From your cited 'article': unnamed "American magazine journalist..."
The credibility of the whole 'article' hangs on an supposed statement of an 'unnamed' unidentifiable individual.
Reason.com is the online portion of reason magazine the print arm of the neo facist reason foundation a pretend libertarian organization that is a mouthpiece for the extreme neo-con right.
Michael Moore has stated publicly on several occasions that he was glad that the World Trade Center was blown up.
An unsubstanitated bald faced LIE.
For God's sake look for the truth.
There is no point to spreading lies and character assination of one man, or any group in the name of proping up a series of bad decisions made by inept and self serving politicians and businessmen.
This from early on in the Slate/MSN 'article' is not accurate.
6) The American lives lost in Afghanistan have been wasted. (This I divine from the fact that this supposedly "antiwar" film is dedicated ruefully to all those killed there, as well as in Iraq.)
This is not in the Moore film. It is the divination of the author.
I'm not even going to read the rest of the OP/ED article, it is more parroting of the lies spread by the neo-con machine.
I'll leave you and your "America Love it or Leave it." friends with a quote from one of America's most agressive foriegn policy Presidents.
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand
by the President or any other public official save exactly to the
degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to
support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is
unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by
inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the
country."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Comdex lost track sometime in the 90's but the real end was in 1995 when it was sold to Softbank.
It went from being a twice yearly Mecca to being a monthly, or bimonthly travelling international 'Disneyland' for marketing.
Prior to the infiltration by 'Windows World' it had been the hard core contact point for developers, implementors, and users, all feeding and grooming the craft (with the spice of some good natured marketing).
There is a real need for what Comdex was just as there is still a need for the every other year show of photographics at Photokina in Koln Germany.
Let Comdex lay in it's grave, quiet in silent repose, and start something unique and alive in the spitit of the original Comdex.
Papers please.
Name?
Your SSN?
Your registered federal email address and MAC.
Where's your computer operators license?
DNA sample, Retnal scan, HIV quarterly test?
$3.50 has been deducted from your EZ-Pass thank you for using the Throgs Neck Bridge.
And don't forget your Monthly Mortgage Payment of $1,432 is due in 3 days please allow 5 business days for processing. You are also overdue for your visit to Dr. Lance Adelson for your Periodontics examination.
How's the subscription to Genre magazine?
For using Throgs Neck Bridge and EZ-Pass you have been given a free trial of OUT magazine.
'A police officer, responding to the report of domestic violence, drove up to investigate.'
That has bothered me from the start of this case.
An anonymous report of domestic violence and the next thing you know YOU'RE compelled to provide information without being told why.
And then the report is 'domestic violence', do they live beside the road, is there prior knowledge of the relationship?
IF you watched and listened to the original video there are clear indications that at least one of the officers KNEW who this man was and still insisted on being told.
The whole case was crap from the start and now it has been used to further enforce a growing American Police State.
I've never felt less safe, and it's not terrorists that bother me.
One of my most important clients have been at 1024+ for some (7+) years, however they also have machines accessing at 640 and 800.
Worse yet most of the high resolution machines are stuck at Netscape 4.7 and color depth of 256.
We decided years ago to fore go glitz for operability, design from the start for backward compatibility and we've done some nice looking stuff that has stood the test of time.
Flash, Java-apps and the like are blocks that have to be replaced and don't work for everyone.
Designing for 800 or less means that screens should less likely to become over saturated with 'content' and hence easier to read on a screen.
The answer is to know you audience and be smart (not clever) about who you think you can discard.
Some fool slapped me up and locked my browser the other day for having javascript enabled while visiting his site, not even giving me contact information. Eventually after 1 1/2 hours of phone calls I got it, and his boss, and access restored for the paying customers of the company.
Be careful the web is a communications medium, not a game console (parts of the net and web can be, but the standard is communications).
Therefore, Slashdot is nothing more than a propaganda avenue for Open Source projects.
NOTHING MORE your so fripping stupid, I can't believe you can swallow without choking.
