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Shakespeare has really had his day. His insights don't hold water in the modern world, though they did apply well in Tudor times, when the populace was irrational and extremely religious. These days, however, we have seen the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and much more. Shakespeare's 400 year old commentary has little to appeal to the modern sensibility. For a more contemporary attitude, I suggest Marlowe, a new literary star who has arisen from the East End slums of London.

"Death lies on her, like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field", quoth Shakespeare in Romeo & Juliet, but really, nowadays the death lies on him.

It may be controversial to suggest that Shakespeare is only liked by unthinking fools and media moguls these days, but I am afraid that if you want challengin ideas, you must look elsewhere.

They really should have chosen to make a Marlowe programming language. Then I'd have been far more impressed.

Not me. :)

-perdida

Oh, yeah. we are having quite a fun scientific argument over at adequacy.org

Code Red III on GFS doesn't bear thinking about.

GFS is like Free Love, a good idea in principle, but leading to all sorts of nasty infections and jealousies. Do you want your computer to be the neighbourhood slut?

This may seem controversial, but people said the same of Gate's 640kb prediction, and look at where he is now.

This is not to say I won't be campaigning against the DMCA, however.

I think I am in line with the more controversial commentators on this issue, but I feel it is the only honest line.

Keep in mind not everyone agrees with that sentiment. Some would argue that, if you discount the numerous security issues, Microsoft has perhaps the strongest track record of innovation in the industry. <----- Read it and see what I mean.

We know it's bunk. They ought to know it's bunk, and yet they don't.

sigh.

How about a slashback talking about Adequacy.org, the Internet's most Controversial Site!

This is really boring.

Thank God we have Adequacy.org! Adequacy.org is the internet's most controversial site! Check out Adequacy.org today!

This is really boring.

Thank God we have Adequacy.org! Adequacy.org is the internet's most controversial site! Check out Adequacy.org today!

This is really boring.

Thank God we have Adequacy.org! Adequacy.org is the internet's most controversial site! Check out Adequacy.org today!

According to Reuters, India plans to subsidize television sets so couples can sit back and watch television instead of having sex and contributing to India's burgeoning population.

That's the kind of news I'd expect to hear from adequacy.org, but it's gotten me thinking: if mere television can be successful, then how much better would India's public funds be spent on TiVo instead? Television can be watched at length, but there's a limit to the amount of interactivity. With TiVo, couples would not only be watching more television than they'd previously wanted to (because of the convenience TiVo offers in recording shows otherwise missed); they'd spend additional numbers of hours every year fiddling with options and programming their device.

If there are any Indians in the audience, I encourage you to write your representative in parliament and encourage him or her to consider TiVo instead of television. Thousands of geeks use it, and they're having less sex than perhaps any other segment of our population. The choice is clear.

Controversial website adequacy.org has the skinny on autistic people being used by the NSA to crack RC5. Apparantly, each autist is capable of 1 megaflop per second, and there are many thousands of unused autists in our fine country. Are we not using their potential as we should?

Of course we're not! Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those things?!

Controversial website adequacy.org has the skinny on autistic people being used by the NSA to crack RC5. Apparantly, each autist is capable of 1 megaflop per second, and there are many thousands of unused autists in our fine country. Are we not using their potential as we should?

Of course we're not! Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those things?!

...codes. Controversial website adequacy.org has the skinny on autistic people being used by the NSA to crack RC5. Apparantly, each autist is capable of 1 megaflop per second, and there are many thousands of unused autists in our fine country. Are we not using their potential as we should?

...codes. Controversial website adequacy.org has the skinny on autistic people being used by the NSA to crack RC5. Apparantly, each autist is capable of 1 megaflop per second, and there are many thousands of unused autists in our fine country. Are we not using their potential as we should?

It is back. Hooray!

See also another review of similar technology here.

I WILL KICK YOUR ASS!!!11!

HOW DUMB DO YOU WANT AMRICANS TO BECOME ?
As if we are not dumb enough already. I don't have the attention span for much more of this crap. That's why I get my news on 'culture' from indymedia.

If I want to talk about cultural issues, I come here, or go to adequacy.org. Or at least I used to until some idiots decided it would be a good idea to DDOS it.

To sum up: SNES games are NOT culture.

IF I EVER MEET YOU I WILL KICK YOUR ASS!!!

These kids, says Lewis, are destroying the "old priesthoods" of lawyers, investment gurus, academics and CEO's. Technology has "put afterburners on the egalitarian notion that anyone-can-do-anything, by enabling pretty much anyone to try anything -- especially in fields in which 'expertise' had always been a dubious proposition.

I kind of disagreee. There have always been child prodigies, they have always been discriminated against. But the idea that there is a new generation of hyper-smart teenagers just does not cut it with me.

For example, the controversial news and discussion site adequacy.org recently ran an article explaining how to build your own PC. It was instantly spammed and crapflooded by 15 year olds claiming they knew better than the adequacy expert. Which is fine, except that they didn't.

