then all laws would be required to be in compliance with the constitution, or immediately tossed out. The DMCA, for example, would not exist today. Or anything that takes away our freedom to possess objects, because possession hurts noone and is not a crime. In fact our constitution and our founders stated very clearly that we all must have the right to possess weapons. WMDs? It doesn't say, it just says we all have the right. Now, today, we seem to be shrugging this off like it was written by some loony who didn't understand our way of life.
That's because our way of life has changed. It is now the republican way of life, where everyone is free as long as they don't do drugs or write certain types of software or..
What I want to know is can I sue SCO for fraudulent claims against my Linux installations? And how much can I sue them for? Should I attempt in small claims court? When? *grin*
The cool thing about ogg, and most technology today, is you don't need industry acceptance to use it today. I set my dad down with a Linux box, grip, ogg and his CD collection last year and wrote a quick script so he can burn his own mix CDs directly from ogg files. Its not perfect, but he's very happy with it.
This year I get to show him how to do the same thing with dvdrip, ogm and his DVD collection.
In a way I feel more secure knowing most people still use mp3s and avis. He won't have any problems using these formats, but he won't have to deal with the typical industry BS.
Anyone remember DAT? How about Beta-Max? How do you think they are related?
I don't need anyone who wants to take technology away from me or force DRM, encryption, macrovision, copyrights, patents and royalties down my throat. And neither does my dad.
I guess to get around this we kinda need to create a list of "friends" or people who don't abuse the service. You know, honest people who care about things other than money.
Another way to do this is for each user check to see how they are voting compared to the other votes for that site. If they are consitently opposite the public reaction then they are most likely some sort of troll. Also limiting the number of times someone can submit feedback could cut down on abuses. Thresholds 'n stuff.
I don't know a single good reason to give a private corporation control over the methods used to conduct democratic elections.
Its the capitalist way. A few corporations will make the world a better place. All capitalists know this. It will just take time for all the competing mom & pop shops to die off so we can have our monopolies and be in a position to do some real good for the people this time. We really mean it this time. Trust in your friendly monopoly. They love you(r money).
There will always be a human counting and managing the software or the paper. And I don't trust that human. So no matter how much we spend trying to create a fair voting that we can all trust. It will never be trustworthy, ever. I don't care if you have a paper trail, I'll never get to look through to see my vote.
What I want is an ongoing voting system. A voting system that makes use of modern technology like the internet and calculus. If every person could connect to voterrighthere.gov or whatever to look at their vote and modify it any time they choose during the year, then perhaps we could get closer to a fair and balanced system. But that would still require that the backend tally up the votes properly, which we'd still have no proof on its accuracy.
They counted all those votes in Florida, but how acurate do you think that count was? Not any better than an electronic system. Human error is why we can't even vote properly.
Humans fuck everything up. Capitalism is a perfect system if we honest hard-working good people running it. But the people we have running it don't care about their employees, they care about money and their share holders. So our greedy human nature has a way of destroying capitalism. Same thing with communism. You know what the real problem is? We think its okay to join groups like the Republicans or the Democrates or the Chirstians. These groups cause the problems because they carry more power than the individual and use that power at the whim of their leader. "Your either with us or against us".
So if you belong to a group, you just might be a Nazi.
But how do we fix this system? We don't. We'll go on building new voting systems, creating new laws, telling people the system works. All the while we watch it sink slowly into the ocean, until we finally realize that we're just dumb. We had the oportunity to fix it if we could only settle our differences for enough time to open the proper discussion with intelligent people and put it on National TV. But that would cost too much. The US elections have never been based very much on debate or real issues. We just want it to continue with the status quo, whatever that means.
I bet a country of 200 people and a computer with internet access could fix their voting system in a couple weeks. But our country with our billions and tons of technology will never be able to fix it because we forgot how to communicate. But don't worry, your parental government will make everything better.
Have faith in the government.
I dunno. I'm just sick of it all. I wish we were responsible and free enough not to need a parental government. I wish we could stop being children, just this once, for something as important as this.
After reading this I think its obvious that it does. Money is so important Americans, who still profess their freedom to this day, were willing to make it illegal to possess gold. How fucked up is that? Very.
