Why don't we give all the innocent afghani people those li'l paper cell phones and have them call us whenever they encounter a muslim terrorist plotting to hurt people or blow up shit. Then we can pinpoint their call and bomb the hell out of that place, or... maybe police-like action with hum-Vs and full-auto swat teams, kinda like the DEA, but for terrorists instead of potheads.:)
Perhaps. But on a much more simple note. The FBI was already informed by the CIA that these were suspected terrorists. And the terrorists used their real names on their plane tickets. A system that merely matched those names with the names of suspects in an FBI database would have saved those lives. This is not another simple 'technology saves all' answer. We are dealing with a country filled with incompetent people being ruled by incompetence. Our government has neither the technical capability nor the free-thinking and creative attitude that would be required to fight terrorism on a technical level. Terrorists will always be smarter than our system and they will always be able to find holes we did not cover. Remember we live in a country that thinks security guards are only worth $6/hr while most of those exec that died tuesday were each worth ~ $200-500/hr. And those exec did NOTHING to help prevent this from happening.
I think we should instead be focussing our effort on preventing our government from creating such terrorists in the future. That is the only way to create a safe america. Anything less will push us further down this road to chaos and mass destruction and DEATH!!! I'm rooting for death, btw, cuz American's is stupid!
Computers could easily search through and locate data for any individual once they have collected that data. Since most forms of data storage today are random access, meaning you can jump to the specific piece of info you are looking for almost instantaneously, they could process the millions of emails over the web, correlate that data with the video files that contain images of you, cross reference that with any audio from phone calls or public microphones or private listening devices and a quick check with your bank records. It has been confirmed. You are an unreligious gay hacker / drug user / potential terrorist. Arrest that man!
Why does it take face recognition to catch suspected criminals that fly under their own names? Perhaps our government needs to work on communication before they take this next step towards a police state.
Our president was elected, not by the people, but by our government who decided not to count the public vote. RMS is merely reminding us of that fact. A majority of the population did not vote for Bush and did NOT vote for bush to take us into WWIII.
"The only instance I'm aware of where we (alledgedly) killed innocent civilians"
I have to disagree with this point. I know very little about how much political or military action we have taken in the middle east. I know a little about our government's financial support of the taliban's WOD while our government knew of the unhumanitarian actions of the taliban (yellow arm bands, etc.). And I know our government has funded many countries' militaries to help them fight a "common enemy" like iran or iraq or russia, etc. If Osama Bin Laden is guilty for his associates crashing planes into the pentagon and WTC then we are just as guilty for the destruction done by our military support for any country, including the helpless women and children that died. Now I would like to see some real numbers of the innocent victims of both Bin Laden's actions and ours. I would bet the US has killed or helped kill more people than Bin Laden could ever fathom. But God loves this country. So go kick ass and KILL EVERYONE YOU CAN!!! God Bless You.
I think we should not be focussing on who to attack at the moment and get our facts straight. If we tie this directly to one organisation or country then fine, let the missles fly. However, this could be an internal assult. It could very easily be americans that hijacked that plane and crashed them into the WTC and pentagon. Why those two targets. What significance do those targets have? I know the WTC had an attempted bombing a few years ago. What was the reason for the attempt at that time?
I'm mostly just curious about this and less concerned with revenge until it makes sense.
Well, if Broadcast 2000 has a license that excludes them from such liability then no matter how much they get sued for they should be able to turn around and sue for damages. And the law suit would most likely fail since they are NOT liable for the actions of their users. I can't see how writing software that is capable of editting digital video can be illegal, even with the DMCA as the law of the land.
I find it quite ironic and a li'l funny how our government sends in the FBI whenever they hear a report of someone breaking the DMCA. But for any other offense they could care less. And I guess I kinda agree with them in a way. A world full of fun loving happy people would really suck.