The whole hilarious episode csn be viewed here

Point is, not whether kids have the knowledge, it is whether they have the maturity to deal with the responsibilities that knowledge brings.

Imagine if we could create a race of perfect robotic soccer players. It could render the human players obsolete.

It would be more entertaining to watch the robot players (especially if they have flamethrowers like on robot wars).

We could change the rules to make it more interesting, and all that money we now spend on inflated wages for soccer players could go to a worthy cause, like helping the homeless, or fighting gun crime in inner city areas.

Oh well, back to building my new PC

geekizoid

adequacy

Adequacy.org ran the article Open Letter to Channel 4: Brass Eye Was Unacceptable , denouncing Channel4 and BrassEye for these escapades.

If you want a good summary of the opposition, then I'd suggest reading it. It's a good read in any event.

Adequacy.org ran the article Open Letter to Channel 4: Brass Eye Was Unacceptable , denouncing Channel4 and BrassEye for these escapades.

If you want a good summary of the opposition, then I'd suggest reading it. It's a good read in any event.

It's odd that NASA is only now getting around to do with the Earth what they've been doing with Mars for years. (Follow that link for the pretty pictures, if nothing else.

From 1998 to 1999, the Mars Global Surveyor made some 27 million topographical measurements of the red planet. With an average accuracy of 13 meters and sometimes as good as 2 meters. That's not much more than my height.

Of course, having that precision on Earth would be more difficult with our thicker atmosphere and would raise profound privacy issues. On the other hand, government spy satellites probably routinely attain that precision without anyone's batting an eyelash. Maybe it's just as well that a civilian agency get in on the action too.

It's odd that NASA is only now getting around to do with the Earth what they've been doing with Mars for years. (Follow that link for the pretty pictures, if nothing else.

From 1998 to 1999, the Mars Global Surveyor made some 27 million topographical measurements of the red planet. With an average accuracy of 13 meters and sometimes as good as 2 meters. That's not much more than my height.

Of course, having that precision on Earth would be more difficult with our thicker atmosphere and would raise profound privacy issues. On the other hand, government spy satellites probably routinely attain that precision without anyone's batting an eyelash. Maybe it's just as well that a civilian agency get in on the action too.

It's odd that NASA is only now getting around to do with the Earth what they've been doing with Mars for years. (Follow that link for the pretty pictures, if nothing else.

From 1998 to 1999, the Mars Global Surveyor made some 27 million topographical measurements of the red planet. With an average accuracy of 13 meters and sometimes as good as 2 meters. That's not much more than my height.

Of course, having that precision on Earth would be more difficult with our thicker atmosphere and would raise profound privacy issues. On the other hand, government spy satellites probably routinely attain that precision without anyone's batting an eyelash. Maybe it's just as well that a civilian agency get in on the action too.

It's odd that NASA is only now getting around to do with the Earth what they've been doing with Mars for years. (Follow that link for the pretty pictures, if nothing else.

From 1998 to 1999, the Mars Global Surveyor made some 27 million topographical measurements of the red planet. With an average accuracy of 13 meters and sometimes as good as 2 meters. That's not much more than my height.

Of course, having that precision on Earth would be more difficult with our thicker atmosphere and would raise profound privacy issues. On the other hand, government spy satellites probably routinely attain that precision without anyone's batting an eyelash. Maybe it's just as well that a civilian agency get in on the action too.

It's odd that NASA is only now getting around to do with the Earth what they've been doing with Mars for years. (Follow that link for the pretty pictures, if nothing else.

From 1998 to 1999, the Mars Global Surveyor made some 27 million topographical measurements of the red planet. With an average accuracy of 13 meters and sometimes as good as 2 meters. That's not much more than my height.

Of course, having that precision on Earth would be more difficult with our thicker atmosphere and would raise profound privacy issues. On the other hand, government spy satellites probably routinely attain that precision without anyone's batting an eyelash. Maybe it's just as well that a civilian agency get in on the action too.

http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/ 7/21/12632/7944

• Keep a mirror drive handy when the one I do my development on dies.
  
• Bring my code with me without having to juggle zipdisks or upload enormous files.
  
• Use Linux on standard machine configurations without having to repartition the local harddisk or otherwise disturb my friends' computers much.

Did you know that JonKatz has actually been pre-emptively BANNED by the adequacy.org editors ?

I think that is the difference between crapflooder-friendly sites with no censorship, such as the ones you refer to, and high-quality editied sites like adequacy.org

Did you know that JonKatz has actually been pre-emptively BANNED by the adequacy.org editors ?

I think that is the difference between crapflooder-friendly sites with no censorship, such as the ones you refer to, and high-quality editied sites like adequacy.org

My guess is that anyone wanting to steal plutonium to make nuclear missiles is likely a responsible organization (e.g. a government) since few others have the resources to manufacture a nuclear device.

Interestingly enough the controversial website adequacy.org has not addressed this subject yet.

But this is kkkorporate Amerikkka we are dealing with, so it should come as no surprise.

