1st off, don't get the wrong idea. Censorship is definatly a bad thing. and from the sounds of it, this law doesn't restrict the police, so this "problem" will eventually go away on it's own. but mabie this will have some possitive effects too (I'm being very overly optimistic here) in that mabie it'll help improve the quality of the news for a little while? (yeah right) it would be nice if the media reported on fewer crimes because of the lack of info and reported on more importaint issues to all of us. the majority of the news media seems to have turned into basically a dramma. it's all abnout entertainment and not aboutinforming the people. this is very unfortunate because I think alot of the problems (especially with our govt) could be turned around if only the media was more informative about importaint issues to people.. but anyway, back to this situation, there seems to be a very fine line between what's censorship, and what's just protecting peoples privacy. and protecting people's privacy can be very importaint up until they're convicted of the crime that they're accused of.. without privacy, just being accused of certain types of crime, especially if it's highly publicized, can have a very bad effect on someone's life, and give someone a reputation that cannot be changed by an verdict of innocence. so, is this really censorship, or is it neccisary privacy to protect a potentially innocent person? (what ever happened to innocent until proven guilty anyway??) just my $.02.. or mabie a lil more than that..:)
yes, but that's not why Intel is in such a rush to get them out.. Intel would _much_ prefer making people pay more for their chips.. way too many people are just blinded by the one most prominate number, and know nothing about buss speed and cache and ram speed and so forth..
nah, it's not the smart people who need a fast machine for their work. it's the brain-dead managers who see the higher numbers and insist on getting that for their new server, or it's the users who don't realize that the mhz isn't the only number to look at and have too much money to burn at want to have "The Best" even if they don't need it...
so, just boot onto a floppy (will these things let you boot onto a floppy? they must if you can install RH I guess) and mount the hard drive and change the password by hand *shrug* doesn't seem like that much of a big deal...
well, perhaps this will all be bad enough to be good. If they get too bad then (hopefully) enough of the market will start actively seeking alternatives. of course then again, in a few more years whoever becomes the next big name/cert providers will probably just become as big/bloated/careless and we'll be right back where we are now.. ahh, gotta love progress. heh
now they've just gotta use this technology in the production of the crusoe processors.. I wonder just how small they'd be able to make them? hmm.. mabie my next watch will be powered by a mini-crusoe..:)
...or powered by an overclocked mini-celery.. but then I'd end-up with a nice burn on my wrist..
I don't WANT my files automatically hard-linked or sym-linked together like that.. if I want them linked, then I'll link them, if I want them seperate, then they'd better stay seperate.. it's another case of Microsoft trying to make the computer think for you, but I don't want my computer to think for me, I want my computer to just do what it's told!
if it's linked into your brain, perhaps you don't need to see it.. if you can use your thoughts as the input device, than why not let it just output into you thoughts as well, or into your brain's memory or whatever? of course if the device malfunctioned in any way it'd probably kill you, but perhaps that's just the price of progress???
I think you've got that kind of backwards.. There will be a billion dollar BSD IPO AFTER the hype takes off.. the only reason linux companies are doing so well is because linux is getting popular, not the other way around...
I use vi, and am learning to like it (haven't been using it long) quite simply because I know when I learn all the keys and so forth it will be fast and streamlined.. and imho Word is just the opposite - a big bloated app that is moch more than what's needed to do 99% of what I do. the only reason I'd even need a full-blown word processor (and when I do I just use wordperfect) is when I need to print something that looks pretty for my boss or somethign similar, otherwise vi is it.. try putting ms-word on your emergency bootdisk:)
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hmm, no showers?? I think they'll have some problems after 2 years without sex with no showers.. I'm sure on a long-term mission like that they'll find SOME way to clean up, otherwise there'll be some pretty smelly astronauts...
umm, actually it'd still be 3d on earth too.. all depends on what position your in on which way the gravity is pulling from.... I don't think that's be an issue so much.. but then ovulation on the other hand may have more to do with gravity?? oh-well
2 distros could be a good thing - you have one distro that's real easy to set-up and configure, has all the toys to make it easy for new linux users, and you have another that's pretty basic for the linux hacker who wants to configure everything by hand so they know exactly how their system is set-up... of course that's just one example... also I suppose you could put options in the intstallation program to accomplish the same thing, but with 2 sepperate distros than being a newbie freindly distro wont scare away the linux hackers...
sounds reasonable enough, but there's one problem with that theory. doesn't RH LIKE having customers calling them with support questions since they charge for support?
this may also have to do with why they're backing sendmail instead of a possibly easier to set-up e-mail system - so they get more support calls? I'm not going to profess to know really what mail system is the best or easiest or whatever, I tried out sendmail and qmail, qmail was the one I was able to get working first, and I set-up qmail for my office.