But almost nobody will admit that we really don't need money to make the world go around. What we need is computers to organize all this "money" which is really just a reciept for our labor. Make things efficient, work together and organize your labor, and you'll never need money or commercialism or overtime. In fact most people don't even really need to work, which is why they can't find jobs. They only need money because we won't give them anything for free.
So if there is so much surplus, wtf do we need money for? To keep some people rich. That's the only explanation I can think of. I mean, if we didn't possess the knowledge of computerized industrial automation, then yeah, maybe most people would need to work. But today? With modern technology?
How much money does it cost to manage money, researching technology to prevent theft or counterfeiting? How about how much money it costs just to manage all your currency, print it out, make sure everyone knows its value, etc, etc, etc. And you what? The value of stock and the stock market is based almost entirely on its popularity. If people like it, want it, willing to pay for it, it goes up, like SCO. If they think it'll tank the pull their money out and make it tank, like the tech ecnomy within the US post CNN/Fox's DotComCrash reports. Its all a fucking illusion.
But don't listen to me, go on and spend the rest of your life counting coins. I don't care.
So true. Divide and conquer. Use media, like slashdot, to dumb down the audience and separate them on irrelevant issues until progress grinds to a halt.
I think its about time for me to stop reading the news.
smells like a successful attack due to careless configuration and insecure architecture
Or like Acxiom pushed this data purposefully out to an insecure ftp server with a weak username and password as their security to be "hacked" by someone who wanted that info. Maybe they wanted him to have it, or carry it to some buyer, and gave them the password in some under the table deal..
But for all I know its the government going after a known hacker with planted evidence or whatever. I mean, who can you trust these days?
'less' and 'more' are shell programs that display data one page at a time, instead of scrolling through all of it at once. When someone want to read a text file one line or page at a time they can easily use 'more', but for certain things 'less' is better.
Anyway, when in the shell they can be used like this:
prompt$ ps ax | more prompt$ more/var/log/messages prompt$ dmesg | less prompt$ less/etc/passwd prompt$ lsmod | more prompt$ lspci -v | less prompt$ clear ; echo And that\'s basicly it | more
How about access to ALL the content, no commercials. $50/mo
I'd be willing to pay for something like that. But when I have to pay TW $50/mo and Disney $50/mo and Sony $50/mo, etc. It adds up quickly and becomes less valuable than, say, owning the DVDs.
We haven't even begun to discuss the problems with broadband based distribution and streaming vs. DRM. They should give me access to download the whole MPEG4. Perhaps allocate me storage space, like 50GB for $50/mo, on my own system, encrypted so I can't copy the data, but allow me to control the content I store there. Like a Tivo.
Still, I'd rather have the DVDs so I can put the content on my network and view it anywhere. That's the whole point of going digital, isn't it?
Are you affraid of what might put your network at risk? Then let me help you be affraid:
If you know nothing about networks your network could be at risk of:
bent fiber bent copper bent pins unseated memory old equipment unlocked network closets lazy admins stupid users uneducated management sun spots anything everything
Get the point?
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I wonder how many of them even read the law before voting on it.
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One question for you: did you look at his website?
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So I guess a group of people who bear arms can no longer peaceably assemble in this country with all our political correctness.
Last I checked bombs didn't cause terrorism and were also used by our peacekeeping forces to kill innocent civilians. In fact we killed more innocent civialians than the terrorists, if that's even possible. Seems rather hypocritical to keep calling them terrorists in light of recent events.
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The interesting thing about attempt to train a replacement is sometimes the replacement has no interest in the technology. They're working for the money. So training them properly becomes nearly impossible. And when they eventually do replace me it will no longer be my problem. :)
I don't like working for the man anyway.
I think at this point it will take a revolution. Perhaps a new country will emerge that is based on real freedom, perhaps one that is not even based on capitalism or money at all.
If such a place exists, people will flock to it like no other. If it can take care of those people it could very easily use their talents to improve its environment and create an economy that makes us Americans look like we sit at work browsing the web for 12 hours a day.
Freedom is a very powerful motivator. And so is a loving and a nurturing environment. But here we'll trade it all for money.
What is interesting and what scares me is if groups of people like the NRA did not exist, I bet our 2nd amendment rights would be taken away.
What does that mean for America?
