First I don't know who you're talking about, I'm not aware of GNAA hacking into corporate networks, but then again I highly doubt that Sam finds time to get involved in such play given his quite prolific contributions and the fact that he's got a job. Job + Debian/FS projects don't let much time to waste on child play. I doubt even more that he would condone such behavior. As for other illegal activities/sites, WTF? I can go to Secunia and click on a link that will crash my brother. The kind of troll the GNAA and Sam enjoy are the "Hi everybody, I'm looking at gay porno" style. I don't think it's illegal and I see the whole thing as pranks. I'd really like to know what kind of security breach/hack you're talking about.
Regarding people knowing who he is, on the contrary I think the Debian crowd knows very well who he is. He trolled enough on Debian regarding Dunc-Tank to be known for his "humor", website, GNAA involvement and activities. People just don't care because his external activities don't get in the way of his Debian involvement and qualities. Have you been trolled using VLC?
Another example would be Dattebayo and timecop who fansub the Naruto and Bleach anime watched by hundreds of thousands of people every week (yep, really). They are in involved in GNAA, and they regularly troll their fan base distributing fake Naruto torrents, but nonetheless the "official" releases are top notch and everyone loves Dattebayo releases. GNAA even succeeded in trollin CNN. But then again, I find them amusing rather than disruptive or harmful.
All-in-all, given Sam abilities and desire to make a better Debian, I think that his appointment as DPL is good to Debian (and Debian-based distributions) and to the movement as a whole.
Btw zoy.org isn't exclusively used by him even if it belongs to Sam, if you want to go to Sam's website, the proper URL is http://sam.zoy.org.
Yes he is somewhat of a troll and he's a GNAA member, a goatsex troll fan and certainly more, so what? He's also an excellent hacker and Free Software contributor (he played a major role in VideoLan/VLC which is now the best video player around here). What's more, his platform was the best. I for one am really satisfied with this year's DPL election.
Well as far as I remember (maybe I'm wrong though), Brandir (the lame man) was in love with Niennor, and if Turin wouldn't have come, Brandir would have been the one to marry her. You're right, they were not truly lovers, but because of Turin.
It seems people took it only as a joke:). Spoiling a movie before it's even out is great though. Well if it sucks as much as the LotR movies, I can't spoil it any further than the director. Let me add more to it:
During the battle of the Unnumbered Tears (Nirnaeth Arnoediad), Hurin, Turin's father, is made prisoner by Morgoth, who puts him on a chair on the top of his mountain for him to see all that Morgoth sees; and he adds a curse on his family (just for fun)
Turin is Hurin's son. His (first) sister Eledhwen dies of illness when she's young. He gets to live with Elves at Doriath. Kills his mentor and best friend (Beleg Cuthalion), gets in various troubles, causes the doom of the elven kingdom Nargothrond where he's known as Mormegil, gets cursed another time by Glaurung, Father of Dragons, and loses his elven love Finduilas and his memories. At the end he kills his sister's lover, marries her and when he gets his memories back after slaying Glaurung kills himself just after his sister commits suicide:P
Hurin is finally released by Morgoth, meets his wife, and she dies the same day. He goes one last time to Doriath to give the Nauglamir to Elu Thingol before committing suicide.
Then his son gets reincarnated and breaks the Enigma code.. oops. No, not Turing. Seriously though, Turin will eventually get reincarnated to slay Morgoth at the Last Battle (Dagor Dagorath).
Really Tolkien's best and most tragic tale, and best Tolkien's hero(es). I pray that they won't release a movie.
A Turin turambar turun ambartanen. Turin, master of doom, by doom mastered.
You look for a P (polynomial) solution to a problem being known as NP-Complete (ie, in the NP class). Those problems (aka "hard" problems) have a best known algorithm of non-polynomial complexity (ie, the time to compute the algorithm is non-polynomial in function of the entry, making it impossible to compute for high values of the entry). It has been proven that if you find an algorithm of polynomial complexity for a problem of the NP class, then P=NP (because you could then transform any non-polynomial algorithm into an equivalent polynomial algorithm the same way you did in the first place). All it takes is to find *ONE* algorithm of polynomial complexity/time for an NP problem. The problem is, nobody has been able to find any, and people have been searching for quite some time now:) (that's why everybody thinks P!=NP). Good luck proving P=NP then;)
If Gates had just profited from the wealthy (ie Western and Japanese) people it would be OK. But he also sold his overpriced low-quality OS to poor people and thus exploited the Third World. Robin Hood wouldn't have done so. If Bill Gates had used Windows and all his bad-quality software to take money from us rich people and then give back to fight AIDS and help the Third World, I may say "why not"? I'm a Free Software fanatic but that would have redeemed Gates' soul. The problem is, Gates continues to sell features-stripped Windows versions to Indian people, etc. Now it shouldn't ever be forgotten that Bill Gates created his empire this way (and that he broke the law numerous times and has no ethics).
