Once again we have been bent over for an ass raping by Bill Gates and his republican cohorts. Of course what do I care since:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money
from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury,
with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great
civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from
spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to
complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
--Lord Alexander Tyler on the fall of the
Athenian republic
I figure in the face of this and the recent Anti-Terrorist Bill (the signing of which has scared me more than Bin Laden and Anthrax combined) that we are on our merry way back to bondage. The good thing is that the first to be lined up and shot will be those stupid green fuckers who were so high on pot and their rose tinted hippie glasses that they voted for Nader in the last election.
I had saved a bunch of pages of this from Google's cached pages when the site first went down. Now I can go back to wandering through the various mathematical wonders and wish that I knew enough math to understand some of it. There is so much helpful stuff that it is great that it is back. Too bad Slashdot didn't give us some info on how this is possible. And of course as the courts giveth, the slashdot effect taketh away as I can't get in to get the details...
You are correct, these cards wouldn't have helped. This is just for Larry and Scott to get media attention, the fucks. If Larry cares then he should stop landing his jet at San Jose so late. It's disgusting to watch these guys use this tragedy to shill their products. Of course since Ashcroft is the closest thing to chicken little that I have ever seen, I suppose they see their chance.
I don't know what sort of fantasy land you have going on over in Belgium but in America we have a saying, "Money talks and bullshit walks." What this means is that the Government here is in constant collusion with "Special Interest Lobby Groups". Which is a sort of a psued system that pretends that its listening to citizens but is actually listening to those with cash i.e. corporate interests. Meaning that it is bribery in action. People have been making an effort to try and elect those with values but its hard to scale up the Gov't ladder without financial backing. Then your elected official goes to Washington and gets lots of "perks" and eventually he becomes one of them because they have "get along with others". Money for education is not a priority in this country so we end up with a huge population of slack jawed yokels who don't give a shit or don't know enough to give a shit about their rights. This helps perpetuate the system since these people are likely to believe whatever rhetoric they're daddy or community believes rather than sort it out for themselves.
The reason that there are so many privacy freaks on Slashdot is that there are a lot of intelligent individuals in the technology community. Many of them are educated enough to think for themselves and see through the erosion of rights that goes on in Washington. We fight it as best we can, voting, engaging in discussions both off and online. But the majority of this country is both undereducated and TV stunted. A recent poll here showed that 7 in 10 Americans thought it would be a good thing if there were no TV but all watched it constantly. So people's attitudes is that things are bad but they are powerless to stop it. Hey, when you watch the President let his business pals from Texas rape California with outlandish energy prices during a major power crisis, what sort of message does that send?
Of course the Gov't will use this terrorist crisis to pass laws to abuse our civil rights even further. There is no law they could pass which would of prevented those guys from getting on those planes and doing what they did without turning this nation into a police state. I would rather take a chance on dying in a terrorist action than give up living in a free land. Our complicity in this action through our horrific policies in the middle east, of course, is a responsibility that we would never own up to. Rather than enforce all these extra security measures how about our gov't engaging in more humane policies so that the rest of the world doesn't hate our guts? That would be the best form of security for the future.
Ellison is just trying to cash in on tragedy through making his product visible. Pathetic.
By the way, we do have state issued drivers licenses and ID cards and everybody has to have them to drive or get a job. The only reason to get a new database going would be to spy on citizens (which is already done appallingly often)who disagree with major corporations and the gov't. Everybody always says why should citizens worry if they have nothing to hide, I say why should the gov't worry if they have nothing to hide?
Electronic age is the key to your statement. As Osama Bin Laden has shown us, by eschewing electronics he has managed to elude us for years. Of course as the top post stated, because the Gov't is slowly eroding our privacy does that mean we should just give up?
Of course Ellison's deal is to prime the pump for more business, you gotta give a little to get a little. He hasn't really stated any specifics about what advantage this card would serve other than to make Oracle software more visible. This sure wouldn't have stopped those terrorists from getting on the plane.
Man, like most everyone else you are fucking stupid. What "daily benefits" would there be to this? It wouldn't have stopped those terrorists on the planes, they were here legally. They would have had Immigration ID cards and passed right through airport security. What are the tons of issues that we "deal with everyday" that we could sort out with this?
