What is the point in bringing up race or nationality (unless you are focusing on the fact that they are different from you)?
What is the point in even bringing up a person's name? A man's nationality and heritage is part of the man himself.
That's a rather ironic complaint for an American, don't you think?
That's pretty damned hipocritical. It's not only a stereotype, but an untrue one. When I was sent to Thailand I learned Thai, or as much as I could in the single year I was there (ow gunshy, tall eye bhat?). I also know Spanish, at least, as much as I remember from school. Most of the GIs in Thailans learned as much Thai as they could. I would imagine that most of the GIs in Iraq know at least a smattering of Iraqi. Meanwhile buy almost any product in the US and it has multilingual instruction manuals.
What is ironic is your painting Americans not only with the same brush, but an untrue one.
If I was going to have a phone line that answered questions for people living in Mexico, the biggest requirement would be that the job applicant not only speak Spanish, but speak Spanish like a Mexican native. Anything less would be as stupidly offensive as my mortgage company is.
In summer 1952, a Remington Rand executive approached CBS News chief Sig Mickelson and said the Univac might be able to plot early election-night returns against past voting patterns and spit out a predicted winner. Mickelson and anchor Walter Cronkite thought the claim was a load of baloney but figured it would at least be entertaining to try it on the air.
On election night, the 16,000-pound Univac remained at its home in Philadelphia. In the TV studio, CBS set up a fake computer -- a panel embedded with blinking Christmas lights and a teletype machine. Cronkite sat next to it. Correspondent Charles Collingwood and a camera crew set up in front of the real Univac.
By 8:30 p.m. ET -- long before news organizations of the era knew national election outcomes -- Univac spit out a startling prediction. It said Eisenhower would get 438 electoral votes to Stevenson's 93 -- a landslide victory. Because every poll had said the race would be tight, CBS didn't believe the computer and refused to air the prediction.
A cell phone is a far more powerful computer than the UNIVAC was.
Get users on Linux, and we'll be seeing the "Train users to always click yes (or in CLI mode, prefix with "sudo") approach to privilege escalation"
Running KDE on Mandriva (which is like running Windows), if you log on as root the screen goes completely red and warns you sternly that you are in great danger of ruining your system.
Very seldom do I ever use a command prompt in it, in fact as seldom as I do when I'm running Windows. "DELTREE/Y *.tmp" from the root directory (or "folder" for you youngsters) is a whole lot easier than running that stupid search dog for *.tmp, highlighting everything with the mouse, and then deleting them.
I think a lot of people commenting about Linux haven't used it this century. Ubantu ain't the Linux your grandpa used to use.
don't click yes in reply to "would you like to install" dialogues so much.
One of these days I'm going to write a web page that has a dialog box pop up and say "a virus is ready to be installed on your computer. Allow? (y/n)" just to see how many people would click "yes".
There's nothing that an OS vendor can do to protect the user from their own actions.
Yes there is. They can write their own antivirus software and bundle it with the PC. The AV I'd like to see ("I'D LIKE TO SEE -- TWO BRICKS BEING SMASHED TOGETHER") wouldn't be anything like Norton or McAffee as it would ONLY protect against trojans and would only run when you installed new software. It would simply not allow any installation of code that contained known malware, and would log into a VPN that downloaded new definitions before installation. That way it would be out of the way and not hogging computer resources when there was no threat.
Of course, this would assume that the OS had no built-in back doors and had no gaping security holes. Microsoft would have to rewrite its OS from scratch.
They would have to do away with Active-X as well as word processing macros. Can anyone tell me what good macros are in a document? They would have to uncouple the web browser from the OS and run it in a protected sandbox. They would have to do away with all DRM, as DRM is a security hole. They would have to do a helluva lot more.
Good luck talking them into any of this, though. It would take a lot of work and would break a lot of old software (but every new OS they write breaks a lot of old software anyway).
Slightly off topic, but your post reminded me of Dilbert today
Slightly? Today's Dilbert has nothing to do with malware! It might be on topic for one of my journals (fuckless nerd getting taken advantage of by females, with the secretary acting like a whore).
Not only that, but Scott Adams stole it from Asimov's Foundation trilogy! Dilbert is playing the part of O. Dam from Foundation and Empire.
Wikipedia says that Foundation was "inspired" by "Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Asimov said he did "a little bit of cribbin' from the works of Edward Gibbon" when describing the influence of that work on the Trilogy)."
NO art is ever created in a vaccuum. "If I paint better than other men, it is because I steal from the dead."
If these games are spyware and are bundled with the computer, then your computer itself is malware.
Computing must be based on trust unless you have your own chip factory, and even then you have to trust your employees.
If you buy a Dell with Linux on it, Dell can preinstall any rootkits they want and there's no way anyone could find them. You would have to boot from a CD or floppy and repartition the drives and reinstall the OS. Hell, they could install a hardware rootkit and even that wouldn't work.