You're assuming a remote exploit in the web browser or mail client. Currently, your grandma opens an attached file in a mail and gets infected. With GNU/Linux, she would have to set it "executable" before being able to run it. She doesn't know how to do that (hopefully) so she won't get infected.
Programs should be installed system-wide by an administrator (you?), and from a trusted source (signed apt repositories).
This is a huge difference with Windows and its security model. By default on Windows, all ".exe/.vbs/etc" files are executable.
The legal system, which is designed to punish those responsible and not the innocent.
Yeah, right. And does it resurrect people? Not yet;)
How does this not apply to video games. Some unstable kids plays one constantly, goes nuts and emulates it. Lives are lost. It's the same thing.
Not the same. A gun is a WEAPON. Can't you understand that point? There is no other LEGITIMATE usage other than to harm or kill. People don't go nuts. They're already. They have a "decompensation" and then reveal their crazyness, and act differently (paranoiacs become extremely violent because they feel threatened). Only crazy people go on a killing spree after having played a game, or for any reason triggering their decompensation. However, non-crazy people (not talking about criminals yet) kill with guns because of accidents or because of pressure; they regret it, lives are lost, it's bad for everybody.
So, lots of free speech is clearly more than just harmless political discussion someone might say, "I think you should all kill a person if you want to be called a man." So someone goes and does it.
Well, I don't advocate unlimited free speech, so I'm consistent with my views. But GTA is definitely OK. It is *humourous* and 17+. Lennon's Imagine is more than OK. Among Western countries, only in the US you'd see a song banned for denying God.
Yeah, and society as a whole is responsible for letting violent video games get into the hands of and be constantly played by mentally disturbed children. But in both instances it would be more accurate to say that the parents are responsible for allowing their mentally disturbed and abused child have access to guns and violent imagery.
Parents with mentally disturbed and abused children are often themselves mentally disturbed, what can you expect? <irony>Oh yeah, put 'em in jail. I don't care if their son killed a whole family, as long as those mofos end up in jail (or better yet, death penalty).</irony>
This is a straw man argument. You make many implicit and unsupportable statements disguised as a question. This particular child lived on a working ranch. What exactly do you expect him to use to kill cattle before butchering them? What exactly do you expect him to use when coyotes attack the family dog? What exactly do you expect him to use when a bear spooks his horse and he is thrown to the ground and then it decides to chew on him a bit? Have you ever lived in a really bad neighborhood and been too poor to move? I mean one where people are beaten to death regularly and the police don't bother to show up most of the time? Have you ever lived in a rural enough area where you regularly encountered bears that may or may not charge you? I've lived in both and your assumption that I don't need a firearm is arrogant and offensive. You really believe you should have the right to decide for others what they do and do not need for their own protection because you're so much smarter than those dumb, deluded twits that have guns? I'm sorry but you're just wrong, both in practice and in principal. Lie to yourself all you want, but both of these are simply an issue of personal responsibility.
Huh? What you quoted here was not a question, it's an affirmation. And did I say that the few legitimate usages for guns shouldn't be allowed (ie for farmers mostly)? Nope, I was talking of the "general case". Just create licenses that only farmers can get (and maybe people living in some rural areas could get hunting licenses). There's no reason anyone should have a gun in cities. If cops are too afraid to come or don't care and if the neighborhood is poor, the problem is political, guns still aren't the answer. And I never said I should decide for you if you're allowed to have guns: the democracy process should decide, if the US are still a democracy (not counting the Co
Well said. And nothing to reply as I totally agree with you. I thought that by this time you'd be +5 Insightful. Mods must be on crack today. You have all my support anyway;).
Furthermore, you implicitly assume that killing and injuring is wrong and undesirable, when in fact it is often very necessary. When a rapist tries to rape, beat, kidnap, and kill my girlfriend should your moral belief that killing is wrong trump her right to defend herself?
