If google has explicitly allowed wget and bash, please cite a reference.
" 5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Google. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services. "
This sounds precisely like why I've never agreed to the google eula. I.e. if I wanted to write my own wrapper around google using wget and bash, I'd be violating their EULA TOS. Wheras without ever getting a gmail account or the like, I never have to click the EULA, and thus have never signed away my rights to perform automated queries.
Looks like you answered your question yourself. Ammending the constitution is a purely symbolic act, just like voting. But while symbolic acts may not in and of themselves immediately change the infrastructure of society, there is always the hope that they will be witnessed by others, and inspire them in the future.
And for the record, here is the first constitutional ammendment I can think of off the top of my head-
No citizen, shall ever be assessed any risk-value by any government agency, nor any such value used by any such agency, as such practice is antithetical to the inalienable right to be considered innocent until proven guilty.
It shall also be noted, that the authors of this ammendment were fully conscious that many will scoff and laugh, as such values will be used by non government agencies. But the fact that this ammendment was passed, illustrates that at one point in time, the people of this great nation possessed the wisdom, learned from painful experience, that is embodied in this rule of law. Future generations, as they violate or obsolete this ammendment, would be wise to consider its text at least once or twice, so that they can hear our voices saying "I told you so" when they suffer the consequences of ignoring it.
The fourth ammendment to the constitution and the Geneva Conventions used to be a strong part of the ethos of american culture.
But those were the good ol' pre-9/11 days.
Wake up and smell and the realized nightmares of the founding fathers, and don't waste your time thinking that whatever is left of their foundation of democratic principles can help us.
We are sliding full speed down the slippery slope already. The only hope is that america will survive the impact at the bottom, and that the result will be painful enough, that the constitution gets ammended, and a new dawn of liberty arises.
I was the longest holdout in believing that intelligent debate could actually help. It is clear to me that the only thing to do is to sit back, suffer the consequences along with everyone, and hope that people are capable of learning from their mistakes.
O what a brave new world. Human cloning, animal-human hybrid research, warrantless wiretaps. Someone could really write a good book about all of this... But these days you probably wouldn't want to purchase it or check it out of a library, lest your name be put referenced in database queries for threat index assessments.
The fact that our our government is run by people who say such things, shows that the cause is lost.
Without the protection of true anonymous political free speech, there is no such thing as real democracy. The very fabric of real democracy depends on people being able to express their beliefs about what their government should be doing in their name, without any fear of that anonymity being less than 100%.
When true anonymity is gone, all that will be expressed will be biased towards what people believe will get the most positive response from the forces that may be violating the anonymity.
I.e. the political discourse in the country will be deprived of true intelligent conversation, and replaced with nothing but brown-nosers, hoping that what they are saying will gain them some slight social and political benefit for them and their families in the future. Sure the brown nosers will be their always, but if you have true anonymity, then the democratic ideal is that that the people voicing the cold-hard truth will at least have some chance to be heard.
I still have some hope in the checks and balances... But is it ever depressing hearing this kind of utterly stupid/evil shit coming from the people in power.
Bottom Line: Anonymity can be protected. Anyone who says otherwise is a fascist, a coward, or lazy.
-dmc (posted non-anonymously, only because I'd rather be crucified than live in the world that seems to be coming, if things like anonymous free speech are not protected)
I'll leave it to others to continue this thought with facts, but the pictures from the link look _real_ familiar. Sort of like how unoriginal that Soviet space shuttle looked.
So let's see, it's not software that is broken and buggy, but rather the problem is the users that 'inadequately' act as an insanely complex added layer of security, managing a bunch of brain-numbingly-unrewarding security layers.
This article reeks to me of a security industry that is proactively trying to cover its ass, primarily because of the fact that the only reason they thrive is because microsoft 'needs' to keep it's source closed, and the public 'needs' an illusion of security.
