I emailed my Senators and representative about several things over the last few months. Each time including my mailing address so they could be sure I was in their state/District and never got anything other than an automated response.
To make matters worse one of my senators, Mark Dayton, does not even have an email address. I find not having an email address for our state senator and embareassment.
This is sort of silly. It is not like terrorist organizations need high tech crypto to be secure.
They already have ways of diseminating information and money. If they want great security all they will have to do is create a CD with randomness on it and distribute it among their cells.
I'm sure even the lamest coder could write code to do an XOR against a part of that CD and it would be incredibally hard to decode.
I just tried 2.4.10 with the preemption patches for the first time and it is great. KDE runs much better everything feels more responsive -- except quake3.
I tried playing some urban terror this morining and my framerate is cut in half and it feels very jumpy.
I thought about this wrt the DMCA. This would make my Sony CD Player a Circumvention Device.
Ironic that a company that wants this legislation makes a device that could be considered illegal under it.
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I think that US history with these issues also goes back to a time where the powers tried to build their "sphere of influence". If we were not there building our stake the USSR would be.
We look at the world now and wonder why we are so entrenched in all of these sticky situations, but at the time not being involved was not an option.
We have "won" the cold war only to inherit a world screwed up by years of influence peddling, manipulation, and power broking.
I also appreciate your answer. Having a forum to talk about these issues helps me get control of my aggressive side and think about things a little more rationally. The thing that is unusual is that my rational brain is agreeing with my aggressive side, which is unusual.
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I was born in Germany and lived there until I was 12 then I moved here. Half of my family lives in Germany and I go back as often as I can.
I would like a government that is perfect, but since it is people who govern that will be imposible.
I really don't think that we sold arms to todays problem countries to make a profit. I think we did it on the theory that our enemies enemy is our friend and if they are busy at war with each other they will not bother us.
This may be good or bad, but not selling arms has its own problems.
As for your point b)
If we defend someone then the people we have defended them from are pissed at us. If we give aid in any type of situation other than a natural disaster then the other party is pissed at us. We will always be praised by some and despised by others.
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That is the problem isn't it. The USs involvement. I would like to point out though that lack of involvement is also involvement.
I totaly believe that because we are a( maybe the ) superpower that people have unrealistic expectations of us.
If we fail to be involved half of the parties will want to blow us up, if we are involved the other half will.
Total catch 22
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I think this goes beyond US support for Israel.
I think that to reach this level of fanaticism you have to have people that are so fundamentalist that our way of life is incompatible with their belief system.
The US becomes the symbol of a lifestile that they can not tolerate.
I don't think a policy change is going to help something like this. We would have to change our whole Ideology, and I personally am not ready to go fundamentalist.
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I think this goes beyond US support for Israel.
I think that to reach this level of fanaticism you have to have people that are so fundamentalist that our way of life is incompatible with their belief system.
The US becomes the symbol of a lifestile that they can not tolerate.
I don't think a policy change is going to help something like this. We would have to change
Let say that we could change all of our policies right now so that no one in the world would be displeased, how long would it last?
There will always be someone that is unhappy with us. If we always give in and never resort to using a deterent force - however unpleasant -- where will that leave us?
BTW I realize that not all Muslims were dancing in the street, but I am not suggesting we target all muslim countries.
I also don't equate rednecks in montana with organizations that get state protection and support. I actually think that our homegrown terrorists are too stupid to pull something like this off. They could not get 20 people to work well together. They are too busy being anti-establishment to establish that much organization.
As for this being done by Israel, I don't think they would risk loosing their biggest supporter.
I used to sit arround defending palistinians and muslim fundementalists in conversations with my friends. Making analogies to get them to understand how Isreal is the "bad guy".
But, after seeing them handing out candy and selebrating today I really don't care if we can only punish a country by attacking its citizens.
Sometimes when you fight with monsters you have to become one.
The sad thing is that I think muslim countries where really wining the PR war with the ordinary US citizens lately. It may not have affected our governments pollicy yet. But, I think people were getting tired of Isreals actions and thought the palistinians were being given a raw deal. This would have eventually affected US policy. Now the average US citizen will never feal that way again.
