The Taliban is one organization I would not mind if we used a Neutron Bomb or some sort of method of extinguishing all organic life in an area to eliminate. They are probably the lowest vermin on the face of the Earth.

Are these people aware that a Tanuki is a MYTHICAL Japanese Raccoon Youkai (Spirit) with a magic shape shifting abilities that can normally talk like Humans? That is why Mario has his abilities in the game. He didn't skin an actual Raccoon dog, he gained the spirit energy of the Youkai including its Statue ability...

We've already done more damage than we can reverse. It was 71 degrees the other day on November 1st. Our atmosphere is changing probably to a configuration that is hostile to our survival. Probably the first to go will be our crop resources. I don't think our society will change. The majority of this species believes in an Earth that will exist forever because a 2500 year old anthology of books say so.

I don't believe the Earth will be like Venus because Venus is in a different orbit than Earth is. But I do think the Earth will change and probably become hostile to our species. We didn't always have the atmosphere we do now. and when our species dies off, another species will take our place. Our sun can probably support the deveopment of one more species before it perishes.

The Human species had its chance to survive and chose badly.

There is evidence to support the idea that Paul invented the idea that 100% of all Humans go to Hell with the exception of those saved by Jesus as a way of breaking the original covenant with Abraham the Jews had. The idea is that Adam brought Sin into the world, and at that point all Humans were damned to Hell. Jews of Paul's time were rejecting Christianity, while the surrounding "Pagans" were adopting it. The Jews were a disliked class, so this little poison pill was a way of condemning the Jews.

This also explains why there are Christian Creationists. For Christianity to be true, and the Jesus Crucifixion to have had any purpose, that particular story is the most important story after the story of Jesus. Without Creationism, Christianity collapses entirely because Yahweh has no original sin with Which to condemn us all to Hell from the start.

Paul provided Christianity with the rope to hang itself. Because he created the clause in the Bible that requires the initial original sin of Adam to take place for any of this to mean anything. The Original sin of Adam is the PRIMARY reason for the Crucifixion in Jesus, ordinary Human failings are SECONDARY.

I understand what Paul was trying to do, he was looking for a way to make the laws of the Torah invalid for salvation. He wanted to be able to go to the Jews of his time, and say "Yahweh doesn't care if you follow the laws of Moses any longer. You were bad followers so he no longer wants you because you have the audacity to reject the sacrifice of the savior. So, see you in Hell."

We know the world is not 6000 years old, we know that the Genesis myths were allegory because those desert nomads didn't know how the world began, Paul hedged the entire religion on the foundation of that myth.

So in conclusion, Christianity is the cult of Paul. This only applies to Christianity. But it is the critical fault in Christianity that disproves it. Thats why creationists cling tp the creation myth more than any other myth in the Bible. It's the corner stone that collapses the whole religion.

Boutique Computer systems like the Atari ST, Amiga, and Sharp X68000 are some of the most insufferable tasks one can undergo as far as emulation goes.

I will say this now. The Amiga and Atari ST were fine products for their time, but now, their only usefulness is as gaming consoles. The games they had that were unique to their platform and superior ports produced really were a sight to see, and have withstood the test of time in this era of retro-gaming revival.

Atari ST Emulation is tolerable under Windows and Linux.
Amiga emulation is absolutely insufferable, especially under Linux where the emulators just seem to get worse with every port produced. Even under Windows, Amiga emulation is a complicated abysmal mess, with dozens of archane rom versions, Disk insertion and image issues, and emulation bugs.

The gaming library from the Amiga era is the only thing it has going for it, and is why Amiga programmers should do their best to make Amiga games fully playable on Linux platforms.

The best games in my opinion on fair use are as follows:

The game as a Static beginning, and ending. When you defeat the Final boss of a game, the game should end with one of many multiple programmed endings. The game should support Multiplayer, either by multiple controllers in the case of a Console oriented game, or LAN/Peer to Peer Internet play possibly with Lobby servers But if you shouldn't have to use Lobby servers if you don't wish too. There should be no currency that can be exchanged for real money. Real money should not be used to inflate the abilities of the players. Unlockable characters, and secret levels should be in the game at the start. They should not be something you pay for. Patches should be freely available.

Prior to the PS3/360/Wii era, when I bought a game it was a complete game. There was no online pass, there was no DLC, and there shouldn't be.

Star Wars is not Science fiction, it's Arthurian Legend. Star Trek is about a possible future of our world/universe and the progress of secular Humanity, and the triumph of reason and science.

Star Wars is like a King Aurthur's knights of the round table, or spiritualist story about good vs. evil, just set in space. It discusses a quasi-religious struggle between right and wrong, and the struggle of rightful Camelot style kings vs. vicious tyrants. It is a fairy tale, or fable.

A few pointers. Don't use LDAP for authentication. use Heimdal Kerberos for authentication (PAM) and use LDAP for authorization. (NSS). Don't let machines bind as cn=Manager. That is very bad should a machine become compromised. Generally, SASL LDAP binds are recommended over simple. Kerberos should bind

And most relevent. Only let users in the People OU bind to their own uid in the suffix.
If you are binding to the tree with cn=Manager, on a regular basis, you deserve what you get, set your ACLs right.