Oh boy. And I hadn't even read your comment when posting mine:
[...] completely fooled by the desire to own guns, itself resulting from a typically american fantasy involving fake security feelings, power and bandits (preferrably not white, or at least from abroad) coming to rape your wife and kill your children.
I find the above two statements to be contradictory. The concept of gun bans and video game bans are similar in many ways. It is the basic argument of personal responsibility versus outside influence. Which is responsible, the person who commits an act or the things that influence that decision and outcome?
Nope, this is a bad analogy. And you're implying that I say that the shooter isn't responsible. He is, but in the end who cares who is responsible? There are lost lives. You're comparing a ban on free speech (videogames) and a ban on a weapon (guns), which are clearly more than "just a tool". It's like (exaggerating) comparing John Lennon's Imagine bans and the right to own a Weapon of Mass Destruction for personal defense. I'm not denying that in the end, the one who does the stupid thing is responsible, but the society as a whole is responsible for letting weapons such as guns slip in the hands of children. It happens, and will happen again... Unless, some day, the US finally become responsible and not completely fooled by the desire to own guns, itself resulting from a typically american fantasy involving fake security feelings, power and bandits (preferrably not white, or at least from abroad) coming to rape your wife and kill your children. The problem with violence in the US lies beneath anyway, guns just make it worse ("domestic" or not violent accidents happen too). Of course, if guns were banned, people would use knifes or find something else. But at least they would kill fewer people before they're stopped;).
I was saying that I don't want to take part in this debate because it's been done and done again. I've already tried to explain logic to religious whackos this week on YouTube: it was obviously a total waste of my time, but at least it was fun to see their arguments and how endoctrined they are. You are a slashdotter, you have your opinion, this is enough;).
Tsss. No need to have this silly debate again. I'm merely reporting that not everyone shares the belief that guns should be allowed like they are in the US. The purpose of a gun is to wound or to kill; you can argue whether it can be used for defense or not, but in practice those "defensive" guns happen to kill too. Anyway I don't have time for that, sorry:) I only wanted to point out that guns being banned is not a bad thing.
Long time I hadn't had any "know-it-all" AC answer. (1) I never said that bytes always were 8bit-long; Seriously, who doesn't know that? Thank you, Captain Obvious. (2) Bytes are *ALWAYS* translated to "octets" in French. Read as: There is no word meaning "byte" other than "octet" in French, or "octet" is the official French translation for "byte"; and all "French bytes" are 8bit-long (so, in French, it would be "512Mo" and couldn't be confused with "512Mb", hence the submitter's mistake which as a translation mistake and not a conversion one). Next: Where did I speak of other languages? Did I say that "octet" was only used in French? Did I say that it was *only* a French word (actually, it comes from Greek and English took the word from French; just like triplet, quadruplet, quintuplet, sextuplet, septuplet or n-uplet [rare: tuple used instead]): No.
Fortunately no need; we have crappy laws too, but you can't protect/patent a format here (even if DRMs now have a legal value because of the infamous DADVSI law).
That's not a one time 150eur free, it's a guarantee and will be refunded on return. The upload rate is 1Mbps. IPTV coming early '07 (no need for a new subscription, same price).
The 150eur are just the guarantee and will be refunded on return. The 100euros are to buy the flat screen/webcam/keyboard/mouse and that's optional. The 40eur/mo are the subscription fees (with their current adsl modem: 30eur/mo). So the rental costs 10eur/mo, included in the subscription, and is replaced on hardware failure (see my post for details).
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First I don't know who you're talking about, I'm not aware of GNAA hacking into corporate networks, but then again I highly doubt that Sam finds time to get involved in such play given his quite prolific contributions and the fact that he's got a job. Job + Debian/FS projects don't let much time to waste on child play. I doubt even more that he would condone such behavior. As for other illegal activities/sites, WTF? I can go to Secunia and click on a link that will crash my brother. The kind of troll the GNAA and Sam enjoy are the "Hi everybody, I'm looking at gay porno" style. I don't think it's illegal and I see the whole thing as pranks. I'd really like to know what kind of security breach/hack you're talking about.
Regarding people knowing who he is, on the contrary I think the Debian crowd knows very well who he is. He trolled enough on Debian regarding Dunc-Tank to be known for his "humor", website, GNAA involvement and activities. People just don't care because his external activities don't get in the way of his Debian involvement and qualities. Have you been trolled using VLC?
