The "people" under discussion are neither Christian, Jew, or Muslim and as such, the ten commandments do not apply to them. Their religion is money and power, and money and power is all they worship.
They may claim to be Christian or Hebrew or follow Muhammed, but they lie.
If this is a Christian nation, why is adultery legal? That's one of the "big ten" too! The fact is, this is a secular nation, and religion has nothing to do with its laws.
How much does it cost you to break a 56 bit key? 5 cents worth of computer time?
Considering that when I change someone's mainframe password here and afterward am notified that I used seventeen cents worth of CPU Time at $2500 and hour, I think it would be a little more than that.
Crimes happen because of the opportunity and the ability to get away with it.
Only if you have no morals. If your moral code says that a certain outlawed activity is not immoral, then yes. But most people are honest and will NOT steal.
I see you are not one of the honest people.
Crime is very much an economic force.
What's the economic incentive to grow weed for your own consumption?
While the actors involved aren't always particularly intelligent
90% of all crimes are unsolved, so obviously 90% of the criminals are at least smarter than the cops.
most citizens would commit a crime if the factors of opportunity and the ability to get away with it were highly in their favor.
Bullshit, you fucking thief. Thieves all believe most people are dishonest. Do you have a citation for your absurd statement, anonymous thief?
Please don't feed the trolls, they're all way too fat anyway. You just made a "-1. troll" visible by quoting him! Mods, fix this guy's wagon, please. Biters should be downmodded, just as the trolls themselves.
Actually they were sued by several state's attorneys, and settled. Personally, as a victim of XCP (I didn't agree to their god damned eula, my daughter installed it, never imagining that a big respected company would deliberately install MALWARE) I'd like to meet Sony's President in Felbers' beer garden and beat him to death with a two by four. I'm still pissed, and it's almost been ten years. I will never EVER be stupid enough to buy another Sony product. I want the company broken up and its board of directors impoverished. Nothing's too bad for those evil sociopaths. Cancer and AIDS are too good for 'em.
A rootkit is MALWARE. The president of Sony should have gone to prison, and the President of Ubisoft should, too. If I did to Sony what Sony did to me, you can bet your ass I'd go to prison. But it's OK for the 1% to fuck over the 99% any way they want, but if you mess with them, well, you're screwed.
And you stupid people should quit buying their damned games! Jesus, stop letting these assholes take advantage of you! You would buy from a company that deliberately installs malware on their customers' computers??? How goddamned stupid can you get????
The Apple 1 not only wasn't a PC, it wasn't even a whole computer.
Apple was established on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne,[1] to sell the Apple I personal computer kit. They were hand-built by Wozniak[22][23] and first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club.[24] The Apple I was sold as a motherboard (with CPU, RAM, and basic textual-video chips)â"less than what is today considered a complete personal computer.[25] The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 and was market-priced at $666.66 ($2,723 in 2012 dollars, adjusted for inflation.)
The Commodore PET predates the first Apple PC, the Apple II.
Commodore responded to this by searching for a chip set they could purchase outright. They quickly found MOS Technology, who were in the process of bringing their 6502 microprocessor design to market, and with whom came Chuck Peddle's KIM-1 design, a small computer kit based on the 6502. At Commodore, Peddle convinced Jack Tramiel that calculators were a dead-end. In September 1976 Peddle got a demonstration of Jobs and Wozniak's Apple II prototype, when Jobs was offering to sell it to Commodore, but Commodore considered Jobs' offer too expensive.[2] Tramiel demanded that Peddle, Bill Seiler, and John Feagans create a computer in time for the June 1977 Consumer Electronics Show, and gave them six months to do it.[3] Tramiel's son, Leonard, helped design the PETSCII graphic characters and acted as quality control. The result was the first all-in-one home computer, the PET, the first model of which was the PET 2001.
I think by 2016 or so all cells phones will look and perform the same.
I hope not; different people have different requirements for a phone. Me, I want a small enough phone to fit in a pants pocket, I want it to have a good video camera and sound, and I want it to surf the web and do text; email I'll do on the computer. I have no use for Angry Birds on a phone, or Skype since I don't have overseas friends.
Others carry purses and want a big screen and Angry Birds and Facebork and email, but don't give a damn about a camera.
Others just want a PHONE, something they can make and recieve calls on and don't want a camera, internet, text, or anything else.
When it comes to phones, unlike yesteryear one size does not fit all. If all phones are alike in 4 years, I'd consider that to be a very bad thing.
The guy's a political scientist. It might as well have been an astrologer saying we don't need algebra; astrology is about as scientific as political "science".
Ask that dufus (the political scientist) how the hell they could have built the LHC, or even launched space rockets, without algebra? Or developed new drugs?
I seem to recall Windows 3.1 being the point where Windows started to dominate the desktop OS market.