Could we just start with cameras in EVERY government facility, court room, congress, military, etc? Like they'd ever go for that. However, I am shocked they don't allow cameras in all court rooms as it is. I thought justice was supposed to be blind. Except when it smell money, eh?
But in the end all of this spying, over analyzing, and destruction of privacy is just going to make people crazy. They won't have anywhere to go to be themselves without worrying about breaking a law they didn't vote for or stepping on someone's toes. Why can't we just expect everyone to behave responsibly, like adults, when they are in public and respect their privacy (at all times), instead of turning the world into a child-safe playground o commercialism and irresponsibility. If anyone caught driving under the influence lost their license permanently, and their car if caught driving w/o a license, then they wouldn't drink and drive, or at least they wouldn't drive. Its a privelege that's too valuable for most of us to give up for a few drinks.
But our laws are too weak, punishment not harsh enough, and its so much easier to punish everyone than screen out the bad ones. Hell, maybe we should just make it illegal to ingest anything that has not been classified as an acceptable food source by our government. It should be illegal to smoke cigs or drink alcohol or eat wild mushrooms or garden vegetables. It should be illegal to talk to someone without their permission or to drive without all the proper identification, registration and licensing present when you enter your vehicle. In fact you should have to pay a monthly fee to have this privelege of driving, where your car asks for your credit card instead of your key. We all need to be monitored while we are shopping and working and playing at the park. We need to pad those big metal light poles so people don't get hurt when they run into them (or at least educate people so they know it'll hurt them if they run into a big metal pole). We should force parents to take tests before having children, to insure they won't kill their offspring or eat them or anything. We need guidance because we can't think for ourselves. Please help us oh mighty government. You know what's best.
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Why don't we just execute everyone with a DUI so we don't have to deal with them again?
Well, think for a minute about MS's customers. They know MS is corrupt, hell everybody does, they know MS is going to attempt to outmaneuver them, they know MS's licensing is extremely strict. They've known this for years. I assume they all have the desire to THUMP Microsoft. But the thing is these companies just don't "get it". The only way to really beat microsoft at its own game is to change the rules of the game. The free software movement has recognized this, hell look at the market share linux is gaining every year. But these customers of MS, Dell, IBM, HP, etc. (Compaq is dead, YAY!) all play by the same rules MS is playing by. They don't know how to play a new game or change the rules (in other words their management is hella dumb). They are diehard capitalists doing everything they can to make money. If they cared more about their products and weren't so affraid of not being the next Microsoft they wouldn't be playing along with the software giant and would probably pull the wind out of its sails. IBM is the only company that I think understands this a bit, but its still happy to license M$ products.
Just imagine what would happen if Dell, IBM and HP started pushing Linux and advertising to the country that M$ products are substandard. Over even better yet changed their hardware to not be supported by M$. That would force microsoft to work hard to maintain dominance for the PC desktop, something they don't even need to try at now. But this is all a pipe dream. I have no faith in any company standing up for itself. They're all just a big bunch of expensive sheep.
It'll only play MS PC games or games by companies that license MS's rights to use the XBox as a game platform. And then only while you, the consumer, pays those monthly registration and update fees. Oh how I love Microsoft and AOL. They make it so easy to spot the stupid people.
If you disable the ignition it would make it difficult to drive until you were sober. Thus avoiding the DUI and hefty fines to your local government of choice. We don't make these things to help you, but rather to help us take your money and get you off the road.
If the image is copyrighted, MS is breaking the DMCA just by decoding and recreating the image. It has been encrypted by being encoded into an image file, if the copyright holder says so (remember ROT13 is a popular encryption method under the DMCA). And the FBI would be happy to arrest anyone for you on the suspicion that they break the DMCA.
So are you saying that MIT holds patents on things that make it impossible to reimplement digital TV without breaking one of MIT's patents? See, I always thought that patents were not about limitting competition but protecting research funding, etc. Sony should be able to create some sort of digital TV implementation that does not infringe on MIT's patents. I would love to see more detailed information about exactly which patents and what hardware Sony is infringing with. Remember you are not supposed to be able to patent ideas, only products, and these types of bogus patents (like the one click amazon patent) don't really count in my book, and maybe in Sony's as well.