Your pathetic sense of security would be merely a psychological ploy, you wouldn't be any safer. This sort of thing is merely a boon for Government agencies to spy on those critical of them. People would forge these just like everything else. Maybe you like the idea of a Nazi Germany type police state presence where everybody has to show their papers or get arrested. Great, I'm so glad that unlike the kids on Slashdot who don't think for themselves that you have this all figured out. However your poor spelling, lack of capitalization and vague pointing to ideas without any specific details shows what a great thinker you are.
Remember the old Ben Franklin saw that "those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither liberty nor security". It's on these sorts of principles that this nation was founded.
Larry Ellison is a shameless self promoter who realizes that if Oracle were the product of "Big Brother" that there would be other business coming down the pike from corporate and security interests. He disgusts me by using this tragedy to promote himself.
Of course as the cartoon philosopher Ren once said,"Stimpy, they are all ideeee-iiits!"
B&N are worse than Borders since they tried to take over the book distribution industry when they tried to buy Ingram. The outcry against B&N was so strong that they gave up but they have fucked the small bookseller with their incestuous relationship with Ingram (the largest source for books in America). The deals and extra dating have been stolen from indies and as a result we are left increasingly with Mall choices. Amazon is a hateful organization that screws their employees and everyone I know who works there hates it or had left. Shop at indies both brick and mortar and online. Sometimes the only power you can wield is your pocketbook.I used to shop Borders, being from Detroit and then having one close to me in downtown Seattle but will no longer ever give them another cent.
I always said that this so-called "Internet" was just a fad that, once regulations were in place, would go away. No porn, no web, no kidding. Fuck the pigs, trying to control our lives....as a friend pointed out to me recently, John Locke said that the state should never put itself into the business of protecting citizens from themselves. And of course there's the old Ben Franklin saw that those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither. Looks like it's police state time for Amerika. I wouldn't be so down if it wasn't for the fact that so many people are so stupid that they would check into the Matrix hotel as the ultimate gated community. What happens to Neo and Morpheus when they wake people up and get to be as stunned as Randall P. McMurphy when the people tell them that they checked themselves in voluntarily....
Actually the Cray at #11 is the T3 which is not as fast as the SV1. This list seems to be not a list of fastest per se but a list of ones working in production environments. Since I don't see the SV1 on the list I don't know whether this is a new rollout or one that is in production in uncredited environments......
I get sick and tired of all these Mac users who live in some fantasy land that Apple makes a more stable OS. This is utter bullshit. My G3 constantly crashes in IE taking the whole OS with it, hard reboot daily. Often it's problems with Java or Javascript. Whatever, I have searched the Mac groups and found tons of people with various stability problems for lots of reasons. I have a Win box and while Win2K is kind of spotty, NT 4.0 SP6 has run like a champ with NO problems for over 2 years (yes I applied SP's over the years so that is the one change to the OS which is better than Apple where you have to patch spot by spot or pay money for some crappy support). I upgraded the Mac to OS9.1 and it's still buggy. I like the DVD playback WHEN IT FUCKING WORKS! Usually I have to play around with it to get it to play certain DVD's and now that Apple has dumped support for the G3 in terms of upgrades to the DVD playback software I am stuck with constant tweaking to make it work.
Yes, Apple makes nice looking machines and soon when I decide to dump the G3 it will look nice with an Asus mobo and an Athlon in it.....
But don't tell me that your shitty Mac is the most stable machine around since that is fucking bullshit. The only box that I have never had any problems with is the Sun Ultra10 that I used at work and I won't make any claims about Sun equipment since I don't know overall how well they work throughout the industry. An example to those idiots who think their personal anecdotal evidence accounts for something industry-wide.
I use Dotster as well and I have no complaints. I get quick replies to my email and the web interface is easy to use. They are cheap and would recommend them. I heard too many nightmare stories about NetSol and they are really expensive, I found Dotster through the dom-reg comparison site and have been happy ever since.
