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Fortunately, Slashdot uses more of a blue-green than teal.

Er, teal is blue-green.

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The previous in jive:

I dunno about ya' dudes, but ah' fo' one am glad t'see dis doodad gone. Who wants's "JIBE" rap anyway? Do ya' real dink seein' "slap ma' fro" all de time be funny? Do ya' dink dat real sucka's uh African descent rap dat way? I'm glad ah' wuzn't raised on 70's blaxploitashun films.

And whut about "redneck"? Soudern-Americans gots it baaaad enough, whut wid de Yankess harassin' dem about da damn flag dey flew in de War uh No'dern Aggression. 'S coo', bro. ah' duzn't dink makin' fun uh de way dat dey say "y'all" be very propuh'.

And lastly, de Swedish chef. Can we real tolerate da damn amount uh anti-Scandinavian bigotsry which we is bombarded wid daily in de media? Linus himself wuz uh Swedish 'estracshun, and it be no secret dat his Big Daddy wuz some chef. Granted, he had some tendency t'drow chickens around wildly and make noises dat kin't quite be described as speech, but dat's no reason t'rub salt in old wounds.

Shame on ya' Slashdot, fo' suppo'tin' dis monstrosity. Slap mah fro!

... and in redneck:

ah dunno about yo' guys, but ah fo' one is glad t'see this hyar thin' gone. Who be hankerin' "jive" speak ennyway? Do yo' pow'ful reckon seein' "slap ma' fro" all th' time is funny? Do yo' reckon thet real varmints of African dexcent talk thet way? ah's glad ah warn't raised on 70's blaxploitashun films.

An' whut about "redneck"? Southern-South Car'linans haf it bad inough, whut wif th' Yankess hareessin' them about th' flag they flew in th' War of No'thern Aggresshun. ah doesn't reckon makin' fun of th' way thet they say "y'all" is mighty right.

An' lastly, th' Swedish chef. Kin we pow'ful tolerate th' amount of anti-Scan'inavian trimenjusotry which we is bombarded wif daily in th' media? Linus hisse'f was of Swedish extryckshun, an' it is no secret thet his Pappy was a chef. Granted, he had a tendency t'throw possums aroun' wildly an' make noises thet kin't quite be dexcribed as speech, but thass no reason t'rub salt in old woun's.

Shame on yo' Slashdot, fo' suppo'tin' this hyar monstrosity.

... and in "swedish chef":

I doonnu ebuoot yuoo gooys, boot I fur oone-a em gled tu see-a thees theeng gune-a. Vhu vunts "jeefe-a" speek unyvey? Du yuoo reelly theenk seeeeng "slep me' fru" ell zee teeme-a is foonny? Du yuoo theenk thet reel peuple-a ooff Effreecun descent telk thet vey? I'm gled I vesn't reeesed oon 70's blexplueeteshun feelms. Um gesh dee bork, bork!

Und vhet ebuoot "redneck"? Suoozeern-Emereecuns hefe-a it bed inuoogh, vhet veet zee Yunkess heresseeng zeem ebuoot zee fleg zeey floo in zee Ver ooff Nurzeern Eggresseeun. Bork bork bork! I dun't theenk mekeeng foon ooff zee vey thet zeey sey "y'ell" is fery pruper. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!

Und lestly, zee Svedeesh cheff. Cun ve-a reelly tulerete-a zee emuoont ooff untee-Scundeenefiun beegutry vheech ve-a ere-a bumberded veet deeely in zee medeea? Leenoos heemselff ves ooff Svedeesh ixtrecshun, und it is nu secret thet hees fezeer ves a cheff. Grunted, he-a hed a tendency tu throo cheeckens eruoond veeldly und meke-a nueeses thet cun't qooeete-a be-a descreebed es speech, boot thet's nu reesun tu roob selt in oold vuoonds. Um gesh dee bork, bork!