Actually I think there is a difference. The countries that harbor terrorists are looking for a plausable deniability. They want to wage war against their precieved enemy(us) and be able to simply point the finger at the terrorist group and have an out.
I do not think that killing any one person is more palatable than killing another!
But, lets say that this ends up being organized by a group taking refuge in a country which protects them from extradition and shelters and finances them. Then, I think we should retailiate against that group AND the country that is protectiong them.
It makes me wonder if they are just trying to help out Microsoft by taking the focus away from their security problems.
I don't normally go for conspiracy theories. But, the article just seemed to blow things out of proportion and kept mentioning Apache, which had nothing to do with the method of propegation.
I think it is hard to find talented people on the job. But, in the open source world there are many.
Don't take this the wrong way. It is just that employers measure success differently. Is it on-time, on-budget, and does it work? They are not equiped to measure the quality of the design/code. So they never succesfully build a great team of people. You are always carrying some of them.
That means the only place you can both do a good job and work with good people is in the open world. Because, the people who choose to do development in their spare time are usually the talented ones.
If that is true then lets see you copy one from your desktop to your laptop. I can imagine having my desktop die and then what good is my backup copy? It can only run on one install of the ebook reader.
I know that this seems far fetched because ebooks have not become popular. But, if in the future they did become the only way publishers released books libraries would not be able to lend them.
The DMCA seems to criminalize the library that might someday exist.
Do you have the best encoder, decoder for the format. Are you running at comparable bit rates? Is the audio hardware decent. Even if the audio hardware is decent how do you get the audio to the amp?
I know that I can play the same mp3 on my computer/soundcard hooked up to my receiver's rca jacks or from my audiotron to the receiver's optical digital input and the mp3 sounds much better with the reciever doing the DAC.
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I emailed my Senators and representative about several things over the last few months. Each time including my mailing address so they could be sure I was in their state/District and never got anything other than an automated response.
To make matters worse one of my senators, Mark Dayton, does not even have an email address. I find not having an email address for our state senator and embareassment.
Time to build a Mame Cabinet and play all of the old classics again.
Still love Donkey Kong JR & Centiped
The great part is with a CD worth of /dev/random you could always just start at the next point on the CD.
As long as you don't trade *.doc files that 650MB will last a long time.
This is sort of silly. It is not like terrorist organizations need high tech crypto to be secure.
They already have ways of diseminating information and money. If they want great security all they will have to do is create a CD with randomness on it and distribute it among their cells.
I'm sure even the lamest coder could write code to do an XOR against a part of that CD and it would be incredibally hard to decode.
I just tried 2.4.10 with the preemption patches for the first time and it is great. KDE runs much better everything feels more responsive -- except quake3.
I tried playing some urban terror this morining and my framerate is cut in half and it feels very jumpy.
I thought about this wrt the DMCA. This would make my Sony CD Player a Circumvention Device.
Ironic that a company that wants this legislation makes a device that could be considered illegal under it.
I think that US history with these issues also goes back to a time where the powers tried to build their "sphere of influence". If we were not there building our stake the USSR would be.
We look at the world now and wonder why we are so entrenched in all of these sticky situations, but at the time not being involved was not an option.
We have "won" the cold war only to inherit a world screwed up by years of influence peddling, manipulation, and power broking.
I also appreciate your answer. Having a forum to talk about these issues helps me get control of my aggressive side and think about things a little more rationally. The thing that is unusual is that my rational brain is agreeing with my aggressive side, which is unusual.
I was born in Germany and lived there until I was 12 then I moved here. Half of my family lives in Germany and I go back as often as I can.
I would like a government that is perfect, but since it is people who govern that will be imposible.
I really don't think that we sold arms to todays problem countries to make a profit. I think we did it on the theory that our enemies enemy is our friend and if they are busy at war with each other they will not bother us.
This may be good or bad, but not selling arms has its own problems.
As for your point b)
If we defend someone then the people we have defended them from are pissed at us. If we give aid in any type of situation other than a natural disaster then the other party is pissed at us. We will always be praised by some and despised by others.
That is the problem isn't it. The USs involvement. I would like to point out though that lack of involvement is also involvement.
I totaly believe that because we are a( maybe the ) superpower that people have unrealistic expectations of us.
If we fail to be involved half of the parties will want to blow us up, if we are involved the other half will.