I'm glad I build my own PCs. I'm going back to vaccuum tubes. Where's my tinfoil hat?
visible by computer experts armed with the Ctrl+C keys
The FBI is trying to trick me into thinking they're all stupid so they can find out where I've got the 500 acre marijuana farm with its fiftten thousand tons of marijuana in the barn, 500 beautiful hookers and the casino downstairs, where you can buy white lightning and moonshine.
Meanwhile, Osama's still loose.
Attention FBI: Look, dumbasses, print the damned thing out, black out the parts that embarrass the President and your Director with a magic marker and scan it to a TIF file (that's a graphics format, guys. Pay attention!) and "print" THAT to PDF.
But you already know that, you're trying to find my pot gambling hooker farm!
If it comes to a choice between putting a cop in jail and paying out a huge monetary settlement, the DA's going after the cop. He only cares about wins and losses.
Ahh... I guess no white person should have had any interest in the civil rights movement of the 60s then either, since they weren't affected by the discrimination.
But the discrimination affected everyone.
I was offended that you use gay as if it's some kind of insult.
But I don't and I didn't. Time for me to stop reading your post right there, troll.
Personally, I believe that you should be able to carry out any form of monitoring you like on your own property
I think Illinois law making it a felony to record a phone conversation that you are a party to should be called the "liar's law". It's easily gotten around; they do it at the McDonald's on 6th and South Grand here in Cartoon City. There's simply a sign saying that there are cameras and microphones. Presumably they turn the tapes in to the SPD. However-
I just think that what you do on your property should be more or less your business, with the caveat that you shouldn't be permitted to be deceptive about it
So if your mom comes to my house, It's ok to rape her? If something's illegal on the street corner it should be illegal everywhere.
You might want to read today's Chicago Tribune. Even cops can get arrested. In Illinois, bugging without a warrant is a class IV felony whether you do it or a cop does it.
If you catch a cop bugging your house and the cop isn't arrested, you sue the city for megabucks. There isn't a city in the state that's going to let this slide.
If the feds bug you I'm not sure what would happen, but presumably you could sue under the Civil Rights Act.
I'll probably get modded down by the groupthink mods around here (hint: metamods: moderate any downmods as unfair)
You're given certain comments to metamoderate, but in the event I metamod whatever mod you get (so far they haven't modded it) will determine how I metamoderate. You simply asked a question so I can't see why anyone would downmod. It is an honest question afaict.
is this what the Linux user community needs?
No, but it may be what the Linux developer community needs. There could be some really cool code coming out of this that may benefit the user community in the future, but right now it's for developers only. If your hobby is hacking new code, this might be for you.
It's really a shame for F/OSS that, time and time again, there is such a huge duplication of effort and half-assed half-finished projects lying around in the junkyard of the Open Source cemetery.
Um, ok maybe I can see why you might get downmodded. I see no "junkyard" nor "cemetary", what Linux projects have died recently? A halfassed half-finished project deserves to die, but that's part of the open source process. And there's a "huge duplication of effort" having Windows, Apple, Solaris, etc, compete; or Ford, Chevy, Toyota, K.I.A. etc. as well. The difference is that if Ford invents something, Chevy's not going to have it in their cars unless they can come up with the same functionality without infringing Ford's patent. If some cool new thing comes of this, you may well see it un Red Hat or Mandriva shortly. That's one of open source's strengths.
I don't see "duplication of effort" as a weakness in either open source or closed.
Yes I Do OK, maybe you do, but we don't particularly want you to try it because we don't want to deal with you whining when you find that absolutely nothing works. Exherbo isn't in a fit state for users. We might get there one day, but it's not a priority. Right now, all we care about is getting it into a fit state for a small number of developers.
We don't provide packages for lots of things you consider critical.
A lot of the packages we do provide don't work.
A lot of the packages that worked five minutes ago all just broke because we just decided to redesign several large features.
We don't provide support.
We don't provide install media.
We don't provide a usable init system.
Really, all we provide is a few things that the few people working on all this find useful for themselves. When we have something for anyone else, we'll let you know.
OK, I don't need to try it. However, I'm curious about one thing:
Former Gentoo developer Bryan Østergaard recently announced a new linux distribution aptly named Exherbo
OK, wikipedia has no clue what an "Exherbo" is. What is an "Exherbo" and why is it such an apt name? I don't speak Klingon, are there any Klingons here that can explain this to me?
From TFA I would guess that "Exherbo" means "fuck you" in Swahili?
He no is does english speaker very goodly. He work for my mortgage company. I just talk him to phone and it ware off, now I no can speak any language accept BASIC.
Indian mortgage wanker need eat poo. I hope it him be.