This is how mine's set-up at work on my desk I've got a nice 19" screen and am running X (with blackbox if anyone cares) and just have menu options to open an xterm window running telnet or ssh to either of the machines I need to work on. I have 3 machines here I do work on (including mine on my desk) and both the others need to be networked anyway being servers so it works well. I also have set the command prompts on them all to different colors so I can tell them apart at a glance (and different colors for root and normal users on each machine too btw) - crank up my resolution and can work on 2 machines very easily, or watch one machine's log while working on another or whatever I need at the time...
what I'm wondering is what if some person/group/whatever puts up a website (say slashdot) and it's not trademarked, but it's a well established site with lots of regular hits.. now what if a company decides they want to get the trafic from slashdot, so they name their company slashdot corp, and trademark it - would they then be able to take-over the slashdot.org domain name under this law??
even if they do use the past 50 years as an example, there's still so many variables, and just because it's been one way for the past 50 years doesn't mean it'll be the same for the next 50, if that was the case then there wouldn't be any question of what the climate will be in 50 years. What about the whole "butterfly effect" thing, I mean, yeah, it's a far fetched idea, but the point is every tiny little variable in the long run can have a huge effect on what the weather is going to be.. it's just a guess.. basically at the end of this project they're going to be like the weatherman that they describe who has different weather reports that contratict themselves, and shrug their shoulders and guess.
I am a christian, went to a christian highschool, go to church every week, and if Jesux is for real then it's rediculous... I'm sure it's well intentioned, but taken way too far IMHO.. Not accepting sendmail because it was written by a homosexual is, if anything, unchristian! Everyone sins, and you are supposed to accept ppl despite their sins. If you don't accept code written by a homosexual because they sin, then you better-off not accept any of the code because it was ALL written by sinners. The "abort" command, I assume, was changed because they connected it with abortion. but the word abortion came from the word abort not visa versa. The military aborts missions, is that wrong too?? No encryption? does that mean they can't use SSL to connect to a webserver for secure purchaces? Even if you have nothing to hide, you still don't want to give away your creditcard number to anyone running a sniffer. as for using the words kill and daemon in the os, I think it's fine because they have essentially different meanings... if you rename kill as stop or something does it change the action. if they do think using those words is bad then can you use them at all? or can you never talk about killing or daemons at all, and if that's the case then you'd better not read the bible. things like having squid set-up to restrict internet access can be good if you have kids or something, but there's also internet providers that will do that for you too (which would be harder for the kids to find ways around).
So either I'm too liberal of a christian, or this is just extreme legalism (kinda like the pharasees in the Bible).
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1st off, don't get the wrong idea. Censorship is definatly a bad thing. and from the sounds of it, this law doesn't restrict the police, so this "problem" will eventually go away on it's own. but mabie this will have some possitive effects too (I'm being very overly optimistic here) in that mabie it'll help improve the quality of the news for a little while? (yeah right) it would be nice if the media reported on fewer crimes because of the lack of info and reported on more importaint issues to all of us. the majority of the news media seems to have turned into basically a dramma. it's all abnout entertainment and not aboutinforming the people. this is very unfortunate because I think alot of the problems (especially with our govt) could be turned around if only the media was more informative about importaint issues to people.. .. or mabie a lil more than that.. :)
but anyway, back to this situation, there seems to be a very fine line between what's censorship, and what's just protecting peoples privacy. and protecting people's privacy can be very importaint up until they're convicted of the crime that they're accused of.. without privacy, just being accused of certain types of crime, especially if it's highly publicized, can have a very bad effect on someone's life, and give someone a reputation that cannot be changed by an verdict of innocence. so, is this really censorship, or is it neccisary privacy to protect a potentially innocent person? (what ever happened to innocent until proven guilty anyway??)
just my $.02
yes, but that's not why Intel is in such a rush to get them out.. Intel would _much_ prefer making people pay more for their chips..
way too many people are just blinded by the one most prominate number, and know nothing about buss speed and cache and ram speed and so forth..
nah, it's not the smart people who need a fast machine for their work. it's the brain-dead managers who see the higher numbers and insist on getting that for their new server, or it's the users who don't realize that the mhz isn't the only number to look at and have too much money to burn at want to have "The Best" even if they don't need it...
so, just boot onto a floppy (will these things let you boot onto a floppy? they must if you can install RH I guess) and mount the hard drive and change the password by hand *shrug* doesn't seem like that much of a big deal...
well, perhaps this will all be bad enough to be good. If they get too bad then (hopefully) enough of the market will start actively seeking alternatives.
of course then again, in a few more years whoever becomes the next big name/cert providers will probably just become as big/bloated/careless and we'll be right back where we are now.. ahh, gotta love progress. heh
now they've just gotta use this technology in the production of the crusoe processors.. I wonder just how small they'd be able to make them? hmm.. mabie my next watch will be powered by a mini-crusoe.. :)
...or powered by an overclocked mini-celery.. but then I'd end-up with a nice burn on my wrist..
