I like the way he talks about the liberating power of technology... so long as you don't want to discuss anything that the government doesn't agree with... or want to find out what happened in Tianamen square, or if you want to have unrestricted access to other webpages. But appart from that it does makes people completely free, free as a (caged) bird
How free will this be, I meen both in speach and beer... I would like to see exactly what they would do with each file I upload (i might be paranoid and not having anything too important anyway)... I am also a little concerned about what might happen if the US govt. asks for all my data on their drives (again probably too paranoid)... also I like cheap things
You think thats bad... I'm using fedora core 5 and it just can't play legal dvd's that I've bought because of this shit, I've tried everything and it just won't work... I'd even be prepared to watch the "STEALING IS BAD EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW YOU WON'T HAVE DONE IT BECAUSE WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD THEY RIP THIS BIT OUT" section in order to see the dvd
as far as I know the law in England (although it was a few years since I read this and then it was in an old book - they were talking about the storage capacity of hard drives being measured in kilobytes or megabytes) anywho, I seem to remember it saying that it was illegal to use an encryption or send an encrypted e-mail without providing the authorites with a copy of the key... I don't know if this is the law now or what it meant by having to provide them with it in advance or just if they asked... still, it kinda proves your point
I've actually used some vioce recognition over the years and it's got a lot better than it used to be. last time I used to use a voice recognition software on my computer even though I did loads of the training it just didn't seem to get it; eventually I had to give up... it wasn't cheap either. Whilst I think it will have potential to do a lot in the future I'm just not sure that it's really at the stage where it can be considered a full time replacement; especially for technical jobs
or do you think it requires a lot more than a semi-qualified community to approach the problem?
(sorry about the bad spelling)
well I'm completely unqualified in every sense for these things, but being a political scientist I should be able to have a stab at the last question... Concordat's jury theorum suggests that with more people your chance of getting a right answer increases, say if everyone has about 60% chance of getting it right for example then with a few hundered people that chance should have increased to over 80%... which would lead me to believe yes it will work, still, i tend to think that the more people you have the less productive you are capable of being as people will disagree, and if the two most experienced people disagree then it could polarise the views of the less experienced people and split the project... so basically, it could go either way...
ok, offtopic as fuck but you said you were a linux geek so I might aswell ask and take the karma hit...
I've got windows/suse 9.1 installed on my laptop and it uses grun to load up. I want to replace suse with a different version of linux... how do I do that without messing up GRUB and making windows not able to load (bearing in mind I don't have the windows CD) and what distro of linux should I choose as somewhat of a noobie? (ideally free in both senses)... and there goes the karma...
"Already, the movie industry's use of encryption on DVDs has curtailed consumers' ability to make legitimate, personal-use copies of movies they have purchased"
I always thought that there was a legal right to be able to make a copy of a dvd for your own use, just incase you lost the original or something. It's really annoying to lose one and then be left stuck. If we do have this right (I'm no lawyer so I'm not sure where we are legally) then why are we not being allowed to use them, is this not witholding our rights and breaking the law?
I'd be happy if a government computer system cost $400,000,000 and caught 1000 people so long as it didn't materially help terrorists. My main problem with many thing like this is that if it can get a virus this easily, how easily can it be hacked/infected with a virus to say something like "you don't have to watch out for John Smith, he's not a terrorist/drug dealer/whatever the bad guys are doing these days"... this could actually provide a conduit for the bad people, whilst doing nothing but annoying people like me who are "not actively evil" or better.
You have inspired me, so I will now release the source code of my mind in order to have an "open mind"... currently I'm running on the v.20 firmware and my mind maps out a little like this... "beer---sex---...beer"
blastfax kudos all around... we're really revolutionising outside of the box. You might even say we're frying with fossil fuels... now lets re-arrange the paradigm
anyway, don't you worry about blank, let me worry about blank
aren't they like the brain creatures... I hear when they finally finish all the archiving and indexing in the universe they will blow up everything that is and ever would be in order to not create any new information... just to save the hastle of indexing that too
"Cue the people claiming I am STEALING from them by watching the bittorrents"
you're STEALING!... seriously, you are... I mean i can't identify the "property", nor when an "appropriation" happened, I can't tell you who it "belongs to" in the first place (since you own your own hard Drive), I can't see anyway in which you are "permanently depriving" an other person of something, nor do I think that an ordinary and reasonable person would consider it to be "dishonest"... but even though it fulfils none of the mens rea or actus reus of theft, it is definitely stealing, and that's wrong...
Contributed by CmdrTaco on Sat Jan 10 at 10:27AM EST
[Linux] From the up-and-coming-os dept
Evelyn Mitchell sent us this story where you can read about slowdowns in Client OS sales. According to the article, Microsoft still controls 87% of the operating systems sold last year. The gem though is the comments about IS managers evaluating free OS's like Linux. Could 98 really be the year Linux breaks into the main stream corporate world in a big way?