Sorry, but I've recently gone through about my 5th runaround of giving selinux-Enforcing an honest try, and realizing yet again what an utter pile of useless shit it is (for the vast majority of Fedora users at least). (review my past comments which I won't argue over again... or just laugh as setroubleshootd tells you how the solution to your problem is to reboot and force a relabel... pulling in hardcoded path state from/etc/selinux/....)
Wake up and smell the insecurity folks and get used to it. Don't say anything within earshot of a mobile phone's mic that you wouldn't feel comfortable with any telecom employee overhearing... or anyone those employees might give network access to...
It's a brave new world. Don't give me this shit that the users are to blame.
Any country whose top tech advisers aren't fans of battlestar, and thus know to keep all critical infrastructure independent of networked computers, deserves what it gets.
What I hate is the hypocrisy of a political party, that tries to crucify Bill Clinton for *blatantly* lying under oath about a consensual blowjob, and then proceeds to lie to the american public about terrorists seeking nuclear weapons (african uranium), to justify a war that has cost a trillion dollars. When that money could have been spent bringing true security, and even food, to *all* of God's children.
I don't hate the republicans. I fear for their souls.
I wonder how much the feds paid apple to make the battery in the iphone non-removable?
(blatant troll... yes I know removing the battery casing is a legitimate benefit)
"How is it, then, that you make a special exemption for your god? How do you reconcile the inherent illogic of religion with the rest of your life?"
Excuse me, but have you been watching the news recently? As a geek christian, who fits your profile- I ask you-
How is it, then, that you reconcile the inherent illogic of society around you with the rest of your life?
3.2.1... Did I guess right- Did you blame it on religion?
The "inherent illogic of religion" is the only thing that makes me think I'm sane in a world where George W Bush gets to be president for 2 full terms.
I was an atheist before 2000. Around the time of the PATRIOT act, I blamed christians for the end of freedom and liberty and decency in my country. It was only then, that I started studying the bible, with humility, to find out WTF was going on in the world that I couldn't comprehend. You see, as a geek, using the cop-out that "those religious people are irrational", just wasn't cutting it anymore.
I tell you brother (or sister)- if you keep on going through life, thinking that religious people are irrational, you are going to live a very sad and confused life. If however you suck up a little humility, and try to read the religious texts with an open mind that the people who cherish them, might _actually_ not be irrational, then you might soon discover that the world makes quite a bit more sense that you previously thought.
And one thing you'll never do, is think again that the religious texts sugar-coat the harsh *reality* of human social interaction.
That as long as the majority of the populace can be easily manipulated by fear, that countless scientists will continue to get funding by manipulating data and analysis to pander to the terrorists. And by terrorists, I mean the politicians that use the aforementioned terrorized populace, to fund their own paychecks, and the paychecks of the scientists whose only actual function is to fabricate the illusion of security.
I just wish that I could predict what the parasitic scientists and politicians will do when the masses realize that sacrificing some number of their offspring to terrorists that "get away with" their evil deeds due to "exploiting liberty and a permissive society", is a truly small price to pay, to avoid living in the kind of society that will(/has) come about due to sacrificing liberty, freedom, and justice.
"This is of particular interest to the slashdot community because it is a sweet hack to take seven year old hardware that was designed for a specific mission..."
And here I was all ready for you to start commenting on running freevo/mythtv/linux on the original xbox, or running a completely free open source wifi voip phone on the nintendo-ds-lite.:)
(which technically would be a perpetual motion machine... if the parts were somehow resistant to erosion and exposure, since the poles flip once every hundred millenia or so)
unique ID is a timestamp... if not for relativity
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The unique ID should be a plank time resolution timestamp of the date of creation of the object....
were it not for that whole relativity thing which always screws things up:)
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If google has explicitly allowed wget and bash, please cite a reference.
"
5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Google. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services.
"
This sounds precisely like why I've never agreed to the google eula. I.e. if I wanted to write my own wrapper around google using wget and bash, I'd be violating their EULA TOS. Wheras without ever getting a gmail account or the like, I never have to click the EULA, and thus have never signed away my rights to perform automated queries.