Heh, your probably right, but I'd like to think they were a good news source at one time. It seems like they just throw out flame-starting material a lot more than they used to, since the VA takeover. I wonder if it is to get more readers or posts. Their numbers seem to have dropped as well over the last 6 months.
Me too. All because I read slashdot (and didn't have the time to research this Trident thing, but thought it was important all the same). I hope the slashdot writers take note of these comments. Or I might have to start limitting myself to their unverified propoganda. I remember back in the day when slashdot used to have good meaningful articles that didn't try to send thousands of geek emails after the man, everyday, but instead informed us of real news. At least there are a few other sites that still do this. Maybe slashdot will grow up. Probably not.
I don't know, but I'm going to wait for the Windows 2000 Advanced Server Limited Edition GT, with the dual ported kernel and side pipes. Maybe they'll throw in a free floor mat, too. I want a red one with a white convertible top and... *drool*
Uh... okay, Microsoft software is nothing to drool over until it lobotomizes you, I know.
B-But that's not fair. SGI used to own Cray and had 64-bit stuff since I started working in this field 5 years ago. In fact, they had 64-bit, 128 processor systems in '98, possibly earlier, that were totally modular. You could build a dual processor Deskside Onyx 2 into a reality monster, a 16 to 64 processor server ( 4 refrigerator sized boxes that used a 10-baseT network just to let the processors sync with eachother ) with quad graphics pipes pushing 80 million textured polys per second with mass I/O bandwidth ( ATM, fiber, gigabit, you name it ) and several terabytes of storage space. And not just those little quake polys either. Now with an uber cray metarouter they have 512P systems on Irix 6.5.whatever... Too bad their systems were so expensive and not quite as stable as Suns. But I'm proud to have worked for them seeing all they've done for Linux and open source software. I really hope their IA64 stuff takes off. Great company!
This is very cool. Insentive to help out. I'll try to take a look at some of ximians software starting next week, but I'm not at all optimistic. The last time I looked at ximian software they wanted me to download the gnome source from gnome.org and wouldn't support distributions like slackware. I'll see what I can do and try to include this in the distribution I'm currently working on, if all goes well maybe I'll even find a bug.
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So, what's the GFLOPS rating of a dual 1.2 Athlon MP?
Microsoft does open source software, too. I guess that makes them an open source company as well, right? And since their an open source company they must be playing fair.
We pay these marketting departments millions every year. Why is it so hard for the AMD marketting department to market their products when their products are actually superior to Intel's? But hey, consumers never needed to know how fast their processors were running anyway. Hell, why do we even let them have the root password?
I buy AMD processors because I do not like Intel, as a company. If AMD is going to start these types of tricks, which make it harder for me to determine what clock speed my processor is running at (this is important to me, in case you don't understand) then I might as well buy the cheapest part for the performance rating. If Intel lowers their prices enough I'll switch back since AMD doesn't appear to be very loyal to their current customers.
I mean what are they going to do next? Include unique IDs for their chips or lock the speed of the processor so I can't overclock them? Oh wait...
Its true the clock speed of the processor doesn't matter in real world benchmarks. But honestly, most americans don't even know what the clock speed means. They probably would never use the power of these processors. And most likely they'll buy a system because of its price, not the clock speed. But the clock speed of the processor is important to me because I need to know if it is running optimally. I'm not real upset about the multiplier locking or difficulty in overclocking, since technology doubles every 8-12 months and processors are much cheaper than they used to be. But please don't take away the information I find useful. Don't make me find an alternative. I'm your customer. Are you listenning? Hello?
Sure wish Sun would give something back to the community instead of just take, take, take and act as if they're an open source company when asked. They want to be the next microsoft, but don't have management competent enough to do that.