Microsoft dominated the desktop OS market ever since the IBM PC. Before that, CP/M dominated. Apple never did dominate the desktop market. They may have dominated the home market in the late '80s, but if so it didn't last long. Most people at home were using TRS-80, Amiga, Commmodore, etc. When DOS PCs were way too expensive for normal people, Apples were even more expensive.
How to you deal with closed-source, and in such a way that your mom or grandpa could use it?
Why would you need to? There are few closed source programs that don't have an open-source equivalent. In the edge cases that just won't run Linux, you're stuck with Windows.
However, MS really does have nothing to fear from Linux, as most people have never even heard of it.
You clearly have one OS that you use, and have used for 10 years and haven't looked at anything else
Incorrect. I've had Windows at work exclueively (at least wit the PC, the mainframe is obviously not running Windows). For the first five years I used it dual-boot, because Linux did have some issues. I've had a notebook for about a year that I haven't gotten around to installing Linux on. It's running Win7, and the difference between it and the tower (with a slower processor and less memory than the notebook) is stark. Patches, for instance. I cringe on Patch Tuesday because I know I'll have to boot the notebook, but when a patch comes through for Linux I just click, enter a password, and go on doing what I was doing.
Wow, I had a BB gun when I was six. But dad always had guns around back then, and taught us gun safety at an early age. My grandpa gave me a pocket knife when I was five, I got a.22 when I was 12.
Hell, these days they probably would have locked my parents up for child endangerment, but it was a normal thing back then. Funny, you never heard of kids shooting each other back then like you do now.
It's sad, but I've already had the first occurrence of someone asking me for a video of how to configure something.
The reason for that is even sadder: some people are illiterate, and most people are aliterate. However, for pete's sake, don't send a normal user to a command prompt! Would you send a normal person to the Windows registry? Put him in a distro with good GUI setup tools. I don't think I've seen a command prompt twice in five years, and one of those times was resetting a forgotten admin password in a friend's XP laptop (using Linux, of course).
Nothing in the Constitution gives them the authority to ignore anyone's rights. From the Bill of Rights:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The right of THE PEOPLE, not of "the citizens".
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
NO PERSON, not "no citizen."
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
ALL criminal prosecutions, NOT criminal prosecutions of citizens.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Nothing there about only pertaining to US citizens, either. The constitution doesn't say what US citizens are granted, but what power government is granted. The bill of rights states what government is prohibited from doing. It applies to everyone, not just US citizens. All US government authority comes from this documant, and the government is clearly acting illegally this century.
Actually, what enrages most people I know about Windows is that things do change for what appear to be solely marketing reasons.
Or no reason at all. From IE1 to IE5, they changed both the name and menu placement of "options" every time. It's as if they're trying to say "It's hard to use, so it must be sophisticated!" It was what started getting me interested in Linux, and when a Windows update replaced a perfectly good LAN driver with one that didn't work at all, that was the straw that broke the camels' back.
As to the submitter's question, I'd say anything with a KDE desktop. A change to KDE from any version of Windows will be less of a change than from any version of Windows to another. I'd say kubuntu or Mandriva are good choices.
But i can't play music (you don't get mp3 codec by default and I haven't been able to figure out how to install it). Many YouTube videos don't play (I'm not sure why. They work fine on windows or a Mac). I can't get flash to work in the browser which renders things like rhapsody useless (I followed all the instructions given to me by adobe and google chrome but it still doesn't work).
What distro are you running? I want to make sure I don't waste my time trying it out. I have kubuntu on my box, and it plays MP3s just as easily as oggs, I've never had a YouTube video not work, and Flash in Firefox is flawless. I'm using it as a media center for my TV!
As to useability, it's not as pretty as my win 7 notebook, but it's a hell of a lot more useable.
The thing is, there is no "Linux", there are a LOT of Linuxes, and they're not all the same. I had issues like that when I tried Suse ten years ago, but Mandrake had none of the problems in the same timeframe on the same computer.
Please, STOP FEEDING THE FUCKING TROLLS!!! Ignore them For God's sake, don't quote them!!! Jesus, man, what the fuck is wrong with you? Anonymous troll is at -1 so you gave him a voice! Mods, please downmod every response to the troll, including mine but especially the parent's, who stupidly quoted the racist bullshit. Fucking trollbiters are often as bad as the fucking trolls.
I don't know what OS is best, as I don't use Apple; they could well be the best. I'm pretty damned sure you couldn't write an OS much worse than Windows. If Windows didn't suck so badly, NOBODY would switch to Linux!
I'm 60, but when it comes to tech, 20 years IS the stone age. Twenty years ago you were running DOS on a 486. Twenty years ago, cell phones were 4 years old and only rich people had them. Twenty years ago there were no DVDs, let alone Blu-rays.
Did your car have ABS and air bags 20 years ago? Mine didn't.