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Indeed, if he thinks THAT'S lame and pointless he should see my journals.
What is the point in bringing up race or nationality (unless you are focusing on the fact that they are different from you)?
What is the point in even bringing up a person's name? A man's nationality and heritage is part of the man himself.
That's a rather ironic complaint for an American, don't you think?
That's pretty damned hipocritical. It's not only a stereotype, but an untrue one. When I was sent to Thailand I learned Thai, or as much as I could in the single year I was there (ow gunshy, tall eye bhat?). I also know Spanish, at least, as much as I remember from school. Most of the GIs in Thailans learned as much Thai as they could. I would imagine that most of the GIs in Iraq know at least a smattering of Iraqi. Meanwhile buy almost any product in the US and it has multilingual instruction manuals.
What is ironic is your painting Americans not only with the same brush, but an untrue one.
If I was going to have a phone line that answered questions for people living in Mexico, the biggest requirement would be that the job applicant not only speak Spanish, but speak Spanish like a Mexican native. Anything less would be as stupidly offensive as my mortgage company is.
Cool, can't wait to have my pan-galactic neutrino-based mobile phone!
Screw that, I want another Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster! Those things will fuck you up real good, better than tiny orange kittens.
So did Computers. A cell phone is a far more powerful computer than the UNIVAC was.
-mcgrew
Such a species cannot survive
Not if they're made of meat.
What makes you think an extraterrestrial would have anything that remotely resembles a penis?
Get users on Linux, and we'll be seeing the "Train users to always click yes (or in CLI mode, prefix with "sudo") approach to privilege escalation"
/Y *.tmp" from the root directory (or "folder" for you youngsters) is a whole lot easier than running that stupid search dog for *.tmp, highlighting everything with the mouse, and then deleting them.
Running KDE on Mandriva (which is like running Windows), if you log on as root the screen goes completely red and warns you sternly that you are in great danger of ruining your system.
Very seldom do I ever use a command prompt in it, in fact as seldom as I do when I'm running Windows. "DELTREE
I think a lot of people commenting about Linux haven't used it this century. Ubantu ain't the Linux your grandpa used to use.
don't click yes in reply to "would you like to install" dialogues so much.
One of these days I'm going to write a web page that has a dialog box pop up and say "a virus is ready to be installed on your computer. Allow? (y/n)" just to see how many people would click "yes".
There's nothing that an OS vendor can do to protect the user from their own actions.
Yes there is. They can write their own antivirus software and bundle it with the PC. The AV I'd like to see ("I'D LIKE TO SEE -- TWO BRICKS BEING SMASHED TOGETHER") wouldn't be anything like Norton or McAffee as it would ONLY protect against trojans and would only run when you installed new software. It would simply not allow any installation of code that contained known malware, and would log into a VPN that downloaded new definitions before installation. That way it would be out of the way and not hogging computer resources when there was no threat.
Of course, this would assume that the OS had no built-in back doors and had no gaping security holes. Microsoft would have to rewrite its OS from scratch.
They would have to do away with Active-X as well as word processing macros. Can anyone tell me what good macros are in a document? They would have to uncouple the web browser from the OS and run it in a protected sandbox. They would have to do away with all DRM, as DRM is a security hole. They would have to do a helluva lot more.
Good luck talking them into any of this, though. It would take a lot of work and would break a lot of old software (but every new OS they write breaks a lot of old software anyway).
Slightly off topic, but your post reminded me of Dilbert today
Slightly? Today's Dilbert has nothing to do with malware! It might be on topic for one of my journals (fuckless nerd getting taken advantage of by females, with the secretary acting like a whore).
Not only that, but Scott Adams stole it from Asimov's Foundation trilogy! Dilbert is playing the part of O. Dam from Foundation and Empire.
Wikipedia says that Foundation was "inspired" by "Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Asimov said he did "a little bit of cribbin' from the works of Edward Gibbon" when describing the influence of that work on the Trilogy)."
NO art is ever created in a vaccuum. "If I paint better than other men, it is because I steal from the dead."
If these games are spyware and are bundled with the computer, then your computer itself is malware.
Computing must be based on trust unless you have your own chip factory, and even then you have to trust your employees.
If you buy a Dell with Linux on it, Dell can preinstall any rootkits they want and there's no way anyone could find them. You would have to boot from a CD or floppy and repartition the drives and reinstall the OS. Hell, they could install a hardware rootkit and even that wouldn't work.
I'm glad I build my own PCs. I'm going back to vaccuum tubes. Where's my tinfoil hat?
visible by computer experts armed with the Ctrl+C keys
The FBI is trying to trick me into thinking they're all stupid so they can find out where I've got the 500 acre marijuana farm with its fiftten thousand tons of marijuana in the barn, 500 beautiful hookers and the casino downstairs, where you can buy white lightning and moonshine.