Another example would be Dattebayo and timecop who fansub the Naruto and Bleach anime watched by hundreds of thousands of people every week (yep, really). They are in involved in GNAA, and they regularly troll their fan base distributing fake Naruto torrents, but nonetheless the "official" releases are top notch and everyone loves Dattebayo releases. GNAA even succeeded in trollin CNN. But then again, I find them amusing rather than disruptive or harmful.
All-in-all, given Sam abilities and desire to make a better Debian, I think that his appointment as DPL is good to Debian (and Debian-based distributions) and to the movement as a whole.
Yes I know who he is :).
Btw zoy.org isn't exclusively used by him even if it belongs to Sam, if you want to go to Sam's website, the proper URL is http://sam.zoy.org.
Yes he is somewhat of a troll and he's a GNAA member, a goatsex troll fan and certainly more, so what? He's also an excellent hacker and Free Software contributor (he played a major role in VideoLan/VLC which is now the best video player around here). What's more, his platform was the best. I for one am really satisfied with this year's DPL election.
Well as far as I remember (maybe I'm wrong though), Brandir (the lame man) was in love with Niennor, and if Turin wouldn't have come, Brandir would have been the one to marry her. You're right, they were not truly lovers, but because of Turin.
True nerds enjoy URLs. :)
- During the battle of the Unnumbered Tears (Nirnaeth Arnoediad), Hurin, Turin's father, is made prisoner by Morgoth, who puts him on a chair on the top of his mountain for him to see all that Morgoth sees; and he adds a curse on his family (just for fun)
- Turin is Hurin's son. His (first) sister Eledhwen dies of illness when she's young. He gets to live with Elves at Doriath. Kills his mentor and best friend (Beleg Cuthalion), gets in various troubles, causes the doom of the elven kingdom Nargothrond where he's known as Mormegil, gets cursed another time by Glaurung, Father of Dragons, and loses his elven love Finduilas and his memories. At the end he kills his sister's lover, marries her and when he gets his memories back after slaying Glaurung kills himself just after his sister commits suicide
:P
- Hurin is finally released by Morgoth, meets his wife, and she dies the same day. He goes one last time to Doriath to give the Nauglamir to Elu Thingol before committing suicide.
- Then his son gets reincarnated and breaks the Enigma code.. oops. No, not Turing. Seriously though, Turin will eventually get reincarnated to slay Morgoth at the Last Battle (Dagor Dagorath).
Really Tolkien's best and most tragic tale, and best Tolkien's hero(es). I pray that they won't release a movie. A Turin turambar turun ambartanen. Turin, master of doom, by doom mastered.Tant qu'on y est.... (btw we'd translate grammar nazi to grammar fascist in french :P).
Donc pour faire mon fasco, it is:
traduire la phrase. :)
You look for a P (polynomial) solution to a problem being known as NP-Complete (ie, in the NP class). Those problems (aka "hard" problems) have a best known algorithm of non-polynomial complexity (ie, the time to compute the algorithm is non-polynomial in function of the entry, making it impossible to compute for high values of the entry). It has been proven that if you find an algorithm of polynomial complexity for a problem of the NP class, then P=NP (because you could then transform any non-polynomial algorithm into an equivalent polynomial algorithm the same way you did in the first place). All it takes is to find *ONE* algorithm of polynomial complexity/time for an NP problem. The problem is, nobody has been able to find any, and people have been searching for quite some time now :) (that's why everybody thinks P!=NP). Good luck proving P=NP then ;)
I, for one, welcome our ne^H^Hold Stonehenge building Hobbit overlords... or not.
If Gates had just profited from the wealthy (ie Western and Japanese) people it would be OK. But he also sold his overpriced low-quality OS to poor people and thus exploited the Third World. Robin Hood wouldn't have done so. If Bill Gates had used Windows and all his bad-quality software to take money from us rich people and then give back to fight AIDS and help the Third World, I may say "why not"? I'm a Free Software fanatic but that would have redeemed Gates' soul. The problem is, Gates continues to sell features-stripped Windows versions to Indian people, etc. Now it shouldn't ever be forgotten that Bill Gates created his empire this way (and that he broke the law numerous times and has no ethics).