The DVD's being produced that I have seen are lke the live install aspect of Ubuntu. The poblem with that is that Mandriva 2010.2 had a dedicated installer that could both preform complete installations of full setups, as well as on the fly upgrades, rebuilding and if you had Mandriva installed already, it would rebuild and upgrade everything. These ISO images are compressed with squashfs, so you can't extract the RPMs from them and push a live upgrade. I hope that in the future a non-live full install DVD is produced not this 1.6 GB "live install" crap from Ubuntu's way of doing things.

I am used to paralell LDAP+Kerberos+SSH installations of all my machines. This sqashfs method is unacceptable. Especially considering Mageia CAN do that.

Atari did make better hardware to replace the 2600, but they screwed up. They made the Atari 5200 intentionally incompatible with the 400/800/600XL. Those were all excellent machines that were ahead of their time in 1984. They even supported Composite output and RF. If you got a 5200 you had a machine that could not play 2600 or 400/800 games with incompatible controllers, an ultra-proprietary RF Switch and power adapter, and broken controllers.

They backslid even FURTHER into obscurity when they released the 7800 which was just a slightly improved 2600 as late as 1988.

What they should have done was just release a version of the 400/800 without the keyboard, or with the keyboard as an add-on... oh wait. They did... The Atari XEGS... in 1991, when everyone was moving to the Super NES.

What was called FireFox 4.0 should have been called FireFox 3.7, and we should still be in 3.7.x phase. These version number games make me have the very real inclination to punch the people responsible in the face repeatedly. They are doing no less than turning FireFox, which once had reverence, into an object of ridicule.

Is it that big evil thing from the Fifth Element? Do we need four stones to make it fire a a giant Laser beam at it? Is it going to make evil people leak black tar?

Corporate Desktop:
Here are some things you should keep in mind. Since 2006, among Linux users, the Open Directory model where OpenLDAP runs a directory service, Samba 3.x runs a PDC, and Heimdal Kerberos runs the KDC, and FreeRadius runs RADIUS has been extremely popular. Open Directory (OpenLDAP+Samba+Heimdal Kerberos) was a definite step above the Sun Yellow Pages+NFS, or early NT4 Domains created by Samba 2.2, and it ran like a well oiled machine. Certain distributors supported it well. Mandriva and Suse being model citizens, while Ubuntu not so much. Ubuntu and Debian did a horrible job with Samba, LDAP and Kerberos. But Samba, LDAP, and Kerberos as Open Directory aren't MS Active Directory. That cost the Linux world many casualties. For the longest time, AD Dominated.

I recently tried Samba 4.0 Alpha 15 and was able to create a mostly functional Windows 2008 R2 Style Forest. I ran into problems incorporating Open Directory applications and schemas used to OpenLDAP's model, but I am certain those can be resolved. Samba 4.0 will have all the features of Open Directory and all of Active Directory's forms combined. It will likely replace OpenLDAP and Heimdal Kerberos because it is so much easier to manage just one application that does all three, and is completely compatible with its predecessors in the Unix world's feature sets.

In the future, I can see Samba 4 becoming the predominant Server for both Windows AD Clients, and Unix Clients running applications like NFS and AFS, FreeRadius, PostFix, eGroupware, and Zimbra. At the same time offering AD support to AD Clients. If you think it can't happen, just remember that Windows 7 has special code in it's registry to allow Samba 3 Domains to authenticate with Windows 7 clients, and even though Samba 3 style domains are still in some sense NT4 Domains, while NT4 itself is completely incompatible with Windows 7.

Samba 4 can devour the AD market inside out.

Home Desktop
What really matters here are games. Linux desktop needs to be able to run games of all platforms, for Windows, this of course means Wine. Wine again, is in a position to become more compatible with Windows than real Windows. There are now, a few applications that will run on Wine but not Modern Windows. This is mostly Games from the 9x era. But as time moves on, we may see more XP games that work on Wine that won't work on Windows.

Android support is another issue. A market for Android phones is growing, and Linux needs some sort of API translation layer to run Android games on PCs.

Desktop Interface:
Another thing is this: The constant desktop shifting and changing has to stop. someone really needs to back the Trinity Desktop Environment. Both KDE and Gnome now take away system resources from video cards to make the desktop look and interact more wth the user. This needs to stop. These effects slow the machine down, they slow games down, they slow EVERYTHING down. What I want is an interface that runs what I tell it to run. I would be extremely angry if my game was slowed down by KDE compositing, Gnome effects, Compiz or Beyrl. They look cool, but, they are completely useless and take away from resources I need for other things.

This is sorta the result of nearly thirty years of political conservatism's push. You have to realize a few things. Much of this behavior of US Conservatives came from the civil rights movement. It really boils down to the fact they don't like what the US has become. So they in the leadership are doing everything they can to drive the US into a ditch. The white christian supremacist world they knew of is gone. That is why this is happening. If they can't own the US they will cry and scream about the evils of 'government' and 'liberty'. even when it is a complete lie.

Is anyone here aware of the fact that KDE 3.5 still exists under the name Trinity Desktop Environment?