Isn't it amazing that Microsoft does not provide a channel like slashdot where users do the moderation and non-microsofties don't get thier posts pulled.
By the way, nice sidestep on the issue of Brown being full of excrement.
How did this get to be about ease of installation and drivers for Linux and Winblows?
I use winblows and so does 90% of the rest of the world, that is part of the problem, the gene pool is too small. I also use Solaris, Linux, BSD, Xenix, CP/M, DRDOS, OS-X and Forth, 90% of the world does not. I see the relationships between these OS's daily and appreciate the FACT that much of the same code runs in each.
I didn't say Linux = Stallman, nothing of the sort, what I said was Stallman/GPL preceed Linux and Linux is GPL'd due to Stallman's prognostic creation of the GPL which created an environment where Linux could go beyond just a toy kernel and become the core for an entire OS.
The general topic here is "Is Brown correct when he calls Linux Stolen goods?"
The answer is no, and if what you say is true about your attatchment to BSD, and you were more than an admin mechanic, then you know that at the core of everything is the processor instruction set and EVERYTHING else is on top of that.
So everything is derivative of the 4004 instruction set, or which ever you choose.
Files structures, batch processing, I/O etc.
It is not good for the industry, or traditional within the indusrty for anyone to OWN these things.
Re:the microsoft shills (Score:1)
by ScottKin (34718) on Tuesday June 08, @05:49PM (#9371020)
(http://users.adelphia.net/~scottkin/) ...just like the Linux shills:
Slashdot
OSDN
Kuro5in
Richard Stallman
Tannenbaum
etc, etc, etc.
The door opens both ways, bucko!
--ScottKin
And you wouldn't be a Microsoft shill now would you?
Come on Scott, in the name of full disclosure fess up, your not that far south of Redmond and I'm sure Linux represents a potential hazard to you or your community in M$ terms.
Slashdot & Kuro5in are communities not shills, good work insult an entire community and complain your unloved.
Richard Stallman is an Open Source advocate that predates Linux by ages, if anybody is a shill it would be Linux to Stallman not the other way around.
Tannenbaum, crap man your making me laugh - where's Tannenbaum's interest as a shill?
Microsoft is more likely to give him grant money than any Linux entity.
OSDN, well you could be right there they've got that wonderful SourceForge Enterprise Edition, that they give away an Open Source version of.
Come on MickeySoft is a powerhouse in your neck of the woods and it's un-nerving to think anything could challenge it.
I'm going to correct myself slightly VA Software (OSDN) is an OSDL member http://www.osdl.org/about_osdl/members/
But then again so are Sun, NTT, Nokia, Intel, HP, Cisco, Computer Associates, IBM, Toshiba, Transmeta.
Nothing to look at here though, as Slashdot is a user moderated community, not a service provider moderated community. If you see mods go pro Open Source, it's because the community as a whole is pro Open Source.
A Reminder... (Score:1)
by ScottKin (34718) on Tuesday June 08, @05:29PM (#9370763)
(http://users.adelphia.net/~scottkin/)
To remind everyone:
Linus Torvalds is EMPLOYED by OSDN, who also happens to own Slashdot.
Never trust everything you read. OSDN & Slashdot have a vested interest in "defending" Torvalds, as well as defending Linux - regardless of whether Torvalds *created* Linux on his own or he copied and/or transliterated code from other sources.
The word that comes to my mind is "nepotism".
--ScottKin
You sure proved that poor thinking does not inhibit the abilty to type.
Your Brown's kind of reader facts be damned.
Linus works for OSDL - Open Source Development Labs
Slashdot is a part of OSDN - Open Source Development Network
No connection between the two, other than Linux enthusiasts have an interest in but, but no direct business connection.
In your mind aparently the difference of one letter or one word makes no difference, well then I'm sure you'll understand this Tuck oft cupid".
This is all well and good, but is certainlly not a panacia.
No execute means that somewhere, somehow there will be an override and the day the override is used the virus' will follow by tricking (and explaining how) to the user why this is needed and bingo, it's in.