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Why don't we give all the innocent afghani people those li'l paper cell phones and have them call us whenever they encounter a muslim terrorist plotting to hurt people or blow up shit. Then we can pinpoint their call and bomb the hell out of that place, or... maybe police-like action with hum-Vs and full-auto swat teams, kinda like the DEA, but for terrorists instead of potheads. :)
Perhaps. But on a much more simple note. The FBI was already informed by the CIA that these were suspected terrorists. And the terrorists used their real names on their plane tickets. A system that merely matched those names with the names of suspects in an FBI database would have saved those lives. This is not another simple 'technology saves all' answer. We are dealing with a country filled with incompetent people being ruled by incompetence. Our government has neither the technical capability nor the free-thinking and creative attitude that would be required to fight terrorism on a technical level. Terrorists will always be smarter than our system and they will always be able to find holes we did not cover. Remember we live in a country that thinks security guards are only worth $6/hr while most of those exec that died tuesday were each worth ~ $200-500/hr. And those exec did NOTHING to help prevent this from happening.
I think we should instead be focussing our effort on preventing our government from creating such terrorists in the future. That is the only way to create a safe america. Anything less will push us further down this road to chaos and mass destruction and DEATH!!! I'm rooting for death, btw, cuz American's is stupid!
Computers could easily search through and locate data for any individual once they have collected that data. Since most forms of data storage today are random access, meaning you can jump to the specific piece of info you are looking for almost instantaneously, they could process the millions of emails over the web, correlate that data with the video files that contain images of you, cross reference that with any audio from phone calls or public microphones or private listening devices and a quick check with your bank records. It has been confirmed. You are an unreligious gay hacker / drug user / potential terrorist. Arrest that man!
Why does it take face recognition to catch suspected criminals that fly under their own names? Perhaps our government needs to work on communication before they take this next step towards a police state.
Our president was elected, not by the people, but by our government who decided not to count the public vote. RMS is merely reminding us of that fact. A majority of the population did not vote for Bush and did NOT vote for bush to take us into WWIII.
I have to disagree with this point. I know very little about how much political or military action we have taken in the middle east. I know a little about our government's financial support of the taliban's WOD while our government knew of the unhumanitarian actions of the taliban (yellow arm bands, etc.). And I know our government has funded many countries' militaries to help them fight a "common enemy" like iran or iraq or russia, etc. If Osama Bin Laden is guilty for his associates crashing planes into the pentagon and WTC then we are just as guilty for the destruction done by our military support for any country, including the helpless women and children that died. Now I would like to see some real numbers of the innocent victims of both Bin Laden's actions and ours. I would bet the US has killed or helped kill more people than Bin Laden could ever fathom. But God loves this country. So go kick ass and KILL EVERYONE YOU CAN!!! God Bless You.
I think we should not be focussing on who to attack at the moment and get our facts straight. If we tie this directly to one organisation or country then fine, let the missles fly. However, this could be an internal assult. It could very easily be americans that hijacked that plane and crashed them into the WTC and pentagon. Why those two targets. What significance do those targets have? I know the WTC had an attempted bombing a few years ago. What was the reason for the attempt at that time?
I'm mostly just curious about this and less concerned with revenge until it makes sense.
Well, if Broadcast 2000 has a license that excludes them from such liability then no matter how much they get sued for they should be able to turn around and sue for damages. And the law suit would most likely fail since they are NOT liable for the actions of their users. I can't see how writing software that is capable of editting digital video can be illegal, even with the DMCA as the law of the land.
I find it quite ironic and a li'l funny how our government sends in the FBI whenever they hear a report of someone breaking the DMCA. But for any other offense they could care less. And I guess I kinda agree with them in a way. A world full of fun loving happy people would really suck.
Could we just start with cameras in EVERY government facility, court room, congress, military, etc? Like they'd ever go for that. However, I am shocked they don't allow cameras in all court rooms as it is. I thought justice was supposed to be blind. Except when it smell money, eh?