Actually Qwest has a page up (there are links posted in several emails above) to get the 2.4.1 which is safe from the worm I believe. However I talk to my router through my Mac (I know, I know, believe me, my ass is still sore from the "Jobs" Apple did to me) and that page is under construction so I am SOL. I suppose that I could set up the software on one of my other machines but for the last few hours the router has finally stabilized (no power cycling every ten minutes like earlier today) so I will worry about this later....at least my Mac isn't being infected or anything. So I think that Qwest's ass is covered for securing their home users except for a small percentage that wasn't directly up for infection and while the router situation was a pain it seems to have subsided while the worm goes after the Whitehouse site. Take that GWB you fucking bribe taking asshole!
"San Jose International Airport officials have denied Larry Ellison's request to exempt his Gulfstream V jet from the airport's curfew. San Jose has a curfew that prohibits large jets from using the airport between 11:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m."
I met Fabio once and he told me that he and some friends had eaten out and gone back to his place to watch a movie and everyone started getting sick. They figured it was the shellfish, but Fabio didn't think that they had had enough time to digest the food to be gettting sick. So he changed the settings on his subwoofer in the massive home theater system and suddenly everyone felt okay!
Now that's good squishy!
Thanks for making generalities for the rest of us you fucking retard. It all depends on how much listening you do and how much you care. Which will differ from person to person. You can't set a dollar limit on this sort of stuff and say that is the marker point. Typical AC idiot comment. Almost as stupid as the tone of the retarded washingtonpost article that this is all about.
Sorry, the slashdot nazi's have spoken, "You are not allowed to have fun, we don't understand your obsession therefore we ridicule it and call it an addiction. It's unhealthy and weird."
Of course all this coming from people who never see the light unless it's coming from the computer monitor that they spend 100 hours a week in front of and the only obsessions allowed are for Linux and computer hardware. Now overclocking, that's allowed. But nothing else. For all of our belief in technology we can't believe that an expensive stereo sounds better than a bose clock radio. Why that's crazy talk.
Funny, a double-blind cable test is what convinced me that cables sounded differently. I thought it was bullshit and that I would be able to hear, at best, the tiniest difference. Instead it was huge and I was convinced. Since then I have come to accept some things and not others. I am skeptical about shun mook discs but live and let live, I have never been able to borrow some to try in my system and it's hard to tell at audio shows whether they make a difference or not. But some of that really high end equipment sure sounds sweet. Too bad these guys play the worst fucking music ever. The classical is fine but the rock music they choose sucks. All they care about is if it is well recorded or not. To me I want to hear the inner detail of good music not have a stereo check disc become my life. When I listen to grungy music I want to say "Hear that? There's more shit there in that sound, where it goes Skreeieieihcchkchczgzghekazzzzz!" The only thing as good would be mag wheels, man that'd be sweet......
Heroin is illegal, buying speakers is not and as long as he is not going bankrupt he isn't hurting anyone. The singular purchase of expensive speakers hardly qualifies as a habitual act so it is not an addiction. In fact using your income on things you enjoy is healthy. Most of the idiots here are a)confusing obsession and addiction and b)calling something bad just because it goes outside the bounds of their limited experiences. If someone buys an expensive computer system I am not out calling him an addict. If someone buys a Lamborghini I don't judge that either. His use of the word addiction was a joke that you failed to get. Perhaps your post is a joke as well but all too typical of the sort of inanities that is being posted here. Since you put your legal smoking habit in the same boat as the crack habit you obviously are confused about judging things in general. Legality and effect on a persons life through a constant and repetitive action is one way to consider the harm of addiction. On the other hand a singular purchase of expensive speakers hardly qualifies as a habitual act.
Good point about who was at the conference for what reasons and who was getting paid. Until Microsoft starts putting the electropods into people's houses and turns them into Stepford Microserfs, they will always have to pay people to have anything to do with them. And it is creepy the amount of clean-shaven young "Can-do" trons they do find to man the booths at the expos. The worst part is that glazed look in their eye when you ask yet another question that falls outside their carefully scripted presentation. "Uh, let me check my notes, I don't think they prepared us for that", they waffle. "Uh, you do use this software don't you?", I ask. "Yes I use it at work all the time." is the lame response. I guess the idea that you hack on your own time or do more than set up marketing presentations never occurs to these chumps.
I have to give them their due, they sure recognize a good idea when they see one. You are sure to either see them beat it down in the press or see their own version of it at the next conference you go to. Embrace and extend, damn right. Innovate my ass.