That we're dumb, IMO. We don't understand what we're doing here. Its like our founding fathers, our parents, who knew what was up, died and left us nothing but a worthless constitution written on hemp.
So naturally we make Cannabis illegal. Just brilliant.
Yeah, no other Windows virus ever had this kind of publicity. Well, except that SQL worm, and code red, and ...
It happens every week. Why don't you just set a cron job to automaticly update and reboot your systems before you come into the office? I did this once years ago for a cluster of NT 4 systems, because we couldn't trust them to be stable for more than a day. Told them to email a script when they came back online, so we wouldn't be paged, etc. Computers are smart animals, when trained properly.
I agree and I think our judges don't understand the power they hold. If justice were truely blind then all laws would be required to be in compliance with the constitution, or immediately tossed out. The DMCA, for example, would not exist today. Or anything that takes away our freedom to possess objects, because possession hurts noone and is not a crime. In fact our constitution and our founders stated very clearly that we all must have the right to possess weapons. WMDs? It doesn't say, it just says we all have the right. Now, today, we seem to be shrugging this off like it was written by some loony who didn't understand our way of life.
That's because our way of life has changed. It is now the republican way of life, where everyone is free as long as they don't do drugs or write certain types of software or..
What I want to know is can I sue SCO for fraudulent claims against my Linux installations? And how much can I sue them for? Should I attempt in small claims court? When? *grin*
The cool thing about ogg, and most technology today, is you don't need industry acceptance to use it today. I set my dad down with a Linux box, grip, ogg and his CD collection last year and wrote a quick script so he can burn his own mix CDs directly from ogg files. Its not perfect, but he's very happy with it.
This year I get to show him how to do the same thing with dvdrip, ogm and his DVD collection.
In a way I feel more secure knowing most people still use mp3s and avis. He won't have any problems using these formats, but he won't have to deal with the typical industry BS.
Anyone remember DAT? How about Beta-Max? How do you think they are related?
I don't need anyone who wants to take technology away from me or force DRM, encryption, macrovision, copyrights, patents and royalties down my throat. And neither does my dad.
I guess to get around this we kinda need to create a list of "friends" or people who don't abuse the service. You know, honest people who care about things other than money.
Another way to do this is for each user check to see how they are voting compared to the other votes for that site. If they are consitently opposite the public reaction then they are most likely some sort of troll. Also limiting the number of times someone can submit feedback could cut down on abuses. Thresholds 'n stuff.
I don't know a single good reason to give a private corporation control over the methods used to conduct democratic elections.
Its the capitalist way. A few corporations will make the world a better place. All capitalists know this. It will just take time for all the competing mom & pop shops to die off so we can have our monopolies and be in a position to do some real good for the people this time. We really mean it this time. Trust in your friendly monopoly. They love you(r money).
It doesn't matter.
There will always be a human counting and managing the software or the paper. And I don't trust that human. So no matter how much we spend trying to create a fair voting that we can all trust. It will never be trustworthy, ever. I don't care if you have a paper trail, I'll never get to look through to see my vote.
What I want is an ongoing voting system. A voting system that makes use of modern technology like the internet and calculus. If every person could connect to voterrighthere.gov or whatever to look at their vote and modify it any time they choose during the year, then perhaps we could get closer to a fair and balanced system. But that would still require that the backend tally up the votes properly, which we'd still have no proof on its accuracy.
They counted all those votes in Florida, but how acurate do you think that count was? Not any better than an electronic system. Human error is why we can't even vote properly.
Humans fuck everything up. Capitalism is a perfect system if we honest hard-working good people running it. But the people we have running it don't care about their employees, they care about money and their share holders. So our greedy human nature has a way of destroying capitalism. Same thing with communism. You know what the real problem is? We think its okay to join groups like the Republicans or the Democrates or the Chirstians. These groups cause the problems because they carry more power than the individual and use that power at the whim of their leader. "Your either with us or against us".
So if you belong to a group, you just might be a Nazi.
But how do we fix this system? We don't. We'll go on building new voting systems, creating new laws, telling people the system works. All the while we watch it sink slowly into the ocean, until we finally realize that we're just dumb. We had the oportunity to fix it if we could only settle our differences for enough time to open the proper discussion with intelligent people and put it on National TV. But that would cost too much. The US elections have never been based very much on debate or real issues. We just want it to continue with the status quo, whatever that means.