But in the end all of this spying, over analyzing, and destruction of privacy is just going to make people crazy. They won't have anywhere to go to be themselves without worrying about breaking a law they didn't vote for or stepping on someone's toes. Why can't we just expect everyone to behave responsibly, like adults, when they are in public and respect their privacy (at all times), instead of turning the world into a child-safe playground o commercialism and irresponsibility. If anyone caught driving under the influence lost their license permanently, and their car if caught driving w/o a license, then they wouldn't drink and drive, or at least they wouldn't drive. Its a privelege that's too valuable for most of us to give up for a few drinks.
But our laws are too weak, punishment not harsh enough, and its so much easier to punish everyone than screen out the bad ones. Hell, maybe we should just make it illegal to ingest anything that has not been classified as an acceptable food source by our government. It should be illegal to smoke cigs or drink alcohol or eat wild mushrooms or garden vegetables. It should be illegal to talk to someone without their permission or to drive without all the proper identification, registration and licensing present when you enter your vehicle. In fact you should have to pay a monthly fee to have this privelege of driving, where your car asks for your credit card instead of your key. We all need to be monitored while we are shopping and working and playing at the park. We need to pad those big metal light poles so people don't get hurt when they run into them (or at least educate people so they know it'll hurt them if they run into a big metal pole). We should force parents to take tests before having children, to insure they won't kill their offspring or eat them or anything. We need guidance because we can't think for ourselves. Please help us oh mighty government. You know what's best.
Why don't we just execute everyone with a DUI so we don't have to deal with them again?
Well, think for a minute about MS's customers. They know MS is corrupt, hell everybody does, they know MS is going to attempt to outmaneuver them, they know MS's licensing is extremely strict. They've known this for years. I assume they all have the desire to THUMP Microsoft. But the thing is these companies just don't "get it". The only way to really beat microsoft at its own game is to change the rules of the game. The free software movement has recognized this, hell look at the market share linux is gaining every year. But these customers of MS, Dell, IBM, HP, etc. (Compaq is dead, YAY!) all play by the same rules MS is playing by. They don't know how to play a new game or change the rules (in other words their management is hella dumb). They are diehard capitalists doing everything they can to make money. If they cared more about their products and weren't so affraid of not being the next Microsoft they wouldn't be playing along with the software giant and would probably pull the wind out of its sails. IBM is the only company that I think understands this a bit, but its still happy to license M$ products.
Just imagine what would happen if Dell, IBM and HP started pushing Linux and advertising to the country that M$ products are substandard. Over even better yet changed their hardware to not be supported by M$. That would force microsoft to work hard to maintain dominance for the PC desktop, something they don't even need to try at now. But this is all a pipe dream. I have no faith in any company standing up for itself. They're all just a big bunch of expensive sheep.
It'll only play MS PC games or games by companies that license MS's rights to use the XBox as a game platform. And then only while you, the consumer, pays those monthly registration and update fees. Oh how I love Microsoft and AOL. They make it so easy to spot the stupid people.
If you disable the ignition it would make it difficult to drive until you were sober. Thus avoiding the DUI and hefty fines to your local government of choice. We don't make these things to help you, but rather to help us take your money and get you off the road.
If the image is copyrighted, MS is breaking the DMCA just by decoding and recreating the image. It has been encrypted by being encoded into an image file, if the copyright holder says so (remember ROT13 is a popular encryption method under the DMCA). And the FBI would be happy to arrest anyone for you on the suspicion that they break the DMCA.
So are you saying that MIT holds patents on things that make it impossible to reimplement digital TV without breaking one of MIT's patents? See, I always thought that patents were not about limitting competition but protecting research funding, etc. Sony should be able to create some sort of digital TV implementation that does not infringe on MIT's patents. I would love to see more detailed information about exactly which patents and what hardware Sony is infringing with. Remember you are not supposed to be able to patent ideas, only products, and these types of bogus patents (like the one click amazon patent) don't really count in my book, and maybe in Sony's as well.
