How about using a lunar calendar? After all, this is the Internet. You know! The place where it is more usual to browse for pictures of missiles, passing in front of a moon!
Thanks, Enlightenment core team! If nothing else were widely adopted, we owe 'em Xinerama - which got a big boost while both were lads, and picked up by RedHat.
We also owe them for MUCH of the Linux/BSD/Xorg eye-candy. Their implementations may not have been the very best - certainly not the ones that went mainstream. But the blandness of FLTK, Motif, FVWM, etc. suffered in comparison to their freshman efforts at visual pop and sizzle. The direct challenge presented by the Enlightenment visual presentation set a bar and a challenge that the toolkits, window managers and render engines of that time were pressed to meet. More so than OS X or any other contemporary. If you 'Nix looks hotter than Vista or Mac today, then you have these longhaired guys, who didn't sit still when told what was impossible or necessary to thank for it.
Anecdotes will get you everywhere - in politics and other disreputable professions.
The proportion of this surveillance to ordinary, classic police detective and forensic work is pitiable. It also inverts the relationship of the citizen in a republic or representative democracy towards the custodians of civil enforcement, who are employed at the behest of the former. Everyone under surveillance is subtly a 'person of interest' - if not expressly a suspect. When this is combined with societies that then adopt illegal policies of secret laws, secret detentions and secret courts (Like the UK and USA) - including retroactive prosecution? This is Big Brother.
Perhaps I am innocent today, but a law is passed on an observed and recorded behavior that renders it a law-breaking activity tomorrow. That is the context of our current situation and debate.
Juvenile crypto-fascists of your persuasion cannot convince me otherwise, with dubious accounting of individual instances of success, unrelated from the statistical, societal and judicial realities against which they are posited.
The second they use the term "Czar", to describe a person in administrative capacity over a regulatory body, they betray the authoritarian and anti-democratic ideology with which they conspire against representative government and individual rights and liberties.
Czar is the Slavic rendering of Caesar. Why anybody sees this as an expediency worthy of trade-off for democratic involvement and oversight is a question I leave you, the dear reader to resolve.
What is "empirical" about the statement? He has numbers that show constant and increasing surveillance do not constitute a greater threat to privacy and liberty than they do a deterrent to crime? How'd I miss that one?
The meaning of "Big Brother" is this pervasive surveillance to curtail individual rights and liberty - under the ruse of being essential to protect and secure.
Also the dirty dealings and transfer to MOSSAD, the creepy bin Laden connection - that implicates several intelligence agencies, including CIA in at least not stopping 9-11. Hints that they funded and planned it...
I have 3 R4000 'Blackjack' models lik ethis, at home. 2 have Elite graphics sets. All have DAT with audio firmware. Except for proprietary KB pinout, they are no trouble at all. I am thinking of rewiring a USB2PS/2 dongle to update the input devices.
Prosecutor's Management Information System (Promis) The claims are that no conclusive misdoings have ever been proven from the allegations. No one was prosecuted in the CIA cocaine transports that funded Iran/Contra, either. If you think this all ancient history, dig up the latest from Sibel Edmonds.
This outlines the shadowy connections between DoJ complicity with Israel against US interests, and the subversion of justice efforts to capture bi Laden - a US and MOSSAD intelligence agent.
The techniques of the state control are the same. You can argue seating arrangements defined after the French Revolution, all you want to - it is how corpro-statist control maintains and strengthens its grip, while the peons bicker over ideological alignment.
You're worrying about the blacks, when the Jew money-printers ripp you off, and charge 120% to do you the f*ing favor. Black man stands free as he can, while you owe your ass an more, as the jew-bank's whore.
Oh, and there is financial incentive in newly defining large areas of private and civic life as illegal. Your innocence stands in between a billionaire and his next grotesque excess. I suppose you will now be guilty of something.
Why did you cast the current situation into the hypothetical future? Get your thermometer in order, my web-footed compatriot!
Follow the money on these things... The roads all trail back to Israel - land of inverted-crypto technologies, used for surveillance, not privacy. Look back at PROMIS, etc.
They bought frog-legs off the menu, and the soup's almost ready.
What kind of "review" do you expect from a Zionist control freak? Let him run a checkpoint in the West Bank, so he can make sure a few brown babies and their grandfathers die, emargoes from access to medicine. Maybe then he'll leave us alone.
Right-wing control-freak apologies. "Localities that deploy CCTV cameras in public thoroughfares in the hope of combating crime are in no way indicative of the oppressive control of Orwell's Big Brother"
Right. Assertion based on facts not in evidence. Sell it to the f-ing Israelis, Mr. Mossad.
...street talking aloud to himself, don't run in the opposite direction, but run towards him, because he's a poet. You have nothing to fear from the poet - but the truth."
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How about using a lunar calendar? After all, this is the Internet. You know! The place where it is more usual to browse for pictures of missiles, passing in front of a moon!
Betamax
I have a few Indigo & Indigo2 machines BEGGING for someone to match this effort for the SGI, "Elan" framebuffer.
Oh, what's five or seven more years of hardware obsolescence to the inspired hacker?
No.
It was Rasterman and Mandrake.
Thanks, Enlightenment core team! If nothing else were widely adopted, we owe 'em Xinerama - which got a big boost while both were lads, and picked up by RedHat.