It is always going to be hard to get people to start using linux on their home computers, people like what they know... I've been using windows since 3.1 and the change to linux is certainly taking a long time and small steps is what is on order... in a government/business sense linux would be easier to adopt... when you're at work you don't need to install things (the one thing I think windows makes so much easier than linux) as the IT dept can handle that the same is true of installing hardware... for home computers though, well, it would be easier to adopt if I had friends who also used and so we could help each other and figure things out...
I wouldn't worry about terrorist implications of this, it is actually very difficult for a group without large resources (and even for those with them) to create workable weapons of mass destruction and bioweaponry would deffinately fall into this catergory... From a journal article i read by J. Mueller in Terrorism and Political Violence (vol.17:487-505, 2005)
Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese cult that had some three hundred scientists in
its employ and an estimated budget of $1 billion, reportedly tried at least nine times
over five years to set off biological weapons by spraying pathogens from trucks and
wafting them from rooftops, hoping fancifully to ignite an apocalyptic war. These
efforts failed to create a single fatality--in fact, nobody even noticed that the attacks
had taken place.
Contributed by CmdrTaco on Sat Jan 10 at 10:27AM EST
[Linux] From the up-and-coming-os dept
Evelyn Mitchell sent us this story where you can read about slowdowns in Client OS sales. According to the article, Microsoft still controls 87% of the operating systems sold last year. The gem though is the comments about IS managers evaluating free OS's like Linux. Could 98 really be the year Linux breaks into the main stream corporate world in a big way?
Has he not tried Damn Small Linux... it is pretty small, doesn't really seem to be "too fat", it even works on my OLD laptop with its 167MHz processor and nearly no RAM
look at news without a net connection? Either this is going to be just the same as viewing pages offline after you've been on them (perhaps an automated web crawler which grabs pages whilst you have some up time) or you will be viewing very old news... It seems to be the former though, in which case your not really doing it "without a connection"... so why bother? this seems like a waste of space and time (an bandwidth), just look at what you want to when your plugged in rather than constantly getting information you may never need
One of the problems with the regulation of nano technology here in the UK is that when a product is deamed to be safe no new procedures have to be gone through in order to use the same product on a nano scale, but the impact which they could have could be completely different. I am a fan of nano technology but I see this case as a good thing, it will encourage greater testing and safety procedures whilst not turning people into anti-nano zealots because (thankfully on many levels) no one seems to have died.
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Its ok, you just have to avoid sticky keys...
I like the way he talks about the liberating power of technology... so long as you don't want to discuss anything that the government doesn't agree with... or want to find out what happened in Tianamen square, or if you want to have unrestricted access to other webpages. But appart from that it does makes people completely free, free as a (caged) bird
How free will this be, I meen both in speach and beer... I would like to see exactly what they would do with each file I upload (i might be paranoid and not having anything too important anyway)... I am also a little concerned about what might happen if the US govt. asks for all my data on their drives (again probably too paranoid)... also I like cheap things
You think thats bad... I'm using fedora core 5 and it just can't play legal dvd's that I've bought because of this shit, I've tried everything and it just won't work... I'd even be prepared to watch the "STEALING IS BAD EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW YOU WON'T HAVE DONE IT BECAUSE WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD THEY RIP THIS BIT OUT" section in order to see the dvd
as far as I know the law in England (although it was a few years since I read this and then it was in an old book - they were talking about the storage capacity of hard drives being measured in kilobytes or megabytes) anywho, I seem to remember it saying that it was illegal to use an encryption or send an encrypted e-mail without providing the authorites with a copy of the key... I don't know if this is the law now or what it meant by having to provide them with it in advance or just if they asked... still, it kinda proves your point
I've actually used some vioce recognition over the years and it's got a lot better than it used to be. last time I used to use a voice recognition software on my computer even though I did loads of the training it just didn't seem to get it; eventually I had to give up... it wasn't cheap either. Whilst I think it will have potential to do a lot in the future I'm just not sure that it's really at the stage where it can be considered a full time replacement; especially for technical jobs
" make it advisable "to throw the computer away" if you want to be sure you got rid of the rootkit"
Or just use chkrootkit? I don't know how good it is though, are there any better open source sypware/mallware removers for linux?
fix the link to google calender, its calendar.google.com
or do you think it requires a lot more than a semi-qualified community to approach the problem?
(sorry about the bad spelling)
well I'm completely unqualified in every sense for these things, but being a political scientist I should be able to have a stab at the last question... Concordat's jury theorum suggests that with more people your chance of getting a right answer increases, say if everyone has about 60% chance of getting it right for example then with a few hundered people that chance should have increased to over 80%... which would lead me to believe yes it will work, still, i tend to think that the more people you have the less productive you are capable of being as people will disagree, and if the two most experienced people disagree then it could polarise the views of the less experienced people and split the project... so basically, it could go either way...
ok, offtopic as fuck but you said you were a linux geek so I might aswell ask and take the karma hit...