Sheme-a oon yuoo Sleshdut, fur sooppurteeng thees munstruseety. Bork bork bork!


This straight to you from the "it's-funny-laugh" dept.

I realize, or at least sincerely hope, that your post was satirical but in making your point you neglected include an important link on the dialectizer site concerning discrimination/racism.

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First, let's provide a dictionary link

To quote from the site in question: "...the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same."

The crux here is "felonious taking and removing".

So, is copying theft?

Felonious? Yes (currently)
Taking and removing? Yes, if we think carefully. Let M be a band that derives it's revenue from the selling of CD C. A copy of C, C', totally displaces a copy of C in the marketplace but directs no revenue to M. Therefore the making of C' deprives M of the income from C. I suppose you could make a case that "taking a removing" is different from "diverting before it got there", but highway robbery is still robbery.

This is not to say that I think M is totally in the right and that the theives are totally in the wrong. But let us call a spade a spade and label the thieves "modern day Robin Hoods" rather than trying to re-define them out of existence.
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"alot" is a verb.

Dictionary.com doesn't even give it that much credit. It's an acronym.

(from dictionary.com)

Usage Note: Affect1 and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect1 is most commonly used in the sense of "to influence" (how smoking affects health). Effect means "to bring about or execute": layoffs designed to effect savings. Thus the sentence These measures may affect savings could imply that the measures may reduce savings that have already been realized, whereas These measures may effect savings implies that the measures will cause new savings to come about.

maybe you should double-check yourself before being snide to others?
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Dictionary.com defines whippersnapper as "A person regarded as insignificant and pretentious." Is this not how hackers were originally viewed?

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Okay I'll take the bait on this, and respond to the article seriously. Jon, why do you not back up what are very convincing arguments at times with fact. While quotes from CS Lewis, Heinlien(sic) and Nickolai are great, there is no proof in any of your arguments.

You never mention the facts about corporate ownership of many public resources(such as the Nigerian oil fields - a bad example I know), or the rampant abuses of the law(like the loggers who cut trees illegally around my house). You provide this great arguments, that are very well reasoned, but without these facts you're nothing more then a Sophist.

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I've got friends claiming that XML is the panacea for computing... for everything from e-commerce to a replacement for SAP to a standard for documents.

The only problem is that the applications have to be created to support the XML standard. So, unless you have a word processor that supports XML, and the people you're sending your documents to can read XML with their software ('cause you know MS will make an MSXML bastardisation...) you might still be out of luck.

Read RFC 2131.

In "dynamic allocation", DHCP assigns an IP address to a client for a limited period of time.

By definition, that makes the address dynamic (from the host's perspective).

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In the context I used I meant lacking interest especially my interest (you hear me damn linux zealots you lack my interest!!!).

Next time if you do not know what a word means go to the Dictionary .

According to dictionary.com, "Ouch!" isn't a sentance in English either, but an interjection. This then means the French do it "the right way;" it's no different in English.

"How now! interjections? Why, then, some be of laughing, as, ah, ha, he!" --Shak.

But "Ivy League schools" are not the best option for everyone. And I'm not refering to those who couldn't get in anyway, I'm refering to the high schooler who is trying to decide between engineering at Berkeley, Cal Tech, MIT, and Stanford. (Yes, I'm from California. Bit of a bias, but I am also looking at the U.S. News ranking of the best undergraduate engineering schools with Ph.D. programs. Sometimes 'best' needs to be defined in terms of what you want. If you want an education which emphasizes practical, hands-on, do it yourself, go out to the shop and weld yourself a bike, you might not get as much as you want at an Ivy League school as you would at others.

I know, I go to a great school. Cal Poly was ranked 4th in the nation for the best undergraduate engineering schools without Ph.D. programs, ie. we concentrate on teaching undergraduate engineering. To compare, the US service academies (West Point, Annapolis, and US Air Force Academy) all rank below us, and they are considered world-class. Our graduates are known for being good engineers the first week on the job, quality contributors, intelligent people.