...a usable webbrowser in under a meg? :)
I don't WANT my files automatically hard-linked or sym-linked together like that.. if I want them linked, then I'll link them, if I want them seperate, then they'd better stay seperate.. it's another case of Microsoft trying to make the computer think for you, but I don't want my computer to think for me, I want my computer to just do what it's told!
well, the code MS used to figure it out had a bug. They must've stored it as a integer rather than a floating-point.. :)
if it's linked into your brain, perhaps you don't need to see it.. if you can use your thoughts as the input device, than why not let it just output into you thoughts as well, or into your brain's memory or whatever? of course if the device malfunctioned in any way it'd probably kill you, but perhaps that's just the price of progress???
well, in that case wouldn't you just be able to make copies of the encrypted data?
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I think you've got that kind of backwards.. There will be a billion dollar BSD IPO AFTER the hype takes off.. the only reason linux companies are doing so well is because linux is getting popular, not the other way around...
I use vi, and am learning to like it (haven't been using it long) quite simply because I know when I learn all the keys and so forth it will be fast and streamlined.. and imho Word is just the opposite - a big bloated app that is moch more than what's needed to do 99% of what I do. the only reason I'd even need a full-blown word processor (and when I do I just use wordperfect) is when I need to print something that looks pretty for my boss or somethign similar, otherwise vi is it.. try putting ms-word on your emergency bootdisk :)
hmm, no showers?? I think they'll have some problems after 2 years without sex with no showers.. I'm sure on a long-term mission like that they'll find SOME way to clean up, otherwise there'll be some pretty smelly astronauts...
umm, actually it'd still be 3d on earth too.. all depends on what position your in on which way the gravity is pulling from.... I don't think that's be an issue so much.. but then ovulation on the other hand may have more to do with gravity?? oh-well
hmm, better also think about shutting down the USPostal Service and UPS and FedEx, etc b/c someone could easilly mail/ship illegal goods!!
2 distros could be a good thing - you have one distro that's real easy to set-up and configure, has all the toys to make it easy for new linux users, and you have another that's pretty basic for the linux hacker who wants to configure everything by hand so they know exactly how their system is set-up...
of course that's just one example...
also I suppose you could put options in the intstallation program to accomplish the same thing, but with 2 sepperate distros than being a newbie freindly distro wont scare away the linux hackers...
sounds reasonable enough, but there's one problem with that theory. doesn't RH LIKE having customers calling them with support questions since they charge for support?
this may also have to do with why they're backing sendmail instead of a possibly easier to set-up e-mail system - so they get more support calls? I'm not going to profess to know really what mail system is the best or easiest or whatever, I tried out sendmail and qmail, qmail was the one I was able to get working first, and I set-up qmail for my office.
This is how mine's set-up at work on my desk I've got a nice 19" screen and am running X (with blackbox if anyone cares) and just have menu options to open an xterm window running telnet or ssh to either of the machines I need to work on. I have 3 machines here I do work on (including mine on my desk) and both the others need to be networked anyway being servers so it works well. I also have set the command prompts on them all to different colors so I can tell them apart at a glance (and different colors for root and normal users on each machine too btw) - crank up my resolution and can work on 2 machines very easily, or watch one machine's log while working on another or whatever I need at the time...
if on the otherhand you search for lycos on excite's webpage you get stock quotes and all kinds of links for lycos...
what I'm wondering is what if some person/group/whatever puts up a website (say slashdot) and it's not trademarked, but it's a well established site with lots of regular hits.. now what if a company decides they want to get the trafic from slashdot, so they name their company slashdot corp, and trademark it - would they then be able to take-over the slashdot.org domain name under this law??
even if they do use the past 50 years as an example, there's still so many variables, and just because it's been one way for the past 50 years doesn't mean it'll be the same for the next 50, if that was the case then there wouldn't be any question of what the climate will be in 50 years. What about the whole "butterfly effect" thing, I mean, yeah, it's a far fetched idea, but the point is every tiny little variable in the long run can have a huge effect on what the weather is going to be.. it's just a guess.. basically at the end of this project they're going to be like the weatherman that they describe who has different weather reports that contratict themselves, and shrug their shoulders and guess.
I am a christian, went to a christian highschool, go to church every week, and if Jesux is for real then it's rediculous... I'm sure it's well intentioned, but taken way too far IMHO..
Not accepting sendmail because it was written by a homosexual is, if anything, unchristian! Everyone sins, and you are supposed to accept ppl despite their sins. If you don't accept code written by a homosexual because they sin, then you better-off not accept any of the code because it was ALL written by sinners.
The "abort" command, I assume, was changed because they connected it with abortion. but the word abortion came from the word abort not visa versa. The military aborts missions, is that wrong too??
No encryption? does that mean they can't use SSL to connect to a webserver for secure purchaces? Even if you have nothing to hide, you still don't want to give away your creditcard number to anyone running a sniffer.
as for using the words kill and daemon in the os, I think it's fine because they have essentially different meanings... if you rename kill as stop or something does it change the action. if they do think using those words is bad then can you use them at all? or can you never talk about killing or daemons at all, and if that's the case then you'd better not read the bible.
things like having squid set-up to restrict internet access can be good if you have kids or something, but there's also internet providers that will do that for you too (which would be harder for the kids to find ways around).
So either I'm too liberal of a christian, or this is just extreme legalism (kinda like the pharasees in the Bible).