I've got windows/suse 9.1 installed on my laptop and it uses grun to load up. I want to replace suse with a different version of linux... how do I do that without messing up GRUB and making windows not able to load (bearing in mind I don't have the windows CD) and what distro of linux should I choose as somewhat of a noobie? (ideally free in both senses)... and there goes the karma...
another advantage to the romulan ale is that you can drink more than 2 of them even if you are not a 30 ton mega-elephant with bhronchital pneumonia
"Already, the movie industry's use of encryption on DVDs has curtailed consumers' ability to make legitimate, personal-use copies of movies they have purchased"
I always thought that there was a legal right to be able to make a copy of a dvd for your own use, just incase you lost the original or something. It's really annoying to lose one and then be left stuck. If we do have this right (I'm no lawyer so I'm not sure where we are legally) then why are we not being allowed to use them, is this not witholding our rights and breaking the law?
I'd be happy if a government computer system cost $400,000,000 and caught 1000 people so long as it didn't materially help terrorists. My main problem with many thing like this is that if it can get a virus this easily, how easily can it be hacked/infected with a virus to say something like "you don't have to watch out for John Smith, he's not a terrorist/drug dealer/whatever the bad guys are doing these days"... this could actually provide a conduit for the bad people, whilst doing nothing but annoying people like me who are "not actively evil" or better.
Open your mind people!
You have inspired me, so I will now release the source code of my mind in order to have an "open mind"... currently I'm running on the v.20 firmware and my mind maps out a little like this... "beer---sex---...beer"
blastfax kudos all around... we're really revolutionising outside of the box. You might even say we're frying with fossil fuels... now lets re-arrange the paradigm
anyway, don't you worry about blank, let me worry about blank
aren't they like the brain creatures... I hear when they finally finish all the archiving and indexing in the universe they will blow up everything that is and ever would be in order to not create any new information... just to save the hastle of indexing that too
"Cue the people claiming I am STEALING from them by watching the bittorrents"
you're STEALING!... seriously, you are... I mean i can't identify the "property", nor when an "appropriation" happened, I can't tell you who it "belongs to" in the first place (since you own your own hard Drive), I can't see anyway in which you are "permanently depriving" an other person of something, nor do I think that an ordinary and reasonable person would consider it to be "dishonest"... but even though it fulfils none of the mens rea or actus reus of theft, it is definitely stealing, and that's wrong...
you must have missed the memo, it was 98...
Linux Affecting MS Sales?
Contributed by CmdrTaco on Sat Jan 10 at 10:27AM EST
[Linux] From the up-and-coming-os dept
Evelyn Mitchell sent us this story where you can read about slowdowns in Client OS sales. According to the article, Microsoft still controls 87% of the operating systems sold last year. The gem though is the comments about IS managers evaluating free OS's like Linux. Could 98 really be the year Linux breaks into the main stream corporate world in a big way?
According to this it happened 8 years ago....
It is always going to be hard to get people to start using linux on their home computers, people like what they know... I've been using windows since 3.1 and the change to linux is certainly taking a long time and small steps is what is on order... in a government/business sense linux would be easier to adopt... when you're at work you don't need to install things (the one thing I think windows makes so much easier than linux) as the IT dept can handle that the same is true of installing hardware... for home computers though, well, it would be easier to adopt if I had friends who also used and so we could help each other and figure things out...
I think sarin is a chemical weapons as opposed to a biological one
I wouldn't worry about terrorist implications of this, it is actually very difficult for a group without large resources (and even for those with them) to create workable weapons of mass destruction and bioweaponry would deffinately fall into this catergory... From a journal article i read by J. Mueller in Terrorism and Political Violence (vol.17:487-505, 2005)
Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese cult that had some three hundred scientists in its employ and an estimated budget of $1 billion, reportedly tried at least nine times over five years to set off biological weapons by spraying pathogens from trucks and wafting them from rooftops, hoping fancifully to ignite an apocalyptic war. These efforts failed to create a single fatality--in fact, nobody even noticed that the attacks had taken place.
maybe you missed this story...
Linux Affecting MS Sales?
Contributed by CmdrTaco on Sat Jan 10 at 10:27AM EST
[Linux] From the up-and-coming-os dept
Evelyn Mitchell sent us this story where you can read about slowdowns in Client OS sales. According to the article, Microsoft still controls 87% of the operating systems sold last year. The gem though is the comments about IS managers evaluating free OS's like Linux. Could 98 really be the year Linux breaks into the main stream corporate world in a big way?
According to this it happened 8 years ago....
Has he not tried Damn Small Linux... it is pretty small, doesn't really seem to be "too fat", it even works on my OLD laptop with its 167MHz processor and nearly no RAM
look at news without a net connection? Either this is going to be just the same as viewing pages offline after you've been on them (perhaps an automated web crawler which grabs pages whilst you have some up time) or you will be viewing very old news... It seems to be the former though, in which case your not really doing it "without a connection"... so why bother? this seems like a waste of space and time (an bandwidth), just look at what you want to when your plugged in rather than constantly getting information you may never need
One of the problems with the regulation of nano technology here in the UK is that when a product is deamed to be safe no new procedures have to be gone through in order to use the same product on a nano scale, but the impact which they could have could be completely different. I am a fan of nano technology but I see this case as a good thing, it will encourage greater testing and safety procedures whilst not turning people into anti-nano zealots because (thankfully on many levels) no one seems to have died.