We also owe them for MUCH of the Linux/BSD/Xorg eye-candy. Their implementations may not have been the very best - certainly not the ones that went mainstream. But the blandness of FLTK, Motif, FVWM, etc. suffered in comparison to their freshman efforts at visual pop and sizzle. The direct challenge presented by the Enlightenment visual presentation set a bar and a challenge that the toolkits, window managers and render engines of that time were pressed to meet. More so than OS X or any other contemporary. If you 'Nix looks hotter than Vista or Mac today, then you have these longhaired guys, who didn't sit still when told what was impossible or necessary to thank for it.
I told you! I'm a Sorcerer! Wizards are sissies!
Guards! There's a FLASHER in the Expressionist exhibition!
But IETab with IE8 fixes problems with sites that are inaccessible to IE8. :-) It did the same for IE7.
As my corp machine has IE8, I find IETab (in my Portable Firefox) indispensable.
Dear Nigel,
You had me at "11".
My Firefox does 11 times more work than Chrome. The plugins I run are worth the minor tradeoffs in performance - because it's still speedy.
The value of NOT opening my robe to Google? Priceless!
Anecdotes will get you everywhere - in politics and other disreputable professions.
The proportion of this surveillance to ordinary, classic police detective and forensic work is pitiable. It also inverts the relationship of the citizen in a republic or representative democracy towards the custodians of civil enforcement, who are employed at the behest of the former. Everyone under surveillance is subtly a 'person of interest' - if not expressly a suspect. When this is combined with societies that then adopt illegal policies of secret laws, secret detentions and secret courts (Like the UK and USA) - including retroactive prosecution? This is Big Brother.
Perhaps I am innocent today, but a law is passed on an observed and recorded behavior that renders it a law-breaking activity tomorrow. That is the context of our current situation and debate.
Juvenile crypto-fascists of your persuasion cannot convince me otherwise, with dubious accounting of individual instances of success, unrelated from the statistical, societal and judicial realities against which they are posited.
What a joke!
A curve that stays linear in function. Scare me with another one.
Did the person who wrote the submitted article ever hear the term "adoption curve" - and wonder why it wasn't "adoption incline"?
There is a plateau. Where it occurs, when how and at what rate? These are things worthy of discussion. But, I howl into the storm, again.
The second they use the term "Czar", to describe a person in administrative capacity over a regulatory body, they betray the authoritarian and anti-democratic ideology with which they conspire against representative government and individual rights and liberties.
Czar is the Slavic rendering of Caesar. Why anybody sees this as an expediency worthy of trade-off for democratic involvement and oversight is a question I leave you, the dear reader to resolve.
What is "empirical" about the statement? He has numbers that show constant and increasing surveillance do not constitute a greater threat to privacy and liberty than they do a deterrent to crime? How'd I miss that one?
The meaning of "Big Brother" is this pervasive surveillance to curtail individual rights and liberty - under the ruse of being essential to protect and secure.
State of the art in the late 80's.
Advanced to what, now?
Also the dirty dealings and transfer to MOSSAD, the creepy bin Laden connection - that implicates several intelligence agencies, including CIA in at least not stopping 9-11. Hints that they funded and planned it...
I have 3 R4000 'Blackjack' models lik ethis, at home. 2 have Elite graphics sets. All have DAT with audio firmware. Except for proprietary KB pinout, they are no trouble at all. I am thinking of rewiring a USB2PS/2 dongle to update the input devices.
Seriously. That's all we really want. Chrome cube on a purple case.
Prosecutor's Management Information System (Promis) The claims are that no conclusive misdoings have ever been proven from the allegations. No one was prosecuted in the CIA cocaine transports that funded Iran/Contra, either. If you think this all ancient history, dig up the latest from Sibel Edmonds.
This outlines the shadowy connections between DoJ complicity with Israel against US interests, and the subversion of justice efforts to capture bi Laden - a US and MOSSAD intelligence agent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor's_Management_Information_System
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.01/inslaw.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSLAW
http://www.newsmakingnews.com/Jensen.htm
The techniques of the state control are the same. You can argue seating arrangements defined after the French Revolution, all you want to - it is how corpro-statist control maintains and strengthens its grip, while the peons bicker over ideological alignment.
The Jews got you fooled.
You're worrying about the blacks, when the Jew money-printers ripp you off, and charge 120% to do you the f*ing favor. Black man stands free as he can, while you owe your ass an more, as the jew-bank's whore.
Oh, and there is financial incentive in newly defining large areas of private and civic life as illegal. Your innocence stands in between a billionaire and his next grotesque excess. I suppose you will now be guilty of something.
Why did you cast the current situation into the hypothetical future? Get your thermometer in order, my web-footed compatriot!
Follow the money on these things... The roads all trail back to Israel - land of inverted-crypto technologies, used for surveillance, not privacy. Look back at PROMIS, etc.
They bought frog-legs off the menu, and the soup's almost ready.
What kind of "review" do you expect from a Zionist control freak? Let him run a checkpoint in the West Bank, so he can make sure a few brown babies and their grandfathers die, emargoes from access to medicine. Maybe then he'll leave us alone.
Right-wing control-freak apologies. "Localities that deploy CCTV cameras in public thoroughfares in the hope of combating crime are in no way indicative of the oppressive control of Orwell's Big Brother"
Right. Assertion based on facts not in evidence. Sell it to the f-ing Israelis, Mr. Mossad.
...street talking aloud to himself, don't run in the opposite direction, but run towards him, because he's a poet. You have nothing to fear from the poet - but the truth."
---Ted Joans from the poem "Jazz Is My Religion"
"You said the word "Man". Please report to the centre for Inguinal Orchiectomy."