Meanwhile, Osama's still loose.
Attention FBI: Look, dumbasses, print the damned thing out, black out the parts that embarrass the President and your Director with a magic marker and scan it to a TIF file (that's a graphics format, guys. Pay attention!) and "print" THAT to PDF.
But you already know that, you're trying to find my pot gambling hooker farm!
If it comes to a choice between putting a cop in jail and paying out a huge monetary settlement, the DA's going after the cop. He only cares about wins and losses.
Ahh... I guess no white person should have had any interest in the civil rights movement of the 60s then either, since they weren't affected by the discrimination.
But the discrimination affected everyone.
I was offended that you use gay as if it's some kind of insult.
But I don't and I didn't. Time for me to stop reading your post right there, troll.
Personally, I believe that you should be able to carry out any form of monitoring you like on your own property
I think Illinois law making it a felony to record a phone conversation that you are a party to should be called the "liar's law". It's easily gotten around; they do it at the McDonald's on 6th and South Grand here in Cartoon City. There's simply a sign saying that there are cameras and microphones. Presumably they turn the tapes in to the SPD. However-
I just think that what you do on your property should be more or less your business, with the caveat that you shouldn't be permitted to be deceptive about it
So if your mom comes to my house, It's ok to rape her? If something's illegal on the street corner it should be illegal everywhere.
You might want to read today's Chicago Tribune. Even cops can get arrested. In Illinois, bugging without a warrant is a class IV felony whether you do it or a cop does it.
If you catch a cop bugging your house and the cop isn't arrested, you sue the city for megabucks. There isn't a city in the state that's going to let this slide.
If the feds bug you I'm not sure what would happen, but presumably you could sue under the Civil Rights Act.
I still wonder if I should have sued the cops for a civil rights violation when they searched my garage last Memorial Day (oh, the irony). It's journaled here at slashdot. Also see Liberty? What liberty?
I'll probably get modded down by the groupthink mods around here (hint: metamods: moderate any downmods as unfair)
You're given certain comments to metamoderate, but in the event I metamod whatever mod you get (so far they haven't modded it) will determine how I metamoderate. You simply asked a question so I can't see why anyone would downmod. It is an honest question afaict.
is this what the Linux user community needs?
No, but it may be what the Linux developer community needs. There could be some really cool code coming out of this that may benefit the user community in the future, but right now it's for developers only. If your hobby is hacking new code, this might be for you.
It's really a shame for F/OSS that, time and time again, there is such a huge duplication of effort and half-assed half-finished projects lying around in the junkyard of the Open Source cemetery.
Um, ok maybe I can see why you might get downmodded. I see no "junkyard" nor "cemetary", what Linux projects have died recently? A halfassed half-finished project deserves to die, but that's part of the open source process. And there's a "huge duplication of effort" having Windows, Apple, Solaris, etc, compete; or Ford, Chevy, Toyota, K.I.A. etc. as well. The difference is that if Ford invents something, Chevy's not going to have it in their cars unless they can come up with the same functionality without infringing Ford's patent. If some cool new thing comes of this, you may well see it un Red Hat or Mandriva shortly. That's one of open source's strengths.
I don't see "duplication of effort" as a weakness in either open source or closed.
As to junkyards, you might want to read a couple of articles I wrote a few years ago when I was at K5, Useful Dead Technologies and the sequel Good Riddance to Bad Tech.
Necessiy isn't the mother of invention, it's the father. Hard work is the mother. Do people need more than one mother?
But does it run Linux?
From TFA:
absolutely nothing works
So, no. It doesn't run Linux.
OK, I don't need to try it. However, I'm curious about one thing:OK, wikipedia has no clue what an "Exherbo" is. What is an "Exherbo" and why is it such an apt name? I don't speak Klingon, are there any Klingons here that can explain this to me?
From TFA I would guess that "Exherbo" means "fuck you" in Swahili?
Aircraft hangars are pretty damned big. Especially military hangars, some of those planes are monsters.
Shows my nerd bias, when I hear "storage" I automatically think of hard drives.
Hey! That's MY ip address!
What happens if US citizen googles for "medical marijuana?" Do they contact the DEA?
If you worship money, then losing money is a cardinal sin.
Interchangable. If you do evil, you are evil. If you are evil, how can you not do evil?
Like that guy that set himself on fire freebasing coke once said, "beauty is only skin deep, but ugly's to the bone!"
Evil is relative. Compared to Mother Theresa you're evil. Compared to Richard Speck you're a saint. I guess that makes Google an evil saint?
My head hurts =/
He no is does english speaker very goodly. He work for my mortgage company. I just talk him to phone and it ware off, now I no can speak any language accept BASIC.
Indian mortgage wanker need eat poo. I hope it him be.
-Shiva
PS- Google on Indian wanker, more accurate description of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj nude.