And of course I could be completely wrong in that this no execute bit does not exist on older processors and that in itself is going to cause problems. Intel has xbit on newer processors, but what about AMD, VIA, whoever else? Is this part of the Intel half of the WinTel duopoly?
I think it's probably a good idea, but I'm suspicious.
Sorry, I was there.
Interpol had cameras all over the city.
Munich was bombed during the Bierfest in 1979.
Frankfurt had bombings almost weekly.
I don't know where you were, if you were anywhere but if your eyes were not open then, then they are certainly closed now.
"people who are against the surveillance are unpatriotic"
OR perhaps they are just concerned about WHO is watching and WHY. It's not that you may be doing something criminal, or unlawful, but perhaps just embarrassing. That embarrassing thing could be used against you to make you do something that your normal concience would not allow.
Why do I argue? You do not even know your own history, how can you be expected to have any real understanding of your future.
I do not intend to be insulting but I feel obliged to inform you of your own prideful ignorance.
G4 has kept all of it's content, added The Screen Savers, Unscrewed, a couple other pieces of crap.
Ok ZD/Tech TV wasn't perfect but it was the closest thing there ever was to a Nerd Channel. What killed it? Paul Allen, the man has failed at probably 98% of everything he has invested it, the remaining 2% recooped his losses. But Mr. Allen lacks stick to itiveness, he lacks vision and he lacks dedication.
Employees are not given a chance, be it TechTV, High Speed Access, or any other Vulcan Venture.
Bye Bye ZD/TechTV many of us inside and outside the network saw it coming a long time ago.
"there are no surveillance cameras (yet) in my town (dortmund"
Really?
When did they remove the cameras that were there in 1979? Seriously.
Germany (The old FRG) was the worlds leader in surveillance throughout the country due to Baader-Meinhof and Red Brigade in the 70's and early 80's not to mention the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972.
Duzfreund because you do not see them watching does not mean they are not, I suggest you take a second look at the street lights and the traffic signals.
Alzo you pay taxes to the Federal German government that are distributed to 'approved' churches and unapproved churches are harrased by the Federal authorities (scientology for one).
Sorry to have shattered your fantasies of freedom, but somebody needed to wake you up and show you that those bars are not made of gold, they're the bars to your cage and you need to learn how to pick the lock.
"I have major doubts about the landing of the moon... a space physics course points out there is some heavy radioation belt between the moon and earth... And the experiment isn't made from a sneeky country like USA which has their own selfish purposes to fullfill"
I don't expect you to listen to rational discussion because your mis-informed mind is made up. NASA
has addressed this question time and again.
As others have said there are three elements to radiation exposure 1- Type of radiation 2- Duration of exposure 3- Intensity of exposure.
At some point in a typical lifespan you will probibly be exposed to all types, known and unknown, all of them will get a chance to kill you, none of them will do so instantly.
If you insist on disputing fact join the flat world society and avoid computers because everyone knows that the radiation from them will kill you, make you sterile (a moot point if your dead), and ruin your marriage (sterile, dead and divorced, the ultimate ubergeek).
One of the biggest pluses for any caching or I should say a greater variety in caching is the use of it to deter censorship. The more places something gets cached the greater the chances of it getting mirrored once the censorship starts.
This reminded me of an app I saw sometime back called a deadmans switch so, I googled it and it's at Arsware.
I really thought about setting it up and using it, but that random trip to Stuckey's just might wipe out all that stuff I care about while I'm still pumping red stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
From your cited 'article':
unnamed "American magazine journalist..."
The credibility of the whole 'article' hangs on an supposed statement of an 'unnamed' unidentifiable individual.
Reason.com is the online portion of reason magazine the print arm of the neo facist reason foundation a pretend libertarian organization that is a mouthpiece for the extreme neo-con right.
Michael Moore has stated publicly on several occasions that he was glad that the World Trade Center was blown up.
An unsubstanitated bald faced LIE.
For God's sake look for the truth.
There is no point to spreading lies and character assination of one man, or any group in the name of proping up a series of bad decisions made by inept and self serving politicians and businessmen.
"There are those among us..."