You're assuming a remote exploit in the web browser or mail client. Currently, your grandma opens an attached file in a mail and gets infected. With GNU/Linux, she would have to set it "executable" before being able to run it. She doesn't know how to do that (hopefully) so she won't get infected.
Programs should be installed system-wide by an administrator (you?), and from a trusted source (signed apt repositories).
This is a huge difference with Windows and its security model. By default on Windows, all ".exe/.vbs/etc" files are executable.
Mod funny! Classic quote from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back...
Careful, he's waiting for you. ;)
Yeah, right. And does it resurrect people? Not yet ;)
Not the same. A gun is a WEAPON. Can't you understand that point? There is no other LEGITIMATE usage other than to harm or kill. People don't go nuts. They're already. They have a "decompensation" and then reveal their crazyness, and act differently (paranoiacs become extremely violent because they feel threatened). Only crazy people go on a killing spree after having played a game, or for any reason triggering their decompensation. However, non-crazy people (not talking about criminals yet) kill with guns because of accidents or because of pressure; they regret it, lives are lost, it's bad for everybody.
Well, I don't advocate unlimited free speech, so I'm consistent with my views. But GTA is definitely OK. It is *humourous* and 17+. Lennon's Imagine is more than OK. Among Western countries, only in the US you'd see a song banned for denying God.
Parents with mentally disturbed and abused children are often themselves mentally disturbed, what can you expect? <irony>Oh yeah, put 'em in jail. I don't care if their son killed a whole family, as long as those mofos end up in jail (or better yet, death penalty).</irony>
Huh? What you quoted here was not a question, it's an affirmation. And did I say that the few legitimate usages for guns shouldn't be allowed (ie for farmers mostly)? Nope, I was talking of the "general case". Just create licenses that only farmers can get (and maybe people living in some rural areas could get hunting licenses). There's no reason anyone should have a gun in cities. If cops are too afraid to come or don't care and if the neighborhood is poor, the problem is political, guns still aren't the answer. And I never said I should decide for you if you're allowed to have guns: the democracy process should decide, if the US are still a democracy (not counting the Co
Well said. And nothing to reply as I totally agree with you. I thought that by this time you'd be +5 Insightful. Mods must be on crack today. You have all my support anyway ;).
I was saying that I don't want to take part in this debate because it's been done and done again. I've already tried to explain logic to religious whackos this week on YouTube: it was obviously a total waste of my time, but at least it was fun to see their arguments and how endoctrined they are. You are a slashdotter, you have your opinion, this is enough
Tsss. No need to have this silly debate again. I'm merely reporting that not everyone shares the belief that guns should be allowed like they are in the US. The purpose of a gun is to wound or to kill; you can argue whether it can be used for defense or not, but in practice those "defensive" guns happen to kill too. Anyway I don't have time for that, sorry :) I only wanted to point out that guns being banned is not a bad thing.
Yes. Because guns *DO* kill. Games don't.
This was my ASCII art, you insensitive clod! Granted, I miss the artistic touch.
Long time I hadn't had any "know-it-all" AC answer. (1) I never said that bytes always were 8bit-long; Seriously, who doesn't know that? Thank you, Captain Obvious. (2) Bytes are *ALWAYS* translated to "octets" in French. Read as: There is no word meaning "byte" other than "octet" in French, or "octet" is the official French translation for "byte"; and all "French bytes" are 8bit-long (so, in French, it would be "512Mo" and couldn't be confused with "512Mb", hence the submitter's mistake which as a translation mistake and not a conversion one). Next: Where did I speak of other languages? Did I say that "octet" was only used in French? Did I say that it was *only* a French word (actually, it comes from Greek and English took the word from French; just like triplet, quadruplet, quintuplet, sextuplet, septuplet or n-uplet [rare: tuple used instead]): No.
Fortunately no need; we have crappy laws too, but you can't protect/patent a format here (even if DRMs now have a legal value because of the infamous DADVSI law).
Made from scratch (see my comment for details).
That's not a one time 150eur free, it's a guarantee and will be refunded on return. The upload rate is 1Mbps. IPTV coming early '07 (no need for a new subscription, same price).
The 150eur are just the guarantee and will be refunded on return. The 100euros are to buy the flat screen/webcam/keyboard/mouse and that's optional. The 40eur/mo are the subscription fees (with their current adsl modem: 30eur/mo). So the rental costs 10eur/mo, included in the subscription, and is replaced on hardware failure (see my post for details).