It does not seem you, as an AC wuss, that knowing what communism IS as important to this discussion. If you actually READ Marx, you would understand what is being spoken of.

READ A BOOK. Communism is not what you all think it is. Oh well. American's, reading, about communism from the AUTHORS, thats too much too ask.

Good luck.

Communism is about the PEOPLE owning the entire means of production, not the State. In fact, if you READ some Marx, communism CANNOT EXIST IF THERE IS A STATE. Lenin, Mao, Stalin, etc. all took advantage of this to call themselves communist but in a transition "phase" where the evil of having a STATE was a necessary transition to true communism. It was capitalism in disguise.

It does not mean your neighbor owns your car, or that you do not have a right to be an individual, quite the opposite. But you wouldn't know anything about that because you obviously have NO CLUE what communism is. Not even the slightest shred of a clue.

Jesus, read a book why don't you.

Communism is the ultimate democracy, in fact it is PURE democracy. It is the ulimate expression of freedom and self-expression ever laid to paper, unfortunately never tried in practice. There has never been a communist society of any large scale in modern times.

In order for a communist society to exist and to function, it needs the entire means of production under the sway of the people, which cannot exist with national boundaries and foreign economies of any sort. The entire planet needs to be the property of the human race.

What does that have to do with Communism?

I'd rather hack a gibson. Oh yeah baby. You know, one of those super computers they use to do physics and stuff?

Not if the life on Mars is of earth origin (or earth life is or mars origin). That could still mean earth is the only place life has developed. It needs to be its own independent evolution for it to mean that life could be everywhere. Otherwise it still doesn't answer the question of how common life evolves in the universe.

What does Linus have to do with anything other than the kernel itself? He isn't part of PHP, Apache, openssh, mozilla, Gnome, gcc (etc) or attached to any distro. Unless its a kernel exploit he would be powerless to fix it and wouldn't care. There are a million ways to write such software, any competent linux dev could do so. The thing is, it doesn't matter, because it can be nullified by simple policy changes - and the fact that no two distro's are alike, "linux" can be a whole slew of differing combinations of software.

Putting something like this in the "wild" is nothing worse than metasploit, nmap, satan or any number of other tool sets. GCC and bash are just as dangerous a "toolkit".

His supposed killer malware is bullshit anyway, he's provided no details. What webserver? What distro? What does SELinux have to do with it? Is he requiring the user to know the root password, and type it in?

How about a bash script with "rm -rf /*" ran as root? Is that malware?

Do you know how many exploitable apps are in / have been in linux over the years? Unix in general? A shit ton! This is nothing new, revolutionary or extraordinary.

So you'd eat a fully cooked steak that has sat out at room temp all night?

I've eaten raw or undercooked meat (fish and beef) my entire life. The only cases of food poisoning I have ever had have been from: pizza, bacon and a hot dog.

I love a rare steak. I also love sushi and sashimi. I've eaten raw tuna on a fishing boat that was still warm. The reason people are so used to fully cooking their meat is because of poor standards at meat factories, you HAVE to in some cases or you will get sick (factory chicken).

Properly raised and slaughtered meat of any sort is perfectly fine to eat less than well done, or even raw. Even chicken and pork.

Those were common in early cadd systems, they didn't have a mouse. They used digitizing tables and 3d inputs like you see in the video.

I would have liked to know more about the technology, not just how he did it with "a computer". What cadd package was it? What hardware?

Most likely something from Unigraphics or Intergraph, as those were big 3d modeling packages of the era.

Nowadays 3d inputs are easier with spaceballs and a simple mouse, or a 3d mouse.

Its also a bitch to add new rows to your powerpoint excel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=541e3RC3cvc

I didn't mention scams, I was specifically talking about malware. My reply was in response to people being stupid for clicking on exe's and installing activex controls, not falling for email scams.

They aren't stupid, they simply don't know any better. Most people barely understand the concept of things like "executable file" and "activex control" if at all. They just click away, because thats always worked for them in the past. Its not the user that is at fault for everything that happens, even they are the cause. You can't expect everybody to understand what a trojan is just because you do. Some of the malware is very clever, I recently cleaned a slew of corporate computers infected with tons of crap from some users clicking on what appeared to be legitimate security warnings from windows. These popups can easily fool most people. I took care of it by installing good antivirus and antimalware but a lot of small businesses simply have no clue. They buy a computer, it comes with norton for 60 days, they plug away and don't think twice. Two years later they are infected to all hell and have no idea why. I don't fault them, what about Dell and the likes putting trialware of CRITICAL components onto these new systems? They should have bullet proof antivirus on the system for like, as part of the purchase price. The entire PC market is messed up in that regard. In the long run, it helps sales, because people will buy new computers once their old one becomes slow and worn out, like they are tires or something.

People aren't "stupid" just because they don't have your level of computer expertise.

We are still very limited in what can be done. The amount of models on screen at any one time, the field of view, interactivity of the environment, etc. More processor speed, better GPU's and more ram will all lead to more realistic and fine grained physics, larger interactive environments, 3d displays, faster load times, you name it.

People said the same exact thing with the ps2, the pentium, all that outdated tech.

We have a long way to go yet, these primitive consoles are just the tip of the ice berg. Its not just how many "p" the resolution is. Its about the complexity that can be achieved, the depth of the experience. PC's are far better at this than the current consoles, and thats with current technology.

The next Call of Duty would REALLY be that much better if it didn't slow down with so much on screen at any one time, with fuller more interactive environments, very fast load times, hyper realistic physics, far more advanced input devices, 3d immersion, voice commands to AI squad mates, the list goes on and on.