Please stop. Non free software simply can not be trusted. Debian + whole drive encryption works just fine even with older hardware like a PIII. If the answer is non free software, you have asked the wrong question.
What FUD. We will see these kinds of stories until M$ finishes building it's "cloud" and then Web apps will be the rage. M$ won't get there anytime soon, but Google and others have been reliable for years. Expect M$ to recycle their "thin client" and Network Computing FUD for another decade.
because they could. tag: Windows.
Habeas Corpus problems created by GWB. search, yields this. Believe it or not, if GWB or other US agents lable you an "enemy combatant" they can do to you what Guantanamo bay does to it's detainies every day. Yes, that applies to US citizens and goes beyond more common police harassment and abuse. If you want the US government to treat you with respect, you must demand that the US governement treat everyone with respect.
The same search also yeilds this dignified objection to US torture, but I'm sure you want a more qualfied legal opinion for depravity. The fact that other administrations have tortured people is reason to denounce previous administrations, not forgive the administration that wrote a twisted, 81 page legal handbook to justify everything short of murder. John Yoo is a lawyer, so it must be right eh? He wrote the manual in 2002, because news of torture was leaking out and Yoo defended it again in 2006. The ultimate justifications used against "enemy non combatants", "terrorists" and bandits is much like those used by people the US hung for war crimes 60 years ago. [search 1 2.
Even someone like you, who seems to be so easily distracted by Christmas tree orniments, could fail to see the destruction of their first amendment rights to free speech and peaceful protest. Didn't you see protesters at both Democratic and Republican national conventions locked in caged "free speech zones"? What's more damning is the arrests made before the last Republican Convention on the basis of infiltrators, wiretaps and other obvious political harrassment.
If arresting peaceful protesters based on what they think is not retaliation enough for you, there are other stories of patriotic citizens being added to the "no fly list" for their opinions. Try this Korean war veteran and Princeton professor of public law. Think he hates his fellow Americans? No, he hates the above crimes that violate the Constitution he swore to defend.
Most retaliatory punishment can not be directly attibuted to people in the Bush administration, but that administration is the father of all of them by the tone and example set. Leaders should understand that their followers will overshoot their examples in horrible ways. You can't have a little "discomfort" torture, you will always get murder when you lose respect for your prisoners. You can't have a little blacklist, it will always be abused in novel ways by people you are not aware of. You can't have a little uncotroled wiretapping, you will always get dignity destroying invasion of privacy and business destroying uncertainty in communications. Respect for your fellow man is the cornerstone of civil society. It is clear Mr. Bush lacked respect for his fellow citizens and the citizens of other countries. The result is lawless behavior.
Remember GWB calling the Constitution "just a piece of paper"? No? That matters less than warrantless wiretaps, bidless contracts, torture, elimination of habeas corpus and a dozen other things GWB has done to rape your rights.
By the same token, your artist is a patriot. Someone who does not care would never have bothered, especially when people say that the Bush administration retaliates in every way it can. You should not try to stretch these kinds of feelings into "hatred" like Andrew Jackson had for the British Crown. For all their spying, GWB people did not do their homework about this artist and should not have asked in the first place.
Where I put my keys is not important, that's why I have one place to put them. There are many other cribs like this because I did not want to make the same mistake I did when I was 18.
Cell phone in the fridge? I suppose the fridge might keep you from hearing it scream or something. Young or old, that's all you Mr. LSD.
The truely wise learn Unix at a young age. When they are older, they can replace their younger peers with small shell scripts.
Application - do not tempt older, apparently slower, peers to show you their crib sheets. Just watch and learn as the job gets done.
Really, read this. Now ponder the Bill and M'Lady Gates scam. GWB is owned by M$.
Novell certainly isn't "in bed with Microsoft"
True, M$ keeps it's "one night stands" in a cage so they can't run away. M$ indeed broke and destroyed Novell, now what's left has been turned against the free software community a-la SCO. Instead of going the free software route, M$ executives took $350 million of M$'s money to line their pockets. Management has gone as far as to favor M$ Windows in their advertising and on their web site, yes they have pages that don't work outside of IE. Novell managment betrayed the free software community, Suse and every Novell employee that did not get a large enough piece of the blood money. The bad publicity and even worse choice of technology is going to run Novell into the ground the same way SCO was run into the ground. They are now a M$ shell and will soon be nothing but a litigation machine.
Stickers that changed from "Vista Capable" to "Designed for XP" on the day Vista shipped are sleazy, but the larger issue is worse: M$ KILLED INTEL'S GRAPHICS MARKET. What the hell was wrong with Vista that it could not do translucency on Intel chip sets? E16 has been doing translucency in 2D land for a decade, so Vista should have gracefully dealt with the few missing pieces in Intel's chip sets. I know that 3D gaming works well enough on the previous generation of Intel under GNU/Linux, and suspect that's the rub. M$ killed Intel's ambitious drive to produce graphics chipsets because Intel had released the drivers as free software. HP moved away before Vista shipped, but that was not enough to keep Vista from sucking on HP anyway. For daring once to do for free software what they routinely do for M$, Intel has been driven out of the graphics market. The "favor" of letting Intel sell a bunch of hardware for an OS that would never use it should be judged in this light.
You know this is somehow going to depend on mono and silverlight, M$'s patent encumbered and second rate come ons. M$ never lets anyone do as well as themselves with "their" tech.
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