There's a strong case of fear mongering.
And posted anonymously too giving the statement all the credibility of accusing the dog for your own fart.
This from early on in the Slate/MSN 'article' is not accurate.
6) The American lives lost in Afghanistan have been wasted. (This I divine from the fact that this supposedly "antiwar" film is dedicated ruefully to all those killed there, as well as in Iraq.)
This is not in the Moore film. It is the divination of the author.
I'm not even going to read the rest of the OP/ED article, it is more parroting of the lies spread by the neo-con machine.
I'll leave you and your "America Love it or Leave it." friends with a quote from one of America's most agressive foriegn policy Presidents.
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand
by the President or any other public official save exactly to the
degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to
support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is
unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by
inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the
country."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
No knee jerk here.
You obviously have not seen the movie, and obviously don't know anything real about Moore.
The left has at no place at, at no time has gloated over the deaths of soldiers or civilians.
I think the majority of Americans are finally catching on the the endless stream of lies from immoral right.
Check out worth1000.com
This type of thing has been done there before, for other types of projects that can't pay, can't pay much, or can pay oodles.
Finally those old Emachines E-One computers can get an upgrade.
Comdex lost track sometime in the 90's but the real end was in 1995 when it was sold to Softbank.
It went from being a twice yearly Mecca to being a monthly, or bimonthly travelling international 'Disneyland' for marketing.
Prior to the infiltration by 'Windows World' it had been the hard core contact point for developers, implementors, and users, all feeding and grooming the craft (with the spice of some good natured marketing).
There is a real need for what Comdex was just as there is still a need for the every other year show of photographics at Photokina in Koln Germany.
Let Comdex lay in it's grave, quiet in silent repose, and start something unique and alive in the spitit of the original Comdex.
Papers please.
Name?
Your SSN?
Your registered federal email address and MAC.
Where's your computer operators license?
DNA sample, Retnal scan, HIV quarterly test?
$3.50 has been deducted from your EZ-Pass thank you for using the Throgs Neck Bridge.
And don't forget your Monthly Mortgage Payment of $1,432 is due in 3 days please allow 5 business days for processing.
You are also overdue for your visit to Dr. Lance Adelson for your Periodontics examination.
How's the subscription to Genre magazine?
For using Throgs Neck Bridge and EZ-Pass you have been given a free trial of OUT magazine.
Have a blessed day, Mr. Allen
'A police officer, responding to the report of domestic violence, drove up to investigate.'
That has bothered me from the start of this case.
An anonymous report of domestic violence and the next thing you know YOU'RE compelled to provide information without being told why.
And then the report is 'domestic violence', do they live beside the road, is there prior knowledge of the relationship?
IF you watched and listened to the original video there are clear indications that at least one of the officers KNEW who this man was and still insisted on being told.
The whole case was crap from the start and now it has been used to further enforce a growing American Police State.
I've never felt less safe, and it's not terrorists that bother me.
One of my most important clients have been at 1024+ for some (7+) years, however they also have machines accessing at 640 and 800.
Worse yet most of the high resolution machines are stuck at Netscape 4.7 and color depth of 256.
We decided years ago to fore go glitz for operability, design from the start for backward compatibility and we've done some nice looking stuff that has stood the test of time.
Flash, Java-apps and the like are blocks that have to be replaced and don't work for everyone.
Designing for 800 or less means that screens should less likely to become over saturated with 'content' and hence easier to read on a screen.
The answer is to know you audience and be smart (not clever) about who you think you can discard.
Some fool slapped me up and locked my browser the other day for having javascript enabled while visiting his site, not even giving me contact information. Eventually after 1 1/2 hours of phone calls I got it, and his boss, and access restored for the paying customers of the company.
Be careful the web is a communications medium, not a game console (parts of the net and web can be, but the standard is communications).
Therefore, Slashdot is nothing more than a propaganda avenue for Open Source projects.
NOTHING MORE your so fripping stupid, I can't believe you can swallow without choking.
Isn't it amazing that Microsoft does not provide a channel like slashdot where users do the moderation and non-microsofties don't get thier posts pulled.