Basically, you don't need Ivy to be great.

Louis Wu

Thinking is one of hardest types of work.

You have overlinked this article. Just because you know the URL of Linux doesn't mean you need to use it.

Nothing wrong -> er, it's murder

murderThe unlawful killing of one human being by another, especially with premeditated malice.

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"free" anything means a number of things, but I prefer Not controlled by obligation or the will of another. The open-source movement protects the investment of the first programmer, not his so-called rights. Programmer A invests his/her time into writing an app under the GPL. If Programmer B wants to take advantage of Programmer A's effort, s/he must provide their work back to "the community," thus providing Programmer A a nice return on their investment. Note that Programmer B did NOT get "free" code from Programmer A - Programmer B was obligated to provide service back to Programmer A.

Note that companies are getting around the GPL by creating new software based on GPL'ed components, and selling service to their customers. Since they are not providing binaries to their customers, they are under no obligation to release their modifications to "open-source" software.

This company is restricted from selling their software (Hmm, I wonder if they could give an NDA to their customers prohibiting the re-release of their source code?) by the GPL. Their "rights" are not being protected here.

AS to the value of StarOffice, note that many of us are forced to work in an MS environment, where management and other divisions frequently send MS-Office documents. Having an interoperable product, which is seamless to the other users, means I can run Linux where otherwise I'd be forced to run Windoze.

Information wants to be free

"Open-source" means anybody is free to take, hack, and re-distribute (this is a slight/working paraphrase of the open-source definition.
"Proprietary" means the rest of the world can't get their paws on it beyond surface-layer functionality as intended - see parts 3 and 4 in the dictionary definition.

So if, by definition, the rest of the world can get at it, at the lowest and greatest access level possible (source), it can't be proprietary, can it? D'oh.

I think star office is a bloated abomination, I just don't need it in a day-to-day office environment, let alone at home, but that's just me...

"Love envisions Linux tools that will enable service providers to remotely administer Linux systems". Well apart from the split infinitive and ambiguity ("remotely administer" - speaks volumes for his own administrative abilities, thanks ZDnet), has he never heard of ssh? Oops.
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Linux is as much a proprietary system as any other since the GPL forces one to adhere to it's rules just as proprietary licenses do;

Dictionary.com says that Proprietary means:
"2.Exclusively owned; private: a proprietary hospital."
and
"4.Owned by a private individual or corporation under a trademark or patent: a proprietary drug."

Star office is proprietary, sure, because it is owned by Sun, and it is profitable to Sun to keep it that way.

I don't see how anything under the GPL could be considered proprietary. The whole concept of GNU and the GPL are fundamentally NON-Proprietary (read FREE (not beer)).

If he's calling GPLed software proprietary simply because there are rules (the GPL) to abide by when releasing code using this liscense, then he obviously has no clue what the word means. The rules are in place for a reason.

Note the words 'private' and 'individual' in the definition of proprietary. The GPL mindset stresses community ownership and development.

If you check Dictionary.com, you'll see that your teacher was partially right. The non-musical term allows both (three, actually) pronunciations, while the musical term allows only one.

On a side note, isn't this why the Internet was created in the second place (the first priority was the nuclear strike recovery)? So that one doesn't have to guess, but can look up any information in half a minute?

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I was transfixed by the idea of a democratic country whose response to social problems was to create an entire new tradition of informing. It had been happening for some time, he told me.

Hmmm... i dunno, Jon... where do you see a democratic country?

JK, i gotta say, i like your angle on many things, but you appear to have fallen into the old snare of belief that ours is a democratic nation. It is not. i offer the following def's for comparison:


democracy (d-mkr-s)
n., pl. democracies.

1.Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2.A political or social unit that has such a government.
3.The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
4.Majority rule.
5.The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.