Check out the Internet's most controversial website: adeqacy.org. Like a breath of fresh air, and trolling is not tolerated!!

adequacy.org maintains its 'troll-free' reputation by riding roughshod over the constitutional rights of its readership, censoring them whenever they step over some imaginary line.

I imagine Michael Sims would be very welcome there.

adequacy.org maintains its 'troll-free' reputation by riding roughshod over the constitutional rights of its readership, censoring them whenever they step over some imaginary line.

I imagine Michael Sims would be very welcome there.

Opensource propogandist ESR has also entered the world of dangerous consumables.

Controversial discussion website adequacy.org had an interesting article talking about ESR's penchant for the endangered bird, the Puffin.

Now an endangered species, ESR tasted its flesh and said:

My entree was a "wild game feast" -- medallions of reindeer, wild goose (Cathy had a wild-goose entree), and puffin. The puffin was the interesting bit; strong-flavored, not unpleasant, but oily.

The puffin is very closely related to the penguin. Could this Open Source advocate one day be seen chowing down on roast penguin in the wastes of Antarctica? With ESR, you never know.

I bet he would even drink 'Red Bull'.
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Opensource propogandist ESR has also entered the world of dangerous consumables.

Controversial discussion website adequacy.org had an interesting article talking about ESR's penchant for the endangered bird, the Puffin.

Now an endangered species, ESR tasted its flesh and said:

My entree was a "wild game feast" -- medallions of reindeer, wild goose (Cathy had a wild-goose entree), and puffin. The puffin was the interesting bit; strong-flavored, not unpleasant, but oily.

The puffin is very closely related to the penguin. Could this Open Source advocate one day be seen chowing down on roast penguin in the wastes of Antarctica? With ESR, you never know.

I bet he would even drink 'Red Bull'.
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The extremely controversial discussion website adequacy.org has a very interesting and controversial remedy for this. An interesting article, available here, goes into depth on the subject of how we select NASA astronauts and what we can do to make it better (NOTE:Article is controversial)

I think that NASA depends very much on public image; we must select not only in terms of professionalism, but character too. Michael Foales had it; people like John Blaha and other nameless astro's do not. In this age of instant democracy and bread and circuses, charisma of your main representatives is very important.
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The extremely controversial discussion website adequacy.org has a very interesting and controversial remedy for this. An interesting article, available here, goes into depth on the subject of how we select NASA astronauts and what we can do to make it better (NOTE:Article is controversial)

I think that NASA depends very much on public image; we must select not only in terms of professionalism, but character too. Michael Foales had it; people like John Blaha and other nameless astro's do not. In this age of instant democracy and bread and circuses, charisma of your main representatives is very important.
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fnord!

--Adequacy.org, Slashdot without the crap.

This is why I was interested to read an article at the somewhat notorious discussion site adequacy.org detailing how to make space travel and exploration less elitist and more widespread.

This article shows and provides backing for widening the franchise of people we send to space. Meanwhile, this one shows the possible threats we the human race may face from embarking on our seeming destiny among the stars (NB: Both these articles are controversial in nature)

My own opinion is that space needs a public-private partnership in order to best take advantage of the best the state and the private sector has to offer. All nations realise this to some extent just now, but the Japanese and Europeans much more so than the americans. We need to do similar here in the USA.
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This is why I was interested to read an article at the somewhat notorious discussion site adequacy.org detailing how to make space travel and exploration less elitist and more widespread.

This article shows and provides backing for widening the franchise of people we send to space. Meanwhile, this one shows the possible threats we the human race may face from embarking on our seeming destiny among the stars (NB: Both these articles are controversial in nature)

My own opinion is that space needs a public-private partnership in order to best take advantage of the best the state and the private sector has to offer. All nations realise this to some extent just now, but the Japanese and Europeans much more so than the americans. We need to do similar here in the USA.
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This is why I was interested to read an article at the somewhat notorious discussion site adequacy.org detailing how to make space travel and exploration less elitist and more widespread.

This article shows and provides backing for widening the franchise of people we send to space. Meanwhile, this one shows the possible threats we the human race may face from embarking on our seeming destiny among the stars (NB: Both these articles are controversial in nature)

My own opinion is that space needs a public-private partnership in order to best take advantage of the best the state and the private sector has to offer. All nations realise this to some extent just now, but the Japanese and Europeans much more so than the americans. We need to do similar here in the USA.
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I read an interesting article on this topic at adequacy.org, the controversial discussion site, regarding the education of children.

The article considered the sort of education that children get from unlikely sources, such as games, and the dangerous relations of this to commercial companies and some of the adverse effects.

Seems to me that we should not be overzealous and deny education and educational equipment, nomatter the provider.

That would be taking zealoutry too far.
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I read an interesting article on this topic at adequacy.org, the controversial discussion site, regarding the education of children.

The article considered the sort of education that children get from unlikely sources, such as games, and the dangerous relations of this to commercial companies and some of the adverse effects.

Seems to me that we should not be overzealous and deny education and educational equipment, nomatter the provider.

That would be taking zealoutry too far.
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