I understand that this is/. and there is a knee-jerk reaction to hate/despise/loathe/not trust/etc. anything M$, and a lot of times I myself have the same reaction, however your solution would also bar my own computer from accessing the internet, as well as my wife's machine. I run WinXP as a primary OS, with Mint 9 installed on the other partition, and the wife's is the opposite. I'm a computer tech, with my own business. I know what I'm doing when it comes to setting up my machine to be safe, and I do the same to the wife's.
I hate M$ just as much as the next geek, but come on. Blanket restrictions are *NEVER* a good idea. Which is why the "health certificate" idea would never work. There are far too many variables and far too many different scenarios available on the internet.
Stop and think about it for a second. *EVERY* computer in the world (or at least the US) would have to be scanned. And analyzed. I like my privacy far too much to allow this to happen to any computer on my home network. And they all are connected to the internet. The Windows boxes are fully updated and antivirused. And the Linux boxes.. Well, they don't need the antivirus, but they are also fully updated.
I love seeing the T-1000 in other movies. Me and my friends can never remember his name, and I think we don't want to, so every show/movie he is in we say "Sweet, the T-1000's in this show".
Even if it's a comedy, I like to pretend that he's just really good a mimicking (or really bad at mimicking) human emotion.
Actually, LinuxMint uses PulseAudio by default, and I LOVE it. After struggling with sluggish and high-latency audio in the *buntu series, Slackware, and even PCLinuxOS... I installed LinuxMint. I LOVE it. The audio is fast, responsive, and I have had no problems with it at all. Even on my miserable Intel onboard hardware.. YMMV:)
...that people have no lives and don't have enough business of their own. I mean seriously. I can think of so many better things to be doing with my time than looking at what people are renting based on their ZIP code. WHO CARES!?
Just because we have the ABILITY to get this information doesn't mean we SHOULD get it.
Here's a few VERY basic facts that most people seem to forget to just simply don't care about.
First of all.. the trucker that "forced you over" is the minority. The EXTREME minority. My dad was a trucker, my uncle was a trucker, and I have several good friends who are still truckers. None of them were *ever* in an accident. With well over 100 combined years on the road, and countless hundreds of thousands of miles under the tires, I think that's a DAMN good driving record. Most people don't give truckers the respect they deserve. It takes a HELLUVA lot more to stop a fully loaded 18 wheeler than a car. It's also a lot harder to see cars that are along side of you or behind you in a rig.
My second point is very simple. If truckers stop, the entire country stops. If you eat it, wear it, drive it, or pretty much anything else, a trucker delivered it.
Think about that the next time you're going down the road and one of the hardest working men (or women) in the country, who takes WEEKS at a time away from their families and friends just to deliver the things that you and I use every single day.
As a WildBlue installer, I can almost guarantee you that it's the high latency. Not to mention the fact that *most* traffic from Anik F2 for WildBlue has been discontinued, effectively cutting thier total available bandwidth in half.
Also, be very careful when downloading torrents on WildBlue service. Their AUP is horrid, and they will deactivate your account without warning, much like Comcast.
You, sir, are completely incorrect. It is not *happening* in the U.S., it has already *happened*.
You've heard of the 60's right? Remember all the drugs? Well, not all of them were used. Some were flushed into the water system, thereby being distributed to all 50 states... Those who ingested the drugs the water system had children (my generation), so we were born with it!:)
I personally think that "morals" should play no part whatsoever in lawmaking. What one person thinks is "morally correct" I may feel is immoral. Or vice versa.
For example: I am quite sure that my wife and I do things in our bedroom that some bible-thumping religious nazi would find highly immoral. Does that mean they should be illegal? I think not.
Is Penryn the core name or the CPU series name? Does this mean the end of the Pentium brand that we have all come to know and love and hate and love again?
On an unrelated rant, I'm pretty sure the idea with utopia is that you can't get there. And I can think of a lot better utopia than a Wal-Mart checkout line. For example a world without Wal-Mart at all...
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I understand that this is /. and there is a knee-jerk reaction to hate/despise/loathe/not trust/etc. anything M$, and a lot of times I myself have the same reaction, however your solution would also bar my own computer from accessing the internet, as well as my wife's machine. I run WinXP as a primary OS, with Mint 9 installed on the other partition, and the wife's is the opposite. I'm a computer tech, with my own business. I know what I'm doing when it comes to setting up my machine to be safe, and I do the same to the wife's.