[French démocratie, from Late Latin dmocratia, from Greek dmokratia: dmos, people; see d- in
Indo-European Roots + -kratia, -cracy.]


plutocracy (pl-tkr-s)
n., pl. plutocracies.

1.Government by the wealthy.
2.A wealthy class that controls a government.
3.A government or state in which the wealthy rule.

[Greek ploutokratia: ploutos, wealth; see pleu- in Indo-European Roots + -kratia, -cracy.]

I was transfixed by the idea of a democratic country whose response to social problems was to create an entire new tradition of informing. It had been happening for some time, he told me.

Hmmm... i dunno, Jon... where do you see a democratic country?

JK, i gotta say, i like your angle on many things, but you appear to have fallen into the old snare of belief that ours is a democratic nation. It is not. i offer the following def's for comparison:


democracy (d-mkr-s)
n., pl. democracies.

1.Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2.A political or social unit that has such a government.
3.The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
4.Majority rule.
5.The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.

[French démocratie, from Late Latin dmocratia, from Greek dmokratia: dmos, people; see d- in
Indo-European Roots + -kratia, -cracy.]


plutocracy (pl-tkr-s)
n., pl. plutocracies.

1.Government by the wealthy.
2.A wealthy class that controls a government.
3.A government or state in which the wealthy rule.

[Greek ploutokratia: ploutos, wealth; see pleu- in Indo-European Roots + -kratia, -cracy.]

Most articles comment on Stallman's disregard for personal grooming. And Torvalds gets no comment, because his dress is not unusual.

Her dress and mannerisms are commented upon because they are unusual for this political position, not unlike a lot of stories in the early days of dot-com companies about the notoriously informal dress of management. This story is specifically about her possibly being not the right candidate for the position, so of course her presentation is going to be fair-game.

Your oversensitivity is the only problem here.

And by the way, misogynistic means "Of or characterized by a hatred of women." Even if we grant that the NYT was mocking Dyson unfairly, that hardly qualifies as "hatred of women".

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I've got a term for mister "I'm so l33t and kewl"
http://www.dictionary.co m/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=perspective

I have an idea. How about you just turn off your best friend there, put a little of that energy into getting laid or something, and take a pill and relax?

Jeez.

how will it affect all of us?
how will it effect all of us?

CmdrTaco gets flamed for a lot of spelling errors (though he's no Hemos) but in this case, you're just plain wrong, and he's correct.

Affect can be a noun or a verb. Effect can be a noun of a verb. They do have different but similar meanings. Furthermore, the meanings of both of these words vary greatly with the part of speech they are used in.

Affect, as a verb, means "To have an influence on" (Your speech affected me!). As a noun, it means a strong feeling or disposition. (He made his comments with great affect. means he expressed his strong empotions well.) Affect is usually used as a verb.

Effect, as a verb, means "To cause". (It will take more than this to effect a change in people's misuse of words!). As a noun, it means basically a result. (She made her comments to great effect means that these comments were effective, affecting their audience in the desired way.) Effect is more commonly used as a noun.

how will it affect all of us?
how will it effect all of us?

CmdrTaco gets flamed for a lot of spelling errors (though he's no Hemos) but in this case, you're just plain wrong, and he's correct.

Affect can be a noun or a verb. Effect can be a noun of a verb. They do have different but similar meanings. Furthermore, the meanings of both of these words vary greatly with the part of speech they are used in.

Affect, as a verb, means "To have an influence on" (Your speech affected me!). As a noun, it means a strong feeling or disposition. (He made his comments with great affect. means he expressed his strong empotions well.) Affect is usually used as a verb.

Effect, as a verb, means "To cause". (It will take more than this to effect a change in people's misuse of words!). As a noun, it means basically a result. (She made her comments to great effect means that these comments were effective, affecting their audience in the desired way.) Effect is more commonly used as a noun.

Faith
2. Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence

The dictionary definition of "faith" says: "2. Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence".

Exactly. Ever heard of Expropriation?

