You are a Social Liberal (63% permissive) and an… You are best described as a: Libertarian
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Props to Jason for the survey.
You are a Social Liberal (63% permissive) and an… You are best described as a: Libertarian
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Props to Jason for the survey.
Got a couple really cool links. The first is by a guy who built his very own Sentry Gun. Its made from an air-soft bb gun but who cares. That is what I call home defense!
The second link is 20 CSS tricks. Things like making rounded corners without images, styled lists, tab bars, etc.. Very cool stuff if you are into web design. Just make sure you are running a real web browser (i.e. non IE.)
Living in Oklahoma, I am constantly trying to find out-door activities for my family and I. Found a link to Oklahoma City Outdoor Network. Covers just about every out-door activity happening in the OKC area including camping, hiking, climbing, kayaking, sailing, fishing, hunting, and lots more.
States:
create your own visited states map
Countries:
create your own visited countries map
American “bashing” has been a part collegiate academia for the better part of the twentieth century. One of the reason for this is the fundamental nature of professors to question the status quo. This role is entirely justified (and even required) in a free society. However, many of those outside of academia have noticed that this skepticism seems especially focused on the capitalistic nature of our democracy. Why the intensity of disdain for our American style capitalistic democracy?
Lee Harris writing for in the December 2002 issue of Policy Review says that at least part of it stems from the failure of progressive socialist Marxism. Specifically liberal socialism attempt to salvage Marxism by restructuring the theory of material separation (the immiserization thesis) from an absolute difference to a relative one. However, Harris points out that doing so invalidates one of the primary strengths of Marx’s “Communist Manifesto”; namely that the failure of capitalism rested on weakness in its fundamental nature and not some perceived Utopian ideal. Restructuring for relative differences put modern socialists in a position where they were pursuing a theoretical ideal; something Marx himself wholly condemned. Regardless if you agree with Harris or not; his article is wonderfully interesting and worthy of a weekend read.
Nowdays it is sometimes held, though wrongly, that freedom is an end in itself, that each human being is free when he makes use of freedom as he wishes, and that this must be our aim in the lives of individuals and societies. In reality, freedom is a great gift only when we know how to use it consciously for everything that is our true good.
-Redemptor Hominis
Freedom negates and destroys itself, and becomes a factor leading to the destruction of others, when it no longer recognizes and respects its essential link with the truth. When freedom, out of a desire to emancipate itself from all forms of tradition and authority, shuts out even the most obvious evidence of an objective and universal truth… then the person ends up by no longer taking as the sole and indisputable point of reference for his own choices the truth about good and evil, but only his subjective and changeable opinion or, indeed, his selfish interest and whim.
-Evangelium Vitae
The future of filesystems is not Microsoft’s WinFS (no longer an actual filesystem but instead an API built on top of NTFS) or even IBM’s mainframe lineage XFS. Instead a Linux filesystem known as Reiser4 is poised to change the way we think about computer technology. Check out kerneltrap.org’s interview with Hans Reiser, the creator of Reiser4. Reiser4’s speed looks to be nothing short of revolutionary. Add to it a plugin-able architecture that allows unheard of functionality to take place in filesystem space and you get what could be the most disruptive filesystem technology to be seen sense the advent of the modern computer.
Marcus Ranum has listed , in his opinion, the six dumbest ideas as releated to computer security. Not everything on the list is as intuitive as one might guess. Overall its a great rant about how we shold frame the computer security debate.
Jon Smirl has posted this article on the current state of Linux Graphics. It basically tracks the technologies and limitations of the current form of X, based on the coming X.org 7 codebase. While X provides an amazing number of features, ones that are not available on any other platform, is has huge limitation when it comes to 3D support. While these limitation are notacible, they also provide a significant opportunity X and Linux.
I am always google searching for this list. The top 75 security tools, based on a survey of the nmap mailing list, consistently points out some of the most powerful security tools available on any platform. While there are obvious “newby” entries (i.e. SuperScan and Zone Alarm) overall insecure’s catalog is probably the most solid you will find on the public Internet.