I hate M$ just as much as the next geek, but come on. Blanket restrictions are *NEVER* a good idea. Which is why the "health certificate" idea would never work. There are far too many variables and far too many different scenarios available on the internet.
Stop and think about it for a second. *EVERY* computer in the world (or at least the US) would have to be scanned. And analyzed. I like my privacy far too much to allow this to happen to any computer on my home network. And they all are connected to the internet. The Windows boxes are fully updated and antivirused. And the Linux boxes.. Well, they don't need the antivirus, but they are also fully updated.
I love seeing the T-1000 in other movies. Me and my friends can never remember his name, and I think we don't want to, so every show/movie he is in we say "Sweet, the T-1000's in this show".
Even if it's a comedy, I like to pretend that he's just really good a mimicking (or really bad at mimicking) human emotion.
Robert Patrick. That's his name :) HTH
Or, better still, IMO, completely eschew all forms of Christianity and just go Pagan/Wiccan :)
Let me find out you're a shepherd..
Does Chrome Frame run inside IE Tab in Firefox on Linux? There, fixed that for you ;)
WOW! So there really ARE /.ers that have had sex...
Wait.. Was it with a real person? A human being, I mean..
Yeah.. I was born in the late 70's... Don't you feel old now? LOL!!
What I really wanna know is if he thought of this after he hit his head on the toilet...
If humans were so smart, you wouldn't have to explain the golden rule to them.
Do unto others before they do unto you?
Actually, LinuxMint uses PulseAudio by default, and I LOVE it. After struggling with sluggish and high-latency audio in the *buntu series, Slackware, and even PCLinuxOS... I installed LinuxMint. I LOVE it. The audio is fast, responsive, and I have had no problems with it at all. Even on my miserable Intel onboard hardware.. YMMV :)
all your base are belong to us? :)
That's fine. The general public IS NOT marketing people.
.. the whole country is going down the tubes..
...that people have no lives and don't have enough business of their own. I mean seriously. I can think of so many better things to be doing with my time than looking at what people are renting based on their ZIP code. WHO CARES!?
Just because we have the ABILITY to get this information doesn't mean we SHOULD get it.
Get a life people and MOVE ON!
Now come on.. 500 exploits in the first year? Do you really think it will take long to find 500 exploits? heh
Yeah, I can see it..
Couch? What couch? The DOG gets the couch, and he gets the dog house ;-)
Here's a few VERY basic facts that most people seem to forget to just simply don't care about.
First of all.. the trucker that "forced you over" is the minority. The EXTREME minority. My dad was a trucker, my uncle was a trucker, and I have several good friends who are still truckers. None of them were *ever* in an accident. With well over 100 combined years on the road, and countless hundreds of thousands of miles under the tires, I think that's a DAMN good driving record. Most people don't give truckers the respect they deserve. It takes a HELLUVA lot more to stop a fully loaded 18 wheeler than a car. It's also a lot harder to see cars that are along side of you or behind you in a rig.
My second point is very simple. If truckers stop, the entire country stops. If you eat it, wear it, drive it, or pretty much anything else, a trucker delivered it.
Think about that the next time you're going down the road and one of the hardest working men (or women) in the country, who takes WEEKS at a time away from their families and friends just to deliver the things that you and I use every single day.
As a WildBlue installer, I can almost guarantee you that it's the high latency. Not to mention the fact that *most* traffic from Anik F2 for WildBlue has been discontinued, effectively cutting thier total available bandwidth in half.
Also, be very careful when downloading torrents on WildBlue service. Their AUP is horrid, and they will deactivate your account without warning, much like Comcast.
I see they make nice CNC software was well... Perhaps you meant http://www.vectrix.com/?
You, sir, are completely incorrect. It is not *happening* in the U.S., it has already *happened*.
:)
You've heard of the 60's right? Remember all the drugs? Well, not all of them were used. Some were flushed into the water system, thereby being distributed to all 50 states... Those who ingested the drugs the water system had children (my generation), so we were born with it!
I personally think that "morals" should play no part whatsoever in lawmaking. What one person thinks is "morally correct" I may feel is immoral. Or vice versa.
For example: I am quite sure that my wife and I do things in our bedroom that some bible-thumping religious nazi would find highly immoral. Does that mean they should be illegal? I think not.
And What's on second, I Don't Know is on third....
Is Penryn the core name or the CPU series name? Does this mean the end of the Pentium brand that we have all come to know and love and hate and love again?