Looks like you answered your question yourself. Ammending the constitution is a purely symbolic act, just like voting. But while symbolic acts may not in and of themselves immediately change the infrastructure of society, there is always the hope that they will be witnessed by others, and inspire them in the future.
And for the record, here is the first constitutional ammendment I can think of off the top of my head-
No citizen, shall ever be assessed any risk-value by any government agency, nor any such value used by any such agency, as such practice is antithetical to the inalienable right to be considered innocent until proven guilty.
It shall also be noted, that the authors of this ammendment were fully conscious that many will scoff and laugh, as such values will be used by non government agencies. But the fact that this ammendment was passed, illustrates that at one point in time, the people of this great nation possessed the wisdom, learned from painful experience, that is embodied in this rule of law. Future generations, as they violate or obsolete this ammendment, would be wise to consider its text at least once or twice, so that they can hear our voices saying "I told you so" when they suffer the consequences of ignoring it.
The fourth ammendment to the constitution and the Geneva Conventions used to be a strong part of the ethos of american culture.
But those were the good ol' pre-9/11 days.
Wake up and smell and the realized nightmares of the founding fathers, and don't waste your time thinking that whatever is left of their foundation of democratic principles can help us.
We are sliding full speed down the slippery slope already. The only hope is that america will survive the impact at the bottom, and that the result will be painful enough, that the constitution gets ammended, and a new dawn of liberty arises.
I was the longest holdout in believing that intelligent debate could actually help. It is clear to me that the only thing to do is to sit back, suffer the consequences along with everyone, and hope that people are capable of learning from their mistakes.
O what a brave new world. Human cloning, animal-human hybrid research, warrantless wiretaps. Someone could really write a good book about all of this... But these days you probably wouldn't want to purchase it or check it out of a library, lest your name be put referenced in database queries for threat index assessments.
-dmc
The founders couldn't have conceived of a pocket sized device that can store arbitrary information?
WTF? Have you been smoking the meth again?
There is NOTHING radical about the difference between a pocket sized notebook (little black book) and an iphone.
So it can record your voice instead of having to use a pen or pencil and writing information down.
Whatever. Nobody believes US law has anything to do with the constitution any more anyway.
In other words, it's called dual booting into a non-bloated linux installation.
obvious redundant comment...
The fact that our our government is run by people who say such things, shows that the cause is lost.
Without the protection of true anonymous political free speech, there is no such thing as real democracy. The very fabric of real democracy depends on people being able to express their beliefs about what their government should be doing in their name, without any fear of that anonymity being less than 100%.
When true anonymity is gone, all that will be expressed will be biased towards what people believe will get the most positive response from the forces that may be violating the anonymity.
I.e. the political discourse in the country will be deprived of true intelligent conversation, and replaced with nothing but brown-nosers, hoping that what they are saying will gain them some slight social and political benefit for them and their families in the future. Sure the brown nosers will be their always, but if you have true anonymity, then the democratic ideal is that that the people voicing the cold-hard truth will at least have some chance to be heard.
I still have some hope in the checks and balances... But is it ever depressing hearing this kind of utterly stupid/evil shit coming from the people in power.
Bottom Line: Anonymity can be protected. Anyone who says otherwise is a fascist, a coward, or lazy.
-dmc (posted non-anonymously, only because I'd rather be crucified than live in the world that seems to be coming, if things like anonymous free speech are not protected)
mod this up (washingtonpost link) as informative please
Countering, Against, Un-
Actually I meant that the plane physically looked similar to a U.S. plane. The JSF I believe. But I don't care enough to research the issue.
I'll leave it to others to continue this thought with facts, but the pictures from the link look _real_ familiar. Sort of like how unoriginal that Soviet space shuttle looked.
So let's see, it's not software that is broken and buggy, but rather the problem is the users that 'inadequately' act as an insanely complex added layer of security, managing a bunch of brain-numbingly-unrewarding security layers.
/etc/selinux/....)
This article reeks to me of a security industry that is proactively trying to cover its ass, primarily because of the fact that the only reason they thrive is because microsoft 'needs' to keep it's source closed, and the public 'needs' an illusion of security.