I bet a country of 200 people and a computer with internet access could fix their voting system in a couple weeks. But our country with our billions and tons of technology will never be able to fix it because we forgot how to communicate. But don't worry, your parental government will make everything better.
Have faith in the government.
I dunno. I'm just sick of it all. I wish we were responsible and free enough not to need a parental government. I wish we could stop being children, just this once, for something as important as this.
Does plastic money grow on plastic trees?
After reading this I think its obvious that it does. Money is so important Americans, who still profess their freedom to this day, were willing to make it illegal to possess gold. How fucked up is that? Very.
But almost nobody will admit that we really don't need money to make the world go around. What we need is computers to organize all this "money" which is really just a reciept for our labor. Make things efficient, work together and organize your labor, and you'll never need money or commercialism or overtime. In fact most people don't even really need to work, which is why they can't find jobs. They only need money because we won't give them anything for free.
So if there is so much surplus, wtf do we need money for? To keep some people rich. That's the only explanation I can think of. I mean, if we didn't possess the knowledge of computerized industrial automation, then yeah, maybe most people would need to work. But today? With modern technology?
How much money does it cost to manage money, researching technology to prevent theft or counterfeiting? How about how much money it costs just to manage all your currency, print it out, make sure everyone knows its value, etc, etc, etc. And you what? The value of stock and the stock market is based almost entirely on its popularity. If people like it, want it, willing to pay for it, it goes up, like SCO. If they think it'll tank the pull their money out and make it tank, like the tech ecnomy within the US post CNN/Fox's DotComCrash reports. Its all a fucking illusion.
But don't listen to me, go on and spend the rest of your life counting coins. I don't care.
So true. Divide and conquer. Use media, like slashdot, to dumb down the audience and separate them on irrelevant issues until progress grinds to a halt.
I think its about time for me to stop reading the news.
smells like a successful attack due to careless configuration and insecure architecture
Or like Acxiom pushed this data purposefully out to an insecure ftp server with a weak username and password as their security to be "hacked" by someone who wanted that info. Maybe they wanted him to have it, or carry it to some buyer, and gave them the password in some under the table deal..
But for all I know its the government going after a known hacker with planted evidence or whatever. I mean, who can you trust these days?
Any Mom & Pop shop that heard of RedHat would be less clueless than Fry's about Linux.
Anyway, when in the shell they can be used like this:
IBM kicks ass!!!
How many 900 pound gorillas do you got on your side?
How about access to ALL the content, no commercials. $50/mo
I'd be willing to pay for something like that. But when I have to pay TW $50/mo and Disney $50/mo and Sony $50/mo, etc. It adds up quickly and becomes less valuable than, say, owning the DVDs.
We haven't even begun to discuss the problems with broadband based distribution and streaming vs. DRM. They should give me access to download the whole MPEG4. Perhaps allocate me storage space, like 50GB for $50/mo, on my own system, encrypted so I can't copy the data, but allow me to control the content I store there. Like a Tivo.
Still, I'd rather have the DVDs so I can put the content on my network and view it anywhere. That's the whole point of going digital, isn't it?
Huh. I wonder how close this is to that AMD alchemy au1100 chip.
Are you affraid of what might put your network at risk? Then let me help you be affraid:
If you know nothing about networks your network could be at risk of:
bent fiber
bent copper
bent pins
unseated memory
old equipment
unlocked network closets
lazy admins
stupid users
uneducated management
sun spots
anything
everything
Get the point?
I wonder how many of them even read the law before voting on it.
One question for you: did you look at his website?
Yeah, that's it.
Pass more laws. That'll make us free.
So I guess a group of people who bear arms can no longer peaceably assemble in this country with all our political correctness.
Last I checked bombs didn't cause terrorism and were also used by our peacekeeping forces to kill innocent civilians. In fact we killed more innocent civialians than the terrorists, if that's even possible. Seems rather hypocritical to keep calling them terrorists in light of recent events.
By golly, you're right. Microsoft is cheaper when you look at it that way. And probably better for you, too.
But we still hate 'em right?
Who? Disney or Adobe?