It's a fine line between trolling and karma-whoring... and I think you just crossed it.
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Virii is the correct latin declination, but the standard english plural of virus is viruses. I don't have an oed in front of me, but dictionary.com has a definition.

Sorry that is incorrect.

Here is the definition of firewall:

Courtesy of dictionary.com
firewall n.
1.A fireproof wall used as a barrier to prevent the spread of fire.
2.Computer Science. Any of a number of security schemes that prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to a computer network or that monitor transfers of information to and from the network.

Courtesy of Merriam-Webster
Main Entry: fire wall
Function: noun
Date: 1759
1 : a wall constructed to prevent the spread of fire
2 usually firewall /'fIr-"wol/ : a computer or computer software that prevents unauthorized access to private data (as on a company's local area network or intranet) by outside computer users (as of the Internet)

What Icrave.com was talking about would most likely be software. That seems to fit the definition perfectly. What you are looking at is the underlying technology that would enable a firewall to work on a regional basis. That alone would not necessarily fit the definition.

Every increase in technology can be misused. I won't argue that. But I swear Jon, you're becoming a luddite, and I really have to question the need for a luddite on a board that advertises itself as "News for Nerds".

Are you saying that differing viewpoints are not welcome? The topic was about technology patents. Jon just added his opinion to the report to start off the conversation. (for better or worse)

What a horrible little troll. Perhaps you should look up firewall in a dictionary. Jon had used the term correctly thereby making your statement look incredibly uninformed, and eliminating all credibility of the rest of what you said. What baffles me is how you can make a statement as wreckless and idiotic as that, and still have made well recevied posts like this.

So you may be better informed next time:

Courtesy of dictionary.com
firewall&nbspn.
1.A fireproof wall used as a barrier to prevent the spread of fire.
2.Computer Science. Any of a number of security schemes that prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to a computer network or that monitor transfers of information to and from the network.

Courtesy of Merriam-Webster
Main Entry: fire wall
Function: noun
Date: 1759
1 : a wall constructed to prevent the spread of fire
2 usually firewall /'fIr-"wol/ : a computer or computer software that prevents unauthorized access to private data (as on a company's local area network or intranet) by outside computer users (as of the Internet)

What Icrave.com was talking about would most likely be software. That seems to fit the definition perfectly.

Moderators, use a dictionary.

troll:
1. a.To fish for by trailing a baited line from behind a slowly moving boat. b.To fish in by trailing a baited line: troll the lake for bass. c.To trail (a baited line) in fishing.
etc...

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What are you smoking? Fuel Cell powered cars are not better than electric cars; they ARE electric cars, and many of them don't require fossil-fuel or nuclear power plants to generate energy. The new alcohol powered fuel cells will be great for automobiles....

While Slashdot headlines and articles are often less than grammatically perfect, I see nothing wrong with this one. "Broke" is a perfectly acceptable English adjective. It's somewhat informal - at least according to dictionary.com and the dictionaries on my bookshelf, but it's hardly "street-talk".
What I do find questionable, however, is the use of two consecutive question marks. Can your question really be so important that one won't cover it?

BBZZZZ - YOUR wrong! (Or was that the sound of your vibrator!?)
as per dictionary.com "mankind" is the human race.
As for your attacks on the person as well as perl (BTW - I write in perl,c/c++, assembly, etc.),
1- Are you learn to program in Python or learning how to use a python for your own sexual gratification ?!?
2- I think you must be the one with an inadequecy complex. Complaints of size and stopping too soon -
I guess the experiences you've had must have always had these events included because of some problem with you.
a - your probably so stretched out that a Mack Truck would be too small!
b - they probaly stop too soon because either the dildo's batteries run down or they can't take looking at you any longer!

That said, Get the F**K off your feminist S**T and get back in bed with Gloria. I censored the expletives because of the infantile tone of your message your must be a little girl (10 - 12).


For the other women here - I respect women but not radical Feminists!