"We're the hardest working band in the business, I don't care if we're the best!" - Iggy Pop with the Stooges.
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
--Lord Alexander Tyler on the fall of the Athenian republic
I figure in the face of this and the recent Anti-Terrorist Bill (the signing of which has scared me more than Bin Laden and Anthrax combined) that we are on our merry way back to bondage. The good thing is that the first to be lined up and shot will be those stupid green fuckers who were so high on pot and their rose tinted hippie glasses that they voted for Nader in the last election.
Oh c'mon, I can't wait until they roll out Outlook Express for Linux.
You are correct, these cards wouldn't have helped. This is just for Larry and Scott to get media attention, the fucks. If Larry cares then he should stop landing his jet at San Jose so late. It's disgusting to watch these guys use this tragedy to shill their products. Of course since Ashcroft is the closest thing to chicken little that I have ever seen, I suppose they see their chance.
The reason that there are so many privacy freaks on Slashdot is that there are a lot of intelligent individuals in the technology community. Many of them are educated enough to think for themselves and see through the erosion of rights that goes on in Washington. We fight it as best we can, voting, engaging in discussions both off and online. But the majority of this country is both undereducated and TV stunted. A recent poll here showed that 7 in 10 Americans thought it would be a good thing if there were no TV but all watched it constantly. So people's attitudes is that things are bad but they are powerless to stop it. Hey, when you watch the President let his business pals from Texas rape California with outlandish energy prices during a major power crisis, what sort of message does that send?
Of course the Gov't will use this terrorist crisis to pass laws to abuse our civil rights even further. There is no law they could pass which would of prevented those guys from getting on those planes and doing what they did without turning this nation into a police state. I would rather take a chance on dying in a terrorist action than give up living in a free land. Our complicity in this action through our horrific policies in the middle east, of course, is a responsibility that we would never own up to. Rather than enforce all these extra security measures how about our gov't engaging in more humane policies so that the rest of the world doesn't hate our guts? That would be the best form of security for the future.
Ellison is just trying to cash in on tragedy through making his product visible. Pathetic.
By the way, we do have state issued drivers licenses and ID cards and everybody has to have them to drive or get a job. The only reason to get a new database going would be to spy on citizens (which is already done appallingly often)who disagree with major corporations and the gov't. Everybody always says why should citizens worry if they have nothing to hide, I say why should the gov't worry if they have nothing to hide?
Of course Ellison's deal is to prime the pump for more business, you gotta give a little to get a little. He hasn't really stated any specifics about what advantage this card would serve other than to make Oracle software more visible. This sure wouldn't have stopped those terrorists from getting on the plane.
Your pathetic sense of security would be merely a psychological ploy, you wouldn't be any safer. This sort of thing is merely a boon for Government agencies to spy on those critical of them. People would forge these just like everything else. Maybe you like the idea of a Nazi Germany type police state presence where everybody has to show their papers or get arrested. Great, I'm so glad that unlike the kids on Slashdot who don't think for themselves that you have this all figured out. However your poor spelling, lack of capitalization and vague pointing to ideas without any specific details shows what a great thinker you are.
Remember the old Ben Franklin saw that "those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither liberty nor security". It's on these sorts of principles that this nation was founded.
Larry Ellison is a shameless self promoter who realizes that if Oracle were the product of "Big Brother" that there would be other business coming down the pike from corporate and security interests. He disgusts me by using this tragedy to promote himself.
Of course as the cartoon philosopher Ren once said,"Stimpy, they are all ideeee-iiits!"
Actually the Cray at #11 is the T3 which is not as fast as the SV1. This list seems to be not a list of fastest per se but a list of ones working in production environments. Since I don't see the SV1 on the list I don't know whether this is a new rollout or one that is in production in uncredited environments......
Yes, Apple makes nice looking machines and soon when I decide to dump the G3 it will look nice with an Asus mobo and an Athlon in it.....
But don't tell me that your shitty Mac is the most stable machine around since that is fucking bullshit. The only box that I have never had any problems with is the Sun Ultra10 that I used at work and I won't make any claims about Sun equipment since I don't know overall how well they work throughout the industry. An example to those idiots who think their personal anecdotal evidence accounts for something industry-wide.