Throwing away tech because it's old is dumb (I've written about this, the link is a bit dated), but when a new technology is superior to the old technology (disk brakes rather than drum brakes) the old tech SHOULD die. And this suit seems head and shoulders above the old tech.
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The "people" under discussion are neither Christian, Jew, or Muslim and as such, the ten commandments do not apply to them. Their religion is money and power, and money and power is all they worship.
They may claim to be Christian or Hebrew or follow Muhammed, but they lie.
If this is a Christian nation, why is adultery legal? That's one of the "big ten" too! The fact is, this is a secular nation, and religion has nothing to do with its laws.
How do you know he doesn't have a dedicated computer running Linux acting as a firewall?
How much does it cost you to break a 56 bit key? 5 cents worth of computer time?
Considering that when I change someone's mainframe password here and afterward am notified that I used seventeen cents worth of CPU Time at $2500 and hour, I think it would be a little more than that.
No. BSD uses the "I am not truly free unless I have the freedom to be a slave" while GPL is "I am not truly free if you are free to bang my wife".
Crimes happen because of the opportunity and the ability to get away with it.
Only if you have no morals. If your moral code says that a certain outlawed activity is not immoral, then yes. But most people are honest and will NOT steal.
I see you are not one of the honest people.
Crime is very much an economic force.
What's the economic incentive to grow weed for your own consumption?
While the actors involved aren't always particularly intelligent
90% of all crimes are unsolved, so obviously 90% of the criminals are at least smarter than the cops.
most citizens would commit a crime if the factors of opportunity and the ability to get away with it were highly in their favor.
Bullshit, you fucking thief. Thieves all believe most people are dishonest. Do you have a citation for your absurd statement, anonymous thief?
Please don't feed the trolls, they're all way too fat anyway. You just made a "-1. troll" visible by quoting him! Mods, fix this guy's wagon, please. Biters should be downmodded, just as the trolls themselves.
In other words, route learning.
All learning is route learning, how to get from point a to point b. Did you mean "rote?" If so, that would be accurate.
Didn't they loose their privacy?
No, someone else loosed it.
Actually they were sued by several state's attorneys, and settled. Personally, as a victim of XCP (I didn't agree to their god damned eula, my daughter installed it, never imagining that a big respected company would deliberately install MALWARE) I'd like to meet Sony's President in Felbers' beer garden and beat him to death with a two by four. I'm still pissed, and it's almost been ten years. I will never EVER be stupid enough to buy another Sony product. I want the company broken up and its board of directors impoverished. Nothing's too bad for those evil sociopaths. Cancer and AIDS are too good for 'em.
A rootkit is MALWARE. The president of Sony should have gone to prison, and the President of Ubisoft should, too. If I did to Sony what Sony did to me, you can bet your ass I'd go to prison. But it's OK for the 1% to fuck over the 99% any way they want, but if you mess with them, well, you're screwed.
And you stupid people should quit buying their damned games! Jesus, stop letting these assholes take advantage of you! You would buy from a company that deliberately installs malware on their customers' computers??? How goddamned stupid can you get????
The Apple 1 not only wasn't a PC, it wasn't even a whole computer.
The Commodore PET predates the first Apple PC, the Apple II.
I think by 2016 or so all cells phones will look and perform the same.
I hope not; different people have different requirements for a phone. Me, I want a small enough phone to fit in a pants pocket, I want it to have a good video camera and sound, and I want it to surf the web and do text; email I'll do on the computer. I have no use for Angry Birds on a phone, or Skype since I don't have overseas friends.
Others carry purses and want a big screen and Angry Birds and Facebork and email, but don't give a damn about a camera.
Others just want a PHONE, something they can make and recieve calls on and don't want a camera, internet, text, or anything else.
When it comes to phones, unlike yesteryear one size does not fit all. If all phones are alike in 4 years, I'd consider that to be a very bad thing.
Bullshit.
Wow, that was such a logical, rational answer. How can anyone not be swayed to your view? The logic is impeccable!
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The guy's a political scientist. It might as well have been an astrologer saying we don't need algebra; astrology is about as scientific as political "science".
Ask that dufus (the political scientist) how the hell they could have built the LHC, or even launched space rockets, without algebra? Or developed new drugs?
God, the stupidity!
I seem to recall Windows 3.1 being the point where Windows started to dominate the desktop OS market.
Microsoft dominated the desktop OS market ever since the IBM PC. Before that, CP/M dominated. Apple never did dominate the desktop market. They may have dominated the home market in the late '80s, but if so it didn't last long. Most people at home were using TRS-80, Amiga, Commmodore, etc. When DOS PCs were way too expensive for normal people, Apples were even more expensive.
Since "the love of money is the root of all evil," I'd say the term shouldn't be "has more money than God" but "Has more money than Beezlebub."