Sorry, but I've recently gone through about my 5th runaround of giving selinux-Enforcing an honest try, and realizing yet again what an utter pile of useless shit it is (for the vast majority of Fedora users at least). (review my past comments which I won't argue over again... or just laugh as setroubleshootd tells you how the solution to your problem is to reboot and force a relabel... pulling in hardcoded path state from
Wake up and smell the insecurity folks and get used to it. Don't say anything within earshot of a mobile phone's mic that you wouldn't feel comfortable with any telecom employee overhearing... or anyone those employees might give network access to...
It's a brave new world. Don't give me this shit that the users are to blame.
Any country whose top tech advisers aren't fans of battlestar, and thus know to keep all critical infrastructure independent of networked computers, deserves what it gets.
What I hate is the hypocrisy of a political party, that tries to crucify Bill Clinton for *blatantly* lying under oath about a consensual blowjob, and then proceeds to lie to the american public about terrorists seeking nuclear weapons (african uranium), to justify a war that has cost a trillion dollars. When that money could have been spent bringing true security, and even food, to *all* of God's children.
I don't hate the republicans. I fear for their souls.
Now the terrorists won't even have to shell out $$ for MS-flight sim...
But at least they won't be able to simulate hitting Cheney's house very well.
Which is of course the first fantasy I'd want to explore with it...
I wonder how much the feds paid apple to make the battery in the iphone non-removable? (blatant troll... yes I know removing the battery casing is a legitimate benefit)
"How is it, then, that you make a special exemption for your god? How do you reconcile the inherent illogic of religion with the rest of your life?" Excuse me, but have you been watching the news recently? As a geek christian, who fits your profile- I ask you- How is it, then, that you reconcile the inherent illogic of society around you with the rest of your life? 3.2.1... Did I guess right- Did you blame it on religion? The "inherent illogic of religion" is the only thing that makes me think I'm sane in a world where George W Bush gets to be president for 2 full terms. I was an atheist before 2000. Around the time of the PATRIOT act, I blamed christians for the end of freedom and liberty and decency in my country. It was only then, that I started studying the bible, with humility, to find out WTF was going on in the world that I couldn't comprehend. You see, as a geek, using the cop-out that "those religious people are irrational", just wasn't cutting it anymore. I tell you brother (or sister)- if you keep on going through life, thinking that religious people are irrational, you are going to live a very sad and confused life. If however you suck up a little humility, and try to read the religious texts with an open mind that the people who cherish them, might _actually_ not be irrational, then you might soon discover that the world makes quite a bit more sense that you previously thought. And one thing you'll never do, is think again that the religious texts sugar-coat the harsh *reality* of human social interaction.
That as long as the majority of the populace can be easily manipulated by fear, that countless scientists will continue to get funding by manipulating data and analysis to pander to the terrorists. And by terrorists, I mean the politicians that use the aforementioned terrorized populace, to fund their own paychecks, and the paychecks of the scientists whose only actual function is to fabricate the illusion of security.
I just wish that I could predict what the parasitic scientists and politicians will do when the masses realize that sacrificing some number of their offspring to terrorists that "get away with" their evil deeds due to "exploiting liberty and a permissive society", is a truly small price to pay, to avoid living in the kind of society that will(/has) come about due to sacrificing liberty, freedom, and justice.
I believe evolution is a part of God's creation.
+1
So people are using _different clients_ to send their ascii messages.
whatever...
"This is of particular interest to the slashdot community because it is a sweet hack to take seven year old hardware that was designed for a specific mission..."
:)
And here I was all ready for you to start commenting on running freevo/mythtv/linux on the original xbox, or running a completely free open source wifi voip phone on the nintendo-ds-lite.
In other words it's a compass?
(which technically would be a perpetual motion machine... if the parts were somehow resistant to erosion and exposure, since the poles flip once every hundred millenia or so)
The unique ID should be a plank time resolution timestamp of the date of creation of the object....
:)
were it not for that whole relativity thing which always screws things up