Heh, your probably right, but I'd like to think they were a good news source at one time. It seems like they just throw out flame-starting material a lot more than they used to, since the VA takeover. I wonder if it is to get more readers or posts. Their numbers seem to have dropped as well over the last 6 months.
Me too. All because I read slashdot (and didn't have the time to research this Trident thing, but thought it was important all the same). I hope the slashdot writers take note of these comments. Or I might have to start limitting myself to their unverified propoganda. I remember back in the day when slashdot used to have good meaningful articles that didn't try to send thousands of geek emails after the man, everyday, but instead informed us of real news. At least there are a few other sites that still do this. Maybe slashdot will grow up. Probably not.
I don't know, but I'm going to wait for the Windows 2000 Advanced Server Limited Edition GT, with the dual ported kernel and side pipes. Maybe they'll throw in a free floor mat, too. I want a red one with a white convertible top and... *drool*
Uh... okay, Microsoft software is nothing to drool over until it lobotomizes you, I know.
B-But that's not fair. SGI used to own Cray and had 64-bit stuff since I started working in this field 5 years ago. In fact, they had 64-bit, 128 processor systems in '98, possibly earlier, that were totally modular. You could build a dual processor Deskside Onyx 2 into a reality monster, a 16 to 64 processor server ( 4 refrigerator sized boxes that used a 10-baseT network just to let the processors sync with eachother ) with quad graphics pipes pushing 80 million textured polys per second with mass I/O bandwidth ( ATM, fiber, gigabit, you name it ) and several terabytes of storage space. And not just those little quake polys either. Now with an uber cray metarouter they have 512P systems on Irix 6.5.whatever... Too bad their systems were so expensive and not quite as stable as Suns. But I'm proud to have worked for them seeing all they've done for Linux and open source software. I really hope their IA64 stuff takes off. Great company!
This is very cool. Insentive to help out. I'll try to take a look at some of ximians software starting next week, but I'm not at all optimistic. The last time I looked at ximian software they wanted me to download the gnome source from gnome.org and wouldn't support distributions like slackware. I'll see what I can do and try to include this in the distribution I'm currently working on, if all goes well maybe I'll even find a bug.
So, what's the GFLOPS rating of a dual 1.2 Athlon MP?
Microsoft does open source software, too. I guess that makes them an open source company as well, right? And since their an open source company they must be playing fair.
We pay these marketting departments millions every year. Why is it so hard for the AMD marketting department to market their products when their products are actually superior to Intel's? But hey, consumers never needed to know how fast their processors were running anyway. Hell, why do we even let them have the root password?
I buy AMD processors because I do not like Intel, as a company. If AMD is going to start these types of tricks, which make it harder for me to determine what clock speed my processor is running at (this is important to me, in case you don't understand) then I might as well buy the cheapest part for the performance rating. If Intel lowers their prices enough I'll switch back since AMD doesn't appear to be very loyal to their current customers.
I mean what are they going to do next? Include unique IDs for their chips or lock the speed of the processor so I can't overclock them? Oh wait...
Its true the clock speed of the processor doesn't matter in real world benchmarks. But honestly, most americans don't even know what the clock speed means. They probably would never use the power of these processors. And most likely they'll buy a system because of its price, not the clock speed. But the clock speed of the processor is important to me because I need to know if it is running optimally. I'm not real upset about the multiplier locking or difficulty in overclocking, since technology doubles every 8-12 months and processors are much cheaper than they used to be. But please don't take away the information I find useful. Don't make me find an alternative. I'm your customer. Are you listenning? Hello?
Sure wish Sun would give something back to the community instead of just take, take, take and act as if they're an open source company when asked. They want to be the next microsoft, but don't have management competent enough to do that.