Total catch 22
Oops:
I think this goes beyond US support for Israel.
I think that to reach this level of fanaticism you have to have people that are so fundamentalist that our way of life is incompatible with their belief system.
The US becomes the symbol of a lifestile that they can not tolerate.
I don't think a policy change is going to help something like this. We would have to change our whole Ideology, and I personally am not ready to go fundamentalist.
I think this goes beyond US support for Israel.
I think that to reach this level of fanaticism you have to have people that are so fundamentalist that our way of life is incompatible with their belief system.
The US becomes the symbol of a lifestile that they can not tolerate.
I don't think a policy change is going to help something like this. We would have to change
Let me ask you a question.
How would you have the US respond?
Let say that we could change all of our policies right now so that no one in the world would be displeased, how long would it last?
There will always be someone that is unhappy with us. If we always give in and never resort to using a deterent force - however unpleasant -- where will that leave us?
BTW I realize that not all Muslims were dancing in the street, but I am not suggesting we target all muslim countries.
I also don't equate rednecks in montana with organizations that get state protection and support. I actually think that our homegrown terrorists are too stupid to pull something like this off. They could not get 20 people to work well together. They are too busy being anti-establishment to establish that much organization.
As for this being done by Israel, I don't think they would risk loosing their biggest supporter.
I used to sit arround defending palistinians and muslim fundementalists in conversations with my friends. Making analogies to get them to understand how Isreal is the "bad guy".
But, after seeing them handing out candy and selebrating today I really don't care if we can only punish a country by attacking its citizens.
Sometimes when you fight with monsters you have to become one.
The sad thing is that I think muslim countries where really wining the PR war with the ordinary US citizens lately. It may not have affected our governments pollicy yet. But, I think people were getting tired of Isreals actions and thought the palistinians were being given a raw deal. This would have eventually affected US policy. Now the average US citizen will never feal that way again.
Actually I think there is a difference. The countries that harbor terrorists are looking for a plausable deniability. They want to wage war against their precieved enemy(us) and be able to simply point the finger at the terrorist group and have an out.
I think we should take that "out" away from them.
I do not think that killing any one person is more palatable than killing another!
But, lets say that this ends up being organized by a group taking refuge in a country which protects them from extradition and shelters and finances them. Then, I think we should retailiate against that group AND the country that is protectiong them.
It makes me wonder if they are just trying to help out Microsoft by taking the focus away from their security problems.
I don't normally go for conspiracy theories. But, the article just seemed to blow things out of proportion and kept mentioning Apache, which had nothing to do with the method of propegation.
It matters because it would be nice if more than just hobbyists and 5 person companies could use Postgres.
I know it is sad, but any larger company is going to want a support contract -- even if it is just a CYA move.
I think it is hard to find talented people on the job. But, in the open source world there are many.
Don't take this the wrong way. It is just that employers measure success differently. Is it on-time, on-budget, and does it work? They are not equiped to measure the quality of the design/code. So they never succesfully build a great team of people. You are always carrying some of them.
That means the only place you can both do a good job and work with good people is in the open world. Because, the people who choose to do development in their spare time are usually the talented ones.
Turtle Beach has the Audiotron which does the same thimg works great and can be found at some best buys for $149. I love mine.
If that is true then lets see you copy one from your desktop to your laptop. I can imagine having my desktop die and then what good is my backup copy? It can only run on one install of the ebook reader.
I know that this seems far fetched because ebooks have not become popular. But, if in the future they did become the only way publishers released books libraries would not be able to lend them.
The DMCA seems to criminalize the library that might someday exist.
Do you have the best encoder, decoder for the format. Are you running at comparable bit rates? Is the audio hardware decent. Even if the audio hardware is decent how do you get the audio to the amp?
I know that I can play the same mp3 on my computer/soundcard hooked up to my receiver's rca jacks or from my audiotron to the receiver's optical digital input and the mp3 sounds much better with the reciever doing the DAC.
The site would stay up under some load :-)
I have a really old Violent Femmes CD from 11-12 years ago. And it has clear spots in the media and is unplayable.
Should the record company give me a new one? After all they want to take away my digital fair-use rights.
The thing that sucks is that this is one of my favorit albums.