By the way, nice sidestep on the issue of Brown being full of excrement.
How did this get to be about ease of installation and drivers for Linux and Winblows?
I use winblows and so does 90% of the rest of the world, that is part of the problem, the gene pool is too small.
I also use Solaris, Linux, BSD, Xenix, CP/M, DRDOS, OS-X and Forth, 90% of the world does not.
I see the relationships between these OS's daily and appreciate the FACT that much of the same code runs in each.
I didn't say Linux = Stallman, nothing of the sort, what I said was Stallman/GPL preceed Linux and Linux is GPL'd due to Stallman's prognostic creation of the GPL which created an environment where Linux could go beyond just a toy kernel and become the core for an entire OS.
The general topic here is "Is Brown correct when he calls Linux Stolen goods?"
The answer is no, and if what you say is true about your attatchment to BSD, and you were more than an admin mechanic, then you know that at the core of everything is the processor instruction set and EVERYTHING else is on top of that.
So everything is derivative of the 4004 instruction set, or which ever you choose.
Files structures, batch processing, I/O etc.
It is not good for the industry, or traditional within the indusrty for anyone to OWN these things.
Thought I made it CLEAR.
Let me do so now for you.
OSDN is a member (pays to support) the non-profit company OSDL.
It's a one way street, OSDN makes no money back from OSDL.
Clear enough? Or do you need it in Powerpoint?
Re:the microsoft shills (Score:1)
...just like the Linux shills:
by ScottKin (34718) on Tuesday June 08, @05:49PM
(#9371020)
(http://users.adelphia.net/~scottkin/)
Slashdot
OSDN
Kuro5in
Richard Stallman
Tannenbaum
etc, etc, etc.
The door opens both ways, bucko!
--ScottKin
And you wouldn't be a Microsoft shill now would you?
Come on Scott, in the name of full disclosure fess up, your not that far south of Redmond and I'm sure Linux represents a potential hazard to you or your community in M$ terms.
Slashdot & Kuro5in are communities not shills, good work insult an entire community and complain your unloved.
Richard Stallman is an Open Source advocate that predates Linux by ages, if anybody is a shill it would be Linux to Stallman not the other way around.
Tannenbaum, crap man your making me laugh - where's Tannenbaum's interest as a shill?
Microsoft is more likely to give him grant money than any Linux entity.
OSDN, well you could be right there they've got that wonderful SourceForge Enterprise Edition, that they give away an Open Source version of.
Come on MickeySoft is a powerhouse in your neck of the woods and it's un-nerving to think anything could challenge it.
I'm going to correct myself slightly VA Software (OSDN) is an OSDL member http://www.osdl.org/about_osdl/members/
But then again so are Sun, NTT, Nokia, Intel, HP, Cisco, Computer Associates, IBM, Toshiba, Transmeta.
Nothing to look at here though, as Slashdot is a user moderated community, not a service provider moderated community.
If you see mods go pro Open Source, it's because the community as a whole is pro Open Source.
It's not like this is some form of Fox News.
A Reminder... (Score:1)
by ScottKin (34718) on Tuesday June 08, @05:29PM (#9370763)
(http://users.adelphia.net/~scottkin/)
To remind everyone:
Linus Torvalds is EMPLOYED by OSDN, who also happens to own Slashdot.
Never trust everything you read. OSDN & Slashdot have a vested interest in "defending" Torvalds, as well as defending Linux - regardless of whether Torvalds *created* Linux on his own or he copied and/or transliterated code from other sources.
The word that comes to my mind is "nepotism".
--ScottKin
You sure proved that poor thinking does not inhibit the abilty to type.
Your Brown's kind of reader facts be damned.
Linus works for OSDL - Open Source Development Labs
Slashdot is a part of OSDN - Open Source Development Network
No connection between the two, other than Linux enthusiasts have an interest in but, but no direct business connection.
In your mind aparently the difference of one letter or one word makes no difference,
well then I'm sure you'll understand this Tuck oft cupid".
This is all well and good, but is certainlly not a panacia.