Fuck you man, vi totally rules all over emacs....
Droid: I have the solution.....please take Redhat install disc and insert into CD drive. Install Redhat...choose GUI and enjoy.
Me: Now why didn't I think of that?
I use Dotster as well and I have no complaints. I get quick replies to my email and the web interface is easy to use. They are cheap and would recommend them. I heard too many nightmare stories about NetSol and they are really expensive, I found Dotster through the dom-reg comparison site and have been happy ever since.
Actually Qwest has a page up (there are links posted in several emails above) to get the 2.4.1 which is safe from the worm I believe. However I talk to my router through my Mac (I know, I know, believe me, my ass is still sore from the "Jobs" Apple did to me) and that page is under construction so I am SOL. I suppose that I could set up the software on one of my other machines but for the last few hours the router has finally stabilized (no power cycling every ten minutes like earlier today) so I will worry about this later....at least my Mac isn't being infected or anything. So I think that Qwest's ass is covered for securing their home users except for a small percentage that wasn't directly up for infection and while the router situation was a pain it seems to have subsided while the worm goes after the Whitehouse site. Take that GWB you fucking bribe taking asshole!
"San Jose International Airport officials have denied Larry Ellison's request to exempt his Gulfstream V jet from the airport's curfew. San Jose has a curfew that prohibits large jets from using the airport between 11:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m."
Maybe he meant to use a "" sign since his user number is less than two years old.
Yeah, you should let either Bill Gates or Larry "Gulfstream" Ellis ream your ass till your wallet bleeds.
I met Fabio once and he told me that he and some friends had eaten out and gone back to his place to watch a movie and everyone started getting sick. They figured it was the shellfish, but Fabio didn't think that they had had enough time to digest the food to be gettting sick. So he changed the settings on his subwoofer in the massive home theater system and suddenly everyone felt okay! Now that's good squishy!
Thanks for making generalities for the rest of us you fucking retard. It all depends on how much listening you do and how much you care. Which will differ from person to person. You can't set a dollar limit on this sort of stuff and say that is the marker point. Typical AC idiot comment. Almost as stupid as the tone of the retarded washingtonpost article that this is all about.
Idiots are everywhere.
Funny, a double-blind cable test is what convinced me that cables sounded differently. I thought it was bullshit and that I would be able to hear, at best, the tiniest difference. Instead it was huge and I was convinced. Since then I have come to accept some things and not others. I am skeptical about shun mook discs but live and let live, I have never been able to borrow some to try in my system and it's hard to tell at audio shows whether they make a difference or not. But some of that really high end equipment sure sounds sweet. Too bad these guys play the worst fucking music ever. The classical is fine but the rock music they choose sucks. All they care about is if it is well recorded or not. To me I want to hear the inner detail of good music not have a stereo check disc become my life. When I listen to grungy music I want to say "Hear that? There's more shit there in that sound, where it goes Skreeieieihcchkchczgzghekazzzzz!" The only thing as good would be mag wheels, man that'd be sweet......
Heroin is illegal, buying speakers is not and as long as he is not going bankrupt he isn't hurting anyone. The singular purchase of expensive speakers hardly qualifies as a habitual act so it is not an addiction. In fact using your income on things you enjoy is healthy. Most of the idiots here are a)confusing obsession and addiction and b)calling something bad just because it goes outside the bounds of their limited experiences. If someone buys an expensive computer system I am not out calling him an addict. If someone buys a Lamborghini I don't judge that either. His use of the word addiction was a joke that you failed to get. Perhaps your post is a joke as well but all too typical of the sort of inanities that is being posted here. Since you put your legal smoking habit in the same boat as the crack habit you obviously are confused about judging things in general. Legality and effect on a persons life through a constant and repetitive action is one way to consider the harm of addiction. On the other hand a singular purchase of expensive speakers hardly qualifies as a habitual act.
from the front lines of deregulation.....
I have to give them their due, they sure recognize a good idea when they see one. You are sure to either see them beat it down in the press or see their own version of it at the next conference you go to. Embrace and extend, damn right. Innovate my ass.
"We're the hardest working band in the business, I don't care if we're the best!" - Iggy Pop with the Stooges.