How to you deal with closed-source, and in such a way that your mom or grandpa could use it?
Why would you need to? There are few closed source programs that don't have an open-source equivalent. In the edge cases that just won't run Linux, you're stuck with Windows.
However, MS really does have nothing to fear from Linux, as most people have never even heard of it.
You clearly have one OS that you use, and have used for 10 years and haven't looked at anything else
Incorrect. I've had Windows at work exclueively (at least wit the PC, the mainframe is obviously not running Windows). For the first five years I used it dual-boot, because Linux did have some issues. I've had a notebook for about a year that I haven't gotten around to installing Linux on. It's running Win7, and the difference between it and the tower (with a slower processor and less memory than the notebook) is stark. Patches, for instance. I cringe on Patch Tuesday because I know I'll have to boot the notebook, but when a patch comes through for Linux I just click, enter a password, and go on doing what I was doing.
Wow, I had a BB gun when I was six. But dad always had guns around back then, and taught us gun safety at an early age. My grandpa gave me a pocket knife when I was five, I got a .22 when I was 12.
Hell, these days they probably would have locked my parents up for child endangerment, but it was a normal thing back then. Funny, you never heard of kids shooting each other back then like you do now.
It's sad, but I've already had the first occurrence of someone asking me for a video of how to configure something.
The reason for that is even sadder: some people are illiterate, and most people are aliterate. However, for pete's sake, don't send a normal user to a command prompt! Would you send a normal person to the Windows registry? Put him in a distro with good GUI setup tools. I don't think I've seen a command prompt twice in five years, and one of those times was resetting a forgotten admin password in a friend's XP laptop (using Linux, of course).
Nothing in the Constitution gives them the authority to ignore anyone's rights. From the Bill of Rights:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The right of THE PEOPLE, not of "the citizens".
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
NO PERSON, not "no citizen."
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
ALL criminal prosecutions, NOT criminal prosecutions of citizens.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Nothing there about only pertaining to US citizens, either. The constitution doesn't say what US citizens are granted, but what power government is granted. The bill of rights states what government is prohibited from doing. It applies to everyone, not just US citizens. All US government authority comes from this documant, and the government is clearly acting illegally this century.
Actually, what enrages most people I know about Windows is that things do change for what appear to be solely marketing reasons.
Or no reason at all. From IE1 to IE5, they changed both the name and menu placement of "options" every time. It's as if they're trying to say "It's hard to use, so it must be sophisticated!" It was what started getting me interested in Linux, and when a Windows update replaced a perfectly good LAN driver with one that didn't work at all, that was the straw that broke the camels' back.
As to the submitter's question, I'd say anything with a KDE desktop. A change to KDE from any version of Windows will be less of a change than from any version of Windows to another. I'd say kubuntu or Mandriva are good choices.
But i can't play music (you don't get mp3 codec by default and I haven't been able to figure out how to install it). Many YouTube videos don't play (I'm not sure why. They work fine on windows or a Mac). I can't get flash to work in the browser which renders things like rhapsody useless (I followed all the instructions given to me by adobe and google chrome but it still doesn't work).
What distro are you running? I want to make sure I don't waste my time trying it out. I have kubuntu on my box, and it plays MP3s just as easily as oggs, I've never had a YouTube video not work, and Flash in Firefox is flawless. I'm using it as a media center for my TV!
As to useability, it's not as pretty as my win 7 notebook, but it's a hell of a lot more useable.
The thing is, there is no "Linux", there are a LOT of Linuxes, and they're not all the same. I had issues like that when I tried Suse ten years ago, but Mandrake had none of the problems in the same timeframe on the same computer.
Please, STOP FEEDING THE FUCKING TROLLS!!! Ignore them For God's sake, don't quote them!!! Jesus, man, what the fuck is wrong with you? Anonymous troll is at -1 so you gave him a voice! Mods, please downmod every response to the troll, including mine but especially the parent's, who stupidly quoted the racist bullshit. Fucking trollbiters are often as bad as the fucking trolls.
I don't know what OS is best, as I don't use Apple; they could well be the best. I'm pretty damned sure you couldn't write an OS much worse than Windows. If Windows didn't suck so badly, NOBODY would switch to Linux!
So yeah. It hasn't anything to do with monopoly or any other 80s board game.
Your youth is showing!
I'm 60, but when it comes to tech, 20 years IS the stone age. Twenty years ago you were running DOS on a 486. Twenty years ago, cell phones were 4 years old and only rich people had them. Twenty years ago there were no DVDs, let alone Blu-rays.
Did your car have ABS and air bags 20 years ago? Mine didn't.
Throwing away tech because it's old is dumb (I've written about this, the link is a bit dated), but when a new technology is superior to the old technology (disk brakes rather than drum brakes) the old tech SHOULD die. And this suit seems head and shoulders above the old tech.