No execute means that somewhere, somehow there will be an override and the day the override is used the virus' will follow by tricking (and explaining how) to the user why this is needed and bingo, it's in.
And of course I could be completely wrong in that this no execute bit does not exist on older processors and that in itself is going to cause problems. Intel has xbit on newer processors, but what about AMD, VIA, whoever else? Is this part of the Intel half of the WinTel duopoly?
I think it's probably a good idea, but I'm suspicious.
This is not a problem with the router, it is a problem with the user.
It's like saying that my car tires are faulty because they do not remove themselves from the car if not properly inflated.
My telephone must be faulty too, because it doesn't stop my wife from exceeding her credit card limit when calling the home shopping network.
Come on put the blame where it belongs, the meatware.
Sorry, I was there.
e inhof
Interpol had cameras all over the city.
Munich was bombed during the Bierfest in 1979.
Frankfurt had bombings almost weekly.
I don't know where you were, if you were anywhere but if your eyes were not open then, then they are certainly closed now.
"people who are against the surveillance are unpatriotic"
OR perhaps they are just concerned about WHO is watching and WHY. It's not that you may be doing something criminal, or unlawful, but perhaps just embarrassing. That embarrassing thing could be used against you to make you do something that your normal concience would not allow.
Why do I argue? You do not even know your own history, how can you be expected to have any real understanding of your future.
I do not intend to be insulting but I feel obliged to inform you of your own prideful ignorance.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Bader-M
G4 has kept all of it's content, added The Screen Savers, Unscrewed, a couple other pieces of crap.
Ok ZD/Tech TV wasn't perfect but it was the closest thing there ever was to a Nerd Channel.
What killed it?
Paul Allen, the man has failed at probably 98% of everything he has invested it, the remaining 2% recooped his losses.
But Mr. Allen lacks stick to itiveness, he lacks vision and he lacks dedication.
Employees are not given a chance, be it TechTV, High Speed Access, or any other Vulcan Venture.
Bye Bye ZD/TechTV many of us inside and outside the network saw it coming a long time ago.
"there are no surveillance cameras (yet) in my town (dortmund"
Really?
When did they remove the cameras that were there in 1979? Seriously.
Germany (The old FRG) was the worlds leader in surveillance throughout the country due to Baader-Meinhof and Red Brigade in the 70's and early 80's not to mention the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972.
Duzfreund because you do not see them watching does not mean they are not, I suggest you take a second look at the street lights and the traffic signals.
Alzo you pay taxes to the Federal German government that are distributed to 'approved' churches and unapproved churches are harrased by the Federal authorities (scientology for one).
Sorry to have shattered your fantasies of freedom, but somebody needed to wake you up and show you that those bars are not made of gold, they're the bars to your cage and you need to learn how to pick the lock.
"I have major doubts about the landing of the moon... a space physics course points out there is some heavy radioation belt between the moon and earth
I don't expect you to listen to rational discussion because your mis-informed mind is made up.
NASA has addressed this question time and again.
As others have said there are three elements to radiation exposure
1- Type of radiation
2- Duration of exposure
3- Intensity of exposure.
At some point in a typical lifespan you will probibly be exposed to all types, known and unknown, all of them will get a chance to kill you, none of them will do so instantly.
If you insist on disputing fact join the flat world society and avoid computers because everyone knows that the radiation from them will kill you, make you sterile (a moot point if your dead), and ruin your marriage (sterile, dead and divorced, the ultimate ubergeek).
"It those small sites (Geocities) hosted on some guys cable modem describing how he modded his mom's vibrator into a CD player that won't make it."
Guess it can make it to the google cache
One of the biggest pluses for any caching or I should say a greater variety in caching is the use of it to deter censorship.
The more places something gets cached the greater the chances of it getting mirrored once the censorship starts.
This reminded me of an app I saw sometime back called a deadmans switch so,
I googled it and it's at Arsware.
I really thought about setting it up and using it, but that random trip to Stuckey's
just might wipe out all that stuff I care about while I'm still pumping red stuff.